Climate Change and Water Governance Adaptive Capacity in Chile and Switzerland /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Hill, Margot (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Advances in Global Change Research, 54
• Θέματα: Environment.; Environmental management.; Political science.; Climate change.; Human geography.; Climate Change.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.; Human Geography.; Political Science.

Climate Change and Water Governance presents the results of several years’ research focusing on adaptive capacity and water governance in two widely-separated regions of the globe, namely the Swiss Alps and the Chilean Andes. The two regions share many similarities in hydrology and water resources:...

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• Contents
• Part I: Addressing Water Governance Challenges in the Anthropocene
• 1. Addressing Water Governance Challenges in the Anthropocene
• 2. Water Governance
• 3. Adaptive Capacity
• 4. The Assessment of Adaptive Capacity
• 5. Applying a Multi-Pronged Approach to Assessing Adaptive Capacity
• Part II: The Cases of Chile & Switzerland
• 6. Introducing the Case Study Areas: Hydro-climatic & Governance Background
• 7. Water Governance in the context of IWRM: Switzerland
• 8. Water Governance in the context of IWRM: Chile
• 9. Converging Threats: Driving pressures for Adaptive Capacity
• Part III: Applying the Assessment
• 10. Governance in the Face of Uncertainty and Change
• 11. Bridges and Barriers to Adaptive Capacity
• 12. Operationalising Adaptive Capacity
• 13. Assessing Adaptive Capacity
• Part IV: Challenges in Developing and Mobilising Adaptive Capacity
• 14. Balancing Structural Conflicts across Scales to develop and mobilise Adaptive Capacity
• 15. Coping with and Communicating Uncertainty
• 16. Addressing the Challenge of Institutional Infrastructure in a Technically focused World.