Actual Costs of Uneconomic Growth of Marine Fisheries in China’s Pearl River Delta

Autor:	Ying Wang
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	0106 biological sciences geography geography.geographical_feature_category Overfishing Natural resource economics 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Fishing Uneconomic growth Estuary 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Ecosystem services Economics Ecosystem Natural capital China
Zdroj:	Natural Resources. :297-312
ISSN:	2158-7086 2158-706X
DOI:	10.4236/nr.2018.97018
Popis:	As traditional economic theory is mainly based on neoliberal principles, whose failure is to ignore the ecological component in value assessment methods, it assumes that continuous economic growth exists with high level of employment and low inflation rate. Many ecological economists have criticized the blind pursuit of short-term economic interests in the last 30 years for leading to loss of natural capital and ecosystem services. This study demonstrates the concept of “uneconomic growth” by measuring the actual costs of fishing activities and fishery policy implemented in China’s Pearl River Estuary from economic, social, and ecological aspects. The results show that the costs of economic growth exceed the benefits of additional growth because of the limits of the ecosystem. The ecological system of the Pearl River Estuary has been degraded significantly by overfishing and is regarded to be under non-optimal conditions regarding both ecological and socio-economic objectives.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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