Spatially distributed stocks, deterministic evolution, and ecological balance

摘要

This paper lays down a conceptual foundation for a model of a turbulent human population's perception of and behavior in a broader environment. Violent changes in the levels of utility extracted from the environment, and abrupt shifts in the relative value that the human population places on various components of this environment and the ecology it contains, are analyzed. In presenting this foundation, two different modeling traditions are integrated: the static, behavioral utility theory, and the deterministic-descriptive Dendrinos-Sonis universal map of relative spatial population dynamics. A basic question is raised in this dynamic framework concerning the use of utility maximation.