- Title
- Insights from experimental economics on local cooperation in a small-scale fishery management system:
- Creator
- Aswani, Shankar
- Creator
- Gurney, Georgina G
- Creator
- Mulville, Sara
- Creator
- Matera, Jaime
- Creator
- Gurven, Michael
- Date Issued
- 2013
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145437
- Identifier
- vital:38438
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.08.003
- Description
- Cooperation is central to collective management of small-scale fisheries management, including marine protected areas. Thus an understanding of the factors influencing stakeholders’ propensity to cooperate to achieve shared benefits is essential to accomplishing successful collective fisheries management. In this paper we study stakeholders’ cooperative behavioral disposition and elucidate the role of various socio-economic factors in influencing it in the Roviana Lagoon, Western Solomon Islands. We employed a Public Goods Game from experimental economics tailored to mimic the problem of common pool fisheries management to elucidate peoples’ cooperative behavior. Using Ostrom's framework for analyzing social-ecological systems to guide our analysis, we examined how individual-scale variables (e.g., age, education, family size, ethnicity, occupational status, personal norms), in the context of village-scale variables (e.g., village, governance institutions, group coercive action), influence cooperative behavior, as indexed by game contribution. Ostrom's framework provides an effective window for conceptually peeling back the various socio-economic and governance layers which influence cooperation within these communities.
- Format
- 8 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Global Environmental Change
- Relation
- Aswani, S., Gurney, G.G., Mulville, S., Matera, J. and Gurven, M., 2013. Insights from experimental economics on local cooperation in a small-scale fishery management system. Global Environmental Change, 23(6), pp.1402-1409.
- Relation
- Global Environmental Change volume 23 number 6 1402 1409 August 2013 0959-3780
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Aswani, Shankar (Prof)
SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
RU Department of Anthropology
RU Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science
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