The impact of culture and ecology on cooperation in a common-pool resource experiment

Ecological Economics

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1599-1608

  Prediger, Sebastian ^a   Vollan, Björn ^b   Frölich, Markus ^b,c,d  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c IZA   (Germany)

^d IZA Bonn ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Common pool resource experiment; Historical political background; Payoffs to cooperation; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL TRADITION; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FARMERS ATTITUDE; GRAZING; POLITICAL HISTORY; RANGELAND; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SEMIARID REGION;

NAMIBIA; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79958290002     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.08.017     Document Type: Article

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