Abstract
A number of ecologists and some economists have commented on the significance of persistence as a stability concept for jointly determined ecological-economic systems. This notwithstanding, the economics and the regional science literatures have paid scant attention to the problem of computing an ecological-economic system’s persistence. As such, this paper has two objectives. First, we derive three measures of the persistence of a jointly determined ecological-economic system whose temporal behavior is governed by the presence of thresholds. Next, we compare and contrast these three measures. Finally, we discuss their theoretical properties and their practical uses.
Publication Date
5-2003
Document Type
Article
Department, Program, or Center
Department of Economics (CLA)
Recommended Citation
Batabyal, A. Ann Reg Sci (2003) 37: 323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001680300122
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
Comments
This is the post-print of an article published by Springer. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003. The final publication is available at link.springer.com via https://doi.org/10.1007/s001680300122
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