Adaptive Policy Governance for the Green Transition: Evidence from Climate-Resilient Institutional Design and Policy Coordination

Purpose: This study develops and empirically validates an integrated institutional–governance framework to explain green transition performance by examining the roles of climate-resilient institutional design and inter-agency policy coordination, mediated by adaptive governance capacity and green policy implementation effectiveness.Research Methodology: Utilizing a quantitative structural equation modeling approach with covariance-based structural equation modeling, the study analyzes survey data from 352 valid responses collected in Pandeglang Regency, Indonesia, to evaluate both direct and indirect relationships among the latent governance constructs.Results: The empirical findings demonstrate that climate-resilient institutional design and inter-agency policy coordination significantly enhance adaptive governance capacity and green policy implementation effectiveness.Conclusions: Institutional resilience and interagency policy coordination serve as vital governance antecedents that advance green transition performance through complementary pathways of governance adaptability and policy execution quality.Limitations: The study is limited by its cross-sectional design and reliance on self-reported survey data from a single regency, which may constrain the generalizability and causal interpretation of the findings.Contributions: This study advances adaptive governance, institutional, and sustainability transition theories by providing an integrated framework that clarifies how institutional resilience and collaborative policy coordination drive green transition outcomes.