Structural Effects and Aggregation in a Social-Network Model of Natural Resource Consumption

Manzoor, Talha; Rovenskaya, Elena; Muhammad, Abubakr

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1139

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“…Family members, neighbours, friends, colleagues, superiors and experienced individuals known by a person may influence that person to be more aware of a product or service. Members of a cohesive group are likely to be more aware of each other's opinions due to efficiency in communicating opinions among themselves (Friedkin, 2006). In investigating the respondents' awareness of energy conservation, for example, Nolan et al (2008) found that neighbours have the strongest effect.…”

Section: Social Influencementioning

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An Awareness Model for an Islamic Pre-Need Funeral Plan

Katan

Nasrijal

Noor

et al. 2019

J. Fin. Bank. Review

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Objective -Failure to prearrange one's funeral may lead to financial hardship on one's family members. Despite the importance of a funeral plan, little is known regarding the awareness level among Muslims regarding the Islamic Preneed Funeral Plan (IPFP). Because of the dearth of academic research on the awareness among Muslims regarding IPFP, this paper aims to assess the awareness level of Muslims regarding IPFP and to develop an awareness model that frames factors affecting IPFP awareness level. Methodology/Technique -To achieve this, a questionnaire was used to collect the data and PLS-SEM was used to analyse the data. Results show that the level of awareness regarding IPFP is low and is similar to the result found in the USA Findings -The results further show that marketing communication efforts and social influence are significant factors affecting awareness of IPFP. These results have practical implications for IPFP providers and should help them better market their products and mitigate the potential for financial hardship funeral costs may have on families. Novelty -The scarcity of land for burial plots, soaring funeral costs and an increasingly aging population rate necessitates funeral prearrangements by subscribing to a pre-need funeral plan. This prearrangement is an advanced financial provision that covers funeral and burial expenses by enabling subscribers to make funeral arrangements while they are still alive.

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Section: Social Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

An Awareness Model for an Islamic Pre-Need Funeral Plan

Katan

Nasrijal

Noor

et al. 2019

J. Fin. Bank. Review

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“…This section describes the system model of interest and its coupled resource and consumption dynamics. The model was first presented in [10] and subsequently studied in [17], [19], [20]. For full details on the environmental and social-psychological foundations of the model, we refer the reader to the sources mentioned above.…”

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Stability and Sustainability of Resource Consumption Networks

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Manzoor

et al. 2019

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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 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. 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 a string of research spanning across multiple disciplines in search of a formal definition of the concept [3], [4], [5].From a dynamical systems perspective, sustainability has often been linked to developments in [6], [7], and sometimes even used interchangeably with stability in social-ecological systems [8]. We argue that while stability is indeed relevant in this setting, it is a purely dynamical systems property that does not appropriately account for the ecological nature of the system. Thus a separate formulation of sustainability is needed. This need is underscored by the rising interest of the controls community not only in social-ecological systems, but also in other systems lying at the interface of technological, ecological, and social sciences. Such systems are collectively termed "cyber-physical social systems" [9].

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“…Note that this assumption is the same used in defining homogeneous consumer networks in [5]. Below, the networklevel dynamics will be derived by considering the new state variables z = log x and u = n i=1 y i .…”

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“…This paper studies the behavior of a consumption network under the assumption that it is leaderless: that one agent will not drive the social network component of the model more than any other agent in the network. This assumption allows an aggregation of individual state nodes [5], facilitating an understanding of the system-level behavior. Discussing a consuming population in aggregate is a common tool for the study of resource consumer social networks [19] and allows for the design of actions taken to change behavior, which often happen at the community level [18].…”

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Stability of Leaderless Resource Consumption Networks

Ruf

Hale

Manzoor

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

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In this paper, we study the global stability properties of a multi-agent model of natural resource consumption that balances ecological and social network components in determining the consumption behavior of a group of agents. The social network is assumed to be leaderless, a condition that ensures that no single node has a greater influence than any other node on the dynamics of the resource consumption. It is shown that any network structure can be made leaderless by the social preferences of the agents. The ecological network component includes a quantification of each agent's environmental concern, which captures each individual agent's threshold for when a resource becomes scarce. We show that leaderlessness and a mild bound on agents' environmental concern are jointly sufficient for global asymptotic stability of the consumption network to a positive consumption value, indicating that appropriately configured networks can continuously consume a resource without driving its value to zero. The behavior of these leaderless resource consumption networks is verified in simulation.

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Structural Effects and Aggregation in a Social-Network Model of Natural Resource Consumption

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

An Awareness Model for an Islamic Pre-Need Funeral Plan

An Awareness Model for an Islamic Pre-Need Funeral Plan

Stability and Sustainability of Resource Consumption Networks

Stability of Leaderless Resource Consumption Networks

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