Title
Stability and Sustainability of a Networked Resource Consumption Model
Abstract
In this paper, we examine both stability and sustainability of a network-based model of natural resource consumption. Stability is studied from a dynamical systems perspective, though we argue that sustainability is a fundamentally different notion from stability in social- ecological systems. Accordingly, we also present a criterion for sustainability that is guided by the existing literature on sustainable development. Assuming a generic social network of consuming agents' interactions, we derive sufficient conditions for both the stability and sustainability of the model as constraints on the network structure itself. We complement these analytical results with numerical simulations and discuss the implications of our findings for policy-making for sustainable resource governance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TNSE.2020.2999039
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
Keywords
DocType
Volume
sustainability,network-based model,natural resource consumption,dynamical systems,sustainable development,network structure,sustainable resource governance,social network,networked resource consumption,stability,social-ecological systems,agent interaction,numerical simulations,policy-making
Journal
7
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
2327-4697
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hale, M.T.1176.84
Sebastian Ruf200.34
Talha Manzoor302.03
Abubakr Muhammad430830.59