Library Cooperation and Change

Cooperation in Library User Education

Electronic Publications and Library Cooperation. Bulgarian Experience

The article considers the library cooperation problem and some aspects of the relationships ‘library coalition – library – end users’. The authors describe the successful model of the first library coalition in Bulgaria – the Bulgarian Information Consortium. Problems of creation, management practice, activities and achievements are presented and discussed. The role of electronic resources is v...

reference/ technical services cooperation in library instruction

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Cooperation on Climate-Change Mitigation†

We model greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a dynamic game. Countries’ emissions increase atmospheric concentrations of GHG, which negatively affects all countries' welfare. We analyze self-enforcing climate-change treaties that are supportable as subgame perfect equilibria. A simulation model illustrates conditions where a subgame perfect equilibrium supports the first-best outcome. In one of o...

Climate change governance, cooperation and self-organization.

When attempting to avoid global warming, individuals often face a social dilemma in which, besides securing future benefits, it is also necessary to reduce the chances of future losses. In this manuscript, we introduce a simple approach to address this type of dilemmas, in which the risk of failure plays a central role in individual decisions. This model can be shown to capture some of the esse...