1st Edition

Network Economics of Marine Ecosystems and their Exploitation

By Christian Mullon Copyright 2014
    308 Pages 119 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    This book addresses the question of the double exposure of marine ecosystems, i.e. to both global climate changes and economic globalization. This book contains a short, but self sufficient mathematical introduction, the formalization in the context of Network economics of global commodity chains, with both trophic and economic processes, and a series of cases studies, going from the re‐addressing of fundamental ecological questions such as Gause’s exclusion principles to practical studies such as the representation of the global supply chain for tuna.

    Introduction
    Climate changes, globalization and Network Economics
    An illustrated introduction to networks from the Network Economics perspective
    The Network Economics approach to the equilibrium and dynamics in ecology and economics
    Part II: Mathematical background
    A soft presentation of the mathematics of equilibrium and optimization
    Networks economics approaches to the equilibrium of ecological and economic systems
    About the equilibrium of trophic and ecological networks
    About the equilibrium of economic networks
    Applications of Network Economics to marine systems
    About the Gause’s exclusion principle
    About the Peruvian puzzle
    Ecological controls in the Chilean coastal ecosystem
    Fishing under finance
    Futures of the worldwide fish supply chains
    The spatial behaviour of the Atlantic blue fin tuna
    The coexistence of small and big fish
    Conclusion
    Conclusion
    Appendices
    About equilibrium and dynamics in ecology and economics
    Algorithms for variational inequalities and complementarity problems
    Utility, prices and equilibrium

    Biography

    Mullon\, Christian