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Frontiers in Physics, 2022 Polycentric city-regional development has become a buzzword for urban scholars and planners around the world. Inspired by the two critical characteristics of the polycentric urban region (PUR) as incubators and hinges of knowledge production, this study ...
Chenghui Tang, Jianmin Dou
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, 2023 Polycentric governance represents a significant strand in environmental social science research. Polycentric systems are those in which authority is dispersed to separately constituted bodies with overlapping jurisdictions that do not stand in a hierarchical relationship to each other. Over the course of six decades, polycentric thinking has emerged as
Jordan, Andrew, Huitema, Dave
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The EU Cities Mission: A Governance Innovation for Stockholm?
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Acknowledging that cities play a key role in climate change mitigation, the European Union (EU) launched the Cities Mission in 2021 to accelerate urban climate action. Intended as a governance innovation, it seeks to stimulate mission‐oriented governance in cities.
Lisa Sanderink +2 more
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Ecology and Society, 2017 We address the development of policy by polycentric governance configurations, taking Caribbean overseas territories and their advancements on invasive alien species (IAS) policy as an example.
Jetske Vaas +4 more
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Polycentric Regional Ocean Governance Opportunity in the Benguela Current Convention
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 The Benguela Current Convention (BCC) has been operational for a decade and has emerged from the precursor natural and fisheries science large marine ecosystem programs.
Ashley Naidoo +4 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global sustainability policy demands coordination among domain‐specific policies, yet a major challenge persists in policy monitoring and reporting, where various, often uncoordinated indicator initiatives exist. To address this challenge, we apply a network approach to investigate linkages between the indicators of the Sustainable Development
André Mascarenhas +4 more
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Transforming the Electricity Grid: From Centralized Monocultures to a Polycentric Ecosystem
EnergiesThe electricity supply system faces major challenges. The physical and social vulnerability of the monoculture of hierarchical, centralized systems urgently requires radical transformation of their organizational structures as well as their ...
Maarten Wolsink
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Application of Polycentric Urban Region concept in Iran’s Metropolitan Areas [PDF]
مسکن و محیط روستا, 2020 Application of Polycentric Urban Regions concept in Iran’s Metropolitan Areas Theoretical Origin: Looking at the research on polycentric urban regions, two approaches can be distinguished: The first approach: looking upon the similarity of a polycentric ...
Ali Farnam
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International Journal of the Commons, 2020 This paper contributes insights to discussions of adaptive governance in marine socio-ecological systems by elucidating the conditions which limit or enable the transition from co-management to polycentric governance at the local scale.
Sarah A. Ebel
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Inferring urban polycentricity from the variability in human mobility patterns
Scientific Reports, 2023 The polycentric city model has gained popularity in spatial planning policy, since it is believed to overcome some of the problems often present in monocentric metropolises, ranging from congestion to difficult accessibility to jobs and services. However,
Carmen Cabrera-Arnau +4 more
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