A Paradox of Environmental Awareness Campaigns

Christos Koulovatianos

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: We build a workable game of common-property resource extraction under rational Bayesian learning about the renewal prospects of a resource. We uncover the impact of exogenously shifting the prior beliefs of each player on the response functions of others. What we find about the role of environmental conservation campaigns is paradoxical. To the extent that such campaigns instill overly high pessimism about the potential of natural resources to reproduce, they create anti-conservation incentives: anyone having exploitation rights becomes inclined to consume more of the resource earlier, before others overexploit, and before the resource's stock is reduced to lower levels.

Keywords: renewable resources; resource exploitation; non-cooperative dynamic games; Bayesian learning; stochastic games; commons; rational learning; uncertainty; beliefs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C73 D83 D84 L70 O12 O13 Q20 Q50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-11-12
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Working Paper: A Paradox of Environmental Awareness Campaigns (2011)
Working Paper: A Paradox of Environmental Awareness Campaigns (2010)
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