Abstract Plastic pollution has emerged as a global challenge necessitating collective efforts to mitigate its adverse environmental consequences. International negotiations are currently underway establish plastic treaty. Emphasizing the need for solution-orientated research, rather than focusing on further defining problems of widespread occurrence and ecological impacts, this paper extracts insights draws key patterns that relevant these international negotiations. The analysis reveals (i)...

According to governmental plans, Norway faces huge expansions in the production of farmed Atlantic salmon. However, it is municipalities that designate coastal areas aquaculture activities and their motivation depends on net benefits at municipal level from such use. Yet, there little empirical evidence costs using activities. We set up a cost-benefit analysis salmon farming as seen perspective. On benefit side, we count consumer producer surplus increased region region's share national rent...

We provide a descriptive comparative analysis of features related to emergence and design among 14 Rights Nature (RoN) case studies worldwide. For analysis, we develop schematic roadmap in which categorise RoN into with public guardianship ones appointed guardians (termed Environmental Legal Personhoods (ELPs) further sub-categories indirect, direct living ELPs). Our findings suggest that emerged under similar circumstances where existing governance structures had been unable protect natural...

Aanesen, M., C. W. Armstrong, H. J. Bloomfield, and Röckmann. 2014. What does stakeholder involvement mean for fisheries management? Ecology Society 19(4): 35. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06947-190435

This study investigates tourist preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for restoration of mangroves reduce the effects climate change (CC) on ecotourism at Rekawa coastal wetland, Sri Lanka, using a double bounded discrete choice elicitation format in contingent valuation method. The survey also included socio-economic, demographic, attitudinal characteristics respondents. results reveal that domestic foreign tourists average were willing 2.65 USD 11.4 per person, respectively, mangrove...

This study provides empirical evidence on the drivers affecting Norwegian salmon consumption in three European countries – Italy, Poland, and France using Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). We also highlight effects positive negative information about sustainability farming consumers' perceptions behaviour. The was conducted an online survey with representative samples French (n = 748), Italian 771) Polish 756) consumers. A treatment including neutral, positive, applied a between-subjects...

Whereas in most sectors, technology has taken over trivial and labour consuming tasks, this transformation been delayed the healthcare sector. Although appropriate is available, there general resistance to substituting ‘warm’ hands with ‘cold’ technology. In future, may change as number of elderly people increases relative work force. combination an increasing demand for services, are calls efforts increase productivity Based on experience data from previous studies information communication...

In addition to indirect support fisheries, marine habitats also provide non-use benefits often overlooked in most bioeconomic models. We expand a dynamic fisheries model where presence of natural reduces fishing cost via aggregation effects and provides benefits. The theoretical is illustrated with an application cold-water corals Norway two methods are considered—destructive bottom trawl non-destructive coastal gear. Non-use values estimated using discrete choice experiment. Both the its...

We use demographic and economic indicators to analyze spatial differences temporal trends across 18 regions surrounding the Arctic Ocean. Multifactor cluster analysis were used on 10 reflecting income, employment demography from 1995 2008. The main difference is between with high population densities, low natural growth rate, unemployment (Russia, Norway Iceland) rate (mainly North American regions). However, once those parameters accounted for sub-regional start emerge. Variation among was...

<h3>Abstract</h3> Decisions about the optimal use of coastal and marine resources must be taken under high uncertainty environmental impacts may conflict with public perception risk associated current blue growth initiatives. In a discrete choice experiment conducted in valuation workshops five communities Arctic Norway, we examine preferences for various aquaculture expansion paths. Respondents prefer smaller terms number sites compared to planned expansion. Emphasizing scientific regarding...

Abstract There is increasing pressure to use currently untapped resources in the deep sea, raising questions regarding ecosystem service trade‐offs these often unknown areas. We assessed between protection of cold‐water coral reefs and economic activities, such as fisheries petroleum extraction, through a survey representative sample populations Norway Ireland. Choice‐experiment surveys were conducted workshop settings internet. Both approaches provided some similar results, preferences for...

Ecosystem services (ES) may be both non-market and market based. Both provide important input to societal welfare. Using natural resources, or converting nature in the development of based ES impact access more conservationist ES, vice versa. How does general public trade-off between these two types ES? We use valuation studies Northern Norway identify public's preferences for marine industries versus other non-use values. One study assesses willingness pay protect cold-water corals, a...

Although the contingent valuation literature emphasizes importance of controlling for respondents' consequentiality perceptions, this has rarely accounted difference between payment and policy consequentiality. We examine influence a randomly assigned tax amount on self-reports their potential endogeneity using data from single dichotomous choice survey about reducing marine plastic pollution in Norway. Results show that perceptions are function amount, with decreasing increasing higher...

We conducted a three-way split sample discrete choice experiment (DCE) to investigate welfare estimates for attributes related the management of coastal cod stocks in Arctic Norway. In base DCE design, respondents faced three core attributes: (1) spawning biomass as an indicator sustainability stocks, (2) stricter regulations on primary user groups (commercial fishers, local recreational anglers, marine fishing tourism industry), and (3) annual household cost. two experimentally varied...