scholarly journals Assimilation in networks promoting common pool resource conservation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuyen Tiet
Keyword(s):  
Social Comparison ◽  
Resource Conservation ◽  
Network Structures ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Conservation Behavior ◽  
Assimilation Effect ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Complete Network ◽  
Individual Behaviors ◽  
Over Exploitation

Abstract This study investigates how assimilation in social comparison (i.e., changing behaviors in order to fit in with a group) impacts individual behaviors in the extraction of a common pool resource in different network structures (i.e., empty network, star, circle, and complete network). Our results suggest that over-exploitation is more likely to happen when there is a presence of assimilation in comparison. However, it is possible to incentivize resource conservation since the assimilation effect on individual conservation behavior highly depends on the network structures. Thus, promoting assimilation to a centralized network or networks with fewer connections is a good way to encourage resource conservation. More particularly, in a decentralized network with fewer connections (e.g., a circle network), assimilation in social comparison (e.g., feedback on their behaviors and the average behaviors of their neighbors) could help to promote resource conservation. A centralized network is useful in diffusing information and promoting assimilation in comparison by incentivizing the resource conservation of the central agents.

Monitoring and punishment networks in an experimental common pool resource dilemma

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-94
Author(s):  
Ganga Shreedhar ◽  
Alessandro Tavoni ◽  
Carmen Marchiori
Keyword(s):  
Network Topology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Imperfect Monitoring ◽  
Free Riders ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Complete Network ◽  
Resource Dilemma ◽  
Severe Punishment ◽  
Perfect Monitoring

AbstractWith the aid of a lab experiment, we explored how imperfect monitoring and punishment networks impacted appropriation, punishment and beliefs in a common pool resource appropriation dilemma. We studied the differences between the complete network (with perfect monitoring and punishment, in which everyone can observe and punish everyone else) and two ‘imperfect’ networks (that systematically reduce the number of subjects who could monitor and punish others): the directed and undirected circle networks. We found that free riders were punished in all treatments, but the network topology impacted the type of punishment: the undirected circle induced more severe punishment and prosocial punishment compared to the other two networks. Both imperfect networks were more efficient because the larger punishment capacity available in the complete network elicited higher punishment amount.

Managing groundwater as a common-pool resource: an Australian case study

Water Policy ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 598-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashutosh Sarker ◽  
Claudia Baldwin ◽  
Helen Ross
Keyword(s):  
Management Model ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Australian Case ◽  
Over Exploitation ◽  
Water Reform

Over-appropriation and degradation of groundwater can result from lack of recognition of, and inappropriate arrangements for, managing groundwater as a common-pool resource. An irrigators group in the Lockyer Valley, South-East Queensland, Australia and the Queensland government are currently working together to address over-exploitation of groundwater through a co-management model designed to be nested within the state and national water reform framework. This paper applies Ostrom's design principles for common-pool resource governance to this proposed co-management framework to strengthen the approach.

scholarly journals Common Pool Resource Management: Assessing Water Resources Planning for Hydrologically Connected Surface and Groundwater Systems

Hydrology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Francisco Muñoz-Arriola ◽  
Tarik Abdel-Monem ◽  
Alessandro Amaranto
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
High Plains ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Connected Surface

Common pool resource (CPR) management has the potential to overcome the collective action dilemma, defined as the tendency for individual users to exploit natural resources and contribute to a tragedy of the commons. Design principles associated with effective CPR management help to ensure that arrangements work to the mutual benefit of water users. This study contributes to current research on CPR management by examining the process of implementing integrated management planning through the lens of CPR design principles. Integrated management plans facilitate the management of a complex common pool resource, ground and surface water resources having a hydrological connection. Water governance structures were evaluated through the use of participatory methods and observed records of interannual changes in rainfall, evapotranspiration, and ground water levels across the Northern High Plains. The findings, documented in statutes, field interviews and observed hydrologic variables, point to the potential for addressing large-scale collective action dilemmas, while building on the strengths of local control and participation. The feasibility of a “bottom up” system to foster groundwater resilience was evidenced by reductions in groundwater depths of 2 m in less than a decade.

Organizational Management of Groundwater by Farmers for the Sustainable Utilization of Water Resource in Jaffna District of Northern Sri Lanka

2016 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 944-948
Author(s):  
Tharmendra, P ◽  
Sivakumar, S.S
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Organizational Management ◽  
Sustainable Utilization ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
The Cost

Groundwater is categorized as a common pool resource and is characterized by exclusion and substractbility. Given the nature of groundwater, user exclusion is an extremely difficult task. The cost of exclusion measures could outweigh the benefits generated from the use of the resource.

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