Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance

1. Front Matter

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2. Adaptive Capacity in Theory and Practice

   1. Front Matter

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3. Integrating Perspectives on Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance

   1. Integrating Perspectives on Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance

      • Ryan Plummer, Derek Armitage

      Pages 1-19

4. Adaptive Capacity in Theory and Practice

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Adaptive Capacity in Theory and Reality: Implications for Governance in the Great Barrier Reef Region

      • Erin Bohensky, Samantha Stone-Jovicich, Silva Larson, Nadine Marshall

      Pages 23-41

   3. Building Adaptive Capacity in Systems Beyond the Threshold: The Story of Macubeni, South Africa

      • Christo Fabricius, Georgina Cundill

      Pages 43-68

   4. Learning and Adaptation: The Role of Fisheries Comanagement in Building Resilient Social–Ecological Systems

      • Daniela C. Kalikoski, Edward H. Allison

      Pages 69-88

   5. Adaptive Capacity and Adaptation in Swedish Multi-Use Boreal Forests: Sites of Interaction Between Different Land Uses

      • E. Carina H. Keskitalo

      Pages 89-106

   6. From the Inside Out: A Multi-scale Analysis of Adaptive Capacity in a Northern Community and the Governance Implications

      • Sonia Wesche, Derek R. Armitage

      Pages 107-132

   7. Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Arctic Communities

      • Robin Sydneysmith, Mark Andrachuk, Barry Smit, Grete K. Hovelsrud

      Pages 133-156

   8. Climate Change, Adaptive Capacity, and Governance for Drinking Water in Canada

      • Rob de Loë, Ryan Plummer

      Pages 157-178

   9. Institutional Fit and Interplay in a Dryland Agricultural Social–Ecological System in Alberta, Canada

      • Johanna Wandel, Gregory P. Marchildon

      Pages 179-195

5. Frontiers in Adaptive Capacity

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   2. The Learning Dimension of Adaptive Capacity: Untangling the Multi-level Connections

      • Alan Diduck

      Pages 199-221

   3. Adaptive Capacity as a Dynamic Institutional Process: Conceptual Perspectives and Their Application

      • Ralph Matthews, Robin Sydneysmith

      Pages 223-242

   4. Sociobiology and Adaptive Capacity: Evolving Adaptive Strategies to Build Environmental Governance

      • David A. Fennell, Ryan Plummer

      Pages 243-261

   5. Building Transformative Capacity for Ecosystem Stewardship in Social–Ecological Systems

      • Per Olsson, Örjan Bodin, Carl Folke

      Pages 263-285

   6. Adapting and Transforming: Governance for Navigating Change

      • Derek Armitage, Ryan Plummer

      Pages 287-302

6. Back Matter

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Rapid environmental change calls for individuals and societies with an ability to transform our interactions with each other and the ecosystems upon which we depend. Adaptive capacity - the ability of a social-ecological system (or the components of that system) to be robust to disturbances and capable of responding to changes - is increasingly recognized as a critical attribute of multi-level environmental governance. This unique volume offers the first interdisciplinary and integrative perspective on an emerging area of applied scholarship, with contributions from internationally recognized researchers and practitioners. It demonstrates how adaptive capacity makes environmental governance possible in complex social-ecological systems. Cutting-edge theoretical developments are explored and empirical case studies offered from a wide range of geographic settings and natural resource contexts, such as water, climate, fisheries and forestry. • Of interest to researchers, policymakers and resource managers seeking to navigate and understand social-ecological change in diverse geographic settings and resource contexts

• adaptation
• adaptive capacity
• climate change
• ecosystem
• environment
• environmental change
• environmental governance
• social-ecological systems
• transformation
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Dept. Geography &, Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

  Derek Armitage

• Dept. Tourism & Environment, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada

  Ryan Plummer

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