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Delineating polycentric megacity regions based on intra- and extra-regional economic transactions between emerging high-tech industries and producer services: a case study on the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, China

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
Polycentric megacity regions (MCRs) have been widely recognised as pivotal engines of economic development, the study of which necessitates scholarly attention to the up-to-date economic dynamics underpinning regional competitiveness and refining spatial
Jili Xu, Xu Zhang, Haitao Ma, Yuyao Ye
doaj   +1 more source

Re-structuring competetive metropolitan regions: on territory, institutions and governance. RheinRuhr compared with London, Paris and the Randstad Holland [PDF]

open access: yes
Currently social and political constructed urban regions are about to approach a threefold role regarding their functional, economic and political function. At first they constitute a basis for economic and social life.
Knapp, Wolfgang, Schmitt, Peter
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Making Public Interest Considerations in Merger Control Regimes Work: Reassessing the Legal Test

open access: yesEuropean Law Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Academic research is increasingly questioning whether the goals of competition law should extend beyond the traditional focus on economic efficiency and consumer welfare to include non‐economic issues such as social justice, democracy, environmental sustainability and equality.
Vellah Kedogo Kigwiru
wiley   +1 more source

Fisheries Managers Acknowledge the Importance of Adaptive Traits but Report Limited Ability to Influence Them

open access: yesFish and Fisheries, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Marine fishery management systems are experiencing unprecedented pressure from climate change. Prior research has identified adaptive traits that, when present in a management system, can promote effective responses to these changes and minimise negative outcomes for fish and fishery systems. Understanding the extent to which managers identify
Jacqueline M. Vogel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polycentricity and state reinforced self-governance: the case of the New York City watersheds governing arrangement

open access: yesEcology and Society
Social-ecological systems are often governed through polycentric governing arrangements comprising independent centers of decision making that interact through coordination, cooperation, competition, and conflict across different functional domains.
Edella C Schlager   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the Nature of the Beast: Re-Charting Political Geographies of the European Union. Swedish Society for Antropology and Geography, 2006 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This review paper begins with the premise that since the European Union remains a process of construction with no agreed or pre-designated end-point, its power structure is open to a diverse range of interpretations. Moreover, the apparent novelty of the
Siddaway, James D.
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Rethinking informal circularity through metanarratives: Tensions, insights and directions for management research

open access: yesInternational Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the intersection of the informal and circular economies and its implications for business, management and organization (BMO) scholarship and practice. Informal circularity, practices of collecting, reusing, repairing, recycling and repurposing materials outside formal economic, legal and regulatory arrangements, constitutes
Tulin Dzhengiz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Breaking Down the Daily Use of Places - A Space-Time Typology of Temporary Populations in the Netherlands [PDF]

open access: yes
In a network society, spurred on by technological, social, and economic factors, the process of land use deconcentration has resulted in various new urban forms such as edge cities and edgeless cities.
Martin Dijst, Robbert Zandvliet
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Shifting Core and Slipping Foundation: An Uncertain Future of Landscape Architecture in European Universities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Faced with the dual and often conflicting necessity to be scientific and design practices the discipline of landscape architecture today is challenged to re-examine its core and intellectual foundation.
Koh, J.
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