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Securing the Commons in India: Mapping Polycentric Governance

open access: yesInternational 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
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of urban polycentralization and scale expansion on economic efficiency: evidence from Chinese cities

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Polycentricity

open access: yes, 2021
Globalizacija i ubrzani razvoj potaknuli su rast pojedinih gradova, dok je većina srednjih i malih gradova ostala u sjeni. Takav urbani sustav s dominantnim gradom (najčešće glavni grad) stvara polarizaciju u razvoju. Trendovi regionalnih nejednakosti
Zlatić, Martina
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When Collaboration Bridges or Breaks: A Systematic Review of Emerging Trends in Supply Chain Resilience and Sustainability

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Widespread digital adoption has challenged our understanding of how these tools reshape collaboration, trust and sustainability outcomes across different institutional and network contexts. As networks now pursue resilience and sustainable development in parallel, we map emerging research directions and identify how collaboration and ...
Ari Carisza Graha Prasetia   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Germany’s Polycentric Metropolitan Regions in the World City Network

open access: yesRaumforschung 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Multifaceted Role of Trust in Circular Ecosystems: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular ecosystems connect diverse actors who collaborate to close resource loops and pursue sustainable goals without centralized control. Such arrangements entail heightened interdependence and uncertainty, making trust, understood as the willingness to accept vulnerability based on positive expectations of others' behavior, a critical ...
Inken Hoeck, Tassilo Schuster
wiley   +1 more source

Polycentricity at its boundaries: consistent or ambiguous?

open access: yes, 2019
Polycentricity describes a certain region by the relationship of a selection of its most central spatial entities. We identify two sources of shortcomings in measures of polycentricity: the delineation of the region under study and the number of units ...
Möck, Malte, Küpper, Patrick
core   +1 more source

Automating Sustainability: How Climate Action Unlocks the ESG Potential of Industrial Robotics

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The convergence of Industry 4.0 and global sustainability goals presents a critical paradox: while automation drives efficiency, its net impact on comprehensive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance remains contested. This study investigates the relationship between industrial robot and country‐level ESG performance across 63
Brahim Bergougui
wiley   +1 more source

Pacifying Babel’s Tower: A scientometric analysis of polycentricity in urban research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
It is sometimes claimed that the degree of polycentricity of an urban region influences that region’s competitiveness. However, because of widespread use and policy relevance, the underlying concept of polycentricity has become a ‘stretched concept’ in ...
Ben Derudder (121205)   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Landscape planning and polycentricity: potentialities for regional integration in transboundary natural resources

open access: yesU.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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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