Full Description
Our natural environment constitutes a complex and dynamic global ecosystem that provides essential resources for well-being and survival. Yet the environment is also subject to unprecedented threats from human activities, such as climate change, pollution, habitat loss, biodiversity decline, and the overexploitation of natural resources. This volume argues that such complex, multidimensional challenges demand equally complex, multi-dimensional solutions and calls for coordinated, multi-stakeholder action at all scales, including governments, civil society, the private sector, and individuals. To meet the moment effectively, such interventions require both scientific knowledge about how the environment functions and social and institutional knowledge about the actors involved in environmental governance and management. Chapters include case studies of environmental knowledge collection, management, and sharing to explore how data and knowledge sharing can inform effective, multi-stakeholder action to combat global threats to our environment. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Contents
Introduction; Part I:1. The value of having values: artifacts of normative knowledge as instruments of collective self-governance for data flows Greg Bloom; 2. Inexorably entangled environmental and knowledge commons Todd Aagaard and Brett Fischmann; 3. RACs: truth as a shared resource within the ESG knowledge commons Chris Draper and Simon Sun; Part II: 4. Linking physical and knowledge commons in a green stormwater infrastructure program Erik Nordman, Patrick J. Doran, Christian Glupker, Sam Haapaniemi, Elaine Isely, Paul Isely, Valerie Strassberg and Shanyn Viars; 5. Co-curating institutional data on climate change induced loss and damage via expert panels: implications for the environmental knowledge commons Mathew Kurian, Yu Kojima, Waed Alshoubaki, Sekela Twisa and Ratna Reddy; Part III: 6. Building a sustainable space knowledge commons Laetitia Cesari Zarkan and Simon Sun; 7. Terrestrial environmental data obtained from space, authored Andrea Harrington; Part IV: 8. The prospects for green patent commons, which considers whether, and under what conditions, private firms can productively combine existing patent assets to support the dissemination and use of green technology Jorge Constreras; 9. The IPCC as expert knowledge commons Michael Madison.
