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Practical Panarchy for Adaptive Water Governanance: Linking Law to Social-Ecological Resilience

Practical Panarchy for Adaptive Water Governanance: Linking Law to Social-Ecological Resilience

Author: Barbara Cosens; Lance Gunderson
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
ISBN: 9783319724706
Published In: April 2018
Format: Hardback
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This volume explores the role of law and society in achieving governance of regional social-ecological systems that is capable of management, adaptation and transformation in the face of change. The initial chapters set the theoretical stage for understanding resilience of social-ecological systems and, in particular, the relations among governance, society and resilience. From a synthesis of seven water basin assessments included in the volume, two primary findings emerge.

First, the value of an historical approach to assessment to understand both the change in general resilience and governance attributes through time and their legacy effect today, including the key roles of both governance and built infrastructure in facilitating and hindering adaptation. Second, the role of law in establishing boundaries, that once crossed, signal approaching thresholds; in creating conditions for establishment of rights that alter expectations sufficiently to open a window to new and sometimes collaborative approaches to water governance; in providing an avenue for the development of new process tools to facilitate emergence of adaptive forms of governance; and in presenting barriers to adaptation as a result of rigid and fragmented authority. The basin assessments help point the reader toward steps that may lead to more adaptive forms of governance in the face of change and uncertainty through a qualitative approach to assessment.

The volume also uses the assessments to take a cautionary view. It is clear that the ability of those benefiting from the status quo to stall change through litigation and political channels and to obtain federal level subsidy for continued optimization may be moving some basins perilously close to a threshold (e.g. Everglades). Re-analysis of the role of federal investment in water development away from engineered optimization and toward increased resilience latitude will be a key factor in adaptive capacity going forward. In addition, the legacy impact of engineered infrastructure is apparent in each of the seven basin assessments. In other words, once major investment occurs in water infrastructure, it is highly resistant to change. There is strong incentive to shore up rather than alter infrastructure once built. There are legal, economic and cultural dependencies on the built environment. Thus, while the massive investment in water infrastructure of the 20th Century vastly improved the lives of several generations of North Americans, the legacy effect is to lock in future generations to infrastructure that is obsolete in terms of the water supply and demand of the coming century, the values of the people who live in these basins, and thus the future economic stability of water dependent communities. Nothing short of major investment in re-engineering these systems to modernize them for the 21st Century and a process that recognizes this will be needed every few generations will suffice.

Chapter 1. Practicing Panarchy: Assessing Assessing Legal Flexibility, Ecological Resilience and Adaptive Governance in U.S. Regional Water Systems.

Part I: Case Studies

Chapter 2. Resilience, Law and Adaptive Governance in Regional Scale Social Ecological Water Systems

Chapter 3. Social Ecological Resilience of an Eastern Urban Suburban Watershed: the Anacostia River Basin

Chapter 4. Assessing Resilience of Ecosystem Services in the Columbia River Bas

Chapter 5. Escaping a Rigidity Trap in the Everglades of Florida

Chapter 6. Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in the Klamath River Basin Social-Ecological System

Chapter 7. Water Governance Challenges in New Mexico's Middle Rio Grande Valley

Chapter 8. Social Ecological Resilience and Law in the Platte River Basin

Chapter 9. Law, Resilience and Water Management in the Lake Eyre Basin, Australia

Part II: Social-Ecological Resilience and Adaptive Capacity

Chapter 10: Regime Shifts and Panarchies in Regional Scale Social Ecological Water Systems

Chapter 11. Rapid assessment of resilience: Uncertainty, tradeoffs and relative resilience

Chapter 12 Cross-Interdisciplinary Insights into Adaptive Governance and Resilience

Chapter 13: The Role of Law in Threshold Dynamics Associated with Deliberate Transformation

Part III: Adaptive Governance

Chapter 14: Legal and Institutional Foundations of Adaptive Water Governance

Chapter 15: The Role of Law in the Emergence of Adaptive Governance

Chapter 16: Balancing Stability and Flexibility in Adaptive Governance: The New Challenges

Chapter 17: Understanding and Applying Principles of Social Decision Making in Adaptive Environmental Governance and Environmental Law

Chapter 18. Summary and Synthesis.

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