Adaptive Governance and Climate Change

Adaptive Governance and Climate Change
ISBN-10
193570401X
ISBN-13
9781935704010
Category
Science
Pages
424
Language
English
Published
2013-01-22
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
Ronald Brunner, Amanda Lynch

Description

As greenhouse gas emissions and temperatures at the poles continue to rise, so do damages from extreme weather events affecting countless lives. Meanwhile, ambitious international efforts to cut emissions (Kyoto, Copenhagen) have proved to be politically ineffective or infeasible. There is hope, however, in adaptive governance—an approach that has succeeded in some local communities and can be undertaken by others around the globe. This book provides a political and historical analysis of climate change policy; shows how adaptive governance has worked on the ground in Barrow, Alaska, and other local communities; and makes the case for adaptive governance as a complementary approach in the climate change regime.

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