Back to the future: An experiment on ecological restoration

IF 6.6 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108386

Virginia Cecchini Manara , Eleonora Ciscato , Pietro Guarnieri , Lorenzo Spadoni

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Abstract

The urgency of climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises has prompted international and national institutions to move beyond the prevention and mitigation of damages and to design policies aimed at promoting ecological restoration. In this paper, we address this emerging policy challenge by presenting experimental evidence on individuals’ propensity to contribute to restoration activities. Specifically, our design links a common pool resource game to a public good game to investigate how previous resource exploitation influences restoration decisions. We find that history matters since subjects who participate in resource depletion show a different behavior as compared to subjects who are only called to restore it. Specifically, while the former are subject to behavioral lock-ins that influence the success of restoration, the latter are more prompt to restore the more the resource is depleted.

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回到未来：生态恢复实验

气候、生物多样性和污染危机的紧迫性促使国际和国家机构不再局限于预防和减轻损害，而是制定旨在促进生态恢复的政策。在本文中，我们通过实验证明了个人对恢复活动的贡献倾向，从而应对了这一新出现的政策挑战。具体来说，我们的设计将公共资源博弈与公益博弈联系起来，以研究以前的资源开发如何影响恢复决策。我们发现历史很重要，因为参与资源损耗的受试者与只被要求恢复资源的受试者表现出不同的行为。具体来说，前者的行为锁定会影响恢复资源的成功率，而后者则是资源消耗越多，恢复资源越迅速。

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来源期刊

Ecological Economics 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

12.00

自引率

5.70%

发文量

313

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Ecological Economics is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature''s household" (ecosystems) and "humanity''s household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership. Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.