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This repository complements a book chapter titled “The Problem of Complexity and the Emergence of Polycentric Political Order” published by Dries Daems and Alexander Schaefer, in which we discuss the emergence of polycentric political systems through the lens of historical social complexity formation. In the chapter, we illustrate our theoretical model
Daems, Dries, Schaefer, Alexander
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Breaking Down the Daily Use of Places - A Space-Time Typology of Temporary Populations in the Netherlands [PDF]
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.
Robbert Zandvliet, Martin Dijst
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsPolycentric 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
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METROBORDER:Cross-border Polycentric Metropolitan Regions
, 2010 Metropolitan regions are generally seen as drivers for territorial development in the national context, as well as drivers for economic, social and cultural development on a European and global scale.
Walther, Olivier
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Polycentric governance can compensate an incoherent regime under climate change. The case of multifunctional water use in Oberhasli, Switzerland [PDF]
, 2018 Many resource regimes in advanced democracies are complex rather than integrated (due to the sectoral division of labor within public administrations, the lack of transversal coordination, competition for resources, strong property rights, etc.), leading
Oberlack, Christoph +3 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationUrban spatial structure, shaped by human intervention in the natural environment, impacts the functional space and socioeconomic efficiency of cities. Against this backdrop, this study investigates the linkage between urban spatial structure (USS) and ...
Shihan Zhang +5 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Scholars have widely discussed integrating local administrations into climate governance networks, focusing on networks such as the Global Covenant of Mayors or C40, whose members are mostly in the European Union or countries of the global North and premium cities managed by engaged administrations. Relatively little is known about urban‐scale
Alejandra Irigoyen Rios, Rosa Lehmann
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Ecology and SocietySocial-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
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