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Polycentric and resilient perspectives for governing the commons: Strategic and law and economics insights for sustainable development

open access: yesAmbio, 2022
Commons governance theory is central to identifying and managing conflicts arising from natural and cultural resources traps. Scholars – using game theory and economic analysis of law – have proposed alternative models, consisting of a set of mitigated ...
A. Gatto
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems

open access: yesThe American Economic Review, 2010
This excerpt describes the intellectual journey that I have taken the last half-century from when I began graduate studies in the late 1950s. The early efforts to understand the polycentric water industry in California were formative for me.
E. Ostrom
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Polycentric urban regions: conceptualization, identification and implications

open access: yesRegional studies, 2021
This special issue offers a cross-section of state-of-the-art research into ‘polycentric urban regions’: regions characterized by the presence of multiple, more-or-less proximate, centres where there is balanced development among these centres.
B. Derudder   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Polycentric Environmental Governance to Achieving SDG 16: Evidence from Southeast Asia and Eastern Africa

open access: yesForests, 2022
Effective environmental governance is deemed essential in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals. However, environmental dimensions have no specific reference across the SDG 16 targets and indicators.
Sacha Amaruzaman   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Identification and Evaluation of the Polycentric Urban Structure: An Empirical Analysis Based on Multi-Source Big Data Fusion

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
Identifying and evaluating polycentric urban spatial structure is essential for understanding and optimizing current urban development. In order to accurately identify the urban centers of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), this study ...
Yuquan Zhou, Xiong He, Yiting Zhu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Climate Governance and Agriculture in Southeast Asia: Learning From a Polycentric Approach

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Democratic Hopes in the Polycentric City [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The polycentric model of municipal governance suggests that multiple jurisdictions may approximate an efficient market for local public services: citizens move to jurisdictions offering services they value at tax rates they are willing and able to pay ...
King, Loren
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Governing polycentric urban regions

open access: yesTerritory, Politics, Governance, 2022
Widely recognized as an empirical reality, an important analytical framework and a normative goal for territorial development policies, polycentric urban regions (PURs) are the subject of concerted international interest among those charged with planning
J. Harrison   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Polycentric Systems of Governance: A Theoretical Model for the Commons

open access: yes, 2019
Polycentricity is a fundamental concept in commons scholarship that connotes a complex form of governance with multiple centers of semiautonomous decision making.
Keith M. Carlisle, Rebecca L. Gruby
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Polycentric Governance, Coordination and Capacity: The Case of Sargassum Influxes in the Caribbean

open access: yesCoastal Management, 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.
Sien van der Plank   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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