Highlights•Water governance is a cross-sectoral, multi-level challenge.•Definitional/
boundary issues are critical for effective governance.•Governance must take existing …

Establishing protected areas constitutes one of the main strategies for the conservation of
marine and coastal ecosystems. Increasing risks associated with environmental change …

Urban resilience has become a popular notion among urban policymakers and scientists, as
a way to deal with the many complex issues that cities face. While it has positive …

CONTEXT The ability of a farm to cope with challenges is often conceptualised as resilience.
Although improving resilience of farms is a major policy goal in the European Union, the …

Abstract The European Commission has emphasised that a more resilient farming sector is
required to better respond to current and future economic, societal, and environmental …

Building resilience has been a critical agenda for disaster risk management, but how to build
and what to build tend to remain abstract. Our analysis offers insights on practices deployed …

In Europe increasing flood risks challenge societies to diversify their Flood Risk
Management Strategies (FRMSs). Such a diversification implies that actors not only focus on …

The provision of a sustainable supply of water is an increasingly difficult task to achieve in
many urban environments. This arises because of pressures related to population growth …

The multi-pattern approach (MPA) is a new method that has been applied to understand the
transition to integrated flood risk management (IFRM) in the Netherlands. This paper …

Responding to the unprecedented social-environmental change facing humankind will
require responsive and flexible governance institutions (ie, systems of rules and social …