Raoul Beunen

Raoul Beunen is a Full Professor of Environmental Governance at the Open Universiteit, the Netherlands. His research explores the potentials and limitations of environmental policy and planning from the perspective of adaptive governance and sustainability. It focuses on innovation and evolution in governance, paying attention to the dynamics of policy implementation and integration, multi‐level governance, participatory approaches and trust, and processes of institutional change. He has published widely on these issues, drawing on empirical studies concerning spatial panning, environmental governance and nature conservation in various countries. Notable publications include two books on Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT). These books present a novel theory for analysing and explaining the processes of change and innovation in governance, based on the co-evolutions between actors, institutions and discourses.