While extreme cold might have set off a biological response normally seen only in squirrels, bears and marmots, human hibernation probably reflects a sensible, communal decision to stay in bed for as long as possible.
At others, there's barely enough room to stand let alone dance, with each nook and cranny bursting with the kind of vitality that only ever emerges once a communal decision's been made to abandon any hint of regular sensibility in order to commit to a proper weekender.
They empowered millions of ordinary citizens by allowing them to participate in land-use decisions, enhancing the security of their land rights and legislating to ensure that women could acquire land and participate in communal decision-making.
"We are at the end of a five-thousand-year-plus historical process during which human society grew in scale while it abandoned the early indigenous wisdom councils and communal decision-making," he writes in The Open Source Everything Manifesto.
The décor is welcoming and elegant: carved Oriental screens, Murano glass chandeliers that could be translucently gilded Frisbees, vaulted crannies showcasing Junya Watanabe cashmere and Azzedine Alaia platforms on floating perches, and, in imitation of Joan Weinstein's Ultimo, a comfortable communal decision-making rotunda, which adjoins the fitting rooms and is walled with full-length mirrors.
An election, after all, is civic and social, a process through which we make communal decisions.
It allowed participants that were new to active involvement in communal decision-making to openly discuss and share their ideas.
However, methodologies that address communal decision-making processes as seen in complex smallholder agricultural landscapes are still rare.
Designing and adopting more sustainable farming systems for such mosaic landscapes involves communal decision-making and active participation of local smallholders.
Here, we present a gaming methodology developed to (i) actively involve farmers in the process of agroecosystem design, and (ii) to identify factors and patterns of communal decision-making through an in-depth analysis of game strategies deployed by participants.
Yet, it is also widely recognised that many pastoralist communities have multiple sources and manifestations of strength; they are often able to cope and adapt in the face of such adversity due to their local knowledge, mobility, interdependence and the existence of institutions to enable communal decision-making (López-i-Gelats et al. 2016; Barrow et al. 2007; Fratkin and Mearns 2003).
