“…Social science approaches can help analyse relationships between politics (decision-making processes), polity (institutions of governance), and policy (Benz, 2004;Schimank, 2007). Geographical approaches, such as human and social geography, describe the world we live in as social spaces (Haggett, 2004;Kessl & Reutlinger, 2007) and thus present opportunities to empirically examine trends towards regionalisation and decentralisation, and steering via constellations of heterogeneous agents in ESD.…”