Overview
- Presents detailed case studies examining water resources and management regimes in the Swiss Alps and the Chilean Andes, contributing new case evidence to the growing body of work on adaptation and adaptive capacity
- Draws on good governance, vulnerability and resilience-based approaches to better understand the challenges of building adaptive capacity across temporal and spatial scales
- Assesses the implications of climate change for the broader governance context, and the adaptability of that context to the impacts of climate change
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 54)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Addressing Water Governance Challenges in the Anthropocene
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The Case Areas in Chile and Switzerland
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Applying the Assessment
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Challenges in Developing and Mobilising Adaptive Capacity
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Challenges in Developing and Mobilising Adaptive Capacity
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About this book
The book presents detailed case studies examining the Rhône Basin in the Canton Valais, Switzerland and the Aconcagua Basin in Valparaiso, Chile. In order to understand and assess the interplay of complex and interlinked environmental and socio-economic issues, the author looks beyond the technology, modelling, engineering and infrastructure associated with water resources management and climate change adaptation, to assess the decision-making environment within which water and adaptation policy and practices are devised and executed.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change and Water Governance
Book Subtitle: Adaptive Capacity in Chile and Switzerland
Authors: Margot Hill
Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5796-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5795-0Published: 13 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9241-8Published: 14 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5796-7Published: 13 November 2012
Series ISSN: 1574-0919
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 348
Topics: Climate Change, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Human Geography, Political Science