The cultural evolution of collective property rights for sustainable resource governance

Nature Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 7(4), P. 404 - 412

Published: Feb. 19, 2024

Abstract With commons encompassing approximately 65% of Earth’s surface and vast tracts the ocean, a critical challenge for sustainability involves establishing effective institutions governing these common-pool resources (CPR). While examples successful governance exist, circumstances mechanisms behind their development have often faded from historical records memories. Drawing on ethnographic work, we introduce generic evolutionary multigroup modelling framework that examines emergence, stability temporal dynamics collective property rights. Our research reveals fundamental insight: when intergroup conflicts over enforcing ‘access rights’ becomes an essential prerequisite evolving sustainable ‘use rights’. These access rights, in turn, enable cultural group selection facilitate evolution use rights through imitation groups. Moreover, identify four crucial aspects within systems: (1) seizures CPR systems create individual-level incentives to enforce rights; (2) support is frequency dependent prone oscillations; (3) maximum yield (MSY) tipping point alters interplay between individual group-level pressures; (4) success-biased social learning (imitation) out-group members plays vital role spreading preventing tragedy commons.

Language: Английский

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Effects of perceptions of forest change and intergroup competition on community‐based conservation behaviors

Conservation Biology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 38(4)

Published: April 4, 2024

Approximately one quarter of the earth's population directly harvests natural resources to meet their daily needs. These individuals are disproportionately required alter behaviors in response increasing climatic variability and global biodiversity loss. Much ever-ambitious conservation agenda relies on voluntary uptake such populations. Thus, it is critical understand how perceive environmental change use practices as a tool protect well-being. We developed participatory mapping activity elicit spatially explicit perceptions forest its drivers across 43 mangrove-dependent communities Pemba, Tanzania. administered this along with questionnaire regarding preferences 423 those communities. analyzed these data set Bayesian hierarchical statistical models. Perceived cover loss 50% community's mangrove area drove decrease proposed limits fuelwood bundles from 2.74 (forest perceived intact) 2.37 if participants believed resultant gains would not be stolen by outsiders. Conversely, who community forests were at high risk theft loosened harvest 1.26 2.75 same decline. High rates intergroup competition thus driving self-reinforcing increase unsustainable harvesting system. This finding demonstrates mechanism which decline may cause forgo practices, rather than adopt them, often assumed much community-based planning. However, we also found that when effective boundaries present, willing limit own stem

Language: Английский

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Economic and institutional determinants of environmental health and sustainability: Spatial and nonlinear effects for a panel of worldwide countries

Oeconomia Copernicana, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15(1), P. 195 - 227

Published: March 30, 2024

Research background: This study identifies the key factors influencing environmental health across a global panel of countries, focusing on protection from hazards, as informed by existing literature, while also shedding light novel aspects these causal relationships. Purpose article: aims to reveal, through comprehensive review relevant underexplored phenomena spatial diffusion and contagion national behaviors nonlinear dynamics between performance its determinants, acknowledging significant diversity in characteristics countries studied. Methods: Spatial analysis econometric methods, including regression alongside dynamic models using threshold techniques, were employed meet study’s objectives. Findings & value added: major finding is that nations shows clustering influenced economic institutional factors. effect arises processes, evidenced analysis. Furthermore, this demonstrates variations behavior can be attributed differing levels development specific internal conditions within countries. Notably, country’s gross domestic product proportion industries economy have substantial practices, establishing distinct impact thresholds. research enriches academic dialogue illustrating, thresholds, less developed an increased industrial share leads degradation. Moreover, influence other examined varied depending category country under review, highlighting nuanced effects variables outcomes.

Language: Английский

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Five lessons for avoiding failure when scaling in conservation

Nature Ecology & Evolution, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Sept. 6, 2024

Language: Английский

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Operationalizing cultural adaptation to climate change: contemporary examples from United States agriculture

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 378(1889)

Published: Sept. 18, 2023

It has been proposed that climate adaptation research can benefit from an evolutionary approach. But related empirical is lacking. We advance the study of with two case studies contemporary United States agriculture. First, we define ‘cultural to change’ as a mechanistic process population-level cultural change. argue this definition enables rigorous comparisons, yields testable hypotheses mathematical theory and distinguishes adaptive change, non-adaptive change desirable policy outcomes. Next, develop operational approach identify based on established criteria. apply data crop choices use cover crops between 2008 2021 States. find evidence are adapting local trends in separate variables some regions USA. suggests cropping may be more economic environment than climatic conditions. Further needed characterize adaptation, particularly routes mechanisms transmission. Furthermore, could factors differentiate exhibiting choice those do not. This article part theme issue ‘Climate needs science culture’.

Language: Английский

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Causal attribution of agricultural expansion in a small island system using approximate Bayesian computation

Land Use Policy, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 137, P. 106992 - 106992

Published: Nov. 29, 2023

Language: Английский

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Applying Cultural Evolution to Address Climate and Environmental Challenges

Oxford University Press eBooks, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 18, 2023

Abstract Reducing human impacts on Earth’s biological systems is an urgent global priority. However, while the necessary technical solutions are now very well understood, social process of developing, refining, and implementing those through social, cultural, behavioural policy change, remains beyond current scientific understanding capacity. The authors develop case that young science cultural evolution can be use in achieving sustainable just futures. suggest cumulative adaptive directly implicated emergence anthropogenic ecological destruction. Also, inherent any effort to foster spread practices policies needed mitigate impacts. review research linking modern climate environmental challenges propose a agenda accelerate change towards environmentally stable future.

Language: Английский

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Forecasting adoption trends for adaptive management of conservation scaling

Research Square (Research Square), Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 16, 2024

Abstract Achieving global climate, development, and biodiversity goals will require bringing conservation interventions to scale in suitable contexts with appropriate timing. Practitioners policymakers have a range of actions available influence where, when, by whom an initiative is adopted. Yet, make effective management decisions, they must clear view the current trajectory towards scaling goals. The non-linearity variability processes has, however, hindered forecasting adoption trends environmental outcomes. Here, we adapt models disease transmission present simple flexible modeling structure for initiatives. We tested this framework on empirical data from 19 distinct Specifically, fit shape timeline during first half each initiative, estimating rates independent uptake social up that point. Forecasting latter 50% cumulative using just these two parameters resulted out-of-sample average error 15.9% across all observations, indicating formulation captures much data-generating process. In one case, included abandonment, extending model estimate dropout rate predicting net 19.6%, also indicative process reasonably well. caution against such long-term forecasts, as are sensitive multiple assumptions, but instead advocate their use adaptive management. Iterative comparisons forecasts allow users retrospectively evaluate impact decisions investments. When combined estimates outcomes, our may provide comprehensive strategy identifying targeted projects while considering dynamic processes.

Language: Английский

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Forecasting Adoption Trends for Adaptive Management of Conservation Scaling

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Forecasting adoption with epidemiological models can enable adaptively scaling out conservation

One Earth, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Sept. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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