Institutional change for sustainable development pt. 1. Approaching institutional change and policy learning pt. 2. Case studies in institutional change pt. 3. Conclusions Institutional Change for Sustainable Development presents a flexible accessible yet robust conceptual framework for comprehending institutional dimensions of sustainability emphasising the complexity of institutional systems and highlighting the interdependence between policy learning and institutional change. This framework is applied and developed through the analysis of five significant arenas of institutional and policy change: environmental policy in the EU; New Zealands landmark Resource Management Act; strategic environmental assessment; emerging National Councils for Sustainable Development; and transformative property rights instruments. From these explorations key principles for institutional change are identified including the institutional accommodation of a sustainability discourse the interdependence of normative and institutional change; reiteration and learning; integration in policy and practice; subsidiarity; and legal change