Fishing industry borrows from natural capital at high shadow interest rates

Ecological Economics

Volumn 82, Issue , 2012, Pages 45-52

  Quaas, Martin F ^a   Froese, Rainer ^b   Herwartz, Helmut ^c   Requate, Till ^a   Schmidt, Jörn O ^a   Voss, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Harvest control rules; Optimal resource management; Overfishing

Indexed keywords

CATCH STATISTICS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FISHERY ECONOMICS; FISHING INDUSTRY; HARVESTING; INTEREST RATE; NATURAL CAPITAL; OPTIMIZATION; OVERFISHING; PROFITABILITY; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SHADOW PRICING; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84866480129     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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