This study examined the effects of communication mode, both face-to-face (FTF) and computer-mediated communication (CMC), and polling on cooperation in a commons dilemma. Sixty-seven six-person groups used FISH, a computer program that uses a fishing metaphor to simulate a commons dilemma. Next, groups had a 10-minute discussion period, either FTF or via CMC, in which they devised a strategy for the second FISH session. Groups were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: FTF, no-poll CMC, end-poll CMC, and two-poll CMC. The polls allowed members to determine others' intended behavior, thus enhancing perceived consensus. Finally, groups used the FISH program again. Results indicted that experimental condition influenced consensus, with end-poll CMC groups reaching consensus most often, followed by FTF, two-poll CMC, and no-poll CMC groups. However, groups did not differ across experimental condition on resource pool sustainability or group profit. FTF groups were more satisfied with group performance than no-poll CMC groups and two-poll CMC and FTF groups had similar levels of satisfaction. The strategy the group decided to implement in the second FISH session had a significant effect on group profit but not resource pool sustainability. Thus, the harvest strategy implemented by the group may have been a stronger predictor of performance than experimental condition.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2002. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-79). Also available online.

Changes in demogaphics, employment and shopping habits, triggered by urbanisation and increasing mobility are important factors influencing Swedish countryside. Answering the changing conditions is especially important in the northermost counties, with very low population density and large distances between settlements. Within the peripheries of V.sterbotten the availability of basic social and commercial services is decreasing, as the economic viability of such businesses is too low and the former commercial model became unsustainable. Most of the service functions are associated to local grocery stores, and when one is forced to close down, the village loses not only its access to basic services, but most of all a meeting point for the community. The supply of food and errands is not a problem for the inhabitants, but the need for social activities and access to a neutral ground to meet the neighbours remains unresolved. This thesis is investigating possible alternatives and proposing new models of hybrid service centres for rural communities of V.sterbotten, that are capable of uplifting the countryside by focusing on the most important aspect: the people.

With thoughts about questioneing ownership and the protection of design, I want with my bachelorproject “kopimi-kopiyu” try finding different paths for my work and ideas. In a world that is being more and more regulated in favour for the bigger companies, I want to act and create among alternatives forces such as Creative Commons and Open-Source.With Internet as a starting plattform, I want to communicate my ideas that we can consume our products in different ways. Such a way could be that you produce some of the parts yourself. Maybe a way that also will lead you away from your daily “empty consumtion” of goods.Some of my projects tend to lean into the field of do-it-yourself, a field I find fullfilling. My idea about the “D.I.Y” is that we should also have more do-it-together. A way of doing more things together could be that we open up our wood workshops in the public schools during the weekends. They could function as a platform for people to meet other people. My work could then act as a catalyser bringing people and ideas together.With the spreading of my design and the knowledge about the tools I use, I believe in a society that is less focused on money and more focused about people.Nothing is carved in stone (except runic writing) - anything is possible if we want to change.

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This study emerged from the author's work in a food commons in industrial East Vancouver. It began from a curiosity about how place impacts who we are. By employing a process oriented research design the study evolved to ask: How may participation in the Purple Thistle's food commons influence people's engagement in the urban landscape? The findings challenge modern notions of property and urban design, and highlight a vision of the urban impossible (Chatterton, 2009) that could catalyze communities to uphold their democratic right to the city. Entering through an open, process oriented, and trust centered organizational structure, participants' experiences in the Purple Thistle garden led them to new ways of experiencing (in)dependence and trust. This had implications for the way they saw the world around them, and the way they engaged in the built environment.

Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 29-34). Also available via Humboldt Digital Scholar.

Univ., Diss.?--Uppsala, 2000. / Literaturangaben.

Thesis (M.Sc.(Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Abstract in English. Includes bibliographical references.

Inaug.-Diss.--Marburg. / Lebenslauf. Chap. I and II only of his "Rechtsgeschichte und recht der gemeinen marken in Hessen. I. t. Die hessische markgenossenschaft des späteren mittelalters," pub. in "Arbeiten zum handels-, gewerbe- und landwirt-schaftsrecht," nr. 3, Marburg, 1909. (viii, 260 p.). "Verzeichnis häufiger und abgekürzt angeführter schriften": p.[v]-vii.