A contentious issue in recent fisheries management debates has been how to rebuild overfished marine fish stocks. We investigate the economic and ecological nature of rebuilding plans in a metapopulation system. We find "most rapid approach paths" for system-wide recovery that differ from...

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...