Wednesday, October 29, 2014

THE OCEAN, A COMMON POOL RESOURCE

To harvest the ocean in a sustainable way and with the new possibility to communicate among teams, I offer different conditions to try to play all proposed rounds (8)

1. The 5th round should be a selective ban where only teams with at least 2 or 3 good points can harvest. How this selection takes place?
The facilitator gives a good point (can be a check mark on the paper) for teams choosing sustainable numbers (4 or below), and a bad point (an x can be) for teams choosing unsustainable numbers (5 and above). The ban can potentially even teams points.
Some teams will strive to get the 3 points, but still will have a round to "maximize profits". 
Some teams may have the strategy to maximize profits the first rounds, voluntarily refraining to harvest on the selective ban. 
Considering all this possible behaviors, I still think this set would incentivate long term sustainability. This condition doesn´t need team communication but will make evident which groups have overfished when the selective ban comes.

2. After each round all teams must say loud their catch (either if it is true or false), so a tentative report table can be built and will be considered for next harvest.
With this condition, all teams will be pushed to reach legitimacy, at least in public, and their trust will be tested. 
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