Knowledge for Governance.

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Superior document:Knowledge and Space Series ; v.15
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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.
{copy}2020.
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Knowledge and Space Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (465 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Knowledge for Governance
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Chapter 1: On the Reflexive Relations Between Knowledge, Governance, and Space
  • Framing Governance
  • Knowledge and Governance
  • How Knowledge Enables Governance
  • How Knowledge Drives the Effectiveness of Governance
  • How Governance Affects Learning and Innovation
  • Governance and Geography
  • Conclusion and Questions Ahead
  • References
  • Part I: How Knowledge Enables Governance
  • Chapter 2: Lessons from Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) for Governance in Conditions of Environmental Uncertainty
  • Governance and Knowledge
  • Governance Structure
  • Governance of Modern-Day Rapa Nui
  • Analysis of Governance Regimes: From CONAF to Ma'u Henua
  • Knowledge of the Past
  • Ecology and Rapa Nui
  • Questioning Assumptions of Rapa Nui Governance Failure
  • A New Understanding of Rapa Nui Prehistory: Five Things Now Known About the Island and Its Past
  • Collapse
  • Post-European Contact Events
  • Prehistoric Population Structure
  • Natural Resources of Rapa Nui
  • Moai Transportation
  • Explaining the Success of Rapa Nui
  • From the Past and Looking at the Future: Governance on Rapa Nui
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Knowledge of Governance as Knowledge for Governance: Spatialized Techniques of Neutralization
  • Methodology
  • Land-Use Planning, Techniques of Neutralization, and Spatiality
  • Land-Use Planning
  • Techniques of Neutralization and Spatiality
  • Spatialized Techniques of Neutralization
  • Denial of Responsibility: Political-Juridical Structures
  • Denial of Injury and Victim: Legitimating Economic Spatiality
  • The Condemnation of the Condemners: Ideological Spatiality I
  • Appeal to Higher Loyalties: Ideological Spatiality II
  • Neutralizing Space Through Time?
  • Conclusion
  • References.
  • Chapter 4: The Atmosphere of Democracy: Knowledge and Political Action
  • Society and Nature
  • Blaming Democracy
  • The Rise of Exceptional Circumstances
  • Inconvenient Democracy
  • The Erosion of Democracy: The Classical Perspective
  • The Erosion of Democracy: The Modern Perspective
  • Blaming the People
  • Blaming the Political Class
  • Are Democracies Dying?
  • Enlightened Leadership?
  • Science, Knowledge, and Democracy
  • What Is to Be Done? Enhancing Democracy?
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Risk Governance: From Knowledge to Regulatory Action
  • Governance Requirements for Complex Risks
  • Three Characteristics of Risk Knowledge
  • Complexity
  • Scientific Uncertainty
  • Sociopolitical Ambiguity
  • Adaptive and Integrative Capacity of Risk Governance
  • Preestimation
  • Interdisciplinary Risk Estimation
  • Risk Evaluation
  • Risk Management
  • Risk Communication
  • Inclusive Governance: The Need for an Effective Involvement of Experts, Stakeholders, and Civil Society
  • Instrumental Processing Involving Governmental Actors (Linear Mode)
  • Epistemic Processing Involving Experts and Stakeholders (Complex Mode)
  • Reflective Processing Involving Stakeholders (Uncertainty Mode)
  • Participative Processing Involving the Public (Ambiguity Mode)
  • Wider Governance Issues
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Knowledge and Governance: Can Systemic Risk in Financial Markets Be Managed? The Case of the Euro Crisis
  • Systemic Risk and Structural Power in the GFC
  • Solutions?
  • The Governance Literature
  • The Institutionalist Literature
  • Knowledge and Ideas
  • The Euro Crisis
  • Preventing the Crystallization of Systemic Risk Amidst the Euro Crisis
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part II: How Knowledge Drives the Effectiveness of Governance.
  • Chapter 7: Explaining Subnational Governance: The Role of Governors' Codified and Uncodified Knowledge
  • Explaining Governance Performance
  • Governors' Codified Knowledge and Subnational Governance
  • Governors' Uncodified Knowledge and Subnational Governance
  • Alternative Explanations of Subnational Governance Performance
  • Case Analysis: Mexican States and Colombian Departments
  • Mexican States
  • Colombian Departments
  • Data and Variable Operationalization
  • Assessing Governance Performance
  • Results
  • Discussions and Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 8: The (De-)Contextualization of Geographical Knowledge in Forest Fire Risk Management in Chile as a Challenge for Governance
  • The Challenges of Governing Economic Uncertainties
  • Methodology
  • Complexity, Ambiguity, Uncertainty? Forest Fire Risks in Chile
  • Complexity: Multidirectional Correlations Between Physical and Anthropogenic Factors
  • Ambiguity: The Coexistence of Several Equally Logical Explanations for Forest Fires in Chile
  • Uncertainty: Hidden Self-Reinforcing Social Amplification of Forest Fire Risk
  • The Complementarity of Risk Management Practices
  • Risk Management in Chilean Forestry
  • Risk Management in Insurance Companies
  • Mutually Complementary Risk Management Practices and Risk Avoidance Strategies
  • The Decontextualization of Risk and Risk Knowledge
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 9: Carbon Markets, Values, and Modes of Governance
  • Market Governance at the Interface of Competing Logics and Modes of Organization
  • Technocratic Norms and Political Context
  • Methods of Analysis
  • Coded Concepts of Market-Based Governance
  • Advantages and opportunities
  • Disadvantages and challenges
  • Comparisons Between East and West
  • Statistical Analysis of Regional and Occupations Difference
  • The Role of Politics in Shaping Political Norms.
  • Network Governance in the Context of Market Cultures
  • Market Perceptions: From General Claims to Specific Cases
  • References
  • Chapter 10: The Fight Against Corruption in Brazil: A Case of Good Governance?
  • The Brazilian Petrobras Plot
  • Institutional and Regulative Changes in Brazil: From Defective to Effective Institutions and Regulations?
  • The "Normalization of Corruption" on a Corporate Level
  • The Corporate Level Actors: Entrepreneurs and Top Managers
  • The Normalization of Political Corruption
  • The Political Actors: Political Leaders
  • A Case of Good Governance?
  • References
  • Chapter 11: Lateral Network Governance
  • The Puzzle of Governing Networks
  • The Governance Challenge
  • The Context of Governance: Network Cooperation
  • The Object of Governance
  • The Mechanisms of Governance
  • The Agency of Governance
  • Lateral Network Governance
  • The Logic of Negotiation and the Regime of Lateral Control
  • The Concept of Lateral Network Governance
  • Locally and Globally Legitimate Agents of Governance
  • Research Design
  • Two Organized Networks: Management Consulting and Dental Technology
  • Methodology: Measuring the Legitimate Delegation of Decision-Making Authority
  • Empirical Structures of Lateral Network Governance
  • Planned Versus Practiced Governance
  • Local Versus Global Legitimacy: Structures for the Delegation of Decision-Making Authority
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part III: How Governance Affects Learning and Innovation
  • Chapter 12: Knowledge and the Deliberative Stance in Democratic Systems: Harnessing Scepticism of the Self in Governing Global Environmental Change
  • Knowledge and Governance Systems in Climate Change
  • Deliberative Democracy: Reflexive Systems, Reflexive Citizens
  • Knowledge, Information, and Deliberation: A Case Study
  • Discursive Transformation.
  • Knowledge, Reflexivity and Deliberative Systems
  • Systemic Deliberative Dynamics
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Chapter 13: Nurturing Adaptive Governance Through Environmental Monitoring: People, Practices, Politics in the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Region, South Africa
  • What Is Adaptive Governance?
  • Research Frontiers in Adaptive Governance Literature
  • Towards a People, Practices, and Politics Perspective on Adaptive Governance
  • Methods
  • The Case: Towards Adaptive Governance in the K2C Region
  • Results: Nurturing Adaptive Governance Through the Environmental Monitors Program
  • Generating Knowledge
  • Information-Sharing
  • Networking and Collaborating
  • Responding to Change
  • Revision of management actions and strategies
  • Fulfilling organizational mandates
  • Human development and capacity building
  • Concluding Discussion
  • References
  • Chapter 14: Ex Ante Knowledge for Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Introducing the Organizational Network Governance Approach
  • The Importance of Knowledge in Infectious Disease Outbreaks
  • The Research Context
  • The Research Challenge and Theoretical Approach
  • Introducing Network Analytical Tools for Studying Infectious Diseases Responses
  • Measures, Data Collection, and Data Analysis
  • The List of Actors in the Crisis-Response Networks
  • Data Collection and Types of Ties
  • Data Collection
  • Data Analysis
  • Results
  • Actors in the Two Networks
  • Actor Involvement in the Two Networks
  • Information Distribution in the Crisis-Response Networks
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • Limitations and Future Research
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Chapter 15: Collective Learning and Institutional Collective Action in Fragmented Governance
  • ICA Foundations, Components, and Empirical Applications
  • Theoretical Foundations.
  • Integrative Mechanisms, Transaction Costs, and Collaboration Risk.