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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
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A framework for measuring and modelling low-carbon lifestyles Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Hazel Pettifor, Maureen Agnew, Charlie Wilson
Lifestyle is an integral and inevitable feature of transformation pathways consistent with the Paris Climate Agreement and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Studies differentiating lifestyle types, clusters, or segments vary in their focus, purpose, reach, generalizability and availability. Universal frameworks are largely proprietary in nature, developed and used by market research companies
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Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Lasse F. Henriksen, Kelvin Kamnde, Pilly Silvano, Mette F. Olwig, Asubisye Mwamfupe, Caleb Gallemore
Research on community-based forest management indicates its conservation outcomes depend on local rule enforcement, extraction pressures, and community support. However, many community-based forest management projects, particularly in the Global South, also involve collaborative networks of non-state actors such as NGOs and private corporations. Many of these networks promote sustainability certification
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Pathway towards sustainability or motorization? A comparative study of e-bikes in China and the Netherlands Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Qi Sun, Juanjuan Zhao, Andreas Spahn, Geert Verbong
Faced with globally pressing sustainability challenges, the e-bike provides a potentially sustainable mobility alternative. Yet, a growing consensus among researchers is that the environmental and social impacts of e-bikes are context dependent. Previous studies indicate different e-bike pathways in two major e-bike markets. In China, e-bikes seem to be a stepping stone to further motorization. In
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Global change scenarios in coastal river deltas and their sustainable development implications Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Murray W. Scown, Frances E. Dunn, Stefan C. Dekker, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Sitar Karabil, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, Maria J. Santos, Philip S.J. Minderhoud, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Hans Middelkoop
Deltas play a critical role in the ambition to achieve global sustainable development given their relatively large shares in population and productive croplands, as well as their precarious low-lying position between upstream river basin development and rising seas. The large pressures on these systems risk undermining the persistence of delta societies, economies, and ecosystems. We analyse possible
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Gender dimensions of climate change adaptation in Tigray, Ethiopia Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Engdawork Assefa, Gebremichael Gebrehiwot
The study of the impacts and drivers of climate change adaptation should consider gender (in)equality and women’s participation, as they both play pivotal roles. However, research on gender aspects of climate change adaptation has been limited. This study assesses gender dimensions of adaptation to climate change and determinants of smallholder farmers’ adaptation strategies in Adwa district, Tigray
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The strength and content of climate anger Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Thea Gregersen, Gisle Andersen, Endre Tvinnereim
Climate-related anger is present in Greta Thunberg’s speeches and the acts of Extinction Rebellion, but also in the rise of movements protesting climate policies, such as the Yellow Vests. The current study (N = 2,046) gives insight into the content of climate anger among the Norwegian public, as well as the relationship between anger and climate change engagement. Analyzing responses to the open-ended
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Climate-smart peatland management and the potential for synergies between food security and climate change objectives in Indonesia Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Massimo Lupascu, Pierre Taillardat, Sigit D. Sasmito, F. Agus, Daniel Mudiyarso, Sorain J. Ramchunder, Hesti L. Tata, David Taylor
Tropical peatlands lie at a nexus of competing sustainable development demands of enhancing food security, mitigating climate change, improving resilience and supporting rural livelihoods. Meeting United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires balancing these various demands. Progress in meeting SDGs has been slow in low to middle income countries because of difficulties in identifying
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Dialogic data innovations for sustainability transformations and flood resilience: The case for waterproofing data Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 João Porto de Albuquerque, Liana Anderson, Nerea Calvillo, Massimo Cattino, Andrew Clarke, Maria Alexandra Cunha, Joanne Garde-Hansen, Carolin Klonner, Fernanda Lima-Silva, Victor Marchezini, Mario Henrique da Mata Martins, Diego Pajarito Grajales, Vangelis Pitidis, Mohammed Rizwan, Nathaniel Tkacz, Rachel Trajber
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Adaptation at whose expense? Explicating the maladaptive potential of water storage and climate-resilient growth for Māori women in northern Aotearoa Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Danielle Johnson, Meg Parsons, Karen Fisher
Drawing on ethnographic research with Indigenous Māori women in northern Aotearoa (New Zealand) we challenge the presumed benefits of neoliberal, infrastructural-focussed climate adaptation, and advocate for far greater engagement with multiple subjectivities and intersecting inequalities in the design of climate adaptation in Global North, settler colonial contexts. Focussing on a government-led water
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Comparative analysis of local adaptation processes in the future across peri-urban India to support transformations to sustainability Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-20
Peri-urban transformations in emerging economies like India demand scientific attention given their impact on global environmental change processes. Some studies examine past or ongoing peri-urban adaptation processes, but insight into future adaptation needs and aspirations of peri-urban communities is lacking. Also, it is unknown how the high degree of informality that characterizes peri-urban areas
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Eating, heating or taking the bus? Lived experiences at the intersection of energy and transport poverty Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-19
Experiences of poverty can manifest in multiple aspects of everyday life, often in interlinking ways. One example is ‘double energy vulnerability’, where a household faces both energy poverty and transport poverty simultaneously. This can result in trade-offs, where prioritising one essential need (e.g., transport) makes accessing another impossible (e.g., heating). Such decisions are not easily made
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Collaboration and individual performance during disaster response Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-13
Disasters occurring in the wake of extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity due to climate and anthropogenic changes and require urgent responses under uncertain and dynamic conditions. In these situations, multi-agency collaboration becomes integral to an effective response due to the need to coordinate actions across geographical scales, levels of authority and sectors of society
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Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Felix Creutzig, Frank Goetzke, Anjali Ramakrishnan, Marina Andrijevic, Patricia Perkins
Climate change mitigation is mostly assessed through the lens of technologies and policy instruments. However, governance and social capital are crucial factors in complex social systems and may be relevant in the formation of effective climate policies. Here, we investigate the role of quality of governance (QoG), social capital, and equality as preconditions for enacting climate policies. Relying
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Moral power of youth activists – Transforming international climate Politics? Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Nicole Nisbett, Viktoria Spaiser
Youth Climate Activists are important norm entrepreneurs as humanity is increasingly awakening to the realities of accelerating climate change. They push for seeing climate change not merely through cost-benefit analysis frames but through frames of multiple climate justices. But how successful have these activists been in shifting perspectives in the context of international climate politics? This
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Knowledge co-production for decision-making in human-natural systems under uncertainty Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Enayat A. Moallemi, Fateme Zare, Aniek Hebinck, Katrina Szetey, Edmundo Molina-Perez, Romy L. Zyngier, Michalis Hadjikakou, Jan Kwakkel, Marjolijn Haasnoot, Kelly K. Miller, David G. Groves, Peat Leith, Brett A. Bryan
Decision-making under uncertainty is important for managing human-natural systems in a changing world. A major source of uncertainty is linked to the multi-actor settings of decisions with poorly understood values, complex relationships, and conflicting management approaches. Despite general agreement across disciplines on co-producing knowledge for viable and inclusive outcomes in a multi-actor context
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Social norms and littering – The role of personal responsibility and place attachment at a Pakistani beach Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Abdul Haseeb Chaudhary, Michael Jay Polonsky, Nicholas McClaren
This research has applied an integrated norms model using place attachment, anti-littering descriptive and injunctive norms, and anti-littering personal norms to assess anti-littering behavioral intentions in a developing country. The research uses place attachment as a moderating factor to understand the influence of social norms on anti-littering behavioral intentions which has not previously been
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The production-protection nexus: How political-economic processes influence prospects for transformative change in human-wildlife interactions Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Robert Fletcher, Kate Massarella, Katia M.P.M.B. Ferraz, Wilhelm A. Kiwango, Sanna Komi, Mathew B. Mabele, Silvio Marchini, Anja Nygren, Laila T. Sandroni, Peter S. Alagona, Alex McInturff
This article advances a novel analytical framework for investigating the influence of political-economic processes in human-wildlife interactions (HWI) to support efforts to transform wildlife conservation governance. To date, the majority of research and advocacy addressing HWI focuses on micro-level processes, while even the small body of existing literature exploring social dimensions of such interactions
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A flexible framework for cost-effective fire management Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Hamish Clarke, Brett Cirulis, Nicolas Borchers-Arriagada, Michael Storey, Mark Ooi, Katharine Haynes, Ross Bradstock, Owen Price, Trent Penman
Fire management aims to change fire regimes. However, the challenge is to provide the optimal balance between the mitigation of risks to life and property, while ensuring a healthy environment and the protection of other key values in any given landscape. Incorporating cost-effectiveness and climate change impacts magnifies this task. We present an objective framework for quantitative comparison of
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Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas: An analysis of locally grounded, diversified, and cross-scalar initiatives in the Amazon Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Marina Londres, Carl Salk, Krister P. Andersson, Maria Tengö, Eduardo S. Brondizio, Gabriela Russo Lopes, Sacha M.O. Siani, Adriana Molina-Garzón, Taís Gonzales, Diego Rázuri Montoya, Célia Futemma, Fábio de Castro, Daiana C.M. Tourne
The Amazon has a diverse array of social and environmental initiatives that adopt forest-based land-use practices to promote rural development and support local livelihoods. However, they are often insufficiently recognized as transformative pathways to sustainability and the factors that explain their success remain understudied. To address this gap, this paper proposes that local initiatives that
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Towards a better future for biodiversity and people: Modelling Nature Futures Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 HyeJin Kim, Garry D. Peterson, William W.L. Cheung, Simon Ferrier, Rob Alkemade, Almut Arneth, Jan J. Kuiper, Sana Okayasu, Laura Pereira, Lilibeth A. Acosta, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Eefje den Belder, Tyler D. Eddy, Justin A Johnson, Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, Marcel T.J. Kok, Paul Leadley, David Leclère, Carolyn J. Lundquist, Carlo Rondinini, Henrique M. Pereira
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Does air pollution decrease labor share? Evidence from China Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Tao Zhou, Ning Zhang
Labor share is one of the most significant indicators for income distribution and social inequality. Many studies have documented its decline and provided explanations from various aspects in recent years. This study explores labor share decline through the lens of air pollution, which has been ignored in the literature. With the two-stage least square (2SLS) regression while using thermal inversion
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Overlapping land rights and deforestation in Uganda: 20 years of evidence Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Sarah Walker, Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Anne Bartlett, Jamon Van Den Hoek, Hannah K. Friedrich, Paulo J. Murillo-Sandoval, Rosemary Isoto
The majority of the world’s land is held in customary tenure systems, often with overlapping claims. Designing effective policy to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation requires understanding land management choices within these systems. Using a nation-wide random sample of over 300,000 hectares of forested land in Uganda from 2000 to 2019, we examine how deforestation trends across a
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Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Jens Newig, Nicolas W. Jager, Edward Challies, Elisa Kochskämper
Participation and collaboration of citizens and organized stakeholders in public decision-making is widely believed to improve environmental governance outputs. However, empirical evidence on the benefits of participatory governance is largely scattered across small-N case studies. To synthesize the available case-based evidence, we conducted a broad case-based meta-analysis across 22 Western democracies
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Crisis and opportunity: Transforming climate governance for SMEs Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Sam Hampton, Richard Blundel, Will Eadson, Phil Northall, Katherine Sugar
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are key actors in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Their aggregate emissions are significant, and they are disproportionately affected by climate impacts, including extreme weather events. SMEs also play a vital role in shaping the environmental behaviours of individuals, communities, and other businesses. However, these organisations have been largely
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Climate change, water availability, and the burden of rural women’s triple role in Muyuka, Cameroon Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Lotsmart Fonjong, Regina Ndip Zama
Many rural communities in Cameroon rely on natural sources of water (rivers, springs, and rainfall) for agriculture and domestic use. Access to and reliability of water from these sources depend on changes in rainfall and temperatures. Household roles in Cameroon are traditionally defined along gender lines, with women playing key roles in food production, home management, and caregiving. Water is
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Zimbabwe’s roadmap for decarbonisation and resilience: An evaluation of policy (in)consistency Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Emmerson Chivhenge, Aaron Mabaso, Taona Museva, Godwin K. Zingi, Proceed Manatsa
Zimbabwe intends to build resilience mechanisms against climate change while at the same time ensuring sustainable development in recognition of its climate change vulnerability and national circumstances, in line with the demands of the Paris Agreement of reducing emissions by 2030. The study examined the consistency of government policies in reducing emissions by 1278GgCO2 by 2030. The study reviewed
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Rising carbon inequality and its driving factors from 2005 to 2015 Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Heran Zheng, Richard Wood, Daniel Moran, Kuishuang Feng, Alexandre Tisserant, Meng Jiang, Edgar G. Hertwich
Carbon inequality is the gap in carbon footprints between the rich and the poor, reflecting an uneven distribution of wealth and mitigation responsibility. Whilst much is known about the level of inequality surrounding responsibility for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, little is known about the evolution in carbon inequality and how the carbon footprints of socio-economic groups have developed over
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Corporate concessions: Opportunity or liability for climate advocacy groups? Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Simone Pulver
When social movements achieve some success in meeting goals, elite opponents may see compromise and collaboration with movement organizations as a desirable option. The consequences for advocacy organizations of elite concessions are contested. Some highlight the political opportunities created by elite support, such as increased access to financial resources, political processes, and new audiences
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Is anticipatory governance opening up or closing down future possibilities? Findings from diverse contexts in the Global South Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Karlijn Muiderman, Joost Vervoort, Aarti Gupta, Rathana Peou Norbert-Munns, Marieke Veeger, Maliha Muzammil, Peter Driessen
There is an urgent need to understand how anticipation processes such as scenario planning impact governance choices in the present. However, little empirical research has been done to analyze how anticipation processes frame possibilities for action. This paper investigates how assumptions about the future open up or close down anticipatory governance actions in a large number of climate-focused anticipation
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The demographics of energy and mobility poverty: Assessing equity and justice in Ireland, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Jonathan Furszyfer Del Rio, Dylan D. Furszyfer Del Rio, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Steve Griffiths
Energy and mobility poverty limits people’s choices and opportunities and negatively impinges upon structural economic and social welfare patterns. It also hampers the ability of planners to implement more equitable and just decarbonization pathways. Research has revealed that climate policies have imposed a financial burden on low-income and other vulnerable groups by increasing food and energy prices
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Status, challenges and pathways to the sustainable use of wild species Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Jean-Marc Fromentin, Marla R. Emery, John Donaldson, Ganesan Balachander, Elizabeth S. Barron, Ram P. Chaudhary, Marie-Claire Danner, Maria A. Gasalla, Agnès Hallosserie, Marwa Halmy, Christina Hicks, Daniel Kieling, Mi Sun Park, Brenda Parlee, Jack Rice, Tamara Ticktin, Derek Tittensor
The use of wild species is extensive in both high- and low-income countries. At least 50,000 wild species are used by billions of people around the world for food, energy, medicine, material, education or recreation, contributing significantly to efforts to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, overexploitation remains a major threat to many wild species. Ensuring and enhancing
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Territorial inertia versus adaptation to climate change. When local authorities discuss coastal management in a French Mediterranean region Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Samuel Robert, Axel Quercy, Alexandra Schleyer-Lindenmann
Adaptation to climate change is a critical issue in coastal areas, at risk from sea-level rise, erosion, and sea flooding. In territories strongly urbanized and long oriented toward tourism and a residential economy, a change in coastal management and territorial development is hard to initiate. In Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (France), a leading tourism region, this article explores how local authorities
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Testing the reliability of adaptive capacity as a proxy for adaptive and transformative responses to climate change Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Henry A. Bartelet, Michele L. Barnes, Lalu A.A. Bakti, Graeme S. Cumming
The concept of adaptive capacity is increasingly being applied to understand and predict people’s ability to adapt to the emerging impacts of climate change. Despite its potential utility, the degree to which adaptive capacity is a reliable predictor of adaptation remains unclear; evidence for a causal relationship is insufficient and conflicting. To address this gap, we surveyed 231 reef tourism companies
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“Climate-smart agriculture and food security: Cross-country evidence from West Africa” Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Martin Paul Jr. Tabe-Ojong, Ghislain B.D. Aihounton, Jourdain C. Lokossou
In the face of climate change and extreme weather events which continue to have significant impacts on agricultural production, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has emerged as one important entry point in reducing the emission of greenhouse gases and building climate resilience while ensuring increases in agricultural productivity with ensuing implications on food and nutrition security. We examine
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Large gaps in voluntary sustainability commitments covering the global cocoa trade Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Claudia Parra-Paitan, Erasmus K.H.J. zu Ermgassen, Patrick Meyfroidt, Peter H. Verburg
The production and trade of agricultural commodities, such as cocoa, have important impacts on farmer livelihoods and the environment, prompting a growing number of companies to adopt public commitments to address sustainability issues in their value chains. Though trading companies, who handle the procurement and export of these commodities, are key actors in corporate sustainability efforts, cross-country
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Diffusion of global climate policy: National depoliticization, local repoliticization in Turkey Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Mahir Yazar, Irem Daloglu Cetinkaya, Ece Baykal Fide, Håvard Haarstad
Although climate policy diffusion is widely studied, we know comparatively little about how these global policies and the norms that surround them are used by various political actors seeking to advance their own agendas. In this article, we focus on how global climate norms are diffused differently at national and local scales and used to repoliticize or depoliticize climate change. We focus on the
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Using Protection Motivation Theory to examine information-seeking behaviors on climate change Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Jun Li, Ping Qin, Yifei Quan, Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo
Many earlier studies concluded that exposure to changes in local weather or extreme weather events prompt public interest in climate change, and in turn raise support for mitigation policies. However, these findings do not square with observations of record-breaking temperatures, and decades of failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To address this conundrum, we use Protection Motivation Theory
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Governing-by-aspiration? Assessing the nature and implications of including negative emission technologies (NETs) in country long-term climate strategies Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Heather Jacobs, Aarti Gupta, Ina Möller
In order to address the pressing challenge of climate change, countries are now submitting long-term climate strategies to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process. These strategies include within them potential future use of ‘negative emissions technologies’ (NETs). NETs are interventions that remove carbon from the atmosphere, ranging from large-scale terrestrial
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Global pesticide use and trade database (GloPUT): New estimates show pesticide use trends in low-income countries substantially underestimated Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Annie Shattuck, Marion Werner, Finn Mempel, Zackary Dunivin, Ryan Galt
Assessments of pesticide impacts globally and holistic policies to address them require accurate pesticide use data, but good use data are difficult to find. For comparable estimates across countries, researchers and policymakers depend upon pesticide use data collected by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). We analyze the FAO database and find declines in data reporting and data quality
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Forty-year multi-scale land cover change and political ecology data reveal a dynamic and regenerative process of forests in Peruvian Indigenous Territories Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Aoife Bennett, Anne Larson, Alejandra Zamora Ríos, Iliana Monterroso, Gamarra Sheila
This article explores deforestation and reforestation dynamics over 415,749 hectares of 25 titled Indigenous Community Lands (ICLs) in the Peruvian Amazon over forty years at three scales: total area, regions, and communities. We focus on ICLs as the territorial unit of analysis, as they are increasingly discussed regarding their importance for conservation. Additionally indigenous communities (ICs)
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Effectively communicating the removal of fossil energy subsidies: Evidence from Latin America Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Yan Vieites, Bernardo Andretti, Mariana Weiss, Jorge Jacob, Michelle Hallack
Fossil energy subsidies create a series of distortions that often have negative environmental and social consequences. Yet, since subsidies confer salient and tangible benefits in the form of cheaper prices, citizens are very resistant to reforms. This research investigates how to best communicate the removal of fossil subsidies using a highly powered, pre-registered study with 5,498 participants across
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Civil society and survival: Indigenous Amazigh climate adaptation in Morocco Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Peter J. Jacques
Indigenous Amazigh people of Morocco face dangerous climate change impacts, particularly in the form of drought and changes to the hydrologic cycles, but they also must live outside the circle of patronage under authoritarian rule by the Kingdom and the makhzen. The makhzen is the pool of elites around the King in the military, government, and business which distributes or withholds opportunities and
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Indigenous Lands with secure land-tenure can reduce forest-loss in deforestation hotspots Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Micaela Camino, Pablo Arriaga Velasco Aceves, Ana Alvarez, Pablo Chianetta, Luis Maria de la Cruz, Karina Alonzo, Maria Vallejos, Lecko Zamora, Andrea Neme, Mariana Altrichter, Sara Cortez
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Direct and mediated impacts of social norms on pro-environmental behavior Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Marvin Helferich, John Thøgersen, Magnus Bergquist
The social norm-based intervention is a frequently used tool for encouraging pro-environmental behavior. In designing effective interventions, however, both practitioners and researchers need more knowledge about the relationships between different norm constructs and pro-environmental behavior. In this study, we meta-analyze the predictive strength of injunctive, descriptive, and personal norms using
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Investigating the relationship between growing season quality and childbearing goals Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-04-30 Nina Brooks, Kathryn Grace, Devon Kristiansen, Shraddhanand Shukla, Molly E. Brown
Agricultural production and household food security are hypothesized to play a critical role connecting climate change to downstream effects on women’s health, especially in communities dependent on rainfed agriculture. Seasonal variability in agriculture strains food and income resources and makes it a challenging time for households to manage a pregnancy or afford a new child. Yet, there are few
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Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Christian Kuhlicke, Mariana Madruga de Brito, Bartosz Bartkowski, Wouter Botzen, Canay Doğulu, Sungju Han, Paul Hudson, Ayse Nuray Karanci, Christian J. Klassert, Danny Otto, Anna Scolobig, Thais Moreno Soares, Samuel Rufat
An increasing number of publications focus on social vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation (SVRA) towards natural hazards and climate change. Despite this proliferation of research, a systematic understanding of how these studies are theoretically grounded is lacking. Here, we systematically reviewed 4432 articles that address SVRA in various disciplinary fields (e.g. psychology, sociology, geography
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The carbon cost of agricultural production in the global land rush Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Chuan Liao, Kerstin Nolte, Daniel G. Brown, Jann Lay, Arun Agrawal
Increases in the number of large-scale land transactions (LSLTs), commonly known as ‘land grabbing’ or ‘global land rush,’ have occurred throughout the lower- and middle-income world over the past two decades. Despite substantial and continuing concerns about the negative socio-environmental impacts of LSLTs, trade-off analysis on boosting crop yield and minimizing climate-related effects remains limited
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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon could be halved by scaling up the implementation of zero-deforestation cattle commitments Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.9) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Samuel A. Levy, Federico Cammelli, Jacob Munger, Holly K. Gibbs, Rachael D. Garrett
Deforestation for agriculture is a key threat to global carbon stocks, biodiversity, and indigenous ways of life. In the absence of strong territorial governance, zero-deforestation commitments (ZDCs), corporate policies to decouple food production from deforestation, remain a central tool to combat this issue. Yet evidence on their effectiveness remains mixed and the mechanisms limiting effectiveness