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Yingjin Zhang, ed. China in a polycentric world : essays in Chinese comparative literature
, 2000 This article reviews the book China in a Polycentric World: Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature edited by Yingjin ...
MORAN, Thomas
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Championed as a pathway for sustainable growth, the “blue economy” (BE) has garnered increasing interest in recent decades. International organizations like the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) increasingly point to marine resources and activities as a “new frontier” for economic growth ...
Flora St. Pier +2 more
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Comparative analysis of institutions to govern the groundwater commons in California
Water Alternatives, 2018 The management of groundwater, a common-pool resource, is a fundamental collective action problem that can lead to over-exploitation. Our paper examines the management of two groundwater basins in California’s Central Coast region whose geographic ...
Ruth Langridge, Christopher Ansell
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The contribution of leisure and entertainment to the evolving polycentric urban network on regional scale - towards a new research agenda [PDF]
The urban landscape in advanced economies transforms from monocentric cities to polycentric urban networks on regional scale. The growing amount of research that is being devoted to this transformation sticks to classic activity systems like residential ...
Arie Romein
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López +2 more
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Polycentrism in the Spanish metropolitan system: an analysis for 7 metro areas [PDF]
Polycentrism is becoming one of the dominant structures in contemporary metropolises. Concentrated decentralization and the integration of formerly independent cities by the reduction of travel time are behind of such a process.
Carlos Aguirre Nuñez +4 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change is one of the most profound ethical and existential challenges of the 21st century. Beyond its physical, economic, and environmental consequences, it raises fundamental moral questions about justice, equity, responsibility, and the right to a livable planet.
Jacob Kwakye
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The impact of metropolitan structure on commute behavior in the Netherlands: a multilevel approach [PDF]
The effect of decentralization of land uses on travel behavior remains an unresolved issue in the academic literature. Some US researchers argue that a tendency towards polycentrism is associated with decreasing commute times and distances.
Dieleman, Frans M. +2 more
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From mobile phone data to the spatial structure of cities [PDF]
, 2014 Pervasive infrastructures, such as cell phone networks, enable to capture large amounts of human behavioral data but also provide information about the structure of cities and their dynamical properties. In this article, we focus on these last aspects by
Barthelemy, Marc +7 more
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The Control–Entropy Paradox: Modeling the Thermodynamic Limits of Environmental Governance
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental governance often seeks to reduce disorder, yet the energetic and material costs of control are overlooked. This article presents the Control–Entropy Paradox, developing a formal systems model and a conceptual extension of governance theory.
Sibongiseni B. Hlabisa
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