Policy Learning and Adaptation in governance; a Co-evolutionary Perspective

K Van Assche, R Beunen, S Verweij… - Administration & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper introduces the concepts and ideas that frame this special issue on co-evolution in
governance, and their implications for policy learning and adaptation. It offers a brief …

Anticipatory governance for preventing and mitigating catastrophic and existential risks

M Boyd, N Wilson - Policy Quarterly, 2021 - ojs.victoria.ac.nz
The world faces many large-scale risks. We describe these global catastrophic and
existential risks and identify some challenges in governing the prevention and mitigation of …

[HTML][HTML] Institutional rules for the up-take of regulatory experiments: A comparative case study

D Feser, S Winkler-Portmann, TS Bischoff… - Futures, 2024 - Elsevier
Experiments are an important governance instrument for fostering learning between actors,
improving governance, and managing transition pathways for sustainable development …

To see, or not to see, That is the question: Studying Dutch experimentalist energy transition governance through an evolutionary lens

M Gerritsen, HJ Kooij, M Groenleer, E van der Krabben - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Experimentalist forms of governance have burgeoned across policy areas and institutional
contexts in recent years. Recognizing that experimentalist forms of governance can evolve …

Why governance is never perfect: Co-evolution in environmental policy and governance

K Van Assche, M Gruezmacher, R Beunen - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
This Special Issue explores evolutionary perspectives on environmental policy and
governance. It focuses on human attempts to plan, organize and steer their physical …

Rigidities in governance and transition: dependencies

K Van Assche, R Beunen… - Strategy for Sustainability …, 2024 - elgaronline.com
Governance configurations reproduce themselves and create governance paths. We know
that these paths do not allow for just any transformation; they are not entirely flexible. The …

Looking forward and back: building futures and encoding pasts in governance

K Van Assche, R Beunen… - Strategy for Sustainability …, 2024 - elgaronline.com
Phenomenology taught us that, for humans, past, present and future are always co-
constitutive (Gallagher, 2010, 2013). They shape each other continuously, and they require …

Power and knowledge in governance: enabling, structuring and hindering transitions

K Van Assche, R Beunen… - Strategy for Sustainability …, 2024 - elgaronline.com
Power is that which can move things, achieve things or block things and hence one of the
topics that has gained a lot of attention in the literature on governance. Power has been …

Path dependency and the composition of land use, built form and establishment diversity in the downtowns of northwest British Columbia

S Nieweler - 2024 - summit.sfu.ca
This dissertation examines sustainability and economic vitality in the downtowns of three
transitioning resource towns in northwest British Columbia (BC), from the perspective of path …

Evaluating institutional conditions for transformative capacity

R Beunen - 2024 - research.ou.nl
The aim of this paper is to provide further insights on the influence of institutions and
institutional conditions on societal transformations and systemic change and to illustrate how …