Coral reefs, known as "the tropical forests of the ocean," have been increasingly subject to the phenomenon of anthropogenic economic pressures with sizeable negative consequences on marine biodiversity. We explore the growth process of coral reef-rich countries with the objective of evaluating...

The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project (http://www.marine-vectors.eu/). The main scope of the project (2011 - 2015) has been to evaluate, from a multilateral perspective, drivers, pressures and vectors of changes in marine life of three main European seas...

From a game theoretical perspective, a prerequisite for an international fishery agreement (IFA) to be stable is that parties expect their benefits from joining the agreement to exceed the benefits from free riding on the agreement, and parties only comply with the agreement as long as this is...