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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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Justice in Many Rooms Since Galanter: De-Romanticizing Legal Pluralism Through the Cultural Defense [PDF]
, 2008 Sharafi explores the emergence of legal pluralism during 1970s and 80s and discusses its relation in the cultural defense. Legal pluralism was more than a methodological stance intended to help lawyers and anthropologists talk to each other; it was an ...
Sharafi, Mitra
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Polycentric Metropolitan Form: Application of a ‘Northern’ Concept in Latin America
Footprint, 2009 Since the mid 20th century, large urban areas in advanced economies have experienced a fundamental transformation from relatively compact monocentric cities towards more extended polycentric metropolitan areas.
Arie Romein +2 more
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Ecology and Society, 2023 The growing scale of natural hazards highlights the need for models of governance capable of addressing risk across administrative boundaries. However, risk governance systems are often fragmented, decentralized, and sustained by informal linkages among ...
Matthew Hamilton +2 more
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MEASURING POLYCENTRICITY OF MEGA-CITY REGIONS IN CHINA BASED ON THE INTERCITY MIGRATION FLOWS [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2016 This paper uses the intercity migration flows to examine relations between Chinese cities, identify the important mega-city regions and measure each region's polycentricity from an interaction perspective.
X. Mu, A. G. O. Yeh
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Government by Code? Blockchain Applications to Public Sector Governance
Frontiers in Blockchain, 2022 Studies of blockchain governance can be divided into analyses of the governance of blockchains (such as rules and power dynamics within a given network) and governance by blockchains (such as how blockchains can be implemented to improve self-governance ...
Pedro Bustamante +16 more
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Democratic Hopes in the Polycentric City [PDF]
, 2004 The polycentric model of municipal governance suggests that multiple jurisdictions may approximate an efficient market for local public services: citizens move to jurisdictions offering services they value at tax rates they are willing and able to pay ...
King, Loren
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Analysis of polycentricity of the South-East Region of Romania [PDF]
Urbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii, 2019 Although its content is not clear enough, "polycentricity" has become, since the 1990s, an important concept that was at the core of discussions on territorial and economic development of Europe.
Sorin Daniel Manole +1 more
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POLYCENTRICITY AND COMMUTING. AN APPLICATION TO METROPOLITAN AREAS IN THE SOUTH OF POLAND [PDF]
Acta Geobalcanica, 2018 Commuting is an element of functional interrelations in metropolitan regions. They determine the nodes of a settlement system and portray economic attractions.
Elżbieta Zuzańska-Żyśko
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The Typology of Urban Polycentricity: A Comparative Study of Firm Distribution in 35 Chinese Cities
Urban SciencePrevailing theories and empirical studies have suggested that the internal spatial structures of large cities have transformed from monocentric to polycentric.
Zhihui Wu, Yanyan Peng, Bo Qin
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