Sensitivity to scales is one of the key challenges in environmental governance. Climate change, food production, energy supply, and natural resource management are examples of environmental challenges that stretch across scales and require action at multiple levels. Governance systems are typically ill-equipped for this task due to organisational and jurisdictional specialisation and short-term planning horizons. Further to this, scientific knowledge is fragmented along disciplinary lines and research traditions in academia and research institutions. State-of-the-art, Scale-Sensitive Governance of the Environment addresses these challenges by establishing the foundation for a new, trans-disciplinary research field. It brings together and reframes a variety of disciplinary approaches, using the idea of scales to create a conceptual and methodological basis for scale-sensitive governance of the environment from both a natural and social science perspective. This volume presents new visions, methods and innovative applications of thinking and decision making across scales in space and time to develop a holistic view on the subject. It is unique in providing: F analysis on how spatial, temporal, and governance scales are constructed, politically and scientifically defined, institutionalized in governance practices, and strategically used in policy discourses F details on how current environmental governance practices can be enriched by the use of theory on scale, with specific research themes to show the benefits of recognizing scales in empirical research F insightful case studies drawn from countries in the Americas, Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe, and South and Southeastern Asia, covering a wide range of environmental topics including biodiversity, climate change, commodities (tea and palm oil), cultural landscapes, energy, forestry, natural resource management, pesticides, urban development, and water management. With its comprehensive coverage of scale and scaling issues and convergence of widely different scientific approaches, this book is essential for environmental scientists, policy makers and planners, also conservation biologists and ecologists who are involved in modeling climate change impacts and sustainability. This reference will also benefit students of environmental studies, and all those who seek a response to the urgent environmental governance challenges for the decades ahead.

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Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Year

2014

ISBN

9781118567128

Edition

Topic

Biological Sciences

Subtopic

Biology

Index

Biological Sciences

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
List of Abbreviations
1: Concepts of scale
2: Incorporating multiple ecological scales into the governance of landscape services
3: Scale-sensitivity as a governance capability: Observing, acting and enabling
4: Knowledge of competing claims on natural resources: Toward institutional design and integrative negotiations
5: The relevance of scale to water governance: An example from Loweswater, UK
6: Multiple-level governance is needed in the social-ecological system of alpine cultural landscapes
7: Beyond localism: The spatial scale and scaling in energy transitions
8: Tracing drivers of global environmental change along the governance scale: Methodological challenges and possibilities
9: ‘Glocal’ politics of scale on environmental issues: Climate change, water and forests
10: The politics of cross-level interactions in the jurisdictional scale: The case of natural resource management in the South
11: Rescaling environmental governance: The case of watersheds as scale-sensitive governance?
12: Urban sustainability pilot projects: Fit or misfit between challenge and solution?
13: Tensions between global-scale and national-scale governance: The strategic use of scale frames to promote sustainable palm oil production in Indonesia
14: Rethinking governance of complex commodity systems: Evidence from the Nepali tea value chain
15: An approach to analysing scale-sensitivity and scale-effectiveness of governance in biodiversity conservation
16: Scale-sensitive evaluation: The contribution of the EU Rural Development Programme to European water quality ambitions
17: Green infrastructure planning at multiple levels of scale: Experiences from the Autonomous Region of Valencia, Spain
18: Synthesis and perspectives for a new research field
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