This Handbook examines how social networks underpin environmental change, exploring issues of collaboration, learning and social influence in environmental contexts. It provides an accessible framework for understanding the complex interplay between social dynamics and environmental problems, highlighting how social networks can shape and potentially solve pressing global challenges. Bringing together diverse case studies, leading specialists outline the role of social networks in environmental management, policy, risk, disasters and climate adaptation. They shed light on seed circulation and regional trade networks, and analyze the impact of conservation technology in environmental policy. Chapters address flood planning and the prevalence of post-disaster mental health issues, showcasing best practice in the journey from environmental catastrophe to recovery. They discuss equitable climate-smart architecture, network segregation, power, and the global trade networks driving climate change, as well as local stakeholder networks supporting climate action. The Handbook of Social Networks and the Environment will greatly benefit students and academics in social network analysis, sociology and social theory, environmental sociology, public policy and sustainability studies. Its exploration of the complex social and environmental nexus is also invaluable to public policy officials and practitioners in project and environmental management.

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Contents Foreword xix Acknowledgements xxii INTRODUCTION 1 Social structural processes and environmental problem solving 2 Michele L. Barnes, Örjan Bodin and Christina Prell 2 Ecological nodes in a social-ecological network: a social science perspective 22 Manuel Fischer, Karin Ingold and Julia Schegg PART I ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND POLICY 3 Seed circulation networks, the missing link between crop diversity and sustainable agriculture 37 Vanesse Labeyrie, Sophie Donnet, Sophie Caillon, Eric Garine and Christine Raimond 4 Diversification in small-scale fisheries beyond harvesting: the role of regional trade networks 53 Blanca González-Mon, Örjan Bodin, Xavier Basurto, Carla LanyonGarrido, Adrián Munguia-Vega, Mateja Nenadovic and Amy Hudson Weaver 5 Bridging networks in polycentric systems: the case of sea-level rise adaptation 82 Francesca Pia Vantaggiato, Mark Lubell and Chien-Shih Huang PART II DIFFUSION AND ADOPTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES AND BEHAVIOURS 6 Conservation technology diffusion as a complex contagion 105 Emmanuel K. Mbaru, Michele L. Barnes and Joshua Cinner 7 Local information networks and coffee-agroforestry practices: evidence from a randomized controlled-trial from Indonesia 125 Ayu Pratiwi and Petr Matous PART III RISK, DISASTERS, AND RECOVERY 8 A system perspective to flood planning combining multiple multilevel collaboration networks 151 Bridget McGlynn, Angela M. Guerrero, Julia Baird, Örjan Bodin and Ryan Plummer 9 Social networks and post-disaster mental health: Bayesian analysis for partially observed network data in a bushfire-affected community 176 Colin Gallagher, Johan Koskinen, Jonathan Januar and Elle 10 The importance and challenges of multi-level cooperative wildfire management 197 Cody Evers, Matthew Hamilton and Christoph Neger PART IV CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION 11 How herders on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of China rely on their social relations to adapt to varying environmental conditions 221 Haibin Chen and Örjan Bodin 12 Global climate change policy networks 241 Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, David Tindall, Antti Gronow, Jeffrey Broadbent, Maria Brockhaus, Marlene Kammerer, Aasa Karimo, Anniina Kotkaniemi, Anna Kukkonen, Arttu Malkamäki, Petr Ocelik, Keiichi Satoh, Mark C. J. Stoddart, Pradip Swarnakar and Paul Wagner 13 Network segregation and learning in climate change adaptation policy 258 Adam Douglas Henry, Jessica Bolson, Timothy Kirby and Michael C. Sukop PART V POWER, JUSTICE AND EQUITY 14 Social networks, sustainability interventions, and power 277 Petr Matous, Michele L. Barnes and Stewart Clegg 15 Information networks for equitable climate-smart agriculture 293 Rachel S. Friedman and Astrid Vachette 16 Which networks matter, how, and at what scale? Global trade networks that drive climate change and local stakeholder networks that support climate action 310 Christina Prell and Klaus Hubacek PART VI CONCLUSION 17 A synthesis and afterword: Handbook of Social Networks and the Environment 331 Michele L. Barnes and Örjan Bodin