Assessment of the status, development and diversification of fisheries-dependent communities: Urk Case Study Report

This case study about Urk shows which social and economic challenges this traditional fishing community faces due to its specialization on just a few stocks, the increasing independence of a processing sector no longer reliant on it to supply locally caught fish, and culturally preferences in the way of life and ways of doing things, and the additional hardship of limited TACs, forced decommissioning, low stock prices, and high fixed costs (fuel costs)

The nature of orchestrational work

This study presents results of a systematic participatory observation of daily activities of managers in inter-collaborative settings in the tradition of the Work Activity School. It is based on data collection among nine public managers who are active in networks/chains in the fields of public safety and health care in the Netherlands. The results demonstrate that a large part of the activities of managers still fall in the traditional managerial roles as identified by Mintzberg in his seminal study “The Nature of Managerial Work”. Yet, findings also show that there is a substantial part which can be subsumed under a new role, which we call orchestrational work

Economic instruments and waste policies in the Netherlands - Inventory and options for extended use

In recent years, the interest in the use of economic instruments in environmental policy has been growing, reflecting increasing awareness of their potential cost-effectiveness as well as the need to diversify the ‘policy toolbox’. Waste policy is no exception to this tendency. The present study explores the opportunities for extended use of economic instruments for waste policy in the Netherlands, focusing on waste from households and the trade, services and government secto

Visserij in cijfers 2008

Deze jaarlijkse rapportage over de Nederlandse visserij bevat gegevens over de bedrijfsresultaten en financiële positie van de kottervisserij in 2007 met ramingen voor 2008, en met vergelijkende cijfers van voorgaande jaren. Naast de bedrijfseconomische gegevens van de kottervisserij, wordt ook ingegaan op re-sultaten van de grote zeevisserij, de mosselcultuur, de oestersector en daar-naast ook ontwikkelingen in de handel in visproducten met het buitenland. Over de visteeltsector wordt niet gerapporteerd vanwege gebrek aan actuele gege-vens. This annual report on Dutch fisheries contains data on the business results and the financial position of cutter fishing in 2007 and an outlook for 2008, with comparative figures from previous years. Alongside the economic data of cutter fishing, results of large-scale high sea fishing, mollusc culture, oyster culture and developments in foreign trade of fishery products are also examined. The aquaculture sector is not examined due to lack of information about the sector

Visserij in cijfers 2009

Deze jaarlijkse rapportage over de Nederlandse visserij bevat gegevens over de bedrijfsresultaten en financiële positie van de kottervisserij in 2008 met ramingen voor 2009, en met vergelijkende cijfers van voorgaande jaren. Naast de bedrijfseconomische gegevens van de kottervisserij wordt ook ingegaan op uitkomsten van de overige kleine zeevisserijvloot, op resultaten van de grote zeevisserij, de mosselcultuur en de oestersector en daarnaast ook op ontwikkelingen in de handel in visproducten met het buitenland. Over de visteeltsector wordt niet gerapporteerd vanwege gebrek aan actuele gegevens. This annual report about Dutch fisheries contains data about the business results and financial position of cutter fisheries in 2008, with estimates for 2009 and comparative figures from previous years. Besides economic data relating to cutter fisheries, the report also studies the net results of the other small high seas fishing fleet, the results of large high seas fisheries, mussel farming and the oyster sector, as well as developments in international trade in fish products. The report does not address the fish farming sector due to lack of current data

CONTINUITY OF INTEGRATED PATIENT CARE: A patient centred study of medication management

This research is about enhancing the continuity of patient care. It focuses on medication management at the time of patient discharge from a cardiology unit in an Australian acute care hospital. That is, during the time of the patients’ transition from tertiary to primary care. The philosophical concept underpinning the research is centred on continuity of patient care which is defined, and then described, in the context of each chapter study undertaken. The main aim of the overall research was to conduct an original, empirical research project to identify, characterise, and investigate a cohort of patients in need of ongoing care after discharge. Those subjects recruited into the Continuity of Care Project were 281 acute on chronic, cardiovascular patients. In this research, the individual chapter studies investigated the need for continuity of care by analysing the quality of prescribing recorded at hospital discharge and at medication review in the community

Economic importance of the dutch non-commercial small-scale fleet

This paper describes the characteristics, costs and revenues of the so-called noncommercial small-scale fleet based on a survey sent to all the skippers owning a vessel that according to the LEI definition falls within the category of non-commercial small-scale fisheries. With this data the economic importance of this part of the fleet can be determined

Capital Utilization and investment Decisions: A Case Study for the Netherlands

In this paper a data envelopment model is presented to evaluate short term investment decisions in the Dutch beam trawl and demersal fleet. We investigated how short run profit drives investment decisions and how a data envelopment analysis can be used to show what the optimal level of capital use is and how investment in variable and fixed inputs can optimize the output of the sector. The degree of capital utilization can be seen as a measure of whether firms should invest or disinvest in their capital assets. Capital utilization also measures to which extent idle and excess capacity is present in a firm. Differences in capital utilization mainly depend on the degree in which a firm can adjust fixed capital in the short run. It therefore should be a key economic parameter to evaluate the performance of a sector. We measured the physical capital utilization for the Dutch beam trawl and demersal fleet for 2005 and decomposed the capacity utilization into technical efficiency, economic capital utilization and optimal capacity idleness. Furthermore we illustrated how the economic capacity measure can be used to predict investment decisions in the fleet. Results show that economic capital utilization inefficiency is on average 13%, which indicates that landings could have been 13% higher then they were if the fleet operated 100% efficiently. About 1% of the capacity utilization inefficiency is caused by idle/excess capacity. This very low percentage indicates that there are few indivisibilities in the input for the Dutch beam trawl and demersal fleet. Based on short term profit maximization it is clear that it is optimal to make as much use of the available capital as possible. The remaining 12% can be attributed to economic capacity inefficiency and technical inefficiency in the fleet. Vessels with a low capital utilization are more likely to disinvest than vessels with a high capital utilization. Vessels with a capital utilization that is higher than unity almost always will choose to invest.Keywords: Fishers Behavior, Fish and Aquaculture Sectors Development, Fisheries EconomicsKeywords: Fishers Behavior, Fish and Aquaculture Sectors Development, Fisheries Economic