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The article was published on 1993-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 155 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Physical capital & Growth investing.read more
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Command and Control and the Pathology of Natural Resource Management
C. S. Holling,Gary K. Meffe +1 more
TL;DR: The pathology of natural resource management, defined as a loss of system resilience when the range of natural variation in the system is reduced encapsulates the unsustain- able environmental, social, and economic outcomes of command-and-control resource management is discussed in this article.
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Integrating Humans into Ecology: Opportunities and Challenges for Studying Urban Ecosystems
Marina Alberti,John M. Marzluff,Eric Shulenberger,Gordon Bradley,Clare M. Ryan,Craig Zumbrunnen +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that if the natural and social sciences remain within their separate domains, they cannot explain how human-dominated ecosystems emerge from interactions between humans and ecological processes.
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Emergy-based indices and ratios to evaluate sustainability: monitoring economies and technology toward environmentally sound innovation
Mark T. Brown,Sergio Ulgiati +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a reference set of indices based on emergy, for the evaluation of ecotechnological processes and whole economies is provided, which can be used to evaluate appropriate non-renewable investments in eco-technology to maximize their performance.
Social capital: a fad or a fundamental concept?*
TL;DR: In this paper, a game-theoretic analysis of how a group offarmers creates rules to allocate the benefits and costs of building and operating their own irrigation systems is presented.
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An ecological perspective on the valuation of ecosystem services
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a critical review on the neoclassical economic framework, tools used for economic valuation of ecosystem services and the economic welfare approach to collective decision-making, from an ecological perspective.