Participation is a prominent feature of many decision-making and planning processes.
Among its proclaimed benefits is its potential to strengthen public support and involvement …

Any present day approach of the world's most pressing environmental problems involves
both scale and governance issues. After all, current local events might have long-term global …

Scale issues are an increasingly important feature of complex sustainability issues, but they
are mostly taken for granted in policy processes. However, the scale at which a problem is …

The Netherlands were at the forefront of European nature conservation policy until recently.
For years, a stable 'social contract'around Dutch nature conservation existed. To the surprise …

Social learning has been championed as a promising approach to address complex
resource problems. According to theory, social learning requires several pre‐conditions to …

Nature policy on the national level in the Netherlands is undergoing a shift from an
ecological focus to a combination of an ecological and a societal focus. Also changes in the …

Complex policy issues increasingly play out in multilevel and multi-scale contexts. This
allows for scale framing: framing an issue at a particular scale and level. In this article, we …

In the introductory chapter, the incentive for this PhD thesis is outlined. It is argued that the
governance of policy fields that embody a collective interest (for example concerning the …

The purpose of this article is to analyse the relationship between sense of place and the
governance of nature parks. Sense of place has been well researched, including in …

Abstract The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is arguably the most widely
recognised tool for assessing species' global conservation status. Given the potential social …