Adapting Institutions: Governance, Complexity and Social-Ecological Resilience

List of figures List of contributors Foreword Acknowledgements List of acronyms and abbreviations 1. Adapting institutions, governance and complexity: an introduction Emily Boyd and Carl Folke Part I. Adapting Local Institutions, Networks, Leadership and Learning: 2. Knowledge, social networks, and leadership - setting the stage for the development of adaptive institutions? Beatrice Crona and Orjan Bodin 3. Adaptive capacity of local institutions - the case of taboo forests in southern Madagascar Maria Tengo and Jacob von Heland 4. The reality of adaptive management: tracing farmers' responses to disturbances in irrigation systems in Nepal Ingela Ternstrom 5. Creating incentives for increased public engagement in ecosystem management through urban commons Johan Colding Part II. Adapting and Governing Public Institutions for Uncertainty and Complexity: 6. Adaptive capacity and the ecostate Andreas Duit 7. Food systems and adaptive governance: the case of the 2005 food crisis in Niger Sirkku Juhola 8. Public-private partnerships in the provision of environmental governance: a case of disaster management Emma L. Tompkins and Lisa-Ann Hurlston Part III. Adapting Multilevel Institutions to Environmental Crisis: 9. Double complexity - information technology and reconfigurations in adaptive governance Victor Galaz 10. Adaptive governance and natural hazards: the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the governance of coastal ecosystems in Sri Lanka Alison Ashlin 11. Adapting to global climate change: evaluating resilience in two networked policy institutions Emily Boyd 12. Conclusions: adapting institutions and resilience Emily Boyd and Carl Folke Index.