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** Apologies for cross-posting ** AAG 2014 CFP: Networks of environmental governance Environmental governance is marked by the participation of a constellation of actors -- including various levels of the state, communities, businesses, and NGOs -- in the production of knowledge, decision making, and outcomes (Lemos and Agrawal, 2006). With the rise of the network society (Castells, 2000), environmental governance has transcended traditional boundaries and divides. For instance, social media tools such as Google Crisis Response are now being used to create a post-disaster infrastructure of relief. At the same time, more conventional forms of governance are deeply rooted in history and continue to persist, sometimes evolving into more complex and entangled beings. The ways in which socio-environmental actors are networked and institutionalized have critical implications for policy and action. This session aims to bring together theoretical, empirical, and methodological work on the networks that constitute various modes of environmental governance. Topics may include but are not limited to the following: - New and old architectures of environmental networks (e.g. transnational, hierarchical, decentralized, polycentric, multi-scalar) - Historical legacies and the evolution of environmental networks - Methods for disentangling complex environmental systems - Inter-network interactions, or the lack thereof (connections and silos) - Formal and informal networks, and modes of institutionalization - The implications of complex systems of environmental management on policy, action, justice, and citizenship Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to Anita Milman ( [log in to unmask]) and Deborah Cheng ([log in to unmask]) by November 15th.