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Governing Sea Level Rise in a Polycentric System : Easier Said than Done

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Governing Sea Level Rise in a Polycentric System : Easier Said than Done

$74.69
 
How do polycentric governance systems respond to new collective action problems? This Element tackles this question by studying the governance of adaptation to sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Like climate mitigation, climate adaptation has public good characteristics and therefore poses collective action problems of coordination and cooperation. It combines the literature on adaptation planning with the Ecology of Games framework, a theory of polycentricity combining rational choice institutionalism with social network theory, to investigate how policy actors address the collective action problems of climate adaptation: the key barriers they perceive, their collaborative relationships and their assessment of the policy forums they attend. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative data and analysis, it finds that polycentric governance can address coordination problems by fostering the emergence of leaders who reduce transaction and information costs. Polycentric systems, however, struggle to address issues of inequality and redistribution.


Author: Francesca Pia Vantaggiato, Mark Lubell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: Apr 25, 2024
Number of Pages: NA pages
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1009475940
ISBN-13: 9781009475945
 

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