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

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Francesca Pia Vantaggiato (King’s College London) Mark Lubell (University of California, Davis)

Governing Sea Level Rise in a Polycentric System

Easier Said than Done

Francesca Pia Vantaggiato (King’s College London), Mark Lubell (University of California, Davis)

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English

Cambridge University Press
25 April 2024

Finance; Meteorology & climatology; Social impact of environmental issues; Hydraulic engineering

Series: Organizational Response to Climate Change: Businesses, Governments

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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. The Element brings together 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 to coordination they perceive, the collaborative relationships they form, and their assessment of the quality of the cooperation process in the policy forums they attend. Using both qualitative and quantitative data and analysis, the Element finds that polycentric governance systems 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.

By: Francesca Pia Vantaggiato (King’s College London), Mark Lubell (University of California, Davis)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 170g
ISBN: 9781009433587
ISBN 10: 100943358X
Series: Organizational Response to Climate Change: Businesses, Governments
Pages: 106
Publication Date: 25 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active