The article aimed to examine what extent the social (advisory) councils operating in Poland can be considered a accountability mechanism. author refers theoretical assumptions of accountability, which constitutes one forms public authorities. Additionally, paper presents peculiarities councils, are well-known, highly institutionalized, and formalized collegial bodies worldwide for many years. r...

This paper analyses and discusses how to what extent social learning (SL), as a means address complex adaptive problems in water governance, can be enabled local regional multi-stakeholder collaborations. Using multi-method, qualitative, collaborative, self-reflective case study design, the conditions, challenges, enablers for SL were studied, comparing three complementary cases of voluntary mu...