Aim of the WP
This WP aims to identify, analyze and evaluate multi-level, multi-lateral governance strategies that are able to respond promptly to new ecological information, as well as steer away from critical ecological thresholds, large scale ecosystem crises and move out of undesirable states when regime shifts have already taken place.

Governance and management
Innovation and novelty is important to steer away from pending unwanted changes in ecosystems and their associated services, but governance strategies for innovation are often lacking. Forward-looking decisions and strategies could transform social-ecological systems and stimulate the emergence of more holistic, integrated forms of management. Additional to the inventory of learning platforms, we will investigate the opportunity context and agency for diffusing such innovation in the multi-lateral, multi-level governance system.

Projects under the WP
Currently, a number of smaller research projects are conducted in WP4 listed below (to be updated with all projects shortly)

1. The complexity of compliance - Managed by Wijnand Boonstra, this project investigates hos different "recipes" of conditions and mechanisms drive processes that lead to compliant and noncompliant behavior with regards to limiting fishing effort in the Baltic Sea, in order to sustain marine ecosystem services in the long run.

Download pdf describing the project here (pdf, 57 kB)

2. Styles of fishing - Managed by Wijnand Boonstra, this project constructs a meaningful typology of the genesis and development of fishing styles in the Baltic Sea, intending to show how fishers differently respond to regime shifts, and how their adaptive behavior impacts differently upon both social and ecological conditions.

Download pdf describing the project here (pdf, 230 kB)

Publications
Based on the research of this work package the following publications have been published:

* To be updated shortly