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Cooperation in the face of thresholds, risk, and uncertainty: Experimental evidence in fisher communities from Colombia
Cooperation is thought to be a necessary condition to solve collective action dilemmas such as climate change or the sustainable use of common pool resources. Yet, it is poorly understood how situations pervaded by thresholds shape the behaviour of people facing collective dilemmas. Here we provide...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7769437/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33370255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242363 |
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author | Rocha, Juan C. Schill, Caroline Saavedra-Díaz, Lina M. Moreno, Rocío del Pilar Maldonado, Jorge Higinio |
author_facet | Rocha, Juan C. Schill, Caroline Saavedra-Díaz, Lina M. Moreno, Rocío del Pilar Maldonado, Jorge Higinio |
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description | Cooperation is thought to be a necessary condition to solve collective action dilemmas such as climate change or the sustainable use of common pool resources. Yet, it is poorly understood how situations pervaded by thresholds shape the behaviour of people facing collective dilemmas. Here we provide empirical evidence that resource users facing thresholds maintain on average cooperative behaviours in the sense of maximising their individual earnings while ensuring future group opportunities. A framed field experiment in the form of a dynamic game with 256 Colombian fishers helped us investigate individual behavioural responses to the existence of thresholds, risk and uncertainty. Thresholds made fishers extract less fish compared to situation without thresholds, but risk had a stronger effect on reducing individual fishing effort. Contrary to previous expectations, cooperation did not break down. If cooperation can be maintained in the face of thresholds, then communicating uncertainty is more policy-relevant than estimating precisely where tipping points lay in social-ecological systems. |
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spelling | pubmed-77694372021-01-08 Cooperation in the face of thresholds, risk, and uncertainty: Experimental evidence in fisher communities from Colombia Rocha, Juan C. Schill, Caroline Saavedra-Díaz, Lina M. Moreno, Rocío del Pilar Maldonado, Jorge Higinio PLoS One Research Article Cooperation is thought to be a necessary condition to solve collective action dilemmas such as climate change or the sustainable use of common pool resources. Yet, it is poorly understood how situations pervaded by thresholds shape the behaviour of people facing collective dilemmas. Here we provide empirical evidence that resource users facing thresholds maintain on average cooperative behaviours in the sense of maximising their individual earnings while ensuring future group opportunities. A framed field experiment in the form of a dynamic game with 256 Colombian fishers helped us investigate individual behavioural responses to the existence of thresholds, risk and uncertainty. Thresholds made fishers extract less fish compared to situation without thresholds, but risk had a stronger effect on reducing individual fishing effort. Contrary to previous expectations, cooperation did not break down. If cooperation can be maintained in the face of thresholds, then communicating uncertainty is more policy-relevant than estimating precisely where tipping points lay in social-ecological systems. Public Library of Science 2020-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7769437/ /pubmed/33370255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242363 Text en © 2020 Rocha et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Rocha, Juan C. Schill, Caroline Saavedra-Díaz, Lina M. Moreno, Rocío del Pilar Maldonado, Jorge Higinio Cooperation in the face of thresholds, risk, and uncertainty: Experimental evidence in fisher communities from Colombia |
title | Cooperation in the face of thresholds, risk, and uncertainty: Experimental evidence in fisher communities from Colombia |
title_full | Cooperation in the face of thresholds, risk, and uncertainty: Experimental evidence in fisher communities from Colombia |
title_fullStr | Cooperation in the face of thresholds, risk, and uncertainty: Experimental evidence in fisher communities from Colombia |
title_full_unstemmed | Cooperation in the face of thresholds, risk, and uncertainty: Experimental evidence in fisher communities from Colombia |
title_short | Cooperation in the face of thresholds, risk, and uncertainty: Experimental evidence in fisher communities from Colombia |
title_sort | cooperation in the face of thresholds, risk, and uncertainty: experimental evidence in fisher communities from colombia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7769437/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33370255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242363 |
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