Thesis (Ph. D.)--Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1994. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 309-336).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universitat, Munster, 2004. / Title from e-book title screen (viewed January 2, 2008). Includes bibliographical references.

Undergraduate honors paper--Mount Holyoke College, 2006. Dept. of Mathematics . / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-117).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Jena, 2006. / Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 190-201). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1986. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 257-265). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1984. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-155). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

This thesis studies the planning and negotiation process engaged in the conceptualization and initial stages of Vancouver's waterfront urban renewal project Concord Pacific Place at the False Creek North waterfront, Vancouver. Numerous articles have devoted attention to the physical form of this urban renewal development. However current discourse on Concord Pacific Place overlooks the planning and negotiation process, which has been integral to its urban renewal success. It is for this reason that my thesis sets out to study the planning and negotiation process in an effort to offer a new perspective on Concord Pacific. To contextualize the development of Concord Pacific Place over the two decades between 1987 and 2007, this thesis surveys the introduction of high-rises in the city of Vancouver, looking at the city's apartment typology prior to the redevelopment of False Creek North, a brief history of Expo 86 and the planning and negotiation process behind B.C. Place, as well as the planning and negotiation process that has transformed the former Expo land into the master-planned urban neighbourhood at Concord Pacific Place. This thesis also identifies the results of the planning and negotiation process that have contributed to the False Creek North development. The material gathered includes a collection of historical and background information on the transformation of the City of Vancouver in general and in particular the False Creek North site found in published accounts, consultation of the archives of Concord Pacific, and interviews with key players involved with the development of Concord Pacific Place. City planning officials were also consulted on issues pertaining to the basic planning principles of the City of Vancouver as well as the decision-making process involving City planners and developers. This research highlights the importance of the relationship between the City planners and the developer as well as participation from the public throughout the planning and development stages of the Concord Pacific Place development. It points out specific initiatives that were established as a result of this megaproject, the main challenges and limitation encountered with the process. It also identifies lessons learned at the end of the journey. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate

As population pressures rise there are associated increases in development, resource use, competition and environmental threats. These increases, contribute to the intensification of conflict within the coastal zone. Dispute resolution techniques must be incorporated into the management of coastal resources. Negotiation use is one means of dispute resolution. The goal of this thesis is to establish whether and how negotiation is used in coastal zone management. Two bodies of literature were reviewed. Literature on North American coastal zone management was examined to characterize management approaches with particular reference to the FREMP and the PSWQA. Literature on negotiation was reviewed to develop a framework for analyzing the use of negotiation in resolving coastal zone management conflicts. The FREMP and PSWQA provide two case studies for examining the use of negotiation in resolving coastal zone management conflicts. In each case, two comparable decision-making bodies were examined: the FREMP Management Committee Executive (MCE) and the Standing Committee on the Water Quality Plan (WQSC) and the PSWQA Authority Board (AB) and Point Source Committee (PSC). Data on the use of negotiation were collected by telephone interviews with people involved in each of the four decision-making processes. The management areas of the Fraser River Estuary and the Puget Sound are comparable in that both are located in the Pacific Northwest of North America with similar climates and natural resources, and are experiencing growing population and development pressures. The management processes differ in the scale of areas covered (estuary versus basin), the size of the populations (the Fraser Estuary is half the population of Puget Sound) and the approach to coastal zone management (coordinator versus player; smaller versus larger budgets; lesser versus greater public involvement). There is no use of "explicit" negotiation in the four decision-making processes examined in the case studies. “Explicit" negotiation use is identified when there is explicit expression of the use of negotiation in the decision-making. "Implicit" negotiation is identified when people make trade-offs to adopt an agreement without explicitly expressing they are doing so (Dorcey and Riek, 1987), and is routinely used in all four decision-making situations. There is no use of any outside third party assistance such as mediators or facilitators in the negotiations; however, the FREMP Programs Coordinator facilitates the MCE negotiations and the PSWQA AB chair mediates the Board meetings. The implicit negotiations of the FREMP and the PSWQA exhibited a high degree of "structure" with the greatest extent in the PSWQA. "Structured" negotiations are identified as negotiations that actively seek to reach agreement by incorporating structure into the decision-making process through: the utilization of preparatory techniques, opportunity for the representation of affected interests, the utilization of explicit agreement criteria, some means to commit to the agreed-upon actions. Future coastal zone management should recognize the “implicit" use of negotiation since it is used so extensively within coastal zone management and evaluate the contribution of "implicit" negotiation in coastal zone management. Finally, consideration must be given to making the use of negotiation in coastal zone management "explicit" so that means are actively sought to resolve coastal resource use conflicts. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate

This study was concerned with (i) experiential factors which affect the development of trust and suspicion, and (ii) the effects of trust and suspicion upon bargaining and, negotiations. Essentially, the experiment consisted of an orthogonal 2x2x3 factorial design with one control group. Altogether, 112 male undergraduates comprised the final sample. Particular emphasis was placed upon developing an approach that could overcome some of the methodological problems that have been inherent in previous attempts to study trust and suspicion. To this end, the experiment was designed to allow (on the basis of the observation of the subjects' responses) valid inferences, about trust and suspicion. For example, subjective trust and suspicion were distinguished from manifest trust and suspicion, and were measured on the basis of responses related to a one-trial sequentially-played game. Moreover, the game involved a payoff matrix that was meaningful to the subjects insofar as it was possible for the subjects to incur real losses of their own money apparently as a result of the untrustworthy behavior of one of the other subjects. With respect to the development of trust and suspicion as a function of previous experience, it was found that: (1) previous trustworthiness engendered trust whereas previous untrustworthiness generated suspicion; (2) suspicion was established more easily than trust; however, (3) where previously the incentive to betray had been high, trust was greater especially if the other person (0) had resisted the lucrative temptation to betray. Of methodological interest was a related finding that the tendency to manifest trust or suspicion was closely related to the underlying (subjective) state of trust or suspicion. The nature of this relationship in terms of certainty and uncertainty was, however, more clear-cut for those who manifested suspicion than for those who manifested trust. While the former were certain that 0 would be untrustworthy, the latter manifested trust toward 0 even though they were uncertain as to whether 0 would be trustworthy or not. In the second part of the study, both trust and suspicion were found to be important in influencing bargaining and negotiations in a number of respects. With regard to the duration of bargaining, the trust group required less time to reach agreements than did the suspicion group. Several reasons for this finding were evident. First, subjects in the suspicion group made initial offers that were more extreme than the initial offers made by the subjects in the trust group. Secondly, subjects in the suspicion group appeared to be more concerned with the objective of modifying each other's utilities. This was reflected in the finding that the communications of the suspicion group (compared with the trust group) were characterized more by lies, threats, and ultimatums, and less by genuine and sincere attempts to exchange information; also, subjects in the suspicion group made more checks on each other and made more refusals to bargain that did the subjects in the trust group. In relation to the nature (location) of the solution, trust and suspicion appeared to have no overall effect upon whether settlements were made at equality or equity. There was, however, a prevalence of settlements at equality (regardless of whether trust or suspicion was operating). The interesting feature about this result was that the equality that was obtained in a context of suspicion was hard-earned over a prolonged period of time, whereas the equality that was agreed upon in the context of trust was relatively easily achieved. It was therefore concluded that even if the nature of the solution were not affected by suspicion, bargaining under a certain amount of trust would be preferable to bargaining under a high degree of suspicion; for under extreme suspicion, task-oriented behavior becomes easily disrupted and reduced to time-consuming conflict. / Arts, Faculty of / Psychology, Department of / Graduate