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The Value of Recreational Inshore Marine Fishing [PDF]

The relative values of New Zealand commercial and recreational marine fishing are unknown. Value transfer is applied to assess the likely value of inshore marine recreational fishing.
Kerr, Geoffrey N., Latham, N.
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Human pressure, habitat heterogeneity and species traits jointly determine the level of dark diversity in coastal fish communities

Ecography, EarlyView.
Understanding how anthropogenic pressures and environmental gradients shape coastal fish communities is a central question in biogeography and marine conservation. Yet, the set of species expected to occur at a site given ecological conditions but being absent – the so‐called dark diversity – has received far less attention than observed species, even ...
Loïc Sanchez, Jeanne Rolland, Adèle Barroil, Célia Bertrand, Agathe Blandin, Pierre Boissery, Thomas Bockel, Eric Charbonnel, Julie Deter, Régis Hocdé, Florian Holon, Jean‐Baptiste Juhel, Nicolas Loiseau, Bastien Macé, Anthony Maire, Stéphanie Manel, Marie Orblin, Franck Pichot, Jean‐Jacques Riutort, Lola Romant, Rémy Simide, Alice Valentini, Laure Velez, David Mouillot   +23 more
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Ocean Governance and Marine Conservation: Institutional Work as a Lever for Ocean Sustainability

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ocean governance presents one of the most complex environmental policy challenges of our time, requiring coordinated action across multiple scales, sectors and stakeholder groups. This paper applies institutional work theory to systematically examine how actors create, maintain and disrupt the governance arrangements underpinning ocean ...
Kedar Uttam, Kristjan Jespersen, Paige Olmsted, Katryn Pasaribu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

What constitutes effective governance of recreational fisheries?—A global review

, 2020
The effectiveness of recreational fisheries governance has been mixed, with some countries boasting good governance practices that sustain productive recreational fisheries, while others lack any policies and governance structures specific to ...
Roy Bealey, Potts, Warren M., Warren M. Potts, Downey-Breedt, Nicola, Warwick H. H. Sauer, Obregon, Pablo, Hyder, Kieran, Nicola Downey‐Breedt, Pablo Obregon, Sauer, Warwick H. H., Kieran Hyder, Bealey, Roy   +11 more
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Environmental Statecraft, Fragmented Authoritarianism, and Technocratic Governance: The Structure and Agency of China's Local Environmental Politics

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Local environmental politics in China is often said to be dominated by state‐controlled modes of multi‐level governance. However, top‐down governance is embedded within and transformed by local politics, adding complexity to governance practices and environmental outcomes.
Minsi Liu, Kevin Lo
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The Bioeconomic Effects of Timber Harvesting on Recreational and Commercial Salmon and Steelhead Fishing: A Case Study of the Siuslaw National Forest [PDF]

The economic effects of changes in timber harvest levels on recreational and commercial salmon and steelhead fisheries are estimated by combining a series of simple watershed, habitat, population, and economic models.
Loomis, John B.
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Assessing Policy‐Oriented Learning About Climate‐Related Forest Disturbances in Europe

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European forests provide multiple ecosystem services but are increasingly under pressure from climate‐related disturbances such as droughts, storms and insect calamities. Forest policy is an important driver for the adaptation of forest management practices to climate change.
Pascal Renaud‐Bernath, Metodi Sotirov, Jens Nilsson, Annica Sandström, Karin Beland Lindahl, Marcin Mielewczyk, Krzysztof Niedziałkowski, Zala Uhan, Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh   +8 more
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Can killing individual wild animals directly protect their population?

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
Ongoing extinctions are often accelerated by humans intentionally killing nonhumans. Commonly in Western conservation thinking, killing is seen as a strategy to prevent extinction. The hypothesis that killing one animal can protect the survivors of the same species (conspecifics) requires a direct cause‐and‐effect mechanism between the death of the ...
Adrian Treves, Astghik Markosyan, Paul C Paquet   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Management directions for Western Australia\u27s recreational fisheries

, 2000
A major challenge for the Western Australian community is to ensure the sustainability of these resources in the face of growing pressure, and to ensure that the industries based on these resources are able to develop in a controlled and sustainable ...
Fisheries Western Australia
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Exploring Chinese Language Teachers' Perspectives on Their Career Development: A Q Methodology Research

Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recruiting, training, and retaining qualified teachers remain matters of public concern in many countries, including Belarus. Drawing on the Systems Theory Framework, this study examined the influences shaping the career development of Chinese language teachers in Belarus across individual, social, and environmental‐societal contexts.
Katsiaryna Hryshayeva, Manchun Dai, Mohamed Oubibi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source