Discount factors and the performance of alternative fisheries governance systems

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 278-287

  Sumaila, Ussif Rashid ^a   Domínguez Torreiro, Marcos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Co management; Command and control; Conventional and intergenerational discounting; Self governance

Indexed keywords

COMANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; EXPLOITATION; FISHERY REGULATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; SELF GOVERNMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 77955398314     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00377.x     Document Type: Article

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