Optimal management with potential regime shifts

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 229-240

  Polasky, Stephen ^a,b,c   de Zeeuw, Aart ^c,d   Wagener, Florian ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics   (Sweden)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Growth; Optimal management; Regime shifts; Renewable resources

Indexed keywords

GROWTH MODELS; OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT; REGIME SHIFT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RESOURCE USE; STOCK LEVEL; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

PROBABILITY; SYSTEM THEORY;

OPTIMIZATION;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH MODELING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RESOURCE USE;

EID: 80051922243     PISSN: 00950696     EISSN: 10960449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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