Models are utterly useful in policy and administration. Without some sort of model, scenario's, visions, plans are hard to imagine, and...

Our book on resource communities just came out. The book, written with Monica Gruezmacher, Lochner Marais and Xaquin Perez-Sindin, offers...

Electricity is an infrastructure of infrastructures - it makes other networks possible, opening up possibilities for many private...

Northern cities are not always seeing and using the opportunities of winter. As a way forward, one can think of small interventions and...

Risk is always constructed: one sees something, expects something, is afraid of something, and all this emerges as real in stories about...

In these dark days, where few lessons are learned from history, and war rages in Ukraine, it might be helpful to look at the utter...

Yes, governance is complex and yes, many forms of knowledge and methods of knowledge creation are involved. Many think that it's a matter...

Mapping is making something visual based on something visual, in most cases. Maps can lead to plans, policies, strategies which then...

Assets are assets, it is assumed, just as a resource is a resource. Of course, on closer inspection, both assertions are far from the...

Informal settlements are often part of bigger cities, and those cities tend to have designs on them. In the informal settlements, those...

Environmental policy and governance want to take care of, clean up, improve, manage many 'environments' in myriad ways. This effort is...

Learning processes in governance are diverse, entangled and both enabled and limited by co-evolutions of various sorts. In this special...

Shocks and conflicts are not the same thing. Conflicts can cause shocks and shocks can cause conflicts but still, not the same thing. The...

Transitions are not simple. For the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, we argue that the multiple transformations which occurred since the 90's...

Transitions to a more sustainable society are, of course, a serious and urgent matter. Few would disagree. What received less attention...

In difficult times, the lure of Grand Gestures can be hard to resist. Big strategies for big goals, solving big problems at a large scale...

Land use policy should be embedded in broader strategies of community development. We identify enabling factors for strategy formation...

Social and ecological resilience are not the same thing and they do not always overlap. However, they can overlap and reinforce each...

Northern regions are still less visible than others. Drawing on Canadian and Alaskan experiences, we argue that northern communities need...

A business is an organization, and an organization that is not just a collection of people, of actions, nor a profit making machine...