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

, 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, Daniel C., Michael H. Dworkin, Roman V. Sidortsov   +3 more
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Polycentric urban development and economic productivity in China: A multiscalar analysis

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2019
‘Urban polycentricity’ has become both a conceptual framework capturing emerging empirical realities and a spatial planning vision adopted in cities across Europe, USA, and, recently, also China. Despite the blossoming academic literature on polycentricity, only limited attempts have been made to explore whether and how polycentric urban development ...
Wang, Mingshu, Derudder, Ben, Liu, Xingjian   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Enforcing the climate change act [PDF]

, 2015
This paper examines the enforceability of the duties in the Climate Change Act 2008 which require the UK’s GHG emissions to be reduced over time. Section B highlights how the Act’s other provisions must be interpreted so as to give proper support to ...
Church, Jonathan
core   +1 more source

Regional Policies, Practices, Tools, and Strategies to Implement Polycentric Development: Comparative Case Studies of Portland, Seattle, and Denver

Land
Many of the larger US metropolitan regions promote polycentric development as a way of fostering livability, accessibility, and sustainability. Polycentric urban structures can increase transit ridership, promote active transportation, and decrease ...
Reid Ewing, Torrey Lyons, Seyed Hassan Ameli, John Hersey, Justyna Kaniewska   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Successful Implementation of Environmental Policy and Governance: Understanding and Modeling Micro Governance

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Successful implementation of environmental policy and governance highly depends on the capacity to know about, build new and utilize existing governance structures. However, the theoretical tools and available methods to assess the complexity of emerging or existing structures are rather limited.
Diana Giebels, Arend Ligtenberg, Martha Bakker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
wiley   +1 more source

The impact and mechanism of polycentric structure within Chinese cities on carbon emission intensity [PDF]

Ziyuan Kexue
[Objective] As China transitions from mid-stage to late-stage urbanization, the polycentric structure of cities is accelerating. This study explored its impact on carbon emission intensity and the underlying mechanisms.
ZOU Xuan, YANG Xu, LIU Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Digital Rights Activism in Multilevel Governance

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multilevel governance (MLG) without a clear hierarchical structure can create power imbalances among various actors, particularly in settings with overlapping jurisdictions and policy areas. This dynamic is especially pronounced in Internet governance, which faces a complex interplay of domestic laws, state interdependence, and heightened ...
Alison Harcourt
wiley   +1 more source

Delineating polycentric megacity regions based on intra- and extra-regional economic transactions between emerging high-tech industries and producer services: a case study on the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, China

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Polycentric megacity regions (MCRs) have been widely recognised as pivotal engines of economic development, the study of which necessitates scholarly attention to the up-to-date economic dynamics underpinning regional competitiveness and refining spatial
Jili Xu, Xu Zhang, Haitao Ma, Yuyao Ye
doaj   +1 more source

Transforming Agricultural Water Management Through the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Trends, Opportunities, Barriers and Solutions

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural water management (AWM) is increasingly transitioning towards transformative thinking, where interconnected sectors, including water, energy and food, are managed holistically. Trends point towards cross‐sectoral and harmonised strategies to optimise water use efficiency and productivity, integrate renewable energy, promote ...
Luxon Nhamo, Cuthbert Taguta, Sylvester Mpandeli, Tinashe Dirwai, Stanley Liphadzi, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source