Bioeconomic models are idealized representations of human-nature interactions used to describe how the decisions that people make regarding the harvest of biological resources affect the future condition of resource stocks and the flow of net economic benefits. This modeling approach posits an assumed goal or objective that a decision-maker seeks to optimize subject to a set of biological const...

Cross disciplinary dialogue between economics and ecology has within economics centered on the two subdisciplines of bioeconomics and ecological economics. This division in economics reflects the division in ecology between population and systems ecologists. Recent developments in ecology are aimed at a more integrated approach to ecologic al research. One example of such an approach is that of...

Some monospecies age class models, as well as specific multi-species models (with so-called technical interactions), exhibit useful monotonicity properties. This paper deals with discrete time monotone bioeconomic dynamics in the presence of state and control constraints. In practice, these latter " acceptable configurations " represent production and preservation requirements to be satisfied f...

Bioeconomic optimization models are regularly used in ®sheries policy analysis. However, the use of these models has been restricted in ®sheries, as in other similar ®elds, where there are a large number of non-linear interactions. In this paper, the basic features, advantages and disadvantages of the use of the evolutionary methods, speci®cally genetic algorithms, are discussed. A large non-li...

Synopsis: The paper ‘bridges the divide’ between the biological and economic literature on marine reserves. It provides a selected review of the traditional use of reserves, the early reserve literature, the potential benefits of reserves, spillovers from reserves to harvested areas and bioeconomic models of marine reserves. The bioeconomics literature is examined from the perspectives of deter...