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Implications for Climate-Change Policy of Research On Cooperation in Social Dilemmas / Irwin, Timothy
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Irwin, Timothy
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Air travel.
- Anthropology.
- Climate.
- Climate Change.
- Climate change.
- Collective action.
- Common property.
- Common property resource.
- Common Property Resource Development.
- Commons.
- Cooperative equilibrium.
- Culture & Development.
- Economic Theory and Research.
- Education.
- Education and Society.
- Energy.
- Energy and Environment.
- Environment.
- Environment and Energy Efficiency.
- Equilibrium.
- Externality.
- Fishery.
- Forest.
- Fuels.
- Gas.
- Gas emissions.
- Gender.
- Gender and Social Development.
- Health Systems Development and Reform.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Local commons.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Natural resources.
- Property rights.
- Resource use.
- Rural Development.
- Transport.
- Transport and Environment.
- Local Subjects:
- Air travel.
- Anthropology.
- Climate.
- Climate Change.
- Climate change.
- Collective action.
- Common property.
- Common property resource.
- Common Property Resource Development.
- Commons.
- Cooperative equilibrium.
- Culture & Development.
- Economic Theory and Research.
- Education.
- Education and Society.
- Energy.
- Energy and Environment.
- Environment.
- Environment and Energy Efficiency.
- Equilibrium.
- Externality.
- Fishery.
- Forest.
- Fuels.
- Gas.
- Gas emissions.
- Gender.
- Gender and Social Development.
- Health Systems Development and Reform.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Local commons.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Natural resources.
- Property rights.
- Resource use.
- Rural Development.
- Transport.
- Transport and Environment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (24 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2009
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The problem of climate change seems to be a tragedy of the commons: despite the global benefits of reducing green-house gas emissions, no individual has any incentive to reduce his or her own emissions. Yet many people are making efforts to reduce emissions and putting pressure on businesses and governments to do the same. Although the size of these efforts is unclear, their very existence might seem puzzling. The efforts are consistent, however, with some theoretical and empirical evidence about the extent of cooperation in other social dilemmas. This evidence does not imply that greenhouse-gas emissions will be reduced to desirable levels, but it does suggest that the potential for voluntary cooperation should not be ignored. It also suggests that cooperation can be promoted by (i) allowing cooperators to punish defectors without withdrawing their own cooperation; (ii) publicly emphasizing the social benefits and extent of cooperation and the social norms that require it; and (iii) improving the quantity and timeliness of public information about cooperation and defection.
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