In recent years, it has become evident that regions with historically wetter climates, such as the Netherlands, are rapidly becoming more prone to drought due to climate change. Given that these regions tend to be accustomed to having sufficient, or even surplus, water, these new climate realities confront policy makers with the need to identify governance approaches to adapt water and land use systems to prevent significant d...

In the battle to address Europe’s biodiversity crisis, fixing its implementation gap—the gap between EU nature law on the books, and on the ground—is vital. Europe’s private nature governance revolution, underpinned by the UNECE Aarhus Convention, is a core part of its response. This article breaks new empirical ground in understanding how those mechanisms have been working in practice, and their knock-on effects for tradition...

European environmental governance has radically transformed over the past two decades. While traditionally enforcement of environmental law has been the responsibility of public authorities (public authorities of the EU Member States, themselves policed by the European Commission), this paradigm has now taken a democratic turn. Led by changes in international environmental law and in particular the UNECE Aarhus Convention (UNE...