Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 22-22
Integrating Perspectives on Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 22-22
Adaptive Capacity in Theory and Reality: Implications for Governance in the Great Barrier Reef Region....Pages 23-41
Building Adaptive Capacity in Systems Beyond the Threshold: The Story of Macubeni, South Africa....Pages 43-68
Learning and Adaptation: The Role of Fisheries Comanagement in Building Resilient Social–Ecological Systems....Pages 69-88
Adaptive Capacity and Adaptation in Swedish Multi-Use Boreal Forests: Sites of Interaction Between Different Land Uses....Pages 89-106
From the Inside Out: A Multi-scale Analysis of Adaptive Capacity in a Northern Community and the Governance Implications....Pages 107-132
Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Arctic Communities....Pages 133-156
Climate Change, Adaptive Capacity, and Governance for Drinking Water in Canada....Pages 157-178
Institutional Fit and Interplay in a Dryland Agricultural Social–Ecological System in Alberta, Canada....Pages 179-195
Front Matter....Pages 198-198
The Learning Dimension of Adaptive Capacity: Untangling the Multi-level Connections....Pages 199-221
Adaptive Capacity as a Dynamic Institutional Process: Conceptual Perspectives and Their Application....Pages 223-242
Sociobiology and Adaptive Capacity: Evolving Adaptive Strategies to Build Environmental Governance....Pages 243-261
Building Transformative Capacity for Ecosystem Stewardship in Social–Ecological Systems....Pages 263-285
Adapting and Transforming: Governance for Navigating Change....Pages 287-302
Back Matter....Pages 303-307