La governance dei beni comuni in un epoca di incertezza: il ruolo dei comportamenti e dell'informazione

Effective irrigation water governance is crucial to address the future and sustainability of food systems. Limits to the governance of water resources for primary production are becoming more evident and complexity, uncertainty and human dimensions are receiving more consideration. To address these phenomena community level and collective actions issues are emerging as the most appropriate domains of analysis. In fact successful management of a shared resource largely depends on coordinated action at individual level that will reduce sector vulnerability at macro level. But cooperation can be at stake when unpredictable and rapid changes occur, thus undermining the capacity of community resiliency and adaptation. Despite the literature there is still lack of understanding concerning successful and constrains factors enabling cooperation under water changing conditions. To contribute the debate on how cooperative behaviours are affected by uncertainty and dig deeper in socio-ecological systems interactions, we propose an agent-based model integrating water resource uncertainty, cognitive processes and social behaviours into decision-making. We identify experience, access to information, reciprocity and network as factors supporting cooperative behaviours of resource users under water changing conditions.