The benefits of autonomous vehicles (AVs) are widely acknowledged, but there are
concerns about the extent of these benefits and AV risks and unintended consequences. In …

The study of policy entrepreneurs as agents of change has developed greatly in recent
years, supported by increasingly more sophisticated theoretical and empirical research. In …

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems provides a
synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems …

This is an open access book. This book offers the first overview of the 'wicked problems'
literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the …

The study of social-ecological systems (SES) has been significantly shaped by insights from
research on complex adaptive systems (CAS). We offer a brief overview of the conceptual …

The concept of wicked problems has become a fad in contemporary policy analysis, with any
number of problems being labeled as “wicked”. However, if many of these problems are …

This introduction to the symposium on “Robust politics and governance in turbulent times”;
examines how different governance paradigms have conceptualized the relationship …

Social-ecological systems (SES) are complex adaptive systems. Social-ecological system
phenomena, such as regime shifts, transformations, or traps, emerge from interactions …

Public policy can be considered a design science. It involves identifying relevant problems,
selecting instruments to address the problem, developing institutions for managing the …

The Anthropocene is a volatile and potentially catastrophic age demanding new ways of
thinking about relations between humans and the nonhuman world. This book explores how …