Investing in the commons: transient welfare creates incentives despite open access

Local users may invest in managing common pool resources, thereby promoting social and ecological resilience. Institutional or economic limits on access are regarded as essential preconditions for incentivizing local investments, but we show that investment incentives can exist even under open acces...

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Main Authors: Jacob P. Ziegler, Sunny L. Jardine, Stuart E. Jones, Brett T. van Poorten, Marco A. Janssen, Christopher T. Solomon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2021-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol26/iss2/art16/