Sustainable Use of Renewable Resources

Abstract. Human societies depend on the resources ecosystems provide. Particularly since the last century, human activities have transformed the relationship between nature and society at a global scale. We study this coevolutionary relationship by utilizing a stylized model of regional resource use and preference formation on an adaptive social network. The latter process is based on two social key dynamics beyond economic paradigms: boundedly rational imitation of resource use preferences and homophily in the formation of social network ties. The private and logistically growing resources are harvested either with a sustainable (small) or non-sustainable (large) effort. We show that these social processes can have a profound influence on the environmental state, such as determining whether the private renewable resources collapse from overuse or not. Additionally, we demonstrate that heterogeneously distributed regional resource capacities shift the critical social parameters (social-ecological tipping points) where this resource extraction system collapses. We make these points to argue that, in more advanced coevolutionary models of the planetary social-ecological system, such socio-cultural phenomena as well as regional resource heterogeneities should receive attention in addition to the processes represented in established Earth system and integrated assessment models.

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Sustainable use of renewable resources in a stylized social–ecological network model under heterogeneous resource distribution

Earth System Dynamics ◽

10.5194/esd-8-255-2017 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 255-264 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Wolfram Barfuss ◽

Jonathan F. Donges ◽

Marc Wiedermann ◽

Wolfgang Lucht

Keyword(s):

Resource Use ◽

Renewable Resources ◽

Sustainable Use ◽

Global Scale ◽

Network Ties ◽

Social Ecological ◽

Large Effort ◽

Social Network Ties ◽

Nature And Society ◽

The Relationship

Abstract. Human societies depend on the resources ecosystems provide. Particularly since the last century, human activities have transformed the relationship between nature and society at a global scale. We study this coevolutionary relationship by utilizing a stylized model of private resource use and social learning on an adaptive network. The latter process is based on two social key dynamics beyond economic paradigms: boundedly rational imitation of resource use strategies and homophily in the formation of social network ties. The private and logistically growing resources are harvested with either a sustainable (small) or non-sustainable (large) effort. We show that these social processes can have a profound influence on the environmental state, such as determining whether the private renewable resources collapse from overuse or not. Additionally, we demonstrate that heterogeneously distributed regional resource capacities shift the critical social parameters where this resource extraction system collapses. We make these points to argue that, in more advanced coevolutionary models of the planetary social–ecological system, such socio-cultural phenomena as well as regional resource heterogeneities should receive attention in addition to the processes represented in established Earth system and integrated assessment models.

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Sustainable Use of Renewable Resources

Sustainability: Dynamics and Uncertainty ◽

10.1007/978-94-011-4892-4_3 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 49-76 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Andrea Beltratti ◽

Graciela Chichilnisky ◽

Geoffrey Heal

Keyword(s):

Renewable Resources ◽

Sustainable Use

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Sustainable Use of Renewable Resources: Implications of Spatial-Dynamic Ecological and Economic Processes

International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics ◽

10.1561/101.00000009 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

pp. 367-405 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

James N. Sanchirico

Keyword(s):

Renewable Resources ◽

Sustainable Use ◽

Spatial Dynamic

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Achieving Sustainable Use of Renewable Resources

Science ◽

10.1126/science.262.5135.828 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 262 (5135) ◽

pp. 828-829 ◽

Cited By ~ 102

Author(s):

A. A. Rosenberg ◽

M. J. Fogarty ◽

M. P. Sissenwine ◽

J. R. Beddington ◽

J. G. Shepherd

Keyword(s):

Renewable Resources ◽

Sustainable Use

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Research and innovation in Agriculture

Anuarul Universitatii Petre Andrei din Iasi Fascicula Asistenta Sociala Sociologie Psihologie ◽

10.18662/upalaw/48 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. 55-60

Author(s):

Carmen Mariana CODREANU ◽

Keyword(s):

Renewable Resources ◽

Sustainable Use ◽

Cost Benefit ◽

Soil Conditions ◽

Eu Member States ◽

Research And Innovation ◽

Global And Local ◽

The Eu ◽

New Jobs

Research and innovation aim to increase the production of crops and animals, increase resistance and adaptation to unsuitable climatic and soil conditions, increase the quality of the resulting products, etc. (biotechnology), integration of socio-economic and cost-benefit analyzes and support of agro-meteorological models.The bioeconomy aims to improve and increase the sustainable use of renewable resources to align with global and local challenges, such as climate change and sustainable development.Even if Romania does not have an implemented strategy based on the bioeconomy, however, it is one of the EU member states with an important role in its development, due to the fact that it develops an important potential in agriculture, forestry, fisheries. Romania must insert the existing value cycles, but also to create new ones that will lead to the realization of high quality products, to the creation of new jobs, higher incomes and, implicitly, to economic growth

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