Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/28227
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 109
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
We perform a model analysis to study the origins of limited resilience in ecological-economic systems. We demonstrate that the resilience properties of the ecosystem are essentially determined by the management institutions and consumers' preferences for ecosystem services. In particular, we show that complementarity of ecosystem services in human well-being and open access of the ecosystem to profit-maximizing harvesting firms may lead to limited resilience of the ecosystem. We conclude that the role of human preferences and management institutions is not just to facilitate adaptation to, or transformation of, some natural dynamics of ecosystems. Rather, human preferences and management institutions are themselves important determinants of the fundamental dynamic characteristics of the ecological-economic system, such as limited resilience.
Subjects: 
Ecological-economic systems
ecosystem services
institutions
natural resource management
preferences
resilience
JEL: 
Q01
Q20
Q57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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