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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"tragedy of the commons"”.
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A CONFUCIAN ROLE ETHICS APPROACH TO THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
This thesis defends a Confucian Role Ethics (CRE) approach to the Tragedy of the Commons (TOC). While technical and legislative approaches are necessary, a more comprehensive and enduring solution would require addressing the TOC as a moral problem. Instead of operating with Hardin’s assumed …
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Teacher-Centered Design in Educational Games: Iterative Improvements to the Tragedy of the Commons pSim Dashboard
Teaching tools such as the Tragedy of the Commons (ToC) participatory simulation, developed by MIT STEP Lab, have the potential to develop different skills or knowledge compared to single-player educational games. ToC illustrates the challenges of managing shared resources, but its existing teacher …
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A 'paradox of the Commons'? : The planning and everyday management of Green Point Park
Cape Town's Green Point Park is a legacy of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, built on the then dilapidated, former Common. Initially heavily contested, it is now a beautiful, popular, and well-used public space that attracts diverse people from all over the city. The thesis narrates its paradoxical story …
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SOCIAL NORMS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: INVESTIGATING CLIMATE INACTION
… problem with well-understood solutions. Why, then, has there been so little effective climate change mitigation action? In this dissertation, I conceptualize climate change as a social, rather than a physical, problem and investigate possible reasons for climate inaction in three different …
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Implications of a Universal Healthcare System in the United States: Why Individual Health Is Now of National Concern
In 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law. This paper explores the implications of these new healthcare policies in the United States, given that a universal healthcare system has already being put in place. More specifically, it explores the question "Does …
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Environmental Stress Can Favor Cooperation by Triggering an Adaptive Race Between Cooperators and Cheaters
Resolving the apparent paradox of the almost universal success of cooperation despite its vulnerability to cheating has been the focus of decades of theoretical and experimental research. Cooperators pay a cost to produce common goods that can be used by any individual, including cheaters. Cheaters …
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Market-based airport demand management : theory, model and applications
The ever-increasing demand for access to the world's major commercial airports combined with capacity constraints at many of these airports have led to increasing air traffic congestion. In particular, the scarcity of airside (take-off and landing) capacity at these airports has not been …
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The Relation of Patent Law and Wildlife Conservation Law in the United States
The existence of U.S. patents issued on inventions made using wildlife specimens presents legal, economic, policy, and resource management questions. The relation of patent law to wildlife conservation law is central to answering these questions. Patent law is designed to foster technological …
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A study of corruption in transition countries
Past theoretical research has explored whether bribes paid by firms to government officials are greater under a decentralized bureaucracy where the firm faces numerous government officials or under a monopolistic one. Presumably, bribes are bid down in the former as officials compete for bribes. …
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Co-operative or investor owned: how does the structure of the electric wind energy firm influence the effects of wind energy development on community development?
… has consistently grown at a rapid pace over the last decade, doubling in total installed wind energy capacity roughly every two and a half years. Community and economic development externalities of wind energy development are presumed to contribute to community wellbeing through market-based …
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Local institutions in common property resources: a case study of community-based watershed management in Northern Thailand
The influence of the Tragedy of the Commons (Hardin, 1968) polarizes policy on common property resources into bimodal prescriptions--the state on the one hand and the market on the other. This study of community-based watershed management (CBWM) in Northern Thailand examines local institutions as …
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Behaviour in Common-Pool Resource games: investigating decision-making towards conservation and environmental issues
Hardin’s (1968) ‘Tragedy of the commons’, various fields, including economics, social sciences, conservation and environmental sciences have invested a great amount of effort to identify the characteristics that allow groups of individuals to administer and organise the use of common resources. The …
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The Evolution of Symbiosis in Communities
All organisms host a menagerie of symbionts. While harmful pathogens have historically held the attention of researchers, recent technological advances have revealed a cornucopia of benign, and even beneficial, symbionts. Observations that most organisms are party to a wide variety of harmless …
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Essays in credit markets and development economics
… Ali Choudhary) exploits exogenous variation in the amount of public information available to banks about a firm to empirically evaluate the importance of adverse selection in the credit market. A 2006 reform introduced by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reduced the amount of public information …
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An ethical assessment of waste management at the Great East Road Campus of the University of Zambia
The aim of this study was an ethical assessment of waste management on the Great East Road campus of the University of Zambia and to assess if there was a formal waste management strategy on the campus to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the campus holistic ecosystem. The objectives …
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An ethical assessment of waste management at the Great East Road Campus of the University of Zambia
The aim of this study was an ethical assessment of waste management on the Great East Road campus of the University of Zambia and to assess if there was a formal waste management strategy on the campus to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the campus holistic ecosystem. The objectives …
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Understanding the eco-evolutionary dynamics underpinning changes in air-liquid interface biofilms in radiating populations and multi-species communities
… to study evolutionary and ecological dynamics of bacterial populations, where metabolic activity produces a heterogenous environment with a low-O2 region in the liquid column, and a high-O2 region directly below the air-liquid (A-L) interface. This system has been used to study adaptive …
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Applications of systems thinking in integrated solid waste management planning for African cities: the case of Nairobi, Kenya
The majority of solid waste generated by urban living cannot be assimilated in the city environment,and initial improvements in urban cleanliness and health were only realized when organized wastecollection and disposal outside of city limits was introduced in Europe in the late 19th …
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Perspectives on Antarctic conservation: an analysis of New Zealand Antarctic stakeholder views
The Antarctic, open to all and under no state ownership, is one of the world’s global commons. This area is facing challenges that extend beyond its boundaries. Challenges stemming from global warming, economic utilisation of natural resources, increased human visitation and growing science-related …
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