Аннотация:Understanding the emergence of sustainable behavior in dynamic models of resource consumption is essential for control of coupled human-natural systems. In this paper we analyze a mathematical model of resource exploitation recently reported by the authors. The model incorporates the cognitive decision-making process of consumers and has previously been studied in a game-theoretic context as a static two-player game. In this paper we extend the analysis by allowing the agents to adapt their psychological characteristics according to simple
best-response learning dynamics. We show that, under the selected learning scheme, the Nash Equilibrium is reachable provided certain conditions on the psychological attributes of
the consumers are fulfilled. Moreover, the Equilibrium solution obtained is found to be sustainable in the sense that no players exhibit free-riding behavior, a phenomenon which occurs in the original open-loop system. In the process, via a Lyapunovfunction
based approach, we also provide a proof for the asymptotic global stability of the original s