Introduction 1. Sustainable and reflexive governance: introduction - Jan-Peter VoB and René Kemp Reflections on reflexive governance 2. Reflexive governance: politics in the global risk society - Ulrich Beck 3. Reflexive modernisation as a governance issue, or: designing and shaping re-structuration - John Grin 4. A co-evolutionary approach to reflexive governance - and its ironies - Arie Rip Strategies for sustainable system transformation 5. Transition management: a reflexive governance approach - René Kemp and Derk Loorbach 6. Adaptive management to restore ecological and economic resilience in the Tisza river basin - Jan Sendzimir, Piotr Magnuszewski, Peter Balogh and Anna Vári 7. Sustainable foresight: reflexive governance in the transformation of utility systems - Jan-Peter Vob, Bernhard Truffer and Kornelia Konrad 8. Foresight and adaptive planning as complementary elements in anticipatory policy-making: a conceptual and methodological approach - K. Matthias Weber Knowledge production and assessment 9. Precaution, foresight and sustainable: reflection and reflexivity in the governance of science and technology - Andy Stirling 10. The (re)search for solutions: research programmes for sustainable development - Katy Whitelegg 11. Integrating perspectives in the practices of transdisciplinary research - Marie Céline Loibl Development of technology and policy 12. Niche-based approaches to sustainable development: radical activits versus strategic managers - Adrian Smith 13. The sustainable towards sustainable production systems in Austria: a reflexive exercise? - Philipp Späth, Harald Rohracher, K. Matthias Weber and Ines Oehme 15. The transformation or agriculture: reflexive governance for agrobiodiversity - Franziska Wolff Conclusions 16. Reflexive governance: a view on an emerging path - Jan-Peter VoB, René Kemp and Dierk Bauknecht