UCL's system takes its inspiration from the distributed and decentralised patterns often found in nature.
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"This is a huge increase in the level of ambition for decentralised energy, " he said.
It is bigger and richer but more decentralised, with weaker police forces and courts.
The Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA) union had campaigned for the jobs to be decentralised.
This decentralised structure may be a source of weakness as banks merge and become more pan-European.
This is because the world's richest democracy still has technical problems with its decentralised election systems.
This flawed framework needs to be replaced with one which reflects the reality of a diverse, decentralised country.
He speaks fuzzily of the need for a strong but decentralised state to marry economic liberalism to social justice.
Under the current president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, power has been decentralised to 416 municipalities.
Hiring for Canada's public sector has been decentralised, allowing those who are closest to the job to make the selection.
It has done this with an unusually decentralised management: Xstrata employs only 50-odd people at its main offices in Switzerland and London.
She favours the decentralised Swiss model, which preserves individual choice and competition.
To get clean energy to them requires a decentralised approach using local resources such as wind power, solar energy or small hydroelectric projects.
And a country with highly co-ordinated wage bargaining would have seen a fourfold bigger rise in unemployment than one with highly decentralised bargaining.
Silicon Valley companies also relied too heavily on one product, semiconductors, but its companies were more decentralised and more likely to spawn other companies.
In its place will be decentralised arrangements based on partnership, quality and efficiency to put doctors and nurses in the lead in shaping local services.
Instead, it suggests the exact opposite: a truly decentralised approach, shifting the role of monitoring banks to the market by setting Europe-wide full disclosure rules.
It was getting to the decentralised, and if you like, chaotic, anarchic social system for the web which I think people found difficult to grasp.
There is also a broader problem: American education is so decentralised.
"The potential for decentralised, biomass-fuelled heat and power networks is huge, and their use will contribute significantly to many of the government's energy policy goals, " Mr Ahmed added.
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Under Germany's highly decentralised federal system, the police (other than the federal border guard), the judiciary and the education service are all the responsibility of the individual states.
This could be the biggest benefit of decentralised energy production.
Mr Riese reckons that the bank's initial shift to a decentralised model was helped by the fact that lending growth was very tightly regulated in Sweden at that time.
To overcome these flaws, explains Jay Galbraith, a noted management consultant, most big companies move back and forth between a decentralised organisation along lines of business and a centralised functional structure.
This has led to an exemplary social consensus which spares the country such scourges as industrial action while serving as a shining example to other countries for its free-market, decentralised approach.
This endangers the whole idea behind decentralised regional agencies.
In villages across India, the group has helped to train local entrepreneurs in setting up marketing chains, arrange decentralised credit and finance, and link the villages with manufacturers of village power units.
"In particular, the task is to understand the nature of the new threat - more decentralised, more fragmented, taking advantage of the ungoverned spaces and security vacuum in parts of North Africa, " he said.
In effect, the court is being asked to do something that Spain's 1978 constitution ducked: to set limits to powers that can be handed to the 17 regional governments of an already decentralised country.
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The light-hearted pillow fights, which the website says were initiated by the decentralised " urban playground movement", aim to turn cities into "urban living rooms" where public spaces can be reclaimed for social and spontaneous use.
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