The economics of the Brest bay area, impact of natural environment on employement: an attempt to quantify

Abstract

The physical and biological characteristics of the bay of Brest have promoted the development of various specific economic activities, creating jobs and incomes for the people living around the bay and, further, in the whole travel-to-work area of Brest. The paper presents the methodologiy and the main results of a study intending to measure the economie importance of these activities, in terms of employment. Six sector investigations and an analysis of the results of the general population census have helped to build a global evaluation of the number of jobs related to the bay, at the beginning of the 90'. For cach activity, the evaluation takes into account the jobs generated, (1) by the activity itself, (2) by upstrcam and downstrcam activities and (3) by the expenditure of incomes earned in the two former kinds of jobs.