Tragedy of Commons, tragedy of anti-Commons

The Ultimate Tragedy of Commons

Trade, Tragedy, and the Commons

Many of the world’s major renewable resource stocks are in a state of decline. This is true for capture fisheries, for forests in developing countries, and for many measures of the biosphere’s health. Other renewable resources, including many species of wildlife, marine mammals, and Coral reefs, are also under threat. While poverty and government corruption are surely responsible for some of th...

On Averting the Tragedy of the Commons

STEPHEN KAPLAN Department of Psychology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan 3418 Mason Hall Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1027, USA ABSTRACT / One of the enduring facts of the human condition is that the earth's resources are finite and its environment fragile. It is also evident that human behavior is rarely based on an appreciation of these facts. While the outl...

Tragedy of the commons in Melipona bees.

In human society selfish use of common resources can lead to disaster, a situation known as the 'tragedy of the commons' (TOC). Although a TOC is usually prevented by coercion, theory predicts that close kinship ties can also favour reduced exploitation. We test this prediction using data on a TOC occurring in Melipona bee societies.

Tragedy of the commons in the chemostat

We present a proof of principle for the phenomenon of the tragedy of the commons that is at the center of many theories on the evolution of cooperation. Whereas the tragedy is commonly set in a game theoretical context, and attributed to an underlying Prisoner's Dilemma, we take an alternative approach based on basic mechanistic principles of species growth that does not rely on the specificati...