Adaptive Governance in Environmental Issue: Systematic Literature Review

Adaptive governance makes it possible to have a collaborative and flexible approach to resolve intricate environmental problems.This systematic literature review (SLR) was intended to understand some aspects of the framework such as its concepts, methodology, policy dimensions, and its contribution to resilience and sustainability.This SLR utilized the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology to analyze 19 selected high-quality papers from the Scopus database to identify principal trends, challenges, and research deficiencies.The findings suggest that adaptive governance is practiced in diverse settings, such as water resource management, biodiversity conservation, and climate change adaptation, using polycentric and comanagement approaches.Institutional rigidity, environmental uncertainty, and deficiencies of long-term evaluation systems still prevail.While cooperation is promoted multilevel governance still requires the involvement of conservative institutions and extensive use of digital technologies.Inclusionary policies and defined evaluation criteria are means through which effectiveness is facilitated, hence strengthening adaptive governance.The practical recommendations in this assessment will help policymakers and practitioners implement an environmental governance strategy that increases the resilience of environmental management.