Cooperative conservation: Seven ways to save the world

Conservation Science and Practice

Darragh Hare¹  Dominic D. P. Johnson²  Michael D. Buhrmester³  Harvey Whitehouse³  Oliver S. Curry³  Cameron Hepburn⁴  David W. Macdonald⁵ 

[1] Department of Natural Resources Cornell University Ithaca New York;Department of Politics and International Relations University of Oxford Oxford UK;Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology University of Oxford Oxford UK;Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment University of Oxford Oxford UK;Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), Department of Zoology University of Oxford, The Recanati‐Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Tubney Oxford UK;

关键词: conflict resolution;    conservation;    cooperation;    coordination;    game theory;    kin selection;   

DOI  :  10.1111/csp2.123

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract The world faces serious environmental problems. To solve them we must work together. Fortunately, humans are a very cooperative species. We have faced a range of cooperative problems in the past, and have evolved and invented a range of cooperative solutions to them—kin altruism, mutualism, reciprocity, heroism, deference, fairness, and property rights. Here, we illustrate how each of these solutions can be pressed into the service of conservation goals. Unlocking this potential will require overcoming conservationists' current cycloptic focus on only one type of cooperative problem (the prisoner's dilemma) and one type of solution (reciprocity). Only then will policy makers be able draw on the full range of cooperative dispositions and design more systematic and effective environmental interventions.

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