Practical Panarchy for Adaptive Water Governance Linking Law to Social-Ecological Resilience

Governance lies at the heart of the capacity of these systems to meet these challenges. Assessment of water basins in the United States and Australia indicates that state-centric governance of these complex and dynamic social-environmental systems is evolving to a more complex, diverse, and complex...

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Other Authors: Cosens, Barbara (Editor), Gunderson, Lance (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Practicing Panarchy: Assessing Assessing Legal Flexibility, Ecological Resilience and Adaptive Governance in U.S. Regional Water Systems.
  • Part I:  Case Studies.-Chapter 2.  Resilience, Law and Adaptive Governance in Regional Scale Social Ecological Water Systems .-Chapter 3. Social Ecological Resilience of an Eastern Urban Suburban Watershed: the Anacostia River Basin.-Chapter 4. Assessing Resilience of Ecosystem Services in the Columbia River Bas.-Chapter 5. Escaping a Rigidity Trap in the Everglades of Florida
  • Chapter 6.  Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in the Klamath River Basin Social-Ecological System .-Chapter 7. Water Governance Challenges in New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande Valley
  • Chapter 8. Social Ecological Resilience and Law in the Platte River Basin
  • Chapter 9. Law, Resilience and Water Management in the Lake Eyre Basin, Australia
  • Part II: Social-Ecological Resilience and Adaptive Capacity
  • Chapter 10: Regime Shifts and Panarchies in Regional Scale Social Ecological Water Systems
  • Chapter 11. Rapid assessment of resilience: Uncertainty, tradeoffs and relative resilience
  • Chapter 12 Cross-Interdisciplinary Insights into Adaptive Governance and Resilience
  • Chapter 13: The Role of Law in Threshold Dynamics Associated with Deliberate Transformation.-Part III: Adaptive Governance
  • Chapter 14: Legal and Institutional Foundations of Adaptive Water Governance
  • Chapter 15: The Role of Law in the Emergence of Adaptive Governance.-Chapter 16: Balancing Stability and Flexibility in Adaptive Governance: The New Challenges.-Chapter 17: Understanding and Applying Principles of Social Decision Making in Adaptive Environmental Governance and Environmental Law.-Chapter 18.  Summary and Synthesis