The model used to explain why communities may over-exploit shared environmental resources even when they know that it may be against their long-term interests is known as

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The "tragedy of the commons" is a concept that explains how individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one's self-interest, behave contrary to the whole group's long-term best interests by depleting a common resource.

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