Adaptive Capacity: Tensions across ScalesEnvironmental Policy and Governance - Tập 23 Số 3 - Trang 177-192 - 2013
Margot Hill, Nathan L. Engle
ABSTRACTClimate variability and climate change impacts on hydrological conditions prescribe the need to better understand favourable conditions for developing and mobilising adaptive capacity. This paper presents new cases to the body of evidence on adaptive capacity in the context of institutional arrangements for water management. It aims to contribute insights i...... hiện toàn bộ
Provision of Climate Advice as a Mechanism for Environmental Governance in Swedish AgricultureEnvironmental Policy and Governance - Tập 25 Số 5 - Trang 356-371 - 2015
Herman I. Stål, Karl Johan Bonnedahl
AbstractClimate mitigation is both a pressing and complex task, and one that frequently requires both participation, to involve stakeholders, and capacity building to enable them to change their practices. This paper considers whether the provision of climate advice to affected parties could be an effective policy activity in both respects. The article investigates...... hiện toàn bộ
Breaking bad: When does polycentricity lead to maladaptation rather than adaptation?Environmental Policy and Governance - Tập 29 Số 5 - Trang 344-359 - 2019
Jennifer C. Biddle, Karen Baehler
AbstractPolycentric governance structures are often touted as part of the solution to overuse and degradation of natural resources. In theory, when multiple, overlapping decision centers work independently and in coordination, they contribute more than either monocentric or atomized governance arrangements to ensuring robust, adaptive social‐ecological systems (SES...... hiện toàn bộ
Participatory futures methods: towards adaptability and resilience in climate‐vulnerable communitiesEnvironmental Policy and Governance - Tập 19 Số 6 - Trang 427-440 - 2009
Jennifer M. Gidley, John Fien, Jodi-Anne Michelle Smith, Dana C. Thomsen, Timothy F. Smith
AbstractThis paper points to the value of broadening the palette of approaches to climate change futures beyond the dominant methods of empiricist predictive trends and expert scenarios. The first half of the paper contextualizes the climate change discourse within the field of futures studies and explores potential points of dialogue between a number of futures ap...... hiện toàn bộ
Overarching policy framework for product life extension in a circular economy—A bottom‐up business perspectiveEnvironmental Policy and Governance - Tập 31 Số 4 - Trang 330-346 - 2021
Leonidas Milios
AbstractPublic policy has a critical role to play in supporting business actors towards their transition to more sustainable and less resource‐intensive practices within the context of a Circular Economy (CE). The European Union (EU) CE Action Plan sets a special focus on the role of business in adopting and promoting circular economic principles in their operation...... hiện toàn bộ