Charles M. Schweik (Charlie) is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment shared between the Department of Natural Resources Conservation (www.umass.edu/nrc) and the Center for Public Policy and Administration (www.masspolicy.org) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also the Associate Director of the National Center for Digital Government (www.ncdg.org), and an affilated researcher with the Science, Technology, and Society Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on environmental management and policy, public-sector information technology, and the intersection of those domains.
Selected Articles
Open-Source Collaboration: Two Cases in the U.S. Public Sector (with Michael Hamel), First Monday (2009)
Globally, there is an emergence of open source consortia focused on the sharing of resources...
Reflections of an Online Geographic Information Systems Course Based on Open Source Software (with Maria Fernandez, Michael Hamel, Prakash Kashwan, Quentin Lewis, and Alexander Stepanov), Social Science Computer Review (2009)
This article summarizes the experience of offering an online introductory course on geographic information systems...
Forest fragmentation and
regrowth in an institutional mosaic of community, government and private ownership in Nepal (with Harini Negendra, S Pareeth, B Sharma, and K Adhikari), Landscape Ecology (2007)
This study analyzes forest change in an area of Nepal that signifies a delicate balance...
Identifying Success and Abandonment of FLOSS Commons: A Classification of Sourceforge.net Projects, Upgrade: The European Journal for the Informatics Professional (2007)
Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects are a form of commons where individuals work...
Tragedy of the FOSS Commons? Investigating the Institutional Designs of Free/Libre and Open Source Software Projects (with Robert English), First Monday (2007)
Free/Libre and Open Source Software projects (FOSS) are a form of Internet-based commons. Since 1968,...
Papers in Edited Volumes
“Brooks’ versus Linus’ Law: An Empirical Test of Open Source Projects (with Robert English, Meelis Kitsing, and Haire Sandra) (2008)
In this paper, we investigate collective action in open source software development, where both volunteers...
Linking Disciplines across Space and Time: Useful Concepts and Approaches for Land-Cover Change Studies (with Glen M. Green and J C. Randolph) (2005)
Retrieving Land-Cover Change Information from Landsat Satellite Images by Minimizing Other Sources of Reflectance Variability (with Glen M. Green and J C. Randolph) (2005)
Modeling human-environmental systems (with J Morgan Grove, Tom Evans, and Glen Green) (2002)
This chapter focuses on the integration and development of environmental models that include human decision...