Water Governance in a Climate Change World: Appraising Systemic and Adaptive Effectiveness

摘要: The starting point for this Special Issue is the proposition that climate change real and anthropogenic factors contribute to nature rates of change. In its Climate Change 2007 Synthesis Report, Intergovernmental Panel on (IPCC) identified major consequences water resources as a result global warming (IPCC 2007). Adaptation around these impacts will be integral evolution management. However idea socio-ecological systems based governance have adapt over time clearly not new, nor confined impacts. Nonetheless, introduces strong impetus, under aegis, we explore in how becomes ‘real’ lives citizens activities policy makers through lens governance, including Moreover, ‘[t]his situation one concern; it raises questions makers, implementers researchers work together enhance social institutional innovation effective implementation adaptation policies different countries’ (Ison et al. 2011). Not all articles adopt core paradigm analysis, but various ways systemic adaptive effectiveness circumstances where central dynamic. To extent, common theme best understood ‘as co-evolutionary dynamic’ (Collins Ison 2009). Globally there are many real-time ‘experiments’ way. It therefore timely pause offer some critical reflections viability Issue. We refer ‘water experiments’ acknowledge entering period need, changing Water Resour Manage (2011) 25:3971–3976 DOI 10.1007/s11269-011-9902-2