Does competitive scarcity affect the speed of resource extraction? A common-pool resource lab-in-the-field experiment on land use in northern Namibia

2021 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 105623
Author(s):  
Nils Christian Hoenow ◽  
Michael Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Common Pool

Exploring the role of gender in common-pool resource extraction: evidence from laboratory and field experiments in fisheries

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (13) ◽  
pp. 912-920 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Revollo-Fernández ◽  
Alonso Aguilar-Ibarra ◽  
Fiorenza Micheli ◽  
Andrea Sáenz-Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiments ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Common Pool

Incentives for cooperation: The effects of institutional controls on common pool resource extraction in Cambodia

2011 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 151-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Travers ◽  
Tom Clements ◽  
Aidan Keane ◽  
E.J. Milner-Gulland
Keyword(s):  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Institutional Controls

scholarly journals Adapting Governance Incentives to Avoid Common Pool Resource Underuse: The Case of Swiss Summer Pastures

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivo Baur ◽  
Heinrich H. Nax
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
European Alps ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Incentive Structure ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Land Use Decisions ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Summer Pasture ◽  
Communal Tenure ◽  
Federal Governance

The use of summer pastures in the European Alps provides much evidence against Hardin’s prediction of the tragedy of the commons. For centuries, farmers have kept summer pastures in communal tenure and avoided its overuse with self-designed regulations. During the past decades, however, summer pastures have become less intensely used, which has reduced its agronomic value and the by-production of public goods. However, very little is known about how the various governance incentives affect farmers’ use of summer pasture to result in below-sustainable activity. In this study, we develop an empirically informed game theoretical model of farmers’ land use decisions, which we validate with survey data from a case study in Switzerland. Our results reveal that farmers weigh the benefit of resource use against the costs of maintaining it and that all major sectoral developments, such as increasing livestock endowment, increasing opportunity costs, and decreasing land use intensity on private plots, result in the reduced use of summer pastures. Based on these insights, we suggest adapting the incentive structure at the local and federal governance levels to increase incentives for stocking at the margin. Our study shows how game theory combines with field validation to identify the contextual behavioral drivers in common pool resource dilemmas for informed and improved policy making.

scholarly journals Understanding the black box of communication in a common-pool resource field experiment

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 69-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Claudia Lopez ◽  
Sergio Villamayor-Tomas
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Common Pool

scholarly journals Contrasting effects of information sharing on common-pool resource extraction behavior: Experimental findings

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. e0240212
Author(s):  
Dimitri Dubois ◽  
Stefano Farolfi ◽  
Phu Nguyen-Van ◽  
Juliette Rouchier
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Extraction Behavior ◽  
Experimental Findings
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