Integrating fisheries approaches and household utility models for improved resource management.

ABSTRACT: Natural resource management is littered with cases of overexploitation and ineffectual management, leading to loss of both biodiversity and human welfare. Disciplinary boundaries stifle the search for solutions to these issues. Here, I combine the approach of management strategy evaluation, widely applied in fisheries, with household utility models from the conservation and development literature, to produce an integrated framework for evaluating the effectiveness of competing management strategies for harvested resources against a range of performance metrics. I demonstrate the strengths of this approach with a simple model, and use it to examine the effect of manager ignorance of household decisions on resource management effectiveness, and an allocation tradeoff between monitoring resou

SUBMITTER: Milner-Gulland EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3029774 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature