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Aguirre International, Bethesda, MD for the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD.
Aguirre International was engaged to report on the social and cultural aspects
of the multispecies groundfish fishery by ascertaining community-dependence on
the MGF, providing information on the demographics of the fishing industry,
identifying social science data bases that could be used in follow-up studies
and developing a classification system that will aid in predicting the social
impacts of the changing fishery regulations on fishery dependent communities.
Grigalunas, Thomas (1984). "Hydrocarbon Economics." Chapter 22 in
Resource Use and Use Conflicts in the Exclusive Economics Zone.
Proceedings of Workshop sponsored by the Center for Ocean
Management Studies.
Economic issues in managing the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) are
discussed based on experiences with the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
Amendments of 1978. Specifically, regulations versus economic incentives to
avoid oil spills, social tradeoffs of alternative leasing systems, and the
rate of leasing are discussed. Basically, the EEZ proclamation does not raise
any fundamentally new management issues for oil and gas exploitation in
federal waters. Nonetheless, the economic importance of the hydrocarbon
resources in federal waters, the variety of diverging interests concerned with
their development, and the movement of exploitation toward deeper waters and
harsher environments assure that the management of oil and gas in the EEZ will
remain a topic of considerable significance and public debate.
Grigalunas, Thomas A., James J. Opaluch, Deborah French, and Mark Reed
(1986). "Measuring Damages to Marine Natural Resources:
Application of An Integrated Ocean Systems/Economic Model." Draft
report, Economic Analysis Inc., Wakefield, R.I., July, 32 pp.
Several pieces of federal environmental regulation establish strict
liability for damages from spills of oil and hazardous substances. This paper
discusses the approach proposed by the U.S. Department of Interior for
evaluating "Type A" spills of oil or hazardous substances in the marine
environment. The approach employs an integrated ocean systems/economic model
to simulate the physical fates, biological effects, and the resulting economic
damages from spills in the marine environment. Some preliminary results are
presented for hypothetical spills of a number of substances in a variety of
environments. The results show that the size and shape of the damage function
depend on a variety of properties of the substance spilled and the environment
in which the spill occurs.
Grigalunas, Thomas A., Robert C. Anderson, Gardner M. Brown, Jr., Richard
Congar, Norman F. Meade, and Philip E. Sorensen (1986). Estimating the
Cost of Oil Spills: Lessons from the Amoco Cadiz Incidence. Marine
Resource Economics, 2(3):239-262.
This paper addresses some of the conceptual and empirical issues
involved with estimating the economic costs of oil spills, using a
comprehensive economic analysis of the 1978 supertanker Amoco Cadiz incident
as a case study. Estimates are made of the market and nonmarket-valued costs
of the spill and their distribution among the residents of the affected
region, the nation, and the rest of the world. The implications of the case
study for the analysis of future oil spill incidents are examined.
Griffin, James M. and Henry B. Steele (1980). Energy Economics and
Policy. Academic Press, Inc., New York.
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