Changing Winters and Adaptive Water Governance: A Case Study on the Kemi River Basin, Finland

This paper studies adaptive water governance in the context of hydropower and flood-risk management. The Kemi River basin acts as an empirical setting to study environmental change capacity management system respond it. Hydropower reservoir development has been a source decade-long conflict river basin. aims find out how structures are adapting brought on by climate change. is based case research, it combines long-term monitoring data, semi-structured interviews conducted December 2020 January 2021, Finnish administrative court rulings. results reveal that technology driven aquatic regime, which persistent between nature. planning cycles implemented participatory manner, although strengthening area, some stakeholders suggests reservoirs solution, neglects potential integrative