ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a collection of strategies that is helpful to those endeavouring to form and administer environmental regimes that perform well in turbulent times. Focusing on strategies emphasizing anticipation as well as adaptation, this discussion makes it clear that the requirements for creating effective governance systems in turbulent times differ significantly from those that suffice to ensure success in more stable settings. The defining features of the Holocene/Anthropocene transition are the onset of human domination of the Earth's ecosystems and, at the same time, a shift from benign conditions in biophysical terms to an unsettled era characterized by fluctuations that are pronounced in terms of both scope and speed. Related to this concern are issues arising from what is commonly labelled globalization, an umbrella term that refers to a suite of economic, social, and technological processes that are leading to a tighter integration of the socioeconomic components of the Earth System.
