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Identifying China’s polycentric cities and evaluating the urban centre development level using Luojia-1A night-time light data

open access: yesAnnals 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 ...
Zhiwei Yang   +3 more
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Polycentric Governing and Polycentric Governance

open access: yes, 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,
openaire   +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
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Polycentric governance, coordination and capacity: The case of sargassum influxes in the Caribbean

open access: yes, 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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An Introduction to Polycentric Governing

open access: yes, 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 EXOPROSTHETIC KNEE JOINTS – EXTENT OF SHORTENING DURING SWING PHASE

open access: yesCanadian 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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Historicizing Polycentric Governing

open access: yes, 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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How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2023
Many contemporary social and ecological challenges in forested ecosystems (climate change, invasive species, wildland-urban interface development, and wildfires) span multiple jurisdictions and are characterized by complex patterns of social and ...
R. Patrick Bixler   +6 more
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Modeling the Polycentric Transition of Cities [PDF]

open access: yesPhysical Review Letters, 2013
11 pages, 12 ...
Louf, Rémi, Barthelemy, Marc
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Revision of the Gunston polycentric knee arthroplasty with total knee arthroplasty

open access: yesActa 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
doaj   +1 more source

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