Forest owners as political actors

Building New Political Actors A Model for the Emergence of New Political Actors

The question of the aggregation and disaggregation of political actors is essential for the understanding of the future of global politics, both in terms of international security affairs and international political economy. A model based upon tribute is presented to show how new political actors can emerge from an aggregation of smaller political actors. The tribute model provides an existence...

Interactive Forest Planning with NIPF Owners

The participants of non-industrial private forest (NIPF) planning typically include the forest owner and the planning consultant. The computer interface of the forest planning software may also be seen as a participant that quickly answers computational questions related to the production of the forest. When additional human participants are involved the process may be called participatory plan...

Family forest owners and federal taxes

a USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, P.O. Box 12254, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2254, USA b USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 160 Holdsworth Way, Amherst, MA 01003-9285, USA c Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, 160 Holdsworth Way, Amherst, MA 01003-9285, USA d Family Forest Research Center, University of Massachusetts, 160 Hol...

Rational Actors , Political Argument , and Democratic Deliberation

Mixing Metaphors: Actors as Channels and Channels as Actors

Channeland actor-based programming languages are both used in practice, but the two are often confused. Languages such as Go provide anonymous processes which communicate using buffers or rendezvous points—known as channels—while languages such as Erlang provide addressable processes—known as actors—each with a single incoming message queue. The lack of a common representation makes it difficul...