Assessing improvements in socio-ecological system governance using mixed methods and the quality governance framework and its diagnostic capacity tool

We face extreme and unprecedented socio-ecological systems (SES) governance challenges given advances in technology, global biophysical change, human behavior, and our abilities to seek resilience through policy decisions. The associated demands to rapidly adapt and shift our trajectories for improved SES outcomes provide a great impetus for humans to improve upon complex SES governance quality. Building on theories derived from polycentric,...