Cooperation in the Climate Commons
| Autor: | Alessandro Tavoni, Stefano Carattini, Simon A. Levin |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Carattini, Stefano, Levin, Simon, Tavoni, Alessandro |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Natural Disaster
Economics and Econometrics Global Warming Q58 - Government Policy M30 - General F59 - Other Environmental Taxes and Subsidies D70 - General Q54 - Climate Natural resource economics business.industry Redistributive Effect 05 social sciences Environmental resource management H23 - Externalitie Management Monitoring Policy and Law Public good Climate policy Collective action Climate change mitigation 13. Climate action Political science 0502 economics and business 11. Sustainability 050202 agricultural economics & policy Natural disaster Commons business Externality GE Environmental Sciences |
| Zdroj: | Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 13:227-247 |
| ISSN: | 1750-6824 1750-6816 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/reep/rez009 |
| Popis: | Climate change is a global externality that has proven difficult to address through formal institutions alone, due to the public good properties of climate change mitigation and the lack of a supranational institution for enforcing global treaties. Given these circumstances, which are arguably the most challenging for international cooperation, commitment problems and free-riding incentives for countries to delay costly mitigation efforts are major obstacles to effective environmental agreements. Starting from this premise, we examine domestic mitigation efforts, with the goal of assessing the extent to which the willingness of individuals to contribute voluntarily to the public good of climate mitigation could be scaled up to the global level. Although individual environmental actions are clearly insufficient for achieving ambitious global mitigation targets, we argue that they are nevertheless initial and essential steps in the right direction. In fact, individual and community efforts may be particularly important if local interventions encourage shifts in norms and behaviors that favor large-scale transformations. With this in mind, we discuss the importance of the visibility of norms and the role of beliefs when such visibility is lacking, and their implications for leveraging cooperative behavior to increase climate mitigation efforts locally and globally. |
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