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Governing climate change: polycentricity in action?
Local Government Studies, 2019 To date, humanity’s efforts to mitigate climate change have made slow progress, with global greenhouse gas emissions continuing to rise. Some states and politicians have baulked at acting on climate change, claiming to fear being exploited by ‘free ...
Paul Tobin
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International Journal of Geographical Information ScienceGraph theory effectively explains urban structures via street–street connectivity. However, systematic comparisons of street structures across cities remain challenging.
Ding Ma +5 more
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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 +6 more
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Network-entropy-based morphological polycentricity in 1851-1881 England and Wales
Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City ScienceA system of cities is morphologically polycentric when its cities are similarly sized and evenly spaced across its territory. In this paper, we adapt established spatial interaction models and entropy-based measures of heterogeneity of weighted networks ...
Matteo Mazzamurro, Weisi Guo
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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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The (Re)Making of Polycentricity in China's Planning Discourse: The Case of Tianjin
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2020 Polycentricity is promoted as an ideal urban form to achieve sustainable and balanced development, and it has been widely adopted by planners in China, especially in large cities. However, the rhetoric about polycentricity has rarely been interrogated in
Weikai Wang, Ya Ping Wang, K. Kintrea
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Frontiers in Environmental ScienceIntroductionThis 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 +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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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 +2 more
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U.Porto Journal of EngineeringThis 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 +2 more
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