Transaction costs and fisheries co-management

Marine Resource Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 103-114

  Abdullah, Nik Mustapha Raja ^a   Kuperan, K ^a   Pomeroy, Robert S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b WORLDFISH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Collective fisheries decision making costs; Collective operational costs; Fisheries co management; Information costs; Institutions; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141704976     PISSN: 07381360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/mre.13.2.42629225     Document Type: Article

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