The Role of Information in Governing the Commons: Experimental Results

Janssen, Marco A.

doi:10.5751/es-05664-180404

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“…In line with these observations, experiments reported in Janssen (2013) show that limiting the information to the resource users reduces the effectiveness of communication. An explanation is the large proportion of conditional co-operators in experimental studies (e.g.…”

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confidence: 64%

“…At the time of the individual round participants did not know the real experiment would be a group experiment. A detailed analysis of the first four treatments, which focused on the role of information, is reported in Janssen (2013). In this paper we focus on the role of communication in both sets of experiments.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Fischbacher et al 2001;Kocher et al 2008;Rustagi et al 2010). Reducing information that helps participants to estimate the level of cooperation by others, may affect the level of cooperation (Janssen 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Note that our analysis makes use of data from earlier experiments on limiting vision of resource users (Janssen 2013), plus new data from experiments in which we included constrained communication. This allows us to test the effect of both limited information as well as constrained communication and their interactions.…”

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The effect of constrained communication and limited information in governing a common resource

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Abstract:Allowing resource users to communicate in behavioural experiments on commons dilemmas increases the level of cooperation. In actual common pool resource dilemmas in the real world, communication is costly, which is an important detail missing from most typical experiments. We conducted experiments where participants must give up harvesting opportunities to communicate. The constrained communication treatment is compared with the effect of limited information about the state of the resource and the actions of the other participants. We find that despite making communication costly, performance of groups improves in all treatments with communication. We also find that constraining communication has a more significant effect than limiting information on the performance of groups.

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“…Similarly, we incorporated a visibility measure of how likely others in a community are to notice one's own IS control actions. This item was intended to measure the extent to which there are opportunities within the community for viewing and sharing contributions to the collective, which is likely to influence perceived reciprocity and the ability for residents to act collectively (Janssen 2013). We also applied a measure of government efficacy related to albizia control similar to that used in Lubell (2002).…”

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Motivating residents to combat invasive species on private lands: social norms and community reciprocity

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Collective Factors Reinforce Individual Contributions to Human‐Wildlife Coexistence

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Conserving large carnivores while keeping people safe depends on finding means for peaceful coexistence. Although large carnivore populations are generally declining globally, some populations are increasing, causing greater overlap with humans and increasing potential for conflict. One method of reducing conflict with large carnivores is to secure attractants like garbage and livestock. This method is effective when implemented; however, implementation requires a change in human behavior. Humanwildlife interaction is a public good collective action problem where solutions require contributions from many and individual actions have effects on others. We used the collective interest model to investigate how individual and collective factors work in concert to influence landowner attractant securing behavior in Montana, USA, in black (Ursus americanus) and grizzly bear (U. arctos) range. We used data from a mailback survey to develop logistic regression models testing the relative effects of collective and individual factors on landowners' attractant securing behaviors. The most important factor was whether individuals had spoken to a wildlife professional, a reflection of social coordination and pressure. Other collective factors (e.g., social norms [i.e., expectations and behaviors of peers] and the existence of discussion networks [i.e., how much social influence an individual has]) were equally important as individual factors (e.g., beliefs, age, gender) for influencing attractant securing behavior among Montana landowners. This research suggests pathways for wildlife managers and outreach coordinators to increase attractant securing behavior by emphasizing collective factors, such as social norms, rather than appealing exclusively to individual factors, such as risk perception of large carnivores. Furthermore, wildlife agencies would be justified in increasing their efforts to connect with landowners in person and to connect with members of the public who play an important role in discussion networks. This research demonstrates that, even on private lands, collective interests may be a missing and important piece of the puzzle for encouraging voluntary attractant securing behavior and improving wildlife-human coexistence.

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The Role of Information in Governing the Commons: Experimental Results

Cited by 34 publications

References 32 publications

The effect of constrained communication and limited information in governing a common resource

The effect of constrained communication and limited information in governing a common resource

Motivating residents to combat invasive species on private lands: social norms and community reciprocity

Collective Factors Reinforce Individual Contributions to Human‐Wildlife Coexistence

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