Raul P. Lejano is Professor of environmental education at New York University. His research revolves around two sides of relationality: how connectedness fosters collective action and disconnectedness increases vulnerability. He is a coauthor, with Wing Shan Kan, of a book entitled Relationality: The Inner Life of Public Policy (Cambridge University Press).

• 1. Introduction: Caring for the commons; 2. Constructing a relational theory of collective action; 3. Further justifications of the relational theory; 4. Illustrations: Pro-Social/Pro-Environmental behavior; 5. Illustrations: Governing the commons; 6. Institutional considerations; 7. Prospects of relationality.

Raul P. Lejano is Professor of environmental education at New York University. His research revolves around two sides of relationality: how connectedness fosters collective action and disconnectedness increases vulnerability. He is a coauthor, with Wing Shan Kan, of a book entitled Relationality: The Inner Life of Public Policy (Cambridge University Press).

• 1. Introduction: Caring for the commons; 2. Constructing a relational theory of collective action; 3. Further justifications of the relational theory; 4. Illustrations: Pro-Social/Pro-Environmental behavior; 5. Illustrations: Governing the commons; 6. Institutional considerations; 7. Prospects of relationality.

Raul P. Lejano is Professor of environmental education at New York University. His research revolves around two sides of relationality: how connectedness fosters collective action and disconnectedness increases vulnerability. He is a coauthor, with Wing Shan Kan, of a book entitled Relationality: The Inner Life of Public Policy (Cambridge University Press).

• 1. Introduction: Caring for the commons; 2. Constructing a relational theory of collective action; 3. Further justifications of the relational theory; 4. Illustrations: Pro-Social/Pro-Environmental behavior; 5. Illustrations: Governing the commons; 6. Institutional considerations; 7. Prospects of relationality.