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Do the urban polycentricity and dispersion affect multisectoral carbon dioxide emissions? A case study of 95 cities in southeast China based on nighttime light data

International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023
Effectively exploring the impacts of urban spatial structures on carbon dioxide emissions is important for achieving low-carbon goals. However, most previous studies have examined the impact of urban spatial structure on total carbon emissions based only
Zuoqi Chen, Qianyu Li, Hua Su
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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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The impact of urban polycentralization and scale expansion on economic efficiency: evidence from Chinese cities

Frontiers in Environmental Science
IntroductionThis study investigates the effects of urban polycentricity and city size on total factor productivity (TFP) in Chinese cities.MethodsUsing high-resolution population distribution data from Landscan and applying instrumental variable (IV ...
Xinyang Jiang, Siyi Wei, Chen Yi, Siyu Liu, Bo Yang, Yao Wu   +5 more
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Germany’s Polycentric Metropolitan Regions in the World City Network

Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2011
On a regional scale, two types of polycentricity can be observed. The first involves polycentric metropolitan regions that have evolved in the course of post-suburban development around a previously monocentric city, whereas the second type involves ...
Angelika Münter
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Unveiling spatial heterogeneity in urban underground space development patterns and mechanisms for differentiated planning: A points of interest‐based study of Shanghai

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This study investigated the spatial patterns and development mechanisms of urban underground space (UUS) in Shanghai using underground points of interest data. It revealed distinct development mechanisms between the main city and suburbs, highlighting the need for differentiated UUS planning and policies to optimize underground space resources ...
Chenxiao Ma, Fangle Peng, Yongkang Qiao, Yunhao Dong   +3 more
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Landscape planning and polycentricity: potentialities for regional integration in transboundary natural resources

U.Porto Journal of Engineering
This article proposes a discussion on the potential application of polycentricity strategies in the management of strategic transboundary natural resources, such as shared water bodies and river basins with regional potential for water supply and energy ...
Franklin Gabriel Menezes Gaspar, Cecília Alexandra Abreu Coelho da Rocha, Fernando Manuel Brandão Alves   +2 more
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Spatial patterns of knowledge-intensive business services in cities of various sizes, morphologies and economies [PDF]

, 2020
We compare intra-urban localization patterns of advertising and IT companies in three large Czech cities. The main aim of our analysis is an empirically-based contribution to the question to what extent do knowledge bases affect the spatial distribution ...
Ivan, Igor, Slach, Ondřej, Zenka, Jan
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Successful Implementation of Environmental Policy and Governance: Understanding and Modeling Micro Governance

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Successful implementation of environmental policy and governance highly depends on the capacity to know about, build new and utilize existing governance structures. However, the theoretical tools and available methods to assess the complexity of emerging or existing structures are rather limited.
Diana Giebels, Arend Ligtenberg, Martha Bakker   +2 more
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The polycentricity of urban population will lead to improvements in urban heat island effect: Evidence from the Yangtze river delta in China

Sustainable Futures
Currently, major cities globally are universally and actively implementing strategies for the polycentric development of urban spatial structures. However, the impacts of this strategy on the ecological environment and residents' lives require further ...
Cheng Wang, Jingyuan Chen, Qinpei Wang, Dan Li, Meng Zhu, Zhiqiang Gan, Menglin Qin, Yunbin Zhang   +7 more
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Degrees of change toward polycentric transboundary water governance: exploring the Columbia River and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project

Ecology and Society, 2019
Complex challenges emerging in transboundary river basins reveal a need to include a range of interests and actors in governance processes. Polycentric governance is one framework that can address this need and inform adaptive and resilient governance ...
William Jesse Baltutis, Michele-Lee Moore   +1 more
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