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

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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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
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 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.