Rapid increases in natural resources globally during the 1970s have had far-reaching
environmental consequences. The rising exploitation of environmental assets has …

Social-ecological systems are often highly complex, making effective governance a
considerable challenge. In large, heterogeneous systems, hierarchical institutional regimes …

With the ambition to contribute to the endeavour of co‐management, this paper focuses on
the critical aspect of legitimacy and sets out to explain stakeholder acceptance in natural …

The complex nature of marine and coastal ecosystems combined with the inaccessibility and
invisibility of the majority of their goods and services call for tailored approaches to …

The novel articulations between the state, markets and civil society arising from the shift to
networked environmental governance highlight the importance of creating equal …

The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) has been a persistent source of human–wildlife
conflicts in the Baltic Sea area. Fishers have perceived cormorants as competitors for fish …

Accountability has hardly been studied in the governance of climate change adaptation. This
paper develops a framework for assessing the accountability of interactive governance …

The Convention on Biological Diversity's national biodiversity strategies and action plans
(NBSAPs) are major mechanisms for mainstreaming biodiversity into national policies. This …

Participatory approaches have been incorporated in decision‐making to strengthen the
involvement of social actors in natural resource management and governance. This …

Over the course of the twentieth century, nature conservation gradually became both a
broadly accepted and highly contentious field of public policy. In particular, national parks …