This study revisits the problem of the tragedy of the commons. Extracting agents participate in an evolutionary game in … cohesiveness of the network contribute to overcoming the tragedy of the commons. The study suggests that the origin of the problem …

networks can provide new insights for both theory and practice, and identifying several avenues for future research. The paper …

framework where punishment ("stick") and rewarding ("carrot") options are available, here we show analytically that the presence … of cooperators who don't punish in the population makes altruistic punishment evolutionarily weak. We show that … cooperation breaks down and strong reciprocity is maladaptive if costly punishment means "punishing defectors" and, even more so …

A local public-good game played on directed networks is analyzed. The model is motivated by one-way flows of … wetlands. It is shown that in many (but not all) directed networks, there exists an equilibrium, sometimes socially desirable …