Practical Panarchy for Adaptive Water Governance (eBook, PDF)

Linking Law to Social-Ecological Resilience
Redaktion: Cosens, Barbara; Gunderson, Lance

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Looks at the role of law in achieving adaptive governance

Applies resilience as a bridging concept between law and social-ecological systems in specific social-ecological systems

Illustrates the theory with six water basin assessments

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319724720
• Artikelnr.: 52445465

Autorenporträt

Barbara Cosens is a legal scholar with a background in science who has almost three decades experience in interdisciplinary team work at the law/science interface.  She is Professor in the College of Law and in the Water Resources graduate program at the University of Idaho. Lance Gunderson is a systems ecologist who has four decades experience in understanding, assessing, and managing regional-scale social-ecological systems. He is Professor and Chair of Environmental Sciences at Emory University.

Inhaltsangabe

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.