Using history dependence to design a dynamic tradeable quota system under market imperfections
In: Environmental and resource economics, Volume 39, Issue 4, p. 447-457
ISSN: 1573-1502
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In: Environmental and resource economics, Volume 39, Issue 4, p. 447-457
ISSN: 1573-1502
In: Journal of economics, Volume 84, Issue 3, p. 313-316
ISSN: 1617-7134
In: Marine policy, Volume 25, Issue 3, p. 209-214
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Marine policy: the international journal of ocean affairs, Volume 25, Issue 3, p. 209-214
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Marine policy, Volume 22, Issue 2, p. 119-134
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Marine policy: the international journal of ocean affairs, Volume 22, Issue 2, p. 119-134
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics: JITE, Volume 169, Issue 2, p. 320-338
ISSN: 0932-4569
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In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics: JITE, Volume 169, Issue 2, p. 320
ISSN: 1614-0559
There has been a widespread push to incorporate ecosystem services (ES) in research and policy-making, yet ES have remained an expert-driven discourse not well integrated into hands-on planning and management, particularly at the more local levels. We carry out a retrospective investigation of an inter-municipal marine spatial planning (MSP) process in Northern Norway, where the allocation of new aquaculture locations was a core issue. At this local/regional scale, the concept of ES is hardly known. Thus, our approach is to investigate the documents of public consultation, where different stakeholders operating at different scales respond to the proposed planning document. By analyzing and 'translating' the consultation statements into the ES nomenclature, we find a rich and diverse basis for ES identification especially at the local level and within cultural and supporting services. More than 208 different ecosystem services were identified, two-thirds of the total number of services at the local scale. This supports the debate in the ES-science community, which has suggested greater inclusion of plural and context-specific perspectives on people's relationship to the environment. Our findings show that by doing so in MSP, municipal coastal planners may obtain tools that strengthen local democracy and include greater ES diversity and sustainability.
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In: Environmental and resource economics, Volume 63, Issue 4, p. 745-763
ISSN: 1573-1502
Accepted manuscript version. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10640-015-9878-0 ; European fisheries activities are subject to a hierarchy of regulatory authorities. This raises questions regarding the implications of strategic interaction between different authority levels concerning the regulation of these activities. We apply a bio-economic objective function where fishers and regulators have environmental, economic and social preferences, and where fishers are subject to the aggregate of the regulations set by the various authorities. We analyse one situation where EU authorities set their regulation first, followed by national authorities' regulation, and one situation where the two regulators set their regulations simultaneously. Using data from a survey on preferences among fisheries stakeholders combined with data from the UK nephrops fisheries, this study shows that a hierarchy of regulators with similar preferences will yield higher unit regulations, i.e. higher taxes or higher subsidies than a situation with one regulating authority. When regulators have unequal preferences we may get a situation where one regulator induces a tax on effort, whereas the other offers a subsidy. In this situation the aggregate unit regulation becomes uncertain.
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In: Marine policy, Volume 150, p. 105528
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Environmental and resource economics, Volume 73, Issue 2, p. 717-717
ISSN: 1573-1502
In: Environmental and resource economics, Volume 73, Issue 2, p. 697-716
ISSN: 1573-1502
In: Marine policy, Volume 32, Issue 1, p. 66-73
ISSN: 0308-597X