Evaluation of externality management instruments in marine fisheries
Abstract
New Zealand marine fishing activities create many types of environmental externalities,
which by law must be internalised. Selection of best intemalisation instruments can be aided
by following a hierarchical decision process, which first screens the universe of instruments
against implementation criteria to establish the feasible set. Instruments in the feasible set
can be evaluated against a range of environmental, Treaty ofWaitangi, economic, sociocultural
and management criteria. This approach to selection can be formalised in decision
support software to provide a useful tool for fisheries management agencies.... [Show full abstract]
Keywords
externalities; decision support system; New Zealand; fisheries; Agricultural and Food Policy; Resource /Energy Economics and PolicyDate
2001-01Type
Conference Contribution - published (Conference Paper)Collections
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