Governance is one of the most important factors for ensuring effective environmental
management and conservation actions. Yet, there is still a relative paucity of comprehensive …

Adaptive governance is an emergent form of environmental governance that is increasingly
called upon by scholars and practitioners to coordinate resource management regimes in …

Polycentricity is a fundamental concept in commons scholarship that connotes a complex
form of governance with multiple centers of semiautonomous decision making. If the …

Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that
serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about …

Scholars and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in the processes that lead
to transformations toward sustainability. We explored how resilience thinking, and a stronger …

Studies on the food, energy, and water (FEW) nexus lay a shared foundation for
researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and stakeholders to understand and manage …

Transformative governance is an approach to environmental governance that has the
capacity to respond to, manage, and trigger regime shifts in coupled social-ecological …

The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these
impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation …

This article presents a systematic framework to identify barriers that may impede the process
of adaptation to climate change. The framework targets the process of planned adaptation …

Social learning is increasingly becoming a normative goal in natural resource management
and policy. However, there remains little consensus over its meaning or theoretical basis …