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Polycentrism and Flux in Spatialized Management: Evidence from Maine\u27s Lobster (Homarus americanus) Fishery [PDF]

, 2010
Spatial approaches to fisheries management hold great promise but require continued conceptual and policy development. Polycentrism and flux emerge as useful concepts, drawing lessons from more customary, informal resourceuse patterns to produce more ...
Brewer, Jennifer F.
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Modelling requirements for local transport plans in the UK [PDF]

, 2006
The aim of the paper is to provide a number of recommendations for use of transport and land use planning models in the formulation of local transport plans. It is based on a study of Local Transport Plans (LTPs) in England.
May, A.D., Shepherd, S.P., Timms, P.M.
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Innovations for Stakeholder Engagement in Water Governance: A Systematic Literature Review From a Sustainability Transition Perspective

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable and equitable governance of water resources is among the most pressing global challenges, emphasising the need for innovations towards transitions in the water sector. Innovations for stakeholder engagement can contribute to such transitions through public participation and cross‐sectoral collaboration.
Anne Ellermann, Gül Özerol, Joanne Vinke‐de Kruijf, César Casiano Flores, Vuokko Laukka, Ulf Stein, Suvi Sojamo, Rob Collins   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Frontiers 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

Bridging Cross‐Scale Science–Policy Interfaces for Coherent Land‐Use Governance: Knowledge Co‐Production and Uptake in Kenya's Polycentric System

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Land is fundamental to livelihoods and ecosystem health but faces mounting pressure from human activities, climate change, and competing development demands. Science–policy interfaces (SPIs)—platforms that connect experts and policymakers—are vital for co‐producing knowledge to inform coherent, sustainable land‐use governance.
Sara Velander, Lisa Biber‐Freudenberger   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Within the Constraints of Carbon Budgets: Regional Insights From Sweden

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Staying within the limits of a rapidly shrinking global carbon budget while avoiding dependency on negative emissions technologies and carbon dioxide removal remains a significant challenge in a multi‐level governance system, where resources and responsibilities are dispersed among different actors.
Paula Lenninger, Magdalena Kuchler
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Polycentric Structure on CO₂ Emissions: Evidence from China

Applied Sciences, 2023
Driven by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the importance of sustainable urbanization has taken center stage. In this study, we investigate the impact of polycentric structures on CO2 emissions using data from 279 Chinese cities and employing
Jing Wen, Xin Zhang, Wenjie Du, Xiaoying Ouyang, Zhongchang Sun   +4 more
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Governing Positive Energy Districts: The Role of Legitimation and Identity Across Residential and Industrial Contexts

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increasing electricity demand from data centres, industrial applications, electric vehicles and domestic heating is creating pressure to develop electricity systems in many parts of the world, but especially in Western countries. In response to challenges such as grid congestion, interconnection queues and climate‐related hazards, network ...
Jussi Valta, Tuomas Vanhanen, Tuomo Joensuu, Saku Mäkinen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Policy Is the Hazard: Institutional Legitimacy and Climate Risk Attribution Among Farmers in Water Stressed California

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how farmers perceive and respond to climate policy risk in the context of drought and argues that understanding such responses is as important as understanding farmer reactions to the biophysical impacts of climate change.
M. Anne Visser, Jordan Pantano, Grace Kumetat, Julia Marhenke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transforming the Electricity Grid: From Centralized Monocultures to a Polycentric Ecosystem

Energies
The 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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