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IDR Team Summary 5: How do we solve the tragedy of the commons?
IDR Team Summary 5: How do we solve the tragedy of the commons?
Pages 57-64
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, strategic behavior, size of the community affected, networks and norms, the culture of the group, etc. Thorough consideration of the conditions under which these factors matter, when and how they might be linked, and which ones are the most critical when considering solutions to common resource problems should provide new insights and policy prescriptions.
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and others have documented various institutional solutions to the problems involved but no general conclusions have yet been reached about the specific conditions under which various solutions emerge or how they are sustained over time. These solutions range from self-organizing efforts to coordinate activities that provide constraints on resource use to more institutionalized efforts in which those involved give over some autonomy to an authority or policing agent who manages the resource pool and monitors behavior to promote the collective good.
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Cohen, Rockefeller University & Columbia University Hanna Kokko, University of Zurich Philip R LeDuc, Carnegie Mellon University LeighAnne Olsen, National Academies Ashlynn S
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A unifying definition of the tragedy of the commons that is generally accepted across disciplines has not yet been developed. In keeping with the goal of the conference, which was to study collective behavior, the IDR team proposed that identifying the idiosyncrasies of different disciplines would be the first step toward understanding the conditions under which tragedy of the commons occurs and proposing methods for preventing collapse.
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Collapse of the commons, the IDR team determined, refers to the complete depletion or destruction of a resource, whereas tragedy of the commons, as described by Garrett Hardin, is the process that may ultimately lead to collapse. In contrast, resilience refers to the increasing value (including economic or psychological value)
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While the resources become progressively depleted, individual attitudes do not change within a generation. In addition, the team mentioned that education or marketing of behaviors that promote commons resilience may influence individual actions.
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This would ultimately bring the scientific community a step further to understanding how variables within tragedy of the commons are weighted and if a unifying mathematical definition can be achieved. The Next Step IDR Team 5 conducted a preliminary literature search via Web of Science, looking at the distribution of the citation of the Hardin (1968)
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The intention is that this commentary will bring interdisciplinary collaboration, as seen in NAKFI, to the rest of the scientific community to collectively address and solve tragedy of the commons.
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