Bernd Siebenhüner is Professor of Ecological Economics at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. He has also held positions at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Harvard University, and the Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. As a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Earth System Governance Project, he contributed to its first Science Plan. In his current research he focuses, among other things, on social learning, international organizations, climate adaptation, and transdisciplinarity. Riyanti Djalante is the Academic Programme Officer at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS). She has ten years of scientific research and professional experience in the field of governance, development, disaster risk reduction and climate change management. She is a lead author of the 2018 Earth System Governance Project Science Plan, the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and the Global Environmental Outlook Geo-6 Report. She is also a Steering Committee member of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk programme.

• 1. On Adaptiveness: Changing Earth System Governance Riyanti Djalante, Bernd Siebenhüner, Julie P. King, Nicolas W. Jager and Louis Lebel; 2. Synthesizing and Identifying Emerging Issues in Adaptiveness Research within the Earth System Governance Framework (1998-2018) Bernd Siebenhüner and Riyanti Djalante; 3. Climate Change Adaptive Capacity Assessments: Conceptual Approaches and Operational Process Annie Montpetit, Frédérik Doyon and Guy Chiasson; 4. Assessing Adaptive Capacity of Collaborative Governance Institutions Pedro Fidelman; 5. The Marine Debris Nexus: Plastic, Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Human Health Peter Stoett and Joanna Vince; 6. Synergies and Trade-Offs between Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation across Multiple Scales of Governance Asim Zia; 7. Lock-Ins in Climate Adaptation Governance: Conceptual and Empirical Approaches Bernd Siebenhüner, Torsten Grothmann, Dave Huitema, Angela Oels, Tim Rayner and John Turnpenny; 8. Governance and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Conflict-Affected Countries of Central Africa H. Carolyn Peach Brown; 9. Policy Tools and Capacities for Adaptiveness in US Public Land Management Zachary Wurtzebach and Courtney Schultz; 10. Adaptiveness in Earth System Governance: Synthesis, Policy Relevance, and the Way Forward Bernd Siebenhüner, Riyanti Djalante, Nicolas W. Jager and Julie P. King; Index.

Bernd Siebenhüner is Professor of Ecological Economics at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. He has also held positions at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Harvard University, and the Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. As a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Earth System Governance Project, he contributed to its first Science Plan. In his current research he focuses, among other things, on social learning, international organizations, climate adaptation, and transdisciplinarity. Riyanti Djalante is the Academic Programme Officer at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS). She has ten years of scientific research and professional experience in the field of governance, development, disaster risk reduction and climate change management. She is a lead author of the 2018 Earth System Governance Project Science Plan, the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and the Global Environmental Outlook Geo-6 Report. She is also a Steering Committee member of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk programme.

• 1. On Adaptiveness: Changing Earth System Governance Riyanti Djalante, Bernd Siebenhüner, Julie P. King, Nicolas W. Jager and Louis Lebel; 2. Synthesizing and Identifying Emerging Issues in Adaptiveness Research within the Earth System Governance Framework (1998-2018) Bernd Siebenhüner and Riyanti Djalante; 3. Climate Change Adaptive Capacity Assessments: Conceptual Approaches and Operational Process Annie Montpetit, Frédérik Doyon and Guy Chiasson; 4. Assessing Adaptive Capacity of Collaborative Governance Institutions Pedro Fidelman; 5. The Marine Debris Nexus: Plastic, Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Human Health Peter Stoett and Joanna Vince; 6. Synergies and Trade-Offs between Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation across Multiple Scales of Governance Asim Zia; 7. Lock-Ins in Climate Adaptation Governance: Conceptual and Empirical Approaches Bernd Siebenhüner, Torsten Grothmann, Dave Huitema, Angela Oels, Tim Rayner and John Turnpenny; 8. Governance and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Conflict-Affected Countries of Central Africa H. Carolyn Peach Brown; 9. Policy Tools and Capacities for Adaptiveness in US Public Land Management Zachary Wurtzebach and Courtney Schultz; 10. Adaptiveness in Earth System Governance: Synthesis, Policy Relevance, and the Way Forward Bernd Siebenhüner, Riyanti Djalante, Nicolas W. Jager and Julie P. King; Index.

Bernd Siebenhüner is Professor of Ecological Economics at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. He has also held positions at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Harvard University, and the Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. As a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Earth System Governance Project, he contributed to its first Science Plan. In his current research he focuses, among other things, on social learning, international organizations, climate adaptation, and transdisciplinarity. Riyanti Djalante is the Academic Programme Officer at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS). She has ten years of scientific research and professional experience in the field of governance, development, disaster risk reduction and climate change management. She is a lead author of the 2018 Earth System Governance Project Science Plan, the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and the Global Environmental Outlook Geo-6 Report. She is also a Steering Committee member of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk programme.

• 1. On Adaptiveness: Changing Earth System Governance Riyanti Djalante, Bernd Siebenhüner, Julie P. King, Nicolas W. Jager and Louis Lebel; 2. Synthesizing and Identifying Emerging Issues in Adaptiveness Research within the Earth System Governance Framework (1998-2018) Bernd Siebenhüner and Riyanti Djalante; 3. Climate Change Adaptive Capacity Assessments: Conceptual Approaches and Operational Process Annie Montpetit, Frédérik Doyon and Guy Chiasson; 4. Assessing Adaptive Capacity of Collaborative Governance Institutions Pedro Fidelman; 5. The Marine Debris Nexus: Plastic, Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Human Health Peter Stoett and Joanna Vince; 6. Synergies and Trade-Offs between Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation across Multiple Scales of Governance Asim Zia; 7. Lock-Ins in Climate Adaptation Governance: Conceptual and Empirical Approaches Bernd Siebenhüner, Torsten Grothmann, Dave Huitema, Angela Oels, Tim Rayner and John Turnpenny; 8. Governance and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Conflict-Affected Countries of Central Africa H. Carolyn Peach Brown; 9. Policy Tools and Capacities for Adaptiveness in US Public Land Management Zachary Wurtzebach and Courtney Schultz; 10. Adaptiveness in Earth System Governance: Synthesis, Policy Relevance, and the Way Forward Bernd Siebenhüner, Riyanti Djalante, Nicolas W. Jager and Julie P. King; Index.