Marine Systems | EconSES

Drivers of Marine Protection

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The project “Why Here? Drivers of Marine Protection in the Coral Triangle” is an NWO Open Competition XS project that investigates why marine protected areas are established in some locations but not others. Combining spatial data, economic indicators, and surveys of conservation practitioners, the project examines how ecological priorities, political feasibility, and economic considerations shape conservation decisions across the world’s most biodiverse marine region.

Behavioural economics for understanding recreational fishers and fisheries

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Economic Experiments in Recreational Fishing Studies

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Behavioural Economics in Marine Fisheries Management: A Systematic Review

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Effects of fishery bycatch-mitigation measures on vulnerable marine fauna and target catch

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Climate damage from fishing the mesopelagic zone exceeds its economic benefits

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Role of Non-fishing and Partner Incomes in Managing Fishers' Economic Risk

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Impacts of Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss on Well-Being

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Climate change and biodiversity loss are among the most pressing challenges of our time, yet we still know surprisingly little about how they affect the well-being of people who depend most directly on natural resources. This project investigates these human dimensions by examining how environmental change and conservation interventions influence livelihoods, income, health, and resilience in developing countries. The project combines large-scale microdata, geospatial information, advanced econometric methods, and machine learning to generate robust causal evidence on the links between environmental change and human well-being. By integrating insights from environmental economics, spatial analysis, and data science, CHANGE aims to advance scientific understanding of the interactions between people and nature while providing evidence to support more effective, equitable, and sustainable environmental policies.

Comparing access to US marine and terrestrial protected areas

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Supplementary materials can be found here.

North Sea Renewable Energy (NO-REGRETS)

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

NO-REGRETS is an NWO funded interdisciplinary research programme examining the ecological and socio-economic impacts of offshore wind expansion in the North Sea. Our work focuses on integrating ecological outcomes with socio-economic analyses, including natural capital accounting, ecosystem services, stakeholder perspectives, and policy evaluation, to assess trade-offs between renewable energy, fisheries, biodiversity conservation, and other marine uses. The project supports evidence-based marine spatial planning for a sustainable and economically viable North Sea energy transition. More information can be found in the project website.

Farmers perceive diminishing ecosystem services, but overlook dis-services in intensively used agricultural landscapes in the North China Plain

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Resource booms and group punishment in a coupled social-ecological system

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

INREEF

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

MARMAED

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Risk preferences after a typhoon: An artefactual field experiment with fishers in the Philippines

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000