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Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond

The increasing frequency of extreme events, exogenous and endogenous, poses challenges for our societies. The current pandemic is a case in point; but "once-in-a-century" weather events are also becoming more common, leading to erosion, wildfire and even volcanic events that change ecosyst...

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Autores principales: Levin, Simon A., Anderies, John M., Adger, Neil, Barrett, Scott, Bennett, Elena M., Cardenas, Juan Camilo, Carpenter, Stephen R., Crépin, Anne-Sophie, Ehrlich, Paul, Fischer, Joern, Folke, Carl, Kautsky, Nils, Kling, Catherine, Nyborg, Karine, Polasky, Stephen, Scheffer, Marten, Segerson, Kathleen, Shogren, Jason, van den Bergh, Jeroen, Walker, Brian, Weber, Elke U., Wilen, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8422834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34512142
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00680-2
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author Levin, Simon A.
Anderies, John M.
Adger, Neil
Barrett, Scott
Bennett, Elena M.
Cardenas, Juan Camilo
Carpenter, Stephen R.
Crépin, Anne-Sophie
Ehrlich, Paul
Fischer, Joern
Folke, Carl
Kautsky, Nils
Kling, Catherine
Nyborg, Karine
Polasky, Stephen
Scheffer, Marten
Segerson, Kathleen
Shogren, Jason
van den Bergh, Jeroen
Walker, Brian
Weber, Elke U.
Wilen, James
author_facet Levin, Simon A.
Anderies, John M.
Adger, Neil
Barrett, Scott
Bennett, Elena M.
Cardenas, Juan Camilo
Carpenter, Stephen R.
Crépin, Anne-Sophie
Ehrlich, Paul
Fischer, Joern
Folke, Carl
Kautsky, Nils
Kling, Catherine
Nyborg, Karine
Polasky, Stephen
Scheffer, Marten
Segerson, Kathleen
Shogren, Jason
van den Bergh, Jeroen
Walker, Brian
Weber, Elke U.
Wilen, James
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description The increasing frequency of extreme events, exogenous and endogenous, poses challenges for our societies. The current pandemic is a case in point; but "once-in-a-century" weather events are also becoming more common, leading to erosion, wildfire and even volcanic events that change ecosystems and disturbance regimes, threaten the sustainability of our life-support systems, and challenge the robustness and resilience of societies. Dealing with extremes will require new approaches and large-scale collective action. Preemptive measures can increase general resilience, a first line of protection, while more specific reactive responses are developed. Preemptive measures also can minimize the negative effects of events that cannot be avoided. In this paper, we first explore approaches to prevention, mitigation and adaptation, drawing inspiration from how evolutionary challenges have made biological systems robust and resilient, and from the general theory of complex adaptive systems. We argue further that proactive steps that go beyond will be necessary to reduce unacceptable consequences.
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spelling pubmed-84228342021-09-07 Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond Levin, Simon A. Anderies, John M. Adger, Neil Barrett, Scott Bennett, Elena M. Cardenas, Juan Camilo Carpenter, Stephen R. Crépin, Anne-Sophie Ehrlich, Paul Fischer, Joern Folke, Carl Kautsky, Nils Kling, Catherine Nyborg, Karine Polasky, Stephen Scheffer, Marten Segerson, Kathleen Shogren, Jason van den Bergh, Jeroen Walker, Brian Weber, Elke U. Wilen, James Ecosystems Original Article The increasing frequency of extreme events, exogenous and endogenous, poses challenges for our societies. The current pandemic is a case in point; but "once-in-a-century" weather events are also becoming more common, leading to erosion, wildfire and even volcanic events that change ecosystems and disturbance regimes, threaten the sustainability of our life-support systems, and challenge the robustness and resilience of societies. Dealing with extremes will require new approaches and large-scale collective action. Preemptive measures can increase general resilience, a first line of protection, while more specific reactive responses are developed. Preemptive measures also can minimize the negative effects of events that cannot be avoided. In this paper, we first explore approaches to prevention, mitigation and adaptation, drawing inspiration from how evolutionary challenges have made biological systems robust and resilient, and from the general theory of complex adaptive systems. We argue further that proactive steps that go beyond will be necessary to reduce unacceptable consequences. Springer US 2021-09-07 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8422834/ /pubmed/34512142 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00680-2 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
spellingShingle Original Article
Levin, Simon A.
Anderies, John M.
Adger, Neil
Barrett, Scott
Bennett, Elena M.
Cardenas, Juan Camilo
Carpenter, Stephen R.
Crépin, Anne-Sophie
Ehrlich, Paul
Fischer, Joern
Folke, Carl
Kautsky, Nils
Kling, Catherine
Nyborg, Karine
Polasky, Stephen
Scheffer, Marten
Segerson, Kathleen
Shogren, Jason
van den Bergh, Jeroen
Walker, Brian
Weber, Elke U.
Wilen, James
Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond
title Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond
title_full Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond
title_fullStr Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond
title_full_unstemmed Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond
title_short Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond
title_sort governance in the face of extreme events: lessons from evolutionary processes for structuring interventions, and the need to go beyond
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8422834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34512142
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00680-2
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