Introduction to the Handbook on Adaptive Governance

Juhola, Sirkku

doi:10.4337/9781800888241.00009

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“…That is, to create an academic space in which the objective is to know the background of a community to implement managed strategies. It is necessary to focus research efforts because social dimensions are crucial a priori to actively protect biodiversity [35][36][37] and implement 30 × 30 (30% protected land by 2030) global conservation target of the established Sustainable Development Goals [38,39].…”

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Is the Spanish Population Pro-Conservation or Pro-Utilitarian towards Threatened Flora? Social Analysis on the Willingness to Protect Biodiversity

Algarra,

Ramos-Lorente,

Cariñanos

2024

Land

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Conserving biodiversity in the context of global change is a challenge for the sustainability of life as we know it. Scientific protection work, particularly for flora, often lacks interdisciplinary approaches that consider human dynamics. The main objective is to evaluate the level of commitment of Spanish society toward the conservation of biodiversity in general and vascular flora in particular. As a secondary objective, it aims to contribute to the transfer between management and the general population. Methodologically, the survey has been used to estimate the willingness to protect threatened flora. The surveyed population is structured on the basis of its commitment to biodiversity conservation into: pro-conservation or pro-utilitarian group. The results are conclusive and indicate a high commitment of the Spanish society to conservation in aspects such as fees or legislative limitations on owners. It also reveals a deficiency in the transfer of the efforts made, from management, to society. It can be concluded that the survey, as a tool, allows us to know the starting social reality, detect weaknesses and deficiencies that allow management to be adapted to that reality, replicate work longitudinally to know the evolution of the measures and, indirectly, bring reality closer, of conservation to the people surveyed (science transfer).

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Is the Spanish Population Pro-Conservation or Pro-Utilitarian towards Threatened Flora? Social Analysis on the Willingness to Protect Biodiversity

Algarra,

Ramos-Lorente,

Cariñanos

2024

Land

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“…This wave is marked by greater institutionalization and mainstreaming of climate concerns into urban matters, shifting the role climate change plays in urban politics and planning (Chu et al, 2017;Friend et al, 2014;Sharma & Tomar, 2010;Uittenbroek et al, 2013). It is also marked by experimentation with climate policies and programs, their formalization to strengthen policy legitimacy and support (Anguelovski & Carmin, 2011), as well as the rise of hybrid (Toxopeus et al, 2020), adaptive (Juhola, 2021) and polycentric governance models (Jordan & Huitema, 2023;Petrovics et al, 2022). Finally, the third wave-beginning in the mid 2010s and designated as climate-connected-is characterized by cities' recognition that the issue of climate change is inextricably connected to broader concerns related to social justice (Bulkeley, 2010;Vancura & Leichenko, 2015).…”

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Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona

Amorim‐Maia,

Anguelovski,

Chu

et al. 2023

Env Pol Gov

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Cities and local governments are important actors in the global governance of climate change; however, the specific governance principles and arrangements that enable urban climate plans and policies to realize commitments to social equity and justice remain largely unexplored. This article uses the City of Barcelona, Spain, as a critical case study of emerging “intersectional climate justice” practice, where plans to build resilience to climate change are pursued in conjunction with efforts to tackle structural inequalities in accessing the built environment, health services, energy, housing, and transportation experienced by frontline communities. The study illustrates how Barcelona and its community partners do this through four different categories of governance and decision‐making tactics, which include: (1) experimenting with disruptive planning strategies; (2) working transversally across agencies and actors to institutionalize climate justice over time; (3) putting care at the center of urban planning; and (4) mobilizing place‐based approaches to tackle intersecting vulnerabilities of frontline residents. These tactics seek to redistribute the benefits of climate‐resilient infrastructures more fairly and to enhance participatory processes more meaningfully. Finally, we assess the limitations and challenges of mobilizing these tactics in everyday urban politics. Barcelona's experience contributes to research on climate governance by challenging the notion of distinct waves of governance and revealing concurrent dimensions of climate urbanism that coexist spatially and temporally. Our research also illustrates lessons for fairer climate governance in the city, where different tactics are mobilized to address structural and intersecting socioeconomic vulnerabilities that exacerbate the experience of climate change of frontline residents.

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“…This paper refers to the concept of adaptive water governance as a process that aims at achieving a balance between the human benefits and ecosystem pressures in aquatic ecosystems and encourages learning and experimentation to increase the resilience of the socio-ecological system [16][17][18]. Adaptive governance has been defined as a process that contains interactions between actors, networks, and institutions that aim at increased capacity of complex socio-ecologic systems to respond to changing circumstances, such as environmental change caused by climate change [18][19][20][21]. This approach takes scale and socio-ecological complexity into account and motivates experimentation, learning, and capacity building to reduce uncertainty.…”

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Changing Winters and Adaptive Water Governance: A Case Study on the Kemi River Basin, Finland

Albrecht

2023

Water

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This paper studies adaptive water governance in the context of hydropower and flood-risk management. The Kemi River basin acts as an empirical setting to study the environmental change and the capacity of the management system to respond to it. Hydropower and reservoir development has been a source of a decade-long environmental conflict in the river basin. This study aims to find out how governance structures are adapting to the environmental change brought on by climate change. The study is based on case study research, and it combines long-term monitoring data, semi-structured interviews conducted in December 2020 and January 2021, and Finnish administrative court rulings. The results reveal that the water governance in the Kemi River basin is based on a technology driven aquatic regime, which has been a source of persistent environmental conflict between technology and nature. The flood-risk management is based on adaptive planning cycles and is implemented in a participatory manner, although it is strengthening the conflict in the area, as some stakeholders suggests reservoirs as a solution, which neglects the potential of integrative river basin management.

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Introduction to the Handbook on Adaptive Governance

Cited by 4 publications

References 40 publications

Is the Spanish Population Pro-Conservation or Pro-Utilitarian towards Threatened Flora? Social Analysis on the Willingness to Protect Biodiversity

Is the Spanish Population Pro-Conservation or Pro-Utilitarian towards Threatened Flora? Social Analysis on the Willingness to Protect Biodiversity

Governing intersectional climate justice: Tactics and lessons from Barcelona

Changing Winters and Adaptive Water Governance: A Case Study on the Kemi River Basin, Finland

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