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IMPACTS OF REGION-WIDE URBAN DEVELOPMENT ON BIODIVERSITY IN STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT

BALFORS, BERIT; MÖRTBERG, ULLA; GONTIER, MIKAEL; … - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 07 (2005) 02, pp. 229-246

In urbanising regions, urban sprawl and infrastructure cause profound alterations of natural habitats. Initial decisions on urban expansion and major infrastructure investments are often made on a strategic level where the long-term development of a region is determined. For these types of...

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Unlocking Public Entrepreneurship and Public Economies

Ostrom, Elinor - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005

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On the Function of Two Variables of Urban Population Density

Racorean, Ovidiu - EconWPA - 2004

This paper is a pure theoretical attempt to explain tendencies revealed in the last decade urban researches, such as decentralization of population toward the cities suburbs, formation of polycentric cities, by a process of alteration of city traditional monocentricity, in time, due to the...

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Metropolitan Areas in Spain and Italy

Boix, Rafael; Veneri, Paolo - Institut d'Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de … - 2009

Metropolitan areas concentrate the main share of population, production and consumption in OECD countries. They are likely to be the most important units for economic, social and environmental analysis as well as for the development of policy strategies. However, one of the main problems that...

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The subgroup problem: When can binding voting on extractions from a common pool resource overcome the tragedy of the commons?

Bernard, Mark; Dreber, Anna; Strimling, Pontus; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 91 (2013) C, pp. 122-130

Using a common pool resource game protocol with voting we examine experimentally how cooperation varies with the level at which (binding) votes are aggregated. Our results are broadly in line with theoretical predictions. When players can vote on the behavior of the whole group or when leaders...

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Resilience in Public Administration: The Work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom

Toonen, Theo - In: Transnational Corporations Review 2 (2010) 2, pp. 92-113

This essay examines the remarkable careers of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, exploring polycentricity and human management …

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Polycentric Orders and the Governance of Public Economies

Razo, Armando - In: Transnational Corporations Review 2 (2010) 2, pp. 17-34

jurisdictions and a certain degree of autonomy to consumers of public goods. The definition clarifies that polycentricity is not a … relates the concept of polycentricity to other organizational literatures in economics and sociology, and notes the similarity … between empirical studies of polycentricity and modern social network analysis. …

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Le desserrement intra-métropolitain des emplois d'intermédiation : une tentative de mesure et d'interprétation dans le cas de la région métropolitaine parisienne

Halbert, Ludovic - In: Géographie, économie, société 7 (2005) 1, pp. 1-20

Business services decentralization within metropolitan areas is often linked in the literature to the decline of CBDs. In this paper, we study the reality of such dynamics as well as the impact on intra-metropolitan economic centrality in a Parisian region known for its long-time inherited...

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Examining the Mega-City-Region Hypothesis: Evidence from the Paris City-Region/Bassin parisien

Halbert, Ludovic - In: Regional Studies 42 (2008) 8, pp. 1147-1160

Studies. Four dimensions of the concept of polycentricity (morphological, functional, relational, and political polycentricity … tries to evaluate in the Paris city-region and French context whether a limited polycentricity at Bassin parisien level is …

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Discourse on 'Metropolitan Driving Forces' and 'Uneven Development': Germany and the RhineRuhr Conurbation - RETRACTED

Knapp, Wolfgang; Schmitt, Peter - In: Regional Studies 42 (2008) 8, pp. 1187-1204

Knapp W. and Schmitt P. Discourse on 'metropolitan driving forces' and 'uneven development': Germany and the RhineRuhr conurbation, Regional Studies. This paper provides a contribution to the debate on re-scaling and uneven development from the point of view of the governance of spatial...

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