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Stability and Sustainability of a Networked Resource Consumption Model

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Matthew T. Hale; Sebastian F. Ruf; Talha Manzoor; Abubakr Muhammad
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In this paper, we examine both stability and sustainability of a network-based model of natural resource consumption. Stability is studied from a dynamical systems perspe...Show More

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Abstract:

In this paper, we examine both stability and sustainability of a network-based model of natural resource consumption. Stability is studied from a dynamical systems perspective, though we argue that sustainability is a fundamentally different notion from stability in social- ecological systems. Accordingly, we also present a criterion for sustainability that is guided by the existing literature on sustainable development. Assuming a generic social network of consuming agents' interactions, we derive sufficient conditions for both the stability and sustainability of the model as constraints on the network structure itself. We complement these analytical results with numerical simulations and discuss the implications of our findings for policy-making for sustainable resource governance.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering ( Volume: 7, Issue: 4, 01 Oct.-Dec. 2020)
Page(s): 2876 - 2888
Date of Publication: 01 June 2020

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DOI: 10.1109/TNSE.2020.2999039
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Matthew Hale is an Assistant Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Florida. He received his BSE in electrical engineering summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, and his MS and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2015 and 2017, respectively. He directs the Control, Optimization, and Robotics Engineering (CORE) Lab at...Show More
Matthew Hale is an Assistant Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Florida. He received his BSE in electrical engineering summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, and his MS and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2015 and 2017, respectively. He directs the Control, Optimization, and Robotics Engineering (CORE) Lab at...View more
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Sebastian Ruf received his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2011 and 2012, and his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2018. He is currently a Postdoctoral researcher in the ECE and Psychology Department at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. His research interests include modeling and control of complex network...Show More
Sebastian Ruf received his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2011 and 2012, and his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2018. He is currently a Postdoctoral researcher in the ECE and Psychology Department at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. His research interests include modeling and control of complex network...View more
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Department of Electrical Engineering, Namal College, Mianwali, Pakistan
Talha Manzoor completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from LUMS, Lahore in 2017. He received an MS in computer engineering from LUMS in 2013 and a BS in mechatronics engineering from NUST, Islamabad in 2010. Since January 2018, he is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Namal College, Mianwali. He is generally interested in the modelling and control of complex cyber physical ...Show More
Talha Manzoor completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from LUMS, Lahore in 2017. He received an MS in computer engineering from LUMS in 2013 and a BS in mechatronics engineering from NUST, Islamabad in 2010. Since January 2018, he is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Namal College, Mianwali. He is generally interested in the modelling and control of complex cyber physical ...View more
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Department of Electrical Engineering, Lahore University of Management Science, Lahore, Pakistan
Abubakr Muhammad is an Associate Professor of electrical engineering and the Founding Director of the Center for Water Informatics and Technology (WIT) at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) – Pakistan's premier private research university. In 2005, he received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering, the Georgia Institute of Technology where his doctoral thesis won a Best Dissertation Award. Before joining LU...Show More
Abubakr Muhammad is an Associate Professor of electrical engineering and the Founding Director of the Center for Water Informatics and Technology (WIT) at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) – Pakistan's premier private research university. In 2005, he received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering, the Georgia Institute of Technology where his doctoral thesis won a Best Dissertation Award. Before joining LU...View more
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I. Introduction

SUSTAINABILITY of social-ecological systems has been a subject of considerable interest for some time [1]. However, despite its importance, sustainability of this kind is still far from being adequately defined in a rigorous context. The confusion stems directly from the definition of sustainable development itself, given by the Brundtland Commision of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) [2], which leaves much room for interpretation. This has led to research spanning across multiple disciplines in search of a formal definition of the concept [3]–[5].

Author image of Matthew T. Hale
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Matthew Hale is an Assistant Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Florida. He received his BSE in electrical engineering summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, and his MS and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2015 and 2017, respectively. He directs the Control, Optimization, and Robotics Engineering (CORE) Lab at the University of Florida, and his research interests include multiagent systems, mobile robotics, privacy in control, distributed optimization, and graph theory. He was the Teacher of the Year in the UF Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering for the 2018–2019 school year, and he received an NSF CAREER Award in 2020 for his work on privacy in control systems.
Matthew Hale is an Assistant Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Florida. He received his BSE in electrical engineering summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, and his MS and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2015 and 2017, respectively. He directs the Control, Optimization, and Robotics Engineering (CORE) Lab at the University of Florida, and his research interests include multiagent systems, mobile robotics, privacy in control, distributed optimization, and graph theory. He was the Teacher of the Year in the UF Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering for the 2018–2019 school year, and he received an NSF CAREER Award in 2020 for his work on privacy in control systems.View more
Author image of Sebastian F. Ruf
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Sebastian Ruf received his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2011 and 2012, and his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2018. He is currently a Postdoctoral researcher in the ECE and Psychology Department at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. His research interests include modeling and control of complex networked systems, including socio-ecological systems and the brain.
Sebastian Ruf received his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2011 and 2012, and his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2018. He is currently a Postdoctoral researcher in the ECE and Psychology Department at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. His research interests include modeling and control of complex networked systems, including socio-ecological systems and the brain.View more
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Department of Electrical Engineering, Namal College, Mianwali, Pakistan
Talha Manzoor completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from LUMS, Lahore in 2017. He received an MS in computer engineering from LUMS in 2013 and a BS in mechatronics engineering from NUST, Islamabad in 2010. Since January 2018, he is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Namal College, Mianwali. He is generally interested in the modelling and control of complex cyber physical social systems. He has also worked on control and estimation problems in robotics which includes both theoretical and developmental work in robotic vision, SLAM and state estimation.
Talha Manzoor completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from LUMS, Lahore in 2017. He received an MS in computer engineering from LUMS in 2013 and a BS in mechatronics engineering from NUST, Islamabad in 2010. Since January 2018, he is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Namal College, Mianwali. He is generally interested in the modelling and control of complex cyber physical social systems. He has also worked on control and estimation problems in robotics which includes both theoretical and developmental work in robotic vision, SLAM and state estimation.View more
Author image of Abubakr Muhammad
Department of Electrical Engineering, Lahore University of Management Science, Lahore, Pakistan
Abubakr Muhammad is an Associate Professor of electrical engineering and the Founding Director of the Center for Water Informatics and Technology (WIT) at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) – Pakistan's premier private research university. In 2005, he received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering, the Georgia Institute of Technology where his doctoral thesis won a Best Dissertation Award. Before joining LUMS, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher first at the University of Pennsylvania and then at McGill University. He has won Fellowships or held visiting professorial positions at other top institutes including the University of Oxford, ICTP, and KAUST. His current interests are at the intersection of environment, technology and society; covering topics related to hydro-informatics, precision agriculture, robotics and impacts of artificial intelligence, and automation on society.
Abubakr Muhammad is an Associate Professor of electrical engineering and the Founding Director of the Center for Water Informatics and Technology (WIT) at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) – Pakistan's premier private research university. In 2005, he received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering, the Georgia Institute of Technology where his doctoral thesis won a Best Dissertation Award. Before joining LUMS, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher first at the University of Pennsylvania and then at McGill University. He has won Fellowships or held visiting professorial positions at other top institutes including the University of Oxford, ICTP, and KAUST. His current interests are at the intersection of environment, technology and society; covering topics related to hydro-informatics, precision agriculture, robotics and impacts of artificial intelligence, and automation on society.View more
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