Climate Change Policy Networks I: Policy Actors

Abstract

Climate change is a ‘wicked problem’ that involves a number of complexities including challenges to governance and policymaking. Climate change governance is conceived of as an assemblage of diverse actors, who influence policy-making and policies centred on the climate change issue through patterned interactions that stretch across scales. Use of SNA provides key insights into the underlying relational structures of such assemblages and thus has potential to contribute to improved coordination and learning processes - a necessary condition for effective policy response. The call is open to substantive, theoretical, and methodological contributions on one-mode networks as well as to applications of two-mode or multi-level network analysis, which connect political actors on different levels, or ecological units affected by climate change. We especially encourage contributions providing insights in longitudinal policy network analysis.