Network Approach for Local Governance of Energy: The Case of Oxfordshire

Applies social network analysis to map information and financial support exchanges between low-carbon community groups and other actors in Oxfordshire, UK. Demonstrates how network methods can illuminate the meso-level governance structures that shape local energy transitions, making visible the relational infrastructure that policy analysis typically ignores.

Takes a network approach to energy governance, revealing the relational channels through which information and resources flow between community groups and institutional actors. The network lens makes visible a meso-level governance structure, neither individual action nor top-down policy, that shapes how local energy transitions actually happen.