@article{1146,
  author = {Alessandro Tavoni and Maja Schl{\"u}ter and Simon Levin},
  title = {The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management.},
  abstract = {<p>This paper examines the role of other-regarding behavior as a mechanism for the establishment and maintenance of cooperation in resource use under variable social and environmental conditions. By coupling resource stock dynamics with social dynamics concerning compliance to a social norm prescribing non-excessive resource extraction in a common pool resource, we show that when reputational considerations matter and a sufficient level of social stigma affects the violators of a norm, sustainable outcomes are achieved. We find large parameter regions where norm-observing and norm-violating types coexist, and analyze to what extent such coexistence depends on the environment.</p>},
  year = {2012},
  journal = {Journal of theoretical biology},
  volume = {299},
  pages = {152-61},
  month = {04/2012},
  issn = {1095-8541},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.07.003},
  language = {eng},
}