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  • Essays on natural endowments, conservation policy, and community characteristics

    Creator:
    Lin, Haixia
    Abstract:
    To protect and restore environmental quality, efficient and effective conservation policies are needed. Designing policies require a sound understanding of the contributions of natural endowments to economic vitality, and the performance and impacts of conservation programs. This dissertation consists of three essays, and addresses several issues relevant to these two...
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    . However, environmental degradation caused by governmental policies and economic-development activities

  • The economics of spatial choice and displacement: case study of the Oregon bottom trawl groundfish fishery

    Creator:
    Valcic, Branka
    Abstract:
    To increase the knowledge needed to successfully implement the ecosystem-based approach to fishery management, this dissertation investigates important issues within the economics of choice and the economics of displacement. In particular, a discrete choice model of the fishing location decision in the Newport, Oregon bottom trawl groundfish fishery is estimated...
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    economics of displacement. In particular, a discrete choice model of the fishing location decision in the