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Political economy of Elinor Ostrom: institutional analysis, commons and polycentric governance

open access: yesRevista Española de Ciencia Política, 2015
Social sciences have experienced the return of institutions into the main research agenda, and a new institutionalism has been developed to understand the role of institutions.
Gonzalo Caballero Miguez   +2 more
doaj  

Spatial identification of areas suitable for other effective area‐based conservation measures in the European Union

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Although significant biodiversity has been safeguarded by protected areas (PAs), biodiversity trends continue downward. Within the frameworks of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the new EU Restoration Regulation (2024), conserving critical biodiversity areas is essential.
George Kefalas   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolutionary simulations of institutional dynamics in global climate governance

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
Global climate governance is shaped by NDCs and LT-LEDS that embed benchmarking norms, yet implications for polycentric diversity remain unclear. This study integrates polycentric governance, governmentality, path dependence, and structural reproduction ...
Maulana Agung Wibowo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

REDD+ policy making in Nepal: toward state-centric, polycentric, or market-oriented governance?

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
Over the past 40 years, Nepal has become renowned for its community-based forestry policies, initiatives, and institutions, characterized by local autonomy in decisions about forest management and use and a gradual shift toward more inclusive national ...
Bryan R. Bushley
doaj   +1 more source

Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy. The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

Hamlet without the Prince: whatever happened to capital in 'Working Capital'? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This is one of a number of papers in the same issue of CITY on the theme "How should we write about London?" This paper is a critical discussion of Working Capital: Life and Labour in Contemporary London, by Nick Buck, Ian Gordon, Peter Hall, Mike Harloe
Edwards, M
core  

Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

open access: yes
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
wiley   +1 more source

Competition Law and Public Interest: A Challenge for Adjudication

open access: yesEuropean Law Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper engages with the increasing concern that competition law can no longer concentrate exclusively on a narrow focus on price increases and output diminution. Within the context of growing global inequality and the exponential increase in economic power in the hands of a few, there is a need to develop a coherent jurisprudence capable ...
Dennis M. Davis
wiley   +1 more source

Education for Regeneration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
It seems to me that we must think in terms of regeneration and resurgence, as Simpson says, not mere sustainability. Following centuries of colonization and imperialism, industrial “development”, toxic pollution, and carbon emissions from burning fossil ...
Perkins, Patricia E. (Ellie)
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Polycentricity and state reinforced self-governance: the case of the New York City watersheds governing arrangement

open access: yesEcology and Society
Social-ecological systems are often governed through polycentric governing arrangements comprising independent centers of decision making that interact through coordination, cooperation, competition, and conflict across different functional domains.
Edella C Schlager   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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