Review of institutional barriers literature. PermaGov Deliverable 3.1

Institutional barriers are important obstacles to policy implementation. Many studies have reported on barriers to policy implementation in marine European contexts. However, the cumulative learning from this body of literature is impaired by terminological and conceptual diversity, and because the literature is dispersed across scientific fields and specialized journals. This report presents a short summary of a systematic scoping review of peer-reviewed studies of institutional barriers that limit policy achievement in a European marine governance context.