eprintid: 13808 rev_number: 10 eprint_status: archive userid: 353 dir: disk0/00/01/38/08 datestamp: 2016-09-19 06:41:11 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:27:43 status_changed: 2016-09-19 06:41:11 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Manzoor, T. creators_name: Rovenskaya, E. creators_name: Muhammad, A. creators_id: 8206 creators_orcid: 0000-0002-2761-3443 title: Game-theoretic insights into the role of environmentalism and social-ecological relevance: A cognitive model of resource consumption ispublished: pub divisions: prog_asa keywords: Resource consumption; Natural resource dynamics; Social-comparison processes; Tragedy of the commons; Cooperation; Heterogeneity abstract: The environmental and social attitudes of consumers can greatly affect the consumption of common-pool resources by the whole society – as demonstrated by many experimental and theoretical studies. Rooting in the current knowledge of consumer psychology, and employing the game-theoretic modelling framework, we formalise the decision making process of individuals about their resource consumption levels depending on their level of environmental concern, and relative importance placed on social and ecological information. Our model demonstrates, in a stylized fashion, how profound preference to social information can help avert free-riding behaviour and result in globally stable resource consumption dynamics. This avoids the “Tragedy of the Commons”, leading to affluence in the resource stock as well as in the individual consumption. Furthermore, we find that heterogeneity of the levels of individuals’ environmentalism promotes free-riding, whereas heterogeneity in relative information preferences helps avoiding tragedies. Our analysis demonstrates that accounting for heterogeneity of consumers and their social relationships can yield additional insights regarding to what kind of societies may have better chances to ensure sustainable consumption of a natural resource. date: 2016-11-24 date_type: published publisher: Elsevier id_number: doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.09.007 creators_browse_id: 260 full_text_status: public publication: Ecological Modelling volume: 340 pagerange: 74-85 refereed: TRUE issn: 0304-3800 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_project: no fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article citation: Manzoor, T., Rovenskaya, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2761-3443 , & Muhammad, A. (2016). Game-theoretic insights into the role of environmentalism and social-ecological relevance: A cognitive model of resource consumption. Ecological Modelling 340 74-85. 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.09.007 . document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13808/1/Game-theoretic%20insights%20into%20the%20role%20of%20environmentalism%20and%20social-ecological%20relevance.pdf