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Author Grafton, R. Quentin

Title Economics for Fisheries Management
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (176 pages)
Series Ashgate Studies in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Ashgate studies in environmental and natural resource economics.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 The Economics of Fishing and Fisheries Economics -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 An All Too Common Tragedy -- 1.3 An Economic Perspective of Fisheries Management -- 1.4 Economics of Fishing -- 1.5 Beyond Maximum Economic Yield -- 1.6 Bioeconomic Modeling and the MEY Target -- 1.7 An Economic Guide to Fisheries Management -- 2 Data for Economic Analysis of Commercial Fisheries -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Unique Challenges of Economic Data Collection for Fisheries -- 2.3 Priorities in Data Collection -- 2.4 Types of Economic Data -- 2.5 Experimental and Non-Experimental Nature of Data -- 2.6 Aggregate and Microeconomic Data -- 2.7 Administrative Data -- 2.8 Survey Data -- 2.9 Measurement Issues -- 2.10 Outliers and Influential Observations -- 2.11 Missing Observations and Incomplete Data -- 2.12 What Type of Data Should be Collected? -- 2.13 Conclusions -- 3 Measurement and Analysis of Efficiency in Fisheries -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2 Efficiency and the Common Pool Problem -- 3.3 Allocative, Technical, Scale and Overall Efficiency -- 3.4 Predicting Efficiency -- 3.5 Fisheries Applications -- 3.6 Conclusions -- 4 Understanding and Measuring Capacity in Fisheries -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Defining Capacity and Related Concepts -- 4.3 Capacity Output and Capacity Utilization -- 4.4 Methods for Measuring Capacity -- 4.5 Fisheries Applications -- 4.6 Conclusions -- 5 Measuring Productivity and Decomposing Profits in Fisheries -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Productivity Measures in Fisheries -- 5.3 Output, Input and Productivity Indexes -- 5.4 'Decomposing' Profits and Measuring Productivity -- 5.5 Fisheries Applications -- 5.6 Conclusions -- 6 Economics for Fisheries Management
6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Economic Insights for Fisheries Management -- 6.3 Problems with Input Controls -- 6.4 Policy Choices and Fisheries Management -- 6.5 Challenges of Uncertainty -- 6.6 Adaptive Management in Fisheries -- 6.7 Overcoming Failures in Fisheries -- 6.8 Future of Fisheries -- Glossary -- Index
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Form Electronic book
Author Kirkley, James
Squires, Dale
Segerson, Professor Kathleen
Tietenberg, Professor Tom
ISBN 9781351941846
1351941844