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Environmental Science and Management | Environmental Management | Human Geography not elsewhere classified | Ecosystem Function | Environmental Impact Assessment | Conservation and Biodiversity | Natural Resource Management |
Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Marine Environments | Climate Change Mitigation Strategies | Climate Change Adaptation Measures | Climate Change Models | Fisheries - Wild Caught not elsewhere classified | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-12-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2006
Abstract: Regional institutional integration is viewed by many as an essential precursor to the achievement of rural sustainability in that it addresses increasing concerns about institutional complexity in rural areas and the need to manage ecosystems at a bioregional scale. Governments are requiring planners to engage citizens, organizations, and institutions in regional strategic planning, regional organizational amalgamation, and regional administrative-boundary reconfiguration to achieve such integration. Despite this popularity, these approaches still are not well thought out. In particular, there has been little critical hypothesis development on institutions and regional integration by which planning practice toward achieving rural sustainability can be guided. This article seeks to show how certain elements of the scholarship in a range of disciplines within and outside planning can shed light on the different dimensions of this concept. This review enables important lessons to be drawn for planners, citizens, and governments concerned with institutions, integration, and the environment.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 14-06-2016
Abstract: This article argues that analysis of meta-governance purely in terms of the actions of the state can obscure the significant, but less apparent, ways in which private actors may influence the choices and interactions of in iduals within various modes of governance coordination. We investigate the networked governance of affordable housing impacts in the Marcellus Shale gas region of the United States to empirically illuminate the dynamics of state and private meta-governance. Drawing on a qualitative research approach, we identify public authorities as exercising what seems to be predominant responsibility for meta-governance, with state government having strong influence over the structure and resourcing of a networked governance response, and county government directly facilitating the collaborative engagement of actors at the local level. Although private oil and gas companies demonstrate little involvement in network governance, the presence of private meta-governance in the alternative form of the design of market governance is shown to have a number of countervailing implications for the form and function of network governance. We suggest that expansion of the concept of “framing” to account for strategies that structure how key governance actors understand a particular problem provides valuable insights for understanding private meta-governance in relation to network governance.
Publisher: Becaris Publishing Limited
Date: 04-2018
Abstract: Aim: To gather qualitative data from patients on the burden, impacts and costs of surgical site infections (SSI) requiring second surgeries. Patients & methods: 15 adults with SSIs from spinal (n = 4), knee replacement (n = 3) or hip replacement (n = 8) surgery participated in a focus group or in idual interview. Patients completed the PROMIS Physical Functioning (PF) Short Form 10A (PROMIS-PF). Results: Patients reported impacts within four primary domains: PF/activity-related social/emotional financial/employment and energy/sleep. The mean PROMIS-PF score was 39.3 (standard deviation = 12.1), over one standard deviation below 50, the US norm. Conclusion: SSIs impart a broad and significant impact on patients and their families. These burdens will be important to capture when selecting patient-reported outcome measures for this patient population.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2021
DOI: 10.1016/J.CUB.2021.01.029
Abstract: Parachute science is the practice whereby international scientists, typically from higher-income countries, conduct field studies in another country, typically of lower income, and then complete the research in their home country without any further effective communication and engagement with others from that nation. It creates dependency on external expertise, does not address local research needs, and hinders local research efforts. As global hotspots of marine bio ersity, lower-income nations in the tropics have for too long been the subject of inequitable and unfair research practices
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2004
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Date: 2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-10-2019
DOI: 10.1111/APV.12240
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-03-2017
DOI: 10.1002/9781118786352.WBIEG0701
Abstract: Pervasive environmental change, and the failure of top‐down technical solutions to respond to such change, has triggered a paradigm shift in environmental management. A social‐ecological systems approach, which recognizes the social and institutional dimensions shaping ecosystem processes and dynamics, has emerged. Within this paradigm, the concept of social learning has gained traction, with a substantial effort devoted to understanding the way in which social learning can build social‐ecological resilience and adaptive capacity. In recent years, the conceptual and practical limits of social learning have scaled up the focus, from a concentration on the processes of social learning to a focus on the design of multiscalar governance regimes that can facilitate social learning.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2009
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2019
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 15-02-2023
DOI: 10.3389/FCOSC.2023.989019
Abstract: Maintaining peace and conserving bio ersity hinge on an international system of cooperation codified in institutions, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brings recent progress to a crossroads. Against this backdrop, we address some implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the governance of bio ersity conservation both within and beyond Russia. The Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens the governance system for bio ersity conservation, as it pertains to Russia and beyond, due to three interacting factors: (i) isolation of Russia from the international system, (ii) halt and delay of international cooperation, and (iii) changes in international and domestic policy priorities. We recommend making the existing international system of governance for conserving bio ersity more resilient and adaptable, while aligning security agendas with bio ersity conservation goals.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-08-2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 16-12-2022
Abstract: Diverse and inclusive marine research is paramount to addressing ocean sustainability challenges in the 21st century, as envisioned by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Despite increasing efforts to ersify ocean science, women continue to face barriers at various stages of their career, which inhibits their progression to leadership within academic institutions. In this perspective, we draw on the collective experiences of thirty-four global women leaders, bolstered by a narrative review, to identify practical strategies and actions that will help empower early career women researchers to become the leaders of tomorrow. We propose five strategies: (i) create a more inclusive culture, (ii) ensure early and equitable career development opportunities for women ECRs, (iii) ensure equitable access to funding for women ECRs, (iv) offer mentoring opportunities and, (v) create flexible, family-friendly environments. Transformational, meaningful, and lasting change will only be achieved through commitment and collaborative action across various scales and by multiple stakeholders.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2007
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-09-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-01-2015
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.1071/PC15032
Abstract: Bio ersity loss is a critical issue on the environmental agenda, with species-based approaches failing to stem the decline. Landscape-scale approaches offer promise, but require institutional change. This article describes a novel conceptual framework for assessing institutional arrangements to tackle this persistent problem. In doing so, two critical issues for bio ersity governance are addressed. The first is a need to enrich largely theoretical descriptions of adaptive governance by considering how the practical realities of institutional environments (e.g. public agencies) limit achievement of an adaptive governance ‘ideal’. The second is enabling explicit consideration of the unique aspects of bio ersity as a ‘policy problem’ in the analysis of institutional arrangements. The framework contributes to efforts to design more adaptive institutional arrangements, through supporting a more sophisticated and grounded institutional analysis incorporating insights from institutional theory, especially literature on organisational environments and public administration. Concepts from Pragmatism also contribute to this grounding, providing insight into how public agencies can play a more productive role in bio ersity conservation and building public consent for management actions. The diagnostic categories in the framework include the attributes of the bio ersity problem and the involved players the political context and practices contributing to both competence and capacity. Guidance on how to apply the framework and an ex le of its application in Australia illustrate the utility of this tool for institutional diagnosis and design. Development of this diagnostic framework could be further enhanced by empirically informed elaboration of the relationships between its components, and of the nature of, and factors influencing, key concerns for adaptation, particularly learning, self-organising and buffering.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-05-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2005
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2016
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-02-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-01-2023
DOI: 10.1111/PSJ.12492
Abstract: Success or failure of a polycentric system is a function of complex political and social processes, such as coordination between actors and venues to solve specialized policy problems. Yet there is currently no accepted method for isolating distinct processes of coordination, nor to understand how their variance affects polycentric governance performance. We develop and test a building‐blocks approach that uses different patterns or “motifs” for measuring and comparing coordination longitudinally on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Our approach confirms that polycentric governance comprises an evolving substrate of interdependent venues and actors over time. However, while issue specialization and actor participation can be improved through the mobilization of venues, such a strategy can also fragment overall polycentric capacity to resolve conflict and adapt to new problems. A building‐blocks approach advances understanding and practice of polycentric governance by enabling sharper diagnosis of internal dynamics in complex environmental governance systems.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-11-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2017
DOI: 10.1038/NATURE22901
Abstract: Coral reefs support immense bio ersity and provide important ecosystem services to many millions of people. Yet reefs are degrading rapidly in response to numerous anthropogenic drivers. In the coming centuries, reefs will run the gauntlet of climate change, and rising temperatures will transform them into new configurations, unlike anything observed previously by humans. Returning reefs to past configurations is no longer an option. Instead, the global challenge is to steer reefs through the Anthropocene era in a way that maintains their biological functions. Successful navigation of this transition will require radical changes in the science, management and governance of coral reefs.
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2022
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-07-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-05-2021
DOI: 10.1111/FAF.12554
Abstract: Marine capture fishery resources are declining, and demand for them is rising. These trends are suspected to incite conflict, but their effects have not been quantitatively examined. We applied a multi‐model ensemble approach to a global database of international fishery conflicts between 1974 and 2016 to test the supply‐induced scarcity hypothesis (diminishing supplies of fishery resources increase fisheries conflict), the demand‐induced scarcity hypothesis (rising demand for fishery resources increases fisheries conflict), and three alternative political and economic hypotheses. While no single indicator was able to fully explain international conflict over fishery resources, we found a positive relationship between increased conflict over fishery resources and higher levels of per capita GDP for the period 1975–1996. For the period 1997–2016, we found evidence supporting the demand‐induced scarcity hypothesis, and the notion that an increase in supply of fishery resources is linked to an increase in conflict occurrence. By identifying significant predictors of international fisheries conflict, our analysis provides useful information for policy approaches for conflict anticipation and management.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-11-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-06-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-01-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2005
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-07-2018
DOI: 10.1111/ANTI.12405
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-10-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-022-33962-X
Abstract: Mangrove forests store high amounts of carbon, protect communities from storms, and support fisheries. Mangroves exist in complex social-ecological systems, hence identifying socioeconomic conditions associated with decreasing losses and increasing gains remains challenging albeit important. The impact of national governance and conservation policies on mangrove conservation at the landscape-scale has not been assessed to date, nor have the interactions with local economic pressures and biophysical drivers. Here, we assess the relationship between socioeconomic and biophysical variables and mangrove change across coastal geomorphic units worldwide from 1996 to 2016. Globally, we find that drivers of loss can also be drivers of gain, and that drivers have changed over 20 years. The association with economic growth appears to have reversed, shifting from negatively impacting mangroves in the first decade to enabling mangrove expansion in the second decade. Importantly, we find that community forestry is promoting mangrove expansion, whereas conversion to agriculture and aquaculture, often occurring in protected areas, results in high loss. Sustainable development, community forestry, and co-management of protected areas are promising strategies to reverse mangrove losses, increasing the capacity of mangroves to support human-livelihoods and combat climate change.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-09-2018
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.13144
Abstract: Raising funds is critical for conserving bio ersity and hence so is scrutinizing emerging financial mechanisms that may help achieve this goal. Anecdotal evidence indicates crowdfunding is being used to support activities needed for bio ersity conservation, yet its magnitude and allocation remain largely unknown. To help address this knowledge gap, we conducted a global analysis based on conservation-focused projects extracted from crowdfunding platforms. For each project, we determined the funds raised, date, country of implementation, proponent characteristics, activity type, bio ersity realm, and target taxa. We identified 72 relevant platforms and 577 conservation-focused projects that raised $4,790,634 since 2009. Although proponents were based in 38 countries, projects were delivered across 80 countries, indicating a potential mechanism of resource mobilization. Proponents were affiliated with nongovernmental organizations (35%) or universities (30%) or were freelancers (26%). Most projects were for research (40%), persuasion (31%), and on-the-ground actions (21%). Projects were more focused on species (57.7%) and terrestrial ecosystems (20.3%), and less focused on marine (8.8%) and freshwater ecosystems (3.6%). Projects focused on 208 species, including a disproportionate number of threatened birds and mammals. Crowdfunding for bio ersity conservation is a global phenomenon and there is potential for expansion, despite possible pitfalls (e.g., uncertainty about effectiveness). Opportunities to advance conservation through crowdfunding arise from its capacity to mobilize funds spatially and increase steadily over time, inclusion of overlooked species, adoption by multiple actors, and funding of activities beyond research. Our findings pave the way for further research on key questions, such as c aign success rates, effectiveness of conservation actions, and drivers of crowdfunding adoption. Even though crowdfunding capital raised has been modest relative to other conservation-finance mechanisms, its contribution goes beyond funding research and providing capital. Embraced with due care, crowdfunding could become an important financial mechanism for bio ersity conservation.
Publisher: American Society of Hematology
Date: 19-08-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2005
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-06-2017
DOI: 10.1002/WCC.479
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-05-2022
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-04-2021
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 11-12-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2008
DOI: 10.1177/154405910808700309
Abstract: Wnt proteins and β-catenin signaling regulate major processes during embryonic development, and we hypothesized that they regulate cranial base synchondrosis development and growth. To address this issue, we analyzed cartilage-specific β -catenin-deficient mice. Mutant synchondroses lacked typical growth plate zones, and endochondral ossification was delayed. In reciprocal transgenic experiments, cartilage overexpression of a constitutive active Lef1, a transcriptional mediator of Wnt/β-catenin signaling, caused precocious chondrocyte hypertrophy and intermingling of immature and mature chondrocytes. The developmental changes seen in β -catenin-deficient synchondroses were accompanied by marked reductions in Ihh and PTHrP as well as sFRP-1, an endogenous Wnt signaling antagonist and a potential Ihh signaling target. Thus, Wnt/β-catenin signaling is essential for cranial base development and synchondrosis growth plate function. This pathway promotes chondrocyte maturation and ossification events, and may exert this important role by d ening the effects of Ihh-PTHrP together with sFRP-1.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-12-2015
DOI: 10.1111/CONL.12213
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2022.115809
Abstract: Extreme climatic events trigger changes in ecosystems with potential negative impacts for people. These events may provide an opportunity for environmental managers and decision-makers to improve the governance of social-ecological systems, however there is conflicting evidence regarding whether these actors are indeed able to change governance after extreme climatic events. In addition, the majority of research to date has focused on changes in specific policies or organizations after crises. A broader investigation of governance actors' activities is needed to more fully understand whether or not crises trigger change. Here we demonstrate the use of a social network analysis of management and decision-making forums (e.g. meetings, partnerships) to reveal the effects of an extreme climatic event on governance of the Great Barrier Reef over an eight-year period. To assess potential shifts in action, we examine the topics of forums and the relative participation and influence of erse governance actors before, during, and after two back-to-back mass coral bleaching events in 2016 and 2017. Our analysis reveals that there is little change in the topics that receive attention, and in the relative participation and influence of different actor groups in the region. Our research demonstrates that network analysis of forums is useful for analyzing whether or not actors' activities and priorities evolve over time. Our results provide empirical evidence that governance actors struggle to leverage extreme climate events as windows of opportunity and further research is needed to identify alternative opportunities to improve governance.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-12-2018
DOI: 10.1111/FAF.12262
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-12-2015
DOI: 10.1002/WAT2.1129
Abstract: Despite decades of donor support for the water sector, many small island developing states ( SIDS ) have failed to make acceptable levels of progress toward achievement of water‐related millennium development goals and reduction of water‐related risks. At least three distinct policy paradigms have at different times been regarded as best practice for responding to water insecurity throughout the world. Yet, while the water management literature points to the need for a paradigm shift toward improved governance approaches, there has been little critical examination of whether the assumptions implicit within these theoretical paradigms are applicable to SIDS contexts. This study reviews the water management, governance, and island studies literatures to identify the ways in which the unique historical, geographical, and economic contexts of SIDS limit or enable the applicability of these paradigms. The analysis shows that each paradigm has a different underlying conceptualization of governance, and how institutions can regulate social–ecological relations for achieving water security. The conceptualizations of governance under the adaptive management paradigm seem to most closely reflect the complexity of governance in SIDS , and may therefore hold the most potential for addressing water insecurity. However, the analysis also highlights the need for further research to test the application of adaptive management in a way that can also cater for the unique socio‐political relations that affect the outcomes of governance in SIDS . WIREs Water 2016, 3:181–193. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1129 This article is categorized under: Human Water Water Governance
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2009
Abstract: Primary cilia regulate several developmental processes and mediate hedgehog signaling. To study their roles in cranial base development, we created conditional mouse mutants deficient in Polaris, a critical primary cilium component, in cartilage. Mutant post-natal cranial bases were deformed, and their synchondrosis growth plates were disorganized. Expression of Indian hedgehog, Patched-1, collagen X, and MMP-13 was reduced and accompanied by decreases in endochondral bone. Interestingly, there was excessive intramembranous ossification along the perichondrium, accompanied by excessive Patched-1 expression, suggesting that Ihh distribution was wider and responsible for such excessive response. Indeed, expression of heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HS-PGs), normally involved in restricting hedgehog distribution, was barely detectable in mutant synchondroses. Analyses of the data provides further evidence for the essential roles of primary cilia and hedgehog signaling in cranial base development and chondrocyte maturation, and point to a close interdependence between cilia and HS-PGs to delimit targets of hedgehog action in synchondroses.
Publisher: International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
Date: 02-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3966292
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2022
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-12-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-04-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S10113-023-02051-0
Abstract: Nearly a billion people depend on tropical seascapes. The need to ensure sustainable use of these vital areas is recognised, as one of 17 policy commitments made by world leaders, in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 (‘Life below Water’) of the United Nations. SDG 14 seeks to secure marine sustainability by 2030. In a time of increasing social-ecological unpredictability and risk, scientists and policymakers working towards SDG 14 in the Asia–Pacific region need to know: (1) How are seascapes changing? (2) What can global society do about these changes? and (3) How can science and society together achieve sustainable seascape futures? Through a horizon scan, we identified nine emerging research priorities that clarify potential research contributions to marine sustainability in locations with high coral reef abundance. They include research on seascape geological and biological evolution and adaptation elucidating drivers and mechanisms of change understanding how seascape functions and services are produced, and how people depend on them costs, benefits, and trade-offs to people in changing seascapes improving seascape technologies and practices learning to govern and manage seascapes for all sustainable use, justice, and human well-being bridging communities and epistemologies for innovative, equitable, and scale-crossing solutions and informing resilient seascape futures through modelling and synthesis. Researchers can contribute to the sustainability of tropical seascapes by co-developing transdisciplinary understandings of people and ecosystems, emphasising the importance of equity and justice, and improving knowledge of key cross-scale and cross-level processes, feedbacks, and thresholds.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 28-11-2013
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892913000519
Abstract: Worldwide, coastal and floodplain wetlands are rapidly urbanizing, making them highly vulnerable to bio ersity loss, biological invasion and climate change. Yet urban wetlands management is an understudied area of global environmental research. Different policy approaches and institutional arrangements in place for urban wetlands governance have to be studied comparatively to obtain a better understanding of the current issues. This paper investigates four urban wetland policy regimes and the application of ecological reference points across four countries. The regimes are discussed within the context of global policy trends, urbanization patterns and environmental change. The analysis illustrates that the four cases deviate substantially in certain characteristics and converge in others. Global trends such as environmental treaties and restructuring of city spaces are common policy drivers for all cases. Conversely, the localized specific problems have yielded specialized policy responses in each case. Declaration of fixed biological reference points for wetlands were not used at any stage of the policy development process. However, the wetland managers formally or informally set up ecosystem-services oriented benchmarks for urban wetland management. Globally-applicable normative policy directives or universal ecological reference points seem bound to fail in urban wetlands governance. However, in designing effective urban wetland policy and institutions at the regional scale, both context-specific and generalized lessons from empirical policy evaluation of multiple case studies need to be jointly considered. Based on the characteristics of the policy regimes analysed in this study, a hypothetical framework for urban wetland policy evaluation is proposed this has yet to be validated by empirical application to actual cases.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2004
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-09-2017
DOI: 10.1111/SORU.12189
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2022
Publisher: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.17863/CAM.90015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-05-2018
DOI: 10.1111/FAF.12291
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2020
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 16-05-2016
DOI: 10.1108/IJCCSM-07-2015-0091
Abstract: This paper aims to contribute to adaptation research by devising a systematic method for examining the challenges in mainstreaming climate change adaptation (CCA) into local land use planning. It argues that mainstreaming operationalization necessitates a methodology that focuses on the challenges in applying the approach and an analytical framework that can examine the mainstreaming process from an institutional perspective. This paper applied triangulation by data method (i.e. document review, interview, survey and key informant consultations) and incorporated the scorecard approach in developing the four-stage mixed methodology. It used a modified Institutional Analysis and Development framework as primary analytical guide and applied the case study methodology for structure and focus in relation to data collection activities. This paper devised the four-stage mixed methodology and successfully applied it in examining the challenges in mainstreaming CCA into local land use planning in Albay, Philippines. Using the methodology, this paper developed 20 quantitative “mainstreaming indicators” and generated qualitative analyses to assess the state of play of the challenges in local mainstreaming of CCA. Results suggest that mainstreaming challenges exist within a certain spectrum, with one end composed of barriers to, and the other, opportunities for CCA. Furthermore, the challenges occur at varying degrees of severity depending on the conditions that surround them. This paper is limited to illustrating the process involved in developing the four-stage mixed methodology and presents only a brief discussion of the quantitative and qualitative results. Although the methodology is at its initial stages of development, it generated results that can help analysts, planners and decision-makers: determine the nature of the challenges in mainstreaming CCA, thereby understand the mainstreaming process prioritize the mainstreaming challenges to address and design strategies that will maximize the use of limited resources (i.e. utilizing the opportunities to overcome the existing barriers), among others. The four-stage mixed methodology was developed to aid analysts, planners and decision-makers determine the state-of-play of the challenges in mainstreaming CCA and make informed decisions in overcoming these challenges. Thus, the mixed method can be a useful tool in advancing the operationalization of the mainstreaming approach.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-05-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S11625-022-01145-8
Abstract: Policy actors address complex environmental problems by engaging in multiple and often interdependent policy issues. Policy issue interdependencies imply that efforts by actors to address separate policy issues can either reinforce (‘win–win’) or counteract (‘trade-off’) each other. Thus, if interdependent issues are managed in isolation instead of being coordinated, the most effective and well-balanced solution to the underlying problem might never be realised. This study asks if reinforcing and counteracting interdependencies have different impacts on perception and collaboration. Our empirical study of collaborative water governance in the Norrström basin, Sweden, shows that policy actors often avoid collaborating when the policy issues exhibit reinforcing interdependencies. Our evidence indicates a perceived infeasibility of acting on reinforcing interdependencies. We also find that actors do not consider counteracting interdependencies (‘trade-offs’) at all when they engage in collaboration. Further, even though actors were aware of counteracting and reinforcing interdependencies, our analyses suggest they might be less aware of the former. These findings illustrate that actors either avoid each other due to policy issue interdependencies or, at best, ignore existing interdependencies when engaging in collaboration. Our study highlights the importance of problem perception in accomplishing integrated solutions to complex environmental problems, and of how understandings of different types of interdependencies shape collaboration in environmental governance.
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-09-2019
DOI: 10.1002/AQC.3200
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-08-2021
DOI: 10.1002/WCC.736
Abstract: The term “climate emergency” represents a new phase in climate change framing that many hope will invigorate more climate action. Yet there has been relatively little discussion of how the new emergency framing might shape broader governance and policy. In this advanced review, we critically review and synthesize existing literature on crisis and emergency to inform our understanding of how this new shift might affect governance and policy. Specifically, we explore the literature on crisis governance and policy to argue that there is no simple answer to whether the “climate emergency” framing will be supportive of climate governance and policy rather, more work needs to be done to understand how different political actors respond according to their perceptions, interests and values. To assist this endeavor, we develop a typology of four policy pathways, ranging from “no emergency,” to “no emergency, but recognize risk,” “emergency as a threat” and “emergency as an opportunity.” We highlight the need to consider the effects of multiple and overlapping emergency frames, using the ex le of the intersection of climate change and COVID‐19. Finally, we suggest new interdisciplinary research directions for critically analyzing and refining this new phase of climate change framing. This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance Governing Climate Change in Communities, Cities, and Regions Policy and Governance Multilevel and Transnational Climate Change Governance
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-08-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 27-03-2017
Abstract: Global sustainability depends on robust environmental governance regimes. An investigation of the Great Barrier Reef regime between 1975 and 2016 reveals how complex environmental regimes become increasingly structurally dense and eventually reach a point of stabilization. However, structural complexity and stability alone do not necessarily mean the system is robust. Instead, a complex but stable structure can mask exogenous change, which then can generate more endogenous change this phenomenon has implications for the environmental outcomes of complex regimes. Therefore, it is vital to anticipate and account for change in designing, implementing, and evaluating sustainable environmental governance.
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End Date: 2015
Funder: Australian Research Council
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Funder: Australian Research Council
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Funder: Australian Research Council
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