In this chapter, we outline a project which traces its source of inspiration back to the grand visions of Vannevar Bush (scholarly trails of linked concepts), Doug Engelbart (highly interactive intellectual tools, particularly for argumentation), and Ted Nelson (large scale internet publishing with recognised intellectual property). In essence, we are tackling the age-old question of how to org...

CAPRi Working Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that most Working Papers will eventually be published in some other form, and that their content may also be revised. THE EFFECTS OF SCALES, FLOWS AND FILTERS ON PROPERTY RIGHTS AND COLLECTIVE ACTION IN WATER...

INTRODUCTION The relationship between growth in population and consumption and common-pool resources, particularly those that are governed under common-property institutions, has been the subject of lively academic debate. Researchers have long dwelled upon the global demographic transition and its effect on land-tenure and inheritance practices in different regions of the world. Boserup postul...

collective behavior is regarded as one of the main issues in contemporary political sociology, a social phenomenon that has long challenged political systems. the purpose of this paper is to study the factors affecting the tendency of the students of shiraz toward collective behavior. to explain collective behavior, we have used neil smelser’s theoretical framework and from the structural-funct...

A collective-risk social dilemma implies that personal endowments will be lost if contributions to the common pool within a group are too small. Failure to reach the collective target thus has dire consequences for all group members, independently of their strategies. Wanting to move away from unfavorable locations is therefore anything but surprising. Inspired by these observations, we here pr...

We study the construction of the collective-coordinate manifold in the baryon number two sector of the Skyrme model. To that end we use techniques of adiabatic large amplitude collective motion, which treat potential and kinetic energy on an equal footing. In this paper the starting point is the Ansatz proposed by Atiyah and Manton (Phys. Lett. 438B, 222 (1989)), which allows a study of the dyn...

The fluctuation-dissipation theorem relates the thermal noise spectrum of a conductor to its linear response properties, with the ohmic resistance arising from the electron scattering being the most notable linear response property. But the linear response also includes the collective inertial acceleration of electrons, which should in principle influence the thermal noise spectrum as well. In ...

The relationship between socio-economic heterogeneity and distributional implications of community-based resource management is becoming a growing concern in issues of local level collective action. This study tries to examine the contested role of heterogeneity and equity of resource distribution in community-based property rights regimes in reference to community-based forest management in Ne...