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Does a Polycentric Spatial Structure Help to Reduce Industry Emissions?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
City planners are increasingly drawn to ways of transforming urban spatial structure as an important strategy for reducing pollutant emissions. As its main contribution, this paper uses firm-level emissions data to quantify impact mechanisms related to ...
Shuaishuai Han, C. Miao
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Taxonomic Studies on Cladochytrium (Cladochytriaceae) Species from North India

open access: yesJournal of Pure and Applied Microbiology
In the present study, three polycentric chytrid species of the genus Cladochytrium, specifically Cladochytrium replicatum, Cladochytrium tenue and Cladochytrium setigerum are described briefly herein and accompanied by photographs illustrating their ...
Manish Kumar Dubey, Ram Sanmukh Upadhyay
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking the scale, structure & scope of U.S. energy institutions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This essay notes some of the key institutions created in the twentieth century for the purpose of delivering energy in North America. Those institutions are being challenged by a combination of stresses in three interconnected areas: reliability ...
Benjamin K. Sovacool   +3 more
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Friends with benefits: the emergence of the Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Antwerp (ARA) polycentric port region

open access: yesTerritory, Politics, Governance, 2022
This paper enacts a dialogue between planning literature on polycentric urban regions (PUR) and port geography literature on multi-port gateways. The main proposition is that polycentric systems are the emergent outcome of the interactions between three ...
K. Van den Berghe   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evolution Process and Land Use/Land Cover Response of Urban–Rural Space in Wuhan under Polycentric Structure

open access: yesLand
Polycentric development facilitates urban–rural spatial reshaping and land use/land cover (LULC) protection. Previous studies have predominantly focused on urban areas, with spatial delineation methods biased towards the macro-level, lacking a holistic ...
Jisheng Yan, Jing Ye
doaj   +1 more source

Stretching the Rules: Monocentric Chromosomes with Multiple Centromere Domains [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The centromere is a functional chromosome domain that is essential for faithful chromosome segregation during cell division and that can be reliably identified by the presence of the centromere-specific histone H3 variant CenH3.
A Kawabe   +45 more
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The suburbanisation of poverty in British cities, 2004-16: extent, processes and nature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper tracks changes in relative centralisation and relative concentration of poverty for the 25 largest British cities, analysing change for poor and non-poor groups separately, and examining parallel changes in spatial segregation.
Bailey, Nick, Minton, Jon
core   +1 more source

Polycentric Climate Governance: The State, Local Action, Democratic Preferences, and Power—Emerging Insights and a Research Agenda

open access: yesGlobal Environmental Politics
In recent years, climate governance has shifted from the global, multilateral regime to voluntary initiatives from multiple directions. Scholars frequently use a polycentric governance lens to study the complex and multijurisdictional reality.
Elke Kellner, D. Petrovics, Dave Huitema
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Polycentrism, not polemics? Squaring the circle of non-discrimination law, accuracy metrics and public/private interests when addressing AI bias

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
Lon Fuller famously argued that polycentric issues are not readily amenable to binary and adversarial forms of adjudication. When it comes to resource allocations involving various interested parties, binary polemical forms of decision making may fail to
Sue Anne Teo
doaj   +1 more source

Analyzing the Role of Polycentric Governance in Institutional Innovations: Insights from Urban Climate Governance in India

open access: yesSustainability
In the face of climate change, urban governance systems must adapt to uncertainties and emerging pressures. Polycentric governance, characterized by multiple decision-making centers at different scales, enables coordination across levels and provides ...
Anita Yadav   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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