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Warming-and-wetting trend over the China’s drylands: Observational evidence and future projection Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Boyang Li, Dongwei Liu, Entao Yu, Lixin Wang
A recent “warming-and-wetting” trend over China’s drylands has raised widespread attention in the scientific community. Based on the observations and model projections of temperature and precipitation, this study shows that the warming and regional wetting trend in China’s drylands is becoming stronger. Over the past 60 years, the temperature in China's drylands has increased at a rate of 0.34 °C/10a
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Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799] Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Arundhati Jagadish, Anna Freni-Sterrantino, Yifan He, Tanya O' Garra, Lisa Gecchele, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Hugh Govan, Alifereti Tawake, Margaret Tabunakawai Vakalalabure, Michael B. Mascia, Morena Mills
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Status quo in transboundary waters: Unpacking non-decision making and non-action Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Sumit Vij, Jeroen F. Warner, Anusha Sanjeev Mehta, Anamika Barua
Transboundary water decision-making takes place in a power-loaded environment. Apart from conflicts or cooperation-based outcomes, partial or complete status quo is also possible outcome in transboundary water interactions. Literature in the last two decades has primarily focused on conflicts and/or cooperation only, with a limited understanding of the status quo and its various forms. Drawing from
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The rise, fall and rebirth of ocean carbon sequestration as a climate 'solution' Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Kari De Pryck, Miranda Boettcher
While the ocean has long been portrayed as a victim of climate change, threatened by ocean warming and acidification, it is now increasingly framed as a key solution to the climate crisis. In particular, the promising carbon sequestration potential of the ocean is being emphasised. In this paper, we seek to historicise the practices, discourses and actors that have constructed the ocean as a climate
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How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Scott Bremer, Paul Schneider
There is a growing literature on the cultural capacities influencing communities’ adaptation to environmental and social change, including the temporal frameworks they draw on for timely action. This paper focuses on seasonal cultures, and how they enable communities on the Coromandel Peninsula to interpret and adapt practical timings to disrupted patterns of seasonal rhythms. The paper develops and
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Grappling with a sea change: Tensions in expert imaginaries of marine carbon dioxide removal Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Sara Nawaz, Javier Lezaun
While research on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) expands apace, significant unknowns persist regarding the risks and benefits of individual mCDR options. This paper analyses the assumptions and expectations that animate expert understandings of mCDR, with a focus on issues that are central to the responsible governance of this emerging field of climate action. Drawing upon interviews with experts
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Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 J, u, l, i, a, , T, e, e, b, k, e, n
“Vulnerable populations” are experiencing a (re)emphasis in climate change adaptation research and practice even though the concept has long been contested. Adaptation planning is increasingly expected to restore past inequalities and address systemic injustices. Yet, we know little about the role local environmental agencies, bureaucrats, and policy practitioners (can) play in addressing “vulnerable
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Impacts of air pollution on child growth: Evidence from extensive data in Chinese counties Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Lili Xu, Kuishuang Feng, Shuai Shao
Despite extensive research on the detrimental effects of air pollution on health, limited focus has been directed toward the impact of air pollution on child growth. Utilizing comprehensive data spanning 2759 Chinese counties from 2000 to 2018, this study pioneers an empirical investigation of the causal link between air pollution and child growth. The findings reveal a significant correlation between
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Democracy through technocracy? Reinventing civil society as a state-monitored and unpaid service provider in the EU FLEGT VPA in Laos Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen
This paper analyses the European Union’s (EU’s) democratising agenda within the frame of the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) in Laos. In particular, it focuses on the requirement for the participation of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the VPA and the Lao state actors’ responses to this requirement. I frame the VPA’s democratising
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Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Rachelle K. Gould, Trisha R. Shrum, Donna Ramirez Harrington, Virginia Iglesias
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Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Timothy H. Frawley, Blanca González-Mon, Mateja Nenadovic, Fiona Gladstone, Keiko Nomura, José Alberto Zepeda-Domínguez, Salvador Rodriguez-Van Dyck, Erica M. Ferrer, Jorge Torre, Fiorenza Micheli, Heather M. Leslie, Xavier Basurto
As global change accelerates, natural resource-dependent communities must respond and adapt. Small-scale fisheries, essential for coastal livelihoods and food security, are considered among the most vulnerable of these coupled social-ecological systems. While previous studies have examined vulnerability and adaptation in fisheries at the individual, household, and community level, these scales of organization
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Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Sebastian Fernand Transiskus, Monir Gholamzadeh Bazarbash
Empirical research on the links between environmental change and human (im)mobility has made considerable progress in the last decade. However, most attention is given to migration rather than understanding immobility, where human-centered perspectives are scarce and various regions remain critically understudied. This paper seeks to address these deficits. Methodologically based on 75 qualitative
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MAPPING WILDFIRE JURISDICTIONAL COMPLEXITY REVEALS OPPORTUNITIES FOR REGIONAL CO-MANAGEMENT Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Kate Jones, Jelena Vukomanovic, Branda Nowell, Shannon McGovern
Wildfires often burn across boundaries affecting multiple jurisdictions, landowners and levels of government. Wildfire co-management across jurisdictions is expected to increase in complexity as wildfire severity, size, and frequency increase due to climate change, and growing populations bring more people into close proximity with wildfire. A systematic method to assess jurisdictional complexity for
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Ambient vulnerability Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Caitlin Robinson, Joe Williams
In this paper we introduce the concept of ambient vulnerability. Ambience concerns the overlapping and shifting material forms that constitute a person’s surroundings – including (but not limited to) air quality, flow, temperature, humidity, noise and light – that contribute to their health, wellbeing and (dis)comfort. Building on a growing movement across a range of disciplines towards the study of
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The organizational structure of global gene drive research Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Florian Rabitz
Gene drives are a proposed biotechnological intervention that could grant unprecedented control over key challenges of global sustainable development by potentially providing effective countermeasures to invasive alien species, agricultural pests or disease vectors. Gene drives also raise complex biosafety challenges and face scrutiny due to an allegedly-outsized involvement of certain philanthropic-
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The role of visions in sustainability transformations: Exploring tensions between the Agrarwende vanguard vision and an established sociotechnical imaginary of agriculture in Germany Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Christine Polzin
Although much research recognises the importance of visions as key ingredients of transformations to sustainability, it remains unclear how and why some visions become collectively binding. This paper uses the lens of sociotechnical imaginaries, i.e., collectively shared, institutionally stabilised, and publicly performed visions of desirable futures, to analyse the so-called Agrarwende (agricultural
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Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Arundhati Jagadish, Anna Freni-Sterrantino, Yifan He, Tanya O' Garra, Lisa Gecchele, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Hugh Govan, Alifereti Tawake, Margaret Tabunakawai Vakalalabure, Michael B. Mascia, Morena Mills
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Synergies of interventions to promote pro-environmental behaviors – A meta-analysis of experimental studies Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Marius Alt, Hendrik Bruns, Nives DellaValle, Ingrida Murauskaite-Bull
Addressing the threat of climate change requires effective environmental regulation to induce pro-environmental behavior. While various policy interventions already exist, combining different policies may offer greater effectiveness in dealing with market failures, multiple environmental objectives, and mitigating the regressive effects of single policies. In this meta-study, we investigate the potential
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Assessment of extreme temperature to fiscal pressure in China Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Zhongfei Chen, Xin Zhang, Fanglin Chen
This paper investigates the impact of climate change on government fiscal pressure using local governments’ fiscal data in China from 2000 to 2020. While previous studies have extensively explored the effects of climate change on individuals and economies, there has been limited research on the negative effects of climate change from a government fiscal perspective. Our study makes contributions by
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Broadening resilience: An evaluation of policy and planning for drinking water resilience in 100 US cities Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Mirit B. Friedman, Sara Hughes, Christine J. Kirchhoff, Eleanor Rauh, Chesney McOmber, Davis J. Manshardt, Jalyn M. Prout
Around the world, drinking water systems provide safe, accessible drinking water to the communities they serve. While they are faced with a growing number of short and long-term challenges, assessing the resilience of drinking water systems—or their ability to cope with disturbances and surprise and continuously adapt to stress and change—is an ongoing challenge. Many drinking water resilience assessment
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Are civilizations destined to collapse? Lessons from the Mediterranean Bronze Age Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Igor Linkov, S.E. Galaitsi, Benjamin D. Trump, Elizaveta Pinigina, Krista Rand, Eric H. Cline, Maksim Kitsak
As the world faces multiple crises, lessons from humanity’s past can potentially suggest ways to decrease disruptions and increase societal resilience. From 1200 to 1100 BCE, several advanced societies in the Eastern Mediterranean suffered dramatic collapse. Though the causes of the Late Bronze Age Collapse are still debated, contributing factors may include a “perfect storm” of multiple stressors:
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Leveraging keystone agents in extractive industries to advance sustainability Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Bert Scholtens
Natural resource extraction has a lasting and dramatic impact on the natural environment as well as far-reaching social effects. As such, public policy and governmental regulation are crucial for a transition to sustainability. However, on their own, these have shown to be insufficient to achieve such transformation. Changing commitment and conduct of the extractives too is important to transit. Firms
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Blinded by sunspots: Revealing the multidimensional and intersectional inequities of solar energy in India Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Ryan Stock, Benjamin K. Sovacool
Studies of energy transitions have historically lacked a holistic, multi-scalar and multi-site accounting of social and environmental impacts of projects. Scholars increasingly point to the need for integrated studies that highlight impacts at various stages of lifecycles and scales of governance in the normative pursuit of energy justice. In this study, we examine the social and environmental inequities
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Emergent network patterns of internal displacement in Somalia driven by natural disasters and conflicts Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Woi Sok Oh, Rachata Muneepeerakul, Daniel Rubenstein, Simon Levin
In Somalia, extreme droughts, floods, and conflicts have generated a great wave of internally displaced persons (IDPs) involuntarily moving within the country’s boundaries. Despite increasing concerns about the IDP problem, we still do not fully understand the emergent properties of IDP flows from the network perspective. Particularly lacking is quantitative information on how natural disasters and
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Scaling mechanisms of energy communities: A comparison of 28 initiatives Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Daniel Petrovics, Dave Huitema, Mendel Giezen, Barbara Vis
Energy communities have mushroomed over the past decades. These initiatives have scaled, that is replicated their experiences, expanded membership, and diversified involved actors and technologies. The picture existing literature paints is hopeful that the scaling of local-scale action may translate into global-scale impact and thus effectively contribute to combating climate change. However, important
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Can REDD+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 William D. Sunderlin, Stibniati S. Atmadja, Colas Chervier, Mella Komalasari, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, Erin O. Sills
The institutional predecessor of REDD+ is the integrated conservation and development project (ICDP) that combines restrictions on forest access and conversion (negative interventions) with non-conditional direct benefits (positive interventions) to compensate local stakeholders for income losses from those restrictions. The idea of REDD+ was to improve on the ICDP model with a different kind of positive
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Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 David Wuepper, Thomas Crowther, Thomas Lauber, Devin Routh, Solen Le Clec'h, Rachael D. Garrett, Jan Börner
Protecting the world’s remaining forests is a global policy priority. Even though the value of the world’s remaining forests is global in nature, much of the protection has to come from national policies. Here, we combine global, high resolution remote sensing data on forest outcomes (tree-cover loss, forest degradation, net primary production) and two complementary econometric research designs for
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Micro-scale transformations in sustainability practices: Insights from new migrant populations in growing urban settlements Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Mumuni Abu, Samuel N.A. Codjoe, W. Neil Adger, Sonja Fransen, Dominique Jolivet, Ricardo Safra De Campos, Maria Franco Gavonel, Charles Agyei-Asabere, Anita H. Fábos, Caroline Zickgraf
Development that is inclusive and sustainable requires significant social and environmental transformations from current trajectories, building on demographic realities such as changing profiles of populations, and increased levels of mobility. Migration is a major driving force of urbanisation in all global regions, partly facilitated through emerging technologies and declining costs of movement and
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Immediate and future challenges of using electric vehicles for promoting energy efficiency in Africa’s clean energy transition Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Augustine Sadiq Okoh, Magnus Chidi Onuoha
Electric vehicle (EV) adoption in Africa is being driven by both structural and non-structural pressures. Hurdles to EV adoption as a tool for low carbon development are explained, drawing on interviews with energy specialists from Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Cameroon. Findings point to multiple-scale tensions between energy transition and access, between policy design and implementation
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The infrastructure cost of permafrost degradation for the Northern Hemisphere Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Haodong Jin, Xiaoqing Peng, Oliver W. Frauenfeld, Yuan Huang, Lei Guo, Jing Luo, Guoan Yin, Guohui Zhao, Cuicui Mu
Warming and resulting degradation of near-surface permafrost in cold regions across the globe has and will continue to lead to a series of hazards. These include land subsidence and weakening of the substrate’s bearing capacity, thus threatening infrastructure and the socioeconomics in permafrost regions. These potential hazards shorten the lifespan of infrastructure, increase the cost of infrastructure
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Exploring natural and social drivers of forest degradation in post-Soviet Georgia Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Owen Cortner, Shijuan Chen, Pontus Olofsson, Florian Gollnow, Paata Torchinava, Rachael D. Garrett
The Caucasus Mountains harbor high concentrations of endemic species and provide an abundance of ecosystem services yet are significantly understudied compared to other ecosystems in Eurasia. In the country of Georgia, at the heart of the Caucasus region, forest degradation has been the largest land change process over the last thirty years. The prevailing narrative is that legal and illegal cutting
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Global energy scenarios: A geopolitical reality check Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Mathieu Blondeel, James Price, Michael Bradshaw, Steve Pye, Paul Dodds, Caroline Kuzemko, Gavin Bridge
The ongoing Global Energy System Transformation (GEST) has attracted the attention of multiple academic disciplines and practitioners, approaching the process with different analytical and conceptual tools. We explore the ‘integration gap’ that exists between, on the one hand, Energy System Modelling and the stylised scenarios they use, and on the other, energy geopolitics. We consider how these approaches
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(Path)ways to sustainable living: The impact of the SLIM scenarios on long-term emissions Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Nicole J. van den Berg, Andries F. Hof, Vanessa Timmer, Lewis Akenji, Detlef P. van Vuuren
Sustainable lifestyles and behaviour changes can be vital in climate change mitigation. Various disciplines analyse the potential for such changes – but without much interaction. Qualitative studies look into the change process (e.g. social practice theory), while quantitative studies often focus on their impact in stylised cases (e.g. energy modelling). A more holistic approach can provide insightful
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Misperception of drivers of risk alters willingness to adapt in the case of sargassum influxes in West Africa Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 D. Yaw Atiglo, Philip- Neri Jayson-Quashigah, Winnie Sowah, Emma L. Tompkins, Kwasi Appeaning Addo
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Quantifying community resilience to riverine hazards in Bangladesh Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Amelie Paszkowski, Finn Laurien, Reinhard Mechler, Jim Hall
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How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Jonathan Davis Smith, Ronald Adam, Samsul Maarif
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Context-dependent changes in maritime traffic activity during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Alexandra Loveridge, Christopher D. Elvidge, David A. Kroodsma, Timothy D. White, Karen Evans, Akiko Kato, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Julia Sommerfeld, Akinori Takahashi, Robert Patchett, Benjamin Robira, Christian Rutz, David W. Sims
Rapid implementation of human mobility restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically reduced maritime activity in early 2020. But where and when activity rebounded, or remained low, during the full extent of 2020 restrictions remains unclear. Using global high-resolution datasets, we reveal a surprising degree of complexity in maritime activity patterns during 2020, yielding a more nuanced
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Private provisioning of public adaptation: Integration of cognitive-behavioral, adaptive capacity, and institutional approaches Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Hallie Eakin, Nadine Methner, Gina Ziervogel
There is a growing need to create conditions for private actors to engage in provisioning of public adaptation in urban systems. Urban administrators have limited control over the urban dynamics necessary to achieve their climate adaptation policy goals. The actions of private actors – residents, businesses, civil society organizations – have significant influence over urban development trajectories
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Global energy consumption of the mineral mining industry: Exploring the historical perspective and future pathways to 2060 Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Emmanuel Aramendia, Paul E. Brockway, Peter G. Taylor, Jonathan Norman
The mining industry globally is responsible for significant energy consumption, and is an important source of greenhouse gas emissions. Considering that future mineral demand is likely to increase and that the final energy consumption per unit mass of mineral extracted (energy intensities of mining) is also forecast to increase as a result of a decrease in mineral resource deposit qualities, the mining
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Intervention: The invisible labor of climate change adaptation Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Leigh Johnson, Michael Mikulewicz, Patrick Bigger, Ritodhi Chakraborty, Abby Cunniff, P. Joshua Griffin, Vincent Guermond, Nicole Lambrou, Megan Mills-Novoa, Benjamin Neimark, Sara Nelson, Costanza Rampini, Pasang Sherpa, Gregory Simon
While adapting to the impacts of climate change will require massive human efforts across landscapes, economies, and everyday social life, adaptation is rarely conceptualized as work conducted by laboring people. In this intervention, we suggest that the conditions under which this largely invisible adaptation labor is currently carried out – in which workers are frequently underpaid, unpaid or unfree
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Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace? Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Mathijs van Leeuwen, Gemma van der Haar, An Ansoms, Joël Baraka Akilimali, Emery Mushagalusa Mudinga, Camille Munezero
The last two decades, a variety of –mostly donor-led– initiatives have aimed at ‘localizing’ land tenure registration, specifically in conflict-affected settings, making the registration of land rights more accessible to rural smallholders. In such settings, land registration is seen not just as instrumental to tenure security and economic development; but also to prevent land-related violence and
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The impact of extreme temperature on labor wage: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Yanni Yu, Jinghong Huang, Tao Zhou
Labor wage is a common focus of welfare economics and public policy, but little is known about its response to climate factors. With random year-to-year variation in temperature based on county-level data while using comprehensive and nationwide manufacturing data in China, this paper identifies the effect of extreme temperatures on firm-level labor wage. The result shows an inverted U-shape relationship
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Attention, sentiments and emotions towards emerging climate technologies on Twitter Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Finn Müller-Hansen, Tim Repke, Chad M. Baum, Elina Brutschin, Max W. Callaghan, Ramit Debnath, William F. Lamb, Sean Low, Sarah Lück, Cameron Roberts, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Jan C. Minx
Public perception of emerging climate technologies, such as greenhouse gas removal (GGR) and solar radiation management (SRM), will strongly influence their future development and deployment. Studying perceptions of these technologies with traditional survey methods is challenging, because they are largely unknown to the public. Social media data provides a complementary line of evidence by allowing
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A new typology of climate change risk for European cities and regions: Principles and applications Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Stephen Hincks, Jeremy Carter, Angela Connelly
This paper aims to contribute to the analysis of climate change risk through the development of a new spatially-explicit typology of climate risk for European cities and regions. In doing so, it offers a direct response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) call to advance awareness of climate change risks at sub-national levels through the integration of hazard, exposure and vulnerability
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Using the Nature Futures Framework as a lens for developing plural land use scenarios for Europe for 2050 Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Yue Dou, Cecilia Zagaria, Louise O'Connor, Wilfried Thuiller, Peter H. Verburg
Ambitious international targets are being developed to protect and restore biodiversity under the Convention on Biological Diversity’s post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and the European Union’s Green Deal. Yet, the land system consequences of meeting such targets are unclear, as multiple pathways may be able to deliver on the set targets. This paper introduces a novel scenario approach assessing
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Beyond climate anxiety: Development and validation of the inventory of climate emotions (ICE): A measure of multiple emotions experienced in relation to climate change Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Michalina Marczak, Małgorzata Wierzba, Dominika Zaremba, Maria Kulesza, Jan Szczypiński, Bartosz Kossowski, Magdalena Budziszewska, Jarosław M. Michałowski, Christian A. Klöckner, Artur Marchewka
There is a growing research interest in the affective aspects of climate change and their links with pro-climate engagement. Yet, psychometrically valid instruments assessing the wide panorama of emotional responses to climate change are limited. Here, we report on the development and validation of the Inventory of Climate Emotions (ICE), a self-report measure of multiple emotions experienced in relation
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Slow justice and other unexpected consequences of litigation in environmental conflicts Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Marta Conde, Mariana Walter, Lucrecia Wagner, Grettel Navas
Movements are increasingly taking companies to court for environmental and social harms. Yet little is known about the consequences this strategy has for movements and their struggles. Through a cross-country comparison of three environmental litigation cases in Argentina, Nicaragua, and Spain, we find that local groups encounter three interrelated consequences: i) ‘slow justice’, a strategy generally
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Fifteen years of research on payments for ecosystem services (PES): Piercing the bubble of success as defined by a Northern-driven agenda Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Vijay Kolinjivadi, Gert Van Hecken, Pierre Merlet
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have gained widespread prominence as a flagship solution for ecological challenges and attracts multi-billion-dollar annual investments. This large-scale meta-analysis analyzes the epistemic, methodological, and ethical–political assumptions of over 1,000 peer-reviewed articles on PES from 2005 to 2019. Results highlight that effectiveness of PES outcomes, design
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Expert preferences on options for biodiversity conservation under climate change Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Sarah Clement, Rachel J. Standish, Patricia L. Kennedy
Climate change and other anthropogenic drivers challenge the efficacy of traditional approaches to biodiversity conservation. Moreover, the extent and pace of drivers of change are projected to intensify, making ecological restoration of some ecosystems to historical baselines increasingly untenable. This new reality has sparked debates about what new approaches are needed in restoration and conservation
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Getting private investment in adaptation to work: Effective adaptation, value, and cash flows Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Sam Barrett, Raghav S.K. Chaitanya
Private finance can contribute to the achievement of systemic climate adaptation. But the research community are yet to provide a framework for private investors and borrowers to assess the commercial viability of investments in adaptation. To date, investment cases have not been constructed with climate adaptation as the underlying investment logic - no framework explains how adaptation creates value
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The booming non-food bioeconomy drives large share of global land-use emissions Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Sijing Wang, Bin Chen, Zhongxiao Sun, Xinyi Long, Meili Xue, Huajun Yu, Mingxing Sun, Yutao Wang
The non-food bioeconomy is widely recognized as a crucial strategy to address climate change. However, the growing non-food demand for biomass, such as bioenergy and bio-based products, is leading to global land use changes and consequent greenhouse gas emissions. In this study, a global region- and biomass-specific land-use emissions (LUE) inventory and the Food and Agricultural Biomass Input-Output
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Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Leon Marshall, Nicolas Leclercq, Timothy Weekers, Insafe El Abdouni, Luísa G. Carvalheiro, Michael Kuhlmann, Denis Michez, Pierre Rasmont, Stuart P.M. Roberts, Guy Smagghe, Peter Vandamme, Thomas Wood, Nicolas J. Vereecken
Visitation by wild bee species alongside managed pollinators is necessary to ensure consistent yields and fruit quality in apple fields. Wild bee species are vulnerable to several environmental changes. Climate change is expected to lead to broad-scale changes to wild bee distributions that will impact the service they provide as crop pollinators. We modelled selected wild bee species known to be important
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‘Listen to me!’: Young people’s experiences of talking about emotional impacts of climate change Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Charlotte A. Jones, Chloe Lucas
The emotional significance of climate change for young people is becoming recognised. However, their experiences of talking about these feelings are not well understood, despite being acknowledged as an important avenue for support and social change. This article reports on a survey of 1,943 young people aged 15–19 years living in Australia. The survey examined their level of concern about climate
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Synthesising the diversity of European agri-food networks: A meta-study of actors and power-laden interactions Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Tim G. Williams, Sibylle Bui, Costanza Conti, Niels Debonne, Christian Levers, Rebecca Swart, Peter H. Verburg
Farmers are at the centre of scientific and political debates about sustainability in European agriculture, but rarely do we discuss the roles of other actors who shape their behaviour. Understanding the interactions and balance of power in agri-food systems is critical to effectively govern sustainability transitions. Here, we conduct a meta-study of 71 case studies in European agri-food systems to
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Australia’s Black Summer wildfires recovery: A difference-in-differences analysis using nightlights Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Sonia Akter
This study examines how communities of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, recovered from the extreme wildfire event of 2019–2020 (i.e., the Black Summer fires). Using monthly night-time radiance as an indicator of economic activity in a geographic area (i.e., a mesh block) from January 2017 to June 2021, I conducted a spatio-temporal and socio-economic analysis of economic recovery after the 2019–2020
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Typologies of actionable climate information and its use Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Kripa Jagannathan, Smitha Buddhavarapu, Paul A Ullrich, Andrew D Jones
Developing actionable climate information and integrating it into decision-making are two crucial elements for promoting effective societal responses to climate change. However, what constitutes actionable climate information, and how it is used, varies based on the actors, systems, and scales that are relevant to specific decisions. Yet, the terms ‘actionable climate information’ or ‘use of climate
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Transforming imaginations? Multiple dimensionalities and temporalities as vital complexities in transformations to sustainability Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Andy Stirling, Rose Cairns, Phil Johnstone, Joel Onyango
Through interlinked theoretical and empirical analysis, this paper explores some important but neglected questions concerning efforts to achieve sustainability. To what extents do currently dominant forms of academic study and policy visions in this field, satisfactorily address the full political depth and scope of vital complexities in pathways for emerging social transformations? Are there dangers
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Conflict and conservation: On the role of protected areas for environmental justice Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Antonio Bontempi, Pietro Venturi, Daniela Del Bene, Arnim Scheidel, Quim Zaldo-Aubanell, Roser Maneja Zaragoza
When are protected areas drivers of environmental injustices and conflict, and under which circumstances may they support customary users in protecting their lands and livelihoods against extractivist development? We address these questions by analyzing the diverse roles that protected areas play in the context of environmental conflicts. We build a global database of 474 environmental conflicts in
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The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Eleanor Fisher, Marjo de Theije, Carlos H.X. Araujo, Jorge Calvimontes, Esther van de Camp, Lorenzo D'Angelo, Cristiano Lanzano, Sabine Luning, Luciana Massaro, Januária Mello, Alizèta Ouédraogo, Robert J. Pijpers, Raíssa Resende de Moraes, Christophe Sawadogo, Margaret Tuhumwire, Ronald Twongyirwe
Small-scale gold mining sustains millions of people’s lives and yet it stimulates environmental harms and social conflicts. Global environmental crises drive calls for fundamental change to how people live on the planet. For small-scale gold mining, this raises questions about whether current dynamics can provide a basis for sustainability transformations. Proposing the notion of gold lifeways to focus