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Application of Polycentric Urban Region concept in Iran’s Metropolitan Areas [PDF]

مسکن و محیط روستا, 2020
Application of Polycentric Urban Regions concept in Iran’s Metropolitan Areas Theoretical Origin: Looking at the research on polycentric urban regions, two approaches can be distinguished: The first approach: looking upon the similarity of a polycentric ...
Ali Farnam
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Weak feedbacks, governance mismatches, and the robustness of social-ecological systems: an analysis of the Southwest Nova Scotia lobster fishery with comparison to Maine

Ecology and Society, 2014
The insights in Governing the Commons have provided foundational ideas for commons research in the past 23 years. However, the cases that Elinor Ostrom analyzed have been exposed to new social, economic, and ecological disturbances.
Allain J. . Barnett, John M. Anderies
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Who's in charge here anyway? Polycentric governance configurations and the development of policy on invasive alien species in the semisovereign Caribbean

Ecology and Society, 2017
We address the development of policy by polycentric governance configurations, taking Caribbean overseas territories and their advancements on invasive alien species (IAS) policy as an example.
Jetske Vaas, Peter P. J. Driessen, Mendel Giezen, Frank van Laerhoven, Martin J. Wassen   +4 more
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Polycentric Spatial Structure, Urban Scale, and Land Prices: Evidence from Prefecture-Level Cities in China

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In recent years, local governments in China have actively promoted new district development, encouraging a transition from monocentric to polycentric urban form.
Xiaomei Lian, Xinyue Feng, Tao Liu, Shasha Huang   +3 more
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From Theory to Practice: Mapping Polycentricity in Urban and Regional Studies

European Journal of Spatial Development
Polycentricity has transformed from a normative European planning paradigm into a globally significant research framework shaping urban and regional development debates.
Ali Khodabandeh, Mojtaba Shahabi Shahmiri   +1 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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The Power of Hegemon: the Role of Discourse

RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2020
This paper explores one of the central issues of current international discourse : how is world order sustained and maintained, is it shifting and changing, is it being reinvented and reimagined, or are we on the cusp of global disorder and competition ...
Piotr Dutkiewicz
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Selective polycentricity in the knowledge economy: CBD primacy and subcenter heterogeneity in Seoul

Journal of Urban Management
Metropolitan polycentricity in the knowledge-based economy represents not a simple dispersion of jobs but a qualitative restructuring of urban systems. While empirical studies on global metropolitan areas have described centralized–polycentric patterns ...
Soyoung Yoon, Jae Seung Lee, Saehoon Kim
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CHANGING GEOMETRY OF GLOBAL POLYCENTRICITY

Сравнительная политика, 2015
: Despite the changes, the configuration of global and regional power centers can still be represented as an hierarchy in which the first among equals, the equal, the peripheral and the marginal centers coexist with each other.
Alexey Gromyko
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The End of Pax Americana and the Rise of Multipolarity

Сравнительная политика, 2020
Book Review: Savin, Leonid. Ordo Pluriversalis. The End of Pax Americana and the Rise of Multipolarity. Black House Publishing Ltd, 2020The world is in the midst of a systemic transition from unipolarity to multipolarity, which has prompted many experts ...
A. Korybko
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