A Bug's Life: Competition Among Species Towards the Environment

Bella, Giovanni

doi:10.2139/ssrn.892805

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A Bug's Life: Competition Among Species Towards the Environment

Giovanni Bella

Universita di Cagliari - Department of Economics

February 2007

FEEM Working Paper No. 18.2007

Abstract:
A model of different species competing for the same environment is presented, and possible explanations of peaceful coexistence or rather internecine conflicts are consequently derived. By means of a Lotka-Volterra dynamic system we describe the evolution of two populations (bees and locusts) that differently approach the management of those natural resources they contend for, and thus make a simple parable of today's societies playing the current environmental scenario.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 38

Keywords: Competing species, Lotka-Volterra dynamics, natural resource management

JEL Classification: C61, Q34, Q57

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Date posted: March 29, 2006

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Bella, Giovanni, A Bug's Life: Competition Among Species Towards the Environment (February 2007). FEEM Working Paper No. 18.2007. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=892805 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.892805

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Giovanni Bella (Contact Author)

Universita di Cagliari - Department of Economics ( email )

V. S. Ignazio 17
Cagliari 09123, CA 09123
Italy