This paper examines the problem of distributed resource allocation in different models of computation and communication in distributed systems, and presents a number of time optimal (randomized and deterministic) allocation algorithms. We consider the dining drinking philosophers problem as presented in [B. Awerbuch and M. Saks, in ``FOCS,'' pp. 65 74. IEEE, New York, 1990]. In the algorithm pr...

Sustainability has become a key issue in managing natural resources together with growing concerns for capitalism, environmental and resource problems. We hypothesize that the ongoing modernization of competitive societies, which we refer to as "capitalism," affects human nature for utilizing common pool resources, thus compromising sustainability. To test this hypothesis, we design and impleme...

Pastoralism faces changes in Nigeria and Niger. This raised the call for interrogating two countries’ stewardship of pastoral resources. The objectives this study were to examine state resources make comparison on how legal institutional, frameworks determine access these drylands Niger Nigeria. Cropland, land under permanent meadows pasture forests lands data 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 2020 ...

In 1985, the National Academy of Sciences sponsored a conference in Annapolis, Maryland, to discuss common property resource management. This conference was a watershed in the development of the theoretical underpinning of institutional design for successful common pool resource (CPR) management. Since then, an international network of over 2,000 researchers has developed, and the International...