Local permit ownership in Alaska salmon fisheries     

Gunnar Knapp 《Marine Policy》2011

Changes in ownership of limited entry permits by “local” residents of the region where a fishery occurs may have significant economic and social implications for fishery-dependent regions. This paper examines changes in local permit ownership in Alaska salmon fisheries, for which a long-term decline in rural local permit ownership is an important policy concern. Theoretically, permit markets allocate permits over time to the individuals who are willing to pay the most for them. Any factors that differentially affect what local and non-local residents are willing to pay for permits may affect the equilibrium share of permits held by local residents. For remote rural fisheries in particular, these may include differences between local and non-local residents with respect to access to and costs of financing permits and boats, costs of travel to the fishery, opportunity costs of participation in the fishery, and many other factors. As a fishery increases in profitability, differences between local and non-local residents in access to financing matter more while differences in costs of travel and opportunity costs matter less in the relative ranking of what local and non-local residents are willing to pay for permits. This tends to increase the share of non-local residents among buyers willing to pay the market price for permits, reducing the equilibrium share of permits held by local residents. This leads to a conflict between two important policy goals: increasing fishery profitability and maintaining rural local permit ownership. Consistent with predictions of this theory, the local share of permit ownership in Alaska salmon fisheries is negatively related to permit prices (an indicator of fishery profitability).  相似文献   

Chemical contamination in southwest Puerto Rico: an assessment of trace and major elements in nearshore sediments     

Pait AS  Whitall DR  Jeffrey CF  Caldow C  Mason AL  Lauenstein GG  Christensen JD 《Marine pollution bulletin》2008,56(11):1953-1956

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Cadmium distribution in coastal sediments and mollusks of the US     

Dennis A. Apeti  Gunnar G. Lauenstein 《Marine pollution bulletin》2009,58(7):1016-4424

Cadmium (Cd) concentrations in the coastal United States were assessed using the National Status and Trends (NS&T) Mussel Watch dataset, which is based on the analysis of sediments and bivalves collected from 280 sites since 1986. Using the 1997 sediment data, Pearson correlation (r = 0.44, p < 0.0001) suggested that Cd distributions in sediment can, be to some extent, explained by the proximity of sites to population centers. The 2003 tissue data indicated that “high” Cd concentrations (greater than 5.6 μg/g dry weights [dw] for mussel and 5.4 μg/g dw for oysters) were related to salinity along the East and Gulf coasts. Along the West coast, however, these “high” sites appeared to be related to upwelling phenomenon. Additionally, sedimentary diagenesis was found to be the most likely explanation of why sediment and mollusk Cd content were not well correlated.  相似文献   

Tjörnes fracture zone. New and old seismic evidences for the link between the North Iceland rift zone and the Mid-Atlantic ridge   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Ragnar Stefansson  Gunnar B. Gudmundsson  Pall Halldorsson 《Tectonophysics》2008,447(1-4):117

The Tjörnes facture zone (TFZ) connects the EW extension of the Mid-Atlantic ridge north of Iceland to the extension of the North volcanic zone (NVZ) of Iceland. Earthquakes up to magnitude 7 (Ms) can occur in TFZ, volcanic eruptions have been observed and large crustal deformations are expected in similar way as have been observed in the NVZ. Most of the zone is below ocean, which limits the historical information and geological observations. For studying the dynamics of the zone we must rely on interpretation and modelling based on seismic observations, especially on microearthquake observations for the last 10 years. In this paper we demonstrate how microearthquakes can be applied to map the details of the plate boundary, and how this information can be applied to find epicenters and fault planes of large historical earthquakes, also how seismic information can be applied in dynamic modelling and to infer spatial and temporal interplay in activity, and to enhance hazard assessment.  相似文献   

Global fossil energy markets and climate change mitigation – an analysis with REMIND     

Nico?BauerEmail author  Ioanna?Mouratiadou  Gunnar?Luderer  Lavinia?Baumstark  Robert?J.?Brecha  Ottmar?Edenhofer  Elmar?Kriegler 《Climatic change》2016,135(1):69-83

We analyze the dynamics of global fossil resource markets under different assumptions for the supply of fossil fuel resources, development pathways for energy demand, and climate policy settings. Resource markets, in particular the oil market, are characterized by a large discrepancy between costs of resource extraction and commodity prices on international markets. We explain this observation in terms of (a) the intertemporal scarcity rent, (b) regional price differentials arising from trade and transport costs, (c) heterogeneity and inertia in the extraction sector. These effects are captured by the REMIND model. We use the model to explore economic effects of changes in coal, oil and gas markets induced by climate-change mitigation policies. A large share of fossil fuel reserves and resources will be used in the absence of climate policy leading to atmospheric GHG concentrations well beyond a level of 550 ppm CO₂-eq. This result holds independently of different assumptions about energy demand and fossil fuel availability. Achieving ambitious climate targets will drastically reduce fossil fuel consumption, in particular the consumption of coal. Conventional oil and gas as well as non-conventional oil reserves are still exhausted. We find the net present value of fossil fuel rent until 2100 at 30tril.US$ with a large share of oil and a small share of coal. This is reduced by 9 and 12tril.US$ to achieve climate stabilization at 550 and 450 ppm CO₂-eq, respectively. This loss is, however, overcompensated by revenues from carbon pricing that are 21 and 32tril.US$, respectively. The overcompensation also holds under variations of energy demand and fossil fuel supply.  相似文献   

Radio occultation experiments planned for pioneer and mariner missions to the outer planets     

Gunnar Fjeldbo 《Planetary and Space Science》1973,21(9):1533-1547

Spacecraft radio occultation measurements planned for outer planet missions may yield profiles in height of atmospheric refractivity and microwave loss above the super-refractive regions of the giant planets. In a planetary ionosphere, the refractivity determines the electron number density distribution. At lower levels, the loss and the refractivity may be used to study the density, pressure, temperature and composition of the atmosphere. In order to maximize the scientific yield of outer planet occultation experiments, it is necessary to consider the effects of atmospheric refraction, multipath propagation, navigation errors and spacecraft accelerations in the design of the radio system and the spacecraft attitude control system.  相似文献   

Genetic studies of redfish (Sebastes spp.) along the continental slopes from Norway to East Greenland     

Nedreaas  Kjell; Naevdal  Gunnar 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》1991,48(2):173-186

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Growth patterns of three cohorts of Atlantic cod larvae (Gadus morhua L.) studied in a macrocosm     

Folkvord  Arild; Oiestad  Victor; Kvenseth  Per Gunnar 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》1994,51(3):325-336

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Identification of 0- and 1-group redfish (genus Sebastes) using electrophoresis     

Nedreaas  Kjell; Naevdal  Gunnar 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》1991,48(1):91-99

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Spatial variation in abundance, size composition and viable egg production of spawning cod (Gadus morhua L.) in Icelandic waters     

Marteinsdottir  Gudrun; Gudmundsdottir  Asta; Thorsteinsson  Vilhjalmur; Stefansson  Gunnar 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2000,57(4):824-830

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