| Conditional cooperation and costly monitoring explain success in forest commons management. | |
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PMID: 21071668 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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Recent evidence suggests that prosocial behaviors like conditional cooperation and costly norm enforcement can stabilize large-scale cooperation for commons management. However, field evidence on the extent to which variation in these behaviors among actual commons users accounts for natural commons outcomes is altogether missing. Here, we combine experimental measures of conditional cooperation and survey measures on costly monitoring among 49 forest user groups in Ethiopia with measures of natural forest commons outcomes to show that (i) groups vary in conditional cooperator share, (ii) groups with larger conditional cooperator share are more successful in forest commons management, and (iii) costly monitoring is a key instrument with which conditional cooperators enforce cooperation. Our findings are consistent with models of gene-culture coevolution on human cooperation and provide external validity to laboratory experiments on social dilemmas. |
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Authors:
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Devesh Rustagi; Stefanie Engel; Michael Kosfeld |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Science (New York, N.Y.) Volume: 330 ISSN: 1095-9203 ISO Abbreviation: Science Publication Date: 2010 Nov |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-11-12 Completed Date: 2010-12-14 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0404511 Medline TA: Science Country: United States |
Other Details:
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Languages: eng Pagination: 961-5 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Institute for Environmental Decisions, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, Universitätsstrasse 22, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland. devesh.rustagi@env.ethz.ch |
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Conservation of Natural Resources* Cooperative Behavior* Ethiopia Ethnic Groups* Games, Experimental Humans Linear Models Social Behavior* Trees* |
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Science. 2010 Nov 12;330(6006):923-4
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