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Barbara Cosens
Researcher at University of Idaho
Publications - 83
Citations - 2471
Barbara Cosens is an academic researcher from University of Idaho. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corporate governance & Resilience (network). The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 82 publications receiving 2042 citations. Previous affiliations of Barbara Cosens include West Virginia University College of Law & University of Montana.
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A decade of adaptive governance scholarship: synthesis and future directions
TL;DR: Adaptive governance is an emergent form of environmental governance that is increasingly called upon by scholars and practitioners to coordinate resource management regimes in the face of the complexity and uncertainty associated with rapid environmental change as discussed by the authors.
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Transformative Environmental Governance
Brian C. Chaffin,Ahjond S. Garmestani,Lance Gunderson,Melinda Harm Benson,David G. Angeler,Craig Anthony Arnold,Barbara Cosens,Robin Kundis Craig,J. B. Ruhl,Craig R. Allen +9 more
TL;DR: Transformative governance has the potential to actively respond to regime shifts triggered by climate change, and thus future research should focus on identifying system drivers and leading indicators associated with social-ecological thresholds.
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Understanding rivers and their social relations: A critical step to advance environmental water management
Elizabeth P. Anderson,Sue Jackson,Rebecca E. Tharme,Michael M. Douglas,Michael M. Douglas,Joseph E. Flotemersch,Margreet Zwarteveen,Margreet Zwarteveen,Chicu Lokgariwar,Mariana Montoya,Alaka Wali,Gail T. Tipa,Timothy D. Jardine,Julian D. Olden,Lin Cheng,John Conallin,Barbara Cosens,Chris Dickens,Dustin Garrick,David Groenfeldt,Jane Eleuter Kabogo,Dirk J. Roux,Dirk J. Roux,Albert Ruhí,Angela Arthington +24 more
TL;DR: Understanding of relationships between people and rivers as conceived under the renewed definition of environmental flows is synthesized and called for scientists and water managers to recognize the diversity of ways of knowing, relating to, and utilizing rivers, and to place this recognition at the center of future environmental flow assessments.
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Resilience and Water Governance: Adaptive Governance in the Columbia River Basin
Barbara Cosens,Mark E. Williams +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the issues in the context of resilience, taking the position that while adaptive management may foster ecological resilience, it is only one factor in the institutional changes needed to foster social-ecological resilience captured in the concept of adaptive governance.
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Legitimacy, Adaptation and Resilience in Ecosystem Management
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the concept of legitimacy in governance as a necessary component of any change to achieve greater social-ecological resilience and will turn to network theory as a means to facilitate legitimacy across multiple jurisdictions.