Estimating the impacts of eliminating fisheries subsidies on the small island economy of the Azores

Ecological Economics

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1822-1830

  Carvalho, Natacha ^a   Rege, Sameer ^b   Fortuna, Mário ^a   Isidro, Eduardo ^a   Edwards Jones, Gareth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CGE modelling; Fisheries subsidies; Impact analysis; SAM

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; ESTIMATION METHOD; EUROPEAN UNION; FISHERY POLICY; FISHING INDUSTRY; INCENTIVE; ISLAND; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; OVERFISHING; REGIONAL ECONOMY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; SUSTAINABILITY;

AZORES; PORTUGAL;

EID: 79959857599     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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