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How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA

Ecology and Society, 2023
Many contemporary social and ecological challenges in forested ecosystems (climate change, invasive species, wildland-urban interface development, and wildfires) span multiple jurisdictions and are characterized by complex patterns of social and ...
R. Patrick Bixler, Rebecca S. Epanchin-Niell, Mark W. Brunson, Ryan D. Tarver, Benjamin A. Sikes, Meredith McClure, Clare E. Aslan   +6 more
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Regional Policies, Practices, Tools, and Strategies to Implement Polycentric Development: Comparative Case Studies of Portland, Seattle, and Denver

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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
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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
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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
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City regions and polycentricity: the East Midlands urban network [PDF]

, 2005
The aims of this paper were to clarify the meaning of the terms city region and polycentricy and to then examine evidence on urban centres in the East Midlands to see how far these terms describe the present configuration of the ...
Charles, D, Coombes, M, Raybould, S, Wymer, C   +3 more
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Polycentricity in a developing world: A micro-regional analysis for morphological polycentricity in Turkey

GeoScape, 2018
Abstract Following the publication of ‘European Spatial Development Perspective’ in 1999, a large number of theoretical and empirical studies have been carried out on polycentric spatial development especially in European settlements. The relationship between polycentricity and economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability and ...
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The East Midlands in 2010: the spatial economy of the East Midlands [PDF]

, 2010
The East Midlands in 2010 is the updated evidence base that supports the regional economic strategy, A Flourishing Region.
Bickerton, CG
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The "Blue Banana" Revisited

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2015
This essay is about the “Blue Banana”. Banana is the name given subsequently by others to a Dorsale européenne (European backbone) identified empirically by Roger Brunet. In a background study to the Communication of the European Commission ‘Europe 2000’,
Andreas Faludi
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The suburbanisation of poverty in British cities, 2004-16: extent, processes and nature [PDF]

, 2017
This paper tracks changes in relative centralisation and relative concentration of poverty for the 25 largest British cities, analysing change for poor and non-poor groups separately, and examining parallel changes in spatial segregation.
Bailey, Nick, Minton, Jon
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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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