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Understanding The Evolution Of Enforcement Systems In Resource Dilemmas, Devin M. Flener
Understanding The Evolution Of Enforcement Systems In Resource Dilemmas, Devin M. Flener
College of Arts & Sciences Senior Honors Theses
The effective management of resources on Earth is a pressing global social dilemma. An alternative solution to the traditional managing methods of these common pool resources is communal self-management facilitated through principles of restorative justice and developed through exploratory learning. We examined how communication, restorative justice techniques, and opportunity for exploratory learning impacted groups’ ability to develop a strong conceptual understanding of enforcement as well as an enforcement system in order to maintain an effective conservation strategy. Participants (N=288) were randomly assigned to 72 four-person groups in six separate conditions. Each group played nine rounds of a computer-simulated foraging task …