The interplay of behaviors and attitudes in public goods game considering environmental investment

Mengyao Wang, Qiuhui Pan and Mingfeng He

Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2020, vol. 382, issue C

Abstract: The environmental investment, protecting and improving environmental quality and preventing deterioration of the ecological environment, can reduce costs of the environmentalist and even bring some benefits. It is an inevitable phenomenon that the efficiency of environmental investment is related to the social attention, driven by the rapid development of the Internet. And the public response to the ecological status with various patterns can affect the social attention, further change the compensation to cooperators from environmental investment. In the public goods game considering environmental investment, we model a society in which attitudes and behaviors co-evolve and classify the entire population into four categories to establish a differential equation system into the interplay of social attention and ecological situation using the mean field approximation. The response mechanism can disturb the fluctuation of various groups, so the level of cooperation moves and the level of social attention does not. Among three different response mechanisms, the precautionary mechanism is the most beneficial to cooperation. The more timely the response, the higher the cooperation rate. We also can conclude that the cooperation emerges when the sensitivity is relatively greater than the forgetfulness to a certain extent. There is an interval of stable level of the attention, within which the sensitivity and the forgetfulness have no impact on it. Only when the budget is greater than a threshold can cooperation emerge and be pushed in this way – the more budget, the slower promotion. Not surprisingly, researches on the interplay between social attention and individual behavior are instructive, which help us to better coordinate the actions of all parties and solve ecological problem effectively.

Keywords: Environmental investment; Public goods game; Attitude; SI model; Response mechanism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2020.125250

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