Adaptive Governance as a Normative and Analytical Framework

This chapter introduces adaptive governance as a normative and analytical framework to evaluate the legal implications of an analogy between cloud seeding and regional SRM governance. It identifies four legal functions that are key to the emergence of adaptive governance: (1) multiscale institutional arrangements, (2) participatory decision-making, (3) iterative learning processes, and (4) conflict management mechanisms. This chapter concludes that an adaptive governance framework can be applied to the implementation of a cloud seeding program, with a view to informing the governance of regional SRM.