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A decade of adaptive governance scholarship: synthesis and future directions

Creator:

Chaffin, Brian C., Gosnell, Hannah, and Cosens, Barbara A.

Abstract:

Adaptive governance is an emergent form of environmental governance that is increasingly called upon by scholars and practitioners to coordinate resource management regimes in the face of the complexity and uncertainty associated with rapid environmental change. Although the term “adaptive governance” is not exclusively applied to the governance of social-ecological...

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Article
Reallocating resources, rebuilding community : the Klamath Basin agreements and the emergence of adaptive governance

Creator:

Chaffin, Brian C.

Abstract:

The concept of "adaptive governance" represents a spectrum of hybrid approaches to environmental governance employed to guide management of complex social-ecological systems under conditions of high uncertainty. While the concept of adaptive governance has benefited from over a decade of theoretical development, empirical examples of transitions towards adaptive governance are...

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Dissertation
Characterizing Collaboration in the Klamath River Basin, USA: An Exercise in Institutional Mapping

Creator:

Chaffin, Brian C.

Abstract:

The Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement (KBRA) and the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement (KHSA) forged between Klamath River Basin stakeholder groups in California and Oregon, when successfully implemented, will lead to the largest dam removal project in history. After a decade of intense legal and social conflict among disparate interests in...

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Presentation