MARINE PROTECTED AREAS - EMERGING ECONOMICS

Environmental economics provides one perspective on managing multiple and alternative uses of marine areas, Recent work is identified to sug gest substantive research that can better focus benefit-cost analyses on issues specific to marine protected areas, Issues discussed include : the conditions for limited use of an area, determinants of the size of a protected area including species diversity, whether access restri ctions can be politically supportable, the role of links between habit at types, and the importance of passive use value. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd