Climate Change and Water Governance Adaptive Capacity in Chile and Switzerland [Hardcover]

The book presents detailed case studies examining the Rh?ne Basin in the Canton Valais, Switzerland and the Aconcagua Basin in Valparaiso, Chile. In order to understand and assess the interplay of complex and interlinked environmental and socio-economic issues, the author looks beyond the technology, modelling, engineering and infrastructure associated with water resources management and climate change adaptation, to assess the decision-making environment within which water and adaptation policy and practices are devised and executed.

With detailed case studies of water resources and management regimes in the Swiss Alps and Chilean Andes, this publication draws on years of research, adding to a growing body of work assessing the implications of climate change on resource governance.

Contents:

Part I: Addressing Water Governance Challenges in the Anthropocene

1. Addressing Water Governance Challenges in the Anthropocene

2. Water Governance

3. Adaptive Capacity

4. The Assessment of Adaptive Capacity

5. Applying a Multi-Pronged Approach to Assessing Adaptive Capacity?

Part II: The Cases of Chile & Switzerland

6. Introducing the Case Study Areas: Hydro-climatic & Governance Background

7. Water Governance in the context of IWRM: Switzerland

8. Water Governance in the context of IWRM: Chile

9. Converging Threats: Driving pressures for Adaptive Capacity

Part III: Applying the Assessment

10. Governance in the Face of Uncertainty and Change

11. Bridges and Barriers to Adaptive Capacity

12. Operationalising Adaptive Capacity

13. Assessing Adaptive Capacity

Part IV: Challenges in Developing and Mobilising Adlsj