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12 - Agency and Adaptiveness: Navigating Change and Transformation

from Part Two - Agency and the Dynamics of Earth System Governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2020

Michele M. Betsill
Affiliation:
Colorado State University
Tabitha M. Benney
Affiliation:
University of Utah
Andrea K. Gerlak
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
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− ESG–Agency scholarship reveals that diverse forms of agency are crucial to cultivating adaptiveness of governance systems within complex and changing contexts. − ESG–Agency scholars are well-positioned to apply extensive insights to major emerging questions in the social sciences about adaptiveness and renewal of political and governance systems across many spheres of society. − Greater focus is required concerning the effects of agency on adaptiveness of environmental governance systems in several ways: materially, normatively, and temporally.

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Print publication year: 2020

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