Claudia Pahl-Wostl

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the institutional prescriptions of adaptive co-management based on a literature review of the (water) governance literature and highlight the complexities associated with participation and collaboration, the difficulty of experimenting in a real-world setting, and the politicized nature of discussion on governance at the bioregional scale.

TL;DR: The HarmoniCOP project developed a framework for social learning for resources management that can be interpreted as combining content management as well as social involvement processes to achieve both technical and relational outcomes.

TL;DR: This paper compares 10 established frameworks for analyzing social-ecological systems and concludes that three main criteria suffice to produce a classification of frameworks that may be used as a decision tree when choosing a framework for analysis.

TL;DR: The paper discusses the importance of focusing on the transition to new management paradigms based on the insight that the systems to be managed are complex adaptive systems, and provides arguments for the role of social learning processes and the need to develop methods combining approaches from hard and soft systems analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore conceptual approaches in social learning and adaptive management, and introduce agent-based modeling, and the link between analytical modelling and participatory approaches as promising new developments to explore and foster changes towards sustainability and the required transformations in technological regimes and institutional settings.