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Browsing International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) by Subject "Biological, Environmental, and Social Processes"

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Biodiversity Conservation in a Game Theoretic Model of a Fishery

Sumaila, Ussif Rashid (International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, 2001)

This paper proposes a game theoretic modeling framework for the assessment of the trade-off between economic efficiency gains and biodiversity conservation in a fishery. It introduces a biodiversity index, and develops ...
Can the Ocean Make You Sick

Smith, Alvin W.; Skilling, Douglas E. (International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, 2001)

It is fitting for the theme of IIFET 2000 “Microbehavior and Macroresults” that some of the smallest life forms on planet Earth (caliciviruses measuring 36 nanometers in diameter), which replicate only inside the living ...
Concepts of Sustainable Fisheries

Doering, Ralf (International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, 2001)

The number of discussions about sustainable fisheries is increasing world-wide. The crisis in a lot of big fisheries, e.g. cod fishery on the Grand Banks, salmon fisheries along the pacific coast of the USA and Canada, ...
Cultural and Natural Assets for Willamette Basin, Oregon Sustainability

Smith, Courtland L.; Gilden, Jennifer S. (International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, 2001)

In this paper, we consider the transfer of environmental and cultural assets to the next generation as a potential measure of sustainability. We define net assets as the value of renewable and nonrenewable natural res ...
The Economics of Conservation Targeting Strategies

Wu, JunJie; Adams, Richard M.; Boggess, William G. (International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, 2001)

In recent years, payments to purchase resources or easements or to change landowner behavior have become a major vehicle for resource conservation and environmental protection. These funds use various strategies to targ ...
Emergy Evaluation of Salmon Pen Culture

Odum, Howard T. (International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, 2001)

Emergy (spelled with an "m") and its economic equivalent emdollars evaluate the work done by the environment and by the human economy on a common basis. Making choices that maximize emdollar contributions of environment ...
Fisheries in a Complex System

Finoff, David; Tschirhart, John (International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, 2001)

An important subset of natural resource management addresses preserving and/or harvesting biological resources. Examples are policies that derive from the Endangered Species Act including habitat conservation plans, the ...
A Method of Analysis of Biological Resource Use Systems Under the Convention on Biological Diversity

Hummel, Matthias E. (International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, 2001)

The 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) establishes a new legal framework for the management of biological resource use, for example in fisheries. The signatory states to the CBD have agreed upon several major ...
Modeling Land Use with Multi-agent Systems: Perspectives for the Analyis of Agricultural Policies

Balmann, Alfons (International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, 2001)

This paper addresses the adequacy and perspectives of multi-agent system (MAS) models in the context of policy support for agricultural policy makers. The paper starts illustrating what MAS are and how they may be used. ...
Modeling the Compatibility of Biological and Economic Objectives on a Forested Landscape

Calkin, David; Montgomery, Claire A.; Shumaker, Nathan H.; Polasky, Stephen; Arthur, Jeffrey A.; Nalle, Darek J. (International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, 2001)

An integrated model combining a wildlife population simulation model and timber harvest and growth models was developed to explore the tradeoffs between the likelihood of persistence of a hypothetical wildlife species a ...