Adaptive Governance and Climate Change

Brunner, Ronald D.; Lynch, Amanda H.

doi:10.1007/978-1-935704-01-0

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“…The idea behind adaptive governance is often that decentralized organizations can tackle problems in a more effective manner than providing top-down solutions (Brunner & Lynch, 2010). This does not necessarily mean that there is no guidance from top-down.…”

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“…This does not necessarily mean that there is no guidance from top-down. Core characteristics of adaptive governance are decentralized decision-making, engagement of many stakeholders in decision-making and the use of tacit decentralized knowledge (Brunner & Lynch, 2010). Adaptive Governance is a principle providing strategies for dealing with uncertainty and adapting to changes originating from the environment.…”

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Adaptive governance: Towards a stable, accountable and responsive government

Janssen

Voort

2016

Government Information Quarterly

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Section: Possible Adaptation Strategiesmentioning

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Adaptive governance: Towards a stable, accountable and responsive government

Janssen

Voort

2016

Government Information Quarterly

286

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“…Many forms of adaptation will be contested, necessitating mechanisms to reconcile conflicting values if effective adaptation planning and implementation is to proceed. The extensive literatures of risk governance, adaptive governance and policy sciences provide guidance for how to approach such decision challenges [131][132][133][134][135][136][137][138][139]. A common feature of such approaches to problem solving is active participation by civil society in sharing and shaping knowledge regarding societal objectives, perceptions and tolerance of risk to those objectives and appropriate responses by different actors.…”

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The Climate Adaptation Frontier

2013

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Climate adaptation has emerged as a mainstream risk management strategy for assisting in maintaining socio-ecological systems within the boundaries of a safe operating space. Yet, there are limits to the ability of systems to adapt. Here, we introduce the concept of an -adaptation frontier‖, which is defined as a socio-ecological system's transitional adaptive operating space between safe and unsafe domains. A number of driving forces are responsible for determining the sustainability of systems on the frontier. These include path dependence, adaptation/development deficits, values conflicts and discounting of future loss and damage. The cumulative implications of these driving forces are highly uncertain. Nevertheless, the fact that a broad range of systems already persist at the edge of their frontiers suggests a high likelihood that some limits will eventually be exceeded. The resulting system transformation is likely to manifest as anticipatory modification of management objectives or loss and damage. These outcomes vary significantly with respect to their ethical implications. Successful navigation of the adaptation frontier will necessitate new paradigms of risk governance to elicit knowledge that encourages reflexive reevaluation of societal values that enable or constrain sustainability.

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“…Based on Ostrom 1990, Walters and Holling 1990, Lee 1993, Dietz et al 2003, Folke et al 2005, Brunner et al 2005, Olsson et al 2006, Stirling 2006, Janssen 2007, Plummer and Armitage 2007, Armitage et al 2008, Huitema et al 2009, Brunner and Lynch 2010. Notes: Adaptive governance is a mode of governance, and a continuous problem-solving process.…”

Section: Adaptive Governance and Its Relevance For Climate Adaptationmentioning

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“…Examples of adaptive governance implemented as response strategies to building adaptive capacity to climate change are rare in the literature. Brunner and Lynch (2010) assess cases to reveal a basic trend toward adaptive governance in climate adaptation, consisting of an increase in community-based initiatives, some of which evolve within networks when leaders become aware of shared interests. They also observed that leaders of these initiatives tend, at least in the beginning, to rely on trust, respect, skill in interpersonal relations, and knowledge of the particular community, and only later on do they look for political support, funds, and other resources needed to implement specific projects.…”

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Integrating adaptive governance and participatory multicriteria methods: a framework for climate adaptation governance

Munaretto

Siciliano²,

Turvani³

2014

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ABSTRACT. Climate adaptation is a dynamic social and institutional process where the governance dimension is receiving growing attention. Adaptive governance is an approach that promises to reduce uncertainty by improving the knowledge base for decision making. As uncertainty is an inherent feature of climate adaptation, adaptive governance seems to be a promising approach for improving climate adaptation governance. However, the adaptive governance literature has so far paid little attention to decisionmaking tools and methods, and the literature on the governance of adaptation is in its infancy in this regard. We argue that climate adaptation governance would benefit from systematic and yet flexible decision-making tools and methods such as participatory multicriteria methods for the evaluation of adaptation options, and that these methods can be linked to key adaptive governance principles. Moving from these premises, we propose a framework that integrates key adaptive governance features into participatory multicriteria methods for the governance of climate adaptation.

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Adaptive Governance and Climate Change

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Adaptive governance: Towards a stable, accountable and responsive government

Adaptive governance: Towards a stable, accountable and responsive government

The Climate Adaptation Frontier

Integrating adaptive governance and participatory multicriteria methods: a framework for climate adaptation governance

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