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Economics is the study of how people allocate scarce resources among competing ends. This allocation addresses the production and distribution of goods and services over time and space. It takes place within the context of both human behaviour and organisational structure. In publicly owned fisheries, economics is further concerned with the allocation of access to the resource and with managing the interaction of people with the resource. Fisheries co-management, as an arrangement where responsibility for resource management is shared between the government and user groups, is one approach to allocating access and to managing the interaction.
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Hanna, S. (2003). The Economics of Co-Management. In: Wilson, D.C., Nielsen, J.R., Degnbol, P. (eds) The Fisheries Co-management Experience. Fish and Fisheries Series, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3323-6_4
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