Research around the free-rider problem when the resource is taken away?
This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but your question reminds me of the work of Elinor Ostrom, who (along with Oliver Williamson) won the Nobel in Economics for her work on what academics in the field call 'the commons'.

Here's a good place to start reading about her work. Check under 'Popular Information' and 'Advanced Information' in particular for details about her work.