The Link Between Polycentrism and Adaptive Capacity in River Basin Governance Systems: Insights from the River Rhine and the Zhujiang (Pearl River) Basin

Silveira, ANDRé; Richards, Keith

doi:10.1080/00045608.2013.754687

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“…As a developing country with a large population, China should learn the valuable experience from the developed regions in the coordination of population and economy growth, resource depletion and environment protection [74][75][76]. The theory of organic decentralization laid a solid foundation for the evacuated population and industry decisions in the developed countries [77].…”

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Does population have a larger impact on carbon dioxide emissions than income? Evidence from a cross-regional panel analysis in China

2016

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h i g h l i g h t sWe reassessed the impact of demographic and GDP changes on CO 2 emissions in China. Income rather than population growth was a major contributor to growing emissions. Urbanisation increases energy use and CO 2 emissions, except in western China. Shrinking household size did not reduce energy use and emissions. The impact of human activities on the environment varies across regions. a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c tAs global warming intensifies, the accumulation of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gases have attracted great global attention. However, questions regarding whether, how and to what extent demographic factors and processes affect carbon emissions have not yet been fully explained -particularly in China. This study used an improved STIRPAT model to reassess the impact of demographic and income changes on China's energy-related CO 2 emissions at the national and regional levels using balanced provincial panel data from the 1990-2012 period. Whereas most previous studies of emission-popula tion/income elasticity in China have yielded wide-ranging estimates, this study showed that income rather than demographic change has been the dominant driving force behind China's growing CO 2 emissions. Urbanisation has increased energy consumption and emissions, except in western China. Changes in the age structure have had a statistically insignificant effect on energy use, but resulted in increased national emissions -particularly in eastern China. Shrinking household size did not reduce energy use and emissions, indicating that improved residential energy efficiency might reduce emissions. Changing the traditional mode of economic growth, reasonable controlling the pace of urbanisation, improving energy efficiency and upgrading industrial structures may yet be necessary to mitigate the environmental impact of human activities in China.

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Does population have a larger impact on carbon dioxide emissions than income? Evidence from a cross-regional panel analysis in China

2016

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“…Governance Architecture: Conceptual consideration and empirical evidence strongly suggest that polycentricity is an essential characteristic of IAGMSs Silveira and Richards 2013). Chap.…”

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Water Governance in the Face of Global Change

Pahl‐Wostl¹

2015

Water Governance - Concepts, Methods, and Practice

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This book series aims at providing a platform for developing an integrated perspective on major advances in the field of water governance. Contributions will build bridges across established fields of expertise, across disciplinary perspectives, across levels from global to local and across geographical regions. Topics to be covered include conceptual and methodological advances capturing the complexity of water governance systems, institutional settings, actor constellations, diagnostic approaches, and comparative studies of governance systems. The book series encompasses monographs, textbooks and edited, coordinated volumes addressing one theme from different perspectives. The book series will address mainly a wider scientific audience, but will also provide valuable knowledge to interested practitioners. The sustainable management of fresh water resources and the ecosystem services that they provide is one of the key challenges of the 21st century. Many water related problems can be attributed to governance failure at multiple levels of governance rather than to the resource base itself. At the same time our knowledge on water governance systems and conditions for success of water governance reform is still quite limited. The notion of water governance aims at capturing the complexity of processes that determine the delivery of water related services for societal needs and that provide the context within which water management operates. Water governance is a fast growing field of scholarly expertise which has largely developed over the past decade. The number of publications in peer reviewed journals has increased from less than 20 in the year 2000 to nearly 400 in the year 2013. The increasing popularity of the term in science and policy has not lead to conceptual convergence but rather to an increasing vagueness and competing interpretations of how the concept should be understood, studied, and analyzed; which disciplines are involved; and what methodological approaches are most suitable for the study and analysis of water governance. The time seems to be ripe for comprehensive synthesis and integration.More information about this series at

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“…In this way, organizations across an existing multilevel governance system may take up similar roles toward achieving a desired state, promoting redundancy and overlap of function, and thus buffering against perturbations to the system (Folke et al 2005). As formalized governance organizations begin to share a common vision of governance, it is more likely that polycentricity will develop across a system (Huitema et al 2009, da Silveira andRichards 2013). Through the cascade of connections, from individuals through networks to organizations, it is likely that some devolution of power may be possible, especially if informal networks are institutionalized as organizations and provided with some decision making authority (Österblom and Folke 2013).…”

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“…Given the uncertainties associated with global environmental change, including climate change and massive shifts in land use, environmental governance systems going forward must be highly adaptive. Governance systems, particularly those of top-down, state-based orientation, rarely match the relevant scale of ecological complexity, especially in the face of rapid environmental change (Young 2002, Cumming et al 2006. Centralized governance via top-down directives or command-and-control policies often fails to provide effective solutions for highly contextualized situations, and also often falls short in efforts to coordinate governance across large-scale ecosystems that cross multiple jurisdictional boundaries (Lemos and Agrawal 2006).…”

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A decade of adaptive governance scholarship: synthesis and future directions

Chaffin¹,

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Cosens³

2014

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ABSTRACT. Adaptive governance is an emergent form of environmental governance that is increasingly called upon by scholars and practitioners to coordinate resource management regimes in the face of the complexity and uncertainty associated with rapid environmental change. Although the term "adaptive governance" is not exclusively applied to the governance of social-ecological systems, related research represents a significant outgrowth of literature on resilience, social-ecological systems, and environmental governance. We present a chronology of major scholarship on adaptive governance, synthesizing efforts to define the concept and identifying the array of governance concepts associated with transformation toward adaptive governance. Based on this synthesis, we define adaptive governance as a range of interactions between actors, networks, organizations, and institutions emerging in pursuit of a desired state for social-ecological systems. In addition, we identify and discuss ambiguities in adaptive governance scholarship such as the roles of adaptive management, crisis, and a desired state for governance of social-ecological systems. Finally, we outline a research agenda to examine whether an adaptive governance approach can become institutionalized under current legal frameworks and political contexts. We suggest a further investigation of the relationship between adaptive governance and the principles of good governance; the roles of power and politics in the emergence of adaptive governance; and potential interventions such as legal reform that may catalyze or enhance governance adaptations or transformation toward adaptive governance.

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The Link Between Polycentrism and Adaptive Capacity in River Basin Governance Systems: Insights from the River Rhine and the Zhujiang (Pearl River) Basin

Cited by 101 publications

References 28 publications

Does population have a larger impact on carbon dioxide emissions than income? Evidence from a cross-regional panel analysis in China

Does population have a larger impact on carbon dioxide emissions than income? Evidence from a cross-regional panel analysis in China

Water Governance in the Face of Global Change

A decade of adaptive governance scholarship: synthesis and future directions

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