摘要：We perform a model analysis to study the origins of limited resilience in coupled ecological-economic systems.We demonstrate that under open access to ecosystems for profit-maximizing harvesting forms, the resilience properties of thesystem are essentially determined by consumer preferences for ecosystem services. In particular, we show that complementarityand relative importance of ecosystem services in consumption may significantly decrease the resilience of (almost) any givenstate of the system. We conclude that the role of consumer preferences and management institutions is not just to facilitateadaptation to, or transformation of, some natural dynamics of ecosystems. Rather, consumer preferences and managementinstitutions are themselves important determinants of the fundamental dynamic characteristics of coupled ecological-economicsystems, such as limited resilience
