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1. 1. Identifying factors influencing exploitation strategies and cooperation in commons dilemmas under threshold uncertainty : Evidence from a laboratory experiment

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

   Author : Caroline Schill; [2012]
   Keywords : common pool resources; ecosystem dynamics; thresholds; uncertainty; laboratory experiments;

   Abstract : I employ a laboratory experiment to examine behavior of user groups in commons dilemmas under uncertainty about a potential abrupt change in the resource renewal rate (threshold uncertainty). In this experiment, 87 subjects, randomly assigned to groups of three to four subjects, take anonymous individual harvest decisions over an unknown number of rounds while communication is allowed. READ MORE