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Adaptiveness: Changing Earth System Governance
About this book
Rapid and transformational actions are ever more urgently needed to achieve a just, resilient, and ecologically sustainable global society, as envisioned and supported by the Sustainable Development Goals. Moreover, dynamic governance approaches are vital for addressing changing and uncertain conditions. At many levels, governance needs to be responsive and flexible - in one word - adaptive. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the conceptual development of adaptiveness as a key concept in the environmental governance literature, complemented by applications from global, regional, and national levels. It reviews the politics of adaptiveness, investigates which governance processes foster adaptiveness, and discusses how, when and why adaptiveness influences earth system governance. It is a timely synthesis for students, researchers and practitioners interested in environmental governance, sustainability and social change processes. This is one of a series of publications associated with the Earth System Governance Project. For more publications, see www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1 On Adaptiveness: Changing Earth System Governance
- 2 Synthesising and Identifying Emerging Issues in Adaptiveness Research within the Earth System Governance Framework (1998-2018)
- 3 Climate Change Adaptive Capacity Assessments: Conceptual Approaches and Operational Process
- 4 Assessing the Adaptive Capacity of Collaborative Governance Institutions
- 5 The Marine Debris Nexus: Plastic, Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Human Health
- 6 Synergies and Trade-Offs between Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation across Multiple Scales of Governance
- 7 Lock-Ins in Climate Adaptation Governance: Conceptual and Empirical Approaches
- 8 Governance and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Conflict-Affected Countries of Central Africa
- 9 Policy Tools and Capacities for Adaptiveness in US Public Land Management
- 10 Adaptiveness in Earth System Governance: Synthesis, Policy Relevance, and the Way Forward
- Index