How to Deal with Climate Change? Institutional Adaptive Capacity as
As the evidence for human-induced climate change becomes more obvious, so too does the realisation that it will harshly impact on the natural environment as well as on socio-economic systems. Addressing the unpredictability of multiple sources of global c
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How to Deal with Climate Change? Institutional Adaptive Capacity as a Means to Promote Sustainable Water Governance
How to Deal with Climate Change?
Beatrice Mosello
How to Deal with Climate Change? Institutional Adaptive Capacity as a Means to Promote Sustainable Water Governance
Beatrice Mosello Overseas Development Institute London, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-15388-9 ISBN 978-3-319-15389-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15389-6
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To Mamma, Papà and Nonna Tilde: For making me the woman I am today with your enduring love and constant support. Thank you. To Felix: For always being there for me. I love you.
Preface
As the evidence for human-induced climate change becomes more obvious, so too does the realisation that it will harshly impact the natural environment as well as socio-economic systems. Addressing the unpredictability of multiple sources of global change makes the capacity of governance systems to deal with uncertainty and surprise essential. However, how all these complex processes act in concert and under which conditions they lead to the sustainable governance of environmental resources are questions that have remained, so far, relatively unanswered. This book aims at addressing this fundamental gap, by investigating the factors that increase the adaptive capacity of water governance systems to deal with climate-related uncertainty. It is based on high-quality research on a sensitive and timely topic, with important political implications, and it focuses on two cases on which, despite the (diverse) development challenges they face, the existing literature has had little to say to date. To do all this, the political science liter
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