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Björn Vollan
Researcher at University of Marburg
Publications - 63
Citations - 1553
Björn Vollan is an academic researcher from University of Marburg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Collective action & Common-pool resource. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 53 publications receiving 1343 citations. Previous affiliations of Björn Vollan include Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology & University of Hamburg.
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Socio-ecological explanations for crowding-out effects from economic field experiments in southern Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a framed field experiment on joint extraction from a common-pool resource (CPR) where the crowding-out effect has already been reported before in combination with the trust game carried out in farming communities of Namibia and South Africa to replicate these conditions.
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Resource scarcity and antisocial behavior
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine whether exposure to persistent resource scarcity on the commons affects pastoralists' readiness to engage in antisocial behavior towards their fellow commons users and find that conflict behavior occurs twice as often in an area where resources are scarcer and competitive pressure is higher.
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Cooperation and the Commons
Björn Vollan,Elinor Ostrom +1 more
TL;DR: In an innovative study of Ethiopia's Oromo people, Rustagi et al. use economic experiments and forest growth data to show that groups that had a higher proportion of “conditional cooperators” were more likely to invest in forest patrols aimed at enforcing firewood collection rules—and had more productive forests.
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The challenge of understanding decisions in experimental studies of common pool resource governance
John M. Anderies,Marco A. Janssen,François Bousquet,Juan Camillo Cardenas,Daniel Castillo,Maria Claudio Lopez,Robert Tobias,Björn Vollan,Amber Wutich +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address methodological and ethical challenges in the process of extracting more information from participants and the contexts in which they interact, and propose a framework to extract more information that provides insight concerning why people make the decisions they make.
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Networks and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
Adam Douglas Henry,Björn Vollan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider how structural properties of networks relate to sustainability outcomes, how networks evolve over time, and how institutional context influences this evolutionary process and propose strategies to promote patterns of social interaction that support sustainability.