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Citizen and specialist co-design of energy policy: The case of home energy decarbonization in the UK Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Rebecca Willis, Jacob Ainscough, Peter Bryant, Liz Goold, Mara Livermore, Caroline Tosal
The design of energy and climate policy is usually seen as an ‘expert’ domain, relying on technical tools such as economic analysis. However, policy requires the support of politicians and citizens alike, through the democratic process. Many policies, such as reducing carbon emissions from homes and transport, also affect people’s lives directly. It is thus necessary to supplement technical analysis
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Advancing sustainable development through planetary health – A holistic approach to global health: A systematic review Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Long Tam Pham, Pankaj Kumar, Wirawan Dony Dahana, Hong Duc Nguyen
In global health, three holistic and multidisciplinary approaches are typically mentioned: One Health, Ecohealth, and Planetary Health. The most recent concept, Planetary Health, has been spontaneously developed and promoted as a new science since 2015, with the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This coincidence marks a new era of interconnection between Global Health and Sustainable
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Sustainable integration of desalinated seawater into regional water supply networks using a participatory modelling framework Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Liliana Pagliero, Neil McIntyre, Douglas Aitken, Pascal Bolz, Nathalie Jamett, Gabriel Pérez-Murillo, Francisca Rivero, Sebastián Herrera-León, Carlos M. Ordens, Levi Campos, Giovana García, Luis A. Cisternas
Water scarcity is a critical issue worldwide and has become a major constraint on socio-economic development. Seawater desalination is an appealing adaptation option in regions with access to the coast; however, it has sustainability challenges that require careful consideration. Two critical challenges are: how to manage the spectrum of potential adverse social and environmental impacts; and how to
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Can “climate upheaval” be a more informative term than “climate change”? Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Haojie Chen
Terminology frames reality and affects how people perceive and respond to it. What makes the global climate situation concerning is not simply a change in climate, but the anthropogenic change, in addition to natural climate variations, occurring at a rapid rate relative to the pre-industrial era. However, in general language, “climate change” does not differentiate itself from natural climate variations
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Co-designing grounded visualisations of the Food-Water-Energy nexus to enable urban sustainability transformations Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Carlos Cámara-Menoyo, João Porto de Albuquerque, Joanna Suchomska, Grant Tregonning, Greg McInerny
In the past few years, the Food-Water-Energy (FWE) Nexus has emerged as a key concept to address the complex relationships and interdependencies between food, water, and energy systems. Cities are an important context for understanding the FWE nexus given their significant footprints and complex socio-ecological systems, but researchers have only recently started to explore an explicit urban perspective
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The complexities of irrigation efficiency: Groundwater data, agro-hydrology, and water decision-making in Central Oregon Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Rebecca Anderson, Alida Cantor
Irrigation efficiency projects aim to conserve water for in-stream flow and agricultural use by reducing water losses throughout the system. Piping irrigation canals is a common irrigation efficiency method that results in trade-offs: while it increases efficiency of irrigation water conveyance, it reduces incidental groundwater recharge. This paper focuses on the data and decision-making of canal
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Actors, agency, and institutional contexts: Transition intermediation for low-carbon mobility transition Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Alexander Nordt, Rob Raven, Shirin Malekpour, Darren Sharp
Transition intermediaries are recognized as key actors in sustainability transitions. While the structural embeddedness of intermediaries has been explored in innovation studies and economic geography literature, few transition studies have systematically examined how the agency of transition intermediaries is affected by institutional contexts. Without a deeper understanding of this interplay, the
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Re-thinking new possibilities for urban climate resilience planning in Bangkok: Introducing adaptation pathways through a multidisciplinary design workshop Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Polpat Nilubon, Naim Laeni
In many cities in developing countries, the design and implementation of flood adaptation measures face planning challenges, they are often underdeveloped in practice. This paper aims to investigate the potential for urban flood adaptation solutions and design in practice within the context of a climate-vulnerable Southeast Asian city. We specifically explore the “design workshop” -- an essential process
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Inter and transdisciplinarity strategies for evaluating and improving water quality monitoring systems: Uruguay as a study case Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Néstor Mazzeo, Ana Lía Ciganda, Camila Fernández Nion, Francisco J. Peñas, Alexia María González-Ferreras, Carolina Crisci, Cristina Zurbriggen, Daniel Pérez, José Barquin, Ismael Díaz
Developing robust systems for monitoring and evaluating water quality is crucial for assessing ecosystem integrity and the impacts of human activities on nature. It also enables the assessment of water management effectiveness, governance systems, and the design and evaluation of public policies. However, designing such monitoring programs is complex due to multiple constraints like eco-hydrological
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Biochar carbon markets: A mitigation deterrence threat Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Catherine Price, John Morris, Carol Morris
This article aims to add to the emerging empirical mitigation deterrence literature by drawing on ongoing research into a particular form of greenhouse gas removal technology – biochar – and associated biochar carbon markets. As such, the aim of this paper is to explore whether the UK carbon market for biochar, is likely to contribute to delays in emissions reduction. In other words, we explore whether
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Water courses and discourses: A media content analysis of environmental water reporting in Australia Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Anna Kosovac, Alex Shermon, Erin O’Donnell, Avril Horne, Emma Mesikämmen
This study presents the findings of a media content analysis (n=303) of articles discussing environmental water (water allocated to the environment in freshwater systems) in the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia across 20 years (2001 – 2021). The aim of the study was to determine the disposition of the articles, the actors (voices) invoked within them, as well as the topics they discuss in relation
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Primary vs grey: A critical evaluation of literature sources used to assess the impacts of offshore wind farms Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Claire L. Szostek, Andrew Edwards-Jones, Nicola J. Beaumont, Stephen C.L. Watson
The evidence-base for environmental and social impacts of offshore wind farms (OWF) is increasing with the exponential global growth of the offshore energy sector. In the UK, planning and consenting processes are lengthy (7+ years) and rely largely on evidence from grey literature sources. To meet 2030 and 2050 renewable energy targets and marine net gain ambition, policy and decision makers require
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Translating climate risk assessments into more effective adaptation decision-making: The importance of social and political aspects of place-based climate risk Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Andrew P. Kythreotis, Matthew Hannaford, Candice Howarth, Gary Bosworth
Climate risk continues to be framed ostensibly in terms of physical, socio-economic and/or ecological risks, as evidenced in the 2012 and 2017 UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) evidence reports. This article argues that framing climate risk in this way remains problematic for the science-policy process, particularly in ensuring adequate climate risk assessment information translates into more
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End co-formulant secrecy Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Edward A. Straw
Pesticides, widely used in modern agriculture, are applied in formulations that contain the main ingredient (active ingredient) and additional chemicals like solvents and surfactants (co-formulants). Both active ingredients and co-formulants can cause human and environmental toxicity. However, under European Union and United States law, the full details of the co-formulant composition are kept secret
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ICT-based environmental participation in China: Same, same but digital? Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Maria Bondes, Genia Kostka, Wiebke Rabe
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been credited with the potential to alter the dynamics of environmental governance by empowering citizens, enhancing accountability and improving government efficiency. However, in non-democratic contexts the link between ICTs and public participation is far from clear. Taking the case of China, this study investigates urban Chinese citizens’ use
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Planetary health values and their implications for sustainability governance: Case study in the City of Blue Mountains, Australia Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Eleanor Robson
Planetary health asserts that human health is contingent on the health of ecosystems. While the field has grown significantly since 2015, no known research has tested the expediency of planetary health as an applied values framework in local sustainability governance. This article seeks to address this gap by answering: how useful is planetary health for understanding the way citizens value nature
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Environmental and social inequalities in health: Neighborhood-level composite indices as a decision-making tool Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Laakri Bouhadj, Damien Cuny, Guy Chautard, Florent Occelli, Annabelle Deram, Caroline Lanier
The environmental health research carried out on a broad scale does not provide decision-makers with tools for managing environmental and social inequalities in health on a fine scale. The goal of the present study was to develop a method for neighborhood-level territorial diagnosis that decision-makers can use to incorporate health issues into their planning policies. The primary objective was to
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Building trust in environmental co-management: Social embeddedness in a contested German biodiversity conservation governance process Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Philipp Gorris, Larissa Koch
Co-management is widely advocated to effectively design conservation measures and coordinate policy trade-offs among sectors. Trust is key in such arrangements to achieve tangible outcomes, because it can help to turn disruptive conflict into fruitful contestations over suitable policy innovation. How and why trust in environmental co-management arrangements emerges, however, remains an understudied
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A comprehensive review on the application of socio-economic analyses in chemical management: Challenges and opportunities Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Huihui Wu, Yanshen Zhang, Yan Zhi, Fang Yu, Guozhi Cao
Socio-economic analyses (SEA), as an established method to evaluate the costs and benefits of actions, has been used to make chemical risk management plans and international compliance decisions. The exiting SEA has made significant progress in the impact assessment of chemical management, yet the key insights and challenges of costs and benefits evaluation has not been comprehensively summarized.
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Citizen-led emissions reduction: Enhancing enjoyment and understanding for diverse citizen engagement with air pollution and climate change decision making Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Laura Fogg-Rogers, Ana Margarida Sardo, Eva Csobod, Corra Boushel, Sophie Laggan, Enda Hayes
Diverse citizens need to be involved in net zero transitions to ensure policy interventions do not entrench inequalities for people from minoritised or disenfranchised groups and ensure public engagement with rapid social changes. This paper illustrates the importance of designing enjoyable engagement activities aimed at segmented citizen and community groups, to ensure a broad cross-section of society
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Climate policy contradictions in light of the policy paradigms - the case of the Visegrád Countries Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 András Donát Kovács, Jenő Zsolt Farkas, Gábor László Vasárus, Dániel Balla, Emőke Kiss
Observing reactions and responses to climate change worldwide, we think climate policies cannot exert their impact sufficiently. Consequently, studying the climate policy paradigms (CPPs) shaped by the dominant environmental ideas and climate objectives is essential. This paper analyses the CPPs in the Visegrad Countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) (V4). We investigated the strategic
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Enhancing territorial resilience assessment with a decision-aiding model in regional planning of Socio‐Ecological Systems Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Vanessa Assumma, Marta Bottero, Alessio Ishizaka
Resilient regional development can be favoured employing suitable decision-aiding techniques. Multicriteria Sorting Analysis tools are increasingly being used to deal with complex issues. The Group Analytic Network Process Sorting II method (GANPSort II), which builds on the previous ANPSort II and I, is here developed for the territorial resilience assessment of the Champagne-Ardenne in France, a
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The role of moral philosophy in shaping visitors’ fairness perceptions of recreation fees: A case study of Indiana Dunes National Park in the U.S. Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Suiwen (Sharon) Zou, Casey Moran, Nicholas A. Pitas, William Stewart
Although fairness is a dominant concern in the current debate on protected area recreation fees, various conceptualizations of what constitutes fairness exist. This presents a challenge for protected area management as it becomes difficult to develop a universally acceptable fee structure and policy that meet different stakeholders, thereby undermining the financial sustainability of protected areas
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Identifying barriers to decentralized stormwater infrastructure implementation at different levels of urban flood governance – A case study in Eastern Pennsylvania, US Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Qiaochu Sun, Hannah Kushner, Y.C. Ethan Yang
Stormwater green infrastructure (GI) has been applied as a method to address urban flooding for over forty years. However, GI has not yet been widely utilized across the US. Prior studies identified some challenges with technical, engineering, and socioeconomic aspects of GI, but detailed examination of non-scientific papers to identify and analyze real-world barriers that may hinder the implementation
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Integrating human rights in the sustainability governance of global supply chains: Exploring the deforestation-land tenure nexus Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Maria-Therese Gustafsson
In contemporary discourse, the need to address urgent environmental issues with a social perspective is widely acknowledged. While theories on policy integration have primarily focused on the national scale, limited attention has been given to the merging of environmental and human rights considerations in global supply chain sustainability governance. Drawing on policy integration theories, we develop
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The impacts of digital transformation on fisheries policy and sustainability: Lessons from Timor-Leste Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Alexander Tilley, Rodolfo Dam Lam, Denise Lozano Lazo, Joctan Dos Reis Lopes, Dede Freitas Da Costa, Maria De Fátima Belo, Joaquina Da Silva, Gilberto Da Cruz, Cristiano Rossignoli
Digital technologies are transforming how we monitor and manage natural resources, by speeding up data-driven decision-making. Still, to date, there is scant evidence of their impacts on environmental sustainability. In fisheries, a digital record of landings represents enormous potential for sustainable food production, resource management, and livelihoods, by making information about fish production
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The fraught legacy of the Common Heritage of Humankind principle for equitable ocean policy Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Michela Massimi
This paper addresses a principle originally known as the Common Heritage of Mankind, which has been central to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and in the ocean governance concerning the exploration and exploitation of the deep ocean seabed (legally known as the ‘Area’) and the minerals (polymetallic nodules) it contains. In more recent times the applicability of the principle—renamed
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Governance innovations in the coastal zone: Towards social-ecological resilience Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Carmen E. Elrick-Barr, Dana C. Thomsen, Timothy F. Smith
Innovation is championed to enable transformation towards social-ecological resilience in coastal communities. Yet, innovation in coastal areas is not well understood with limited research concerning the nature of innovations and determinants of success. Analysis of interviews with 68 coastal and community key informants in Australia’s most rapidly growing coastal communities revealed that despite
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Valuing water: A global survey of the values that underpin water decisions Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Christopher Schulz, Lukas J. Wolf, Julia Martin-Ortega, Klaus Glenk, Maarten Gischler
Valuing water is gaining popularity among policymakers and academics as a new water management paradigm. However, there is a lack of clarity about how to translate this paradigm into practice. We propose a multifaceted approach to valuing water that considers not just the values that people assign to water, such as its uses and benefits, but also broader personal guiding principles (e.g., security)
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Co-designing a research agenda for climate adaptation in El Salvador’s coffee sector: A transdisciplinary perspective Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Jose Daniel Teodoro, Suzanne Marselis, Antonella Maiello, Achim Häger
The inclusion of social actors is widely acknowledged as a precondition for just and sustainable adaptation strategies to climate change. The integration of diverse types of scientific and local knowledge contributes to a better understanding of problems and increases the relevance of science at the local scale. In this study, we - an interdisciplinary team of scientists - employed a transdisciplinary
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An archetype analysis of sustainability innovations in Biosphere Reserves: Insights for assessing transformative potential Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Caroline Hélène Dabard, Carsten Mann, Berta Martín-López
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Non-market valuation and Indigenous Peoples’ values: researcher constraints and policy impacts Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Ana Manero, William Nikolakis, Kaely Woods, R. Quentin Grafton
Non-market valuation (NMV) may be used to inform environmental management decisions, including those involving the rights and interests of Indigenous Peoples. We conducted a mixed-methods survey of authors from peer-reviewed NMV studies to gain insights into the policy impact and constraints from their work. We collected 25 survey responses, drawn from a list of 63 peer-reviewed studies, which were
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Can we talk? Disrupting science circles with narrative-led dialogs Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Sina Leipold, Anran Luo, Machteld Simoens, Hanna Helander, Anna Petit-Boix
Sustainability scientists are increasingly expressing concerns about the lack of creativity and reflexivity, vital elements for driving sustainability transformations, in their profession. We argue that these concerns stem from established scientific practices of knowledge accumulation and interdisciplinary research, often neglecting the influence of group values and disciplinary paradigms. In response
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Palm oil expansion in Malaysia and its countermeasures through policy window and biorefinery approach Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Mohd Ali Hassan, Mohammed Abdillah Ahmad Farid, Mohd Rafein Zakaria, Hidayah Ariffin, Yoshito Andou, Yoshihito Shirai
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Conservation backfire: Local effects of international protected area policy Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Malena Oliva, Eduardo García Frapolli
Protected areas (PA), promoted as the cornerstone strategy for halting biodiversity loss, often lead to conservation conflicts. The main standard of international PA policy (Target 3 of the new Global Biodiversity Framework, formerly the Aichi Target 11) promotes the expansion of these areas. Given the potential conflicts associated with PA, it is critical to reflect on the role of international conservation
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Systemic modeling strategies in public policy: an appraisal from literature Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Marco Billi, Angel Allendes, Rodrigo Jiliberto, Rodrigo Ramos-Jiliberto, Bárbara Salinas, Anahí Urquiza
Contemporary society has grown increasingly dependent on the integration of knowledge for decision-making. In this context, systemic modeling is acknowledged as a straightforward tool for representing and analyzing complex problems. To address how systemic modeling is being conducted to guide and support public policy-making, this study offers a brief synthesis of the literature on systemic modeling
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Local multilevel governance arrangements for climate change planning and management in Kumasi, Ghana Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Michael Osei Asibey, Frederick Appiah-Kusi, Naomi Agyei Kissiwaa, Maxwell Adu Bilson, Abdul-Salam Jahanfo Abdulai
Institutions play crucial roles in addressing and building resilence to climate risks. Whereas planning for and addressing climate change issues through multilevel goverence (MLG) has become inevitable, there has been a disparity in the attention given to different levels of MLG. The focus of MLG research has predominantly centered around supranational and national levels, with limited empirical studies
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Advancing socio-ecological considerations in impact assessment of extractive industries: A realist interview study in the Canadian context Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Jennifer Ann Brown, Mathew Lewans, Devidas Menon, Candace I.J. Nykiforuk
While extractive industries contribute to the Canadian economy, energy and mineral developments pose many risks and benefits to affected communities. Hundreds of active mines, and thousands of potential sites, are located in rural and remote regions; notably near Indigenous communities facing population health equity challenges. Impact assessment (IA) is the key regulatory review process for identifying
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Citizens’ opinions on (non-)essential uses of persistent chemicals: A survey in seven European countries Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 A.K. Karinen, H. Tobi, J. Devilee, A.T. de Blaeij, S. Gabbert
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Participatory practices and transforming environmental research in the Anthropocene Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Elisabeth Heyne, Maike Weißpflug, Ulrike Sturm
The Anthropocene, the so-called Age of Humans, challenges the realm of environmental research to reflect on and ultimately change its premises and practices. As ecological change occurs asynchronously and unevenly, it has highly divergent consequences for different actors and communities depending on their social, cultural, geographical or economic backgrounds. To adequately deal with this disparity
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Knowledge brokering at the environmental science-policy interface — examining structure and activity Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Sirkku Juhola, Essi Huotari, Liisa Kolehmainen, Outi Silfverberg, Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki
The environmental science-policy interface, consisting of dynamic interactions between various actors, is increasingly an object of study. In this interface, new types and kinds of boundary organisations are emerging and new types of knowledge brokering are taking place. Given the increasing calls for more evidence-based policy, it is pertinent to examine what type of SPI can be identified at the national
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A geologist per municipality initiative: Bridging geology and governance for sustainable development in Colombia Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Clemencia Gomez González, Nelson Rangel-Buitrago
In Colombia, the unique and complex landscape, prone to natural hazards, as well as the wealth of natural resources, underscores the necessity for geologists in guiding sustainable development and mitigating risks. Recognizing this, there is a push for a law named "Un Geólogo por Municipio" (A Geologist per Municipality), which would ensure that each Colombian municipality has a geologist to oversee
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The mediated planet: Datafication and the environmental SDGs Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Adam Wickberg, Susanna Lidström, Amanda Lagerkvist, Tirza Meyer, Nina Wormbs, Johan Gärdebo, Sverker Sörlin, Sabine Höhler
Over the past half century, the global environment has become subject to an accelerated pace of mediation and datafication. This ongoing transition has become so comprehensive that the knowledge, management and governance of the Earth system is dependent on enormous flows of data from a “vast machine” of measuring tools. These processes combined have formed what we call a “mediated planet,” subject
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The role of territorial governance as an instrument for biological diversity conservation in the Atlantic Forest: Social learning from the Paraná River Biodiversity Corridor, Brazil Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Kelly Cristine Panegalli Palhuk, Carlos Alberto Cioce Sampaio, Cristina Frutuoso Teixeira, Dailey Fischer, Valdir Fernandes, Marcelo Limont
In Latin America, in the non-coastal portion of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, there is the territory of Paraná River Biodiversity Corridor, which shares decision-making processes since 2010 and based on the performance of its Managing Network. In this context, the aim of this study was to evaluate the role of the Paraná River Biodiversity Corridor Managing Network as an instrument of territorial governance
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Carbon dioxide removal: A source of ambition or of delays? Examining expectations for CDR in Swiss climate policy Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Juanita von Rothkirch, Olivier Ejderyan, Michael Stauffacher
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is recognized as an important tool for addressing residual emissions and achieving net-zero emission targets. While some have cautioned that a focus on CDR in policy processes may lead to delayed efforts to mitigate emissions, others have argued that such concerns are unwarranted. Nevertheless, the circumstances under which CDR could help or delay emissions mitigation in
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Experiences of inequality in international collaborative research – Perspectives from environmental and sustainability scholars from Ghana, West Africa Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Mary Sefa Boampong, John Boakye-Danquah, Yaw Agyeman Boafo, Kwadjo Appiagyei, Desmond Tweneboah-Koduah, Effah Kwabena Antwi
Global north and south research partnerships are essential for building research capacity in the global south and for generating new knowledge to address complex socio-environmental problems. However, insights from various disciplines, particularly global health research, suggest that north-south research collaborations often reproduce unequal power relations and outcomes. To mitigate these, some international
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Thirty years of climate change research: A fine-grained analysis of geographical specialization Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Carlo Debernardi, Marco Seeber, Mattia Cattaneo
Bibliometric overviews of climate change research typically focus on the main topical trends and few countries with the largest share of the scientific production. These are important limitations: most of the world’s population live in countries that are heavily affected by climate change but have a relatively small scientific production, so that their topics of interest might be neglected. This contribution
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Conservation or deforestation: Households attitudinal analysis of forest resources for sustainable development of the Tain (II) Forest Reserve, Ghana Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Michael Asiedu Kumi, Zheng Yang, Jinyan Zhan, Wei Liu, Huihui Wang, Yufei He, Louis Addae-Wireko, Susana Addae-Wireko, Samuel Yeboah, Emmanuel Kombiok, Han Ze
Forest conservation has recently become a global necessity, capturing considerable attention from scholars and policymakers. However, rampant deforestation remains a significant catalyst for the recent exacerbated climatic repercussions in forest regions. This study examined the perspectives regarding forest conservation and assessed their relationship with household income conditions in Ghana. Primary
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Navigating community engagement in participatory modeling of food systems Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Chelsea Wentworth, Mariana Torres Arroyo, Rafael Cavalcanti Lembi, Beth J. Feingold, Darcy Freedman, Steven Gray, Jennifer Hodbod, Becca B.R. Jablonski, Kathryn M. Janda-Thomte, Pablo Lemoine, Aida Nielsen, Xiaobo Xue Romeiko, Deborah Salvo, Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Alexandra E. van den Berg, Owusua Yamoah
This paper describes the participatory modeling experiences of five discrete teams across the U.S. working to develop models of food systems to identify leverage points and policies to induce food system transformation. Collaboration between academic and community partners within these individual modeling processes enables teams to address food systems complexity, integrate scientific evidence and
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Can knowledge transfer speed up climate change mitigation in agriculture? A randomized experimental evaluation of participatory workshops Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Živa Alif, Ana Novak, Rok Mihelič, Luka Juvančič, Tanja Šumrada
Livestock management is recognized as the largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) and ammonia emissions in agriculture. Despite the many available mitigation options, they are often not taken up by farmers even when they are economically beneficial for farms. Effective knowledge transfer is among the critical policy instruments to increase the adoption of new mitigating measures. Recently, there has
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National Parks as the materialized imaginary of ecological civilization in China Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Jichuan Sheng, Qian Cheng
Through the case of the Three-River-Source National Park, this study mobilizes the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries to scrutinize how China’s ecological civilization as an application of sustainable imaginaries is materialized into national parks. Drawing on the extensive literature of science and technology studies that conceptualizes sociotechnical imaginaries as a vision of an ideal future
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Using the system of environmental-economic accounting ecosystem accounting for policy: A case study on forest ecosystems Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 S. King, R. Agra, A. Zolyomi, H. Keith, E. Nicholson, X. de Lamo, R. Portela, C. Obst, M. Alam, M. Honzák, R. Valbuena, P.A.L.D. Nunes, F. Santos-Martin, M. Equihua, O. Pérez-Maqueo, M. Javorsek, A. Alfieri, C. Brown
Robust, regular and integrated evidence on the environment and its relationship with the economy and human well-being is needed to deliver effective environmental policy. This paper highlights the role the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) can play in delivering this ‘policy-ready’ evidence. We demonstrate this using forest ecosystems as a policy
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Evaluating the impacts of agricultural development and climate change on the water-energy nexus in Santa Elena (Ecuador) Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Rishma Chengot, Raphael Zylberman, Andrea Momblanch, Oswaldo Viteri Salazar, Tim Hess, Jerry W. Knox, Dolores Rey
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Governing anthropogenic assets for nature’s contributions to people in forests: a policy document analysis Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Roman Isaac, Johanna Hofmann, Jana Koegst, Christian Schleyer, Berta Martín-López
Forests support human wellbeing by providing multiple nature’s contributions to people (NCP). These are derived from an interplay of both natural and anthropogenic assets, which is a process known as NCP co-production. Like forests and NCP, anthropogenic assets are subject to modes of governance operating across multiple levels, in which policies are a central tool for executing formal governance.
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Living in harmony with nature is achievable only as a non-ideal vision Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 C. Patrick Doncaster, James M. Bullock
The UN Global Biodiversity Framework aligns with previous UN visions in equating human wellbeing with living in harmony with nature, setting goals for achieving it by 2050. The UN has yet to articulate fully what we can look forward to when we aspire to this vision. Living in harmony invokes an ideal state of being, yet nature embodies a perpetual struggle for existence. Here we argue that harmony
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Developing an economic quality assessment framework and applying it to water economic studies in the Murray-Darling Basin Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Sarah Ann Wheeler, Ying Xu, Alec Zuo
Increasing environmental problems and future climate change projections necessitate the need for changing water reallocation in many countries, and hence pose considerable trade-offs and policy challenges. Water reallocation is often mired in policy debate and the socio-economic impacts on affected communities, with many differing views and studies on the type and size of the impact. The debate over
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Embedding co-production of nature-based solutions in urban governance: Emerging co-production capacities in three European cities Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Katharina Hölscher, Niki Frantzeskaki, Donnchadh Kindlon, Marcus J. Collier, Gillian Dick, Agnieszka Dziubała, Marleen Lodder, Agnieszka Osipiuk, Mien Quartier, Selina Schepers, Katrien Van De Sijpe, Carien van der Have
This paper seeks to understand how co-production can become embedded as a collaborative governance practice by which city governments plan, deliver and steward nature-based solutions. To these ends, the paper analyses how policy officers manifest capacities for co-production in three European cities – Genk (Belgium), Glasgow (United Kingdom) and Poznań (Poland) – while experimenting with co-production
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Designing role-play simulations for climate change decision-making: A step-by-step approach to facilitate cooperation between science and policy Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Audrey Alejandro, Lucile Maertens, Zoé Cheli, Augustin Fragnière, Oriane Sarrasin
Literature has demonstrated the benefits of role-play simulations (RPS) for decision-making and social learning in the field of climate change and environmental policy. Despite growing interest, step-by-step guidelines are still rare when it comes to the practical design and implementation of RPS, which hinders the adoption and implementation of this promising approach. This article aims to facilitate
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Enacting biochar as a climate solution in Denmark Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Inge-Merete Hougaard
Following the Paris Agreement’s climate targets and the modelling community’s scenarios of how to reach them, carbon dioxide removal is gaining increasing importance in national climate policies. This is also the case in Denmark – considered by itself and others a climate frontrunner – where biochar is envisioned to cover 10% of the 2030 reduction goal. However, apart from research experiments and