Question

Woodcrafters in Maine eagerly seek out a hardwood that can only be harvested by hand, so the individual crafters cut their own wood on public land. The wood replaces itself, but it takes about 25 years for a tree to grow to maturity. About 25 percent of the adult trees need to remain in the forest at any time in order to generate and fertilize seed trees. Any given woodcrafter will, of course, profit from taking as much of the hardwood as possible, but the group as a whole benefits from a calculated, slow use of the trees. In social-psychological terms, this situation is referred to as a __________ dilemma.

Answer 1

Answer:

Replenishing resource management.

Explanation:

A replenishing resource management dilemma is, as the exercise exemplifies, a problem in which a group shares a renewable resource (such as trees) that will continue to benefit the group as long as it's not  exploited but in which anyone in that group will benefit from taking as much as possible.

Just as  the example details, if they take a lot ot wood the woodcrafters will be beneficiated but, if they do so, they may not have enough wood for later given that the trees will not grow as much. That's the replenishing resource management dilemma.