Many of Indonesia's natural resources are degraded due to over-utilization. Examples are over-exploitation of fish stocks or non-timber forest resources. In many cases "commons dilemmas" regularly occurring in open access situations are responsible for the difficulties in natural resource...

Esta investigación emplea resultados experimentales para estudiar el comportamiento de personas que en su vida real son altamentedependientes de la explotación de un recurso natural de uso común, explorando su propensión a apropiarse de la mayor cantidad posiblede recursos con el fin de...

The paper presents experimental results connecting the participant’s behaviors in a common-pool resource dilemma, including communication and sanctioning conditions, with the constructs in a selected theory of adult personality systems development including value judgment and moral reasoning.

Anthropological inquiry indicates that all human cultures classify animals and plants in similar ways. This pre-theoretical knowledge also provided common ground for competing scientific investigations. Paradoxically, despite rapid advances in biological science, our citizenry's practical...