Armstrong, Claire

Natural Resource Economics, fisheries economics and management, bioeconomic modelling, valuation of ecosystem goods and services.

CoralFISH Ecosystem based management of corals, fish and fisheries in the deep waters of Europe and beyond (http://www.eu-fp7-coralfish.net/)

HERMIONE Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European Seas (http://www.eu-hermione.net/)

CORALVALUE Habitat-Fisheries interactions - Valuation and Bioeconomic modelling of Cold Water Coral, NFR

Publications in refereed journals

• Armstrong. Cooperative solutions in a transboundary fishery: The Russian-Norwegian co-management of the Arcto-Norwegian Cod stock. Marine Resource Economics, 9(3), 329-351, 1994.
• Armstrong and Clark: Just fishing? - Equity and efficiency in fisheries management regimes. Marine Resource Economics, 12, 203-220, 1997.
• Armstrong: Sharing a fish resource - bargaining theoretical analysis of an applied allocation rule. Marine Policy, 22(2), 119-134, 1998.
• Armstrong: Sharing a fish resource - bioeconomic analysis of an applied allocation rule.                Environmental and Resource Economics, 13, 75-94, 1999.
• Armstrong and Sumaila: Cannibalism and the optimal sharing of the North-East Atlantic cod stock: A bioeconomic model. Journal of Bioeconomics, 2(2), 99-115, 2000.
• Armstrong and Sumaila: Optimal allocation of TAC and the implications of implementing an ITQ management system for the North-East Arctic cod. Land Economics, 77(3), 350-359, 2001.
• Armstrong and Reithe: Marine Reserves – will they accomplish more with management costs? A comment to Hannesson’s (1998) paper. Marine Resource Economics, 16(2), 2001.
• Armstrong: Theory and practice of why auctions differ - A study of two fish auctions in Norway. Marine Policy 25, 209-214, 2001.
• Skonhoft and Armstrong: Conservation of wildlife. A bio-economic model of a wildlife preserve under the pressure of habitat destruction and harvesting outside the reserve. Natural Resource Modeling 18(1), 69-90, 2005
• Armstrong and Skonhoft: Marine reserves. A bio-economic model with asymmetric density dependent migration. Ecological Economics 57(3), 466-476, 2006.
• Wätzold, Drechsler, Armstrong, Baumgärtner, Grimm, Huth, Perrings, Possingham, Shogren, Skonhoft, Verboom-Vasiljev and Wissel Ecological-economic modeling for biodiversity management: Potential, pitfalls, and prospects. Conservation Biology, 20(4) 1034-1041 2006.
• Sumaila and Armstrong. Distributional effects of Marine Protected Areas: A study of the North-East Atlantic cod fishery. Land Economics, 82(3) 321-332, 2006.
• Stensbak, Nøstbakken and Armstrong: Fiskeflåte og strukturering: en kommentar til Strukturutvalgets NOU (Fishing fleet and restructuring: A comment on the Structural Committee’s green paper). Økonomisk Forum Nr 7, 42-47 2006.
• Armstrong: A note on the ecological-economic modelling of marine reserves. Ecological Economics 62, 242-250, 2007.
• Armstrong: Using history dependence to design a dynamic tradeable quota system under market imperfections. Environmental and Resource Economics 39(2), 445-457, 2008.
• Armstrong and van den Hove: The formation of policy for the protection of cold-water coral off the coast of Norway. Marine Policy 32, 66-73, 2008.
• Armstrong and Falk-Petersen: Habitat Fisheries – a missing link. ICES Journal of Marine Science 65, 2008.
• Armstrong, Grehan, Kahui, Mikkelsen, Reithe and van den Hove: Bioeconomic modelling and the management of cold water coral resources. Oceanography 22(1), 87-91, 2009.
• Grehan, van den Hove, Armstrong, Long, van Rensburg, Mikkelsen, De Mol and Hain HERMES: Promoting an Ecosystem Approach to the Sustainable Use and Governance of Deep-Water Resources. Oceanography 22(1) 154-165, 2009.
• Foley, Kahui, Armstrong and van Rensburg: Estimating linkages between redfish and cold water coral on the Norwegian coast. Marine Resource Economics 25, 105-120, 2010.
• Foley, van Rensburg and Armstrong. The Ecological and Economic Value of Deep Water Corals. Ocean and Coastal Management 53, 313-326, 2010.
• Foley, van Rensburg and Armstrong. The Rise and Fall of the Irish Orange Roughy Fishery: An Economic Analysis. Marine Policy 35(6), 756-763, 2011.
• Nguyen Thi Trang Nhung, Armstrong, Nguyen Thi Kim Anh, Quach Thi Khanh Ngoc, and Nguyen Hai Anh. Incorporating Fisheries Management into Biodiversity Conservation Policies in order to Enhance Effectiveness of MPAs: A Case Study in Cu Lao Cham MPA, Vietnam. Fish for the People 9(3), 39-49, 2011.
• Foley, Armstrong, Kahui, Mikkelsen and Reithe. A review of bioeconomic modelling of habitat-fisheries interactions. International Journal of Ecology, Vol 2012, Article ID 861635, 2012. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijeco/2012/861635/
• Nocg, Armstrong, and Anh. Indicators for assessing marine protected areas – the case of Nha Trang Bay Marine Protected Area in Vietnam. Asian Fisheries Science 25, 52-65.
• Aanesen, Armstrong and van Hoof. The changing environment of fisheries policy in Europe, forthcoming in Marine Policy.
• Eide, Heen, Armstrong, Flaaten and Vasilieev.  Challenges and Successes in the Management of a Shared Fish Stock  - The Case of the Russian_Norwegian Barents Sea Cod Fishery. Forthcoming in Acta Borealia.

Book Chapters

• Armstrong and Flaaten: The optimal management of a transboundary fish resourse: The Arcto-Norwegian Cod stock. Essays on the Economics of Migratory Fish Stocks. R.Arnason and T.Bjorndal (eds.), Springer Verlag, 1991.
• Armstrong, Sumaila, Erastes and Msiska: An assessment of the benefits and costs of the “Namibianisation” of fisheries in Namibia. Ecological, Economic and Social Aspects of Namibian Fisheries. U.R. Sumaila, S.I. Steinshamn and M.D.Skogen (eds.), Eburon, 2004.
• Armstrong and Sumaila: The Namibian-South African Hake Fishery – Costs of non-cooperative management. Ecological, Economic and Social Aspects of Namibian Fisheries. U.R. Sumaila, S.I. Steinshamn and M.D.Skogen (eds.), Eburon, 2004.

Reviews

• Armstrong: Book review: Hannesson: The Privatisation of the Oceans. Journal of Economics, 84(3), 313-316, 2005.
• Armstrong; Book review: Game Theory and Policymaking in Natural Resources and the Environment: Ariel Dinar, José Albiac & Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano (Eds)

Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research 3(1), 1–6, 2011.

Proceedings

• Armstrong and Sumaila: Effects of an ITQ  management system for theNorth-East Arctic cod - the case of a technological externality. Proceedings of the 9. conference for International Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET 98),Tromsø,Norway, 1998.
• Armstrong: Why fish auctions differ – theory and practise. Proceedings of the 10. conference for International Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET 2000),Corvallis,Oregon, 2000.
• Sumaila, Al-Oufi and Armstrong: Mangement of shared fishery resources: Theory, practise and potential applications to the fisheries of NW Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the International Conference on Fisheries, Aquaculture and Environment in the Northwestern Indian Ocean, 08-10 January, Sultan Qaboos University, College of Agricultural, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 2001.
• Armstrong, Armstrong and Reithe: A bioeconomic model of partial closures and habitat effects - The case of a migratory fish stock, Proceedings of the 12. conference for International Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET 2000),Tokyo,Japan, 2004.
• Armstrong: Economic research on marine reserves – an overview. In: Marine Protected Areas and Fisheries. Ritterhoff, J., S. Gubbay and C. Zucco (eds.). Proceedings of the International Expert Workshop held in the International Academy for Nature Conservation, Isle of Vilm, Germany 28 June – 2 July, 2004.
• Aanesen, Armstrong and Kahui: TEV (Total Economic Value) Analysis of a Marine Environment in Norway. In: Economics of Fish Resources and Aquatic Ecosystems: Balancing Uses, Balancing Costs. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Biennial Conference of the International Insitute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), Montpellier, France, July 13-16, 2010.

Reports

• Armstrong: Soviet fisheries in the North (in Norwegian: Sovjetiske Fiskerier i Nordområdene). Forskningsstiftelsen i Tromsø, SN1991-047, 1991.
• Armstrong, Bergland, Eide, Flåten and Larsen: The economics and regulation of the cod fishery (in Norwegian: Torskefiskets Økonomi og Regulering). Forskningsstiftelsen i Tromsø. SR0509, 1991.
• Armstrong: Management of fish resources – the allocation between offshore and inshore. (In Norwegian Forvaltning av fiskressursene –fordelingen mellom kyst og hav). In: Fiskerisamfunn og offentlig styring. Arbeidsnotat 1/98, Institutt for Geografi, Universitetet i Bergen, 1998.
• Armstrong: Review of bio-economic modelling work of relevance for deep-water coral management. In: Review of Marine Protected Areas as a Tool for Ecosystem Conservation and Fisheries Management. Deliverable D2 under WP2. PROTECT 2006.
• Sumaila, Chuenpagdee, Armstrong, Alexander, Falk-Petersen, Heymans, Isaacs, Stephanus, and Cruz Trinidad: Global Fisheries Socio-economic Database. Deliverable 8.1 under WP8. INCOFISH 2006.
• Sumaila, Chuenpagdee, Armstrong, Alexander, Falk-Petersen, Heymans, Isaacs, Stephanus, and Cruz Trinidad: Report on ecosystem values. Deliverable 8.2 under WP8. INCOFISH 2006.
• Armstrong, Foley and van Rensburg: Methodological review of socio-economic valuation of deep-water coral ecosystems. Deliverable 48 under WP8, HERMES, 2006.
• Grehan, Armstrong, Bergstad, Edwards, Fouquet, Herrera, Person, Prikrill, Skinner, Thomsen and van den Hove Sustainable use of deep-sea resources. In The Deep-Sea Frontier: Science challenges for a sustainable future (Cochanat et.al (eds.)), European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme, Directorate General for Research, EUR 22812 EN, Belgium, 2007.
• Armstrong, Falk-Petersen, Foley, Grehan, van Oevelen, van Rensburg and Soetaert Preliminary report on the applicability of bio-economic modelling approaches for use in conjunction with HERMES ecosystem models to assess socio-economic impacts resulting from implementation of management scenarios. Deliverable 87 under WP8, HERMES, 2007.
• Armstrong, Foley, Kahui, Mikkelsen and Reithe: Bioeconomic modelling of renewable and non-renewable habitat-fisheries interactions under different management regimes - State of the art overview. Deliverable 8.1, CORALFISH, 2008.
• Armstrong, Foley, Tinch, van den Hove: Ecosystem Services of the Deep Sea. Deliverable 6.2, HERMIONE, 2010.
• Armstrong, Burgos, Chen, Foley, Kaspersen: Collation of economic and biological time series data for Norwegian and Icelandic redfish fisheries. Deliverable D23, WP8, CoralFISH, 2010.
• Raakjær, Abreu, Armstrong, Hegland, van Hof, Ounanian, Ramirez, Röckmann, Zetterholm, Exploring the Option of Regionalising the Common Fisheries Policy. Making the European Fisheries Ecosystem Plan Operational (MEFEPO): Work Package 4 Technical Document, 2010.
• Piet, Röckmann, Aanesen, Armstrong, Le Quesne, Bloomfield, van Hal, Nolan, Velasco, Borges, Porteiro, Rui Pinho, Hily, Duchêne and Frid: Development and selection of operational management strategies to achieve policy objectives. Making the European Fisheries Ecosystem Plan Operational (MEFEPO): Work Package 5 Report, 2011.
• Armstrong, Eide, Flaaten and Heen. The Norwegian Northeast Arctic Cod Fishery. In: The Economics of Rebuilding Fisheries. Case Studies of Fisheries Rebuilding Plans. Part 2, 202-219. OECD, 2011.
• Tinch, van den Hove, Armstrong, Pattenden. Policy demands for value evidence on deep sea environments.  Deliverable 6.3, HERMIONE, 2011.
• Foley, Armstrong, Chen, Kahui, Kaspersen, Mikkelsen and Reithe. Report on coral-fisheries interactions – theoretical and applied bioeconomic analysis. Deliverable 35 CORALFISH, 2011.
• Tinch, van den Hove, Armstrong, Foley, van Rensburg. Integrating public values in deep sea governance. Deliverable 6.10, HERMIONE, 2012.
• Armstrong, Holen, Navrud and Seifert. The Economics of Ocean Acidification – a scoping study. Fram Centre, 2012.