Resource Library of Subsidy Documents

Gareth Porter, UNEP Publications. Discusses scope of fishery subsidy problems and options for reform.

Evaluates the basis for, and limitations of, individual fishing quotas (IFQ) as a fishery management tool.  Environmental and ecologial concerns regarding IFQ consolidation by large corporations are discussed.

Anthony Cox and Carl-Christian Schmidt, OECD. Reviews recent work in the OECD on fisheries subsidies and identify areas for which future research would be beneficial.

Olav Schram Stokke and Clare Coffey. The Fridtjof Nansen Institute  and Institute for European Environmental Policy. 

William Shrank for the FAO. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 437. Overview of the nature and impact of fisheries subsidies.

Nature Vol. 423. pp. 280-283.

Lena Westlund, FAO Consultant. The Guide provides detailed and practical advice to fisheries professionals who identify, assess or report on subsidies in the fisheries sector.

UNEP Economics and Trade Branch. Detailed assessment of the eight categories of subsidies and their impact on fishery structure.  Approach incorporates specific characteristics of a fishery, including its level of exploitation and its management regime.

(About). (Statistics). (Publications & Documents). (Information by Country). Wide range of resources about fishery economics and subsidies.

Crescencia Maurer with Ruchi Bhandari, World Resource Institute Climate Notes. Export credit and insurance plays an important role in energy markets by subsidizing the sale and implementation of particular energy technologies. However, the environmental and social impacts of export credit and…

Robert S. McIntyre, Citizens for Tax Justice. This is the second edition of The Hidden Entitlements, Citizens for Tax Justice’s comprehensive analysis of the hundreds of government entitlement programs hidden in the federal tax code.

Peter Anderson, RecycleWorlds Consulting, for the Grass Roots Recycling Network. September 2001.

David Lorenz and David Morris, Institute for Local Self Reliance, 1995.

James Bovard, Cato Institute, Sept. 1995.

Information and Research Services of the Australian Parliament, 2002-03.

Bruce Gardner, University of Maryland, October 2003.

Brent Yacobucci and Jasper Womach, U. S. Congressional Research Service. April 2003.

(Uncorrected Proof). (Abstract). Tad Patzek, forthcoming in Environment, Development and Sustainability, June 2003.

David Pimental, Natural Resources Research, June 2003.

Tad Patzek.  Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 2004.  Web version of article linked to here updated most recently in May 2005.  Detailed review (100 pages) of the corn-ethanol fuel cycle concludes that production is a net loser from both an energy and an environmental perspective.