scholarly journals Law, Restoration and Ontologies for a More Ecologically Complex World!

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-473
Author(s):  
Emille Boulot ◽  
Afshin Akhtar-Khavari
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Complex World ◽  
Governance Changes ◽  
Ecological Complexity ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
Institutional Challenges

Restoration efforts can target very different outcomes. Simply put, restoration is a process, and diverse values and ontological dispositions can shape the why, what and how questions about what people do. Restorative inputs focused on adaptively adding complexity into an ecosystem commits to values that go beyond rehabilitating and just removing threats and harms that are disturbing an ecosystem. Restoring within a landscape to enhance its ecological complexity is a useful goal for adaptive governance, and one which will also enable discussions about how humans and legal and governance institutions can change and respond to managing the environment. Using two scenarios we briefly explore how governance approaches to restoration need ontological dispositions focused on ecological complexity. In particular, we argue in this article that a focus on inputs into ecological complexity creates not only opportunities for overall net gain, but also, and more critically, that it requires legal and governance changes that establish parameters for how the vision will be realised. We explore and briefly discuss four of these institutional challenges to chart further research trajectories for how restorative inputs into ecological complexity can be achieved.

scholarly journals Water Security and Climate Change: The Need for Adaptive Governance

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuula Honkonen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Main Element ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Face ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Climate change will bring about unprecedented economic, social and environmental effects, which require both the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to its adverse effects. Water is the main element through which the impacts of climate change will be felt. Climate change results in increased uncertainties, complexities, stress and potential for conflicts within water management, both among and within states. New forms of governance are needed if the world is to respond to the need to adapt to changes in freshwater supply and to manage water security risks.This paper suggests that adaptive governance should to be main-streamed into all water regulation to ensure the availability of and access to safe water resources and to prevent water-related conflicts. The paper discusses the concept of water security in the context of climate change, the threats that climate change poses to water security, and the concept and implications of adaptive governance as a possible solution.The application of adaptive governance requires a certain degree of institutional and normative flexibility, instruments and institutions that can respond and adapt to changes and manage the level of uncertainty associated with the impacts of climate change. The governance institutions, methods and instruments should be responsive to new information and different kinds of uncertainties, while reflecting the vulnerabilities, capacities, needs and priorities of both societies and ecosystems in the face of climate change. Water security risks could be reduced by increased hydrosolidarity among states, which would present the challenges posed by climate change on water governance and security as primarily an opportunity for new forms of cooperation.

Understanding optimal youth development: Complex views in a complex world

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. Kern ◽  
T. Krupa ◽  
J. Coffey ◽  
E. A. Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Complex World

Quality improvement in a complex world.

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 352-353
Author(s):  
Andrew S. Valeras
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Complex World

Beyond Market: Institutions of Governance in the Complex World (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics 2009 - Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom)

2010 ◽  
pp. 82-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya. Kuzminov ◽  
M. Yudkevich
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Complex World ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Institutional Economic

The article surveys the main lines of research conducted by Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom - 2009 Nobel Prize winners in economics. Williamsons and Ostroms contribution to understanding the nature of institutions and choice over institutional options are discussed. The role their work played in evolution of modern institutional economic theory is analyzed in detail, as well as interconnections between Williamsons and Ostroms ideas and the most recent research developments in organization theory, behavioral economics and development studies.

Values Underlying Preferences for Adaptive Governance in a Chilean Small-Scale Fishing Community

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Ebel ◽  
Christine M. Beitl ◽  
Michael P. Torre
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Fishing Community ◽  
A Value ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
Value Frames

Environmental change requires individuals and institutions to facilitate adaptive governance. However, facilitating adaptive governance may be difficult because resource users’ perceptions of desirable ways of life vary. These perceptions influence preferences related to environmental governance and may stem from the ways individuals subjectively value their work and their connections to their environment. This paper uses a value-based approach to examine individual and institutional preferences for adaptive governance in Carelmapu, Chile. We show that two groups had different value frames rooted in divergent ontologies which influenced their actions related to adaptive governance, creating conflict.

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