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Responsibility for Eco-systems and problems of social traps and dilemmas

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Hans Lenk corresponding author

Abstract

Responsibility is a function of power, impact and knowledge. The more strategically central one's position is in terms of power, influence and knowledge, the higher his or her responsibility would be. This is an idea which can be worked out in more detail by using distributive models of graph theory and pre-distribution assignments of rights and duties according to different levels. 

Keywords
Eco-systems, social traps and dilemmas

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Lenk, H. (2019). Responsibility for Eco-systems and problems of social traps and dilemmas. Resources and Environmental Economics, 1(1), 7-15. https://doi.org/10.25082/REE.2019.01.002

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