Adaptive governance is an emergent form of environmental governance that is increasingly
called upon by scholars and practitioners to coordinate resource management regimes in …

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

For several decades, water policy reform and the design of governance systems were
dominated by simplistic panaceas. This was accompanied by changing preferences for …

Calls for transformative adaptation to climate change require attention to the type of capacity
building that can support it. Community-level capacity building can help to ensure ownership …

Community-based conservation (CBC) institutions are widely regarded as transformative
bodies that benefit social and ecological processes in coupled social-ecological systems …

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 …

The concept of ecosystem-based adaptation is advocated at international, national, and
regional levels. The concept is thought to foster sustainability transitions and is receiving …

Although previous studies have examined adaptive capacity using a range of self-
assessment procedures, no objective self-report approaches have been used to identify the …

Recreational diving is an expanding branch of ecotourism that when poorly managed, may
cause considerable impacts to benthic organisms. Such impacts become a matter of …

The most important land and water issues facing North America and the world–including
land‐use patterns, water management, biodiversity protection, and climate adaptation …