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In some circumstances the conventional method of evaluating production
and investment decisions-benefit cost analysis (BCA)-can be expanded to
include indirect measures of costs and benefits that result from ecological
linkages; this may result in more sustainable near term resource management
decisions. In other cases the use of benefit cost analysis is impractical,
and sustainable near term production and investment decisions need to be
justified on the basis of safe minimum standards.
In this paper, an expanded benefit cost framework is developed using six
discrete pathways of potential project impacts. Two originate with
withdrawals from and emissions to nature and generate measures of costs and
benefits that are based on an expanded view of facts about ecological economic
linkages. Two other pathways develop market based and nonmarket estimates of
costs and benefits associated with ecological economic linkages and are
responsible for assigning values. The last two pathways deal with
distributional impacts and other socioeconomic considerations that reflect
collective decisions about equity and balance.
Where there is too much uncertainty about facts, or too much
disagreement about values, equity, or balance, decision making on the basis of
benefit cost analysis may be impractical. In such cases the level of
protection granted to a particular natural resource and the amount of public
intervention to control market forces that could otherwise result in further
degradation of that resource can be based on safe minimum standards. A
framework is developed here that uses measures of ecological importance and
reversibility to assign safe minimum standards and evaluate decisions about
the level os types of natural resources.
King, Dennis M. and Harry A. Bateman (1985). "The Economic Impact of
Recent Changes in the U.S. Tuna Industry." California Sea Grant
College Program Working Paper No. P-T-47, August, 30 pp.
This report describes some of the difficult circumstances facing the
U.S. tuna industry and summarizes the impacts that have resulted from changes
in the industry during 1980-1984. Since the report focuses on impacts related
to the domestic U.S. economy, the offshore operations of U.S. firms in
American Samoa and Puerto Rico are not considered here to be "U.S.-based."
Although some distinctions are made in the report between light meat tuna
(caught primarily by distant water purse-seiners) and white meat tuna (caught
primarily by locally based trollers) we have, for most purposes, aggregated
figures for both types of tunas.
King, Timothy L., Anne Henderson-Arzapalo, and Anthony F. Maciorowski
(1988). "A Comparison of Snook and Fat Snook Muscle Protein By
Isoelectric Focusing." Management Data Series Number 141, Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department, Coastal Fisheries Branch.
Sarcoplasmic protein extracts of snook and fat snook were compared by
thin-layer polyacrylamide gel isoelectric focusing. A PH gradient from 3.0
(anodally) to 10.0 (cathodally) was used to distinguish protein phenotypes of
the two species. The selected gradient conditions failed to differentiate
between pond cultured snook derived from Florida broodstock and wild-caught
snook from Texas.
Kinnucan, Henry W., Robert G. Nelson, and Johanis Hiariey (1993). "U.S.
Preferences for Fish and Seafood: An Evoked Set Analysis."
Presented at the International Conference on Fisheries Economics,
Os, Norway, May 26-28.
This study uses the concept of an "evoked set" to test hypotheses about
the determinants of consumer preferences for seafood, especially catfish.
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