Countries around the world have had to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak with limited
information and confronting many uncertainties. Their ability to be agile and adaptive has …

The UK government's leaders initially believed that it was among the best-prepared
governments for a pandemic. By June 2020, the outcome of the collision between the …

Organizations are expected to adapt within a short time to deal with changes that might
become disruptive if not adequately dealt with. Yet many organizations are unable to adapt …

The COVID-19 pandemic reveals that the public sector is not only facing simple and
complex problem, but also turbulent problems characterized by the surprising emergence of …

Governments worldwide are under enormous pressure to effectively and promptly address
the increasingly complex crisis presented by the Covid-19 pandemic. To understand the …

The notion of adaptive governance was originally created to capture forms of collaboration
in socio-ecological systems that can respond to rapid changes in the environment. However …

Unexpected epidemics, abrupt catastrophic shifts in biophysical systems, and economic
crises that cascade across national borders and regions are events that challenge the …

Under what conditions do governments turn to adaptive governance systems? This paper
explores a success case of adaptive governance in a non-western country and tries to …

This cross-country comparison of administrative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in
France, Germany and Sweden is aimed at exploring how institutional contexts and …

Like many Western European countries, Belgium and the Netherlands have been strongly
hit by COVID-19. Almost simultaneously, the virus spread, caused a relatively high number …