Climate change and urbanization have resulted in several societal challenges for urban
areas. Nature-based solutions (NBS) have been positioned as solutions for enhancing …

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

" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

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 …

The Anthropocene is characterized by rapid global change, necessitating adaptive
governance. But how can such adaptive governance be operationalized? The article offers a …

Scholars and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in the processes that lead
to transformations toward sustainability. We explored how resilience thinking, and a stronger …

We reviewed the literature on leadership in linked social-ecological systems and combined
it with the literature on institutional entrepreneurship in complex adaptive systems to develop …

Highlights•A consistent approach to understand fit is needed to foster the sustainability of
social–ecological systems.•A working typology of fit is synthesized from a rapidly expanding …

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