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Rapid environmental change calls for individuals and societies with an ability to transform interactions with each other and the ecosystems upon which we depend. Adaptive capacity - the ability of a social-ecological system to be robust to disturbances and capable of responding to changes - is increasingly recognized as a critical attribute of multi-level environmental governance. This volume offers an interdisciplinary and integrative perspective on an emerging area of applied scholarship, with contributions from internationally recognized researchers and practitioners.
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Integrating Perspectives on Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance.- Adaptive capacity in theory and reality: implications for governance in the Great Barrier Reef region.- Building adaptive capacity in systems beyond the threshold - the story of Macubeni, South Africa.- Learning and adaptation: the role of fisheries co-management in building resilient social-ecological systems.- Adaptive capacity and adaptation in Swedish multi-use boreal forests: sites of interaction between different land uses.- From the Inside Out: A Multi-Scale Analysis of Adaptive Capacity in a Northern Community and the Governance Implications.- Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Arctic Communities.- Climate Change, Adaptive Capacity and Governance for Drinking Water in Canada.- Institutional Fit and Interplay in a Dryland Agricultural Social-Ecological System in Alberta, Canada.- The learning dimension of adaptive capacity: untangling the multi-level connections.- Sociobiology and Adaptive Capacity: Evolving Adaptive Strategies to Build Environmental Governance.- Adaptive Capacity as a Dynamic Institutional Process: Conceptual Perspectives and their Application.- Building transformative capacity for ecosystem stewardship in social-ecological systems.- Adapting and transforming: Governance for navigating change.
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