Water governance has emerged as an important topic in the international arena and is
acknowledged to be a crucial factor for adequate and sustained progress towards achieving …

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

Faced with accelerating environmental challenges, research on social-ecological systems is
increasingly focused on the need for transformative change towards sustainable …

Adaptive governance provides the capacity for environmental managers and decision
makers to confront variable degrees of uncertainty inherent to complex social-ecological …

As we approach the 2030 deadline to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
there is a growing sense of urgency around the need to accelerate the necessary …

Legal and institutional structures fundamentally shape opportunities for adaptive
governance of environmental resources at multiple ecological and societal scales …

Adaptive governance has emerged in the last decade as an intriguing avenue of theory and
practice for the holistic management of complex environmental problems. Research on …

Understanding the regime shifts of social-ecological systems (SES) and their local and
spillover effects over time is crucial for ensuring future sustainability. However, limited …

In this article we summarize histories of nonlinear, complex interactions among societal,
legal, and ecosystem dynamics in six North American water basins, as they respond to …

ABSTRACT The Yangtze River Basin faces unprecedented challenges in harmonizing
competing interests in its ecological and social systems. The central government of China, in …