Enhancing the resilience of ecosystem services (ES) that underpin human well-being is
critical for meeting current and future societal needs, and requires specific governance and …

The mainstream literature sees participation as critical to deepening democracy and solving
complex environmental issues. An explosion of literature on public participation has …

This study aims to investigate the role of collaborative spatial learning and the geospatial
data in localising the SDGs while strengthening the public participation practice in rural …

Abstract Decision Support Systems, and, more recently, participatory and collaborative
modelling have emerged as a response to increased focus on stakeholder participation in …

Faced with accelerating environmental challenges, research on social-ecological systems is
increasingly focused on the need for transformative change towards sustainable …

Social learning is increasingly becoming a normative goal in natural resource management
and policy. However, there remains little consensus over its meaning or theoretical basis …

Governance failures are at the origin of many resource management problems. In particular
climate change and the concomitant increase of extreme weather events has exposed the …

Participation has emerged as an appropriate approach for enhancing natural resources
management. However, despite long experimentation with participation, there are still …

This article assesses the institutional prescriptions of adaptive (co-) management based on
a literature review of the (water) governance literature. The adaptive (co-) management …

Natural resources management in general, and water resources management in particular,
are currently undergoing a major paradigm shift. Management practices have largely been …