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Exploring the Polycentric Structure and Driving Mechanism of Urban Regions From the Perspective of Innovation Network

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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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
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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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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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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, Chen Zhong, Michael Batty, Ricardo Silva, Soong Moon Kang   +4 more
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Collective Decision‐Making and Institutional Configurations in Polycentric Environmental Governance

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why do formally similar polycentric governance arrangements differ in their governance performance, and how do institutional configurations of enabling conditions account for these differences? [Correction added on 07 July 2026, after first online publication: The preceding sentence has been updated.] This article examines variation in ...
Kirsten Hegsvold
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Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems [PDF]

, 2018
Recent advances in land system science and in institutional analysis provide complementary, but still largely disconnected perspectives on land use change, governance, and sustainability in social-ecological systems, which are interconnected across ...
Messerli, Peter, Rist, Stephan, Sébastien Boillat, Jean-David Gerber, Gerber, Jean-David, Boillat, Sébastien, Urs Wiesmann, Ifejika Speranza, Chinwe, Andreas Heinimann, Oberlack, Christoph, Brönnimann, Stefan, Stephan Rist, Heinimann, Andreas, Stefan Brönnimann, Peter Messerli, Christoph Oberlack, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Wiesmann, Urs Martin   +17 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, Hashali Hamukuaya, Mafaniso Hara, Yamkela Mngxe, Jesper Raakjær   +4 more
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Nested Institutions and Overlapping Mandates: A Policy Analysis of Mangrove Governance in Ghana, Tanzania Mainland, and Zanzibar

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mangroves are critical resources in sustaining coastal communities by providing essential ecosystem goods and services. Occurring within the interface of land and sea, they serve as critical ecological zones shaped by dynamic interactions between terrestrial and marine systems.
Menelisi Falayi, Dorothy Khasisi Lukhabi, Linda Bana, Nanabanyin Okwentsie Ekumah, Vincent Cudjoe Egbenya, Denis Worlanyo Aheto, Nandera Juma Lolila, Hamidu Seki, Deo Shirima, Ibrahim Issifu, Mengyi Zhang, Terry Sunderland   +11 more
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Moving Beyond Co-Management: Opportunities and Limitations for Enabling Transitions to Polycentric Governance in Chile’s Territorial User Rights in Fisheries Policy

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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