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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

open access: yesDeep 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The polycentricity of urban population will lead to improvements in urban heat island effect: Evidence from the Yangtze river delta in China

open access: yesSustainable 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   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesمسکن 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
doaj  

Analyzing polycentricity

open access: yes, 2016
Spatial restructuring processes occurred in many economically advanced countries with opposing forces of concentration and deconcentration leading to the emergence of polycentric urban configurations.
Krehl, Angelika
core   +1 more source

What the centipede knows: Polycentricity and ‘theory’ for common lawyers

open access: yes, 2020
For Michael Polanyi, ‘polycentricity’ was a method of decision making - of which he saw the common law as a prime exemplar - where numerous decision makers mutually adjust their decisions to their expectations of what will pass muster with the community ...
Swaminathan, Shivprasad
core   +1 more source

Governing Positive Energy Districts: The Role of Legitimation and Identity Across Residential and Industrial Contexts

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increasing electricity demand from data centres, industrial applications, electric vehicles and domestic heating is creating pressure to develop electricity systems in many parts of the world, but especially in Western countries. In response to challenges such as grid congestion, interconnection queues and climate‐related hazards, network ...
Jussi Valta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the Urban Metropolitanization of Kedungsepur Based on Polycentricity and Spatial Transformation

open access: yesJurnal Pembangunan Wilayah dan Kota
Kedungsepur, situated in Central Java Province, Indonesia, encompasses the regions of Kendal, Demak, Ungaran, Semarang, Salatiga, and Purwodadi, making it a strategically significant area.
Ariyani Indrayati   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

When Policy Is the Hazard: Institutional Legitimacy and Climate Risk Attribution Among Farmers in Water Stressed California

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how farmers perceive and respond to climate policy risk in the context of drought and argues that understanding such responses is as important as understanding farmer reactions to the biophysical impacts of climate change.
M. Anne Visser   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Weak feedbacks, governance mismatches, and the robustness of social-ecological systems: an analysis of the Southwest Nova Scotia lobster fishery with comparison to Maine

open access: yesEcology 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
doaj   +1 more source

Collective Decision‐Making and Institutional Configurations in Polycentric Environmental Governance

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why do formally similar multi‐level governance arrangements produce different governance outcomes in urban climate and transport policy? This article examines variation in governance performance across three metropolitan regions in Norway operating under the national Urban Growth Agreement (UGA) framework and pursuing the shared objective of ...
Kirsten Hegsvold
wiley   +1 more source

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