Acronym ECOST
Category
Fisheries
Title Ecosystems, Societies, Consilience, Precautionary principle: Development of an assessment method of the societal cost for best fishing practices and efficient public policies Programme FP6
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP6 - Specific Targeted Research Project
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
Specific International Co-operation Activities
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source European Coordinator Failler Pierre Coordinator email pierre.failler@port.ac.uk
Coordinator institution
CEMARE - University of Portsmouth; Centre for the Economics and Management of Aquatic Resources (United Kingdom)
Institutions involved
AAU - Aalborg University (Denmark) ,
CTU - Can Tho University (Vietnam) ,
CRODT - Centre for Oceanographic Research of Dakar (Senegal) ,
CIES - Centro Di Ingegneria Economica E Sociale (Italy) ,
IRD - French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (France) ,
KU - Kasetsart University (Thailand) ,
CNSHB - National Center for Fisheries Sciences of Boussoura (Guinea) ,
NA - National Institute of Studies & Research of Guinea-Bissau (Guinea-Bissau) ,
INPT - National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (France) ,
NA - Sun Yat-sen University (China) ,
INTEC - Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) ,
UVA - University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) ,
UPVD - University of Perpignan (France) ,
UWI - University of the West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago) ,
UCLouvain - Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) ,
Start year 2005 End year 2010 Funding (€) € 3,814,952 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/3711 Summary The main aim of the ECOST project is to develop a new approach to assess the societal cost of fishing activities and fishing policies. By societal cost we mean all costs linked to fishing activities: these may be ecological (alteration of the capacity of a system), economic (all costs linked to production, management, subsidies and external factors), social (linked to choices made in public policy, food security and safety, provision for national or international markets, the eradication of poverty and to development models (small scale fishing versus industrial fishing).
(1) Develop an interactive and integrated model; (2) Propose sound policies recommendations.
Keywords
Economy;
Fishing industry;
Small scale fisheries;
Marine Region
1
Northern Oceanic (34.2)
3
Marocco coast (34.1.1)
2
Canarias and Madeira Islands (34.1.2)
3
Marine Region Map
