The relationship between resilience and sustainable development of ecological-economic systems

Research output: Working paperWorking papers

Authors

Resilience as a descriptive concept gives insight into the dynamic properties of a system. Sustainability as a normative concept captures basic ideas of inter- and intragenerational justice. In this paper we specify the relationship between resilience and sustainable development. Based on an ecological-economic model where two natural capital stocks provide ecosystem services that are complements for human well-being, we derive conditions on the dynamics of the ecological-economic system and the sustainability criterion, such that a) resilience of the system in a given regime is both necessary and sufficient for sustainable development, b) resilience of the system in a given regime is sufficient, but not necessary, c) resilience of the system in a given regime is necessary, but not sufficient, and d) resilience of the system in a given regime is neither necessary nor sufficient for sustainable development. We conclude that more criteria than the resilience of the current state of the system have to be taken into account when designing policies for sustainable management of ecological-economic systems.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationLüneburg
PublisherInstitut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
Number of pages14
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Documents

Recently viewed

Publications

  1. Advanced extrusion processes
  2. (Un)Bestimmtheit
  3. The Impact of Mental Fatigue on Exploration in a Complex Computer Task
  4. Atlas mit CD-ROM
  5. Extension of SEIR compartmental models for constructive Lyapunov control of COVID-19 and analysis in terms of practical stability
  6. Fast, curvature-based prediction of rolling forces for porous media based on a series of detailed simulations
  7. Extrusion Benchmark 2009 – A Step Ahead in Virtual Process Optimization
  8. Repeated sampling detects gene flow in a flightless ground beetle in a fragmented landscape
  9. The disproportionate value of scattered trees
  10. More Evidence for Three Types of Cognitive Style
  11. Geometric control tools for robotic manipulators
  12. On the Question of Blockchain Activism
  13. Comparative study of microstructure and texture of cast and homogenized TX32 magnesium alloy after hot deformation
  14. High temperature mechanical behavior of an extruded Mg-11Gd-4.5Y-1Nd-1.5Zn-0.5Zr (wt%) alloy
  15. The value of sub-national data
  16. Pesticide and metabolite fate, release and transport modelling at catchment scale
  17. iTaukei ways of knowing and managing mangroves for ecosystem-based adaptation
  18. Introducing the MusicLab Copenhagen Dataset
  19. In situ investigation of microstructure evolution during solidification of Mg10CaxGd (x = 5, 10, 20) alloys
  20. Ge-/Beschriebenes Gesicht
  21. Predicting the future performance of soccer players
  22. Kunst
  23. Devianzmanagement
  24. Overview of a Proposed Ecological Risk Assessment Process for Honey bees (Apis mellifera) and Non‐Apis Bees
  25. SH-CoDE: Scholarly Hybrid Complex Question Decomposition and Execution
  26. "Man muss über sich selbst schreiben"
  27. Organizing for innovation through accelerators: Concluding remarks
  28. THE GROWTH AND EVOLUTION OF MULTINATIONAL-ENTERPRISE - PEARCE,RD
  29. [Paul Celan und] Martin Heidegger
  30. Machine Learning for the Quantified Self
  31. Der Zentrale Runde Tisch der DDR: Wortprotokoll und Dokumente