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Governing the Uncertain

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The chapter introduces adaptation to climate change as an issue of ­governance. In international climate co-operation, states have committed themselves to taking measures to ensure adaptation to climate change; the planning and implementation of such measures requires broad participation. The word “governance” refers to a multitude of actors, activities and relations between the state and other societal bodies working for the “government”. The research focuses on three questions: (1) How is adaptation seen as a problem or an issue to be governed, (2) how is adaptation governed, that is, by which national, regional and local practices, and (3) what kinds of agencies do those practices enable and constrain? The analyses examine responsibility in adaptation governance at the national, regional and local levels in Finnish and Russian Arctic. The chapter introduces a research strategy that is grounded in the concept of practices and embraces political science and anthropological perspectives.

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Tennberg, M. (2012). Introduction. In: Tennberg, M. (eds) Governing the Uncertain. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3843-0_1

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