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Multi-Market Trading for Cooperative Resource Management: An Application to Water Pollution and Fisheries
Horan, Richard D.; Shortle, James S. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
Increasingly, environmental problems are recognized to involve linkages across multiple environmental variables (e.g., pollution and a fishery). Prior work on managing these complex, linked systems generally focuses on efficiency rather than implementation. However, implementation is important...
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Sustainable Use of Renewable Resources: Implications of Spatial-Dynamic Ecological and Economic Processes
Sanchirico, James N.; Wilen, James E. - In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 1 (2008) 4, pp. 367-405
In this review we discuss the economic implications of spatial-dynamic processes operating at various scales in coupled human and natural systems where the coupling is through the harvest of a renewable resource. Before introducing the spatial aspects, we first summarize in Section 2 the...
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Bioeconomics of a Marine Disease
Rondeau, Daniel; Conrad, Jon M. - Department of Economics, University of Victoria - 2014
We study the economic impact of the viral disease AVG, its stochastic transmission across abalone reefs in southern Australia, and the optimal management response as AVG approaches an uninfected reef. Using conservative estimates of the virulence and mortality rates associated with the disease,...
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Optimal Management of a Fishery with Bycatch
Melstrom, Richard T. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
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Marine Protected Areas in Fisheries Management
Greenville, Jared W.; MacAulay, T. Gordon - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
in NSW. Protected area performance as a tool for fisheries will be analysed given the existing management arrangement …
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Fishery management under multiple uncertainty
Sethi, Gautam; Costello, Christopher; Fisher, Anthony C.; … - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2002
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Respondent uncertainty in contingent valuation: the case of whale conservation in Newfoundland and Labrador
Lyssenko, Nikita; Martinez-Espineira, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
devices that would reduce the likelihood that whales become entangled in �shing nets. A follow-up question asked respondents …
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`Been there done that': Disentangling option value effects from user heterogeneity when valuing natural resources with a use component.
Lyssenko, Nikita; Martinez-Espineira, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
the resource valued, humpback whales, and with the area of study. We consider several endogenous behavioral variables, so …
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Whale-watching and Herring Fishing: Joint or Independent Production?
Lee, Min-Yang A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008
investigated. Proponents of the localized depletion theory claim that intense fishing effort can lead to areas that are unsuitable … for predators like tuna, groundfish, and whales. This leads to poor outcomes for the fishing and whale-watching industries … would be consistent with an economic theory of joint production, in which nearshore herring stocks are an input in …
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Conservation and Economic Benefits of Wildlife-based Marine Tourism: Sea Turtles and Whales as Case Studies
Wilson, Clevo; Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2002
Tourism development can have positive and/or negative impacts on wildlife. However, if tourism is developed in accordance with the basic tenets of wildlife tourism such an activity can be sustainable and can aid the conservation of species. Based on two case studies in Queensland, Australia,...
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