Adaptive Governance and Climate Change
Distributed for American Meteorological Society
- Contents
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Boxes and Figures
1 Clarifying the Problem
An Appraisal
Constructing the Context
The Common Interest
2 The Regime Evolves
Science
Policy and Decision Making
Exceptions
3 Barrow as Microcosm
Historical Contexts
Vulnerabilities
Policy Responses
4 Opening the Regime
Intensive Inquiry
Procedurally Rational Policy
Decentralized Decision Making
5 Reframing the Context
Next Steps
Relevant Past
Possible Futures
Notes
Index
“In the wake of Copenhagen, this book couldn’t be more timely for those genuinely concerned about climate change and disappointed with the outcomes of climate policies to date. Brunner and Lynch have provided a much-needed reframing of climate science, policy, and decision making in the context of adaptive governance.”
“Brunner and Lynch offer a persuasive alternative to the ‘big science, big politics’ formula for combating global climate change.”
“Brunner and Lynch present a feasible, integrative mode of democratic decision making that, if wisely applied, can avert the disastrous consequences of so many ambitious public initiatives.”
“Finding ways to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change is going to require policy experts and climate scientists to learn how to work together. This fascinating and provocative book is proof that such unusual collaborations can actually succeed.”
Earth Sciences: Meteorology
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