decision-making on appropriate and multiple governance levels as a means to attain more sustainable policies and a more … effective and lasting policy implementation. The entailed shifts of geographical scale of governance can be exemplified by the … considerations have remained ambiguous about the environmental outcomes of such modes of governance. At the same time, the …

-level governance is claimed to pose several challenges to legitimacy. The aim of this paper is to review some legitimacy challenges in … multilevel governance contexts, and to analyse empirically biodiversity governance in different EU countries in the light of … biodiversity governance from different EU countries. The results show that several of the legitimacy challenges in multilevel …

Sustainability: exploring the processes and outcomes of governance / W. Neil Adger and Andrew Jordan -- Human … development and environmental governance: a reality check / Katrina Brown -- Governance, government and the pursuit of … sustainability / Albert Weale -- How do environmental actors make governance systems more sustainable? The role of politics and ideas …