We analyze the medical decision-making process, first from the perspective of a patient and then from the perspective of a health care provider. Using a decision-tree, we describe the different actions a mother can take to treat her daughter, who she suspects has otitis media — an ear...

A conceptual approach is commonly needed to provide guidance for empirical analyses concerning the use of renewable resources such as rangelands. The theoretical model constructed in this paper captures the essential aspects of dynamic and stochastic issues associated with the management of...

A conceptual approach is commonly needed to provide guidance for empirical analyses concerning the use of renewable resources such as rangelands. The theoretical model constructed in this paper captures the essential aspects of dynamic and stochastic issues associated with the management of...

Ecologists and economists are increasingly in agreement that ecological and economic systems are linked and that these systems ought to be viewed as one system. Perhaps because this recognition has been rather recent, neither ecologists nor economists have analyzed the transient behavior of...

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...

Economists and ecologists are in agreement that economic and ecological systems are connected and that these systems should be studied as one system. However, because this recognition has been rather recent, neither economists nor ecologists have studied the short run behavior of jointly...