ENVR 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Overgrazing, Strategic Dominance, Social Trap
7 Feb 2018
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Once everyone seems and believes the damage (cid:523) . (cid:524) Outline: common games, consider this scenario, you notice a stand of unprotected trees, which, you realize, no one owns. Trees are valuable: however, someone else has notices them too. Collective action problems: tragedy of the commons, prisoners dilemma, free-rider, externality, (cid:523) (cid:524) Prisoner"s dilemma what other players choose to do: a (cid:498)dominant strategy(cid:499: (cid:523) (cid:524) They are thinking: (cid:498) )ts just one more child(cid:499). )ndividual makes decisions not for society but for themselves: video interview with hardin, toc is concerned with allocation of resources, two solutions to the problem, find a way to privatize, find a manager. Overgrazing examples from the tragedy of the commons by hardin: the commons, cattle grazing on western national forest land, ocean depletion, crowding of national parks, pollution of the air and water, extinction of the plains bison, burning garbages.
