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From: Sustainability is possible despite greed - Exploring the nexus between profitability and sustainability in common pool resource systems

Figure 5

The influence of cost on resource dynamics and the ability to harvest profitably and sustainably. (a) A CPRG setup with cost c = 0.2; almost any action becomes profitable, but only a subset of actions is sustainable. Agents will not be able to distinguish between the two anymore and start overharvesting. (b) A CPRG setup with cost c = 0.8; the set of actions that are both profitable and sustainable becomes very small. Agents will not be able to make profits as they need to maintain the resource at a high level.

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