Conservation conflicts represent complex multilayered problems that are challenging to
study. We explore the utility of theoretical, experimental, and constructivist approaches to …

The use of laboratory1 experiments in economics, and their later deployment in the field as a
tool for exploring how actual decision‐makers respond to information, incentives or …

As resource users interact and impose externalities onto each other, institutions are needed
to coordinate resource use, create trust, and provide incentives for sustainable …

Payment for ecosystem services has become one of the most important conservation policy
options worldwide. In developing countries, however, payments are often targeted toward …

Community energy (CE) features as one amongst the many novel forms of grassroots
innovation that seek to foster sustainability via citizen-led local-level initiatives. The …

Many environmental decisions are based on intrinsic motivations in addition to traditional
economic incentives. Field experiments allow researchers to isolate a specific causal …

Global change has systematically increased uncertainty for people balancing short-term
needs with long-term resource sustainability. Here, we aim to understand how uncertainty …

We study the effect of resource scarcity on human behavior using dynamic lab-in-the-field
experiments which are framed around the extraction of trees from a communally managed …

We study a dynamic common pool resource game in which current resource stock depends
on resource extraction in the previous period. Our model shows that for a sufficiently high …

This work presents the results of framed field experiments designed to study the joint
problem of managing harvests from a common pool resource and protecting the resource …