Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
Answers.com

Bioeconomics

 
Investment Dictionary: Bioeconomics

A progressive branch of social science that seeks to integrate the disciplines of economics and biology for the sole purpose of creating theories that do a better job of explaining economic events using a biological basis and vice versa. The proponents of bioeconomics believe that the same patterns that can be seen in biological evolution can be applied to stock market behavior, as many of the same "causal interactions" and "survival elements" can be found there as well as in nature.

Investopedia Says:
In nature, we see groups of different organisms working together to best utilize the resources needed to sustain life, while still promoting a "survival of the fittest" framework. Like behavioral finance and other applied economic schools, bioeconomics is another example of economic theory branching out of classical boundaries and attempting to better explain the complex economies of today.

Related Links:
Learn economics principles such as the relationship of supply and demand, elasticity, utility, and more! Economics Basics
Learning about the study of economics can help you understand why you face contradictions in the market. Hairline Fractures: Exploring The Dismal Science


Search unanswered questions...
Enter a question here...
Search: All sources Community Q&A Reference topics
Wikipedia: Bioeconomics
Top

Bioeconomics is the study of the dynamics of living resources using economic models.[1] It is an attempt to apply the methods of environmental economics and ecological economics to empirical biology.[citation needed] Bioeconomics applies optimal control methods to mathematical models using environmental and ecological elements for resource protection issues relating to resource economics.

Bioeconomics is the science determining the socioeconomic activity threshold for which a biological system can be effectively and efficiently utilised without destroying the conditions for its regeneration and therefore its sustainability.[2]

Contents

History

Bioeconomics is closely related to the early development of theories in fisheries economics, initially in the mid 1950s by Canadian economists Scott Gordon (in 1954) and Anthony Scott (1955). Their ideas used recent achievements in biological fisheries modelling, primarily the works by Schaefer (1957) on establishing a formal relationship between fishing activities and biological growth through mathematical modelling confirmed by empirical studies, and also relates itself to ecology and the environment and resource protection.

These ideas developed out of the multidisciplinary fisheries science environment in Canada at the time. Fisheries science and modelling developed rapidly during a productive and innovative period, particularly among Canadian fisheries researchers of various disciplines. Population modelling and fishing mortality were introduced to economists, and new interdisciplinary modelling tools became available for the economists, which made it possible to evaluate biological and economic impacts of different fishing activities and fisheries management decisions.

Renewable resources

  • Fisheries: At least one researcher has attempted to perform Hubbert linearization (Hubbert curve) on the whaling industry, as well as charting the transparently dependent price of caviar on sturgeon depletion.[3] Another example is the cod of the North Sea.[4] The comparison of the cases of fisheries and of mineral extraction tells us that the human pressure on the environment is causing a wide range of resources to go through a depletion cycle which follows a Hubbert curve.

See also

References

Further reading

  • H. Scott Gordon (1954). The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource: The Fishery. The Journal of Political Economy 62(2): 124-142.
  • M. B. Schaefer (1957). Some considerations of population dynamics and economics in relation to the management of marine fishes. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 14: 669-81.
  • Seijo JC, Defeo O and Salas S (1998) Fisheries bioeconomics: Theory, modelling and management FAO Fisheries, Technical paper 368. ISBN 92-5-104045-1.
  • kabir i. falau(2008). The modern Economics: The Objectives of Sole Ownership. The Journal of Political Economy 63(2): 116-124.

External links

Wikibooks
Wikibooks' Economics has more about this subject:

 
 
Learn More
Centre of Marine Resource Management
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
Jack Hirshleifer

Help us answer these
What is Bioeconomics societies?

Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:

 

Copyrights:

Investment Dictionary. Copyright ©2000, Investopedia.com - Owned and Operated by Investopedia Inc. All rights reserved.  Read more
Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Bioeconomics" Read more