In 2003, an industry-financed, government-administered buyback of trawl fishing permits and vessels took place on the US West Coast, resulting in the retirement of about one-third of the limited-entry trawl fleet. The lack of cost data in this fishery precludes an analysis of how the buyback has...

This Article reviews the authority of federal and state governments to manage wildlife on federal lands. It describes the most common assertions made by state governments regarding state powers over wildlife and then analyzes the relevant powers and limitations of the U.S. Constitution and...

We introduce a unifying language to quantify sustainability across multiple domains. The use of scarce resources is translated into their energy equivalents, by including upstream losses, conversion efficiencies, and externalities. We aim at developing intuition regarding both magnitude and cost...