| 来源类型 | FEEM working papers "Note di lavoro" series |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| Biodiversity and Economic Growth: Stabilization Versus Preservation of the Ecological Dynamics | |
| Simone Borghesi; Angelo Antoci; Paolo Russu | |
| 发表日期 | 2004 |
| 出处 | Climate Change and Sustainable Development |
| 出版年 | 2004 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This work examines the impact that economic growth can have on biodiversity and on the ecological dynamics that would naturally emerge in the absence of human activity. The loss of biodiversity may induce policy-makers to implement defensive actions that prevent single species from extinction. These defensive actions, however, may deeply alter the natural dynamics of interaction between species, leading to an ecological equilibrium that is completely different from the one that would exist in the absence of human intervention. This suggests that there might exist a conflict between preserving biodiversity (through stabilization of the ecological system) and preserving the intrinsic features of the ecological dynamics. To investigate this issue more deeply, we analyze the impact that different objective functions and defensive technologies can have on the natural ecological dynamics, and show that human action can modify the stability of the ecological fixed points. From the simple analytical formulations adopted in the paper, it emerges that it is possible to stabilize the ecological fixed point and consequently to avoid the extinction of a species, even in the absence of defensive expenditures specifically finalized at the protection of that species. The stabilizing. effect of human intervention, however, turns out to be enhanced when specific defensive expenditures are implemented. Finally, numerical simulations suggest that human activity can have an even deeper impact on the ecological dynamics, substantially modifying not only the stability of the fixed points, but also their number. |
| 特色分类 | C61,C62,Q20 |
| 关键词 | Biodiversity,Growth,Defensive actions,Ecological dynamics |
| URL | https://www.feem.it/en/publications/feem-working-papers-note-di-lavoro-series/biodiversity-and-economic-growth-stabilization-versus-preservation-of-the-ecological-dynamics/ |
| 来源智库 | Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Italy) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/116970 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Simone Borghesi,Angelo Antoci,Paolo Russu. Biodiversity and Economic Growth: Stabilization Versus Preservation of the Ecological Dynamics. 2004. |
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