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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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The Inclusion Trade‐Off: Comparing the Design and Functionality of Collaborative Governance Forums
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental challenges require collaboration across jurisdictions, often through forums or intermediary spaces for repeated interaction. A persistent forum design question concerns inclusion criteria, or which actors should be included.
Adam Wiechman +3 more
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Transforming Rural Water Governance: Towards Deliberative and Polycentric Models?
Water Alternatives, 2009 Editorial
Andreas Neef
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Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Forums play an important role in addressing interdependent policy issues, and their effectiveness depends on the continuous adaptation of forum rules. Yet, it remains unclear whether rules are exclusively used and adapted to improve forum effectiveness.
Ingo Bousema +3 more
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Unpacking Resilience in Public Administration: Insights From a Meta‐Narrative Review
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increasing environmental complexity and uncertainty have made organizational resilience a key concern in public administration. Yet its inherent ambiguity calls for a systematic examination of its conceptualizations, operationalizations, and applications. This meta‐narrative review synthesizes 49 studies, advancing the discourse by identifying
Jixiang Li, Shui‐Yan Tang, Bo Wen
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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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Practice Without Theory? The Wonder of Bethpage Black
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bethpage State Park's Black Course offers a rare historical case of administrative capacity emerging under conditions of uncertainty, fiscal constraint, and urgent public purpose during the Great Depression. Built with relief labor and without the benefit of fully developed public administration or budgeting doctrines, the project required ...
Odd J. Stalebrink
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Territorial Administration and Political Control [PDF]
Based on recent field research, the paper suggests an interpretative model of territorial government in France. Relations between national and local authorities as well as policy- making processes suggest that the centralized State has faced a major ...
Jean-Claude Thoenig
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Sea‐Level Rise Adaptation and Collaboration in Polycentric Governance: A Comparison of Three Regions
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Adaptation to sea‐level rise confronts coastal communities worldwide with a new set of collective action problems that require collaboration. When does collaboration result in concrete action for adaptation? To address this question, we combine the Ecology of Games and Collaborative Governance frameworks using a comparative analysis of three ...
Francesca Vantaggiato +4 more
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.Abstract How can polycentric governance promote the development of ecosocial policies within existing policy systems? Through a study of green reforms of Danish vocational education, the paper argues that polycentric governance institutions are particularly useful at engaging constituent actors in innovation and constructive collaboration over ...
Martin B. Carstensen +2 more
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