Aquaculture production can yield significant economic, social, and environmental effects. These exceed the financial costs and benefits aquaculture producers are faced with. We propose a methodology for the development of integrated production models that allow for the inclusion of the socio-economic and environmental effects of aquaculture into the production management. The methodology develo...

objective: water scarcity is a growing global problem and increasing population pressures, living standards and the growing demand for environmental quality have evoked all the governments to represent better solutions about water resources management. in addition, there are growing political ties for reducing water use in agriculture that follow enough environmental benefits and increase the w...

* There are important differences between economic regulation and environmental, health, or safety regulation that must not be overlooked. * Costs are easier to express than benefits, but their quantifiability makes them no more certain or reliable. * Benefits include improved quality of life and good health as well as positive economic side-effects, but they defy accurate estimation and their ...

Green infrastructure approaches have attracted increased attention from local governments as a way to lower flood risk and provide an array of other environmental services. The peer-reviewed literature, however, offers few estimates of the economic impacts of such approaches at the watershed scale. We estimate the avoided flood damages and the costs of preventing development of floodplain parce...