Community Management for Sustainable Resource Use:

An Analysis of Cooperative Behavior to Solve a Common‑Pool Resource Problem

Abstract

The voluntary contribution behavior is important to encourage the sustainable use of common-pool resources in many communities. Firstly, this paper demonstrates theoretical developments to understand cooperative behavior for common-pool resource problems. Secondly, the paper shows the recent empirical evidence based on a laboratory experiment and field experiment in the developing countries. Finally, the paper discusses how to encourage cooperative behavior for resource conservation based on the empirical evidence.