The social and ecological determinants of common pool resource sustainability

Kimbrough, Erik O.; Vostroknutov, Alexander

doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2015.04.004

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

Schill¹,

Lindahl²,

Crépin³

2015

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“…The CPR game is conducted in a setting where subjects have equal access to the commons and symmetric information. We follow the theoretical developments proposed by Kimbrough and Vostroknutov (2015), which in turn constitute important extensions of the contributions proposed by Ostrom et al (1992 and. They develop a theoretical model to capture cooperative behavior in a dynamic common pool resources game using student subjects in a lab.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…In general CPR games using subjects who are directly involved in resources extraction offer a higher degree of external validity compared with laboratory experiments with students. A comparison of different dynamic CPR games is made by Kimbrough and Vostroknutov (2015). Our CPR game structure follows the CPR framework developed by Kimbrough and Vostroknutov (2015).…”

Section: Common Pool Resources (Cpr): Management and Experimental Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A comparison of different dynamic CPR games is made by Kimbrough and Vostroknutov (2015). Our CPR game structure follows the CPR framework developed by Kimbrough and Vostroknutov (2015).…”

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“…Some important aspects covered in previous studies include the effects of economic and social heterogeneities (Taylor and Singleton 1993;Agrawal 1998;Varughese and Ostrom 1998;Kimbrough and Vostroknutov 2015), subjective satisfaction on the CPR games over standard measures of objective behavior of players (Becchetti et al 2016), impatience and cooperation (Schlager and Heikkila 2009), asymmetry in field experiments on CPR problems (Fehr and Leibbrandt 2011;Cardenas et al 2011;Janssen et al 2011), the influence of different institutional arrangement on CPR extraction (Cardenas and Ostrom, 2004;Rodriguez-Sickert et al 2008;Cardenas et al 2011), culture and ecology on cooperation (Sebastian et al 2011), social norms and ecological variables on cooperation and sustainable management of CPRs (Ostrom 2009;Lo 2013;Kimbrough and Vostroknutov 2015).…”

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The social and ecological determinants of common pool resource sustainability

Cited by 35 publications

References 39 publications

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

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

Behavioural mechanisms and adaptation to climate change : Evidence from lab-in-the-field experiments in the upper Blue-Nile basin

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