The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), piloted in Oregon in 2001, provided $100 worth of vouchers (aka coupons) to low-income seniors to buy fresh local produce from farmers at farmers' markets and roadside stands. Presented in a political ecology framework, this research integrated the perspectives of beneficiaries and their...
The objective of the European POORFISH project (2005-2008) is to create an advisory system (assessment, advice, and/or management) approach based on methods able to deal with data poor systems (utilizing both expert knowledge and published information in addition to existing data sets). There are basically at least three types of...
In this paper, we review our experiences in combining cross disciplinary, probabilistic information by Bayesian networks. They seem to be potential tools in combining the optimization orientated economic
modeling tradition to the somewhat different traditions of sociological sciences and further to the empirically orientated biological approaches. Calculus is based on...
This paper analyses the management of the Atlantic salmon stocks in the Baltic Sea through a coalition game in partition function form. The signs of economic and biological overexploitation of these salmon stocks over the last two decades indicate that cooperation among the harvesting countries, under the European Union's Common...
The marine ecosystem provides a broad spectrum of services for a wide array of user groups. Such broad use of marine resources often results in use conflicts between ecosystem elements and human interests. To help mitigate these conflicts, the Bayesian Analysis for Spatial Siting (BASS) tool was developed to incorporate...
The paper puts forward a Bayesian Network model to study the optimal eutrophication control in coastal waters by reducing nutrient loads and removing fish biomass (bottom-up and top-down ecosystem mechanisms). The model combines an aquatic ecosystem model with an economic model and examines the economic and ecological consequences of nutrient...