The worrying environmental situation and increased public awareness in recent years have
led many countries to take measures to reduce negative impacts on the environment. The …

Calls for more broad-based, integrated, useful knowledge now abound in the world of global
environmental change science. They evidence many scientists' desire to help humanity …

This chapter aims to detail the narrative policy framework (NPF) in an effort to provide a
means by which policy researchers in a variety of contexts can advance scientific …

In this article, we theorize a novel approach to addressing the world's grand challenges
based on the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism and the sociological concept of …

The second edition of this highly regarded book provides a concise and accessible
introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. It …

Despite the rapidly expanding literature on agency in regional development, the
methodological approaches available to study it have not followed theoretical development …

Narratives are increasingly subject to empirical study in a wide variety of disciplines.
However, in public policy, narratives are thought of almost exclusively as a poststructural …

After decades of inadequate responses to scientists' warnings about global environmental
threats, leading analysts of the science-policy interface are seeking an important shift of …

Public understandings and perceptions of, as well as engagement with, climate change
have garnered the interest of research and policy for almost three decades. A portion of this …

We reviewed existing and planned adaptation activities of federal, tribal, state, and local
governments and the private sector in the United States (US) to understand what types of …