Adapting Institutions: Governance, Complexity and Social-Ecological Resilience - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521897505 ISBN 13: 9780521897501

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Global environmental change is occurring at a rate faster than humans have ever experienced. Climate change and the loss of ecosystem services are the two main global environmental crises facing us today. As a result, there is a need for better understanding of the specific and general resilience of networked ecosystems, cities, organisations and institutions to cope with change. In this book, an international team of experts provide cutting-edge insights into building the resilience and adaptive governance of complex social-ecological systems. Through a set of case studies, it focuses on the social science dimension of ecosystem management in the context of global change, in a move to bridge existing gaps between resilience, sustainability and social science. Using empirical examples ranging from local to global levels, views from a variety of disciplines are integrated to provide an essential resource for scholars, policy-makers and students, seeking innovative approaches to governance.

About this title

Book Description:

Provides cutting-edge insights into adapting institutions for building resilience and adaptive governance of complex social-ecological systems. Case studies ranging from local to global levels show how, in the context of multi-scale environmental change, the existing gaps between resilience, sustainability and social science can be bridged.

About the Author:

Emily Boyd works, researches and teaches on climate change and development. She is a lecturer in environment and development in the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds and deputy director of the Global Development Centre, University of Leeds. She is also a research associate and a leader of the adaptive governance theme at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and an associate of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, Oxford University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521897505
• ISBN 13: 9780521897501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Boyd Emily, Folke Carl