ArticlePloS one2018
Resource heterogeneity leads to unjust effort distribution in climate change mitigation.
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- The private solution trap in collective action problems across 34 nations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- How risk communication shapes individual response to climate change: an experimental study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- When fairness is not enough: The disproportionate contributions of the poor in a collective action problem.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2023Article
- Information about historical emissions drives the division of climate change mitigation costs.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Evidence from a long-term experiment that collective risks change social norms and promote cooperation.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Behavioural patterns behind the demise of the commons across different cultures.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Quantitative account of social interactions in a mental health care ecosystem: cooperation, trust and collective action.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Citizen Social Lab: A digital platform for human behavior experimentation within a citizen science framework.PloS one · 2018Article
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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.
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