Small-scale Fishermen and Risk Preferences

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Using an experimental approach, we investigate the risk preferences of artisanal fishermen in Tanzania waters of Lake Victoria. The experiment concerns pairwise comparisons of hypothetical fishing trips that vary in expected mean and spread of the net revenue.

Fisheries

Explaining Environmental Management in Central and Eastern Europe

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The paper analyzes the adoption of various environmental management systems (EMS) by industrial firms in Central and Eastern Europe approximately eight years after economic transitions began.

Climate Change

Optimal harvesting in an age-class model with age-specific mortalities: An example from Namibian linefishing

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Namibia’s main linefish species, the kob, is subject to age-specific fishing mortalities that differ for the two fisheries (commercial linefishing vessels and recreational anglers) exploiting it.

 

Fisheries

Fisheries Economics and 20 Years with Marine Resource Economics: A Citation Analysis

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This paper reviews the impact of articles published in the Marine Resource Economics (MRE) and within the field of fisheries economics in general over the period 1954–2004. Specific attention is given to the years 1984–2004, which is the period that MRE has been published.

Fisheries

Honestly, why are you driving a BMW?

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This paper proposes that people derive utility not only from goods or their attributes as in standard models, but also from their self-image as influenced by their own perception of their preferences. In a representative survey, most respondents considered their own concern for status when purchasing a car to be minor in comparison with the status concerns of others.

Climate Change

Monitoring and Enforcement: Is Two-Tier Regulation Robust? – A case study of Ankleshwar, India

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The regulation of industrial pollution is difficult in a rapidly industrialising, low-income setting. This study looks at the efforts to regulate chemical plants in Ankleshwar, the largest chemical estate in Asia.

 

Climate Change

Index number analysis of Namibian water intensity

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There has long been a great deal of interest in methods for analyzing energy use and energy use intensities. Many methods developed within energy studies are also applicable in other areas where materials use is of interest, but in several cases these methods have not been applied to other materials.

Water