Meta-analytical methods face particular challenges in research fields such as social and political research, where studies often rest primarily on qualitative and case study research. In such contexts, where research findings are less standardized and amenable to structured synthesis, the case...

More and better collaboration between farmers and other stakeholders has repeatedly been identified as a key strategy for sustainable agriculture. However, for collaboration to actually benefit sustainable agriculture certain conditions have to be met. In this paper, we scrutinize the conditions...

Adaptive management has been proliferating since the 1970s as a policy approach for dealing with uncertainty in environmental governance through learning. Learning takes place through a cyclical approach of experimentation and (possible) adjustment. However, few empirical studies exist that...

The participation of societal groups and of the broader public has been a key feature in implementing the European Water Framework Directive (WFD). Non -state actor participation in the drafting of river b asin management plans was expected to help achieve the directive’s environmental goals,...

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched in 2013, is rapidly subsuming much of China's political and economic involvement abroad. As a far-reaching infrastructure development and investment strategy, officially involving more than 130 countries, the expansion of the BRI raises important...

In this discussion paper, we introduce and outline in detail an analytical scheme - SCAPE - that has been developed over several years, that has been tested and iteratively refined through application to dozens of case studies, and which is currently in use for a case survey of several hundred...

Efforts to collaboratively manage the risk of flooding are ultimately based on individuals learning about risks, the decision process, and the effectiveness of decisions made in prior situations. This article argues that much can be learned about a governance setting by explicitly evaluating the...

Mit dem Plan zum Wiederaufbau Haitis, dessen Umsetzung 5,3 Milliarden US-Dollar kosten wird, hat die Regierung in Port-au-Prince einen ersten Rahmen für die internationale Unterstützung vorgegeben. Der Plan soll von einer Wiederaufbaukommission umgesetzt werden, deren Mandat zunächst auf 18...