ABSTRACT
After twenty years with sustainable development being “the dominant global discourse of ecological concern” (Dryzek 2013: 147) there is deep-felt disappointment with its contribution to tackling key environmental problems (Voss and Kemp 2006). The problems of continued unsustainability are increasingly being depicted as not only a market failure, but also a governance failure. Sustainable development does not simply happen; society needs to be governed into sustainability (Adger and Jordan2009) by “reforming practices of socio-political governance to encourage shifts toward a more environmentally sustainable and equitable pattern of development” (Meadowcroft 2009: 323).
