Adaptive Governance in Carbon Farming Policies
This book discusses a variety of different perspectives involved in biodiversity management and bio-sequestration projects in Australia, working towards achieving adaptive governance in carbon farming. It not only examines landholders’ motivation &n
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Adaptive Governance in Carbon Farming Policies
Nooshin Torabi
Adaptive Governance in Carbon Farming Policies
Nooshin Torabi School of Global, Urban and Social Studies Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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To my twin boys (Radmehr and Radin) for their constant engagement in this book’s progress.
Foreword
Effective environmental governance is challenging, encompassing intersecting biophysical and social processes with complex and dynamic interactions. Complex and dynamic processes, uncertain understandings, multiple threats, multiple jurisdictions and scales, multiple stakeholders and multiple perspectives (which intersect in ways that are mutually informing) are recurring elements encountered in our search for socially just and ecologically sustainable forms of development. Effective environmental governance clearly represents a considerable challenge, whatever mode of governance is preferred—rules-based, competition-based, networked, or hybrid. Further, while hybrid and interactive modes of governance offer flexibility, there is nothing in them which makes them inherently more sustainable: for example, public–private partnerships may drive ecological degradation. “Nature” simply does not conform to the dictates of the administrative mind, market logic, vagaries of social relations or any particular combination of different modes of governance. Given
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