This article synthesizes and compares environmental governance theories. For each theory
we outline its main tenets, claims, origin, and supporting literature. We then group the …

Governments are no longer the most important source of decision making in the
environmental field. Instead, new actors are playing critical decision‐making roles, and new …

The people of Bangladesh have become more vulnerable to the effects of climate change
due to their geographic location and socioeconomic characteristics. Effective adaptation …

Investigations that are inspired theoretically can always be accused of a lack of 'practical
reference'. They do not provide prescriptions for others to use. They observe practice and …

How does the resilience concept of nested relationships (panarchy) contribute to
sustainability science and policy? Resilience at a particular level of organization, the …

Panarchy provides a heuristic to characterize the cross-scale dynamics of social-ecological
systems and a framework for how governance institutions should behave to be compatible …

We aim to explore how indigenous peoples observe and ascribe meaning to change. The
case study involves two Quechua-speaking farmer communities from mountainous areas …

Because of the complexity and speed of environmental, climatic, and socio-political change
in coastal marine social-ecological systems, there is significant academic and applied …

In the midst of a global fisheries crisis, there has been great interest in the fostering of
adaptation and resilience in fisheries, as a means to reduce vulnerability and improve the …

Climate adaptation planning provides an opportunity to enhance the adaptive capacity of
stakeholders across multiple levels. However, reviews of standard top-down and bottom-up …