Commons—resources used or governed by groups of heterogeneous users through agreed-
upon institutional arrangements—are the subject of one of the more successful research …

The paper seeks to advance our understanding of the extent to which the use of economic
incentives can undermine (“crowd out”) or reinforce (“crowd in”) people's intrinsic …

Explicit economic incentives designed to increase contributions to public goods and to
promote other pro-social behavior sometimes are counterproductive or less effective than …

This paper explores the potential effects of external reward systems on conservation
behavior by accounting for their interactions with patterns of collective action. In order to …

Established environmental policy theory is based on the assumption of homo economicus.
This means that people are seen as fully rational and acting in a self-regarding manner. In …

Common pool resource experiments in the laboratory and the field have provided insights
that have contrasted to those derived from conventional non-cooperative game theory …

Social preferences such as altruism, reciprocity, intrinsic motivation and a desire to uphold
ethical norms are essential to good government, often facilitating socially desirable …

Extensive field research has found that when users of a resource do gain good feedback
about the effect of their actions on a resource and can build norms of reciprocity and …

The last few decades have witnessed an increase in the use of experiments for the study of
various environmental and natural resource phenomena (Sturm and Weimann, 2006; …

Abstract Collective Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), where forest users receive
compensation conditional on group rather than individual performance, are an increasingly …