Common Pool Resources and Microcredit: Cooperation and Reciprocity to Achieve Social Justice and Local Environmental Protection

Sustainable development will not succeed until economic activity takes into consideration its impact on human well-being and happiness, and on the environment of our planet. Indeed, resource sustainability has become a key issue of a growing concern in relation to capitalism and the global market economy, especially regarding the climate change trends and the depletion of the world’s forest (Timilsina, Kotani and Kamijo, 2017)