Climate change and game theory

Date

Dec 21, 2011

Time

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Speaker

Complex Systems Reading Group

Language

en

Main Topic

Physik

Other Topics

Physik, Mathematik, Umwelt

Host

Steven Lade

Description

After last meeting's review paper on climate change and game theory, we this time focus on a paper (Heitzig et al.) that provides a specific result on the viability of strategies to deter free-riding in public good games, of which the climate change mitigation game is one example. According to the commentary by Dietz, this work "falls clearly [into] 'Pasteur's Quadrant' — like the work of Louis Pasteur, it contributes to fundamental knowledge and is clearly useful." Reading: T. Dietz and J. Zhao Paths to climate cooperation PNAS 108 15671-15672 (2011) http://www.pnas.org/content/108/38/15671.extract J. Heitzig et al. Self-enforcing strategies to deter free-riding in the climate change mitigation game and other repeated public good games PNAS 108 15739-15744 (2011) http://www.pnas.org/content/108/38/15739.abstract The discussion is informal and anyone interested is welcome to join. For more informations, see: http://planet.pks.mpg.de/wiki/ReadingGroup Feel free to make suggestions for future topics.

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