Exploring Collaboration and Conflict in Environmental Governance

Abstract

This panel seeks papers that investigate the complex interplay of conflict and collaboration within processes of environmental governance, with a special focus on political networks. The transformative capacity of environmental policies is increasingly constrained by social polarization and emergent conflicts, hindering efforts to forge sustainable futures. Assumingly, conflicts emerge where stakeholder expectations are unmet and governance is weak. Is this, however, inevitably a detrimental development, or an inherent component of political change processes? In the panel we want to discuss questions that address this ambiguity: • Which types of conflicts have what kind of effects on collaborative processes towards transformative change or on network configurations? • What is the intensity of conflict and how does this intensity play out within the environmental governance setting/ with what implications for the governance outcomes? • Which governance and transformative capacities and network mechanisms channel conflict towards productive outcomes? We specifically invite papers that employ diverse relational approaches to illuminate the processual interplay between collaborative and contentious politics, and that theorize on how the analysis of conflicts can inform about adaptive and effective environmental governance.

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