Governing Sea Level Rise In A Polycentric System

Author : Francesca Pia Vantaggiato,Mark Lubell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781009433570

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Governing Sea Level Rise in a Polycentric System by Francesca Pia Vantaggiato,Mark Lubell Pdf

How do polycentric governance systems respond to new collective action problems? This Element tackles this question by studying the governance of adaptation to sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Like climate mitigation, climate adaptation has public good characteristics and therefore poses collective action problems of coordination and cooperation. The Element brings together the literature on adaptation planning with the Ecology of Games framework, a theory of polycentricity combining rational choice institutionalism with social network theory, to investigate how policy actors address the collective action problems of climate adaptation: the key barriers to coordination they perceive, the collaborative relationships they form, and their assessment of the quality of the cooperation process in the policy forums they attend. Using both qualitative and quantitative data and analysis, the Element finds that polycentric governance systems can address coordination problems by fostering the emergence of leaders who reduce transaction and information costs. Polycentric systems, however, struggle to address issues of inequality and redistribution.

Author : Andrew Jordan,Dave Huitema,Harro van Asselt,Johanna Forster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108418126

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Governing Climate Change by Andrew Jordan,Dave Huitema,Harro van Asselt,Johanna Forster Pdf

World's foremost experts explain how polycentric thinking can enhance societal attempts to govern climate change, for researchers, practitioners, advanced students. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Andreas Thiel,William A. Blomquist,Dustin E. Garrick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108349604

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Governing Complexity by Andreas Thiel,William A. Blomquist,Dustin E. Garrick Pdf

There has been a rapid expansion of academic interest and publications on polycentricity. In the contemporary world, nearly all governance situations are polycentric, but people are not necessarily used to thinking this way. Governing Complexity provides an updated explanation of the concept of polycentric governance. The editors provide examples of it in contemporary settings involving complex natural resource systems, as well as a critical evaluation of the utility of the concept. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this book makes the case that polycentric governance arrangements exist and it is possible for polycentric arrangements to perform well, persist for long periods, and adapt. Whether they actually function well, persist, or adapt depends on multiple factors that are reviewed and discussed, both theoretically and with examples from actual cases.

Author : Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319218557

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Water Governance in the Face of Global Change by Claudia Pahl-Wostl Pdf

This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of multi-level water governance, developing a conceptual and analytical framework that captures the complexity of real water governance systems while also introducing different approaches to comparative analysis. Applications illustrate how the ostensibly conflicting goals of deriving general principles and of taking context-specific factors into account can be reconciled. Specific emphasis is given to governance reform, adaptive and transformative capacity and multi-level societal learning. The sustainable management of global water resources is one of the most pressing environmental challenges of the 21st century. Many problems and barriers to improvement can be attributed to failures in governance rather than the resource base itself. At the same time our understanding of complex water governance systems largely remains limited and fragmented. The book offers an invaluable resource for all researchers working on water governance topics and for practitioners dealing with water governance challenges alike.

Author : Oliver Fritsch,David Benson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800887909

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Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Water Resources by Oliver Fritsch,David Benson Pdf

This cutting-edge Handbook provides a global perspective on the current issues affecting water politics and governance. Focusing in particular on the policy-making process and the power dynamics that it involves, it showcases the emerging diversity of objectives, instruments and governance approaches in the field of water resources.

Author : Christopher M. Weible,Samuel Workman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000564600

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Methods of the Policy Process by Christopher M. Weible,Samuel Workman Pdf

The increasingly global study of policy processes faces challenges with scholars applying theories in radically different national and cultural contexts. Questions frequently arise about how to conduct policy process research comparatively and among this global community of scholars. Methods of the Policy Process is the first book to remedy this situation, not by establishing an orthodoxy or imposing upon the policy process community a rigid way of conducting research but, instead, by allowing the leading researchers in the different theoretical traditions a space to share the means by which they put their research into action. This edited volume serves as a companion volume and supplemental guide to the well-established Theories of the Policy Process, 4th Edition. Methods of the Policy Process acknowledges that growth and advancement in the study of the policy process is dependent not merely on conceptual and theoretical development, but also on developing and systematizing better methodological approaches to measurement and analysis. To maximize student engagement with the material, each chapter follows a similar framework: introduction of a given theory of the policy process, application of that theory (including best practices for research design, conceptualization, major data sources, data collection, and methodological approaches), critical assessment, future directions, and often online resources (including datasets, survey instruments, and interview and coding protocols). While the structure and focus of each chapter varies slightly according to the theoretical tradition being discussed, each chapter's central aim is to prepare readers to confidently undertake common methodological strategies themselves. Methods of the Policy Process is especially beneficial to people new to the field, including students enrolled in policy process courses, as well as those without access to formal training. For scholars experienced in applying theories, this edited volume is a helpful reference to clarify best practices in research methods.

Author : Lucia Fanning,Sebastian Unger,Robin Mahon
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889769896

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Challenges and Opportunities in Regional Governance of Ocean Ecosystems by Lucia Fanning,Sebastian Unger,Robin Mahon Pdf

Author : John McLevey,John Scott,Peter J. Carrington
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 951 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529614664

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The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis by John McLevey,John Scott,Peter J. Carrington Pdf

This new edition of The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis builds on the success of its predecessor, offering a comprehensive overview of social network analysis produced by leading international scholars in the field. Brand new chapters provide both significant updates to topics covered in the first edition, as well as discussing cutting edge topics that have developed since, including new chapters on: · General issues such as social categories and computational social science; · Applications in contexts such as environmental policy, gender, ethnicity, cognition and social media and digital networks; · Concepts and methods such as centrality, blockmodeling, multilevel network analysis, spatial analysis, data collection, and beyond. By providing authoritative accounts of the history, theories and methodology of various disciplines and topics, the second edition of The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis is designed to provide a state-of-the-art presentation of classic and contemporary views, and to lay the foundations for the further development of the area. PART 1: GENERAL ISSUES PART 2: APPLICATIONS PART 3: CONCEPTS AND METHODS

Author : Christopher M. Weible
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000899795

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Theories Of The Policy Process by Christopher M. Weible Pdf

Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for the experts in policy process research to present the basic propositions, empirical evidence, latest updates, and the promising future research opportunities of each policy process theory. In this thoroughly revised fifth edition, each chapter has been updated to reflect recent empirical work, innovative theorizing, and a world facing challenges of historic proportions with climate change, social and political inequities, and pandemics, among recent events. Updated and revised chapters include Punctuated Equilibrium Theory, Multiple Streams Framework, Policy Feedback Theory, Advocacy Coalition Framework, Narrative Policy Framework, Institutional and Analysis and Development Framework, and Diffusion and Innovation. This fifth edition includes an entirely new chapter on the Ecology of Games Framework. New authors have been added to most chapters to diversify perspectives and make this latest edition the most internationalized yet. Across the chapters, revisions have clarified concepts and theoretical arguments, expanded and extended the theories’ scope, summarized lessons learned and knowledge gained, and addressed the relevancy of policy process theories. Theories of the Policy Process has been, and remains, the quintessential gateway to the field of policy process research for students, scholars, and practitioners. It’s ideal for those enrolled in policy process courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and those conducting research or undertaking practice in the subject.

Author : Marianne E. Krasny,Keith G. Tidball
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262527170

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Civic Ecology by Marianne E. Krasny,Keith G. Tidball Pdf

Offer stories of ... emerging grassroots environmental stewardship, along with an interdisciplinary framework for understanding and studying it as a growing international phenomenon.--Back cover.

Author : Nora Schütze
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783732866892

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Polycentric Water Governance in Spain by Nora Schütze Pdf

Increasing irrigation efficiency has been high on the political agenda in Spain for many years. However, the overarching aim to reduce agricultural water consumption has not been met so far. To explore this phenomenon, Nora Schütze investigates processes of coordination between the water and agricultural sector in three Spanish river basins in the context of the EU Water Framework Directive implementation. From the perspective of polycentric governance, she identifies multiple mechanisms which illustrate how and why actors interact in certain ways, and thus shows why environmental aims of the Water Framework Directive remain unachieved.

Author : Justin Jennings
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000872422

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Rethinking Global Governance by Justin Jennings Pdf

This book argues that long-ignored, non-western political systems from the distant and more recent past can provide critical insights into improving global governance. These societies show how successful collection action can occur by dividing sovereignty, consensus building, power from below, and other mechanisms. For a better tomorrow, we need to free ourselves of the colonial constraints on our political imagination. A pandemic, war in Europe, and another year of climatic anomalies are among the many indications of the limits of global governance today. To meet these challenges, we must look far beyond the status quo to the thousands of successful mechanisms for collective action that have been cast aside a priori because they do not fit into Western traditions of how people should be organized. Coming from long past or still enduring societies often dismissed as “savages” and “primitives” until well into the twentieth century, the political systems in this book were often seen as too acephalous, compartmentalized, heterarchical, or anarchic to be of use. Yet as globalization makes international relations more chaotic, long-ignored governance alternatives may be better suited to today’s changing realities. Understanding how the Zulu, Trypillian, Alur, and other collectives worked might be humanity’s best hope for survival. This book will be of interest both to those seeking to apply archaeological and ethnographic data to issues of broad contemporary concern and to academics, politicians, policy makers, students, and the general public seeking possible alternatives to conventional thinking in global governance.

Author : Rao, Prakash,Patil, Yogesh
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781522510475

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Reconsidering the Impact of Climate Change on Global Water Supply, Use, and Management by Rao, Prakash,Patil, Yogesh Pdf

Changes in the planet’s climate in recent years have led to significant impacts on natural resources and ecosystems. New strategies must be adopted in order to support the protection and continued development of numerous natural resources. Reconsidering the Impact of Climate Change on Global Water Supply, Use, and Management is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on the relationship between global climate changes and the planet’s water ecosystems. Highlighting relevant environmental, social, and economic issues, this book is ideally designed for academics, researchers, policy makers, students, and practitioners interested in the impacts of climate change on global water resources.

Author : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781009177054

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Climate Change and Land by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Pdf

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of human-induced climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation. This IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL) is the most comprehensive and up-to-date scientific assessment of the multiple interactions between climate change and land, assessing climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. It assesses the options for governance and decision-making across multiple scales. It serves policymakers, decision makers, stakeholders, and all interested parties with unbiased, up-to-date, policy-relevant information. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Tong Lee,Sabrina Speich,Laura Lorenzoni,Sanae Chiba,Frank E. Muller-Karger,Minhan Dai,Amos T. Kabo-Bah,John Siddorn,Justin Manley,Maria Snoussi ,Fei Chai
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 783 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889631186

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Oceanobs'19: An Ocean of Opportunity. Volume I by Tong Lee,Sabrina Speich,Laura Lorenzoni,Sanae Chiba,Frank E. Muller-Karger,Minhan Dai,Amos T. Kabo-Bah,John Siddorn,Justin Manley,Maria Snoussi ,Fei Chai Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.