The New Geo-Governance: A Baroque Approach

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Table of Contents Preface xi Introduction: Geo-Governance: Some Scaffolding 1 PART 1: A FRAMEWORK Chapter 1: Institutional Evolution in the InformationAge 15 Chapter 2: States, Communities, and Markets: The Distributed Governance Scenario 39 Chapter 3: Social Learning, Collaborative Governance, and the Strategic State 53 Chapter 4: Ecologies of Governance as Social Technologies 71 PART 2: TERRITORIAL CONNECTIONS Chapter 5: On Hemispheric Governance 85 Chapter 6: Techno-nationalism and Meso-innovation Systems: A Cognitive Dynamics Approach 113 Chapter 7: Smart Communities and the Geo-governance of Social Learning 131 PART 3: OCEAN GOVERNANCE Chapter8: The Governance of Sustainability 153 Chapter 9: Features of a Governance Regime for Oceans 177 Chapter 10: Polycentric Governance and Technologies of Collaboration 211 PART 4: THE NEW STEWARDSHIP Chapter 11: Toward a Baroque Governance in 21st Century Canada 239 Chapter 12: Governance and Emergent Transversal Citizenship: Toward a New Nexus of Social Contracts 259 Chapter 13: The Limits of Territorial/National Federalism as a Social Technology 283 Conclusion: Governance as Subversive Bricolage in the 21st Century: The Missing Links 299 Acknowledgments 319 Bibliography 321 Index 353 List of Figures and Graphs Figure 1 The Kanizsa square 25 Figure 2 The Boulding triangle 42 Figure 3 Boisot's information space 45 Figure 4 Learning cycle and potential blockages 55 Figure 5 Radiography of the governance process 68 Figure 6 A snapshot of the southern portion of the Americas 87 Table 1 The stock of Canadian direct investment abroad 1989-1998 ....89 Figure 7 Les Metcalfe's catastrophe-theory framework 106 Figure 8 Michael Polanyi's dynamics of cognitive experience 137 Figure 9 Anamorphosis of network governance 141 Figure 10 The interdependence of the social and technical contexts 181 Figure 11 Forms of resilience in socio-technical systems 184 Figure 12 Success factors for common-pool resource appropriation systems 189 Figure 13 Governance institutions and appropriation systems 191 Figure 14 Gulf of Maine Watershed 205 Table 2 Species of accountability 225 Figure 15 A citizenship problématique 264 Figure 16 The citizenship triangle 269 Figure 17 The regime space 295 Table 3 An analytical framework for subversive intervention 305 This page intentionally left blank ...