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The Power of Hegemon: the Role of Discourse
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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Toward Comprehensive Climate Action: Assessing Mitigation Approaches Across Canadian Municipalities
ABSTRACT Local governments are widely regarded as key leaders in the global response to climate change. Understanding if and how municipalities commit to climate mitigation is crucial for assessing their contribution to global emission‐reduction goals and identifying barriers to effective climate transitions.
Aryana Soliz +7 more
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Polycentricity as spatial imaginary : the case of Helsinki City Plan
The paper analyses with a case study the use of a widely applied normative concept of polycentricity as spatial imaginary. The case study of Helsinki City Plan and the conflict over its city-boulevard scheme draws on qualitative content analysis of ...
Sarjamo, Sauli +2 more
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Digital Rights Activism in Multilevel Governance
ABSTRACT Multilevel governance (MLG) without a clear hierarchical structure can create power imbalances among various actors, particularly in settings with overlapping jurisdictions and policy areas. This dynamic is especially pronounced in Internet governance, which faces a complex interplay of domestic laws, state interdependence, and heightened ...
Alison Harcourt
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From Theory to Practice: Mapping Polycentricity in Urban and Regional Studies
Polycentricity has transformed from a normative European planning paradigm into a globally significant research framework shaping urban and regional development debates.
Ali Khodabandeh +1 more
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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 +1 more
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The End of Pax Americana and the Rise of Multipolarity
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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ABSTRACT Agricultural water management (AWM) is increasingly transitioning towards transformative thinking, where interconnected sectors, including water, energy and food, are managed holistically. Trends point towards cross‐sectoral and harmonised strategies to optimise water use efficiency and productivity, integrate renewable energy, promote ...
Luxon Nhamo +5 more
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CHANGING GEOMETRY OF GLOBAL POLYCENTRICITY
: 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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Operationalizing polycentricity for landscape resilience
Landscapes are complex adaptive socialecological systems that encompass human and natural and built environments, and provide essential public and common goods to societies.
Liu, W.
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