Although ecologists have long recognized the significance of persistence in determining the static and the intertemporal behavior of ecological systems, it is only very recently that economists have begun to study this notion in relation to the use of services that are provided by jointly...

A number of ecologists and some economists have commented on the significance of persistence as a stability concept for jointly determined ecological-economic systems. This notwithstanding, the economics and the regional science literatures have paid scant attention to the problem of computing...