Integrating adaptive governance and participatory multicriteria methods: a framework for climate adaptation governance

Integrating adaptive governance and participatory multicriteria methods: a framework for climate adaptation governance

Climate adaptation is a dynamic social and institutional process where the governance dimension is receiving growing attention. Adaptive governance is an approach that promises to reduce uncertainty by improving the knowledge base for decision making. As uncertainty is an inherent feature of climate adaptation, adaptive governance seems to be a promising approach for improving climate adaptatio...

Effective Governance of Climate Change Adaptation

Climate change adaptation (CCA) requires the design of institutions and policies that integrate efficiency, equity, and effectiveness (EEE) objectives of systems at national and sub-national levels. Multi-level and multi-sectoral perspectives are offered in this paper incorporating the following dimensions: normative aspects of institutions, mechanisms for resource allocation, role of transacti...

Fishing for an Adaptive Governance Framework

Adaptive governance is a concept of growing interest in the environmental policy and management literature (e.g., see Brunner and Steelman et al. 2005; Olsson et al. 2006; Scholz and Stiftel 2005). In general, adaptive governance refers to institutional change processes that are responsive to emerging problems or knowledge surrounding complex ecological systems. While some studies have provided...

Participatory Poverty and Governance Assessment

ADB Acknowledgements First and foremost, we would like to thank all of the poor households – men, women, boys and girls – from the five selected villages of Ea'Ral and Village 7C of Ea'Hleo District, Buzara and Village 2 of Dak'Rlap District, and Ale B Village of Eatam Ward in DakLak Province where the Participatory Poverty and Governance Assessment was carried out. We would like to thank them ...

Integrating Governance and Growth