Climate Change and Water Governance : Adaptive Capacity in Chile and Switzerland - Hill, Margot; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Contents -- Part I: Addressing Water Governance Challenges in the Anthropocene -- 1. Addressing Water Governance Challenges in the Anthropocene -- 2. Water Governance -- 3. Adaptive Capacity -- 4. The Assessment of Adaptive Capacity -- 5. Applying a Multi-Pronged Approach to Assessing Adaptive Capacity -- Part II: The Cases of Chile & Switzerland -- 6. Introducing the Case Study Areas: Hydro-climatic & Governance Background -- 7. Water Governance in the context of IWRM: Switzerland -- 8. Water Governance in the context of IWRM: Chile -- 9. Converging Threats: Driving pressures for Adaptive Capacity -- Part III: Applying the Assessment -- 10. Governance in the Face of Uncertainty and Change -- 11. Bridges and Barriers to Adaptive Capacity -- 12. Operationalising Adaptive Capacity -- 13. Assessing Adaptive Capacity -- Part IV: Challenges in Developing and Mobilising Adaptive Capacity -- 14. Balancing Structural Conflicts across Scales to develop and mobilise Adaptive Capacity -- 15. Coping with and Communicating Uncertainty -- 16. Addressing the Challenge of Institutional Infrastructure in a Technically focused World.
Keywords: Climate change; Environmental management; Human geography; Political science; Climate Change; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management; Human Geography; Political Science