A5078201159- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Environmental law and policy
- Water resources management and optimization
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- International Environmental Law and Policies
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
University of Idaho
2014-2024
Waters (United States)
2010-2018
Waters (United Kingdom)
2012
University of California Hastings College of the Law
1998
University of Washington
1998
Adaptive governance is an emergent form of environmental that increasingly called upon by scholars and practitioners to coordinate resource management regimes in the face complexity uncertainty associated with rapid change.Although term "adaptive governance" not exclusively applied social-ecological systems, related research represents a significant outgrowth literature on resilience, governance.We present chronology major scholarship adaptive governance, synthesizing efforts define concept...
Transformative governance is an approach to environmental that has the capacity respond to, manage, and trigger regime shifts in coupled social-ecological systems (SESs) at multiple scales. The goal of transformative actively shift degraded SESs alternative, more desirable, or functional regimes by altering structures processes define system. rooted ecological theories explain cross-scale dynamics complex systems, as well social change, innovation, technological transformation. Similar...
Abstract River flows connect people, places, and other forms of life, inspiring sustaining diverse cultural beliefs, values, ways life. The concept environmental provides a framework for improving understanding relationships between river supporting those that are mutually beneficial. Nevertheless, most approaches to determining remain grounded in the biophysical sciences. newly revised Brisbane Declaration Global Action Agenda on Environmental Flows (2018) represents new phase flow science...
The 1964 Columbia River Treaty between the United States and Canada is currently under review.Under treaty, river jointly operated by two countries for hydropower largest producer of in western hemisphere.In considering next phase international governance, degree uncertainty surrounding drivers change complicates efforts to predict manage traditional approaches that rely on historical ecosystem responses.At same time, changes social values have focused attention health, decline which has led...
Cosens, B. A., R. K. Craig, S. Hirsch, C. A. (T.) Arnold, M. H. Benson, D. DeCaro, Garmestani, Gosnell, J. Ruhl, and E. Schlager. 2017. The role of law in adaptive governance. Ecology Society 22(1):30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08731-220130
Ecologists have made great strides in developing criteria for describing the resilience of an ecological system.In addition, expansion that effort to social-ecological systems has begun process identifying changes social system necessary foster such as use adaptive management and integrated ecosystem management.However, these governance needed will not be adopted by democratic societies without careful attention their effect on itself.Delegation increased flexibility resource agencies must...
Gunderson, L., B. A. Cosens, C. Chaffin, (T.) Arnold, K. Fremier, S. Garmestani, R. Craig, H. Gosnell, E. Birge, Allen, M. Benson, Morrison, Stone, J. Hamm, Nemec, Schlager, and D. Llewellyn. 2017. Regime shifts panarchies in regional scale social-ecological water systems. Ecology Society 22(1):31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08879-220131
The speed and uncertainty of environmental change in the Anthropocene challenge capacity coevolving social–ecological–technological systems (SETs) to adapt or transform these changes. Formal government legal structures further constrain adaptive our SETs. However, new, self-organized forms governance are emerging at multiple scales natural resource-based Adaptive involves private public sectors as well formal informal institutions, fill gaps traditional roles states. While new emerging, they...
Cosens, B. A., L. Gunderson, and C. Chaffin. 2018. Introduction to the Special Feature Practicing Panarchy: Assessing legal flexibility, ecological resilience, adaptive governance in regional water systems experiencing rapid environmental change. Ecology Society 23(1):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09524-230104
The complexity of explaining highly scientific information and juggling a plethora social values is leading agencies communities such as those in the Palouse Basin to explore use participatory modeling processes using system dynamics. Participatory dynamics methodology creates transparent nexus science, policy options, concerns local knowledge that enhances discussion issues surrounding natural resources. process developing systems model uses tenets theory, hypothesis testing clear...
Current governance of regional scale water management systems in the United States has not placed them on a path toward sustainability, as conflict and gridlock characterize social arena ecosystem services continue to erode. Changing climate may this trajectory, but it also provides catalyst for renewal ecosystems window opportunity change institutions. Resilience bridging concept that predicts ecological is often dramatic, abrupt, surprising. Adapting uncertainty driven must be done manner...
When the availability of a vital resource varies between times overabundance and extreme scarcity, management regimes must manifest flexibility authority to adapt while maintaining legitimacy.Unfortunately, need for adaptability often conflicts with desire certainty in legal regulatory regimes, laws that fail account variability result conflict when inevitable disturbance occurs.Additional keys resilience are collaboration among physical scientists, political actors, local leaders, other...
Adaptive governance is an emergent phenomenon resulting from the interaction of locally driven collaborative efforts with a hierarchy governmental regulation and management thought to be capable navigating social−ecological change as society responds effects climate change. The assertion Native American water rights on highly developed systems in North America has triggered innovations that resemble certain aspects adaptive governance, have emerged accommodate need for Indigenous development...
In the face of climate change, achieving resilience desirable aspects food-energy-water (FEW) systems already strained by competing multi-scalar social objectives requires interdisciplinary approaches. This study is part a larger effort exploring "Innovations in Food-Energy-Water Nexus (INFEWS)" Columbia River Basin (CRB) through coordinated modeling and simulated management scenarios. Here, we focus on case conceptual mapping Yakima (YRB), sub-basin CRB. Previous research FEW system...
Indigenous Peoples are struggling for water justice across the globe. These struggles stem from centuries-long, ongoing colonial legacies and hold profound significance Peoples' socioeconomic development, cultural identity, political autonomy external relations within nation-states. Ultimately, right to self-determination is implicated. Growing out of a symposium hosted by University Colorado Law School Native American Rights Fund in June 2016, this Article expounds concept "indigenous...