Format:
Online-Ressource (424 p. 22 illus, digital)
ISBN:
9781935704010
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Content:
As greenhouse gas emissions and temperatures at the poles continue to rise, so do damages from extreme weather events affecting countless lives. Meanwhile, ambitious international efforts to cut emissions (Kyoto, Copenhagen) have proved to be politically ineffective or infeasible. There is hope, however, in adaptive governance--an approach that has succeeded in some local communities and can be undertaken by others around the globe. This book provides a political and historical analysis of climate change policy; shows how adaptive governance has worked on the ground in Barrow, Alaska, and other local communities; and makes the case for adaptive governance as a complementary approach in the climate change regime
Content:
As greenhouse gas emissions and temperatures at the poles continue to rise, so do damages from extreme weather events affecting countless lives. Meanwhile, ambitious international efforts to cut emissions (Kyoto, Copenhagen) have proved to be politically ineffective or infeasible. There is hope, however, in adaptive governance-an approach that has succeeded in some local communities and can be undertaken by others around the globe. This book provides a political and historical analysis of climate change policy; shows how adaptive governance has worked on the ground in Barrow, Alaska, and other local communities; and makes the case for adaptive governance as a complementary approach in the climate change regime
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Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ACRONYMS; BOXES AND FIGURES; 1 CLARIFYING THE PROBLEM; An Appraisal; Constructing the Context; Scientific Management; Toward Adaptive Governance; Summary and Comparison; The Common Interest; 2 THE REGIME EVOLVES; Science; International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme; U.S. Global Change Research Program; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Policy and Decision Making; International Decisions; National Decisions: The United States; Exceptions; Toward Case Studies; Action on Adaptation; Action on Mitigation
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3 BARROW AS MICROCOSMHistorical Contexts; Explorations and Adaptations; Contact and Colonialism; The Great Storm; Vulnerabilities; Human Factors; Natural Factors; Extreme Events; Conjunctions; Policy Responses; Technical Rationality; Distributed Policies; Engaging the World; 4 OPENING THE REGIME; Intensive Inquiry; Context Matters in Practice; The Historical Sciences; Procedurally Rational Policy; Rationality in Practice; Opening Policy Processes; The Behavioral Model; Decentralized Decision Making; Decentralization in Practice; Including Local Decisions; The Constitutive Process
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5 REFRAMING THE CONTEXTNext Steps; From the Bottom Up; From the Top Down; Appraisals; Relevant Past; Early Modern Roots; High Modern Era; Community Development; Possible Futures; Community-Based Initiatives; Business as Usual; Choices and Decisions; NOTES; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; INDEX
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781878220974
Additional Edition:
Buchausg. u.d.T. ISBN 978-1-87822-097-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-935704-01-0
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