Open AccessInfluencia social y sostenibilidad en el uso de recursos renovables
Author(s) -
Isabel Almudí,
Julio Sánchez Chóliz
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
economía agraría y recursos naturales/economía agraria y recursos naturales
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 2174-7350
pISSN - 1578-0732
DOI - 10.7201/earn.2006.11.02
Subject(s) - social planner , stock (firearms) , planner , economics , resource (disambiguation) , renewable resource , consumption (sociology) , welfare economics , microeconomics , renewable energy , computer science , geography , sociology , ecology , computer network , social science , archaeology , biology , programming language
In this paper we present a model in which we show that if the withdrawal activities referring to a renewable resource are abusive, they generate a social reaction of some kind that changes the social preferences. This change is taken into account by the social planner in deciding the optimal allocation between consumption and stock of the resource. Given these new conditions we ask how the stock of the resource in the steady state changes and what can be deduced about the chance of overuse of the resource. At the same time we compare these results to the ones obtained with traditional models which did not take social reactions into account. The conclusions obtained show that with these new conditions the stock of the steady state increases and the economy behavior becomes more conservative, diminishing the chance of overuse of the resource.