BACKGROUND Current and future generations are confronted with the complex task of
devising sustainable solutions to environmental problems. The coming decade might …

Sustainability in the Anthropocene requires social cooperation and learning against a
backdrop of increasingly complex, polycentric governance. Here, we introduce an …

This introduction to the symposium on “Robust politics and governance in turbulent times”;
examines how different governance paradigms have conceptualized the relationship …

Failure to address unsustainable global change is often attributed to failures in conventional
environmental governance. Polycentric environmental governance—the popular alternative …

Success or failure of a polycentric system is a function of complex political and social
processes, such as coordination between actors and venues to solve specialized policy …

The COVID‐19 pandemic has created a crisis that is challenging national and local
governments to innovate in their responses to novel problems. Despite similarities to the …

Recent decades have seen a proliferation in the number, depth and span of interna‑tional
institutions regulating different domains of global politics. Issues like global health …

The Ecology of Games approach to examining complex governance systems in democratic
societies has been recently refurbished to infuse renewed vitality in the analysis of …

This research investigates why various mechanisms of cooperation among local authorities
are chosen using the theoretical lens of institutional collective action (ICA). The article …

Effective interorganizational collaboration is a pivotal ingredient of any community or
nation's capacity to prepare for and bounce back from disruptive crisis events. The booming …