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

Giovanni Bella

No 2007.18, Working Papers from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

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.

Keywords: Competing; Species; Lotka-Volterra; Dynamics; Natural Resource Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 Q34 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007-02
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