Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Wealth/income
Social,
Baseline (control
Can be used to monitor social
Can be hard to compare between sites and
distribution of
financial
population or
sustainability, e.g. through
studies. Not much connection to biological
users
pre-intervention)
changes in equitability of wealth.
sustainability.
Can also inform about
dependence on harvesting
among particular social groups.
Food security of
Social
Baseline (control
Can be used to monitor social
Some methodological issues still unresolved.
users
population or
sustainability. Can also inform
pre-intervention)
about dependence on
harvesting in times of need.
Health and
Social
Baseline (control
Can be useful to inform
Nutritional status is confounded by many
nutrition of users
population or
policy responses.
factors not just food availability, so analysis
pre-intervention)
must be done with care.
Structure of
Social,
—
Price changes along the commo-
Not directly related to biological
commodity chain
financial
dity chain can give information
sustainability.
on social/financial sustainability.
Structure of the chain can
indicate robustness of manage-
ment and be used to predict
effect of changes on catch rates.
Profitability of
Financial,
—
Can indicate market structure
Involves collection of information on direct costs
harvesting/trading
biological
and whether market is at
and revenues and on opportunity costs—quite
equilibrium.
substantial data requirements.
