Environmental governance in non-Western contexts remains underexplored, particularly in resource-rich and politically complex settings like Iran. Drawing on theories of distributed governance, this study examines how diverse stakeholders—including governmental institutions, NGOs, academic and research institutions, media outlets, religious and cultural organizations, private sector, and international entities—engage in environmental governance through digital platforms. Using a mixed-methods approach, we combine social network analysis (SNA) (e.g., centrality measures, community detection), discourse analysis, and Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) to map Iran’s environmental governance network. CLA examines discourse at multiple levels, from surface narratives to deeper systemic and worldview perspectives, using textual, visual, and audio data. SNA focuses on structural patterns derived from hyperlinks, partnerships, and collaborations, visualized through node size, clusters, and bridging roles. Together, these methods reveal how actors employ selective coupling to align their connections and discourse with institutional logics. In network analysis, selective coupling is evident in how actors form ties based on shared policies, interests, or discursive alignment, while avoiding connections with others. In discourse analysis, it appears in how actors emphasize certain topics (e.g., religious framing of stewardship) while ignoring others, shaped by their institutional logic, interests, or relationships. Preliminary findings highlight the central role of government-linked actors and the bridging function of media platforms, with institutional logics—state bureaucratic (e.g., top-down enforcement)—shaping actors' strategies. By integrating network, institutional, and discourse analyses, this research advances theories of distributed governance and institutional logics, offering a framework for addressing environmental actors and challenges in politically constrained regions.

Climate change and its’ impact on both human and environmental health presents a pressing and complex challenge, with healthcare sustainability playing a critical role in both adaptation and mitigation efforts. Not only is healthcare infrastructure under pressure from rising demand due to climate related disasters, illness, and morbidities; it also has a significant environmental footprint. For instance, initial estimates demonstrate that healthcare operations contribute up to 8% of total annual greenhouse gas emissions in countries like the United States and Australia.

Despite this, little is known about how healthcare systems are currently making decisions regarding climate resilience. Similarly, little is known about how climate-related policies and initiatives are then playing out on the ground. This study is the first of its kind globally, applying social network analysis to explore the governance of climate resilient development in healthcare systems. It sheds light on how specific governance traits either enable or hinder sustainable transformations, offering insights into which governance characteristics should be scaled up.

Focusing on the Australian healthcare system, this research has major global relevance, presenting numerous practical implications for other healthcare contexts. Ultimately, this research builds a foundational understanding of the social determinants of both adaptive and possibly transformative responses to tackling climate change within healthcare systems.

This work assumes that the fossil fuel industry and its enablers act as a ‘fossil network’ to protect their vested interests though the support and continuity of the generalized use of fossil fuels.

At the same time, it posits that an antagonist ‘decarbonization network’ largely motivated by the counter-hegemonic’ anti-fossil fuel and planetary health beliefs and values of its components confronts the fossil network to attempt to the progressive phasing out of fossil fuels from socio-economic systems.

Building on these assumptions, we propose addressing the fossil-supportive and change-resisting behaviors of the fossil network and the decarbonization network’s multipronged efforts to terminate a fossil infrastructure through a concurrent analysis of both networks to spatially and temporally investigate their structures and the practices of support and of deactivation they respectively carry out.

The proposed approach – we call it ‘dual network approach’ – conceptualizes decarbonization processes as a continuous conflict between two multi-layered networks, both resorting to different agents and sequences of practices. It is applied to the fossil network emerged to support the conversion to gas of a group of coal-fired power plants in Civitavecchia, a long-standing fossil energy hub near Rome, Italy and to the antagonist decarbonization network that aimed to block such conversion.

The goal of this work is to disentangle and analyze patterns and causal relationships of the complex web of agents and practices emerging from the confrontation between the fossil and the decarbonization network pursuing simultaneously their respective goals in the case study considered.

Indian climate policy has evolved as a multi-stakeholder process with dominant underpinnings of justice and equity. The existing literature documents the importance of civil society, academic and governmental actors, and their networks in driving different justice related agendas within the policy subsystem but inadequately explains how the climate justice policy discourse has evolved over time. The current study aims to uncover changes in the dominant elements of the climate justice discourse in India. It employs print media data from three English dailies in the Indian climate policy corresponding to major international climate conferences of parties (COP): 2009, 2015, and 2021. It draws theoretical insights from the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). The analysis has revealed two coalitions in 2009 and three coalitions in each of the 2015 and 2021 periods with actors promoting different agendas related to international and domestic climate justice. As the singular demand for international climate justice transforms to moderate acceptance of domestic climate action, the domestic climate justice movement in India gains strength and diversifies. The study provides useful insight into the trajectories related to climate justice and foregrounds the need to engage with domestic climate justice concerns for effective climate action in the coming years.

India’s coal transition requires an in-depth understanding of structural dependencies among mining companies, power plants, and states. While coal phase-outs are often planned based on efficiency of power plants, this study employs Social Network Analysis (SNA) to assess influence using supply chain positioning, emissions intensity, and network centrality metrics. The analysis of India’s coal network highlights structural dependencies, state-level vulnerabilities, and mining company dominance in the supply chain. SECL, MCL, and CCL emerge as the most critical mining companies, supplying high-capacity, high-emission power plants such as Vindhyanchal STPS and Rihand STPS, reinforcing their centrality in the energy system. In contrast, WCL and NECL have limited structural influence, meaning their coal phase-out would cause minimal disruptions. At the mine level, Korba, Talcher, and Singrauli emerge as key supply hubs, yet Singrauli ranks lower in out-degree, indicating it supplies fewer but higher-capacity plants. Contradictions arise where Jharia and Paschim Bardhaman rank high in emissions but lower in supply volume, indicating that coal quality and plant efficiency drive pollution more than raw supply capacity. Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra are the most coal-dependent states, while Tamil Nadu ranks high in network influence, suggesting renewable investments here could stabilize the broader grid. These findings emphasize that coal transition planning must integrate network-based insights, balancing decarbonization with energy security and economic resilience. By adopting SNA-driven policy frameworks, India can align its coal phase-out strategies with climate change mitigation, while ensuring a just transition that strengthens energy networks and economic stability.