Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/113930 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 27.2015
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
The evolution of renewable resources is characterized in many cases by different time scales where some state variables such as biomass, may evolve relatively faster than other state variables such as carrying capacity. Ignoring this time scale separation means that a slowly changing variable is treated as constant over time. Management rules designed without accounting for time scale separation will result in inefficiencies in resource management. We call this inefficiency time scale externality and we analyze renewable resource harvesting when carrying capacity evolves slowly, either in response to exogenous forcing or in response to emissions generated by the industrial sector of the economy. We study cooperative and non-cooperative solutions under time scale separation. Using singular perturbation reduction methods (Fenichel 1979), we examine the role of different time scales in environmental management and the potential errors in optimal regulation when time scale separation is ignored.
Subjects: 
Optimal Resource Harvesting
Fast Slow Dynamics
Singular Perturbation
Regulation
Open Loop
Closed Loop
JEL: 
D81
Q20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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