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Resilient Environmental Governance: Protecting Changing Ecosystems Through Multilevel Governance, Casey Stevens
Resilient Environmental Governance: Protecting Changing Ecosystems Through Multilevel Governance, Casey Stevens
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International governance is increasingly defined by multilevel governance; with short-term projects, transnational cooperation between different groups, and unclear institutional space. In this situation, a key issue is the resilience of governance arrangements or the ability of governance arrangements to respond to political and ecological shocks to the system. Using international biodiversity governance, this study explores the question: What social and political processes produce resilient governance?
This study argues that the key to understanding resilient governance is the network structure within and outside of the governance arrangement. Modular network structures are able to generate ideas from multiple sources, able to solve …