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Tom
Koontz
University of Washington Tacoma

I study collaborative governance, which overlaps considerably with polycentricity concepts. As a student of Lin, I appreciate the interdisciplinarity and diagnostic frameworks for analyzing governance arrangements.

Koontz, Tomas M., Divya Gupta, Pranietha Mudliar, and Pranay Ranjan. 2015. “Adaptive Institutions in Social-Ecological Systems Governance: A Synthesis Framework.” Environmental Science and Policy 53:139-151.

Collaborative governance and use of science in the Puget Sound social-ecological system. This ongoing research examines planning and implementation across multiple organizations, stakeholders, and jurisdictions. This system forms the basis of my work on the Polycentricity book (Thiel, Garrick, Blomquist editors). I also bring a comparative perspective based on my studies of collaborative governance for water management in Ohio, USA, and in Lower Saxony, Germany.