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REDD+ policy making in Nepal: toward state-centric, polycentric, or market-oriented governance?
Ecology and Society, 2014 Over the past 40 years, Nepal has become renowned for its community-based forestry policies, initiatives, and institutions, characterized by local autonomy in decisions about forest management and use and a gradual shift toward more inclusive national ...
Bryan R. Bushley
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Analysis of the polycentricity of Romanian county residences [PDF]
Urbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii, 2016 In order to achieve a balanced and sustainable spatial development within the European Union, two of the basic spatial principles are: developing a balanced and polycentric urban system and promoting integrated transport and communication schemes, likely
Antonio Tache +3 more
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Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.This study investigated the spatial patterns and development mechanisms of urban underground space (UUS) in Shanghai using underground points of interest data. It revealed distinct development mechanisms between the main city and suburbs, highlighting the need for differentiated UUS planning and policies to optimize underground space resources ...
Chenxiao Ma +3 more
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Territorial Balancing of Poles of Development [PDF]
Romanian Review of Regional Studies, 2008 The paper is part of the study "Specific problems of the development of the settlement network in south-eastern Romania. Regions of development 3 (South), 4 (South-West) and 8 (Bucharest-Ilfov)" elaborated during 2004 – 2006, within the AMTRANS programme
CLAUDIA POPESCU +2 more
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The EU Cities Mission: A Governance Innovation for Stockholm?
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Acknowledging that cities play a key role in climate change mitigation, the European Union (EU) launched the Cities Mission in 2021 to accelerate urban climate action. Intended as a governance innovation, it seeks to stimulate mission‐oriented governance in cities.
Lisa Sanderink +2 more
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Reconsidering Cohesion Policy : the Contested debate on Territorial Cohesion [PDF]
, 2009 The incorporation of territorial cohesion as a regional policy objective has focused attention on the potential role of territorial cooperation in pursuing this goal.
Bachtler, John +2 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Collaborative governance networks are increasingly central to local climate action, yet research offers limited understanding of the personal, psychological, and informal factors that sustain engagement within them. This paper examines how such networks facilitate meaningful and lasting participation through an in‐depth study of Malmö Works, a
Gustav Osberg
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Modelling requirements for local transport plans in the UK [PDF]
, 2006 The aim of the paper is to provide a number of recommendations for use of transport and land use planning models in the formulation of local transport plans. It is based on a study of Local Transport Plans (LTPs) in England.
May, A.D., Shepherd, S.P., Timms, P.M.
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing complexity and severity of cross‐border climate risks characterised by non‐linear impact chains and deep uncertainty questions the capacity of environmental governance to tackle these problems effectively and in a just manner. To increase the efficiency of climate action, the private sector has been called upon to leverage market ...
Päivi Tikkakoski, Sirkku Juhola
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City regions and polycentricity: the East Midlands urban network [PDF]
, 2005 The aims of this paper were to clarify the meaning of the terms city region and polycentricy and to then examine evidence on urban centres in the East Midlands to see how far these terms describe the present configuration of the ...
Charles, D +3 more
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