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The book presents detailed case studies examining the Rhône Basin in the Canton Valais, Switzerland and the Aconcagua Basin in Valparaiso, Chile. In order to understand and assess the interplay of complex and interlinked environmental and socio-economic issues, the author looks beyond the technology, modelling, engineering and infrastructure associated with water resources management and climate change adaptation, to assess the decision-making environment within which water and adaptation policy and practices are devised and executed.
List of contents
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.
Summary
The book presents detailed case studies examining the Rhône Basin in the Canton Valais, Switzerland and the Aconcagua Basin in Valparaiso, Chile. In order to understand and assess the interplay of complex and interlinked environmental and socio-economic issues, the author looks beyond the technology, modelling, engineering and infrastructure associated with water resources management and climate change adaptation, to assess the decision-making environment within which water and adaptation policy and practices are devised and executed.
