Understanding how the scientific community influences grasslands’ management decisions – a social network approach

Farming landscapes of Europe are vital arenas for social-ecological sustainability because their significant coverage and potential to integrate food production with biodiversity conservation. While the term 'governance' is popular but imprecise, network governance is well defined, and allows the analysis of informal and formal arrangements where independent people or organization work together towards a common goal (Scarlett and McKinney 2016). Even though real progress has been made in conceptualizing and analyzing network governance in landscape conservation, the use of social network analysis remains at an exploratory stage. This is mostly because methodological and epistemological diff…