Platforms, Scales and Networks: Meshing a Local Sustainable Sharing Economy

Four Models of Sharing Economy Platforms

In less than a decade, sharing economy platforms have fostered competition and redefined industry boundaries in a range of businesses. Two sharing economy pioneers—Uber and Airbnb—are now well-known global giants and leading players in the sector, which is estimated to reach $335 billion by 2025.3 At the other end of the spectrum are small startups focusing on different niches; several hundreds...

On the Efficiency of Sharing Economy Networks

We consider a sharing economy network where agents embedded in a graph share their resources. This is a fundamental model that abstracts numerous emerging applications of collaborative consumption systems. The agents generate a random amount of spare resource that they can exchange with their one-hop neighbors, seeking to maximize the amount of desirable resource items they receive in the long ...

Recycling Economy and Sustainable Development

Economic development is the main theme of social progress. By recalling the economic development, the necessity and inevitability of sustainable development is fully demonstrated. With the acceleration of economic globalization, the influence for sustainable development is increasing. There is a complex opposite and united relationship between economic globalization and sustainable development....

State Hegemony and Sustainable Development: A Political Economy Analysis of Two Local Experiences in Turkey

A Longitudinal Study of Local, Sustainable, Small-Scale Cellular Networks

There are more than six billion active cellular subscribers, and they spend more than $1 trillion a year on communications. Despite this, hundreds of millions remain unconnected. One reason for this gap is the top-down nature of traditional networks, with large telecommunications arms deciding where coverage is to be available. This is enforced by the large capital investment required for cellu...