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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.09.003
	The capacity of water governance to deal with the climate change adaptation challenge: Using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to distinguish between polycentric, fragmented and centralized regimes
	Pahl-Wostl C.; Knieper C.
发表日期	2014
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	29
英文摘要	The notion of polycentric governance has become increasingly popular in recent years. Such development may be attributed to expectations that polycentric governance systems have a higher capacity to deal with complex challenges arising from global and climate change. Most often, employed interpretations of polycentricity emphasize the presence of several independent centers of authority in a governance domain. A commonly neglected feature of polycentric governance, as introduced by Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, is that this concept entails as well operation under one set of overall accepted rules. This paper analyzes the underlying feature of effective polycentric governance and makes a distinction between polycentric, fragmented, and centralized governance regimes. An empirical analysis of water governance systems in 27 national river basins using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) shows that a set of factors associated with polycentricity has the highest explanatory power for high performance regarding climate change adaptation. Factors associated with fragmented and centralized regimes can be identified for paths leading to low performance. Furthermore, the analysis identifies the effectiveness of formal institutions as important condition, in particular for paths leading toward low performance. The paper elaborates on these findings and discusses as well the potential of fsQCA in such comparative analyses. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Adaptive capacity; Climate change adaptation; Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis; Polycentric governance; Water governance systems
学科领域	adaptive management; climate change; comparative study; empirical analysis; fuzzy mathematics; governance approach; qualitative analysis; river basin; water economics
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptive management; climate change; comparative study; empirical analysis; fuzzy mathematics; governance approach; qualitative analysis; river basin; water economics
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117715
作者单位	Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrück, Barbarastrasse 12, Osnabrück, 49069, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Pahl-Wostl C.,Knieper C.. The capacity of water governance to deal with the climate change adaptation challenge: Using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to distinguish between polycentric, fragmented and centralized regimes[J],2014,29.
APA	Pahl-Wostl C.,&Knieper C..(2014).The capacity of water governance to deal with the climate change adaptation challenge: Using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to distinguish between polycentric, fragmented and centralized regimes.Global Environmental Change,29.
MLA	Pahl-Wostl C.,et al."The capacity of water governance to deal with the climate change adaptation challenge: Using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to distinguish between polycentric, fragmented and centralized regimes".Global Environmental Change 29(2014).