Water is of vital and critical importance to ecosystems and human societies. The effects of
human activities on land and water are now large and extensive. These reflect physical …

Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and
energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an …

Water scarcity raises major concerns on the sustainable future of humanity and the
conservation of important ecosystem functions. To meet the increasing food demand without …

Polycentricity is a fundamental concept in commons scholarship that connotes a complex
form of governance with multiple centers of semiautonomous decision making. If the …

Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that
serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about …

Adaptive governance is an emergent form of environmental governance that is increasingly
called upon by scholars and practitioners to coordinate resource management regimes in …

Transformative governance is an approach to environmental governance that has the
capacity to respond to, manage, and trigger regime shifts in coupled social-ecological …

Since the UN water conference at Mar del Plata in 1977, there have been international
debates about how water governance could and should respond to the challenges of …

Nexus thinking, in the form of integrating water security with agriculture, energy and climate
concerns, is normatively argued to help better transition societies towards greener …

Abstract The Earth System Governance project is a global research alliance that explores
novel, effective governance mechanisms to cope with the current transitions in the …