Tragedy of the Commons: Two examples - Macmillan Teaching …
2020年11月16日 · It becomes a tragedy of the commons example. In 2015, with “[c]lose to one million locks—weighing 45 tonnes” attached to the Pont des Arts bridge in Paris , the bridge was starting to show damage.
The Students' Dilemma: A Tragedy of the Commons
2015年12月2日 · This question may appear on my next Intro Psych exam that includes coverage of the social psychology chapter. If you want 2 points extra credit, answer A. If you want 6 points extra credit, answer B. But wait! You will only get the points if 90% or more of the class chooses 2 points. If less than 9...
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2022年2月1日 · Periodically, she will say, “Oh! That’s that thing where <description of concept>.” Last week, she perfectly described the tragedy of the commons applying it to something she had just read in a non-psychology source, but she couldn’t come up with the name “tragedy of …
Covid-19 social distancing as a social dilemma
2021年9月24日 · While the prisoner’s dilemma and the tragedy of the commons are our Intro Psych go-to social dilemmas, Covid-19 has us all mixing in a soup of social dilemmas. Stewing, even. At root, social dilemmas are about weighing our own self-interest against the good of the group. Zhijun Wu (Wu, 2021) suggest...
Persuading People in Peril: The Cape Town Experiment
2018年2月17日 · In September, with reservoirs at one-third their capacity, residents were asked to limit their water use to 23 gallons per day per person. But in a real life demonstration of the Tragedy of the Commons, fewer than half met the goal—each reasoning that their comparatively minuscule water use didn’t noticeably affect the whole city.
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2016年10月12日 · The authors suggest that locals would also make a better job of managing common pastures, coastal fisheries and water supplies. They argue that their findings contradict a long-standing environmental idea, called the "tragedy of the commons", which says that natural resources left to communal control get trashed.
Reversing the Decline in Fish Stocks - Macmillan Teaching …
2015年12月11日 · Originally posted on June 6, 2010. The stock of fish is declining worldwide at a rapid and accelerating pace. In Can Catch Shares Prevent Fisheries Collapse? the authors survey fish stocks and find that individual transferable quotas (ITQs) do appear to work in stabilizing and even increasing sto...
Writing to Connect - Macmillan Teaching Community - 5919
2017年9月14日 · Since Stanford is on the quarter system, many needed to fly or drive significant distances to reach campus on time for orientation. While all study participants completed surveys and contributed examples of their writing over the next 5 years, a small group also agreed to be interviewed by us annually.
The economics of local forest management (or anoth.
2015年12月14日 · Originally posted on October 14, 2009. Here are some recent results: In the first study of its kind, Chhatre and Arun Agrawal of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor compared forest ownership with data on carbon sequestration, which is estimated from the size and number of trees in a forest. He...
Tree Owners are Tree Huggers - Macmillan Teaching Community
2015年12月11日 · Originally posted on August 19, 2010. According to an interesting article in the NYTimes the Sahel, once thought to be a unreclaimable wasteland, has begun to bloom: Recent studies of vegetation patterns, based on detailed satellite images and on-the-ground inventories of trees, have found that Ni...