Ecological Benchmarking to Explore Alternative Fishing Schemes to Protect Endangered Species by Substitution: The Danish Demersal Fishery in the North Sea

Abstract

Capacity, Directional distance function, Fisheries, Output substitution, C61, D24, Q22, Q28,

A measure of sustainability of Brazilian agribusiness using directional distance functions and data envelopment analysis

“…Some examples of the extensive application of DDF in agriculture are found in Färe et al (2006), which estimated efficiency of US agriculture, shadow prices of pollutants and pollution costs associated; in Kjaersgaard et al (2009), which assessed the Danish cod fisheries; in Azad and Ancev (2010), which analysed the economic and environmental performance of a set of irrigated farms in Australia; in Picazo-Tadeo et al (2012), which applied the method in a sample of Spanish olive farms, among others.…”

Integrating molecular identification of pelagic eggs with geostatistical mapping to improve the delineation of North Sea fish spawning grounds

“…The local commercial fishery, mainly operated by France, the UK, Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium, benefits from a high species richness and fish abundance. It has resulted in serious overexploitation of stocks over the last decades (Daan 1997, Greenstreet et al 1999, Kjaersgaard et al 2009). Consequently, the exploitation of most major commercial species stocks in the North Sea is now mainly based on the first-year classes of the population.…”

Efficiency in Brazilian Refineries under Different DEA Technologies

“…The first linear models proposed considering undesirable outputs [6]–[38] diverged on the definition of undesirable outputs technology, between strong and weak disposability, which evaluates whether the reduction in these variables occur with or without cost, respectively. [9] presents that the models use the same limiting factor for all Decision Making Units (DMUs) and proposes a model with different factors of non-uniform rebates, and relaxes the disposability adoption between the DMUs in order to better represent the reality of companies.…”

“…When mapping the environmental performance context, we are faced with several studies applying DEA which consider undesirable outputs in several areas, such as logistics [10][11][12], fishing [13], agriculture [14], finance [15][16], industry [17][18][19][20], but specifically on the oil industry there are few studies on the subject [21][22].…”