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.
REVIEW
‘This book shows that data about the environment is not just a technical input, but itself a commons that must be governed with attention to trust, sustainability, and efficiency. By connecting theory with a wide variety of case studies, it demonstrates how managing environmental data as a commons can support more effective and resilient environmental governance. In doing so, it stands as a natural companion to Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons – bringing the insights of commons governance into the digital and environmental age.’
Kosali Simon, Herman B Wells Endowed Professor, Indiana University
CONTENTS
Introduction by Anjanette Raymond, Scott J. Shackelford, Jessica Steinberg, and Michael Mattioli
The Value of Having Values: Artifacts of Normative Knowledge as Instruments of Collective Self-Governance for Data Flows by Greg Bloom
Inexorably Entangled Environmental and Knowledge Commons by Todd Aagaard and Brett M. Frischmann
Regenerative Authentication Credits: Truth as a Shared Resource within the ESG Knowledge Commons by Chris Draper and Simon Sun
Linking Physical and Knowledge Commons in a Green Stormwater Infrastructure Program by Erik Nordman, Patrick J. Doran, Christian Glupker, Sam Haapaniemi, Elaine Isely, Paul Isely, Valerie Strassberg, and Shanyn Viars
Co-Curating Institutional Data on Climate Change-Induced Loss and Damage via Expert Panels: Implications for the Environmental Knowledge Commons by Mathew Kurian, Yu Kojima, Wa’ed Alshoubaki, Sekela Twisa, and V. Ratna Reddy
Building a Sustainable Space Knowledge Commons by Laetitia Cesari and Simon Sun
Terrestrial Environmental Data Obtained from Space by Andrea J. Harrington
The Prospects for Green Patent Commons by Jorge L. Contreras
The IPCC as Expert Knowledge Commons by Michael J. Madison
Conclusion: Environmental Knowledge Commons – An Appraisal by Michael Mattioli and Jessica Steinberg
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