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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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Autores principales: Rocha, Juan C., Schill, Caroline, Saavedra-Díaz, Lina M., Moreno, Rocío del Pilar, Maldonado, Jorge Higinio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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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
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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.
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Rocha, Juan C.
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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
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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
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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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