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Evolution of global cooperation driven by risks.

Jinming Du¹, Bin Wu, Long Wang

¹Center for Systems and Control, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China. jmdu@pku.edu.cn

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Global risks from threshold public goods games effectively promote worldwide cooperation in environmental investments and emissions reduction. This study shows global cooperation strategies are more successful in threshold games than standard ones.

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Area of Science:

Evolutionary game theory
Environmental economics
Social dilemma research

Background:

Globalization exacerbates environmental problems like resource overharvesting and climate change.
Addressing these global challenges necessitates worldwide cooperation to mitigate risks from extreme events.
Threshold public goods games model scenarios where collective contributions must meet a minimum target to avoid collective loss.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the evolutionary dynamics of global cooperation in threshold public goods games.
To compare the success of global cooperation strategies in threshold games versus standard public goods games.
To determine the impact of disaster probability on the evolution of global cooperation.

Main Methods:

Modeling multilevel public goods games with defectors, local cooperators, and global cooperators.
Analyzing the evolutionary process and stationary distribution of strategies.
Examining the fixation time of the global cooperation strategy under varying disaster probabilities.

Main Results:

Global cooperation strategies achieve a larger proportion in the stationary distribution of threshold public goods games compared to standard public goods games.
The fixation time for the global cooperation strategy is significantly reduced as the probability of disaster increases.
Threshold mechanisms effectively promote the evolution of global cooperation.

Conclusions:

Threshold public goods games provide a framework for understanding and promoting global cooperation on environmental issues.
Global risks, when structured within a threshold mechanism, can incentivize collective action for environmental investment and emissions reduction.
The findings highlight the potential of game theory models to inform strategies for tackling global environmental challenges.