A decade of adaptive governance scholarship: synthesis and future directions

Adaptive governance is an emergent form of environmental governance that is increasingly called upon by scholars and practitioners to coordinate resource management regimes in the face of the complexity and uncertainty associated with rapid environmental change. Although the term "adaptive governance" is not exclusively applied to the governance of social-ecological systems, related research represents a significant outgrowth of literature on resilience, social-ecological systems, and environmental governance. We present a chronology of major scholarship on adaptive governance, synthesizing efforts to define the concept and identifying the array of governance concepts associated with transformation toward…

• UE
  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• OS
  Oregon State University
• WR
  Water Resources Research Institute, North Carolina State University
• IW
  Idaho Water Resources Research Institute, University of Idaho