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Author Boyd, Emily.

Title Adapting Institutions : Governance, Complexity and Social-Ecological Resilience.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (314 pages)
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Contents Cover; Adapting Institutions; Title; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and abbreviations; 1 Adapting institutions, adaptive governance and complexity: an introduction; Part I Adapting local institutions, networks, leadership and learning; 2 Knowledge, social networks and leadership: setting the stage for thedevelopment of adaptive institutions?; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 THE CASE; 2.2.1 Fishing activities and management over time; 2.3 THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; 2.3.1 Theoretical perspective; 2.3.2 Methods.
2.4 SOCIAL NETWORKS: THE FABRIC OF COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT2.4.1 Networks and knowledge distributions; 2.4.2 Social brokers or blockers: positions and incentives; 2.4.3 Leadership and influential individuals; 2.5 SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; 3 Adaptive capacity of local indigenous institutions: the case of the taboo forests of southern Madagascar; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 LOCAL INSTITUTIONS AND ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; 3.3 TABOOS AS LOCAL INSTITUTIONS; 3.3.1 Taboos in Madagascar; 3.3.2 Forest and taboos in Androy; 3.3.3 The ecological context; 3.4 SOCIAL CONTEXT.
3.5 THE TABOO FOREST INSTITUTIONS3.6 DRIVERS OF CHANGE AND LOCAL ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; 3.6.1 Erratic rainfall and migration; Western Androy: deforestation 1986-2000; North and central Androy: stable and regenerating forest cover 1986-2000; The core of Androy in the south: stable forest cover 1986-2000; 3.6.2 Christianity and social change; Attitudes and tensions: Christianity and ancestral believers; Funerals, forest burial sites and Christianity; 3.8 DISCUSSION; 3.8.1 The link between land and people; 3.8.2 The link between people, ancestors and forest; 3.9 CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES.
4 Adapting to change: tracing farmers' responses to disturbances in irrigation systems in Nepal4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 DATA AND METHODOLOGY; 4.3 TRACING DISTURBANCES, PROCESSES AND REACTIONS; 4.3.1 Floods and landslides; 4.3.2 New users; 4.3.3 Offers of infrastructure support; 4.3.4 Implementation of infrastructure support; 4.4 ANALYSIS; 4.4.1 Actions and actors; 4.4.2 A link to business organisations; 4.4.3 Causes, immediate impacts and long-term effects; 4.5 CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES.
5 Creating incentives for increased public engagement in ecosystem management through urban commons5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 URBAN LAND CHARACTERISTICS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LAND INTERACTION; 5.3 DYNAMICS OF PROPERTY RIGHTS IN URBAN AREAS; 5.4 URBAN COMMONS; 5.4.1 Community gardens; 5.4.2 Allotment areas; 5.4.3 Emerging urban commons; 5.5 URBAN COMMONS AND SUSTAINABILITY IN CITIES; 5.5.1 Applicability of commons in urban areas; 5.6 CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Part II Adapting and governing public institutions for uncertainty and complexity; 6 Adaptive capacity and the ecostate.
Note 6.1 introduction.
Summary Presents cutting-edge insights into adapting institutions that build social-ecological resilience to complex multi-scale environmental change.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Ecosystem management -- Social aspects.
Ecosystem management -- Social aspects.
Ecosystem management.
Environmental management -- Social aspects.
Environmental management -- Social aspects.
Environmental management.
Environmental policy.
Environmental policy.
International relations.
International relations.
International organization.
International organization.
International cooperation.
International cooperation.
Globalization -- Environmental aspects.
Globalization -- Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
Sustainable development.
TECHNOLOGY and ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Folke, Carl.
Other Form: Print version: Boyd, Emily. Adapting Institutions : Governance, Complexity and Social-Ecological Resilience. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2011 9780521897501
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