Social learning is increasingly cited as an essential component of sustainable natural
resource management and the promotion of desirable behavioural change. This paper …

Highlights•We review the increasing importance of collaborative partnerships in water
management.•We describe how collaborative partnerships can operate at different decision …

The public policy and public management literatures together support a vibrant discussion of
collaborative governance. Much of this scholarship takes a broad perspective focusing on …

This paper addresses two research questions:(1) Does collaborative environmental
governance improve environmental outcomes? and (2) How do publicly supported …

An examination of how to move from consensus to implementation using collaborative
approaches to natural resource management, urban planning, and environmental policy …

Collaboration involves stakeholders and the public in a process of consensus building to
address some of the most difficult environmental management problems facing society …

One of the most continually vexing problems in society is the variability with which citizens
support endeavors that are designed to help a great number of people. In this article, we …

This article attempts to shed new light on prevailing puzzles of spatial scales in multi-level,
participatory governance as regards the democratic legitimacy and environmental …

Recent decades have seen a proliferation of conservation programmes designed to
encourage private landholders to protect and enhance biodiversity on their land. This paper …

Although collaboration and multi-stakeholder partnerships have become a common feature
in natural resource management throughout the world, various problems are associated with …