Environmental versus Human-Induced Scarcity in the Commons: Do They Trigger the Same Response?

Osés‐Eraso, Nuria; Udina, Frederic; Viladrich-Grau, Montserrat

doi:10.1007/s10640-007-9168-6

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“…In their study, however, there is no feedback on the current resource state. Osés-Eraso et al (2008) similarly introduce path-dependency and provide their experimental participants with feedback on the current resource stock. They find that users respond to scarcity with caution but are, nevertheless, not able to avoid resource extinction.…”

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Potential Disasters can Turn the Tragedy into Success

Lindahl

Crépin

Schill

2016

Environ Resource Econ

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This paper presents a novel experimental design that allows testing how users of a common-pool resource respond to an endogenously driven drastic drop in the supply of the resource. We show that user groups will manage a resource more efficiently when confronted with such a non-concave resource growth function, compared to groups facing a logistic growth function. Even among cooperative groups there is a significant behavioral difference, although theory predicts there should not be. We argue that effectiveness of communication is endogenous to the problem; the threat of reaching a critical tipping point, beyond which the growth rate will drop drastically, triggers more effective communication within the group, enabling stronger commitment for cooperation and more knowledge sharing, which together explains the results. We argue that the insights generated by this study can be seen as one of many, but nevertheless important, contributions towards an increased understanding of the interactions between human behavior and the environment in common-pool resource systems.

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Potential Disasters can Turn the Tragedy into Success

Lindahl

Crépin

Schill

2016

Environ Resource Econ

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“…2 Some report that absolute extraction falls with scarcity, although such self-limitation is not sufficient to head off depletion (Osés-Eraso, Udina and Viladrich-Grau, 2008;Osés-Eraso and Viladrich-Grau, 2007). Others report that higher scarcity increases extraction on average (Blanco et al, forthcoming;D'Exelle et al, 2009), though for the D' Exelle et al (2009) result the mode did not change and, even when facing higher scarcity, equal sharing remains the most common decision.…”

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Framed field experiment on resource scarcity & extraction: Path-dependent generosity within sequential water appropriation

Pfaff

Vélez

Ramos

et al. 2015

Ecological Economics

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“…For example, Janssen et al (2010) and introduced spatial and temporal dynamics, whereas Cardenas et al (2013) introduced endogenously driven resource dynamics. Osés-Eraso et al (2008) compared exogenous, i.e., environmental, and endogenous, i.e., human-induced, resource scarcity; Moreno-Sánchez and Maldonado (2010) examined contrasting resource states, i.e., abundant versus scarce; and Kimbrough and Vostroknutov (2013) determined the effects of differing resource replenishment rates. The experimental design developed by Cardenas et al (2013) and used by Castillo et al (2011) andPrediger et al (2011) in different field contexts also includes spatial variability, in that subjects made two binary decisions, e.g., one about where to harvest and the other about how much to harvest.…”

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Collective action and the risk of ecosystem regime shifts: insights from a laboratory experiment

Schill¹,

Lindahl²,

Crépin³

2015

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ABSTRACT. Ecosystems can undergo regime shifts that potentially lead to a substantial decrease in the availability of provisioning ecosystem services. Recent research suggests that the frequency and intensity of regime shifts increase with growing anthropogenic pressure, so understanding the underlying social-ecological dynamics is crucial, particularly in contexts where livelihoods depend heavily on local ecosystem services. In such settings, ecosystem services are often derived from common-pool resources. The limited capacity to predict regime shifts is a major challenge for common-pool resource management, as well as for systematic empirical analysis of individual and group behavior, because of the need for extensive preshift and postshift data. Unsurprisingly, current knowledge is mostly based on theoretical models. We examine behavioral group responses to a latent endogenously driven regime shift in a laboratory experiment. If the group exploited the common-pool resource beyond a certain threshold level, its renewal rate dropped drastically. To determine how the risk of such a latent shift affects resource management and collective action, we compared four experimental treatments in which groups were faced with a latent shift with different probability levels (0.1, 0.5, 0.9, 1.0). Our results suggest that different probability levels do not make people more or less likely to exploit the resource beyond its critical potential threshold. However, when the likelihood of the latent shift is certain or high, people appear more prone to agree initially on a common exploitation strategy, which in turn is a predictor for averting the latent shift. Moreover, risk appears to have a positive effect on collective action, but the magnitude of this effect is influenced by how risk and probabilities are communicated and perceived.

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Environmental versus Human-Induced Scarcity in the Commons: Do They Trigger the Same Response?

Abstract: Common property resource, Concern for resource preservation, Early extinction, Endogenous and exogenous scarcity, Experimental design, C91, C92, H41, D64,

Cited by 46 publications

References 17 publications

Potential Disasters can Turn the Tragedy into Success

Potential Disasters can Turn the Tragedy into Success

Framed field experiment on resource scarcity & extraction: Path-dependent generosity within sequential water appropriation

Collective action and the risk of ecosystem regime shifts: insights from a laboratory experiment

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