Polycentrism and Flux in Spatialized Management: Evidence from Maine\u27s Lobster (Homarus americanus) Fishery [PDF]
, 2010 Spatial approaches to fisheries management hold great promise but require continued conceptual and policy development. Polycentrism and flux emerge as useful concepts, drawing lessons from more customary, informal resourceuse patterns to produce more ...
Brewer, Jennifer F.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change is one of the most profound ethical and existential challenges of the 21st century. Beyond its physical, economic, and environmental consequences, it raises fundamental moral questions about justice, equity, responsibility, and the right to a livable planet.
Jacob Kwakye
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A multi-scalar analysis of European cities [PDF]
In this article, we observe existing links between sustainable development and cities’ structural features. First, we identify cluster of cities that are homogenous in structural terms. We then adopt a multiscalar perspective.
Enrico Giovannetti, Francesco Pagliacci
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The Control–Entropy Paradox: Modeling the Thermodynamic Limits of Environmental Governance
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental governance often seeks to reduce disorder, yet the energetic and material costs of control are overlooked. This article presents the Control–Entropy Paradox, developing a formal systems model and a conceptual extension of governance theory.
Sibongiseni B. Hlabisa
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Challenging the ‘S’ of Mayoral Strategic Authorities: Standardisation over Strategy?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The Labour government's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (EDCEB) represents the most ambitious attempt yet to embed devolution and ‘empower communities’ across England, completing the map of devolution under mayoral strategic authorities.
Nicholas P. Sweeney
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The Evolution of Polycentric Governance in the Galapagos Small-Scale Fishing Sector. [PDF]
Environ Manage, 2022 Cáceres R +3 more
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Re-structuring competetive metropolitan regions: on territory, institutions and governance. RheinRuhr compared with London, Paris and the Randstad Holland [PDF]
Currently social and political constructed urban regions are about to approach a threefold role regarding their functional, economic and political function. At first they constitute a basis for economic and social life.
Knapp, Wolfgang, Schmitt, Peter
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, 2019 There has been a rapid expansion of academic interest and publications on polycentricity. In the contemporary world, nearly all governance situations are polycentric, but people are not necessarily used to thinking this way. Governing Complexity provides an updated explanation of the concept of polycentric governance. The editors provide examples of it
Blomquist, William +1 more
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Frontiers in Political ScienceThe global landscape of international development cooperation has shifted from a hierarchical donor–recipient paradigm to a polycentric system shaped by diverse state and non-state actors.
Shifadjzic Khan +4 more
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Implications of the EU Multi-Level Governance in the Field of Competition Policy – A Comparative Analysis of the Characteristics of Cohesion and Competition Policies [PDF]
Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 2011 The paper aims at analyzing the intrinsic characteristics of the European Union and to show that these characteristics objectively require the implementation of multi-level governance.
Florin Bonciu
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