This timely book offers a fresh view on how oceans and coasts are, and should be, managed. The urgency of this issue is increasingly being recognized, as critical limits to the economic exploitation of our oceans and coasts are reached. The authors argue that ecological economics is in a unique...

The Need for Environmental and Natural Resource Policy -- Classical Causes of Environmental Degradation -- Public Economics and Information -- Adapting Models to Ecosystems: Ecology, Time, and Space -- The Evolution of Rights -- Review of Policy Instruments -- Direct Regulation of the...