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Mobilising Community Engagement in Disaster Risk‐Sensitive Urban Planning: Insights From Grounded Theory and Two‐Mode Social Network Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the emphasis in sustainable development goals (SDG) 11, 13, and 17 on collaborative efforts to address climate change‐induced disaster risks through inclusive planning, stakeholders' role in fostering community engagement in risk‐sensitive urban planning (RSUP) remains underexplored.
Devindi Geekiyanage, Terrence Fernando, Kaushal Keraminiyage   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Passive Polycentric Mechanism to Improve Active Mediolateral Balance in Prosthetic Walking

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
Prosthetic legs are typically passive systems without active ankle control, restricting mediolateral balancing to a hip strategy. Resulting balance control impairments for persons with a lower extremity amputation may be mitigated by increasing hip ...
Evert S. van Hal, Juha M. Hijmans, Klaas Postema, Egbert Otten   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Uncovering Semantic Patterns in Sustainability Research: A Systematic NLP Review

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study maps how Natural Language Processing (NLP) contributes to sustainability. Using a PRISMA‐guided review of 131 English‐language articles from Web of Science (2018–2025), we combine bibliometric co‐word mapping with BERTopic to derive complementary structural and semantic views. Four themes emerge: Topic 0—Climate Change Discourse and
Ehsan Tashakori, Yaser Sobhanifard, Adel Aazami, Rahim Khanizad   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Logic of the New World Political Architectonics: Praxis and Theory of Rethinking Multidimensional World and China ‘s Search of Its Place

Сравнительная политика, 2020
The arising logic of the formation of multilayer polycentric world in the post-pandemic world is shown in this article. Formation stages in Russia of a theoretical knowledge about formation of the multidimensional, interdependent and polycentric world ...
A. D. Voskressenski
doaj   +1 more source

From Ministries of Food to National Food System Committees: A Global Mapping and Typology of Multisectoral Food System Governance Institutions

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transforming the ways food systems are governed is key to achieving better social, environmental, and economic outcomes, all crucial to sustainable development. Strong multisectoral governance is critical to achieving this, but there is little evidence on the structure and function of governance mechanisms in this context.
Dori Patay, Holly Rippin, Gastón Ares, Erica Reeve, Carolina Venegas Hargous, Penny Farrell, Belinda Reeve, Jose‐Luis Vivero‐Pol, Anne Marie Thow   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

How did we get here? The evolution of a polycentric system of groundwater governance

Ecology and Society
Polycentric systems are widespread globally and studied extensively, but cross-sectional studies are more prominent than longitudinal studies, and limited attention has been paid to how polycentric systems develop. We present an evolutionary framework to
Ruth Langridge, Christopher K Ansell
doaj   +1 more source

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, Cantú, Oliva García, Frias-Martinez, Enrique, Herranz, Ricardo, Lenormand, Maxime, Louail, Thomas, Picornell, Miguel, Ramasco, José J.   +7 more
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Polycentric urban development and urban amenities: Evidence from Chinese cities

Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, 2020
The recent literature on the “consumer city” and the “love of variety” argues that the provision of urban amenities makes a city more attractive. Meanwhile, polycentric urban development has been highlighted by academics and policymakers as a sustainable
Mingshu Wang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Blue‐Prints for Ocean Governance: Analyzing Resource Sustainability in International Blue Economic Frameworks

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, Anar Ahmadov, Farid Guliyev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Decarbonization Effect of the Urban Polycentric Structure: Empirical Evidence from China

Land
This study conducts an empirical investigation into the decarbonization effects of urban polycentric structures, exploring their mechanisms and varied influences. Our findings reveal key insights.
Xu Yang, Xuan Zou, Ming Li, Zeyu Wang
doaj   +1 more source