The Environment and Sustainable Development series covers current and emerging issues
that are central to reducing poverty through better management of natural resources …

Market design seeks to translate economic theory and analysis into practical solutions to
real-world problems. By redesigning both the rules that guide market transactions and the …

This article reviews the authors' earlier attempts to incorporate the theories of capital and
investment into fisheries economics and argues that such dynamic analysis is now of …

A common goal among fisheries science professionals, stakeholders, and rights holders is
to ensure the persistence and resilience of vibrant fish populations and sustainable …

Climate change is shifting the distribution of fish stocks that straddle between exclusive
economic zones (EEZ), challenging transboundary fisheries management. Here, we …

We consider a discrete-time version of the fish war model, where a regulator imposes a
moratorium on fishing activities whenever the stock reaches a predetermined critical low …

Renewable natural capital—terrestrial and marine ecosystems, fisheries, biodiversity, and
fresh water—is in decline around the world, affecting the livelihoods of millions of people …

Abstract Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) fisheries management systems are supposed to
remedy the over-capacity problem associated with traditional command-and-control …

User rights in fisheries refer to the rights of fishers to harvest from fish resources. In terms of
exclusivity, security, duration and transferability these rights can be strong or they can be …

This paper focuses on the user rights regimes that have governed access to the marine
resources of the Faroe Islands, which in the case of the fisheries are primarily fish stocks …