Shedding light on the dark side of maritime trade – A new approach for identifying countries as flags of convenience
In: Marine policy, Band 99, S. 298-303
ISSN: 0308-597X
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In: Marine policy, Band 99, S. 298-303
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Risk analysis: an international journal, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 26-33
ISSN: 1539-6924
We focus on a class of multicriteria methods that are commonly used in environmental decision making—those that employ the weighted linear average algorithm (and this includes the popular analytic hierarchy process (AHP)). While we do not doubt the potential benefits of using formal decision methods of this type, we draw attention to the consequences of not using them well. In particular, we highlight a property of these methods that should not be overlooked when they are applied in environmental and wider decision‐making contexts: the final decision or ranking of options is dependent on the choice of performance scoring scales for the criteria when the criteria weights are held constant. We compare this "sensitivity" to a well‐known criticism of the AHP, and we go on to describe the more general lesson when it comes to using weighted linear average methods—a lesson concerning the relationship between criteria weights and performance scoring scales.
In: Marine policy, Band 129, S. 104522
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Marine policy, Band 96, S. 278-284
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Marine policy, Band 96, S. 243-249
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 138, S. 20-25
ISSN: 1462-9011
While illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a premier issue facing ocean sustainability, characterizing it is challenging due to its clandestine nature. Current approaches can be resource intensive and sometimes controversial. Using Chile as an example, we present a structured process leveraging existing capacity, fisheries officers, that provides a monitoring tool to produce transparent and stand-alone estimates on the level, structure, and characteristics of illegal fishing. We provide a national illegal fishing baseline for Chile, estimating illegal activity for 20 fisheries, representing ~ 70% of annual national landings. For four fisheries, we also estimate the relative importance of illegal activities across sectors, stakeholders, and infrastructure. While providing new information, our results also confirm previous evidence on the general patterns of illegality. Our approach provides an opportunity for government agencies to formalize their institutional knowledge, while accounting for potential biases and reducing fragmentation of knowledge that can prevent effective enforcement. Estimating illegal activity directly from fisheries enforcement officers is complementary to existing approaches, providing a cost-effective, rapid, and rigorous method to measure, monitor, and inform solutions to reduce IUU fishing.
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In: Marine policy, Band 96, S. 250-255
ISSN: 0308-597X
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In: Marine policy, Band 33, Heft 5, S. 750-758
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Marine policy: the international journal of ocean affairs, Band 33, Heft 5, S. 750-759
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Marine policy, Band 132, S. 104684
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Marine policy, Band 65, S. 107-114
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Marine policy: the international journal of ocean affairs, Band 65, S. 107-114
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Marine policy, Band 95, S. 8-13
ISSN: 0308-597X