Research Issues in Natural Resource Economics

Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics

Protected areas in marine resource management: another look at the economics and research issues

This paper reviews the research to date that relates to the economics of marine protected areas (MPAs). A special effort is made to examine the evidence on the benefits and costs of MPAs in terms of consumptive and nonconsumptive marine resource interests. General observations are made regarding the net effects of MPAs on these two stakeholder categories and the potential institutional costs of...

Operations research in the natural resource industry

Operations research is becoming increasingly prevalent in the natural resource sector, specifically, in agriculture, fisheries, forestry and mining. While there are similar research questions in these areas, e.g., how to harvest and/or extract the resources and how to account for environmental impacts, there are also differences, e.g., the length of time associated with a growth and harvesting ...

Economics and Software Engineering: Transdisciplinary Issues in Research and Education

This paper presents an approach to combine efforts in Economics and Software Engineering, in order to treat software development from the economics perspective. We define the term transdisciplinary, in the context of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, and use it to derive mutual relationships between Economics and Software Engineering. Finally, we propose a research agenda for co...

Contemporary research in ecological economics: Five outstanding issues