Multilevel governance of the commons and environmental sustainability.

In this introductory article we address the concepts of “common goods” and “multilevel governance” from a theoretical perspective, while at the same time, the different contributions to this monographic issue of the journal Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas are presented. A series of articles which, as will be seen, deal with particular cases in which, against the common backdrop of environmental sustainability, sectoral policies are deployed on the basis of relational governance patterns and focused on the specific issues of water and the fight against climate change. As can be seen in the development of the text itself, the management of uncertainty and complexity emerges as a recurrent and crucial theme, justifying different institutional mechanisms to achieve consensus, where possible, involving a variable number of actors and territorial levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]