Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: modeling and policy implications

S Levin, T Xepapadeas, AS Crépin… - Environment and …, 2013‏ - cambridge.org
Systems linking people and nature, known as social-ecological systems, are increasingly
understood as complex adaptive systems. Essential features of these complex adaptive …

Economics of coastal erosion and adaptation to sea level rise

S Gopalakrishnan, CE Landry, MD Smith… - Annual Review of …, 2016‏ - annualreviews.org
This article provides a review and synthesis of geoeconomic models that are used to
analyze coastal erosion management and shoreline change. We outline a generic …

Spatial development

K Desmet, E Rossi-Hansberg - American Economic Review, 2014‏ - aeaweb.org
We present a theory of spatial development. Manufacturing and services firms located in a
continuous geographic area choose each period how much to innovate. Firms trade subject …

Regional growth and regional decline

H Breinlich, GIP Ottaviano, JRW Temple - Handbook of economic growth, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred
by new models, methods, and data. We survey a range of modeling traditions, and some …

Optimal spatial control of biological invasions

RS Epanchin-Niell, JE Wilen - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
This study examines the spatial nature of optimal bioinvasion control. We develop a spatially
explicit two-dimensional model of species spread that allows for differential control across …

The economics of spatial-dynamic processes: applications to renewable resources

MD Smith, JN Sanchirico, JE Wilen - Journal of Environmental Economics …, 2009‏ - Elsevier
Spatial-dynamic processes in renewable resource economics pose difficult conceptual,
analytical, empirical, and institutional challenges that are distinct from either spatial or …

The geography of development within countries

K Desmet, JV Henderson - Handbook of regional and urban economics, 2015‏ - Elsevier
This chapter describes how the spatial distribution of economic activity changes as
economies develop and grow. We start with the relation between development and rural …

Spatial effects and strategic behavior in a multiregional transboundary pollution dynamic game

J De Frutos, G Martin-Herran - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
We analyze a transboundary pollution differential game where pollution control is spatially
distributed among a number of agents with predetermined spatial relationships. The …

Optimal control in space and time and the management of environmental resources

WA Brock, A Xepapadeas… - Annu. Rev. Resour …, 2014‏ - annualreviews.org
We present methods and tools that can be used to study dynamic environmental resource
management in a spatial setting, to explore spatially dependent regulation, and to …

Pattern formation, spatial externalities and regulation in coupled economic–ecological systems

W Brock, A Xepapadeas - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
We study the management of ecosystems in which interacting state variables that are
affected by management decisions diffuse in space. We study pattern formation first in a …