It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’ although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’ the impacts have been often ignored or off lo...

social network analysis used to study the relationship between stakeholders and actors in natural resource management has become a scientific approach. the purpose of this study was analysis of information exchange network among organizations engage in the sustainable management of natural resources. results of social network analysis revealed that there is weak relationship among organizations...

Abstract This paper studies the role of social networks in management natural resources. We consider a finite number agents who exploit specific resource. Harvesting is subject to three external effects, namely resource stock externalities, crowding and collaboration spillovers. show that structure network—defined by presence links between individual agents—determines equilibrium optimal harves...