Fish-related trade disputes dealt with by the World Trade Organization (WTO) arise from complexity of fisheries industry, and transboundary nature fish, combined differing national policies interests. The Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies (AFS) aims to strengthen role WTO in regulating fish curbing unsustainable fishing practices such as illegal fishing, overcapacity, overfishing limiting excess...

Abstract The daily traffic congestion faced by residents who live in the Greater Jakarta area has popularized Jabodetabek Electric Train (KRL) as a mode of transportation for commuters to work and school. However, satisfactory service not matched increasing number KRL users. Therefore, this study aims develop sustainability policy urban rail services Indonesia an alternative strategy overcome p...

Multiplicative models of firm dynamics 'à la Gibrat' have become a standard reference in industrial organization. However, some unpleasant properties of their implied dynamics – namely, their explosive or implosive behaviour (firm size and number collapsing to zero or increasing indefinitely)-have been given only very little attention. In this paper I investigate which modifications to the stan...

Fisheries management agencies and fishing industry representatives depend on reliable estimates of fish biomass and mortality for the determination of sustainable catch levels. Lack of data or misreporting may be reasons for unreliable stock assessment, which, in turn, may result in advice that does not reflect the availability of fisheries resources. It has been suggested that the mixed pelagi...

• Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are two broad types of restructuring through which managers seek economies of scale, enhanced market visibility, and other efficiencies. • A merger occurs when two companies decide to combine their assets and liabilities into one entity, or when one company purchases another. • An acquisition describes one company’s purchase of another—for example, the absorptio...

Across all major industrial fishing sectors, overfishing due to overcapacity and lack of compliance in fishery governance has led to a decline in biomass of many global fish stocks. Overfishing threatens ocean biodiversity, global food security, and the livelihoods of law abiding fishermen. To address this issue, Global Fishing Watch (GFW) was created to bring transparency to global fisheries u...

2 This report is a summary of ideas collected and developed by the author Anders Gullberg over many years of research on urban transport in general, and ICT and urban transport in particular, in the Vinnova-financed project " TRACS – Travel planners for sustainable cities, a multidisciplinary project at CESC 2010–2015 " 1 1 This is a revised and translated version of Gullberg, A. (2012) 'Så kan...

The level of capacity in a common-pool industry vis-à-vis a sustainable target level of yield simultaneously indicates the economic state of the industry, the success of its regulation, and the pressure on stocks. The main methods to assess capacity and its utilisation operate at the firm level, but neglect the industry capacity. In this contribution, the Johansen-Färe measure of plant capacity...

Enzymes have evolved with highly specific values of their catalytic parameters kcat and KM. This poses fundamental biological questions about the selection pressures responsible for evolutionary tuning of these parameters. Here we are address these questions for the enzyme adenylate kinase (Adk) in eukaryotic yeast cells. A plasmid shuffling system was developed to allow quantification of relat...