Property Rights, State Structures, and International Cooperation

Luterbacher, Urs

doi:10.2202/1554-8597.1046

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“…Similarly, equations (35) collapse to equations (23), (24) and (25), respectively, under the same condition. 37 See, e.g., Ponting (1991), Bahn and Flenley (1992), Van Tilberg (1994), Gowdy…”

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“…For example, see Keegan's (1993) account of the African Zulus. 40 See Ponting (1991), Van Tilberg (1994), Brander and Taylor (1998) and Luterbacher (2001). It is suggested that the islanders did not develop e¢ cient institutions to deal with the degradation also because the island's trees grew slowly and people did not grasp the nature of the slow change taking place.…”

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“…Next, we study the comparative statics e¤ects of 1 and 2 on con ‡ict. It is clear from (36) and (37) that the e¤ects of 1 and 2 on con ‡ict depend on their e¤ects on N 1 and N 2 . In order to examine these impacts, we rewrite the …rst equation in (35) as…”

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“…Recently, several studies have explained the collapse by thinking about the island in the spirit ofMalthus (1798). That is, the human population overexploited the island's resources, leading to its own decline 37. Brander and Taylor (1998) have modeled the Malthusian interpretation of the Easter Island story, while ignoring con ‡ict over resources.…”

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“…The same is true for N 2 . It follows from(36) and(37) that the e¤ect of changes in the harvesting e¢ ciencies on F 1 and F 2 also are ambiguous. These results are similar to those we derived in the basic model and occur for the same reason, speci…cally, they are driven by the size of the resource stock.…”

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Conflict and Renewable Resources

Reuveny

Maxwell

2001

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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The economic literature on con ‡ict employs a static game theoretic framework developed by Jack Hirshleifer. We extend this literature by explicitly introducing con ‡ict dynamics into the model. Our speci…c application is based on two stylized facts. First, con ‡ict often arises over scarce renewable resources, and second those resources often lack well-de…ned and/or enforceable property rights. Our stylized model features two rival groups, each dependent on a single contested renewable resource. Each period, the groups allocate their members between resource harvesting and resource appropriation (or con ‡ict) in order to maximize their income. This leads to a complex non-linear dynamic interaction between con ‡ict, the two populations, and the resource. The system's steady states are identi…ed and comparative statics are computed. As developed, the model relates most closely to con ‡ict over renewable resources in primitive societies. The system's global dynamics are investigated in simulations calibrated for the historical society of Easter Island. The model's implications for contemporary lesser developed societies are examined.

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