The Handbook in which the chapter is embedded provides a global perspective on the current issues affecting water politics and governance. Focusing in particular on the policy-making process and the power dynamics that it involves, it showcases the emerging diversity of objectives, instruments and governance approaches in the field of water resources. This chapter focuses on networks and coordination as this provides useful analytical insights for understanding the governance and politics of water resources. Accordingly, this chapter presents conceptual, theoretical and methodological tools to study networks and coordination in the governance of water resources. It thereby summarizes ideas from the most recent literature on networks involving multiple actors as well as other types of nodes relevant to water resource governance and politics.
