Emergence of cooperation in a coupled socio-ecological system through a direct or an indirect social control mechanism
Authored by H S Sugiarto, N N Chung, C H Lai, L Y Chew
Date Published: 2017
DOI: 10.1088/2399-6528/aa9b0e
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Abstract
The successful management of a common pool resource (CPR) by its social
agents is key to its sustainability. In order to maintain the ecological
resource of such a coupled socio-ecological system, cooperative effort
from the whole society is required and this necessitates proper social
control mechanism to regulate the social order. In this paper, we
explore the effects of two social control mechanisms: ostracism and
voluntary enforcement, on agents that actively exploit the CPR within
societies of different social network structures (as encapsulated by its
average network degree). By means of numerical simulations and
analytical approximation, we made inference on the dynamical behavior of
the system in terms of its phase diagram. The phase diagram is found to
contain a plethora of phases and associated phase transitions as we
enumerate them based on a social and an ecological parameter. At a large
average network degree, the features of the phases are observed to be
similar for the direct voluntary enforcement and indirect ostracism
mechanisms. However, these features exhibit a unique difference at low
average network degree, where we uncover a new phenomenon of
non-equilibrium oscillatory phase attributed to the voluntary
enforcement mechanism.
Tags
Agent-based modeling
behavior
statistical physics
Norms
Community
Model
Punishment
Humans
Resource-management
Computer
Social cooperation
Nonlinear
dynamics
Coupled social-ecological system
Complexnetwork
Phase
transition
Ostracism
Enforcement