Edited by Sirkku Juhola, Professor of Urban Environmental Policy, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland

‘This volume brings a dazzling array of international authors together to present the latest thinking on adaptive governance and how it can be made to work in tackling transformative and rapid change in complex social ecological systems. These innovations are urgently needed to address major challenges such as the climate crisis. The approach is highly interdisciplinary, presenting new ideas and linking to diverse theory and concepts, and to empirical cases from around the world. It will be essential reading for scholars and practitioners of environmental change, policy and governance, and those studying politics, international relations, geography and resource management.’

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Handbook on Adaptive Governance 1Sirkku JuholaPART I THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENTS2 Operationalising adaptive governance: a research agenda 15Barbara Cosens, Holly Doremus, J. B. Ruhl, Niko Soininen andLance Gunderson3 Adaptive governance, law and regulation 35Niko Soininen, Barbara Cosens, J. B. Ruhl and Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen4 Conceptualising the science–policy–practice interface of adaptive governance 54Carina Wyborn, Jasper Montana, Amber Datta and Elena LouderPART II LATEST TRENDS IN METHODS5 Futures-thinking: concepts, methods and capacities for adaptive governance 76Carla Alexandra, Carina Wyborn, Claudia Munera Roldan and Lorrae vanKerkhoff6 Spatial data, methods, and mismatches for adaptive governance research 99Maija Nikkanen and Aleksi Räsänen7 Serious games as an adaptive governance method 115Peter EdwardsPART III GOVERNANCE CONTEXTS AND CASE STUDIES8 Adaptive governance in forest management 127Jesse Abrams and Marine Elbakidze9 Adaptive governance for marine environments: methods, challenges,and lessons for ocean fisheries 143Barbara Quimby10 Adaptive governance in open data ecosystems: experiences and insightson the role of sociotechnical arrangements 158Cancan Wang11 Policy experimentation in the construction of ecological civilisation in China 176Ping Huang and Linda Westman12 The role of adaptive governance in climate mitigation and adaptation:a local perspective 192Grete K. Hovelsrud and Hege Westskog13 Adaptive and anticipatory governance in urban adaptation to climate change 207Alexandra Jurgilevich14 Towards adaptive property: legal design for a climate-affected future 218Daniel Fitzpatrick15 Adaptive governance for disaster risk reduction 233R. Patrick Bixler, Sandeep Paul, Debasmita Bhakta, Tamar Farchy, JessicaOlson, Matthew Preisser and Paola Passalacqua16 The next decade of adaptive governance research: concluding remarks 252Sirkku JuholaIndex 260

Edited by Sirkku Juhola, Professor of Urban Environmental Policy, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland

‘This volume brings a dazzling array of international authors together to present the latest thinking on adaptive governance and how it can be made to work in tackling transformative and rapid change in complex social ecological systems. These innovations are urgently needed to address major challenges such as the climate crisis. The approach is highly interdisciplinary, presenting new ideas and linking to diverse theory and concepts, and to empirical cases from around the world. It will be essential reading for scholars and practitioners of environmental change, policy and governance, and those studying politics, international relations, geography and resource management.’

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Handbook on Adaptive Governance 1Sirkku JuholaPART I THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENTS2 Operationalising adaptive governance: a research agenda 15Barbara Cosens, Holly Doremus, J. B. Ruhl, Niko Soininen andLance Gunderson3 Adaptive governance, law and regulation 35Niko Soininen, Barbara Cosens, J. B. Ruhl and Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen4 Conceptualising the science–policy–practice interface of adaptive governance 54Carina Wyborn, Jasper Montana, Amber Datta and Elena LouderPART II LATEST TRENDS IN METHODS5 Futures-thinking: concepts, methods and capacities for adaptive governance 76Carla Alexandra, Carina Wyborn, Claudia Munera Roldan and Lorrae vanKerkhoff6 Spatial data, methods, and mismatches for adaptive governance research 99Maija Nikkanen and Aleksi Räsänen7 Serious games as an adaptive governance method 115Peter EdwardsPART III GOVERNANCE CONTEXTS AND CASE STUDIES8 Adaptive governance in forest management 127Jesse Abrams and Marine Elbakidze9 Adaptive governance for marine environments: methods, challenges,and lessons for ocean fisheries 143Barbara Quimby10 Adaptive governance in open data ecosystems: experiences and insightson the role of sociotechnical arrangements 158Cancan Wang11 Policy experimentation in the construction of ecological civilisation in China 176Ping Huang and Linda Westman12 The role of adaptive governance in climate mitigation and adaptation:a local perspective 192Grete K. Hovelsrud and Hege Westskog13 Adaptive and anticipatory governance in urban adaptation to climate change 207Alexandra Jurgilevich14 Towards adaptive property: legal design for a climate-affected future 218Daniel Fitzpatrick15 Adaptive governance for disaster risk reduction 233R. Patrick Bixler, Sandeep Paul, Debasmita Bhakta, Tamar Farchy, JessicaOlson, Matthew Preisser and Paola Passalacqua16 The next decade of adaptive governance research: concluding remarks 252Sirkku JuholaIndex 260

Edited by Sirkku Juhola, Professor of Urban Environmental Policy, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland

‘This volume brings a dazzling array of international authors together to present the latest thinking on adaptive governance and how it can be made to work in tackling transformative and rapid change in complex social ecological systems. These innovations are urgently needed to address major challenges such as the climate crisis. The approach is highly interdisciplinary, presenting new ideas and linking to diverse theory and concepts, and to empirical cases from around the world. It will be essential reading for scholars and practitioners of environmental change, policy and governance, and those studying politics, international relations, geography and resource management.’

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Handbook on Adaptive Governance 1Sirkku JuholaPART I THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENTS2 Operationalising adaptive governance: a research agenda 15Barbara Cosens, Holly Doremus, J. B. Ruhl, Niko Soininen andLance Gunderson3 Adaptive governance, law and regulation 35Niko Soininen, Barbara Cosens, J. B. Ruhl and Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen4 Conceptualising the science–policy–practice interface of adaptive governance 54Carina Wyborn, Jasper Montana, Amber Datta and Elena LouderPART II LATEST TRENDS IN METHODS5 Futures-thinking: concepts, methods and capacities for adaptive governance 76Carla Alexandra, Carina Wyborn, Claudia Munera Roldan and Lorrae vanKerkhoff6 Spatial data, methods, and mismatches for adaptive governance research 99Maija Nikkanen and Aleksi Räsänen7 Serious games as an adaptive governance method 115Peter EdwardsPART III GOVERNANCE CONTEXTS AND CASE STUDIES8 Adaptive governance in forest management 127Jesse Abrams and Marine Elbakidze9 Adaptive governance for marine environments: methods, challenges,and lessons for ocean fisheries 143Barbara Quimby10 Adaptive governance in open data ecosystems: experiences and insightson the role of sociotechnical arrangements 158Cancan Wang11 Policy experimentation in the construction of ecological civilisation in China 176Ping Huang and Linda Westman12 The role of adaptive governance in climate mitigation and adaptation:a local perspective 192Grete K. Hovelsrud and Hege Westskog13 Adaptive and anticipatory governance in urban adaptation to climate change 207Alexandra Jurgilevich14 Towards adaptive property: legal design for a climate-affected future 218Daniel Fitzpatrick15 Adaptive governance for disaster risk reduction 233R. Patrick Bixler, Sandeep Paul, Debasmita Bhakta, Tamar Farchy, JessicaOlson, Matthew Preisser and Paola Passalacqua16 The next decade of adaptive governance research: concluding remarks 252Sirkku JuholaIndex 260