Highlights•Policy integration is a continuous process of adjustment through reflexivity and
learning.•There are key processual and structural reasons why governments pursue …

Research on policy integration has become an important part of public policy scholarship by
analyzing how policymakers create linkages between policy subsystems to deal with …

Success or failure of a polycentric system is a function of complex political and social
processes, such as coordination between actors and venues to solve specialized policy …

Researchers in public policy and public administration agree that policy integration is a
process. Nevertheless, scholars have given limited attention to political aspects that facilitate …

Complexity is inherent to the policy processes and to more and more domains such as
environment or social policy. Complexity produces unexpected and counterintuitive effects …

In polycentric governance systems, decisions that influence a given policy issue are often
made across a series of forums: venues where actors meet to resolve collective action …

Modern environmental problems pose unique management challenges as they are usually
interdependent in myriad, complex ways. Climate change is the ultimate example of a …

The interlinked nature of today's societal challenges asks for integrative approaches. The
energy transition is an especially impactful challenge and presents a compelling opportunity …

Increasing and intensifying the use of land represents a prominent sustainability challenge
of particular importance in regions undergoing rapid change while at the same time …

Policy actors address complex environmental problems by engaging in multiple and often
interdependent policy issues. Policy issue interdependencies imply that efforts by actors to …