Adaptive Governance Solutions (AGS)

Adaptive governance has been popularized because it allows practitioners to coordinate management
and response during the complexity and uncertainty of rapid environmental change or disturbance and can help to increase an organization’s ability to enhance its adaptive capacities.

The aim of this work is to identify and develop replicable AGS from practice. In order to do so, it is important to lift the AGS from a specific practical application and its local context to use in another context. This is realised by using the standardised key of the Organigraph methodology to map the solutions. This allows practionioners to understand an adopt the AGS to their own local setting.

Identified AGS

The following Adaptive Governance Solutions were identified in the RescueME project:

1. AGS – LS1: Neighbourhood Scale Empowerment of local communities through pre-existing associations
2. AGS – LS2: The Creation of Neighbourhood Scale Community Associations
3. AGS – LS3: Reaching/ empowering isolated community groups through their meeting spaces.
4. AGS – LS4: Integrationof experts into the local context to help in the response and knowledge extraction.
5. AGS – LS5: Turning tourism into a potential DRM response using mainland firefighters as’volunteer’ firefightersin isolated areas.
6. AGS – LS6: The importance of education in disaster events for empowering young boysand girls.
7. AGS – LS7: Community ResilienceInitiativeswithin Informal Dwellings.
8. AGS – RS1: Independent digital communication pathway to enhance response in the event of disasters.
9. AGS – RS2: Informal collaboration between regional entities on policy, governance and decisions.
10. AGS – RS3: Local Communities using Social Media as a digital notice boardand ‘Check in’.
11. AGS – RS4: One-stop information Application for Smartphones.
12. AGS – NS1: A fortified place to protect to house invaluable Cultural heritage items in the event of a disaster.
13. AGS – NS2: Enhancing community-led disaster risk management response through engagement and communication.
14. AGS – NS3: Adaptive governance and community resilience to cyclones in coastal Bangladesh: Addressing the problem of fit, social learning, and institutional collaboration.
15. AGS –SNS1: A mechanism for cross-national collaboration between neighbouring countries.

LS = local scale │ RS = regional scale │ NS = national scale │ SNS = super-national scale