Usable climate knowledge for adaptive and co-managed water governance

作者：Lemos Maria Carmen^*

来源：Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2015, 12: 48-52.

DOI：10.1016/j.cosust.2014.09.005

This review examines what drives the production of usable knowledge and how it intersects with emerging integrated and adaptive governance frameworks to respond to complex environmental change, especially climate change. It finds that although our understanding of challenges and opportunities for the production of usable science for water governance has significantly advanced, evidence of how it builds (or not) adaptive capacity of water systems is mixed in the few empirical cases examined in the literature. This is particularly true in relation to how knowledge use interacts with other determinants of adaptive capacity, particularly stakeholder engagement, learning and power distribution in participatory governance. In this context, the emergence of new approaches that actively manage the boundary between knowledge production and use is promising.

• 出版日期2015-2