ABSTRACT
The nature of governance and pathways to sustainability are intimately intertwined in at least two ways. The First issues and problems in today’s world – whether concerning food and seeds, water, energy or health, as in our case examples – are open to a variety of different narratives about problems and potential solutions, each suggesting potential response pathways. The second inherent interlinkage between governance processes and pathways to sustainability is that political and institutional processes are often themselves key factors implicated within the narratives and pathways themselves. Within a large literature on networked governance, emphasis is therefore placed on ‘unpacking’ the state to recognize the interaction of different actors within it, amongs themselves and with wider networks Recent work highlights the interrelations between particular ways of knowing and governance processes. Pathways also become interlocked with particular kinds of power/ knowledge.
