Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Stories Environmental Networks Tell Us -- Environmental Networks as Solution -- Speaking New Environmental Truths -- Emergent Ecologies -- Integrating Scientific and Other Knowledge -- Research and Critiques of Environmental Networks -- The Power of Narrative in Understanding Networks -- Envisioning New Ecologies -- Layout of the Book -- Our Choice of Case Studies -- Chapter 2. A Theory of "More than Social" Networks -- The Structuralist Dilemma -- The Power of Networks -- The Power of Narrative in Networks -- How Networks Explain Heterogeneity -- An Example of the Structural Dilemma -- Chapter 3. The Turn to Narrative Analysis -- The Centrality of Narratives -- Linking Networks and Narratives -- Narratives and Organization -- Narratives, Frames, and Discourses -- Guiding Principles -- A Framework for Narrative Analysis -- A Note on Narrative Nomenclature -- Applying the Narrative-Network Framework -- Chapter 4. Narrative, Network, and Conservation on the Arizona-Sonora Border -- Introduction -- The Setting: A Place of Contrasts -- Tracing Network Ties -- Border Environmental Activists ' Narratives -- Implications for Democracy and Governance -- Value Added through Narrative Analysis of a Network -- Chapter 5. Narrating the Ethical Landscape of the Turtle Islands -- Tracing the Narratives -- Emplotment: Making Sense of the Whole -- Characterization: Nonhuman Actants and Conservationists -- Alterity and the Other -- Breach of Convention -- The Contextuality of Knowledge -- Value Added through Narrative Analysis -- Chapter 6. Narratives of Nature and Science in Alternative Farming Networks -- Elucidating Farmer Narrative-Networks -- Emplotment in Alternative Farming Networks -- Characterization - Nature as Partner -- Alterity.

Breach - Keeping the Story Interesting -- Hermeneutics and Gaps -- Contextuality of Knowledge -- Insights from Narrative Analysis -- Chapter 7. Expanding the Ecological Imagination -- Introduction -- Themes and Findings -- The Promise and Challenge of Narrative Analysis -- Broader Implications for Research and Action -- Linking Narratives to Practice -- Notes -- References -- Index -- American and Comparative Environmental Policy.