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Polycentric energy governance: Under what conditions do energy communities scale?

Environmental Policy and Governance, 2022
AbstractAs the polycentric nature of climate governance becomes ever more apparent, understanding the role played by individual initiatives becomes an increasingly urgent research priority. In recent years, community initiatives have blossomed in relation to clean energy, both in their overall number and diversity.
Petrovics, Daniel, Huitema, Dave, Jordan, Andrew   +2 more
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Building blocks of polycentric governance

Policy Studies Journal, 2023
AbstractSuccess or failure of a polycentric system is a function of complex political and social processes, such as coordination between actors and venues to solve specialized policy problems. Yet there is currently no accepted method for isolating distinct processes of coordination, nor to understand how their variance affects polycentric governance ...
Morrison, Tiffany H., Bodin, Örjan, Cumming, Graeme S., Lubell, Mark, Seppelt, Ralf, Seppelt, Tim Frederik, Weible, Christopher M.   +6 more
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From campaign-style response to positive response: how local actors’ behaviors affect the effectiveness of polycentric water governance

Ecology and Society
Resolving complex social-ecological challenges requires many actors to coordinate and collaborate to take concerted governance actions. This is consistent with the concept of polycentricity, which focuses on self-governance.
Liuzhao Huang, Xiaoxin Liang, Yiqing Su
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Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Ecology and Society, 2018
Recent advances in land system science and in institutional analysis provide complementary, but still largely disconnected perspectives on land use change, governance, and sustainability in social-ecological systems, which are interconnected across ...
Christoph Oberlack, Sébastien Boillat, Stefan Brönnimann, Jean-David Gerber, Andreas Heinimann, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Peter Messerli, Stephan Rist, Urs Wiesmann   +8 more
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Policy sequencing to reduce tropical deforestation

Global Sustainability, 2021
Non-technical summary Tropical deforestation continues apace despite a proliferation of commitments made by companies and governments to control it.
Paul R. Furumo, Eric F. Lambin
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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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Networked sovereignty: Polycentric water governance and Indigenous self-determination in the Klamath Basin

Water Alternatives, 2022
Water governance engages with complex collective action problems that typically involve a wide range of actors across multiple jurisdictions and large geographical areas.
Sibyl Diver, M.V. Eitzel, Susan Fricke, Leaf Hillman   +3 more
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Multi-level policies and adaptive social networks – a conceptual modeling study for maintaining a polycentric governance system

International Journal of the Commons, 2017
Information and collaboration patterns embedded in social networks play key roles in multilevel and polycentric modes of governance. However, modeling the dynamics of such social networks in multilevel settings has been seldom addressed in the literature.
Jean-Denis Mathias, Steven Lade, Victor Galaz   +2 more
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Securing the Commons in India: Mapping Polycentric Governance

International Journal of the Commons, 2021
Common pool land and water resources in India play vital, but often overlooked, roles in livelihoods and ecosystem services. These resources are subject to the authority of various government departments and are often managed in ways that result in ...
Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Rahul Chaturvedi, Sandeep Kandikuppa, Kaushalendra Rao, Jagdeesh Puppala Rao, Bryan Bruns, Hagar ElDidi   +6 more
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Comparing polycentric configuration for adaptive governance within community forests: Case studies in Eastern North America

International Journal of the Commons, 2018
Looking at two cases of community forests (CF) in Eastern North America, this article examines their institutional features in order to assess whether they are conducive to adaptive governance.
Jean-François Bissonnette, Denis Blouin, Jérôme Dupras, Clément Chion, Luc Bouthillier   +4 more
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