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Exploring ‘policy narratives’ is a growing area of research and practice. ‘Narratives’ are ways of framing language to “promote or prioritise particular ideas or values”. Documenting and extracting meaning from these narratives in environmental domains requires the integration of theory and practice across a range of disciplines as well as an understanding of how knowledge and perspectives from diverse stakeholders interact within decision-making contexts. This contribution reflects on the power and potential of narratives from three recent activities: 1) working to support blue-green infrastructure decision-making at metropolitan scale in Santiago, Chile; 2) exploring green space narratives in London, UK and Melbourne, Australia; and 3) discussing narrative construction in environmental policy fiction with staff and students at UCL.