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

This review article highlights the outcomes of collaborative governance in disaster
management and its correlation with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals …

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

For several decades, water policy reform and the design of governance systems were
dominated by simplistic panaceas. This was accompanied by changing preferences for …

Network governance has received much attention within the fields of public administration
and policy in recent years, but surprisingly few books are designed specifically to help …

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

Most if not all environmental problems entail conflicts of interest. Yet, different actors and
opposing coalitions often but certainly not always cooperate in solving these problems …

This provocative Element is on the'state of the art'of theories that highlight policymaking
complexity. It explains complexity in a way that is simple enough to understand and use. The …

Polycentric governance involves multiple actors at multiple scales beyond the state. The
potential of polycentric governance for promoting both climate mitigation and adaptation is …

A growing field of sustainability science examines how environments are transformed
through polycentric governance. However, many studies are only snapshot analyses of the …