Abstract The study on public mass transportation in Batam City was started 2010 by BP Batam. is still a long polemic due to problems arise technical and non-technical aspects, such as limited funding capacity of local government. Therefore, the government wants involve private sectors development plan. This aims analyse selection Public Private Partnership (PPP) scheme using value for money (Vf...

The port system is a particularly important segment of valorisation of the sea and of the maritime orientation of any country and together with shipping it constitutes a fundamental link of the maritime industry of a country. A strong maritime economy can be built by the developing of all of its segments, systematically linked into a single entity and mutually determined. In this respect, the p...

Understanding the factors that underlie the production of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), as well as regularly monitoring production levels, are key to allow sustainability assessments of NTFP extractive economies. Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa, Lecythidaceae) seed harvesting from natural forests is one of the cornerstone NTFP economies in Amazonia. In the Peruvian Amazon it is organized...

When two parties conduct a negotiation, they must be willing to make concessions to achieve a mutually acceptable deal, or face the consequences of no agreement. Therefore, negotiators normally make larger concessions as the deadline is closing in. Many time-based concession strategies have already been proposed, but they are typically heuristic in nature, and therefore, it is still unclear wha...

Success in adversarial environments often requires investment into additional resources order to improve one’s competitive position. But, can intentionally decreasing own competitiveness ever provide strategic benefits such settings? In this paper, we focus on characterizing the role of “concessions” as a component decision making. Specifically, investigate whether player gain an advantage by e...