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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. Contributors include: C. Chambers, M. Centeno, M. Cox, A.-S. Crépin, C. Folke, V. Galaz, D. Huitema, A. Jordan, D.M. Katz, R.E. Kim, S.A. Levin, M. Milkoreit, S. Nooteboom, J. Patterson, T. Patterson, B.G. Peters, J. Pierre, R. Preiser, L. Rade, J.B. Ruhl, H. Schmitz, M. Schoon, I. Scoones, G. Teisman, H. van Asselt, M. Woermann

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Author:   Victor Galaz
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781788115414

ISBN 10:   1788115414
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   02 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction 1 Victor Galaz PART I REFLECTIONS AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES 1 The architecture of robustness 16 Simon A. Levin 2 Governing for emergence in social-ecological systems 24 Carl Folke 3 Complexity, philosophy and ethics 38 Rika Preiser and Minka Woermann 4 Sustainability transformations in complex systems: a political economy perspective 63 Hubert Schmitz and Ian Scoones 5 Adaptive governance from an evolutionary perspective 78 Michael Cox and Michael Schoon PART II APPLICATIONS 6 Understanding institutional complexity through networks 95 Rakhyun E. Kim 7 Polycentric governance and climate change 124 Dave Huitema, Andrew Jordan, Harro van Asselt and James Patterson 8 Harnessing the complexity of legal systems for governing global challenges 147 J.B. Ruhl and Daniel M. Katz 9 Complexity, resilience and economics 166 Anne-Sophie Crepin 10 Simple solutions for complexity? 188 B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre and Victor Galaz 11 The system made me do it? Regulating systemic risk 211 Caitlin Chambers, Luca Rade, Thayer Patterson and Miguel A. Centeno 12 Leadership and complexity: can individuals make differences in complex systems? 239 Sibout Nooteboom and Geert Teisman 13 Cognitive capacities for global governance in the face of complexity: the case of climate tipping points 274 Manjana Milkoreit Index 303

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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

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