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Brazil’s legal and policy framework for combating Amazon deforestation

Trees, Forests and People
As Brazil hosts over 60 % of the Amazon forest, its domestic legal and policy frameworks significantly influence the governance of the region. This study provides a systematic examination of Brazil's federal legal and policy framework for combating ...
Zhang Min, Dong Yulu, Liu Xiaolu, Douglas de Castro   +3 more
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Towards metropolitan regionalism. Stuttgart and Rome: two models in comparison [PDF]

, 2012
The process of “metropolisation” that has characterized the development of urbanization in contemporary cities over the last few decades, is being subjected to a transformation process oriented towards “regionalization” dynamics, where metropolitan ...
MARIANO, Carmela
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African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.
Abstract Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly ...
Patricia Daley, Sabelo J. Ndlovu‐Gatsheni, Wangui Kimari, Franklin Obeng‐Odoom, Sylvia Tamale, Sybille Bauriedl, Sylvia Bawa, Inken Carstensen‐Egwuom, Grace Adeniyi‐Ogunyankin, Yousuf Al‐Bulushi, Stefan Ouma   +10 more
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The territorial dimension in EU policies: issues, opportunities and an application in the sphere of tourism [PDF]

In an enlarged Europe of the regions, the need for EU policies to possess an explicit territorial dimension is undeniable. This paper, by analysing the fundamentals of the EU policies in the previous 2000-2006 and the current 2007-2013 planning period ...
Jan van der Borg, Nicola Camatti
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“Women Enlace”: Interweaving Women to Make Collective Action Possible

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 554-571, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study engages with the contemporary debate on women's collective action through the lens of commons governance. Drawing on the theory of collective action in the management of common‐pool resources (CPRs) and on feminist ethnography with a group of rural extractivist women in the Cerrado—a vast tropical savanna biome in Brazil's Central ...
Cilene dos Anjos Marcondes
wiley   +1 more source

Polycentrism and Poverty: Experiences of Rural Water Supply Reform in Namibia

Water Alternatives, 2009
Calls for new paradigms in water resource management have emerged from a broad range of commentators over the past decade. These calls arose as it became increasingly clear that the pressing problems in water resource management have to be tackled from ...
Thomas Falk, Bernadette Bock, Michael Kirk   +2 more
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Economic Debate On Spatial Functional Linkages And Its Application to Key Spatial Development Challanges In Poland [PDF]

This article presents a synthesis of today's world economic knowledge and the results of the analyses concerning: a) the nature of spatial functional linkages, including network structures, b) diversity of approaches concerning the application of spatial
Jacek Zaucha
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BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY AND POLYCENTRIC GOVERNANCE

This report addresses the polycentric governance of blockchain systems, following conversa-tions held from September 2022 until September 2023 by a reading group of blockchain practitionersand academics. The ERC-funded BlockchainGov project led the reading group.
de Filippi, Primavera, Mannan, Morshed, Cossar, Sofia, Merk, Tara, Kamalova, Jamilya   +4 more
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Transitioning Oil and Gas Producing Regions: A Comparative Analysis of Regional Approaches in Denmark, New Zealand and Scotland

Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 95-107, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how governance structures and policy approaches influence transition pathways in three major oil and gas producing regions: Esbjerg (Denmark), Taranaki (New Zealand), and Aberdeen (Scotland). The methods employ a comparative case study framework and draw on a literature review, document analysis and interviews with key ...
Sophie Kiernan, Tamara Krawchenko
wiley   +1 more source

Policies for strategic territorial development.Inter-municipality association as a form of network governance: the Italian experience [PDF]

This paper will discuss the problems involving the forms of association between municipalities in North East Italy from the European perspective. These forms of association may be defined as examples of inter-municipality networks: a concept that allows ...
Patrizia MESSINA
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