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Investigate how interactions among coupled environmental, social, and economic subsystems influence sustainability and drive emergent cooperative behaviors under resource scarcity.

August 19, 2026Social SciencesOpen Access

Emergent Cooperation in Socio-Ecological Systems Under Resource Scarcity: An Agent-Based Analysis of Sustainability

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Investigate how interactions among coupled environmental, social, and economic subsystems influence sustainability and drive emergent cooperative behaviors under resource scarcity.
Constructed an agent-based simulation model to capture the dynamic interactions among heterogeneous agents within coupled environmental, social, and economic subsystems.
Resource scarcity reinforces non-cooperative behaviors, producing lock-in dynamics that obstruct transitions toward sustainable socio-ecological states.
Cooperative behaviors emerge from interactions among heterogeneous agents across subsystems, acting as a crucial mechanism that connects socio-economic and ecological domains to foster sustainability.

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Simulation study reveals resource scarcity promotes non-cooperative lock-in dynamics in socio-ecological systems, highlighting emergent cooperation as vital for sustainability.

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Suárez et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8563fe03308d306e2d76df https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci15080554

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Simulation study reveals resource scarcity promotes non-cooperative lock-in dynamics in socio-ecological systems, highlighting emergent cooperation as vital for sustainability.

Emergent Cooperation in Socio-Ecological Systems Under Resource Scarcity: An Agent-Based Analysis of Sustainability

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Emergent Cooperation in Socio-Ecological Systems Under Resource Scarcity: An Agent-Based Analysis of Sustainability

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