Behavioural patterns behind the demise of the commons across different cultures

Jusup, M. ; Maciel-Cardoso, F. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Gracia-Lazaro, C. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Liu, C. ; Wang, Z. ; Moreno, Y. (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Common-pool resources require a dose of self-restraint to ensure sustainable exploitation, but this has often proven elusive in practice. To understand why, and characterize behaviours towards ecological systems in general, we devised a social dilemma experiment in which participants gain profit from harvesting a virtual forest vulnerable to overexploitation. Out of 16 Chinese and 15 Spanish player groups, only one group from each country converged to the forest's maximum sustainable yield. All other groups were overzealous, with about half of them surpassing or on the way to surpass a no-recovery threshold. Comp
utational-statistical analyses attribute such outcomes to an interplay between three prominent player behaviours, two of which are subject to decision-making "inertia" that causes near blindness to the resource state. These behaviours, being equally pervasive among players from both nations, imply that the commons fall victim to behavioural patterns robust to confounding factors such as age, education and culture.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201026

Año: 2020

Publicado en: Royal Society Open Science 7, 7 (2020), 201026 [11 pp]
ISSN: 2054-5703

Factor impacto JCR: 2.963 (2020)

Categ. JCR: MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES rank: 28 / 73 = 0.384 (2020) - Q2 - T2

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.84 - Multidisciplinary (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E36-20R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/UZ-I-2015-022-PIP
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/640772/EU/Distributed Global Financial Systems for Society/DOLFINS
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/662725/EU/Bridging the gap: from Individual Behaviour to the Socio-tEchnical MaN/IBSEN
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FIS2017-87519-P

Tipo y forma: Artículo (Versión definitiva)

Área (Departamento): Área Física Teórica (Dpto. Física Teórica)