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Examining the policy outcomes of cancelling the house purchase restriction: quasi-experimental evidence from China

Urban Governance
While the impact of the house purchase restriction (HPR) policy on the housing market in China has been deeply examined, there is still little known about how the housing market varies when such policy is abandoned.
Xinghua Zhao, Bing Han, Yiming Guan, Zheng Cheng, Yuexi Yang   +4 more
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Cross‐scale Material‐Structure Synergy for 2D Metamaterials: Toward Customizable Intelligent Electromagnetic Manipulation in Multiphysics Fields

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Recent advances in metasurface‐enabled low‐observable technologies are reviewed from the perspective of cross‐scale material–structure synergy. Electromagnetic, thermal, optical, and acoustic stealth are highlighted together with dynamic tuning, programmable coding, data‐driven inverse design, artificial intelligence, multispectral compatibility, and ...
Shuhao Wang, Xing Yang, Liping Liu, Yang Peng, Yangyang Wang, Hualiang Lv   +5 more
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Are Model Cities an Effective Instrument for Urban Environmental Governance?

, 2019
Since the 1980s, China’s central government has created various model and incentive schemes aimed at systematically and concurrently promoting innovative approaches for protecting the urban ecological environment. In this context, programmes such as the ‘
Brehm, Stefan,, Lund University., Svensson, Jesper,   +2 more
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Government interventions in sustainable supply chain governance: Experience in Dutch front-running cases [PDF]

, 2012
Numerous multi-actor governance systems have recently emerged, ensuring sustainability of international traded products. Business and civil society actors play a dominant role in initiating and governing ‘sustainable supply chain governance systems ...
Environmental Governance, Kok, M.T.J., Vermeulen, W.J.V., Section Environmental Governance   +3 more
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Smart urban governance: An urgent symbiosis?

Information Polity, 2019
Over the past decade, two dominant perspectives prevail on the governance of smart cities. From a public administration perspective, ‘smart governance’ emphasizes the importance of technology-based tools in transforming government institutions. From an urban planning perspective, the governance of smart cities focuses on the institution interaction ...
Huaxiong Jiang, Stan C. M. Geertman, Patrick Witte   +2 more
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The urban governance of austerity in Europe [PDF]

, 2018
The 2008 financial crash and ensuing austerity have brought critical perspectives on political economy into academic debates in democratic theory and public administration. One important area of contention regards “collaborative” and “network” forms of governance. Advocates argue that these comprise an epochal shift that resolves many pitfalls of state
Bua, Adrian, Davies, Jonathan, Blanco, Ismael, Chorianopoulos, Ionnis, Cortina-Oriol, Mercè, Feandeiro, Andrés, Gaynor, Niamh, Griggs, Steven, Howarth, David, Salazar, Yuni   +9 more
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Optimized Land–Water Management Expands Afforestation Potential Under Land and Human Water‐Use Constraints

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Human water demand constrains China's feasible afforestation potential more strongly than is commonly recognized, and future climate change further intensifies this limitation. Integrating land‐use optimization with water‐saving measures substantially expands feasible afforestation area and associated carbon sinks, revealing a practical pathway to ...
Binbin Huang, Fei Lu, Yuebo Su, Xuming Wang, Hua Zheng, Zhiyun Ouyang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tolerated informality: Weak land governance and dualism at the Chinese urban-rural interface

, 2020
The increasing scale and pace of urban expansion over recent decades has resulted in uneven socio-spatial development across the globe, polarising inequalities between the city and countryside. As land becomes an increasingly scarce resource in the midst
Ava Lynam
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Vine‐Inspired Soft Robotics: Materials, Actuations, and Emerging Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Vine‐inspired robots grow from the tip, enabling navigation through confined spaces with minimal disturbance. This Review summarizes material and actuation strategies for vine‐inspired growth, key functions including steering, retraction, attachment, branching, and variable stiffness, and emerging applications spanning medical intervention, confined ...
Jiahao Wu, Xingyun Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Huili Ren, Chaojun Zhang, Ziyu Ren, Zunqi Liu, Jing Li   +7 more
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Chapter two Whose city is this anyway? Tensions in urban governance, good and otherwise

, 2015
This chapter explores a series of issues related to the configuration and objectives of urban governance. These issues are then elaborated into six dimensions of “good urban governance”.
Jon Pierre, Pierre, Jon,
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