Optimal exploitation of renewable resources under uncertainty and the extinction of species

Economic Theory

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-23

  Mitra, Tapan ^a   Roy, Santanu ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological species; Extinction; Optimal resource management; Renewable resources; Safe standard of conservation; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144490545     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-005-0618-5     Document Type: Article

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