Developing an all-biomass feedstock, simple process and low-cost way to achieve cotton fabric flame retardation is of great significance in civil, military and industrial fields. Herein, making use of layer-by-layer coating of protein extracted from fishery waste fish scales and phytic acid (PA)...

The evaluation of extinction risk has typically focused on individual species, although a shift to a focus on ecosystem function would appear to be an urgent priority for conservation planning, especially considering that a sixth mass extinction event has already begun. In the present study, we...

Unowned free-roaming cats are a global problem due to predation on wildlife and the spread of infectious diseases. Programs such as Trap, Neuter, and Return (TNR) and Trap-Euthanize (TE) have been used to control cat populations. This paper presents a bioeconomic model using data from Knox...

There are no longer plenty of fish in the sea. One-third of global fish stocks are overfished beyond biologically sustainable levels, and fishing subsidies are the primary culprit. Such subsidies incentivize overfishing, foster illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and dangerously...

Oil and gas discovery in Ghana since 2007 has attracted the interest of many international and local actors, including transnational corporations. Contrary to the expected benefits of oil to broad-based development, the industry has perpetuated exclusion and poverty in communities in the...

Background: The intradisciplinary knowledge in our research framework for this implementation is: Parametric Insurance, Aquaculture Indemnification, Life Circle Assessment (LCA) and Economically Motivated Adulteration (EMA) avoidance.Objective: The newly introduced “Quantum Marketing”...

We model a fishery with potential congestion; fishers obtain both public and private signals about the location where the fish stock is densest. We extend the literature by including both a larger parameter region and correlation between public and private signals. We analytically determine the...

Purpose - This study investigates whether higher catch rates near a marine protected area (MPA), and/or in other fishing areas within a choice set, attract more fishers. A survey conducted in the fishing grounds near an MPA located in south east of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean shows...

Following the Brent Spar controversy, the OSPAR countries reached a unanimous agreement in 1998 for the future rules for disposal of petroleum installations. The vast majority of existing offshore installations will be re-used or returned to shore for recycling or disposal. For installations...

Models of job tournaments and competitive workplaces more generally predict that while individual effort may increase as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report on a field experiment conducted with workers from a...

Using marine resources in a healthy and sustainable manner is at the center of building a blue economy that will make "Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water" achievable. Fisheries and aquaculture sectors alone provide employment for and support the livelihoods of more than 200...

Balancing the Tides highlights the influence of marine practices and policies in the unincorporated territory of American Sāmoa on the local indigenous group, the American fishing industry, international seafood consumption, U.S. environmental programs, as well as global ecological and native...

Balancing the Tides highlights the influence of marine practices and policies in the unincorporated territory of American Sāmoa on the local indigenous group, the American fishing industry, international seafood consumption, U.S. environmental programs, as well as global ecological and native...

Increasing fish consumption along with rising competition in the global seafood market has brought fisheries and aquaculture producers to adopt several differentiation and marketing strategies. Labelling schemes were thus introduced to respond to a growing demand for traceable and sustainable...

Remittances to developing countries exceed $550 billion annually. Although many poor rural households that depend on these remittances also harvest local common-pool resources, few studies explore this relationship. We develop a dynamic model of a coastal fishing household with remittance...

This open access book uses an interdisciplinary approach that not only focuses on social organization but also analyzes how societies and ecological settings were interwoven. How did early modern indigenous Sami inhabitants in interior northwest Fennoscandia build institutions for governance of...