The mix of contemporary innovation policies impacting on a given territory are typically characterised by quite different underlying rationales and instruments.
Environmental planning must determine management practices for a given territory based on the landscape processes that have occurred over time and their consequences.
State building, the construction of a state apparatus defined by its monopoly of the legitimate use of violence in a given territory.
These mobile bands moved through a given territory on an annual round, exploiting the available food resources within a particular valley and its adjacent mountains.
The French political philosopher Jean Bodin (1530 96) articulated a theory of sovereignty that viewed the state as the ultimate source of law in a given territory.
According to the great German sociologist Max Weber, states are institutions that exert a monopoly over the legitimate means of violence in a given territory.
The optimal supply chain configuration for biomass production on a given territory is identified by a two-tier approach, which considers both the environmental and the economic points of view.
43 FAPL has taken the view that such activities are harmful to its interests because they undermine the exclusivity of the rights granted by licence in a given territory and hence the value of those rights.
If Hamas will not cede its weapons to Fatah — if the putative state does not, in Weber's famous definition, have the monopoly on the legitimate use of force within a given territory — there will be no state.
Gangs increasingly aim to dominate all criminal enterprises in a given territory, rather than simply the supply of drugs, says Antonio Mazzitelli, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Mexico City.
The group, the Mujahedeen Khalq, or People's Mujahedeen, is under pressure from the Iraqi government to move from Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, where it was given territory by Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader.
