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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"bioeconomics"”.
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Bioeconomics Of Invasive Species: The Gypsy Moth
This dissertation studies the bioeconomics and management of an invasive species. It uses gypsy moth as an example to examine the optimal control of invasive species. This dissertation is composed of five chapters. Chapter one provides an overview of the current bioeconomic research and the main …
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Optimal Management Of Biological Populations
… optimal harvest is a widely studied problem in bioeconomics. However, most of the work focuses on simple models for the harvest of unstructured populations, even though demographically structured population models are more commonly used for population assessment. In this chapter we derive …
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Incorporating Agroforestry Into Water Quality Trading: Evaluating Economic-Environmental Tradeoffs
Nonpoint source nitrogen runoff from agriculture is a significant contributor to eutrophication in the Chesapeake Bay. The state of Virginia has developed several market and incentive-based water quality credit trading programs to meet federal water quality objectives. In theory, these programs …
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Modeling economies and ecosystems in general equilibrium
This work exploits the general equilibrium modeling framework to simulate complex systems, an economy and an ecosystem. In an economic application, this work leverages a novel data revision scheme to integrate technological detail on electricity generation and pollution abatement into national …
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Consequences of Spatial Exploitation in Complex Adaptive Social-Ecological Systems: Managing for Sustainable Freshwater Fisheries
Freshwater fisheries are complex adaptive social-ecological systems structured by coupled feedbacks between fish and people (e.g., anglers). For example, fishing quality influences angler site choices, and anglers reciprocally impact fish populations at chosen sites through size-selective harvest, …