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Vinces, Julián, Bueno-Guerra, Nereida, Gutiérrez-Roig, Mario, Gracia-Lázaro, Carlos, Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús, Perelló, Josep, Sánchez, Angel, Moreno, Yamir and Duch, Jordi (2018) Data for Resource heterogeneity leads to unjust effort distribution in climate change mitigation. [Dataset]
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1284091
Abstract
Climate change mitigation is a shared global challenge that involves the 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 toward 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.
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type of Data: | Modelling data | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | University of Warwick, Warwick Business School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 November 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Media of Output (format): | .xlsx .csv | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | University of Warwick, Universitat de Barcelona, University of Zaragoza, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | Data record consists of 5 data files in .xlsx and .csv format, labelled according to their contents. |
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