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Navigating the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: How Multinational Enterprises Approach Regulatory Familiarization in the Chocolate Sector

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adopted in 2024, the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (EUCS3D, alternatively EUCSDDD) instructs member states to regulate human rights and environmental due diligence across business operations and their global value chains.
Manuel Kiewisch
wiley   +1 more source

Planning for Polycentricity in European Metropolitan Areas - expectations, rationales and practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Polycentricity is one of the key words coined by the ESDP in 1999 to frame strategic planning at the transnational level. In recent years, however, the concept of polycentricity (and its inherent expectations) has increasingly trickled down as well to ...
Schmitt, Peter
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Polycentricity, households and the identity of places.

open access: yes, 2001
Recently, the use of the term polycentric or polynuclear urban region has clearly increased greatly in the European urban (planning) literature and also in policy documents.
Musterd, S.; id_orcid   +2 more
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The Global Role of the Russian Language in International Relations: Resources, Challenges and Prospects in a Polycentric World

open access: yesКонцепт: философия, религия, культура
The relevance of the research is due to the fundamental transformation of the system of international relations towards polycentricity, where, along with traditional factors of power, the role of communicative and value resources is increasing.
S. A. Semedov, A. R. Akberova
doaj   +1 more source

How Can Law Be Robust in the Face of Heightened Societal Turbulence?

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Taking its cue from the growing frequency of disruptive crises, new research argues that crisis‐induced turbulence calls for robust governance based on adaptation and innovation. While law plays a key role in the effort of governments to govern robustly, the robustness of law has received scant regard.
Eva Sørensen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polycentricity and metropolitan governance. A Swiss case study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The concept of ‘polycentric spatial development’, a central principle of the European Spatial Development Perspective, is closely linked to the concept of ‘sustainable urban development’.
Thierstein, Alain   +7 more
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Re‐Imagining Regulatory Governance

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper invites the readers to rethink regulatory governance by examining how trust‐based and rule‐based governance interact. To do this, it uses analytical narratives of three fictional polities: “Trustland”, “Regland”, and “Concordia”. Each polity represents a stylized model of governance: Trustland is anchored in trust‐based governance ...
David Levi‐Faur
wiley   +1 more source

Local responses to the threats of dramatic crises: do institutional leaders make a difference, and if so, how?

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 50, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract This study examines the complexity of disaster response management and the role of local institutional leadership. Drawing on a comparative analysis of the May 2023 floods in two Emilia‐Romagna provinces in Italy, it explores how local leadership influences the outcomes of crisis management within a shared institutional and hazard context ...
Giliberto Capano, Alexandra D′Angelo
wiley   +1 more source

Who Is Smuggler? Contradictory Positions and Unsettled Roles in Smuggling Assemblage on the Balkan Route

open access: yesGlobal Networks, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reconceptualizes migrant smuggling along the Balkan Route through the lens of the smuggling assemblage, which captures the fluid, relational and context‐dependent nature of clandestine mobility. Based on multi‐sited ethnographic fieldwork between 2020 and 2023 across six countries, including 85 semi‐structured interviews and ...
Muhammed Yasir Bodur   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polycentricity and the Theory of Order

open access: yes, 2018
This work explains social order as the outcome of governance systems' capacity to use dispersed knowledge. The first chapter examines mainstream institutionalism as exemplified by D. C.
Sterpan, Ion
core   +1 more source

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