TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-organization in the commons
T2 - An empirically-tested model
AU - Ghorbani, Amineh
AU - Bravo, Giangiacomo
AU - Frey, Ulrich
AU - Theesfeld, Insa
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - A appropriate bottom-up rule system can support the sustainability of common-pool resources such as forests and fisheries. The process that leads to the developments of such institutional settings requires the considerations of multiple social, physical, and institutional factors over long time horizons. In this paper, we present the SONICOM model as a general exploratory model of CPR systems. The model can be configured to represent different CPR systems in order to explore what kind of institutional settings result in stable systems, i.e. situations where the resource and the appropriators are in a state of well-being. We use a large-N-dataset of CPR management institutions to validate the model. The results show numerous correlations between various parameters of the system such as rule compliance, social influence and resource growth rate which help explaining the process of institutional emergence as well as unveiling the conditions under which systems are stable.
AB - A appropriate bottom-up rule system can support the sustainability of common-pool resources such as forests and fisheries. The process that leads to the developments of such institutional settings requires the considerations of multiple social, physical, and institutional factors over long time horizons. In this paper, we present the SONICOM model as a general exploratory model of CPR systems. The model can be configured to represent different CPR systems in order to explore what kind of institutional settings result in stable systems, i.e. situations where the resource and the appropriators are in a state of well-being. We use a large-N-dataset of CPR management institutions to validate the model. The results show numerous correlations between various parameters of the system such as rule compliance, social influence and resource growth rate which help explaining the process of institutional emergence as well as unveiling the conditions under which systems are stable.
KW - Common-pool resource systems
KW - Endogenous institutions
KW - Multi-agent systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021632420&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.06.039
DO - 10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.06.039
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85021632420
SN - 1364-8152
VL - 96
SP - 30
EP - 45
JO - Environmental Modelling and Software
JF - Environmental Modelling and Software
ER -