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Regev, U., and A.P. Gutierrez, S.J. Schreiber, and D. Zilberman (1998).
Biological and Economic Foundations of Renewable Resource
Exploitation. Ecological Economics, 26:227-242.
A physiologically based population dynamics model of a renewable
resource is used as the basis to develop a model of human harvesting. The
model incorporates developing technology and the effects of market forces on
the sustainability of common property resources. The bases of the model are
analogies between the economics of resource harvesting and allocation by firms
and adapted organisms in nature. Specifically, the paper makes the following
points: (1) it shows how economic and ecological theories may be unified; (2)
it punctuates the importance of time frame in the two systems (evolutionary
versus market); (3) it shows, contrary to prevailing economic wisdom, how
discount rates on resource use can be catastrophic when synergized by progress
in harvesting technology; (5)it suggests that increases in efficiency of
utilization of the harvest encourages higher levels of resource exploitation;
and (6) it shows the effects of environmental degradation on consumer and
resource dynamics. The model leads to global implications on the relationship
between economic growth and the ability of modern societies to maintain the
environment at a sustainable level.
Reggio, Villere C. Jr. (1989). "Petroleum Structures as Artificial
Reefs: a Compendium." Fourth International Conference on
Artificial Habitats for Fisheries Rigs-to-Reefs Special Session,
Miami, Florida, November 4, 1987. Published by U.S. Department of
the Interior, Minerals Management Service, gulf of Mexico OCS
Regional Office, New Orleans, August, 176 pp.
These proceedings are published to share information with anyone
interested in the potential, limitations, and concerns of making permitted
reefs from petroleum structures. The presented papers address some of the
physical, biological, socioeconomic, technological, and legal aspects of
capturing the fisheries potential of producing petroleum platforms and of
converting obsolete oil and gas structures to reefs. The range of views and
experiences presented at the conference is hereby recorded as submitted by the
authors or panel moderators and prepared for publication by MMS.
Reid, Walter V. and Mark C. Trexler (1991). Drowning the National
Heritage: Climate Change and U.S. Coastal Biodiversity. World
resources Institute, June, 48 pp.
The authors point out that curbing the rate and magnitude of global
warming would do more to conserve coastal biodiversity than any after the fact
measure could. But they also identify policy shifts that would help coastal
ecosystems and species survive the warming that is already in store.
Reinhard, Stijn and Geert Thijssen (1998). Resource Use Efficiency of Dutch
Dairy Farms: A Parametric Distance Function Approach. Paper presented
at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting in
Salt Lake City, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, P.O. Box
29703, 2502LS The Hague, The Netherlands, May, 14 pp.
The objective of this paper is to define and to estimate a resource use
efficiency measure using a panel of Dutch dairy farms. Resource use
efficiency reflects observed to maximum revenue, including the non-positive
revenue of bad outputs. It can be decomposed into technical and environmental
efficiency. Our parametric output distance function allows the
characteristics of non-point source pollution. Shadow prices of the
undesirable output (nitrogen surplus per hectare) are found to be positive for
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