75959 20250619084223.0 doi 10.1371/journal.pone.0204369 sideral 109047 ART-2018-109047 eng Vicens, J. Resource heterogeneity leads to unjust effort distribution in climate change mitigation 2018 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Climate change mitigation is a shared global challenge that involves collective action of a set of individuals with different tendencies to cooperation. However, we lack an understanding of the effect of resource inequality when diverse actors interact together towards a common goal. Here, we report the results of a collective-risk dilemma experiment in which groups of individuals were initially given either equal or unequal endowments. We found that the effort distribution was highly inequitable, with participants with fewer resources contributing significantly more to the public goods than the richer -sometimes twice as much. An unsupervised learning algorithm classified the subjects according to their individual behavior, finding the poorest participants within two "generous clusters" and the richest into a "greedy cluster". Our results suggest that policies would benefit from educating about fairness and reinforcing climate justice actions addressed to vulnerable people instead of focusing on understanding generic or global climate consequences. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/FIS/2015-71582-C2 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/640772/EU/Distributed Global Financial Systems for Society/DOLFINS This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No H2020 640772-DOLFINS info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/662725/EU/Bridging the gap: from Individual Behaviour to the Socio-tEchnical MaN/IBSEN This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No H2020 662725-IBSEN info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FIS2014-55867-P info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FIS2015-64349-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 2.776 2018 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES 22 / 68 = 0.324 2018 Q2 T1 1.1 2018 Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) 2018 Q1 Medicine (miscellaneous) 2018 Q1 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) 2018 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Bueno-Guerra, N. Gutierrez-Roig, M. Gracia-Lazaro, C. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-9769-8796 Gomez-Gardeñes, J. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-5204-1937 Perello, J. Sanchez, A. Moreno, Y. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-0895-1893 Duch, J. 2004 405 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Física Teórica Área Física Teórica 2003 395 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Física Materia Condensa. Área Física Materia Condensada 13, 10 (2018), e0204369[17 pp] PLoS One PLoS ONE 1932-6203 356960 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/75959/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 105730 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/75959/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:75959 articulos driver 2025-06-19-08:41:24 ARTICLE