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As the evidence for human-induced climate change becomes more obvious, so too does the realisation that it will harshly impact on the natural environment as well as on socio-economic systems. Addressing the unpredictability of multiple sources of global change makes the capacity of governance systems to deal with uncertainty and surprise essential. However, how all these complex processes act in concert and under which conditions they lead to the sustainable governance of environmental resources are questions that have remained relatively unanswered. This book aims at addressing this...

The connection between diamonds and bloody civil conflicts in a number of African countries has made the headlines of newspapers all since the end of the 1990s. To resolve this disturbing issue, the international community has come up with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS). This work fundamentally investigates the conditions that made the KPCS possible in the first place. Drawing from the international relations literature on conflict and cooperation, we propose that international cooperation in the case of conflict diamonds was facilitated by five main conditions, regarding...

The opening chapter addresses the challenges of governing water in times of climate and other changes. The discussion includes a description of resistant, reactive and proactive institutions and puts forward ideas on how water governance regimes can transition from resistant to proactive.