How to Deal with Climate Change? Institutional Adaptive Capacity as a Means to Promote Sustainable Water Governance /

• Main Author: Mosello, Beatrice (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Environment.; Environmental management.; Climate change.; Political science.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Human geography.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Political Science.; Human Geography.

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 change makes the capacity of governance system...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Governing water in times of climate (and other) changes
• 2 Water governance throughout history and science.- 3 Is it possible to investigate the future with knowledge from the past? A con-ceptual framework to study institutional adaptive capacity
• 4 The Po River Basin
• 5 The Syr Darya River Basin.- 6 Resistant, reactive or proactive institutions? Exploring adaptive water re-sources management in the Po and Syr Darya River basins
• 7 Conclusions: Summing up, Zooming out, New challenges ahead.