“…Jacob and Ekins (2020) suggest there is a need to create knowledge bases of social and institutional innovation, analyze how social innovation can feed into policy innovation and provide the evidence needed for designing regulatory experiments. In uncovering the emergence of a multi-faceted local environmental state, Flynn et al (2020) show that the local state can have a markedly different environmental agenda and practices from national environmental policies, highlighting the need to know more about the opportunities and constraints of local agency in environmental governance.…”