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economic analysis and to provide a coherent economic argument for politicians,
bureaucrats, and the public. The problem arises because of the fragmentation
in the legal and political setting within which economic analysis is conducted
and the fact that these different entities have different viewpoints and adopt
different guidelines.
Hanna, Susan S. ( (1994). Co-management. In Karyn L. Gimbel (ed.) Limiting
Access to Marine Fisheries: Keeping the Focus on Conservation, Center
for Marine Conservation and the World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C.
Successful common property resource management systems are based on
effective control. Effective control of the exploitation of natural resource
systems is often extremely difficult to obtain due to underlying ecological
uncertainty, resource scale, heterogeneity of users, diverse objectives, high
coordination and enforcement costs, and a lack of understanding about
organizational structure and process. These difficulties often lead to
attempts to manage by technical expertise to obtain efficient solutions.
Co-management, as power sharing between government agencies and user groups,
is a mechanism for realizing effective control. Co-management extends beyond
the efficiency objective to encompass legitimacy and equity. Structuring comanagement
requires investment in human capital of scientists, decision
makers, and user groups to build required skills of coordination and
negotiation. The history of a fishery and its existing institutions-both
formal and informal-influence the probability of co-management success. This
paper focuses on the benefits and costs of co-management; its necessary
conditions as well as its vulnerabilities. Some key aspects of building a comanagement
process are identified and compared to other management processes.
Hannesson, Rognvaldur (1974). Economics of Fisheries: Some Problems of
Efficiency. Studentlitteratur, Lund, Sweden.
Thesis focusing on fisheries economics in general and the North Atlantic
cod and the fishing limits controversy in particular.
Hannesson, R. (1975). "Fishery Dynamics: A North Atlantic Cod Fishery."
Canadian Journal of Economics, 8(2):151-173.
First, the optimal harvesting of a single cohort is discussed, assuming
that a unit of fishing effort always removes a constant proportion of the fish
stock. Discounting is shown to imply a longer fishing season, and only in
special cases should the stock be depleted to an uneconomic level as quickly
as possible. Then the relative merits of periodic and sustained fishing of a
stock consisting of several cohorts are studied by simulating a Beverton-Holt
model of a cod fishery. The impact of cost, discounting, and natural
fluctuations on the time-pattern of fishing is discussed, as well as the
practicability of periodic fishing.
Hannesson, Rognvaldur (1978). Economics of Fisheries, An Introduction.
Universitetsforlaget, Begen, Columbia University Press, New York.
An introductory text in fisheries economics using comparative statics.
Hannesson, R. (1983). "Bioeconomic Production Function in Fisheries:
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis." Can. J. fish. Aquat. Sci.
40:968-982.
The traditional fishing effort approach to fisheries economics implies
the existence of a production function with fishing effort and fish abundance
as independent variables. The existence of bionomic equilibrium depends on
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