Handbook on Adaptive Governance

Author: Sirkku Juhola
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781800888234
Published In: February 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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 bio-physical 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.

Introduction to the Handbook on Adaptive Governance 1

Sirkku Juhola

PART I. THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENTS

Operationalising adaptive governance: a research agenda 15

Barbara Cosens, Holly Doremus, J. B. Ruhl, Niko Soininen and Lance Gunderson

Adaptive governance, law and regulation 35

Niko Soininen, Barbara Cosens, J. B. Ruhl and Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen

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

Futures-thinking: concepts, methods and capacities for adaptive governance 76

Carla Alexandra, Carina Wyborn, Claudia Munera Roldan and Lorrae van Kerkhoff