Global challenges, governance, and complexity : applications and frontiers / edited by Victor Galaz (Program Director, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Associate Professor in Political Science, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Galaz, Victor, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainability--Political aspects.

Sustainability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

"Through exploring the application of a complex systems lens on important global challenges, this timely book offers key insights into successful governance in our changing world. It illustrates a number of theoretical and methodological approaches to help understand the role of decision-making, policies, institutions and networks in navigating complexity. Bringing together leading international scholars, Global Challenges, Governance, and Complexity elaborates important features of complex adaptive systems and their connections to key governmental and political issues. These include: complexity leadership, environmental and sustainability challenges, the role of economics, policy-making, legal and social dimensions of systemic risks, and the effectiveness of polycentricity. Chapters look at novel research in the field, highlighting how a diverse range of disciplinary approaches to governance can improve our understanding of complex global challenges. Political science and sustainability science scholars, particularly those with a keen interest in environmental politics and sustainability, will greatly benefit from reading this book. The insights offered will also be of use to policy makers wishing to gain a more thorough understanding of the field"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction / Victor Galaz

Part I: Reflections and theoretical approaches

1. The architecture of robustness / Simon A. Levin

2. Governing for emergence in social-ecological systems / Carl Folke

3. Complexity, philosophy and ethics / Rika Preiser and Minka Woermann

4. Sustainability transformations in complex systems: A political economy perspective / Hubert Schmitz and Ian Scoones

5. Adaptive governance from an evolutionary perspective / Michael Cox and Michael Schoon

Part II: Applications

6. Understanding institutional complexity through networks / Rakhyun E. Kim

7. Polycentric governance and climate change / Dave Huitema, Andrew Jordan, Harro van Asselt and James Patterson

8. Harnessing the complexity of legal systems for governing global challenges / J.B. Ruhl and Daniel M. Katz

9. Complexity, resilience and economics / Anne-Sophie Crépin

10. Simple solutions for complexity? / B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre and Victor Galaz

11. The system made me do it? Regulating systemic risk / Caitlin Chambers, Luca Rade, Thayer Patterson and Miguel A. Centeno

12. Leadership and complexity: Can individuals make differences in complex systems? / Sibout Nooteboom and Geert Teisman

13. Cognitive capacities for global governance in the face of complexity: The case of climate tipping points / Manjana Milkoreit

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78811-542-2