Fairness and the Commons. Socio-economic Strategies and Resource Dynamics
Background and Objectives of the Workshop
Sustainably managing the local and the global commons requires not only
an understanding of the environmental factors that affect them, but
also a knowledge of the interactions and feedback cycles that operate
between such resource dynamics and the socio-economic dynamics
attributable to human intervention. This, in turn, calls for an
investigation of the behavioural drivers behind human action.
The workshop aims to bring a multidisciplinary approach to the
environmental challenges inherent in the provision and utilization of
the services originating from common-pool resources. By establishing
bridges between the socio-economic, the ecological and the behavioural
traditions, the goal is to find new insights into the mechanisms that
can promote and sustain cooperation among the end-users of the commons.
The workshop will bring together a broad audience of selected
international researchers from fields ranging from theoretical biology
and economics, to behavioural and computational social science. Such
diversity of backgrounds will promote the exchange of the latest
research and policy proposals among the participants, as well as
provide an opportunity to embark in subsequent common efforts.
