Coastal and marine spatial planning (CMSP) is a process for improving the management of ocean resources in order to promote their sustainable development. One of the most challenging spatial planning issues in New England now concerns the siting of offshore renewable energy facilities, mainly wind farms. Commercial fishermen are among...
We present the outlines of an integrated economic-ecological framework
designed to help assess the implementation of the ecosystem-based
management (EBM) of fisheries in New England. We develop the
framework by linking a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of a
coastal economy to a bottom-up model of a marine food web...