期刊名称：Fisheries Centre Research Reports / University of British Columbia
印刷版ISSN：1198-6727
出版年度：2006
卷号：14
出版社：University of British Columbia
摘要：As Director of UBC’s Fisheries Centre, it is pleasure to introduce these proceedings, which document an event, the 3rd Biennial NAAFE Forum, held on May 25-27, 2005 that UBC was proud to host. This was one of the many events that UBC hosts in the course of a year, all proofs of our role as a major research university - although I must admit that it probably helps that UBC is located at the edge of Vancouver, which besides being regularly elected, along with Zurich, as one of the best city in the world to live in, also has the attractions to make it a superb place to visit.
However, it is as researcher and fisheries biologist that I am most pleased with these proceedings. They cover a wide range of topics, documenting, in the process, the enormous variety of conceptual and methodological approaches which economists deploy to study fisheries. To me, this is exhilarating, indicating as it does, that there is, across the disciplinary divide, as much to discover and work with, as on my own multifaceted side of that divide.
In fact, if we could match, or better ‘pair’ each of these concepts and methods with concepts and methods from the discipline across the divide, we would perhaps achieve the understanding and cooperation most of us seek, but mostly fail to achieve because we do not consider the same assumptions realistic and useful, and apply different methods to study the same fisheries.
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