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

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

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

The term “governance” encompasses both governmental and nongovernmental
participation in collective choice and action. Law dictates the structure, boundaries, rules …

Adaptive governance must work “on the ground,” that is, it must operate through structures
and procedures that the people it governs perceive to be legitimate and fair, as well as …

Incorporation of concepts from landscape ecology into understanding and managing
riverine ecosystems has become widely known as riverscape ecology. Riverscape ecology …

Polycentric networks of formal organizations and informal stakeholder groups, as opposed
to centralized institutional hierarchies, can be critically important for strengthening the …

In 1973, Rittel and Webber1 used the term" wicked" to describe value-laden problems in
which goal formation, problem definition, and equitable solution options are contested …

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 …

This special feature presents articles on the cross-scale interactions among law, ecosystem
dynamics, and governance to address the adaptive capacity of six watersheds in the United …