Jonathan Boston, Professor of Public Policy, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington.ABSTRACTFundamental to good governance is the active anticipation, assessment and management of risBased on this analysis, the paper applies the concept to the policy challenges posed by climate change adaptation, particularly sea-level rise. In this regard, humanity is confronted with a slow-motion disaster that will grow progressively in scope and scale, sometimes abruptly. Societies will face significant uncertainty, multiple and compounding risks, immense costs and difficult intertemporal and intragenerational trade-offs. More specifically, rising sea levels will have a major and increasing impact on the built environment in coastal regions. Globally, hundreds of millions of people could be forced this century to relocate from areas at risk from coastal erosion and inundation, higher water tables, and more frequent and intense rainfall events. Mitigating some of the risks and increasing societal resilience via anticipatory, pro-active, prudent and adaptive policy responses will be politically challenging, not least because of the large upfront costs, the likelihood of powerful blocking coalitions, and the complexities of inter-governmental and inter-agency coordination. This paper outlines how, in the interests of sound anticipatory governance, these challenges might be addressed through the creation of new governmental institutions, funding mechanisms and revised planning processes.

Chantal Mouffe on The Future of Democracy

On the 6th of March 2014 Chantal Mouffe was invited to Stockholm to talk about "The future of democracy: How to face the challenge of the protest movements?"

The future of democracy with Chantal Mouffe part 1

The 6th of March 2014 Chantal Mouffe came to Sweden to talk about the Future of Democracy: How to face the challenge of the protest movements.

The Future of Democracracy with Chantal Mouffe - edited version

This is a short version of the seminar "The Future of Democracy: How to face the challenge of the protest movements?" with Chantal Mouffe, recorded in Stockholm 2014-03-06 by the Institute for Futures

The future of democracy part - Questions from the audience

The 6th of March 2014 Chantal Mouffe came to Sweden to talk about the Future of Democracy: How to face the challenge of the protest movements.

The future of democracy part 2 - comments and discussion

The 6th of March 2014 Chantal Mouffe came to Sweden to talk about the Future of Democracy: How to face the challenge of the protest movements.

How to face the challenge of the protest movements? In this presentation Chantal Mouffe will examine the recent Occupy movements in order to grasp the nature of the challenge that they pose to represen

Throughout history, people have consulted everything from oracles to crystal balls in order to predict the future. But it was not until the 1960s that interest developed in a more systematic study of