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  • Open Access
82 Citations
17,765 Views
22 Pages

Challenges and Strategies in Place-Based Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Sustainability: Learning from Experiences in the Global South

  • Bárbara Ayala-Orozco,
  • Julieta A. Rosell,
  • Juliana Merçon,
  • Isabel Bueno,
  • Gerardo Alatorre-Frenk,
  • Alfonso Langle-Flores and
  • Anaid Lobato

8 September 2018

Addressing complex environmental problems requires the collaboration of stakeholders with divergent perspectives, a goal that is challenged by diverse factors. Challenges hindering multi-stakeholder collaboration (MSC) for sustainability have previou...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
2,096 Views
24 Pages

10 September 2025

The proliferation of diverse multi-stakeholder partnering arrangements that seek to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has prompted calls for overarching standards to enhance their governance, legitimacy and effectiveness. This conce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,848 Views
15 Pages

Dementia is a growing societal challenge putting pressure on care systems across Europe. Providing supporting technology for people living with dementia, referring to both people with dementia and their caregivers, is an important strategy to allevia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,559 Views
20 Pages

12 July 2021

Social sustainability has for long been either neglected or downplayed in scientific literature and policy making and it remains an unsettled concept. The present paper critically examines several explanations for the unequal development of the socia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,689 Views
21 Pages

Feedback Loops and Facilitation: Catalyzing Transformational Multi-Stakeholder Refugee Response Partnerships

  • Jaime Moreno-Serna,
  • Teresa Sánchez-Chaparro,
  • Leda Stott,
  • Javier Mazorra,
  • Ruth Carrasco-Gallego and
  • Carlos Mataix

22 October 2021

Global policies such as the recent ‘Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework’ call for a profound transformation in refugee response. To this end, collaboration with non-traditional humanitarian actors, particularly the private sector has been advoca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,139 Views
19 Pages

Smart Governance Toolbox: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Erna Ruijer,
  • Anouk Van Twist,
  • Timber Haaker,
  • Thierry Tartarin,
  • Noel Schuurman,
  • Mark Melenhorst and
  • Albert Meijer

10 March 2023

Smart city projects rely upon dynamic and complex multi-stakeholder collaboration. This collaboration can be challenging. In this study, we use an instrumental lens and argue that tools can help public professionals in dealing with smart governance c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,663 Views
14 Pages

Complexities and Opportunities of Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships: A Case Study of Water Resource Management in Afghanistan

  • Santosh R. Pathak,
  • Neera Shrestha Pradhan,
  • Sadiksha Guragai,
  • Bulbul Baksi,
  • Fayezurahman Azizi and
  • Arun Bhakta Shrestha

22 November 2022

Water governance is a sensitive and contentious issue that requires multi-stakeholder participation and judicious use of technology. The new water law in Afghanistan focuses on the participation of stakeholders in water management, equitable water al...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,279 Views
34 Pages

28 September 2025

The digital transformation of agricultural product supply chains has emerged as a strategic direction that cannot be overlooked in the global modernization of agriculture. This paper adopts a narrative review framework based on the “Technology&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,600 Views
16 Pages

20 August 2020

The intervention of intermediaries in supporting collaboration for sustainability is considered an effective way to address the challenges faced by all parties involved in this type of commitment. Our paper includes several less frequently approached...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
16,451 Views
24 Pages

23 October 2014

This paper challenges the notion that the incorporation of actors from civil society into hybrid governance arrangements improves outcomes and legitimacy. Multi-stakeholder collaborations are a popular hybrid governance approach to development, inclu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,129 Views
30 Pages

9 August 2024

Ecological reflexivity provides a key lever for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but is underexplored in one prominent context: collaborative governance particularly associated with SDG 17. Using an exploratory study and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,502 Views
28 Pages

Transformational Collaboration for the SDGs: The Alianza Shire’s Work to Provide Energy Access in Refugee Camps and Host Communities

  • Jaime Moreno-Serna,
  • Teresa Sánchez-Chaparro,
  • Javier Mazorra,
  • Ander Arzamendi,
  • Leda Stott and
  • Carlos Mataix

10 January 2020

The potential for achieving transformation through partnerships is central to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, information on experiences that explore the processes that might generate systemic change is generally lacking. This a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
694 Views
29 Pages

7 November 2025

This study extends research on sustainability transformation by investigating how power dynamics operate across organizational boundaries to enable or constrain substantive change. Using a mixed-methods approach combining survey data (n = 127) from s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,896 Views
16 Pages

Enhancing Food Security by Institutionalizing Collaborative Food Alliances in Urban Areas

  • Vibhas Sukhwani,
  • Arie Nurzaman,
  • Nadia Paramitha Kusumawardhani,
  • Anwaar Mohammed AlHinai,
  • Liu Hanyu and
  • Rajib Shaw

30 July 2019

Narrowing the food supply-demand gaps between urban and rural areas within a regional space has today become a serious challenge due to the growing urban population. Resultantly, urban markets are increasingly being dominated by industrial food chain...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,257 Views
19 Pages

Multistakeholder Participation in Disaster Management—The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Sigamani Panneer,
  • Komali Kantamaneni,
  • Robert Ramesh Babu Pushparaj,
  • Sulochana Shekhar,
  • Lekha Bhat and
  • Louis Rice

13 February 2021

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting society’s health, economy, environment and development. COVID-19 has claimed many lives across the globe and severely impacted the livelihood of a considerable section of the world’s popul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
12,389 Views
14 Pages

8 June 2021

Within the EU, energy transition at the local level is embedded in a complex stakeholder network with highly interdependent actors; if these actors have to collaborate to contribute to an efficient transition, they have to initiate a dialogue about t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,004 Views
16 Pages

28 January 2022

The paper addresses the role of intermediaries in optimizing collaborative practices for sustainability and provides new perspectives on how the commissioning system intervenes in supporting multi-stakeholder partnerships that operate on different ge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
595 Views
30 Pages

4 December 2025

Ensuring product quality and safety is fundamental to sustainable production and consumption. With the rapid advancement of digital technologies such as blockchain and big data, quality and safety traceability systems have become essential tools to e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,634 Views
21 Pages

5 January 2024

The challenges of multistakeholder innovation in smart city projects can be navigated through collaboration and a clear understanding of each organisation’s values, technology, user groups, and potential policy changes. Increasing technology us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,315 Views
21 Pages

20 March 2020

The complex sustainability challenges that society faces require organisations to engage in collaborative partnerships. Stakeholders affect, and are affected by an organisation’s sustainability activities, making it an important element when de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,067 Views
32 Pages

Embedding AI Ethics in Technical Training: A Multi-Stakeholder Pilot Module Emphasizing Co-Design and Interdisciplinary Collaboration at Rome Technopole

  • Giuseppe Esposito,
  • Massimo Sanchez,
  • Federica Fratini,
  • Egidio Iorio,
  • Lucia Bertuccini,
  • Serena Cecchetti,
  • Valentina Tirelli and
  • Daniele Giansanti

21 October 2025

Higher technical education plays a strategic role in equipping the workforce to navigate rapid technological advancements and evolving labor market demands. Within the Rome Technopole framework, Spoke 4 targets ITS Academies, promoting the developmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,903 Views
27 Pages

Exploring the Role of Relational Practices in Water Governance Using a Game-Based Approach

  • Piotr Magnuszewski,
  • Karolina Królikowska,
  • Anna Koch,
  • Michal Pająk,
  • Craig Allen,
  • Victoria Chraibi,
  • Anil Giri,
  • Danielle Haak,
  • Noelle Hart and
  • Ilonka Zlatar
  • + 8 authors

20 March 2018

The growing complexity and interdependence of water management processes requires the involvement of multiple stakeholders in water governance. Multi-party collaboration is increasingly vital at both the strategy development and implementation levels...

  • Article
  • Open Access
424 Views
18 Pages

Stakeholder Participation and Multi-Actor Collaboration in Model Forest Governance: Insights from the Bucak Model Forest, Türkiye

  • Turkay Turkoglu,
  • Mindaugas Škėma,
  • Halit Buyuksakalli,
  • Ahmet Tolunay,
  • Çağdan Uyar,
  • Sultan Bekiroğlu,
  • Dalia Perkumienė,
  • Marius Aleinikovas and
  • Olegas Beriozovas

19 December 2025

This study investigates the factors influencing stakeholders’ willingness to contribute to the Bucak Model Forest (BMF) in Türkiye, a participatory governance initiative aimed at promoting sustainable forest management. Based on a survey o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,754 Views
24 Pages

Health and Safety Risk Mitigation among Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Miners in Zimbabwe

  • Josephine Singo,
  • Dingani Moyo,
  • John Bosco Isunju,
  • Stephan Bose-O’Reilly,
  • Nadine Steckling-Muschack,
  • Jana Becker and
  • Antony Mamuse

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is often associated with no or compromised attention to health and safety. Although headlines of fatal accidents in Zimbabwe characterise ASGM, little attention is paid to prevention strategies. This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
728 Views
18 Pages

24 March 2025

Asymmetry of product–service systems, that is, the presentation of services that does not match the expectations of stakeholders, often leads to inefficient services. To address design asymmetry in service systems, this study proposes a stakeho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,672 Views
21 Pages

Toward a Sustainable Future: The Case of the Municipality of Milan

  • Silvia Ivaldi,
  • Francesca Bertè,
  • Sergio Sorgi and
  • Giuseppe Scaratti

8 February 2019

In the new framework of the Psychology of sustainability and sustainable development, this paper addresses the issue of building socially sustainable processes to develop a better quality of life in an urban context. The aim is to explore and highlig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,053 Views
20 Pages

A Relational Approach to Landscape Stewardship: Towards a New Perspective for Multi-Actor Collaboration

  • Jessica Cockburn,
  • Eureta Rosenberg,
  • Athina Copteros,
  • Susanna Francina (Ancia) Cornelius,
  • Notiswa Libala,
  • Liz Metcalfe and
  • Benjamin van der Waal

10 July 2020

Landscape stewardship is increasingly understood within the framing of complex social-ecological systems. To consider the implications of this, we focus on one of the key characteristics of complex social-ecological systems: they are relationally con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,217 Views
14 Pages

24 June 2020

The study aims to understand and explore situations of collaboration between various actors in connection with a university-driven innovation intermediary organisation, and how the intermediary organisation facilitates collaboration in the making. To...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,125 Views
14 Pages

14 November 2021

This review article investigates the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on female workers in the global supply chain context. To this end, we reviewed and critically examined emerging scholarly literature as well as policy documents and reports publish...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,846 Views
18 Pages

A Core Curriculum for Sustainability Leadership

  • Julia Wells Novy,
  • Banny Banerjee and
  • Pamela Matson

23 September 2021

In response to the scale, complexity, and urgency of the sustainability challenges societies face, there has been both rapid growth in the broad field of sustainability science and technology, as well as sustainability education globally. Yet, demand...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,056 Views
27 Pages

A Participatory SWOT-Based Approach to Nature-Based Solutions Within Urban Fragile Territories: Operational Barriers and Strategic Roadmaps

  • Marta Dell’Ovo,
  • Giulia Datola,
  • Elena Di Pirro,
  • Silvia Ronchi,
  • Andrea Arcidiacono,
  • Sandy Attia,
  • Diego Baronchelli,
  • Andrea Benedini,
  • Maddalena Buffoli and
  • Alessandra Oppio
  • + 17 authors

10 September 2025

Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs) are increasingly financed in urban, regional, and national contexts due to their proven capacity to reduce climate risks and deliver multiple co-benefits. Several challenges affect the successful implementation and long-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,568 Views
28 Pages

13 September 2025

The transboundary partnership encourages multi-stakeholder efforts to mobilize adaptation funding and services for adaptation governance. However, challenges exist in scope, equality, and transparency when engaging these stakeholders. Few studies hav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,793 Views
18 Pages

Catalyzing Transformational Partnerships for the SDGs: Effectiveness and Impact of the Multi-Stakeholder Initiative El día después

  • Jaime Moreno-Serna,
  • Wendy M. Purcell,
  • Teresa Sánchez-Chaparro,
  • Miguel Soberón,
  • Julio Lumbreras and
  • Carlos Mataix

3 September 2020

Partnerships are essential to delivering the transformational change demanded by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and essential to achieving Agenda 2030. It is therefore necessary to strengthen the partnering capacity of different types of org...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,775 Views
24 Pages

Promoting Urban Net Zero Transitions Through Multi-Level Governance: The Intermediary Role of Systemic Collaborative Platforms

  • Jaime Moreno-Serna,
  • Teresa Sánchez-Chaparro,
  • Wendy M. Purcell,
  • Olga Kordas,
  • Julio Lumbreras,
  • Carlos Mataix,
  • Leda Stott,
  • Miguel Soberón and
  • John D. Spengler

31 October 2024

In the fields of partnership research and social innovation, there has been an increasing number of calls for evidence regarding the kind of collaborative multi-level governance structures that might support large-scale transformation processes, espe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,270 Views
12 Pages

19 November 2020

Energy-efficiency improvement measures for existing building stock are vital for reaching EU climate mitigation and energy targets, especially in urban areas, which are responsible for a large share of total energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
12,146 Views
19 Pages

22 January 2019

As social and ecological problems escalate, the role of collective capacity and knowledge is becoming more critical in reaching solutions. This capacity and knowledge are dispersed among diverse stakeholder organizations. Thus, organizations in the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,455 Views
18 Pages

29 July 2023

Rapid economic development has led to an overwhelming surge in waste generation, demanding urgent and comprehensive waste management solutions, particularly in developing countries. Source separation is a critical and indispensable step in integrated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,857 Views
19 Pages

23 October 2020

With the continuous development of social governance research and practice, the role of public participation in community planning has received increasing attention. In some developing countries, the public participation methods used in Western count...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,934 Views
31 Pages

7 September 2025

In the current soil erosion control efforts, the lack of collaboration among multiple stakeholders is a major problem that restricts governance performance. Based on carbon trading and the Public–Private Partnership model, this paper constructs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,101 Views
24 Pages

Geoconservation plays a key role in valuing and conserving abiotic nature, while geotourism can be an effective means of achieving this objective. Connectivity between biophysical and socio-economic components and a community-based perspective on app...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,762 Views
16 Pages

28 April 2023

The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to address environmental, social, global, and economic challenges. The SDGs were a continuation of the Millennium Development Goals and assumed a common vision for the year 2030. Efforts to achie...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,079 Views
24 Pages

19 February 2025

To address the pressing challenges of quality and sustainability in agricultural product supply chains, this paper proposes a multi-stakeholder collaborative governance framework. Adopting the perspective of collaborative governance and sustainabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
11,280 Views
14 Pages

Inclusive Landscape Governance for Sustainable Development: Assessment Methodology and Lessons for Civil Society Organizations

  • Koen Kusters,
  • Maartje De Graaf,
  • Louise Buck,
  • Katherine Galido,
  • Alphonse Maindo,
  • Heidi Mendoza,
  • Tran Huu Nghi,
  • Edi Purwanto and
  • Roderick Zagt

24 April 2020

Landscape governance refers to the combination of rules and decision-making processes of civic, private, and public actors with stakes in the landscape, that together shape the future of that landscape. As part of the Green Livelihoods Alliance, a pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,163 Views
18 Pages

21 June 2021

Over the past decade, open innovation (OI) literature has extended its scope beyond strictly economic contexts to the context of societal value creation. This has given rise to the notion of (local) distributed knowledge as a driver for sustainable i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,258 Views
33 Pages

26 October 2024

Different thinking and strategies are needed to transform our food systems at different scales. Food systems can be changed towards a more sustainable path through multi-stakeholder transformative governance at the landscape level because that is whe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,564 Views
18 Pages

Supporting Multi-Stakeholder Participation Processes: A Serious Game Application for Watershed Management in Colombia

  • Camilo Gonzalez,
  • Angelica Moncada,
  • Tania Fernanda Santos,
  • Wilford Rincón,
  • Cláudia Coleoni and
  • Biljana Macura

31 May 2024

Multi-stakeholder participation processes in watershed management face challenges due to limited monitoring and baseline data, resulting in a lack of awareness among stakeholders about the current state of the watershed. This knowledge gap often lead...

  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
15,657 Views
14 Pages

Addressing Animal Welfare through Collaborative Stakeholder Networks

  • Jill Fernandes,
  • Dominique Blache,
  • Shane K. Maloney,
  • Graeme B. Martin,
  • Bronwyn Venus,
  • Frederick Rohan Walker,
  • Brian Head and
  • Alan Tilbrook

In this review, we discuss animal welfare as a complex and contested issue facing society and outline why collaborative, multi-stakeholder approaches are critical for effective policy development. Using the lens of “wicked problems” and d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,129 Views
15 Pages

30 September 2017

Collaborative approaches are being promoted as inclusive forums for bringing state and non-state interests together to solve complex environmental problems. Networks have been recognized through previous research as important ways to involve stakehol...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
54 Citations
12,648 Views
27 Pages

Identifying the Steps Required to Effectively Implement Next-Generation Sequencing in Oncology at a National Level in Europe

  • Denis Horgan,
  • Giuseppe Curigliano,
  • Olaf Rieß,
  • Paul Hofman,
  • Reinhard Büttner,
  • Pierfranco Conte,
  • Tanja Cufer,
  • William M. Gallagher,
  • Nadia Georges and
  • Fabrice André
  • + 10 authors

8 January 2022

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) may enable more focused and highly personalized cancer treatment, with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and European Society for Medical Oncology guidelines now recommending NGS for daily clinical practice fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,410 Views
26 Pages

17 July 2012

This article discusses a business-school collaborative learning partnership in the Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Greater Sendai. This partnership is further linked to a broader context of multi-s...

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