Feedlot finishing of beef cattle in Southern Alberta involves
income risk due to the variability of prices of feeders, feed and
finished cattle. Several strategies are available to reduce this
risk, including hedging of cattle on feed, participation in a Federal-
Provincial government and producer established income stabilization
program for...
The recent expansion of the longline commercial fishery has heightened the conflicts among various fisheries in Hawaii, especially between longliners and non-longline commercial (troll and handline) and recreational fishing boats. The recent court ruling against longline fishing on some waters around Hawaiian islands may provide an impetus for the expansion...
Social networks and social capital can facilitate or constrain collaborative arrangements which can enhance resource governance and adaptability in complex social-ecological systems such as fisheries. Yet, the impact of ethnic diversity among resource users on social network capital in the context of resource governance has not been previously examined. To...
Theoretically, partially harvesting the standing stock of cultured species over the growout cycle to reduce competitive pressure due to increased biomass could enhance growth and total yield. There are several promising laboratory results and theoretical arguments on the potential of partial harvesting in enhancing the productivity and profitability of intensive...
Vietnam is in the club of countries gifted with the long coastal line, and strong in marine features accordingly. Fishing operations are artisan characteristic and the management method is primarily open – access. Since the past few years, the yellow fin tuna long- lining fishery has become one sub-sector experiencing...
The concept of compensatory mitigation is well established as an approach to environmental management. In the past, mitigation programs have been used to conserve wetlands affected by development, and is proposed as a cost-effective approach to offsetting greenhouse gas emissions through reforestation programs. The concept may be equally applicable to...
Pattern-oriented modeling (POM) strategy has been successfully applied to
build, calibrate and validate agent-based models (ABM) in ecology. Instead
of the traditonal modeling strategy that often requires comparison of the
magnitude of model outputs to a selected set of observed responses, POM
focuses on the ability of the model to...
Whatever the quantity and the rate of water utilization is, economic principles indicate that there will
always be other water utilization methods which might increase the efficiency of the use of this resource.
Due to the geo-climatic position of Iran, this country finds itself in a water deficit situation as...