Lessons from Fisheries Buybacks

Fisheries Buybacks

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 15-54

  Groves, Theodore ^a   Squires, Dale ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Access rights; Biodiversity; Buybacks; Economic welfare; Vessels

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872948022     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470277836.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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