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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"polycentric"”.
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Polycentric security governance : legitimacy, accountability, and the public interest
… examines how power is constituted in hybrid polycentric systems of security governance. In particular, the thesis explores how legitimacy - as one form of power - is configured in Improvement Districts in South Africa, with a specific focus on three ways by which it is gained: through …
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Critical Polycentric Governance: Indigenous Peoples' Tenure Security in India's Forests
Polycentric systems of governance, where diverse institutional actors including government, community and CSOs operate across multiple jurisdictional levels interdependently, are argued to offer unique opportunities to address complex collective action problems at scale. While an extensive …
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Divisive Rights and Structural Wrongs: A Comparison in Polycentric Constitutionalism
… impartiality, and the design of integrative polycentric/federal constitutions. In doing so, the research develops a comprehensive typology of the vertical division of powers and structural interactions on socially divisive issues in the US and EU. Through comparing minority rights, equal pay, …
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Locational Distribution of Global Advanced Producer Service Firms in the Polycentric US Metropolis
… the study further questions in the context of polycentric US metropolis, whether or not the distribution of transnational advanced producer service firms define a new form of centrality, in which the traditional central business districts and suburban centers differ from each other in terms of …
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State Steering in Polycentric Governance Systems: Climate Policy Integration in Ontario and California's Transportation Sectors
… regime that displays the essential features of polycentric governance (Keohane and Victor 2011; Abbott 2012; 2018). The complexity of polycentric climate governance systems makes them hard to describe and compare. That being said, they are also everywhere (Harford 2013). As our current reality, …
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Towards Polycentric Regionalism: Sino-Russian Geo-Economic Relations and the Formation of the Pacific Arctic Region
… I conceptualise as a geo-economic process of Polycentric Regionalism. The rising great power ambitions of Russia and China - with substantial economic spheres of overlapping regional interests (i.e. their neighbouring Dongbei / Russian Far East and Arctic territories), has led to their …
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Adaptive water governance: flood management and the policy process in Scotland
… water governance, in particular the need for polycentric forms of governance, where power over decision-making is not held by a single social actor but distributed across society, and the use of participatory processes, promoting collective action and enhancing collective reflection. Empirical …
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Growth effects of urban-rural and intra-regional linkages on counties and communities in the U.S.
… theoretical characteristics of monocentric and polycentric regions. I test these hypotheses using data from regions defined by the nodality-based spatial structure scheme as monocentric or polycentric. In general, I find that while the drivers of monocentricity are well understood in the …
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Wohnmobilität in der Großregion -- eine interurbane Diskursanalyse mit Fokus auf den Städten Arlon, Thionville und Trier.
… and dwelling in a transnational cross-border polycentric region in western Europe. The economic development of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg calls for a constant expansion of the labour market, attracting cross-border commuters and highly mobile professional elites. The concomitant rises in …
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Territorial Challenges and Sustainable Regional Development. A mixed-method approach
… conservation with connectivity measures and polycentric, shared-administration arrangements that sustain liveability and compliance, guiding targeted investment and monitoring.
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Barriers for Establishment of Clinical Research Units in Safety-Net Health Systems: A Qualitative Study of Leadership Participants With Experience in Federally Qualified Health Centers
… the ideas of organizational change readiness and polycentric governance, and how theories within those fields of study can be applied along with an understanding of tangible barriers to enact a centralized research unit. Finally, after addressing the disparity of these systems to conduct research, …
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Evaluating Beijing’s transit network expansion through a longitudinal analysis of the equity of public transit accessibility
… or accelerate Beijing’s transformation into a polycentric city with multiple, high-density urban cores linked by high-speed commuter rail.
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Constraints on the adoption of Adaptive Water Management principles: the case of Greater Tehran.
… future uncertainties. The AWM characteristics of polycentric governance, institutional flexibility, and public participation were used to assess the adaptability of the existing water management. The research findings showed that, despite the lack of adaptability in the current Greater Tehran …
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CONGESTION CHARGE AND REMOTE WORKING: POLICY INSIGHTS FROM SPATIAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELS
… the potential combined use of the two to achieve polycentric city-regional development. Chapter 6 outlines the policy implications and research limitations and provides directions for future research.
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DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE IN COLLECTIVE ACTION INITIATIVES IN THE ENERGY FIELD
… the energy market is going towards a polycentric system characterized by the cohabitation of large- and small-scale installations. This configuration allows for the presence of new actors, fostering the deployment of renewable energy and representing a new tool to fight against climate …
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Diritto alla salute e ICT: tra controllo della spesa e verifica di appropriatezza
… nowadays as a financially affected right, the polycentric and multilevel nature of the health sector and the requirements to control the public spending that have strongly conditioned by obligations of supranational origin. In this context, the ICT (Information Communications technologies) …
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Transport Choice and the Fragmentation of Mobility in Britain, 1959-1974
… became a serious issue across Britain’s polycentric cities.
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Towards the environmental minimum: an argument for environmental protection through human rights
… concerns, namely from those sceptical that the polycentric nature of environmental issues create an insurmountable barrier to any significant improvements through judicially enforced human rights. Chapter three introduces and defends the environmental minimum as a normative framework for …
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The race to zero: emission reduction strategies in the sugarcane growing industry in southern Malawi
… in attaining them, and explores the relevance of polycentric governance in the emission reduction agendas of the sugarcane growing industry in southern Malawi. The research used qualitative methods including semi-structured interviews and mixed media reviews (reports, policies, websites, and …
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