In his report the economics of
ecosystems and biodiversity, P. Sukhdev compared the valuation of
ecosystem services and biodiversity to a compass which helps decision
makers to engage in the conservation of environment and against the loss
of biodiversity. Following this road, the authors present the results of an
economic...
In September 1988, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior and the Governor of Oregon announced the creation of the joint state-federal Placer Minerals Technical Task Force. The group was charged with performing an analysis of the potential economic and environmental aspects of placer mineral mining in the nearshore waters of...
The purpose of Oregon's Nearshore Research Inventory (NRI) project was to inventory and map the current and future use of Oregon's nearshore environment by the scientific research community for use in Oregon's marine spatial planning process. Spatial and qualitative data on the use of Oregon's ocean and coast by the...
Based on empirical studies carried out in Reunion Island, Moheli
(Comoros) and Madagascar, this communication deals with the non
biological productions of MPAS as a major driver of the marine resources
conservations governance. Three types of productions can be drawn for
each type of stakeholders: territorial, behavioural and economic. Firtly,...
The motivation of this paper is to detail the application of Markov chains in
simulating fleet dynamics in Australia's Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF).
The Markov chains are enhanced through the use of the multinomial logit
(MNL) and Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) models to explain
transition probabilities. The terms MNL Markov...
Interest groups have participated in the American political system since the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Environmental interest groups, a subsection of the American interest group society, have been especially active in national policies since the proliferation of environmental laws and environmental advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s. When environmental...
The push for ecosystem based management has opened up not only for including more of the natural
systems when managing fish resources, but also a broader perspective on the human systems, and the
diverse activities in the sea. This is reflected for instance in the EU Maritime Policy where fisheries...
The Tertiary geologic evolution of the Oregon and Washington continental margin was molded by episodic periods of convergence between the Pacific oceanic plates and the North American plate. This margin is the site of a deep basin that is floored by Paleocene to lower Eocene oceanic crust and contains more...