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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"consensus-building"”.
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Consensus building in distributed design discussions
… perspectives, but my PhD dissertation brings consensus building as a new theoretical lens to study and support decision making in design discussions. This has allowed my work to make three contributions. First I contribute empirical knowledge showing that nearly half of the discussions do not …
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Consensus-building in electric utility regulation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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The contribution of consensus building workshops to regional planning in Lake Tahoe
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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Planning for the reuse of closing military bases : the need for consensus building
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Strategic policy approaches to technological development for sustainability : the role of consensus building and experimentation
… can best be achieved through the use of consensus building strategies which can help promote legitimacy, development of institutional relationships, and learning. In recognition of this, an additional strategy is proposed for government - creating a forum for effective interaction to test …
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Spatial consensus-building through access to web-based GIS : an online planning tool for Leipzig
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Development of a novel consensus-building methodology to design valid simulation-based medical education-supporting technologies
… this, we have engineered a constraints-ideation-consensus approach based on the design-based research framework to design valid simulation-supporting technologies and have applied it to two tests cases to demonstrate how it could work, highlight strengths and weaknesses, and propose next steps.
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The politics of consensus-building : case study of diesel vehicles and urban air pollution in South Korea
… resolution prescribed by Western scholars of consensus-building theory and practice. The first two cases did not resolve the disputes. even though they produced a consensus agreement through deliberation. The agreements were challenged and adjusted through regulatory processes. This type of …
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The News Media, Environmental Collaborations and Accountability: A survey of the EPA's Roster of Environmental Conflict Resolution and Consensus Building Professionals
… Roster of Environmental Conflict Resolution and Consensus Building Professionals. The study asked about the impact of the media on environmental collaborations, but the major finding actually concerned the significant impact that the process of collaboration has had on the press and its role in …
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Localizing public dispute resolution in Japan : lessons from experiments with deliberative policy-making
Can consensus building processes, as practiced in the US, be used to resolve infrastructure disputes in Japan? Since the 1990s, proposals to construct highways, dams, ports and airports, railways, as well as to redevelop neighborhoods, have been opposed by a wide range of stakeholders. In response, …
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Leadership Emergence and Gender Roles: A Contextual Examination
… four members. Groups were randomly assigned to a consensus building or initiating structure task condition. Hypothesis one, which predicted that feminine-intelligent individuals would emerge more than masculine-intelligent or mixed personality pattern individuals in the consensus building task …
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Trading zones : cooperating for water resource and ecosystem management when stakeholders have apparently irreconcilable differences
… attempts to understand why stakeholders in some consensus building processes were able to generate and agree on specific solutions while in other they were not. Two extended disputes about how to manage regional water resources in California and Florida are the focus of this inquiry. In each …
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Between remembrance and rebuilding : developing a consensus process for memorialization at the World Trade Center
… that claim a stake in the memorialization and rebuilding of the World Trade Center site. During the first several months following the terrorist strikes, the absence of an inclusive decision-making process for remembrance and rebuilding at the World Trade Center site produced conflicts between …
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An Architecture for Blockchain-based Collaborative Signature-based Intrusion Detection System
… data from multiple sites, trust management and consensus building remain as challenges for a CIDS to work effectively. The blockchain technology with built-in immutability and consensus building capability provides a viable solution to the issues of CIDS. In this paper, we introduce an …
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Gentrification through Public Participation? Acceptance and Resistance in Calgary’s Inner Suburbs
… has critiqued the exclusionary nature of consensus-building and collaboration in urban planning processes, but there is little connection in the literature between those processes and gentrification. This research bridges this gap by explaining how consensus-building and collaboration …
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Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to aid in siting dredged material disposal areas
… lack of a holistic view, and inadequate consensus building among stakeholders. The use of an interactive Geographic Information System (GIS) approach to site dredged material disposal areas is seen as a way of updating and improving current site selection methodologies. There were three …
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Developing and testing integrated decision support models for coastal management
… relative to targeting recommendations, a consensus based selection of optimal contingency management strategies. In the thesis, a multi-level decision support model has been subsequently tested in different case studies like re-examinations of the Prestige or the Pallas accident. The …
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Knowledge convergence in collaborative concept mapping among radiographic physics undergraduates
… was also found that the more conflict-oriented consensus building an individual engaged in, the less similar his or her second map was to the other members'. Learners' interaction patterns and strategies, the interaction between their actions on the map and their language, and the roles that the …
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Toward a more deliberative port planning : the "vision and daring" of environmental NGOs in negotiations on the Second Maasvlakte, Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands
… 2), as a case study of mutual gains-oriented consensus building and interactive problem solving. After years of formal negotiations between a broad range of local, regional, and national stakeholders, the project planning came to an impasse when environmental organizations and port expansion …
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Bikebump : collective urban design
… are not designed to encourage debate and consensus building. This study will consider how a structured integrated tool will help the process of grassroots urban design. This thesis will focus on the development of a bottom-up, crowd-sourced, urban planning tool to improve the quality and …
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