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Handbook on Adaptive Governance
The interconnectedness of global society is increasingly visible through crises such as the current global health pandemic, emerging climate change impacts and increasing erosion of biodiversity. This timely Handbook navigates the challenges of adaptive governance in these complex contexts, stressing the necessarily compounded nature of bio-physical and social systems to ensure more desirable governance outcomes.
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The interconnectedness of global society is increasingly visible through crises such as the current global health pandemic, emerging climate change impacts and increasing erosion of biodiversity. This timely Handbook navigates the challenges of adaptive governance in these complex contexts, stressing the necessarily compounded nature of biophysical and social systems to ensure more desirable governance outcomes.
Highlighting the dynamics and diversity of governance systems across the globe, leading experts in the field examine the successes and failures of these systems. Synthesising theory with methodology and practical case studies, chapters explore adaptive governance in forest management, marine environments and open data ecosystems, looking closely at the role of adaptive governance in climate mitigation and disaster risk reduction. Answering the call for large-scale transformations that move societies away from unsustainable development trajectories, this prescriptive Handbook explores the existing adaptive governance measures that have driven reflexive, sustainable change. Reflecting on the past decade of research in the field, it concludes by outlining new areas of contention and inquiry for the next decade of adaptive governance research.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this comprehensive Handbook will prove an invigorating read for students and scholars of environmental law, governance and regulation, and political science and public policy. Policymakers looking to innovate their adaptive governance approaches will also find this a beneficial companion.
Highlighting the dynamics and diversity of governance systems across the globe, leading experts in the field examine the successes and failures of these systems. Synthesising theory with methodology and practical case studies, chapters explore adaptive governance in forest management, marine environments and open data ecosystems, looking closely at the role of adaptive governance in climate mitigation and disaster risk reduction. Answering the call for large-scale transformations that move societies away from unsustainable development trajectories, this prescriptive Handbook explores the existing adaptive governance measures that have driven reflexive, sustainable change. Reflecting on the past decade of research in the field, it concludes by outlining new areas of contention and inquiry for the next decade of adaptive governance research.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this comprehensive Handbook will prove an invigorating read for students and scholars of environmental law, governance and regulation, and political science and public policy. Policymakers looking to innovate their adaptive governance approaches will also find this a beneficial companion.
Critical Acclaim
‘This volume brings a dazzling array of international authors together to present the latest thinking on adaptive governance and how it can be made to work in tackling transformative and rapid change in complex social ecological systems. These innovations are urgently needed to address major challenges such as the climate crisis. The approach is highly interdisciplinary, presenting new ideas and linking to diverse theory and concepts, and to empirical cases from around the world. It will be essential reading for scholars and practitioners of environmental change, policy and governance, and those studying politics, international relations, geography and resource management.’
– Katrina Brown, University of Exeter, UK
– Katrina Brown, University of Exeter, UK
Contributors
Contributors: Jesse Abrams, Carla Alexandra, Debasmita Bhakta, R. Patrick Bixler, Barbara Cosens, Amber Datta, Holley Doremus, Peter Edwards, Marine Elbakidze, Tamar Farchy, Daniel Fitzpatrick, Lance Gunderson, Grete K. Hovelsrud, Ping Huang, Sirkku Juhola, Alexandra Jurgilevich, Elena Louder, Jasper Montana, Claudia Munera Roldan, Maija Nikkanen, Jessica Olson, Paola Passalacqua, Sandeep Paul, Matthew Preisser, Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen, Barbara Quimby, Aleksi Räsänen, J.B. Ruhl, Niko Soininen, Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Cancan Wang, Linda Westman, Hege Westskog, Carina Wyborn
Contents
Contents:
1 Introduction to the Handbook on Adaptive Governance 1
Sirkku Juhola
PART I THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENTS
2 Operationalising adaptive governance: a research agenda 15
Barbara Cosens, Holly Doremus, J. B. Ruhl, Niko Soininen and
Lance Gunderson
3 Adaptive governance, law and regulation 35
Niko Soininen, Barbara Cosens, J. B. Ruhl and Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen
4 Conceptualising the science–policy–practice interface of adaptive governance 54
Carina Wyborn, Jasper Montana, Amber Datta and Elena Louder
PART II LATEST TRENDS IN METHODS
5 Futures-thinking: concepts, methods and capacities for adaptive governance 76
Carla Alexandra, Carina Wyborn, Claudia Munera Roldan and Lorrae van
Kerkhoff
6 Spatial data, methods, and mismatches for adaptive governance research 99
Maija Nikkanen and Aleksi Räsänen
7 Serious games as an adaptive governance method 115
Peter Edwards
PART III GOVERNANCE CONTEXTS AND CASE STUDIES
8 Adaptive governance in forest management 127
Jesse Abrams and Marine Elbakidze
9 Adaptive governance for marine environments: methods, challenges,
and lessons for ocean fisheries 143
Barbara Quimby
10 Adaptive governance in open data ecosystems: experiences and insights
on the role of sociotechnical arrangements 158
Cancan Wang
11 Policy experimentation in the construction of ecological civilisation in China 176
Ping Huang and Linda Westman
12 The role of adaptive governance in climate mitigation and adaptation:
a local perspective 192
Grete K. Hovelsrud and Hege Westskog
13 Adaptive and anticipatory governance in urban adaptation to climate change 207
Alexandra Jurgilevich
14 Towards adaptive property: legal design for a climate-affected future 218
Daniel Fitzpatrick
15 Adaptive governance for disaster risk reduction 233
R. Patrick Bixler, Sandeep Paul, Debasmita Bhakta, Tamar Farchy, Jessica
Olson, Matthew Preisser and Paola Passalacqua
16 The next decade of adaptive governance research: concluding remarks 252
Sirkku Juhola
Index 260
1 Introduction to the Handbook on Adaptive Governance 1
Sirkku Juhola
PART I THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENTS
2 Operationalising adaptive governance: a research agenda 15
Barbara Cosens, Holly Doremus, J. B. Ruhl, Niko Soininen and
Lance Gunderson
3 Adaptive governance, law and regulation 35
Niko Soininen, Barbara Cosens, J. B. Ruhl and Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen
4 Conceptualising the science–policy–practice interface of adaptive governance 54
Carina Wyborn, Jasper Montana, Amber Datta and Elena Louder
PART II LATEST TRENDS IN METHODS
5 Futures-thinking: concepts, methods and capacities for adaptive governance 76
Carla Alexandra, Carina Wyborn, Claudia Munera Roldan and Lorrae van
Kerkhoff
6 Spatial data, methods, and mismatches for adaptive governance research 99
Maija Nikkanen and Aleksi Räsänen
7 Serious games as an adaptive governance method 115
Peter Edwards
PART III GOVERNANCE CONTEXTS AND CASE STUDIES
8 Adaptive governance in forest management 127
Jesse Abrams and Marine Elbakidze
9 Adaptive governance for marine environments: methods, challenges,
and lessons for ocean fisheries 143
Barbara Quimby
10 Adaptive governance in open data ecosystems: experiences and insights
on the role of sociotechnical arrangements 158
Cancan Wang
11 Policy experimentation in the construction of ecological civilisation in China 176
Ping Huang and Linda Westman
12 The role of adaptive governance in climate mitigation and adaptation:
a local perspective 192
Grete K. Hovelsrud and Hege Westskog
13 Adaptive and anticipatory governance in urban adaptation to climate change 207
Alexandra Jurgilevich
14 Towards adaptive property: legal design for a climate-affected future 218
Daniel Fitzpatrick
15 Adaptive governance for disaster risk reduction 233
R. Patrick Bixler, Sandeep Paul, Debasmita Bhakta, Tamar Farchy, Jessica
Olson, Matthew Preisser and Paola Passalacqua
16 The next decade of adaptive governance research: concluding remarks 252
Sirkku Juhola
Index 260
