Law dictates the structure, boundaries, rules, and processes within which governmental
action takes place and in doing so becomes one of the focal points for analysis of …

Abstract The Adaptive Water Governance project was set up to examine how law, policy,
and ecological dynamics influence the governance of regional-scale water-based social …

The authors appearing in this volume came together with the Adaptive Water Governance
Project, inspired by a shared interest in helping inform the deliberate adaptation and …

Seven water basins, six in North America and one in Australia, were chosen as case studies
to investigate the dynamic interactions among ecosystems, society, and legal systems …

The term “governance” encompasses both governmental and nongovernmental
participation in collective choice and action. Law dictates the structure, boundaries, rules …

Adaptive governance is an emergent phenomenon resulting from the interaction of locally
driven collaborative efforts with a hierarchy of governmental regulation and management …

Governance lies at the heart of the capacity of water based social-ecological systems to
manage resilience. Case studies of North American water basins reveal that the massive …

This special feature presents articles on the cross-scale interactions among law, ecosystem
dynamics, and governance to address the adaptive capacity of six watersheds in the United …

Legal and institutional structures fundamentally shape opportunities for adaptive
governance of environmental resources at multiple ecological and societal scales …

This chapter introduces the volume on Practical Panarchy: Linking Law, Resilience, and
Adaptive Water Governance of Regional Scale Social-Ecological Systems. It begins by …