Scale-sensitive governance of the environment /
Sensitivity to scales is one of the key challenges in environmental governance. Climate change, food production, energy supply, and natural resource management are examples of environmental challenges that stretch across scales and require action at multiple levels. Governance systems are typically...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley Blackwell,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Sensitivity to scales is one of the key challenges in environmental governance. Climate change, food production, energy supply, and natural resource management are examples of environmental challenges that stretch across scales and require action at multiple levels. Governance systems are typically ill-equipped for this task due to organisational and jurisdictional specialisation and short-term planning horizons. Further to this, scientific knowledge is fragmented along disciplinary lines and research traditions in academia and research institutions. State-of-the-art, Scale-Sensitive Govern. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781118567128 1118567129 9781118567104 1118567102 9781118567135 1118567137 1118567153 9781118567159 |