Rural areas face profound challenges in transitioning towards sustainability. Intensive
agriculture is deeply implicated in high greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity decline and …

Climate change is already having adverse impacts, with place-and problem-based
implications due to higher temperatures, prolonged droughts, and more frequent extremes …

This open access book states that the societal fault lines of our times are deeply intertwined
and that they confront us with challenges affecting the security, fairness and sustainability of …

Recent years have seen a growing recognition of and attention to strengthening community
flood resilience as a key leverage for achieving sustainable flood risk management. The …

Recent impactful hydrometeorological events, on both the extreme wet and dry side of the
spectrum, remind policymakers and citizens that climate change is a reality and that a shift in …

Central to integrated flood risk management is the integration of water management with
spatial planning. Existing studies often focus on analyzing the policy instruments in the …

Blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs), encompassing mangroves, saltmarshes, and seagrasses,
are vital ecosystems that deliver valuable services such as carbon sequestration …

Serious games are increasingly used as tools to facilitate stakeholder participation and
stimulate social learning in environmental management. We present the Virtual River Game …

Cities have started adapting to uncertain climate drivers such as temperature and sea level
rise, and some cities are also transitioning towards concepts such as Water Sensitivity. In …

Generic rules on how to organize the process of putting DMDU approaches and tools into
actual practice are currently lacking.• Lessons can be drawn from the Adaptive Delta …