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Area of Science:

Environmental governance
Political ecology
Science and technology studies

Background:

Nature is actively shaped by management, measurement, regulation, subsidy, and commodification.
Knowledge production transforms dynamic environments into governable objects.
Environmental management schemes create value by materializing specific ecologies.

Purpose of the Study:

To offer a conceptual vocabulary for understanding the performances and processes driving the "making" of nature under governance.
To introduce and define the framework of environmental performativity.
To analyze how objects, environments, and regimes are constructed through governance.

Main Methods:

Conceptual analysis and synthesis of literature on performativity in environmental governance.
Development of a framework termed "environmental performativity."
Identification of material, semiotic, ideological, and calculative forces in governance interventions.

Main Results:

Environmental performativity explains how objects, environments, and regimes are produced through governance.
The framework disambiguates uses of "performativity" in environmental literature.
Human activities significantly shape the environment, while acknowledging nonhuman agency.

Conclusions:

Environmental governance involves complex performative processes with material and ideological dimensions.
Reflexive performativity offers political opportunities for more just and sustainable environmental futures.
Understanding these makings is crucial for designing effective and equitable environmental interventions.