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Araujo, Nuno, Vicens, Julian, Bueno-Guerra, Nereida, Gutiérrez-Roig, Mario, Gracia-Lázaro, Carlos, Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús, Perelló, Josep, Sánchez, Angel, Moreno, Yamir and Duch, Jordi (2018) Resource heterogeneity leads to unjust effort distribution in climate change mitigation. PLoS One, 13 (10). e0204369. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0204369
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204369
Abstract
Climate change mitigation is a shared global challenge that involves collective action of a set of individuals with different tendencies to cooperation. However, we lack an understanding of the effect of resource inequality when diverse actors interact together towards a common goal. Here, we report the results of a collective-risk dilemma experiment in which groups of individuals were initially given either equal or unequal endowments. We found that the effort distribution was highly inequitable, with participants with fewer resources contributing significantly more to the public goods than the richer −sometimes twice as much. An unsupervised learning algorithm classified the subjects according to their individual behavior, finding the poorest participants within two “generous clusters” and the richest into a “greedy cluster”. Our results suggest that policies would benefit from educating about fairness and reinforcing climate justice actions addressed to vulnerable people instead of focusing on understanding generic or global climate consequences.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Climate change mitigation, Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on, Climatic changes -- Government policy -- International cooperation, Climatic changes -- Law and legislation -- International cooperation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS One | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 31 October 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number: | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Article Number: | e0204369 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0204369 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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