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The proposed book will describe the link between governance approaches and adaptation to climate change. In line with related policies, adaptation is analyzed from a perspective of organizing, administering and installing instruments and forms of governance. In this respect, formal aspects like laws and amendments are as well considered as informal aspects in line with communication and transfer of (local) knowledge.

The book starts with an introduction on climate change scenarios for the Baltic Sea Region on a general level. Specific impacts are as well introduced as related time...

Climate change is a cause for concern both globally and locally. In order for it to be tackled holistically, its governance is an important topic needing scientific and practical consideration. Climate change governance is an emerging area, and one which is closely related to state and public administrative systems and the behaviour of private actors, including the business sector, as well as the civil society and non-governmental organisations. Questions of climate change governance deal both with mitigation and adaptation whilst at the same time trying to devise effective ways of...

The past thirty years have seen a proliferation of new forms of territorial governance that have come to co-exist with, and complement, formal territorial spaces of government. These governance experiments have resulted in the creation of soft spaces, new geographies with blurred boundaries that eschew existing political-territorial boundaries of elected tiers of government. The emergence of new, non-statutory or informal spaces can be found at multiple levels across Europe, in a variety of circumstances, and with diverse aims and rationales.

This book moves beyond theory...