Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance
Rapid environmental change calls for individuals and societies with an ability to transform our interactions with each other and the ecosystems upon which we depend. Adaptive capacity - the ability of a social-ecological system (or the components of that
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Series Editors Bruce N. Anderson Planreal Australasia, Keilor, Victoria, Australia Robert W. Howarth Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Lawrence R. Walker University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, 89154
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Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance
Editors Prof. Dr. Derek Armitage Department of Geography and Environmental Studies Wilfrid Laurier University N2L 3C5 Waterloo, Ontario Canada [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Ryan Plummer Department of Tourism and Environment Brock University 500 Glenridge Avenue L2S 3A1 St. Catharines, Ontario Canada Stockholm Resilience Centre Stockholm University Stockholm, SE-106 91 Sweden [email protected]
ISSN 0172-6161 ISBN 978-3-642-12193-7 e-ISBN 978-3-642-12194-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-12194-4 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010930468 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: WMXDesign GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany Cover illustrations: D. Armitage Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface and Acknowledgments
How communities, governments, and other social actors respond to environmental issues and nonlinear change is a pressing challenge. The implications for human societies and their sustainable economic development are profound. In response, a growing number of researchers and practitioners are examining governance dilemmas using the concept of adaptive capacity, defined here as an ability to learn, experiment, and foster novel solutions in complex social–ecological circumstances. With the rapidly growing interest in environmental governance, there is both a need and a tremendous opportunity to examine the concept of adaptive capacity from different perspectives, explore opportunities for conceptual development, and debate its role within an emerging scholarship on governance in complex social– ecological systems. This volume emerged from our initial work in exploring adaptive capacity in community-based resource management contexts, and a subsequent interest in extending this analysis into the realm of governance. Thi
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