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Flood risk management: Property rights-focussed instruments in Australia Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-02-11 John Sheehan; Jasper Brown
Flood-prone areas are more often than not held under private property rights. Hence, the purpose of this research is to highlight how crucial private stakeholders are to the effectiveness of any instrument for flood risk and hence directly impact on the effectiveness of flood management and yet, private property rights are rarely highlighted in such schema. Additionally, the location of flood-prone
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Interaction between ecosystem services and rural poverty reduction: Evidence from China Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Jing Shuai; Jing Liu; Jinhua Cheng; Xin Cheng; Jing Wang
This paper firstly proposed an analytical framework for the relationship between ecosystem services value (ESV) and multidimensional poverty-reduction index; then, it conducted a quantitative assessment of ESV including ecosystem disservices in China’s Three Gorges Reservoir region; next, it explored the interactive relationship between ESV and multidimensional poverty-reduction index in an attempt
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The ‘politics of scale’ and the local: How ‘hyper-localism’ and ‘temporal passivity’ affect adaptation Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Ana Elisa Lambert; Ruth Beilin
Adaptation to climate change is increasingly advocated as we approach a 1.5 °C future. Policy-makers emphasise that the required transformation begins with local action. Yet, there is a gap in understanding why local action can remain largely locked-in to maladaptive cycles, with variable on-ground evidence of transformative change. Using ‘the politics of scale,’ we interrogated ‘the local’ using ethnographic
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Shooting habits and habitats- effects of education and legislation on the phasing out of lead shot Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Fredrik Widemo
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The impact of adopting a water-energy nexus approach in Jordan on transboundary management Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Jonathan Chenoweth; Raya A. Al-Masri
There is growing coordination and cooperation between the water and energy sectors in Jordan. However, a water-energy nexus approach is seen as a useful management tool by the water sector more than it is by the energy sector. Strong political leadership will be required for a far-reaching adoption of the nexus approach. Increasing policy connections between Jordan’s water and energy sectors will lead
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Land for flood risk management—Instruments and strategies of land management for polders and dike relocations in Germany Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-01-29 Juliane Albrecht; Thomas Hartmann
Like many other countries, Germany aims to create flood retention areas via polders and dike relocations. As these measures require access to diverse plots, land acquisition is clearly a challenging task for the responsible water authorities. A revision to the national water law in 2017 introduced several new instruments for land acquisition, i.e. pre-emption rights and regulations to ease expropriation
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Crowding-out lower-level authorities: Interactions and transformations of higher and lower-level authorities in Kenya’s polycentric fisheries Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 Pranietha Mudliar; Laura O’Brien
Polycentric governance has gained prominence in the environmental sector because of the potential for multiple, overlapping decision centers to address complex, multiscale socio-ecological challenges. These decision centers may interact with each other through cooperation, conflict and conflict-resolution, competition, co-existence, and may result in transformations such as consolidation/fusion, and
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Navigating the science-policy interface: Forest researcher perspectives Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-01-23 Maria Ojanen; Maria Brockhaus; Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki; Gillian Petrokofsky
There is growing interest – and need – among researchers and research organizations to contribute societally relevant work as well as to demonstrate the policy impact of their research. Diverse science-policy interfaces (SPIs) aim for scientifically informed policymaking by connecting scientists with policymakers. Effective SPIs need to be grounded in credibility, relevance and legitimacy; at the same
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Conceptualising transdisciplinary integration as a multidimensional interactive process Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-01-24 Christian Pohl; Julie Thompson Klein; Sabine Hoffmann; Cynthia Mitchell; Dena Fam
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The effects of environmental innovations on CO2 emissions: Empirical evidence from Europe Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Michelle Mongo; Fateh Belaïd; Boumediene Ramdani
Environmental innovations are key enablers of transition towards greener economies. Despite their importance, empirical studies examining the effect of green technologies on CO2 emissions are still limited. Using an autoregressive distributed-lag model (ARDL), we analyze the impact of environmental innovations, the consumption of renewable energies, GDP per capita, and degree of economic openness on
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A comparative analysis to depict underlying attributes that might determine successful implementation of local adaptation plans Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Silvia Rivas; Yeray Hernandez; Ruben Urraca; Paulo Barbosa
Current trends in climate change indicate that the impact on the most vulnerable systems will increase. Urban areas, which concentrate population, economic activity and infrastructures, are sometimes at high-risk locations. Yet they are to be considered as vulnerable systems in need of harmonized structures supporting their efforts towards mitigating climate effects and/or adapting their territories
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Conflicts in Ecosystem Services Management: Analysis of stakeholder participation in Natura 2000 in Poland Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 Krzysztof Maczka; Piotr Matczak; Agnieszka Jeran; Piotr Jerzy Chmielewski; Susan Baker
The relationship between specific ecosystem services (ES) and different types of conflicts are explored to aid understanding of the barriers to effective biodiversity conservation management. Drawing from conflict theory, content analysis is undertaken of public documents generated during consultations about Natura 2000 management that were conducted in Poland between 2010−2015. Results show the links
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Brazilian Amazônia, deforestation and environmental degradation: Analyzing the process using game, deterrence and rational choice theories Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 Thiago Lima Klautau de Araújo; Pedro Sousa; Ulisses Manuel de Miranda Azeiteiro; Amadeu Mortágua Velho da Maia Soares
This paper aims to assess causes and the interactions between decision making, stakeholders and individuals, law and public policies to build a more precise overview of the relations, the possible results, and the factors which can interfere with environmental conditions and dynamics in Brazilian Amazônia. To better elucidate the issue, rational choice and deterrence theories were used, and a model
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In search of bluer skies: Would people move to places of better air qualities? Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Jacqueline C.K. Lam; Victor O.K. Li; Yang Han; Qi Zhang; Zhiyi Lu; Zafar Gilani
This study examines the statistical relationship between people's movements and difference in air quality between the origin and the destination, using computational social science approach. We put forward an important environmentally driven human movement question: Would people move to places of better air qualities? Utilizing Twitter Streaming API, 39,928,132 randomized geo-coded tweets posted by
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Analysis of participation in collective action initiatives for addressing unilateral agri-environmental externalities Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-01-06 Daniel Kyalo Willy; Lucy Wangare Ngare
The fact that agriculture is associated with negative external effects on ecosystems is of great concern. Most of these agri-environmental externalities are public goods in nature and therefore solving them through conventional market and regulation tools is challenging. Collective action has been identified as an option in dealing with externalities emanating from activities touching on agriculture
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Assessing human-environment system sustainability based on Regional Safe and Just Operating Space: The case of the Inner Mongolia Grassland Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-01-04 Xuening Fang; Jianguo Wu; Chunyang He
China’s grassland policy has changed substantially since the country’s “reform and opening up” about four decades ago, with profound impacts on both herder’s wellbeing and grassland conservation in Inner Mongolia. However, whether the herder-grassland system of Inner Mongolia has become more sustainable has not been quantitatively assessed against established sustainability standards. Thus, this study
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Adaptation pathways: A review of approaches and a learning framework Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Saskia E. Werners; Russell M. Wise; James R.A. Butler; Edmond Totin; Katharine Vincent
Adaptation pathways have experienced growing popularity as a decision-focussed approach in climate adaptation research and planning. Despite the increasing and broadening use of adaptation pathways reported in the literature, there has not yet been a systematic attempt to review, compare and contrast approaches to adaptation pathways design and their application. In this paper we address this gap through
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Legitimacy objects, agents, and evaluators: A framing to strengthen planning and performance of fisheries co-management Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Yorgos Stratoudakis
Fisheries co-management policy and research have been extensively reported in recent decades, with mixed results in process and outcome. Co-management has proliferated worldwide under the assumption that fisher participation in resource regimes enhances authority of decisions, reduces transaction costs, and increases compliance. The concept of legitimacy is central to this assumption, but its use in
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Spatial diversification as a mechanism to adapt to environmental changes in small-scale fisheries Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Blanca Gonzalez-Mon; Örjan Bodin; Emilie Lindkvist; Timothy H. Frawley; Alfredo Giron-Nava; Xavier Basurto; Mateja Nenadovic; Maja Schlüter
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A synthesis of the frameworks available to guide evaluations of research impact at the interface of environmental science, policy and practice Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Elena Louder; Carina Wyborn; Christopher Cvitanovic; Angela T. Bednarek
Evaluating the impacts of environmental science on policy and practice is inherently challenging. Impacts can take a variety of forms, occur over protracted timeframes and often involve subtle and hard-to-track changes. As a result, diverse impacts are impossible to capture through traditional academic metrics such as publications and citations, and cannot be captured by focusing solely on end results
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Valorisation by innovation in the water sector in Africa Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 D. Bouman; S. Abbas; T. Wouters-Slis; V. Nguyen
VIA Water was an innovation programme of Aqua for All and IHE-Delft funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. VIA Water stands for Valorisation and Innovation in Africa in the Water sector. Between 2015 and 2019 the programme supported 62 urban water innovations across eight countries in Africa with a total grant of € 8.3 million. The programme offered grants to pilot new ideas and innovations
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Integrating Cultural Ecosystem Services valuation into coastal wetlands restoration: A case study from South Australia Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-26 Beverley Clarke; Aung Ko Thet; Harpinder Sandhu; Sabine Dittmann
Elaborating the benefits humans receive from coastal wetlands using a Cultural Ecosystem Services assessment is an emergent and important field linking human wellbeing to ecosystem function. Translating these benefits into useable concepts for environmental policymakers, and managers is challenging yet important for supporting landscape restoration projects. This study responds to the call for Cultural
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A rapid assessment framework for food system shocks: lessons learned from COVID-19 in the Indo-Pacific region Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 James R.A. Butler; Federico Davila; Robyn Alders; R. Michael Bourke; Steve Crimp; John McCarthy; Andrew McWilliam; Anton S.M. Palo; Lisa Robins; Michael J. Webb; Monica van Wensveen; Todd Sanderson; Daniel Walker
The frequency and severity of shocks to food systems is accelerating globally, exemplified by the current COVID-19 outbreak. In low- and middle-income countries, the impacts have exacerbated existing food system vulnerabilities and poverty. Governments and donors must respond quickly, but few tools are available that identify interventions to build food system resilience, or emerging opportunities
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Flood prevention in Serbia and legal challenges in obtaining the land for flood risk management Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-19 Sofija Nikolić Popadić
Serbia suffered severe flood events in May 2014, which affected 1.6 million people. The Government declared a state of emergency for the territory of the whole country. The total value of the disaster was 1.7 billion Euros. Traditional flood protection measures proved to be insufficient in that extreme flood event, which raised the question of a greater change towards active flood protection measures
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Effective policy instrument mixes for implementing integrated flood risk management: An analysis of the ‘Room for the River’ program Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Stefan Verweij; Tim Busscher; Margo van den Brink
Central to integrated flood risk management is the integration of water management with spatial planning. Existing studies often focus on analyzing the policy instruments in the initiation and planning phases of integrated flood risk management. Little is known, however, about the policy instrument mixes that enable implementation of integrated flood risk management. Therefore, in this article we analyze
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Achieving sustainable future objectives under uncertain conditions: Application of a learning framework to adaptation pathways in rural Mali Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Edmond Totin; Mary Thompson-Hall; Carla Roncoli; Amadou Sidibé; Laura Schmitt Olabisi; Robert B. Zougmoré
Adaptation Pathways have emerged as promising approaches for exploring sequences of actions to address challenges in uncertain conditions. This study elaborates on how pathway approaches operate in practice by applying a learning framework that identifies guiding propositions for successful adaptation pathways. The framework is used to analyze a transformative scenario planning case study from rural
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Seeking legitimacy in European biodiversity conservation policies: The case of French national parks Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Isabelle Arpin; Arnaud Cosson
Over the course of the twentieth century, nature conservation gradually became both a broadly accepted and highly contentious field of public policy. In particular, national parks (NPs), a major and one of the oldest conservation tools in the European Union, have been contested, and their promoters must justify their existence. We aim to document and analyse how NP managers have sought to make NPs
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The role of environmental managers in knowledge co-production: Insights from two case studies Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Ruth A. O’Connor; Jeanne L. Nel; Dirk J. Roux; Joan Leach; Lilly Lim-Camacho; Fabien Medvecky; Lorrae van Kerkhoff; Sujatha Raman
Transdisciplinary collaborative processes like knowledge co-production have been promoted as valuable mechanisms to address complex environmental management issues. Their value is based on epistemic and participatory ideals involving academic and non-academic knowledge and values being elicited and deliberated upon. While idealised processes of participation have been described, the actual nature of
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Desalination and hydrodiplomacy: Refreshening transboundary water negotiations or adding salt to the wounds? Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-09 David Katz
Much of the literature on the political ramifications of desalination has emphasized its potential to mitigate transboundary water conflicts by increasing the quantity of available water (thereby alleviating scarcity), and also by reducing variability and uncertainty regarding the timing, location, and quality of water supplies. Of less focus has been the potential for the introduction of desalination
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Adapting to climate change in small-scale fisheries: Insights from indigenous communities in the global north and south Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Eranga K. Galappaththi; James D. Ford; Elena M. Bennett; Fikret Berkes
Climate change is having a significant influence on global fish production as well as on small-scale fishers’ livelihoods, nutrition, and food security. We compared two climate-sensitive small-scale fisheries (SSFs) – an Inuit community in the Canadian Arctic and the Coastal-Vedda in Sri Lanka – to broaden our understanding of how fisheries-dependent Indigenous communities respond and adapt to climate
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Strengthening the knowledge base to face the impacts of climate change on water resources in Africa: A social innovation perspective Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Uta Wehn; Bertha Vallejo; Chris Seijger; Mamohloding Tlhagale; Natacha Amorsi; Seyram Kossi Sossou; Bettina Genthe; Jean Marie Kileshye Onema
While it is increasingly important to strengthen the existing knowledge base in Africa to adequately respond to the rising risks and impacts of climate change on water resources, a significant research gap remains to identify areas and mechanisms to cope with these societal challenges. The aim of the paper is twofold: i) to provide subject-specific insights by analyzing the current knowledge base in
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Evaluating the impact of small-scale mining on the achievement of the sustainable development goals in Guyana Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-06 Timothy Laing; Stephan Moonsammy
The artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector in Guyana has, over the last decade, become the main engine for economic growth, the key source of foreign exchange and a vital source of employment across the country. It has therefore served as a vital driver in alleviating poverty and helping the country to make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relating to poverty and economic
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Climate Change Adaptation by Smallholder Tea Farmers: a Case Study of Nepal Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Steffen Muench; Miroslava Bavorova; Prajal Pradhan
Climate change is threatening the livelihood of tea farmers in Nepal. Simultaneously, the production of tea is becoming an increasingly important economic sector for the country. This study aimed to reveal the adaptation behavior towards climate change among smallholder tea farmers, particularly which demographic, institutional, and information source factors are likely to influence the degree of adaptation
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The influences of power, politics, and climate risk on US subnational climate action Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-27 Rachel M. Gurney; Alan F. Hamlet; Patrick M. Regan
American cities have played an increasingly critical role in advancing US climate change mitigation and adaptation. Subnational government support for these efforts, however, varies across social, political, economic, and biogeophysical contexts. While the influence of politics on US climate mitigation is well established, further research is required to identify barriers to—and discern complex influences
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Current advisory interventions for grazing ruminant farming cannot close exceedance of modern background sediment loss – Assessment using an instrumented farm platform and modelled scaling out Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-28 A.L. Collins; Y. Zhang; H.R. Upadhayay; S. Pulley; S.J. Granger; P. Harris; H. Sint; B. Griffith
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Policy delivery gaps in the land-based flood risk management in China: A wider partnership is needed Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-28 Shiqiang Du; Ju Shen; Jian Fang; Jiayi Fang; Wei Liu; Jiahong Wen; Xiaoxuan Huang; Sixin Chen
Land resources can accommodate extra floodwaters, thus playing an important role in integrated flood risk management (FRM). However, potential conflicts emerge as the lands that are used as temporal room for floodwaters are also home to human beings, which is common in the flood detention zones (FDZs) in China. To date, little is known about how Chinese policies address the conflicts and how local
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Transformation and slippage in co-production ambitions for global technology development: The case of gene drive Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 Katie Ledingham; Sarah Hartley
Co-production is an increasingly popular framework for knowledge generation, evaluation and decision making. Despite its potential to open up decisions and practices to the input of others, co-production regularly falls short of its transformative ambitions. Through documentary analysis, we investigate the meaning and dynamics of co-production as it stretches beyond the local into global research and
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How BLUE is the Sky? Estimating air qualities in Beijing during the Blue Sky Day period (2008–2012) by Bayesian Multi-task LSTM Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Yang Han; Victor O.K. Li; Jacqueline C.K. Lam; Michael Pollitt
For over three decades, air pollution has been a major environmental challenge in many of the fast-growing cities of the world, including Beijing, China. Given that any long-term exposure to high levels of air pollution has devastating health consequences, accurately monitoring and reporting air pollution information to the public is critical for ensuring public health and safety, while facilitating
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Priority knowledge needs for implementing nature-based solutions in the Mediterranean islands Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-21 Miriam Grace; Mario Balzan; Marcus Collier; Davide Geneletti; Judita Tomaskinova; Ruben Abela; Duncan Borg; Giulia Buhagiar; Lorinda Camilleri; Mario Cardona; Nikolas Cassar; Ralph Cassar; Ivana Cattafi; Daniel Cauchi; Claudia Galea; Daniele La Rosa; Eleni Malekkidou; Maria Masini; Lynn V. Dicks
Mediterranean islands face significant environmental challenges due to their high population density, reliance on imports, and water scarcity, exacerbated by increasing risks from climate change. Nature-based solutions (NbS) could address these challenges sustainably and with multiple benefits, but their uptake in policy and planning is limited, and stakeholder perspectives are conspicuously lacking
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Beyond the rituals of inclusion: The environment for women and resource governance in Africa’s artisanal and small-scale mining sector Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Doris Buss; Blair Rutherford; Cynthia Kumah; Mary Spear
This paper considers the apparent confluence of three policy developments: the Sustainable Development Goals, as the latest international commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment; the growing push to formalize the artisanal and small-scale mining sector; and the call to address environmental concerns of ASM through increased regulation, including formalization. Informed by feminist political
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Artisanal mining policy reforms, informality and challenges to the Sustainable Development Goals in Sierra Leone Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Roy Maconachie; Felix Conteh
In recent years, governments, donors and policy makers across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have increasingly realised the potential of formalizing and supporting artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) – low tech, labour-intensive mineral processing and extracting. A significant body of evidence suggests that ASM has become the most important rural non-farm activity across SSA, and by making it the centrepiece
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Incentivising bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) responsibly: Comparing stakeholder policy preferences in the United Kingdom and Sweden Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Rob Bellamy; Mathias Fridahl; Javier Lezaun; James Palmer; Emily Rodriguez; Adrian Lefvert; Anders Hansson; Stefan Grönkvist; Simon Haikola
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) plays a central role in scenario pathways that limit global warming in line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. Yet deliberate policy efforts to incentivise BECCS—whether through amending existing climate policies or introducing entirely new ones—remain rare. In this paper, we contend that BECCS must be incentivised responsibly, through policy-making
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Heatwaves: An invisible risk in UK policy and research Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Chloe Brimicombe; James J. Porter; Claudia Di Napoli; Florian Pappenberger; Rosalind Cornforth; Celia Petty; Hannah L. Cloke
In 2019, a heatwave – an unusual extended period of hot weather – broke the UK’s highest recorded temperature of 38.7 °C set in 2003. Of concern is that for summer 2019, this resulted in 892 excess deaths. With the intensity and frequency of UK heatwaves projected to increase, and summer temperatures predicted to be 5 °C hotter by 2070, urgent action is needed to prepare for, and adapt to, the changes
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Reconnecting society with its ecological roots Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Mark Everard; Gary Kass; James Longhurst; Sophus zu Ermgassen; Herbert Girardet; James Stewart-Evans; Jonathan Wentworth; Kevin Austin; Ciara Dwyer; Robert Fish; Paul Johnston; Gary Mantle; Chad Staddon; Dave Tickner; Steve Spode; Jackie Vale; Rhianna Jarvis; Mathilda Digby; Amanda Craig
Recent high-profile analyses of trajectories and prognoses of ecosystem decline around the world have called for a renewed focus on embedding the values of the natural world across all areas of public policy. This paper reports the results of a UK-based deliberative process involving experts from a wide range of policy domains and across societal sectors: government departments, associated agencies
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Linking biodiversity into national economic accounting Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Steven King; Michael Vardon; Hedley S. Grantham; Mark Eigenraam; Simon Ferrier; Daniel Juhn; Trond Larsen; Claire Brown; Kerry Turner
Biodiversity underpins the supply of ecosystem services essential for well-being and economic development, yet biodiversity loss continues at a substantial rate. Linking biodiversity indicators with national economic accounts provides a means of mainstreaming biodiversity into economic planning and monitoring processes. Here we examine the various strategies for biodiversity indicators to be linked
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Emerging functions of the wellbeing concept in regional development scholarship: A review Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-07 Maree Fudge; Emily Ogier; Karen A. Alexander
Wellbeing has become important in regional development policy as decision-makers grapple with delivering public goods from industry exploitation of resource commons. We asked how these differently constituted concepts–‘regional development’ and ‘wellbeing’ – are handled in the literature. We identified four findings: i) an increasing focus on holistic sustainable development in regional development;
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U.S. states initiation of energy efficiency policies in the era of climate change: Throwing a searchlight on the influence of political partisanship Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-06 Lazarus Adua
Responding to climate change, the most vexing environmental challenge of today, encompasses the use of measures enhancing adaptation to its current and future consequences and those aimed at mitigating further warming. This study addresses the latter response category. In particular, it examines the extent to which political partisanship influences states’ energy efficiency policies. For context, energy
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The environmental impacts of globalisation and corruption: Evidence from a set of African countries Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-04 Patrícia Hipólito Leal; António Cardoso Marques
Achieving sustainable development while avoiding further environmental degradation is a crucial challenge faced by society today. The African countries in this study have shown considerable growth, but still face various barriers to comply with international environmental agreements. This paper analyses the effect of globalisation and corruption on the environmental performance of 23 African countries
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What influences and inhibits reduction of deforestation in the soy supply chain? A mental model perspective Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-04 Angela M. Guerrero; Natalie A. Jones; Helen Ross; Malika Virah-Sawmy; Duan Biggs
Multiple sustainability initiatives have emerged in response to the environmental impacts of soy production, especially deforestation and climate change. But company commitments to reduce deforestation in their supply chains are not leading to outcomes on the ground. Achieving concerted action by supply chain actors requires consideration of their diverse perspectives. We investigate the mental models
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Transforming research and relationships through collaborative tribal-university partnerships on Manoomin (wild rice) Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Laura Matson; G.-H. Crystal Ng; Michael Dockry; Madeline Nyblade; Hannah Jo King; Mark Bellcourt; Jeremy Bloomquist; Perry Bunting; Eric Chapman; Diana Dalbotten; Mae A. Davenport; Karen Diver; McKaylee Duquain; William (Joe) Graveen; Katherine Hagsten; Kari Hedin; Susannah Howard; Thomas Howes; Alexander Waheed
Manoomin, the Ojibwe word for wild rice, grows in shallow lakes and streams and provides physical, spiritual, and cultural sustenance as a sacred food and relative for Indigenous peoples across the Great Lakes region of North America. Unfortunately, Manoomin has been declining due to multiple environmental stressors. In 2018, an interdisciplinary group from the University of Minnesota came together
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Greening the Economy through Voluntary Private Sector Initiatives or Government Regulation? A Public Opinion Perspective Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Dennis Kolcava; Thomas Bernauer
Societal efforts towards greening the economy are typically accompanied by controversy over whether voluntary initiatives by firms or government regulation are more effective to that end. Recent research argues that public opinion plays an important role in this regard because citizens’ preferences are crucial when democratic policy-makers decide. We investigate whether and how citizens’ general attitudes
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Understanding collaborative governance from a communication network perspective: A case study of the Atlantic Salmon recovery framework Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Melissa E. Flye; Carly C. Sponarski; Joseph D. Zydlewski; Bridie McGreavy
Atlantic salmon populations in Maine remain critically low despite extensive hatchery supplementation and habitat improvement efforts. In 2000, the Gulf of Maine Distinct Population Segment was listed as Endangered under the ESA with joint listing authority shared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Because, regulators
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Stakeholders’ views on natural flood management: Implications for the nature-based solutions paradigm shift? Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Rosalind H. Bark; Julia Martin-Ortega; Kerry A. Waylen
An exemplar of nature-based solutions (NBS) is natural flood management (NFM), for which interest is growing worldwide. As with many NBS, implementing NFM requires the participation of support of multiple stakeholders. However, we lack understanding about the views and expectations of the many stakeholders who might be expected to enable or implement it. Understanding such views may offer insights
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An integrated framework for harmonizing definitions of deforestation Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Ana Isabel Fernández-Montes de Oca; José Alberto Gallardo-Cruz; Adrián Ghilardi; Edith Kauffer; Jonathan Vidal Solórzano; Víctor Sánchez-Cordero
There is currently no consensual definition of deforestation. Given its importance in several research topics ranging from biodiversity to climate change, conservation, restoration, and emerging diseases as well as in comparative studies, it is necessary to provide an integrated framework towards a harmonized definition of deforestation. Here, we analyze and compare international and national reports
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The national flood insurance program as an incentive to employ multiple regulatory approaches to manage floodplains: Lessons learned from Pennsylvania, Vermont and West Virginia Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Jesse J. Richardson
Flooding is a common and costly natural hazard, causing huge amounts of damages and loss of human life across the world. In the United States, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) constitutes the major driver for floodplain management. NFIP, a federal program, incentivizes state and local participation by offering subsidized flood insurance to residents of localities that participate. However
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A Nested Property Right System of the Commons: Perspective of Resource System-Units Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Yingjun Qi; Wenjun Li
The common pool resource (CPR) theory has made invaluable contributions to the governance of natural resources in the past decades, but few literatures have specifically paid attention to the different property right arrangements of resource system and resource units, and their relationship. In this paper, we take two types of grassland property right system on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) in
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From pea soup to water factories: wastewater paradigms in India and the Netherlands Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-10-23 Sumit Vij; Eddy Moors; Katarzyna Kujawa-Roeleveld; Ralph E.F. Lindeboom; Tanya Singh; Merle K. de Kreuk
Freshwater scarcity has increased in the cities of the global South due to rapid urban agglomeration and changing climate. Alternative water resources such as treated wastewater can play a significant role to reduce the water supply-demand gap. In the recent past, wastewater has been used solely for irrigation and other allied agriculture purposes, with limited focus on reuse for other purposes within
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A Bayesian LSTM model to evaluate the effects of air pollution control regulations in Beijing, China Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-10-23 Yang Han; Jacqueline CK Lam; Victor OK Li; David Reiner
Rapid socio-economic development and urbanization have resulted in serious deterioration in air-quality in many world cities, including Beijing, China. This study attempts to examine the effectiveness of air pollution control regulations implemented in Beijing during 2008–2019 through a data-driven regulatory intervention analysis. Our proposed Bayesian deep learning model utilizes proxy data including
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A framework for assessing the potential effectiveness of adaptation policies: Coastal risks and sea-level rise in the Maldives Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-10-23 Geronimo Gussmann; Jochen Hinkel
Effective policies that integrate climate change considerations are crucial for successful adaptation to increasing climate risks. While there is an abundant normative literature proposing potential effective ways to adapt, there is a lack of empirical literature on current risk and adaptation policy and its potential effectiveness. Studying existing policies can help to reveal existing constraints
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What type of value information is most valuable to stakeholders? Multi-sector perspectives on the utility and relevance of water valuation information Environ. Sci. Policy (IF 4.767) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 O. Handmaker; B.L. Keeler; D. Milz
As the volume of ecosystem services modeling and valuation studies grows, decision-makers have access to more information than ever before on how human activities affect the provision and value of ecosystem services. However, few studies aim to understand how value information in different formats is interpreted and used by decision makers. Motivated by a desire to better understand how private, non-profit
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