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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López +2 more
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Energies, 2020 To facilitate energy transition, regulators have devised ‘regulatory sandboxes’ to create a participatory experimentation environment for exploring revision of energy law in several countries.
Esther C. van der Waal +2 more
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Polycentric Development to Combat Regional Disparities? the Relation Between Polycentricity and Regional Disparities in European Countries [PDF]
Trends in regional disparities have been a major issue in regional science for many decades and knowledge of ways to overcome such disparities has great importance for regional policy-making. Strong initial differences between regions affect the capacity
Evert Meijers, Krister Sandberg
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The Control–Entropy Paradox: Modeling the Thermodynamic Limits of Environmental Governance
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental governance often seeks to reduce disorder, yet the energetic and material costs of control are overlooked. This article presents the Control–Entropy Paradox, developing a formal systems model and a conceptual extension of governance theory.
Sibongiseni B. Hlabisa
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract A litany of think tank reports has critiqued Whitehall's ability to deliver policy. The latest—by Demos—locates the roots of Britain's governance woes in Whitehall's political culture. Drawing on public policy literature, we critique this report by demonstrating that Whitehall's political culture reflects the enduring structural design of ...
DARCY LUKE, NATHAN CRITCH
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Challenging the ‘S’ of Mayoral Strategic Authorities: Standardisation over Strategy?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The Labour government's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (EDCEB) represents the most ambitious attempt yet to embed devolution and ‘empower communities’ across England, completing the map of devolution under mayoral strategic authorities.
Nicholas P. Sweeney
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ESPON Project 2.3.1., Application and effects of the ESDP in Member States. First Interim Report [PDF]
, 2005 This First Interim Report includes the initial results of the project "Application and Effects of the ESDP in the Member States" within the ESPON Programme 2000-2006.
Dematteis, Giuseppe +4 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
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Polycentricity and metropolitan governance. A Swiss case study [PDF]
The concept of ‘polycentric spatial development’, a central principle of the European Spatial Development Perspective, is closely linked to the concept of ‘sustainable urban development’.
Alain Thierstein +3 more
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Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
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