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Note: Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- Why This Book? -- Summary of Case Study Chapters -- Comparative Overview of Case Study Chapters -- Structure of the Book -- References -- 2: Conceptual Reflections About Water, Governance, and Networks -- Introduction -- Water Governance: Challenges and Approaches to Deal with Them -- Challenges of Dynamic Interdependencies in Water Governance -- First Challenge: Water Issues Are Questioning Established Organization Within Borders, Sectors, and Levels -- Second Challenge: Integrating Broad Ranges of Interests and Expertise -- Water Policies and Regulation -- From Early Development Until Today -- Integrated Water Resource Management -- Collaborative Environmental Governance -- Networks and Network Analysis -- Nodes and Ties in Water Governance Networks -- Network Nodes -- Network Ties -- Key Variables in Network Analysis -- Micro-Level Network Measures: Centralities -- Meso-Level Network Measures: Clustering, Cliques, and Modularity -- Macro-Level Network Measures: Density, Centralization, Reciprocity, Transitivity, Core-Periphery -- Statistical Models of Network Data -- Common Limitations of Network Analytic Approaches -- References -- 3: Network Segregation and Water Governance: The Case of the Spiny Lobster Initiative -- Introduction -- Theory -- Geography -- Policy Beliefs and Preferences -- Social Group Identity -- Sectoral Affiliations -- Trust and Reciprocity -- Empirical Case Study: The Spiny Lobster Initiative in Honduras -- The Spiny Lobster Initiative as Collaborative Governance -- Hypotheses: Geographic and Sectoral Function Segregation -- Methods and Analysis -- Survey and Network Data Collection -- Network Visualization and Community Detection -- Stochastic Actor Oriented Models -- Model Results -- Conclusions. , References -- 4: Network Embeddedness and the Rate of Water Cooperation and Conflict -- Introduction -- Theory -- Theories of Political Networks -- Theories of Political Geography -- Theories of Political Economy -- Theories of Political Institutions -- Case -- Methods -- Analysis -- Conclusions -- References -- 5: Identifying Subsystems and Crucial Actors in Water Governance: Analysis of Bipartite Actor-Issue Networks -- Introduction -- Theory -- Subsystems in an Overall Governance System -- Dynamics of Subsystem Structures -- The Importance of Cross-subsystem Dynamics -- Two Types of Crucial Actors -- Case, Data, and Methods -- Water Governance in General -- The Case of Swiss Water Governance -- Data Gathering: Swiss Water Governance Issues and Actor Survey -- Bipartite Actor-Issue Networks -- Inductively Identifying Subsystems Through Bipartite Modularity -- Crucial Actors: Exploring a Measure Developed in Ecology -- Results and Discussion -- Subsystem Identification -- Crucial Actors-Within- and Between-Subsystem Connectors -- Conclusions -- References -- 6: What Drives the Formation and Maintenance of Interest Coalitions in Water Governance Forums? -- Introduction -- Theory -- Hypotheses -- Methods -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis -- Quadratic Assignment Procedure -- Exponential Random Graph Models -- Case -- Results of the Quantitative Analysis -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- 7: Modeling Environmental Governance in the Lake Tahoe Basin: A Multiplex Network Approach -- Introduction -- Theory -- Case: Policy Change in the Lake Tahoe Basin -- Methods -- Data Collection and Processing -- Step 1: Coding with Discourse Network Analyzer -- Step 2: Coding Coalition Membership -- Network Data Analysis -- Results -- Beliefs Network -- Interaction Network -- Policy Positions Network -- Multiplex Network. , Discussion and Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- 8: Collaboration in Water Quality Management: Differences in Micro-Pollutant Management Along the River Rhine -- Introduction -- Literature -- Case Description and Data Gathering -- Three Case Study Areas and Research Design -- Policy Network and Actor Identification Therein -- Collecting Network Data Through Surveys -- Methods of Descriptive Social Network Analysis (SNA) -- Edges and Vertices That Make a Graph -- Cohesion and Fragmentation: Macro-, Meso-, and Micro-level Statistics -- Macro Level -- Meso Level -- Micro Level -- Analysis -- The Macro Level: Density, Reciprocity, and Connectedness Statistics -- The Meso Level: Components and Factions -- The Micro Level: Actors in Between: Building Bridges Across Factions -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- 9: Analyzing Stakeholders' Network to Water Resources Co-management at a Watershed Scale: A Case Study from the Taleghan Watershed in Iran -- Introduction -- Theory -- Material and Methods -- Case Study -- Data Collection -- Social Network Analysis (SNA) -- Network Context -- Micro-Level Indicators -- Meso-Level Indicators -- Macro-Level Indicators -- Results and Discussion -- Micro-Level Indicators -- Results for Degree Centrality -- Results for Betweenness Centrality -- Meso-Level Indicators -- Results of Core/Periphery Structure -- Results of E-I Indictor -- Macro-Level Indicators -- Results of Density -- Results of Transitivity -- Results of Reciprocity -- Conclusion -- References -- 10: Institutional Design and Complexity: Protocol Network Structure in Response to Different Collective-Action Dilemmas -- Introduction -- Theory -- Empirical Setting -- Data -- Methods -- Protocols as Hypergraph, Bipartite, and Unipartite Networks -- Subcomponents and Clustering in Actor-Actor Hypergraphs. , Connectivity and Clustering in Actor-Rule Bipartite Networks -- Connectivity in Rule-Rule Networks -- Results -- Spectral Clustering of Protocol Hypergraphs -- Redundancy in Bipartite Actor-Rule Networks -- Connectivity in Rule-to-Rule Networks -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- 11: Comparing Centrality Across Policy Networks and Media Narratives -- Introduction -- Theory: Network Centrality and Actor Importance -- Policy Brokers -- Policy Entrepreneurs -- Discovering Important Policy Actors through Network Analysis -- Challenges of Network Measurement -- Data: Networks in Urban Water Governance in Arizona, USA -- Data Collection -- The Tucson Water Governance Network -- Measurement of Actor Importance -- Data Analysis -- Discussion -- Circumstances in the Policy Setting -- Bias in Reporting and Content Type -- Limits of Event-Based Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- 12: Conclusions -- Key Findings per Chapter -- Learnings from and for the Application of Network Concepts and Measures to Water Governance -- Recommendations for Academia and Practice -- References.

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