The interconnectedness of global society is increasingly visible through crises such as the current global health pandemic, emerging climate change impacts and increasing erosion of biodiversity. This timely Handbook navigates the challenges of adaptive governance in these complex contexts, stressing the necessarily compounded nature of bio-physical and social systems to ensure more desirable governance outcomes.
In their chapter, Hovelsrud and Westskog investigates the role of adaptive governance in climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, in the context of multi-level governance. Through reanalyses of two case studies on climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts she maps out the potential weaknesses and opportunities of adaptive governance strategies to handle climate change.
Sirkku Juhola (ed.): Handbook on Adaptive Governance, Edward Elgar Publishing 2023.