The formal study of orchard management in which an orchard is viewed as a jointly determined ecological-economic system is still in its infancy. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a new way of looking at the problem of orchard management that has three distinct advantages to it. First, we...

In spite of a manager's best attempts, a managed rangeland may hit an irreversible state in which it provides neither consumptive nor non-consumptive services to humans. Therefore, given a particular time based management regime, it is useful to know how long it takes for a rangeland to hit the...

Recently, Batabyal et al. (2005) have used a queuing model to show that there is a tension between economic cost minimization and inspection stringency in invasive species management in the following sense: Greater (lesser) inspection stringency with a larger (smaller) number of inspectors leads...

For rangelands managed with spatial and temporal controls, [a] the long run mean net cost of management operations, [b] the long run rate of moving grazing from one paddock to another, and [c] the long run rate of moving grazing between paddocks because of adverse environmental factors are...

The notion of a reservation quality or utility is a key feature of Batabyal's (2003a) recent analysis of decision making in arranged marriages. In this model, the magnitude of the reservation utility has a non-trivial impact on the decision to accept or decline a marriage proposal. Even so,...

This article provides a theoretical study of temporal restrictions in the context of natural resource management in North America. The economic inefficiencies arising from the use of temporal restrictions to protect natural resources have been well documented by researchers. We first demonstrate...

Several ecologists and economists have commented on the salience of persistence as a stability concept for jointly determined ecological-economic systems. Even so, the economics and the regional science literatures have paid scant attention to the problem of computing an ecological-economic...