Adaptive Capacity, Adaptive Governance and Resilience

Hill, Margot

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5796-7_3

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“…Governance may firstly be understood as a normative concept, which advocates that government organisations should work with stakeholders and society in political steering processes (Hill 2013). It represents a 'shift from government to governance' (Walker 2014), that is, from rigid forms of rule enforcement to more flexible and interactive mechanisms of public engagement and supposedly shared decision-making.…”

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The Value Base of Water Governance: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

Schulz

Martín-Ortega

Glenk

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Ecological Economics

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Some scholars promote water governance as a normative concept to improve water resources management globally, while others conceive of it as an analytical term to describe the processes, systems and institutions around the management of water resources and water supply. Critics often highlight how specific water governance scenarios fail to deliver socially desirable outcomes, such as social justice or environmental sustainability. While water governance is often perceived as a technical matter, its conceptual and practical components are in fact based on multiple values that, nonetheless, often remain implicit. The present paper seeks to uncover this value base and discusses existing research on values from multiple perspectives, using material from economics, philosophy, psychology, and other social sciences. In different disciplines, values can be understood as fundamental guiding principles, governance-related values or as values assigned to water resources. Together, they shape complex relationships with water governance, which from an analytical perspective is understood as a combination of policy, politics, and polity. Introducing a new conceptual framework, this study seeks to provide a theoretical foundation for empirical research on water governance processes and conflicts.

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Section: Water Governance As a Normative And Analytical Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Value Base of Water Governance: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

Schulz

Martín-Ortega

Glenk

et al. 2017

Ecological Economics

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“…Scholarship exploring the links between mitigation, adaptation, socioecological resilience and SD more generally, has generally pointed toward the existence of (potential) synergies and tradeoffs within and across policy sectors and across implementation measures (Gallopín, 2006;Rosenzweig and Tubiello, 2007;Vogel et al, 2007;Boyd et al, 2009;Thornton and Gerber, 2010;Adger et al, 2011;Warren, 2011;Lal et al, 2011;Vermeulen et al, 2012;Denton and Wilbanks, 2014;Hill, 2013). These studies show that, in spite of mitigative and adaptive capacities being so closely intertwined with each other and with SD, the relationship between mitigation and adaptation measures is more ambiguous and, in line with the AR4, suggest that outcomes are highly dependent on the measures and the context in which they are undertaken, with some policy sectors being more conducive to synergies than others.…”

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Sustainable Development and Equity

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Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change

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“…Divergent adaptation is the process by which one group's adaptation to climate hazards reduces another's adaptive capacity and may result in coupled conflict-cooperation dynamics or exacerbate inequities (Hoque et al 2018;Sovacool et al 2015;Snorek et al 2017;Sovacool 2018). Building adaptive capacity for all and avoiding divergent adaptation are related to institutions, which have been shown to have a direct influence on adaptive capacity (Olsson and Folke 2004;Adger et al 2006;Hill 2013;Gupta et al 2010;Berman and Paavola 2012). Institutions are the informal and formal rules, values, norms, and cognitive processes that constrain individual and collective behavior as well as access to resources and information (Dennett 2013).…”

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Local Institutions, Collective Action, and Divergent Adaptation: Case from Agro-Pastoral Niger

Snorek

2021

African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

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Adaptation is a highly contextual process, framed by institutions. When one group’s adaptation to climate hazards reduces another’s adaptive capacity, this is called divergent adaptation. The nuances of divergent adaptation are revealed in how institutions influence divergent adaptation outcomes, either to exacerbate conflict or to bring about greater peace and cooperation. By examining the sometimes conflicting adaptations of pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in Niger, this chapter describes the process of divergent adaptation through an institutional analysis from multiple scales. At the national scale, climate change adaptation policies and perspectives are entrenched in sedentarization politics vis-à-vis pastoral livelihoods. At the local scale, pastoralists take a defensive position as an adaptation pathway, to ensure secure passage with their livestock to water and pasture. However, in localities where local institutional actors have enhanced collective action arenas in which pastoral and agro-pastoral groups are represented, conflict dynamics are abated. Climate adaptation is not without conflict; however, local and sub-national institutions are critical to providing opportunities for collective action, cooperation, and peace in the context of divergent adaptation. Based on these findings, it is recommended that conflict and adaptation management and planning be integrated at multiple scales.

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Adaptive Capacity, Adaptive Governance and Resilience

Cited by 7 publications

References 68 publications

The Value Base of Water Governance: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

The Value Base of Water Governance: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

Sustainable Development and Equity

Local Institutions, Collective Action, and Divergent Adaptation: Case from Agro-Pastoral Niger

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