دورية أكاديمية
Extraction Behaviour and Income Inequalities Resulting from a Common Pool Resource Exploitation
| العنوان: | Extraction Behaviour and Income Inequalities Resulting from a Common Pool Resource Exploitation |
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| المؤلفون: | Owusu, Kwabena Afriyie, Kulesz, Micaela M., Merico, Agostino |
| المصدر: | Sustainability, 11(2):536 |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | Publisso (ZB MED-Publikationsportal Lebenswissenschaften) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | renewable resource, CPR, cooperative dependency ratio, continuous time, distributional preferences, artisanal fishery |
| الوصف: | Using an experimental approach, we investigate income distribution among heterogeneous subjects exploiting a Common Pool Resource (CPR). The CPR experiments are conducted in continuous time and under different treatments, including combinations of communication and monitoring. While many studies have focused on how real-life income inequality affects cooperation and resource use among groups, here we examine the relationship between individuals’ cooperative traits, harvest inequalities, and institutional arrangements. We found that: (1) When combined with monitoring, communication decreases harvest inequality—that is, harvest is more equally distributed among individuals in all treatments; and (2) the cooperative trait of individuals significantly predicts harvest inequality. The relative proportion of non-cooperators and cooperators (i.e., the cooperative dependency ratio) drives the within-session harvest distribution—as the cooperative dependency ration increases, the income distribution becomes increasingly unequal, leading to a downward spiral of resource overexploitation and scarcity. Finally, our results suggest that harvest and income inequalities are contingent to resource abundance, because under this regime, non-cooperators exert the greatest amount effort—thus leading to resource scarcity and income inequalities. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| العلاقة: | https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl:6417446Test; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11020536Test; https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/2/536#supplementaryTest |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su11020536 |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su11020536Test https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl:6417446Test https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/2/536#supplementaryTest |
| حقوق: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.91703C05 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su11020536 |
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