Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 7475 g
Adaptive Capacity in Chile and Switzerland
Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 7475 g
Reihe: Advances in Global Change Research
ISBN: 978-94-007-5795-0
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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.
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Contents:
Part I: Addressing Water Governance Challenges in the Anthropocene
1. Addressing Water Governance Challenges in the Anthropocene
2. Water Governance
3. Adaptive Capacity
4. The Assessment of Adaptive Capacity
5. Applying a Multi-Pronged Approach to Assessing Adaptive Capacity
Part II: The Cases of Chile & Switzerland
6. Introducing the Case Study Areas: Hydro-climatic & Governance Background
7. Water Governance in the context of IWRM: Switzerland
8. Water Governance in the context of IWRM: Chile
9. Converging Threats: Driving pressures for Adaptive Capacity
Part III: Applying the Assessment
10. Governance in the Face of Uncertainty and Change
11. Bridges and Barriers to Adaptive Capacity
12. Operationalising Adaptive Capacity
13. Assessing Adaptive Capacity
Part IV: Challenges in Developing and Mobilising Adaptive Capacity
14. Balancing Structural Conflicts across Scales to develop and mobilise Adaptive Capacity
15. Coping with and Communicating Uncertainty
16. Addressing the Challenge of Institutional Infrastructure in a Technically focused World