The management of international rivers is increasingly marked by a heightened attention to and growth in institutions at the river-basin level to promote cooperation and resolve conflicts between states in a basin. Yet, little theoretical and empirical research exists to understand when these...

In the last few decades, there have been great advances in the study of how the structure of policy networks affect performance at a systemic level, but more recently public policy and management scholars have begun exploring in more detail how networks form and evolve. In an article published...

1. Complex networks of relationships among and between people and nature (social-ecological networks) play an important role in sustainability; yet we have limited empirical understanding of their temporal dynamics.2. We empirically examine the evolution of a social-ecological network in a...

Despite the high likelihood of infection and substantial yield losses from trunk diseases, many California practitioners wait to adopt field-tested, preventative practices (delayed pruning, double pruning, and application of pruning-wound protectants) until after disease symptoms appear in the...

This report analyzes the barriers and catalysts to sustainable growth and development in Central Valley cities at a crucial time of rapid population growth in that region. Sustainability has been described as “the current object of planning’s fascination†(Campbell 1996), yet...