Probabilistic Destruction of Common-pool Resources: Experimental Evidence

Experimental Investigation of Voting over Common Pool Resources

Common pool resource systems are governed by a wide variety of institutions designed to promote long run resource viability. Relatively little work has focused on the use of majority rule voting in managing resource stocks. This paper develops a theoretical and experimental framework for assessing the efficiency of majority rule voting in allocating appropriation rights to a group of resource u...

Sustainability of common pool resources

Sustainability has become a key issue in managing natural resources together with growing concerns for capitalism, environmental and resource problems. We hypothesize that the ongoing modernization of competitive societies, which we refer to as "capitalism," affects human nature for utilizing common pool resources, thus compromising sustainability. To test this hypothesis, we design and impleme...

Centralized and Decentralized Management of Local Common Pool Resources in the Developing World: Experimental Evidence from Fishing Communities in Colombia

The Sustainable Use of Common-pool Resources through Behavioral Interventions: an Experimental Approach

This study proposes the use of an experimental analogue of natural resource exploitation to evaluate the effects of the real-time displaying of the amount of available resources and the provision of written feedback messages on the resource extraction behavior of participants sharing a common-pool whereby participants are physically and verbally isolated from each other. The experiment involved...

Interactional Justice for Sustainable Management of Common-Pool Resources

We argue that IoT-enabled socio-technical systems exhibit two inter-related and inter-dependent commons: one being the commons of resources (both physical and intellectual), and the other being the commons of knowledge. We show that both types of commons can be generically managed by applying Ostrom’s design principles for selfgoverning institutions. We then propose that one requirement for suc...