Understanding Knowledge as a Commons

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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0262083574
Publisher: The MIT Press
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Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice

Knowledge in digital form offers unprecedented access to information through the Internet but at the same time is subject to ever-greater restrictions through intellectual property legislation, overpatenting, licensing, overpricing, and lack of preservation. Search and download computer ebooks Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice for free.
Categories: Books by Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Laureates->2001-2010, Knowledge management, Information commons. Contributors: Charlotte Hess - Editor. Format: Paperback. Download Understanding Knowledge as a Commons computer ebooks
Looking at knowledge as a commons--as a shared resource--allows us to understand both its limitless possibilities and what threatens it. In Understanding Knowledge as a Commons, experts from a range of disciplines discuss the knowledge commons in the digital era--how to conceptualize it, protect it, and build it.Contributors consider the concept of the commons historically and offer an analytical framework for understanding knowledge as a shared social-ecological system. They look at wa