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Adaptive Governance Policy for Societal Resilience and Community Empowerment

Author(s)

Robert Hall

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DOI:10.17265/1548-6591/2014.12.001

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Global Ecovillage Network of Europe, Artieda, Spain

ABSTRACT

This paper reviews current thinking on flexible policy-making and participatory methods to empower communities to handle the challenges of climate change and other global shocks. Adaptive Governance for Resilience—designed to effectively increase societal resilience to external shocks while facilitating wellbeing and reducing both poverty and environmental degradation—is an innovative approach which teams cutting-edge policy-making with community empowerment. Using a 9-step methodology of the Adaptive Governance Cycle, resilience in communities can be strengthened as the communities are themselves empowered to increase wellbeing, address poverty alleviation, and strengthen environment protection. The approach facilitates governments to partner with local communities to calibrate the coordinated mix of flexible, adaptive policies to facilitate community resilience through participatory action. The author sees expanded use of Adaptive Governance as an approach for maintaining good governance and building social capital in the face of external and internal pressures and uncertainties which may become more widespread in the future.

KEYWORDS

policy development, wellbeing, adaptive governance, resilience, sustainable development

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Journal of US-China Public Administration, December 2014, Vol. 11, No. 12, 949-959

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