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Relational Processes and Networks in Environmental Politics

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The inherently relational nature of environmental politics has stimulated the growth of network-oriented research. This concluding commentary emphasizes relationality in environmental political processes as central to understanding multilevel, multi-actor socio-ecological polities. We consider the dual role of networks—both as connecting structures and as prisms of cognitive and symbolic interactions that co-constitute identities and value systems—which shape and govern environmental outcomes. Building on the contributions of this issue, we outline a research agenda that advances network-based inquiry by unpacking the interdependent and dynamic processes linking environmental political networks across diverse entities, subdomains, scales, and contexts, while leveraging recent methodological advancements in network research.

Source: Politics and Governance

DOI: 10.17645/pag.11840

Authors: Eva Fernández G., Monica Di Gregorio, Carlos Bravo‐Laguna, Petr Ocelík

Institutions: University of Geneva, University of Leeds, Leiden University, Masaryk University

Language: English

Topic: Public Policy and Administration Research

Subfield: Public Administration

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,132

Funder: Université de Genève