Growing into interdisciplinarity: How to converge biology, economics, and social science in fisheries research?

Ecology and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Haapasaari, Päivi ^a   Kulmala, Soile ^b,c   Kuikka, Sakari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Baltic sea salmon fisheries; Bayesian belief networks; Bioeconomic modeling; Fisheries research; Integrated model; Interdisciplinarity; Interdisciplinary learning; Methodological epoch ; Multidisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FISHERY; METHODOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALMONID;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 84860908788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-04503-170106     Document Type: Article

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