| Contents |
Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: An Introduction to Practical Panarchy: Linking Law, Resilience, and Adaptive Water Governance of Regional Scale Social-UEcological Systems; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Ecological Resilience and Adaptive Environmental Governance: Developing a Common Platform; 1.2.1 Resilience Thinking; 1.2.2 Panarchy; 1.2.3 Environmental Governance; 1.2.4 Adaptive Governance; 1.3 Integrating Law, Resilience, and Adaptive Governance: An Exercise in Practical Panarchy. |
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1.3.1 Part I. Assessing the Resilience of Regional Scale Social-UEcological Systems Defined by Watershed Boundaries; 1.3.2 Part II. The Role of Law in Adaptive Governance and Resilience; 1.3.3 Part III. Social-Ecological Resilience and Adaptive Governance; 1.4 Conclusion; References; Part I: Assessing Resilience of Regional Scale Social-Ecological Systems; Chapter 2: Case Studies in Adaptation and Transformation of Ecosystems, Legal Systems, and Governance Systems; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Assessing Resilience, Law, and Adaptive Governance in Social-Ecological Water Systems; 2.3 Case Studies. |
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2.3.1 Anacostia River Basin; 2.3.2 Columbia River Basin; 2.3.3 Everglades; 2.3.4 Klamath River Basin; 2.3.5 Middle Rio Grande Watershed; 2.3.6 Platte River Basin; 2.3.7 Lake Eyre and Great Artesian Basins: Australia; 2.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Resilience of the Anacostia River Basin: Institutional, Social, and Ecological Dynamics; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Social-Ecological System of the Anacostia Watershed; 3.3 Social-Ecological System Dynamics of the Anacostia River Watershed; 3.3.1 Drivers of Change; 3.3.2 Transformations of the Watershed. |
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3.4 Adaptive Capacity and Adaptive Governance in the Anacostia River Watershed; 3.5 Conclusion; References; Legal Documents; Chapter 4: Social-Ecological Resilience in the Columbia River Basin: The Role of Law and Governance; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Social-Ecological Setting of the Columbia River Basin; 4.3 The Social-Ecological Dynamics of the Columbia River Basin; 4.4 The Role of Law in Governance and Resilience in the Columbia River Basin; 4.5 Pathways to Adaptive Governance in the Columbia River Basin; 4.6 Discussion and Conclusion; References; Legal Documents. |
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Listings of Anadromous Fish Populations; Judicial Opinions; Laws; Chapter 5: Social, Legal, and Ecological Capacity for Adaptation and Transformation in the Everglades; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Everglades Social-Ecological System; 5.3 System Dynamics: A History of Adaptation and Transformation; 5.4 The Role of Law in Adaptation and Transformation; 5.5 Adaptive Governance: Integrating Ecology, Organizations, and Law; 5.6 Obstacles and Opportunities for Adaptive Capacity; References; Legal References; Chapter 6: The Emergence of Adaptive Governance in the Klamath River Basin; 6.1 Introduction. |
| Abstract |
This book presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that examined how law, policy and ecological dynamics influence the governance of regional scale water based social-ecological systems in the United States and Australia. The volume explores the obstacles and opportunities for governance that is capable of management, adaptation, and transformation in these regional social-ecological systems as they respond to accelerating environmental change. With the onset of the Anthropocene, global and regional changes in biophysical inputs to these systems will challenge their capacity to respond while maintaining functions of water supply, flood control, hydropower production, water quality, and biodiversity. Governance lies at the heart of the capacity of these systems to meet these challenges. Assessment of water basins in the United States and Australia indicates that state-centric governance of these complex and dynamic social-environmental systems is evolving to a more complex, diverse, and complex array public and private arrangements. In this process, three challenges emerge for water governance to become adaptive to environmental change. First, is the need for legal reform to remove barriers to adaptive governance by authorizing government agencies to prepare for windows of opportunity through adaptive planning, and to institutionalize the results of innovative solutions that arise once a window opens. Second, is the need for legal reform to give government agencies the authority to facilitate and participate in adaptive management and governance. This must be accompanied by parallel legal reform to assure that engagement of private and economic actors and the increase in governmental flexibility does not destabilize basin economies or come at the expense of legitimacy, accountability, equity, and justice. Third, development of means to continually assess thresholds and resilience of social-ecological systems and the adaptive capacity of their current governance to structure actions at multiple scales. The massive investment in water infrastructure on the river basins studied has improved the agricultural, urban and economic sectors, largely at the cost of other social and environmental values. Today the infrastructure is aging and in need of substantial investment for those benefits to continue and adapt to ongoing environmental changes. The renewal of institutions and heavily engineered water systems also presents the opportunity to modernize these systems to address inequity and align with the values and objectives of the 21st century. Creative approaches are needed to transform and modernize water governance that increases the capacity of these water-based social-ecological systems to innovate, adapt, and learn, will provide the tools needed to navigate an uncertain future. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 26, 2018). |
| Issued in other form | Printed edition: 9783319724706 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9783319724720 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 331972472X (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 3319724703 |
| ISBN | 9783319724706 |
| ISBN | 9783319724713 (print) |
| ISBN | 3319724711 |
| ISBN | 9783030102067 (print) |
| ISBN | 3030102068 |
| Standard identifier# |
10.1007/978-3-319-72472-0 |
| Stock number | com.springer.onix.9783319724720 Springer Nature |
