The Politics of Environmental Networks

Abstract

Environmental problems such as climate emergencies, biodiversity loss, natural resource depletion, and associated environmental justice concerns have spurred a vast amount of research on environmental governance, which has increasingly adopted network perspectives. However, there is much to be learned about how politics in different environmental networks relates to the broader governance contexts and systems shaping policy and, ultimately, socio-environmental outcomes, and in particular, from studies conducted in the Global South, a region still underrepresented in political network research. This panel aims to bring together state-of-the-art political network analysis approaches that study the diverse features of the politics of environmental networks.

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