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Unraveling the Central State, But How? Types of Multi-Level Governance. IHS Political Science Series: 2003, No. 87 [PDF]
, 2003 The reallocation of authority upwards, downwards, and sideways from central states has drawn attention from a growing number of scholars in political science.
Hooghe, Liesbet, Marks, Gary
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African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.Abstract Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly ...
Patricia Daley +10 more
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“Women Enlace”: Interweaving Women to Make Collective Action Possible
Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 554-571, March 2026.ABSTRACT This study engages with the contemporary debate on women's collective action through the lens of commons governance. Drawing on the theory of collective action in the management of common‐pool resources (CPRs) and on feminist ethnography with a group of rural extractivist women in the Cerrado—a vast tropical savanna biome in Brazil's Central ...
Cilene dos Anjos Marcondes
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High-level consumer services in polycentric urban regions - hospital care and higher education between duplication and complementarity [PDF]
, 2005 In many European countries, territorial development strategies identify the development potential of so-called polycentric urban regions: regions in which a multitude of more or less similar-sized, formerly independent and distinct cities are located ...
Meijers, Evert
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Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 95-107, February 2026.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how governance structures and policy approaches influence transition pathways in three major oil and gas producing regions: Esbjerg (Denmark), Taranaki (New Zealand), and Aberdeen (Scotland). The methods employ a comparative case study framework and draw on a literature review, document analysis and interviews with key ...
Sophie Kiernan, Tamara Krawchenko
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Development of four-bar polycentric knee joint with stance-phase knee flexion. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Phoengsongkhro S +4 more
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The efficiency of “quasimarkets”—decentralized public goods provision subjected to Tiebout competition—is a staple of public choice conventional wisdom.
Boettke, Peter +2 more
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Decentralized Wind Energy Systems as Catalysts for Urban Resilience: A Design Framework
Energy Science &Engineering, Volume 14, Issue 2, Page 682-700, February 2026.ABSTRACT Confronting the escalating extreme weather events (EWEs) and intensifying winds, this study proposes an active response to these issues by exploring decentralized wind energy production for Peng Chau Island, Hong Kong. It integrates theoretical perspectives on energy democracy—empowering local communities through energy autonomy—and urban ...
Tian Cheng
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Disentangling the potential of protected areas to promote sustainable development
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Volume 24, Issue 1, February 2026.Protected areas (PAs) and other effective area‐based conservation measures (OECMs) are crucial to sustainable development, yet their contributions to environmental, social, and economic dimensions remain unclear. We investigated the role of PAs and OECMs in advancing the sustainable development agenda by summarizing 400 effect‐size values and measuring
Aline Gaglia Alves +3 more
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Towards a New Methodology to evaluate the Urban structure of the Metropolitan Systems; Chicago and Barcelona Metropolitan Areas as Examples. [PDF]
The specialized researches have proposed various approaches to the delimitation of urban and metropolitan systems. Administrative aspects (administrative units historically inherited), morphological (urban continuum), some linked to the economies of ...
Blanca Arellano +2 more
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