innovation. Exaptation may enable an existing technology to (a) construct a new technological niche, (b) enter into a preexisting …

should preferably support technological and technical developments supporting successful adaptation. All water charges and … needed. Interests in hybridization, selection of agricultural branches and development of technology should be directed to … the technology of cultivation should be similarly adapted. Farmers should be motivated in this direction by the …

€˜for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm’. …

choices, and the roles of governance and finance in urban adaptation to climate change. Lessons learned from these seven cases …Urban areas have particular sensitivities to climate change, and therefore adaptation to a warming planet represents a … paper identifies the various levels of administrative adaptation planning, the tools and information used in making policy …

CAP Pillar 2 policies and Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) reflect a broad range of governance styles and policy …

increase the frequency, duration and severity of heat waves. This paper describes the governance and institutional arrangements … during the development of an adaptation strategy (herein referred to as heat-health policy) for heat waves in Adelaide … that facilitated the process. Good governance and institutional arrangements provide the enabling environment, the …

This paper examines the complexity and "fuzzy logic" actually at play in governance in case studies such as HIH …?organisation. Their governance often involves decision-making behaviour that does not operate according to formulaic rules but is … the management of responses and adaptation to uncertainty in a society’s internal and external environments. This can …

In this paper, we provide an outlook for further research on the topic of governance. We review four different … approaches on the theory of the firm and discuss implications for governance, namely; nexus of contracts / agency theory …, property rights / incomplete contracts, adaptation, and nexus of specific investments. …