The mainstream literature sees participation as critical to deepening democracy and solving
complex environmental issues. An explosion of literature on public participation has …

Managing social-ecological systems and human well being in a sustainable way requires
knowledge of these systems in their full complexity. Multi-loop social learning is recognized …

Background The term international institution has been used over the course of the last few
decades to refer to a broad range of phenomena. In the early postwar years, these words …

This is the first of a series of three biennial reviews of research on the subject of climate
change. This review is concerned with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change …

Sha** change such that it avoids losing potentially useful options for future development
is a challenging task in the face of complex, coevolving socio-ecological systems …

The article examines the politics and patterns of public-private partnerships for the
environment in the multilateral system. It argues that two kinds of dynamics have contributed …

This study examines the network structure of policy learning in the C40 Cities Climate
Leadership Group, which is a network of the world's largest cities committed to tackling …

The article introduces the notion of adaptiveness and discusses the role of social learning in
it. Adaptiveness refers to the capacity of a social actor or social–ecological system to adapt …

In acknowledgement of the complexity of environmental challenges, research on learning in
environmental policy has grown substantially over the past two decades across a range of …

Reflexivity–the capacity of an agent, structure or process to change in the light of reflection
on its performance–has attracted widespread support among political theorists as a virtue for …