ABSTRACT Adaptive governance has been proposed by many scholars as an approach to sustainable resource management, and has subsequently been applied in many countries. While the conceptual origins of adaptive governance have largely emerged from the global North, there has been little critical attention to the utility of adaptive governance concepts in the global South. Through a qualitative meta-analysis of adaptive governance scholarship published between 2000 and 2018, this article characterizes the key attributes of adaptive governance in the global North and examines whether these attributes are present in contemporary scholarship on the global South. In doing so, the article confirms that adaptive governance principles are present, but reveals distinctions regarding how these manifest in the global South. The article proposes a guiding framework to advance the design and implementation of future adaptive governance interventions in the global South.

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适应性治理：推动全球南方可持续城市转型的催化剂

摘要 适应性治理已被许多学者提出作为可持续资源管理的一种方法，并随后在许多国家得到应用。虽然适应性治理的概念起源主要来自全球北方，但对全球南方适应性治理概念的效用却鲜有批判性关注。通过对 2000 年至 2018 年间发表的适应性治理学术研究的定性元分析，本文描述了全球北方适应性治理的关键属性，并检验了这些属性是否存在于当代全球南方学术研究中。在此过程中，本文证实了适应性治理原则的存在，但揭示了这些原则在全球南方的表现方式的差异。