The dual impact of ecology and management on social incentives in marine common-pool resource systems.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how and when cooperative human behaviour forms in common-pool resource systems is critical to illuminating social-ecological systems and designing governance institutions that promote sustainable resource use. Before assessing the full complexity of social dynamics, it is essential to understand, concretely and mechanistically, how resource dynamics and human actions interact to create incentives and pay-offs for social behaviours. Here, we investigated how such incentives for information sharing are affected by spatial dynamics and management in a common-pool resource system. Using interviews with fishermen to inform an agent-based model, we reveal generic mechanisms through which, for a given ecological setting characterized by the spatial dynamics of the resource, the two

SUBMITTER: Klein ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5579129 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature