Conflict and Renewable Resources

Bibliographic Data

ID6286008
AuthorsRafael Reuveny (Indiana University), John W Maxwell (0000-0002-5987-578X, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University)
Year2001
Volume45
Issue6
Pages719-742
Publication date2001-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022002701045006002
OpenAlexW1986147022
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited34

The economic literature on conflict employs a static, game-theoretic framework developed by Jack Hirshleifer. The authors introduce conflict dynamics into a model with two rival groups, each dependent on a single contested renewable resource. The model is based on two stylized facts: conflict often arises over scarce renewable resources, and those resources often lack well-defined and/or enforceable property rights. In each period, groups allocate their members between resource harvesting and resource appropriation (or conflict) to maximize their income. This leads to a complex nonlinear dynamic interaction between conflict, the two populations, and the resource. As developed, the model relates most closely to conflict over renewable resources in primitive societies. The system's global dynamics are investigated in simulations calibrated for the historical society of Easter Island. The model's implications for contemporary lesser developed societies are examined

Appropriation · Economic system · Economics · Environmental economics · Game theory · Microeconomics · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Non-renewable resource · Political science · Property rights · Renewable energy · Renewable resource · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · Stylized fact · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Computer Science · Ecology · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

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