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Annals of GIS, 2022 Studying the structure of polycentric cities can promote a better understanding of urban development and contribute to urban planning. In this study, we identified polycentric cities in China and evaluated the urban centre development level of ...
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, 2023 How does governing work today? How does society (mis)handle pressing challenges such as armed violence, cultural difference, ecological degradation, economic restructuring, geopolitical shifts, global pandemics, migration flows, and technological change in ways that are (not) democratic, effective, fair, peaceful, and sustainable? This volume addresses
Gadinger, F., Scholte, J.A.
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Polycentric Governing and Polycentric Governance
, 2023 Abstract Existing literature has tended to define polycentric governance in the sense developed by the Bloomington School of Political Economy. In contrast, this chapter promotes polycentricity as a lens for analysing governance from an institutionalist perspective. Such an approach can be applied locally (e.g. to metropolitan, water,
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Climate Governance and Agriculture in Southeast Asia: Learning From a Polycentric Approach
Frontiers in Political Science, 2021 The global climate governance framework will need to empower a wide range of groups representing different geopolitical and sector-specific interests to engage in climate action.
Siw Fasting +3 more
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An Introduction to Polycentric Governing
, 2023 Abstract The opening chapter sets out the overall motivation, context, concepts, and outline of the book. As its motivation, the volume pursues a question both compact in its formulation and sweeping in its implications: namely, how are we being governed today?
Gadinger, F., Scholte, J.A.
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Polycentric governance, coordination and capacity: The case of sargassum influxes in the Caribbean
, 2022 The merits of polycentric climate governance have attracted considerable discussion. On the one hand, polycentric governance offers an alternative to top-down state-centric forms that have so far proven elusive.
Corbett, Jack +13 more
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POLYCENTRIC EXOPROSTHETIC KNEE JOINTS – EXTENT OF SHORTENING DURING SWING PHASE
Canadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal, 2020 BACKGROUND: An often assumed advantage of polycentric knee joints compared to monocentric ones is the improved ground clearance during swing phase due to the geometric shortening of the lower leg segment (LLS).
Thomas Maximilian Köhler +2 more
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Revision of the Gunston polycentric knee arthroplasty with total knee arthroplasty
Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica, 2020 The Gunston polycentric knee arthroplasty, first designed and performed by Frank Gunston in 1971, is the first prosthesis considering the natural knee biomechanics. Although the polycentric knee arthroplasty showed encouraging results to relieve pain and
Kaya Memisoglu +2 more
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Historicizing Polycentric Governing
, 2023 This chapter adopts a historical perspective on polycentric governing, taking into consideration a hitherto under-addressed question: to what extent are the characteristics of polycentric governing a new phenomenon?
Schneider, Nina
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Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2017 Based on a study in the Greater Oslo and Greater Stavanger urban areas in Norway, this paper employs quantitative and qualitative research methods to investigate the influences of residential location and neighborhood characteristics on car driving ...
Petter Naess +2 more
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