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, 2023 How does governing work today? How does society (mis)handle pressing challenges such as armed violence, cultural difference, ecological degradation, economic restructuring, geopolitical shifts, global pandemics, migration flows, and technological change in ways that are (not) democratic, effective, fair, peaceful, and sustainable? This volume addresses
Gadinger, F., Scholte, J.A.
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Polycentricity, Agglomeration, and Industrial Air Pollution in the Chinese City-Regions
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 With the rise of the city-regions development strategy, the impact of the spatial structure in city-regions on environmental pollution becomes an increasingly important issue related to sustainable regional development.
Xu Han, Jianmin Dou, Chenghui Tang
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Unpacking polycentricity at the city-regional scale: Insights from Dusseldorf and Stockholm
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2015 The normative concept of polycentricity has become a promising tool to pursue spatial policy goals such as spatial equity and justice, sustainable and balanced development, and, more recently territorial cohesion, at various scales across Europe.
Peter Schmitt +3 more
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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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Polycentric Governing and Polycentric Governance
, 2023 Abstract Existing literature has tended to define polycentric governance in the sense developed by the Bloomington School of Political Economy. In contrast, this chapter promotes polycentricity as a lens for analysing governance from an institutionalist perspective. Such an approach can be applied locally (e.g. to metropolitan, water,
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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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An Introduction to Polycentric Governing
, 2023 Abstract The opening chapter sets out the overall motivation, context, concepts, and outline of the book. As its motivation, the volume pursues a question both compact in its formulation and sweeping in its implications: namely, how are we being governed today?
Gadinger, F., Scholte, J.A.
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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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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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