Knowledge for Governance -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: On the Reflexive Relations Between Knowledge, Governance, and Space -- Framing Governance -- Knowledge and Governance -- How Knowledge Enables Governance -- How Knowledge Drives the Effectiveness of Governance -- How Governance Affects Learning and Innovation -- Governance and Geography -- Conclusion and Questions Ahead -- References -- Part I: How Knowledge Enables Governance -- Chapter 2: Lessons from Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) for Governance in Conditions of Environmental Uncertainty -- Governance and Knowledge -- Governance Structure -- Governance of Modern-Day Rapa Nui -- Analysis of Governance Regimes: From CONAF to Ma'u Henua -- Knowledge of the Past -- Ecology and Rapa Nui -- Questioning Assumptions of Rapa Nui Governance Failure -- A New Understanding of Rapa Nui Prehistory: Five Things Now Known About the Island and Its Past -- Collapse -- Post-European Contact Events -- Prehistoric Population Structure -- Natural Resources of Rapa Nui -- Moai Transportation -- Explaining the Success of Rapa Nui -- From the Past and Looking at the Future: Governance on Rapa Nui -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Knowledge of Governance as Knowledge for Governance: Spatialized Techniques of Neutralization -- Methodology -- Land-Use Planning, Techniques of Neutralization, and Spatiality -- Land-Use Planning -- Techniques of Neutralization and Spatiality -- Spatialized Techniques of Neutralization -- Denial of Responsibility: Political-Juridical Structures -- Denial of Injury and Victim: Legitimating Economic Spatiality -- The Condemnation of the Condemners: Ideological Spatiality I -- Appeal to Higher Loyalties: Ideological Spatiality II -- Neutralizing Space Through Time? -- Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 4: The Atmosphere of Democracy: Knowledge and Political Action -- Society and Nature -- Blaming Democracy -- The Rise of Exceptional Circumstances -- Inconvenient Democracy -- The Erosion of Democracy: The Classical Perspective -- The Erosion of Democracy: The Modern Perspective -- Blaming the People -- Blaming the Political Class -- Are Democracies Dying? -- Enlightened Leadership? -- Science, Knowledge, and Democracy -- What Is to Be Done? Enhancing Democracy? -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Risk Governance: From Knowledge to Regulatory Action -- Governance Requirements for Complex Risks -- Three Characteristics of Risk Knowledge -- Complexity -- Scientific Uncertainty -- Sociopolitical Ambiguity -- Adaptive and Integrative Capacity of Risk Governance -- Preestimation -- Interdisciplinary Risk Estimation -- Risk Evaluation -- Risk Management -- Risk Communication -- Inclusive Governance: The Need for an Effective Involvement of Experts, Stakeholders, and Civil Society -- Instrumental Processing Involving Governmental Actors (Linear Mode) -- Epistemic Processing Involving Experts and Stakeholders (Complex Mode) -- Reflective Processing Involving Stakeholders (Uncertainty Mode) -- Participative Processing Involving the Public (Ambiguity Mode) -- Wider Governance Issues -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Knowledge and Governance: Can Systemic Risk in Financial Markets Be Managed? The Case of the Euro Crisis -- Systemic Risk and Structural Power in the GFC -- Solutions? -- The Governance Literature -- The Institutionalist Literature -- Knowledge and Ideas -- The Euro Crisis -- Preventing the Crystallization of Systemic Risk Amidst the Euro Crisis -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: How Knowledge Drives the Effectiveness of Governance.

Chapter 7: Explaining Subnational Governance: The Role of Governors' Codified and Uncodified Knowledge -- Explaining Governance Performance -- Governors' Codified Knowledge and Subnational Governance -- Governors' Uncodified Knowledge and Subnational Governance -- Alternative Explanations of Subnational Governance Performance -- Case Analysis: Mexican States and Colombian Departments -- Mexican States -- Colombian Departments -- Data and Variable Operationalization -- Assessing Governance Performance -- Results -- Discussions and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8: The (De-)Contextualization of Geographical Knowledge in Forest Fire Risk Management in Chile as a Challenge for Governance -- The Challenges of Governing Economic Uncertainties -- Methodology -- Complexity, Ambiguity, Uncertainty? Forest Fire Risks in Chile -- Complexity: Multidirectional Correlations Between Physical and Anthropogenic Factors -- Ambiguity: The Coexistence of Several Equally Logical Explanations for Forest Fires in Chile -- Uncertainty: Hidden Self-Reinforcing Social Amplification of Forest Fire Risk -- The Complementarity of Risk Management Practices -- Risk Management in Chilean Forestry -- Risk Management in Insurance Companies -- Mutually Complementary Risk Management Practices and Risk Avoidance Strategies -- The Decontextualization of Risk and Risk Knowledge -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Carbon Markets, Values, and Modes of Governance -- Market Governance at the Interface of Competing Logics and Modes of Organization -- Technocratic Norms and Political Context -- Methods of Analysis -- Coded Concepts of Market-Based Governance -- Advantages and opportunities -- Disadvantages and challenges -- Comparisons Between East and West -- Statistical Analysis of Regional and Occupations Difference -- The Role of Politics in Shaping Political Norms.

Network Governance in the Context of Market Cultures -- Market Perceptions: From General Claims to Specific Cases -- References -- Chapter 10: The Fight Against Corruption in Brazil: A Case of Good Governance? -- The Brazilian Petrobras Plot -- Institutional and Regulative Changes in Brazil: From Defective to Effective Institutions and Regulations? -- The "Normalization of Corruption" on a Corporate Level -- The Corporate Level Actors: Entrepreneurs and Top Managers -- The Normalization of Political Corruption -- The Political Actors: Political Leaders -- A Case of Good Governance? -- References -- Chapter 11: Lateral Network Governance -- The Puzzle of Governing Networks -- The Governance Challenge -- The Context of Governance: Network Cooperation -- The Object of Governance -- The Mechanisms of Governance -- The Agency of Governance -- Lateral Network Governance -- The Logic of Negotiation and the Regime of Lateral Control -- The Concept of Lateral Network Governance -- Locally and Globally Legitimate Agents of Governance -- Research Design -- Two Organized Networks: Management Consulting and Dental Technology -- Methodology: Measuring the Legitimate Delegation of Decision-Making Authority -- Empirical Structures of Lateral Network Governance -- Planned Versus Practiced Governance -- Local Versus Global Legitimacy: Structures for the Delegation of Decision-Making Authority -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: How Governance Affects Learning and Innovation -- Chapter 12: Knowledge and the Deliberative Stance in Democratic Systems: Harnessing Scepticism of the Self in Governing Global Environmental Change -- Knowledge and Governance Systems in Climate Change -- Deliberative Democracy: Reflexive Systems, Reflexive Citizens -- Knowledge, Information, and Deliberation: A Case Study -- Discursive Transformation.

Knowledge, Reflexivity and Deliberative Systems -- Systemic Deliberative Dynamics -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 13: Nurturing Adaptive Governance Through Environmental Monitoring: People, Practices, Politics in the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Region, South Africa -- What Is Adaptive Governance? -- Research Frontiers in Adaptive Governance Literature -- Towards a People, Practices, and Politics Perspective on Adaptive Governance -- Methods -- The Case: Towards Adaptive Governance in the K2C Region -- Results: Nurturing Adaptive Governance Through the Environmental Monitors Program -- Generating Knowledge -- Information-Sharing -- Networking and Collaborating -- Responding to Change -- Revision of management actions and strategies -- Fulfilling organizational mandates -- Human development and capacity building -- Concluding Discussion -- References -- Chapter 14: Ex Ante Knowledge for Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Introducing the Organizational Network Governance Approach -- The Importance of Knowledge in Infectious Disease Outbreaks -- The Research Context -- The Research Challenge and Theoretical Approach -- Introducing Network Analytical Tools for Studying Infectious Diseases Responses -- Measures, Data Collection, and Data Analysis -- The List of Actors in the Crisis-Response Networks -- Data Collection and Types of Ties -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis -- Results -- Actors in the Two Networks -- Actor Involvement in the Two Networks -- Information Distribution in the Crisis-Response Networks -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Limitations and Future Research -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 15: Collective Learning and Institutional Collective Action in Fragmented Governance -- ICA Foundations, Components, and Empirical Applications -- Theoretical Foundations.

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