ABSTRACT
Rapid urbanisation creates new challenges and problems in environmental management and sustainable development. Urban environmental issues, including the degradation of the physical, social and economic environment, are complex and dynamic, requiring integrated and anticipatory problem solving. Dynamic governance is an approach that can create leverage to solve the complex problems and respond to environmental changes in a rapid, precise and innovative way. This article discusses the preliminary conceptual framework to build dynamic governance in managing the urban environment, particularly in urban water governance. It examines the attributes of dynamic governance in public sector governance and the attributes of adaptive governance in environmental governance. It contributes to interdisciplinary research in the conceptual understanding of the linkages of dynamic governance, adaptive governance and the public policy process. The expected result is that dynamic governance in urban environmental governance would be better executed if there existed an adaptive policy built on the interaction between the dynamic capabilities and the adaptive capacity of organisations and actors in all levels of government. This proposed method in applying dynamic governance in urban water governance is introduced as guidance for further research.
