Water governance research is confronted with a messy world that is difficult to make sense
of. Mainstream policy approaches tend to simplify and standardise this messiness in ways …

Institutional arrangements shape water-related decision making and water policies, and
drive behaviours related to water sharing and use. It is therefore crucial that water …

Adaptive governance continues to attract considerable interest in academic and policy
circles. This is with good reason, given its increasing relevance in a globalized and …

Institutional bricolage continues to attract scientific and policy interest, especially in
appreciating natural resource management outcomes. However, contemporary bricolage …

Despite cogent critiques and limited successes, community-based management (CBM)
remains central to policies for natural resource management and service delivery. Various …

International targets such as the Sustainable Development Goals or those that are set as
part of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) programmes are, on the whole …

This article highlights one important reason why attempts to achieve sustainable
development through community management often fail–the neglect of worldviews. It …

This paper is motivated by the pressing need to understand how water use and irrigated
agriculture can be transformed in the interests of both social and environmental …

Institutional Bricolage can be a useful concept to understand how institutional change has
occurred in natural resource governance. As an adaptive process, agents involved in …

Transformative research is a broad and loosely connected family of research disciplines and
approaches, with the explicit normative ambition to fundamentally question the status quo …