Individual choice behaviour in the use of common-property recreation resources: effects of motivational orientation and multiple resource options
Loomis, D.K.
General Technical Report Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service ( NE-145): 27-33
1990
Document Number: 624275
Many outdoor recreation activities are dependent on common-property resources. An experiment was conducted in which subjects having different motivational orientations harvested from a resource pool with two resources, each being of different value and being depleted at different rates. Results showed that individualistic subjects requested more high valued resources and fewer low valued resources than did cooperative subjects, and that in general, subjects shifted their harvest attention from the less plentiful (although more valuable) resource to the more plentiful resource as depletion occurred.