Economic sustainability of marine aquaculture : a report to the Marine Aquaculture Task Force
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2007-02Author
Hoagland, Porter
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Kite-Powell, Hauke L.
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Jin, Di
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Schumacher, Mary E.
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Katz, Laure S.
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Klinger, Dane
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/8815Abstract
In the future, marine aquaculture production
is likely to expand significantly in the
United States and abroad. This paper deals
with the present and future economic sustainability
of aquaculture in the United
States in light of this expectation. Economic
sustainability requires the allocation of scarce
resources to generate economic profits for
investments in physical capital, knowledge,
and technology that may endow future
generations with the capacity to be at least
as well off as the current generation.
Discussions about sustainability (or
sustainable development) focus mainly on
fairness in the distribution of economic
welfare across generations. Due to this focus
on intergenerational equity, international
political discussions of sustainable development
often are not directly concerned with
economic efficiency. Economic efficiency is a
necessary condition for achieving sustainable
development, however, because it does not
make sense to waste resources without cause.
And efficiency is likely to increase the net
benefits that can be shared both within and
across generations.
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This paper was written at the request of,
and to provide background information for
the work of, the Marine Aquaculture Task
Force, a project of the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution
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Working Paper: Hoagland, Porter, Kite-Powell, Hauke L., Jin, Di, Schumacher, Mary E., Katz, Laure S., Klinger, Dane, "Economic sustainability of marine aquaculture : a report to the Marine Aquaculture Task Force", 2007-02, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/8815Related items
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