The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is arguably the most ambitious piece of European
Union (EU) legislation in the field of water. The directive defines a general framework for …

Scholars, planners and practitioners worldwide are increasingly recognising that landscape
governance is a promising approach for restoring forested landscapes and simultaneously …

The implementation of the European Flood Directive 2007/60/EC requires the establishment
of public participation mechanisms to ensure citizens' involvement in the flood management …

This special issue contributes to a better understanding of science–policy interactions in
environmental governance, by assembling studies based on interpretative policy analysis …

The OECD Principles on Water Governance set out various requirements for stakeholder
engagement. Coupled with conceptualizations of social learning, this article asks how we …

Currently a change of paradigm from flood protection towards flood risk management (FRM)
is taking place, which calls for participatory governance. The paper's main aim is to describe …

It has recently been recommended that a shift from traditional flood prevention to more
adaptive strategies is made, focusing on the reduction in and recovery from flood impacts as …

We investigate the impact of performances of failure in nature conservation by means of a
detailed reconstruction of the implementation of European Union conservation directives in …

We propose that a practice-based approach to environmental policy can help consolidate
theoretical understanding of and empirical focus on practices in IPA. Doing so counteracts a …

The establishment of Natura 2000, the European Union's network of protected areas, has
been a challenging process and has caused a variety of conflicts. These conflicts are related …