Green and technical efficient growth in Danish fresh water aquaculture

Aquaculture Economics and Management

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 262-277

  Nielsen, Rasmus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

data envelopment analysis; environmentally friendly aquaculture production; fresh water trout production; green growth; technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; OECD; PURIFICATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

DENMARK;

ANIMALIA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 84857107942     PISSN: 13657305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13657305.2011.624574     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Alam, F. & Mursshed-e-Jahan, K. (2008) Resource Allocation Efficiency of Prawn-Carp Farmers of Bangladesh. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 12, 188-206.
2. Asche, F., Guttormsen, A.G., & Tveterås, R. (1999) Environmental problems, productivity and innovations in Norwegian salmon aquaculture. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 3, 19-29.
3. Asche, F., Roll, K.H., & Tveterås, R. (2009) Economic inefficiency and environmental impact: An application to aquaculture production. Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, 58, 93-105.
4. Banker, R.D., Charnes, A., & Cooper, W.W. (1984) Some models for estimating technical efficiency and scale inefficiency in data envelopment analysis. Management Science, 30, 1078-1092.
5. Charnes, A., Cooper, W.W., & Rhodes, E. (1978) Measuring the efficiency of decision making units. European Journal of Operational Research, 2, 429-444.
6. Charnes, A., Cooper, W.W., & Rhodes, E. (1979) Short communication: Measuring efficiency of decision making units. European Journal of Operational Research, 3, 339.
7. Cinemre, H.A., Ceyhan, V., Bozoglu, M., Demiryürek, K., & Kilic, O. (2006) The cost efficiency of trout farms in the Black sea Region, Turkey. Aquaculture, 251, 324-332.
8. Coelli, T.J., Rao, D.S.P., O'Donnel, C.J., & Battese. G.E. (2005) An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, 2nd Edn. Springer, New York, New York, USA.
9. Cooper, W.W., Seiford, L.M., & Tone, K. (2000) Data Envelopment Analysis. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
10. Danish Government Aquaculture Committee (2010) The Danish Government Aquaculture Committee of 2009. Recommendations for a sustainable development of Danish aquaculture. Danish Ministry of the Environment, 1. July 2010, Copenhagen.
11. Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries (2006) Strategy for development of Danish Fisheries and Aquaculture 2007-2013. Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.
12. Emrouznejad, A. (1995-2001), http://www.deazone.com, Warwick Business School, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK, 11. Marts 2011.
13. Engle, C.R. (2007) Arkansas Catfish Production Budgets. MP466, Cooperative Extension Program, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA.
14. European Commission (2002) Communication from the Commission on a Strategy for the Sustainable Development of European Aquaculture-EUR. COM(2002) 511.
15. European Commission (2009) Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and Council. Building a sustainable future for aquaculture. A new impetus for the Strategy for the Sustainable Development of European Aquaculture. COM(2009) 162 final.
16. Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) (2009) The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2008, Available at:www.fao.org/
17. Gunaratne, L.H.P. & Leung, P.S. (2001) Inter country productivity comparison of black tiger shrimp culture. In: Economics and management of Shrimp and Carp Farming in Asia (eds. P.S. Leung & K.R. Sharma), pp. 69-80. Network for Aquaculture Centers in Asia-Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand.
18. Guttormsen, A.G. (2002) Input factor substitutability in salmon aquaculture. Marine Resource Economics, 17, 91-102.
19. Hanh, B.L.T. (2009) Impact of financial variables on the production efficiency of Pangasius farms in An Giang province, Vietnam. Master's Thesis. University of Tromsø, at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science, Tromsø, Norway & Nha Trang University, Vietnam.
20. Hoff, A. (2007) Second stage DEA: Comparison of approaches for modelling the DEA score. European Journal of Operational Research, 181, 425-425.
21. Institute of Food and Resource Economics (2008) Aquaculture Account Statistics 2007. Institute of Food and Resource Economics.
22. Kaliba, A. & Engle, C.R. (2006) Productive efficiency of catfish farms in Chicot County, Arkansas. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 10, 223-243.
23. OECD (2010) Advancing the Aquaculture Agenda: Workshop proceedings (Paris 15-16 April 2010). OECD, 13 September 2010, Paris, 361-405.
24. Perlman, H. & Juárez-Rubio, F. (2010) Industrial Agglomerations: The case of the salmon industry in Chile. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 14, 164-184.
25. Rosen, H.S. & Gayer, T. (2008) Public Finance., 8th edn. McGraw-Hill Irwin, New York, New York, USA.
26. Salvanes, K.G. (1989) The structure of the Norwegian fish farming industry: An empirical analysis of economies of scale and substitution possibilities. Marine Resource Economics, 6 (4), 349-373.
27. Sharma, K.R., Leung, P.S., Hailiang, C., & Peterson, A. (1999) Economic efficiency and optimum stocking densities in fish poly-culture: An application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to Chinese fish farms. Aquaculture, 180, 207-221.
28. Technical University of Denmark (2008) Modeldambrug under forsøgsordningen. Faglig slutrapport for: "Måle- og dokumentationsprojekt for modeldambrug." DTU Aqua-Rapport nr. 193-08.
29. Tveterås, S. (2002) Norwegian salmon aquaculture and sustainability: The relationship between environmental quality and industry growth. Marine Resource Economics, 17, 121-132.
30. Tveterås, R. & Battese, G.E. (2006) Agglomeration externalities, productivity and technical inefficiency. Journal of Regional Science, 46, 605-625.
31. Wooldridge, J.M. (2002) Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England, UK.