Social Cooperation and Disharmony in Communities Mediated through Common Pool Resource Exploitation

• Main Authors: Sugiarto, Hendrik Santoso, Lansing, John Stephen, Chung, Ning Ning, Lai, C. H., Cheong, Siew Ann, Chew, Lock Yue
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Common pool resources; Social cooperations
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81410; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43465
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

It was theorized that when a society exploits a shared resource, the system can undergo extreme phase transition from full cooperation in abiding by a social agreement, to full defection from it. This was shown to happen in an integrated society with complex social relationships. However, real-world...