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Maintaining coopera...
Maintaining cooperation in social-ecological systems : Effective bottom-up management often requires sub-optimal resource use
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Tilman, Andrew R. (författare)
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- Watson, James R. (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre
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- Levin, Simon (författare)
- Princeton University, USA; Beijer Institute for Environmental Economics, Sweden; Resources for the Future, Sweden
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- 2016-11-26
- 2017
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Theoretical Ecology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1874-1738 .- 1874-1746. ; 10:2, s. 155-165
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Abstract
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- Natural resources are vulnerable to over-exploitation in the absence of effective management. However, norms, enforced by social ostracism, can promote cooperation and increase stock biomass in common-pool resource systems. Unfortunately, the long-term sustainable use of a resource is not assured even if cooperation, maintained by ostracism and aimed at optimizing resource use, exists. Here, using the example of fisheries, we show that for a cooperative to be maintained by ostracism over time, it often must act inefficiently, choosing a 'second-best' strategy where the resource is over-harvested to some degree. Those cooperatives that aim for maximum sustainable profit, the first-best harvest strategy, are more vulnerable to invasion by independent harvesters, leading to larger declines in the fish population. In contrast, second-best strategies emphasize the resistance to invasion by independent harvesters over maximizing yield or profit. Ultimately, this leads to greater long-run payoffs to the resource users as well as higher resource stock levels. This highlights the value of pragmatism in the design of cooperative institutions for managing natural resources.
Ämnesord
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Commons
- Cooperation
- Evolutionary game theory
- Social-ecological systems
- Fisheries
- Human behavior
- Sustainability
- Coupled natural-human systems
- Collective action
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- art (ämneskategori)
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