15. Multilevel Governance and Complexity Chair: Victor Galaz, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden. Rapporteur: Andreas Duit, Dep of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden Presentations: "Institutional Dynamics: Resilience and Vulnerability in Environmental and Resource Regimes", Oran Young, University of California, USA. "Learning across levels of governance", Susan Owens, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK. "Preparing for a Warmer World - Towards a Global Governance System to Protect Climate Refuguees?", Frank Biermann, Vrije University, The Netherlands. Description: The following session attempts to integrate insights from political/social science based theories on multilevel governance, and insights from the last decades research on complex systems. Key issues are: how can we govern complex systems behaviour such as those observed for social-ecological systems, international financial markets, large scale socio-technical systems, and epidemics? How do we understand governance itself as dynamic process that embeds multiple actor and institutional interactions, periods of incremental change followed by sudden change, and continuous adaptation and learning to change?