Ecological and economic sustainability in fishery management: A multi-agent model for understanding competition and cooperation

Ecological Economics

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1061-1073

  BenDor, Todd ^a   Scheffran, Jürgen ^b   Hannon, Bruce ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Cooperation; Dynamic games; Fishery management; Resource competition; Sustainability; System dynamics; Viability

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; COASTAL ZONE; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); COOPERATIVE SECTOR; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ECONOMETRICS; FISHERY ECONOMICS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OVERFISHING; RURAL AREA; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 58849104363     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.07.014     Document Type: Article

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