It’s Time To Learn About Learning: Where Should the Environmental and Natural Resource Governance Field Go Next?

Abstract

This Commentary reflects on the state of the scholarship on learning for environmental and natural resource policy and governance. How have we been learning about learning? We highlight theoretical and empirical advancements related to learning, as well as areas of divergence between learning theories and frameworks, and underdeveloped knowledge around processes and outcomes. To address these limitations and improve progress in both theory and practice, we offer recommendations for learning scholarship by focusing on how to collectively engage in ‘learning about learning’.

Keywords:

• Environmental governance
• learning
• outcomes
• processes
• research
• scholarship

Note

Notes

1 We searched the Scopus database using search terms related to environmental governance and learning drawn from previous research (Gerlak et al. 2017). From this search and subsequent analysis, we identified 2,218 documents which addressed learning in environmental management or related topics.