Adaptation strategies and collective dynamics of extraction in networked commons of bistable resources.

ABSTRACT: When populations share common-pool resources (CPRs), individuals decide how much effort to invest towards resource extraction and how to allocate this effort among available resources. We investigate these dual aspects of individual choice in networked games where resources undergo regime shifts between discrete quality states (viable or depleted) depending on collective extraction levels. We study the patterns of extraction that emerge on various network types when agents are free to vary extraction from each CPR separately to maximize their short-term payoffs. Using these results as a basis for comparison, we then investigate how results are altered if agents fix one aspect of adaptation (magnitude or allocation) while letting the other vary. We consider two constrained adaptation strate

SUBMITTER: Schauf A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8578606 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature