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Is Pennine England becoming more Polycentric or more Centripetal? an analysis of commuting flows in a transforming industrial region, 1981-2001 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper examines census-derived commuting data for the world’s earliest major urbanindustrial region, now home to 10 million people. Owing its origins to water power from the Pennine rivers, this region now comprises many closely-spaced cities and ...
Champion, Tony, Coombes, Mike
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Exploring the formation of public acceptability of biodiversity offsetting in Finland

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public acceptance of nature conservation instruments is critical for their effective and fair implementation. Understanding conservation governance as a rational activity aligns with the view that citizens base their judgments of conservation instruments on a critical evaluation of the anticipated ecological, economic, and social impacts ...
Tuija Seppälä   +6 more
wiley   +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

Unleashing Legal Polycentricity in Europe?

open access: yesMises
The questioning of the public and monopolistic production of European Union law is extremely little, if at all, addressed by European Union legal theory. The article proposes to divide the reasons for this absence into two classes. The first part of the
Sébastien Gauderie
doaj   +1 more source

A diversity-based approach to the spatial development of socio-ecological systems [PDF]

open access: yesUrbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii, 2017
Although the concepts of sustainability and resilience have been in place for many years, their meaning and interpretations continues to be a subject of controversies, impeding their practical implementation.
Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor
doaj  

ORIENTATION OF COMMUNICATION ROUTES AND BALANCED REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT [PDF]

open access: yes
Territorial development depends on territorial discontinuities, provided that the region is born of discontinuities, lives through them and is killed by them.
Alexandru-Ionut PETRISOR
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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

Analyzing polycentricity

open access: yes, 2016
Spatial restructuring processes occurred in many economically advanced countries with opposing forces of concentration and deconcentration leading to the emergence of polycentric urban configurations. However, diverging empirical approaches are applied in several studies – a matter that contributes to conceptual confusion and a ‘fuzzy’ use of the term ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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