Brander-Taylor Easter Island Model and its variations. Brander and Taylor (1998) summarizes the background of the model as the following. Easter Island (also called Rapa Nui) is a small Pacific …
Resource: Lower Sonoran watershed and associated terrestrial biodiversity
The Hohokam is a Native American cilivilization that emerged and occupied the present day Phoenix Basin area and its outer bounds for a thousand years. The archeological records indicate that …
This case is a focal point for 'gobal' models - i.e. modes with no particular spatial resolution. There are many of these - any economic growth model with some sort …
This is a two-sector growth model that couples the dynamics of human demographics and a renewable resource base. The two sectors are agricultural and manufacturing sectors. To capture both the positive (Malthusian) …
