The mainstream literature sees participation as critical to deepening democracy and solving
complex environmental issues. An explosion of literature on public participation has …

This paper outlines the results of a systematic review of the literature on adaptive
comanagement (ACM). Adaptive comanagement is an emergent governance approach for …

Co-management institutional arrangements have an important role in creating conditions for
social learning and adaptation in a rapidly changing Arctic environment, although how that …

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 …

New concepts of governance take account of ambivalence, uncertainty, and distributed
power in societal change. They aim for reflexivity regarding the limits of prognostic …

The increasing frequency, intensity, and severity of natural hazards is one of the most
pressing global environmental change problems. From the local to the global level …

How can the governance of environment and resources be devolved in a way that
incorporates effective user participation and feedback learning? Approaches that use the …

Transdisciplinary research often utilizes collaborative ways of knowledge production to
enable deliberate transformations towards sustainability. Multiple concepts with varying …

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

Resilience thinking has frequently been proposed as an alternative to conventional natural
resource management, but there are few studies of its applications in real-world settings. To …