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In the long run the planet has the upper hand, in the short run humans act as if they do and as if this will continue to be the case. This aspect of human behavior is manifested in economic institutions and policies, and in individual responses to economic signals. The implications for how human economic behavior can be incorporated in ecosystem research are founded in the nature of economic models and how they are used to formulate policy.
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Hall, J.V. (1993). The Iceberg and the Titanic: Human Economic Behavior in Ecological Models. In: McDonnell, M.J., Pickett, S.T.A. (eds) Humans as Components of Ecosystems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0905-8_5
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