Editorial: Governance for Sustainable Development in the Face of Ambivalence, Uncertainty and Distributed Power: an Introduction Jens Newig, Jan-Peter Voß and Jochen Monstadt 1. Steering for Sustainable Development: a Typology of Problems and Strategies with respect to Ambivalence, Uncertainty and Distributed Power Jan-Peter Voß, Jens Newig, Britta Kastens, Jochen Monstadt and Benjamin Nolting 2. Ambivalence, Sustainability and the Governance of Socio-Technical Transitions Gordon Walker and Elizabeth Shove 3. The Futility of Reason: Incommensurable Differences Between Sustainability Narratives in the Aftermath of the 2003 San Diego Cedar Fire Bruce Evan Goldstein 4. Working Towards Sustainable Development in the Face of Uncertainty and Incomplete Knowledge Armin Grunwald 5. Risk Management at the Science–Policy Interface: Two Contrasting Cases in the Field of Flood Protection in Germany Hellmuth Lange and Heiko Garrelts 6. Managing Uncertainties in the Transition Towards Sustainability: Cases of Emerging Energy Technologies in the Netherlands Ineke Meijer and M. P. Hekkert 7. Who is in Charge here? Governance for Sustainable Development in a Complex World James Meadowcroft 8. Assessing the Dutch Energy Transition Policy: How Does it Deal with Dilemmas of Managing Transitions? Rene Kemp, Jan Rotmans and Derk Loorbach 9. Contextualizing Reflexive Governance: the Politics of Dutch Transitions to Sustainability Carolyn M. Hendriks and John Grin 10. Moving Outside or Inside? Objectification and Reflexivity in the Governance of Socio-Technical Systems Adrian Smith and Andy Stirling