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 resour...
| Main Author: | Hill, Margot. |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
©2013.
Dordrecht ; New York : [2013] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Advances in global change research ;
v. 54. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1.
- Addressing Water Governance Challenges in the Anthropocene
- Addressing Water Governance Challenges in the Anthropocene
- A Starting Point: Understanding Governance, Good Governance and Water Governance
- Adaptive Capacity, Adaptive Governance and Resilience
- The Assessment of Adaptive Capacity
- Applying a Multi-pronged Approach to Assessing Adaptive Capacity
- Part 2.
- The Cases of Chile & Switzerland
- Introducing the Case Study Areas: Hydro-climatic and Governance Contexts
- Water Governance in the Context of IWRM: Switzerland
- Water Governance in the Context of IWRM: Chile
- Converging Threats: Driving Pressures for Adaptive Capacity
- Part 3.
- Applying the Assessment
- Governance in the Face of Uncertainty and Change
- Bridges and Barriers to Adaptive Capacity
- Operationalising Adaptive Capacity
- Assessing Adaptive Capacity
- Part 4.
- Challenges in Developing and Mobilising Adaptive Capacity
- Balancing Structural Conflicts Across Scales to Develop and Mobilise Adaptive Capacity
- Coping with and Communicating Uncertainty
- Addressing the Challenge of Institutional Infrastructure in a Technically Focussed World.