Tavoni, Alessandro 
ORCID: 0000-0002-2057-5720, Schlueter, Maja and Levin, Simon
(2010)
The survival of the conformist: equity-driven ostracism and renewable resource management.
In: Fourth world congress of environmental and resource economists, 2010-06-28 - 2010-07-02, Montreal, Canada, CAN.
Abstract
This paper examines the role of pro-social behavior as a mechanism for the establishment and maintenance of cooperation in resource use under variable social and environmental conditions. By coupling resource stock dynamics with social dynamics concerning compliance to a social norm prescribing non-excessive resource extraction in a common pool resource (CPR), we show that when reputational considerations matter and a sufficient level of social stigma affects the violators of a norm, sustainable outcomes are achieved. We find large parameter regions where norm-observing and norm-violating types coexist, and analyze to what extent such coexistence depends on the environment.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.wcere2010.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Grantham Research Institute |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2011 14:56 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 14:08 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/38973 |
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