Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73895 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 23.2006
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Exhaustion of a natural resource stock may be a rational choice for an individual and/or a community, even if a sustainable use for the resource is feasible and the resource users are farsighted and well informed on the ecosystem. We identify conditions under which it is optimal not to sustain resource use. These conditions concern the discounting of future benefits, instability of social system or ecosystem, nonconvexity of natural growth function, socio-psychological value of employment, and strategic interaction among resource users. The identification of these conditions can help design policies to prevent unsustainable patterns of resource use.
Subjects: 
Renewable resource management
Sustainability
Finite-time exhaustion
Optimal path
Policy implications
JEL: 
Q20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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