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DOI | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.09.022 |
The coevolution of economic institutions and sustainable consumption via cultural group selection | |
Waring, Timothy M.1; Goff, Sandra H.2; Smaldino, Paul E.3 | |
2017 | |
发表期刊 | ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS |
ISSN | 0921-8009 |
EISSN | 1873-6106 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 131 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | Empirical research has identified various institutions that improve resource longevity by supporting individual resource conservation. However, the mechanisms by which these institutions emerge have not been established. We speculate that economic institutions which support resource conservation, such as property regimes and systems of production, may emerge via a process of cultural group selection amongst social-ecological systems. To explore this proposition, we develop a multilevel selection model of resource management institutions with endogenous group dynamics. The endogenous design permits us to determine whether a given social adaptation is due to individual or group-level evolution. We demonstrate how resource conservation and supporting economic institutions coevolve, and reveal when cultural group selection is involved. In the model, sustainable societies emerge in only a minority of cases. Simulations reveal that property norms facilitate sustainable outcomes most followed by social group marking, and production norms. We describe the institutional transitions which occur along the evolutionary trajectory most likely to achieve sustainability. Analysis of the model reveals that when groups compete indirectly for survival in a harsh environment cultural group selection favors institutions that support resource conservation. However, when groups compete for abundant resources institutions emerge to support overconsumption. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
英文关键词 | Cultural group selection Institutions Conservation Cooperation Multilevel selection model |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000388248600048 |
WOS关键词 | MULTILEVEL SELECTION ; PAROCHIAL ALTRUISM ; HUMAN PROSOCIALITY ; EVOLUTION ; COOPERATION ; PERSPECTIVE ; ENVIRONMENT ; COVARIANCE ; MANAGEMENT ; IDENTITY |
WOS类目 | Ecology ; Economics ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Business & Economics |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/15695 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Maine, Mitchell Ctr Sustainabil Solut, Sch Econ, Orono, ME 04469 USA; 2.Skidmore Coll, Dept Econ, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 USA; 3.Univ Calif Merced, Cognit & Informat Sci, Merced, CA USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Waring, Timothy M.,Goff, Sandra H.,Smaldino, Paul E.. The coevolution of economic institutions and sustainable consumption via cultural group selection[J]. ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,2017,131. |
APA | Waring, Timothy M.,Goff, Sandra H.,&Smaldino, Paul E..(2017).The coevolution of economic institutions and sustainable consumption via cultural group selection.ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,131. |
MLA | Waring, Timothy M.,et al."The coevolution of economic institutions and sustainable consumption via cultural group selection".ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 131(2017). |
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