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The politics of agro-industrial greening: policy processes, market institutions and local power relations in the sugarcane sector of French overseas departments Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Thibaut Joltreau
In France, the agenda of agro-industrial greening has resulted in limited progress towards environmentally sustainable agriculture, while the prevailing productivist model remains dominant across a...
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Climate policy integration as a process: from shallow to embedded integration Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Katrine Skagen, Elin Lerum Boasson
Across many policy areas, policymakers try to integrate new policy issues into old policy processes. This is challenging. Getting to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions requires radical change across...
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Theorizing reflexivity and transformative change in marine governance Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Judith van Leeuwen, Jan van Tatenhove, Marleen Schutter, Michelle Voyer
With multiple blue crises unfolding, momentum exists to develop and implement transformative marine governance approaches towards sustainable use of our oceans. Such approaches will only be transfo...
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From conceptualization to practice: enhancing economic resilience at the local government level in Australia Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Lila Singh-Peterson, Anna Kassulke, Nawin Raj
Seven principles of resilience developed by Stockholm Resilience Centre were adopted as a central framework from which practical objectives were identified to support local government organizations...
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Land management policy tools and institutionally contingent types of goods: understanding rock climbers’ resistance to and desire for public lands fees and quotas Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 David P. Carter, Juniper Katz
This paper examines how users respond to ‘public lands’ of different underlying good characteristics, as shaped by various management policy tools. Using a survey experiment that varies the imposit...
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A policy instruments palette for spatial quality: lessons from Dutch flood risk management Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Britta Restemeyer, Margo van den Brink, Jos Arts
Worldwide, more integrated and spatially embedded forms of flood risk management have been advocated. In the Netherlands, this ‘spatial turn’ can be associated with a quest for spatial quality, i.e...
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Placing civil society in water security governance: challenges and opportunities for engagement Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Delia Paul, Benjamin S. Thompson, Megan Farrelly
Achieving water security requires action at all levels of governance, and cooperation among state and non-state actors, including civil society. However, in many places, participatory arrangements ...
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The territorialisation of industry in times of transition: ecosystems, infrastructures and hubs in the green hydrogen sector Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Brice Laurent, Alexandre Violle
Current evolutions of the relationships between industry and the state associate explicit objectives of industrial transformations for ecological reasons, a growing interest in sovereignty-driven i...
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Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Christian Bréthaut, Sumit Vij, Gilles Mulhauser, Sepideh Nayemi, Guillaume Marsac, Hervé Fauvain
Governing transboundary waters is inherently a complex policy issue. However, when waters flow through multiple urban spaces (multiple cities in different countries), it presents a unique challenge...
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Small-scale fisheries, large-scale fisheries and fisheries governance in the Philippines Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Michael Fabinyi
This article investigates the intersections between two highly significant ocean policy processes: fisheries governance interventions for improved sustainability, and the relationship between small...
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When decarbonization rhymes with industrialization. The political dilemmas of increasing wood usage within the French construction industry Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Arnaud Sergent, Andy Smith
Because the building industry is a massive contributor to GHS emissions and energy consumption, France’s low carbon strategy has set it ambitious objectives: complete decarbonization by 2050. To ac...
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A public administration perspective on wind power development: decision-making logic of local government officials Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Nadja Kühn, Mikaela Vasstrøm
Onshore wind power has experienced decades of controversies and conflicts between national policies and ambitions for development and local government and community opposition. This discrepancy has...
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Assessing environmental justice contributions in research and public policy: an applied framework and methodology Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 L. E. Méndez-Barrientos, S. H. Shah, A. D. Roque, V. MacClements, A. K. Stern
How can scholars and practitioners gauge the extent to which environmental justice (EJ) is present in research and policy? Through synthesizing the interdisciplinary environmental justice scholarsh...
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The technocentric consensus: a discourse network analysis of the European circular economy debate Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Aksel S. Bækgaard, Christian Engberg, Jacob A. Hasselbalch
How do different framings of the circular economy structure relations between key European policy actors? The circular economy is emerging as a dominant environmental governance framework, but mult...
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Regulatory, accompanying, and collective governance? The challenges of re-orientating environmental-economic interdependencies in two French ports Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Caitriona Carter
How small/medium-sized (SM) commercial ports act politically matters for local ecological transformation facing increasing climate and socio-environmental failures and dilemmas. In this spirit, we ...
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Analyzing argumentation patterns in political discourse for better policy design Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Manuel Sudau, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
A new policy is needed to manage Switzerland’s increasing urbanization and growing population. The second stage of the revision of the Swiss Spatial Planning Law, which has been ongoing since 2014,...
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How to promote sustainability? The challenge of strategic spatial planning in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Oliver Hensengerth, Thi Hoang Oanh Lam, Van Pham Dang Tri, Craig Hutton, Stephen Darby
Tropical river deltas such as the Amazon, the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna, and the Mekong are facing increasing pressures from climate change, upstream infrastructure building, and rapid economic dev...
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Constraints and enablers of regional environmental policy: governance challenges in England and Wales Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Jack Newman, Ananya Mukherjee, Charlotte Hoole
It is increasingly recognised that regional environmental policy is important not just for implementing national or international targets but also for policy innovation and leadership. However, int...
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Which energy citizenship in positive energy districts? A governmentality social psychological analysis of participatory governance Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Minh Thu Nguyen, Susana Batel
Towards low carbon energy transitions, the EU is developing Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) which produce more renewable energy than they consume. This implies more participatory governance which ...
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The spatialization of social capital in the collective management of natural resources, a theoretical and methodological model Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Carlos Alejandro Custodio González, Gustavo Pérez Verdín, Eduardo Sánchez Ortiz, Elizabeth Medina Herrera, Rebeca Álvarez Zagoya
The importance of studying the commons lies in the fact that the best-preserved ecosystems are found in areas managed and owned by the community. However, the capitalist mode of production, which d...
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Mixed policy feedback and evolution of environmental regulation: analysing instrument recalibration and layering in Danish nitrogen policy Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Carsten Daugbjerg, Giulia Bazzan
Recent research has demonstrated that positive and negative feedback can occur simultaneously within environmental policy. This tends to occur when policy has multiple purposes. We engage with the ...
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Does multidimensional distance matter? Perceptions and acceptance of wind power Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Eija Pouta, Tuomas Rajala, Erkki Mäntymaa, Katja Kangas, Juha Hiedanpää
In addressing long-term climate and energy challenges with wind energy, the acceptance of wind power is in a key role. Here, we systematically emphasize the several dimensions of distance, namely s...
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The digital turn of marine planning: a global analysis of ocean geoportals Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Juliette Davret, Brice Trouillet, Hilde Toonen
Recent research highlighted the use and role played by digital technologies supporting marine spatial planning (MSP), especially geoportals. This research seldom considers to study an overview of t...
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The nested hierarchy of urban vulnerability within land use policies fails to address climate injustices in Turkey Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Mahir Yazar, Ece Baykal Fide, Irem Daloglu Cetinkaya
Responsive land-use policy amid climate change in urban settings includes infrastructure transformation and necessitates recognizing community- and individual-level vulnerabilities as well as clima...
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City-to-city learning: a synthesis and research agenda Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Elena Marie Enseñado
Cities learning from or with each other – or city to city learning (C2C) – is the focus of analysis for this systematic literature review. This research paper sought to understand C2C learning by e...
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Exploring the potential of city networks for climate: the case of URBACT Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Ekaterina Domorenok, Matteo Bassoli, Federica Cagnoli
Over the last decades, a growing strand of research has focused on the role that city networks play in local policy innovation and learning in the field of climate and the environment. In this rega...
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What went right? A collaborative process to prepare a city forest management strategy Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Heli Saarikoski, Emma Luoma, Sanne Bor, Pia Polsa
We analyze a multi-stakeholder process that succeeded in creating a joint forest management strategy for the city of Jyväskylä, Finland. The analysis draws on the participants’ own account of the p...
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The concurrent existence of goal conflict and goal synergy in public programs: a case study of the Pennsylvania’s Well Plugging Program Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Insik Bang
Do public administrators simultaneously enhance or trade off goals in public programs? Responding to stakeholders’ requests while facing limited budgets poses challenges for public decision-makers ...
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Tussling with seascape character assessment and assemblage theories Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Stephen Jay, Timothy Acott
Assemblage theory, based on the work of Manuel DeLanda, has gained in popularity amongst social scientists. However, a very different version of the theory has now been presented by Ian Buchanan, w...
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Can shared autonomous vehicles become a sustainable mode of mobility in the future? Insights from a practice-based study of urban dwellers in Norway Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Tom Erik Julsrud, Steffen Kallbekken, Marianne Aasen
Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) represent a rapidly growing technological field with features believed to potentially support the development of more sustainable mobility systems in city regions....
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Impacts of citizen science on trust between stakeholders and trust in science in a polarized context Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Kirsten R. Vegt, J. E. Elberse, B. T. Rutjens, M. H. Voogt, F. Baâdoudi
Air pollution and odour annoyance caused by livestock farming often leads to tension and distrust between livestock farmers and non-farming residents in agricultural areas in the Netherlands. In th...
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Practices and acts of energy citizenship Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Senja Laakso, Veikko Eranti, Jani Lukkarinen
Both academic and political discussion on energy citizenship have, to a high degree, focused on participation of enthusiastic and knowledgeable citizens as a catalyst for energy system transformati...
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Critical masculine and feminine norms in sustainable municipal transport policies and planning Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Annica Kronsell, Christian Dymén, Lena Smidfelt Rosqvist, Olga Stepanova, Lena Winslott Hiselius
Transport planning has historically been dominated by masculinity norms with minimal attention to sustainability, but these norms are challenged. Our analytical framework explores municipal solutio...
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Urban heat governance: examining the role of urban planning Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Ladd Keith, C.J. Gabbe, Erika Schmidt
ABSTRACT Heat is an increasing climate risk for cities due to climate change and the urban heat island effect. Extreme heat has inequitable impacts across social, economic, and urban environmental systems. Despite increasing awareness of heat risk, the planning and governance structures for mitigating and managing heat are less understood than those for other climate risks. We studied five large,
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The Waste War: on the electoral costs of local sustainability policies Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Xabier Gainza, Andoni Montes-Nebreda
ABSTRACT Sometimes, environmentally successful policies fail, not because of personal attitudes or technical feasibility, but because of the electoral dispute. Using fixed effects, Difference-in-Difference estimators and opinion polls, this paper scrutinises the electoral cost of introducing a door-to-door (D-t-D) waste collection system in the Basque province of Gipuzkoa (Spain). D-t-D aimed to raise
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Informing aquatic restoration decisions using environmental justice in New Hampshire Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Simone T. Chapman, Catherine M. Ashcraft, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Russell G. Congalton
ABSTRACT Aquatic resources support ecosystem functions and values, such as recreation, wildlife habitat, flood storage and nutrient reduction. Previous studies have found evidence that aquatic restoration programs can lead to systemic resource relocation and inequitable outcomes. This project advances the methodology to test for such inequality, applying geospatial methods within the U.S. state of
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Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Isabelle Carter, Eleanor MacKillop
ABSTRACT This paper examines the implementation of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, the first and only piece of legislation to codify the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in law. The paper provides empirical analysis of the implementation of this legislation based on 16 semi-structured interviews with stakeholders across Wales. The analysis explores whether the Act
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Strategic visions for local sustainability transition: measuring maturity in Swedish municipalities Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Max Rosvall, Mattias Gustafsson, Magnus Åberg
ABSTRACT The use of strategic visions based on concepts like climate-neutrality, net-zero emissions and energy efficiency is important to align action and build momentum. The agency of transition actors requires clear definitions and explanations of visions, enabling operationalization for action, monitoring and measuring of results. This paper develops a maturity scale for climate-related strategic
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The role of public consultations in decision-making on future agricultural pesticide use: insights from European Union’s Farm to Fork Strategy public consultation Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Ana Frelih-Larsen, Charlotte-Anne Chivers, Irina Herb, Jane Mills, Matt Reed
ABSTRACT This paper considers the role of public consultations in complex agri-environmental policy-making. Through a critical discourse analysis of submissions to the public consultation concerning the European Union’s Farm to Fork Strategy, we examine the role of public consultations as a democratic process and the extent to which their non-deliberative nature advances solutions to contentious and
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Settling an unsettled phenomenon: citizens’ views and understandings of voluntary carbon offsetting in Finland Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Kamilla Karhunmaa, Saara Salmivaara, Vilja Varho, Mikko J. Virtanen, Tapio Eerikäinen, Annukka Vainio
ABSTRACT Voluntary carbon offsets are a rapidly growing market and claims related to offsetting and carbon neutrality are visible in citizens’ daily lives. Proponents suggest that carbon offsetting offers a cost-effective way to incentivize climate action while critics discuss offsetting as an opaque and dysfunctional practice. Previous studies have examined citizens’ perceptions principally through
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Beyond compliance: public voluntary standards and their effect on state institutional capacity in Vietnam Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Trang Thu Tran, Judith van Leeuwen, Dieu Thi My Tran, Simon R. Bush
ABSTRACT Public certification standards have received limited scholarly attention, especially the institutional capacity of public authorities that develop and implement these standards to address complex challenges, such as the promotion of industrial ecology and industrial symbiosis for enhancing resource use efficiency. This research uses an institutional capacity assessment framework to examine
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Energy spaces: bridging scales and standpoints of just energy transitions Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Jeremias Herberg, Emily Drewing, Julia-Lena Reinermann, Jörg Radtke, Michael LaBelle, Ana Stojilovska, Konrad Gürtler
ABSTRACT This editorial to the special issue: Transregional Configurations of Just Energy Transitions explores how discourses on justice are interrelated and influence transformation paths at different levels of society. We propose a spatial perspective that puts energy transitions and place-based research into context. For many years, discussions about the transformation of the energy sector focused
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Heat vulnerability, climate readiness, and health outcomes: linking anticipatory adaptation in Urban Korea Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Hyun Kim, Hyewon Kim, Kyle Maurice Woosnam, Chul-Hee Lim, Gyu Seomun
ABSTRACT Can climate policy efforts with proactive health adaptation be helpful to mitigate the adverse impacts of heat events? In this work, we identify the relationships between heat vulnerability and health outcomes and articulate the potential role of anticipatory adaptation in reducing the vulnerability to heat events within major cities of Korea over a recent five-year period (2010–2015). From
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Institutionalizing barriers to access? An equity scan of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) incentive programs in the United States Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Marissa Matsler, Michael Finewood, Ruthann Richards, Olivia Pierce, Zenya Ledermann
ABSTRACT Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) is part of a suite of sustainability initiatives that are vital to tackling climate change. However, siloed governance structures that traditionally implement stormwater infrastructure are not well-suited to address the cross-cutting goals of such initiatives (i.e. incorporating social equity along with technological aspects). Equity planning centers social
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How the waste management system’s materialised normativity influences engagement in sustainable waste practices. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Lina Katan
ABSTRACT Household waste sorting is crucial to ensure the recirculation of resources and reduce emissions resulting from the extraction of virgin materials. Based on ethnographic data, this paper aims to explore how participants’ engagement in sorting is influenced in part by the materiality of the waste management system, finding that information about new dumpsters, as well as the appearance of these
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Shifting paradigms in stormwater management – hydrosocial relations and stormwater hydrocitizenship Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Matthew Wilfong, Michael Paolisso, Debasmita Patra, Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, Paul T. Leisnham
ABSTRACT Stormwater management has recently begun a paradigm shift away from traditional top-down approaches in response to climatic changes, urbanization, and regulatory pressures. This paradigm shift is characterized by two key developments: the implementation of additional decentralized green infrastructure, and the practice of individuals managing stormwater from their privately-owned property
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Ecological modernisation wanderings: ambivalent framing and unstable coalitions in the development of Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) in France Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Sébastien Chailleux, Xavier Arnauld de Sartre, Régis Briday
ABSTRACT Ecological modernisation tends to dominate institutional definitions of low-carbon transitions in industrialised countries. While most works study the market solutions and the technological innovation constraints of Eco-Modernist (EM) projects, this article analyses them at a micro level through the study of the development of an EM coalition supporting industrial Carbon Capture, Utilisation
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Sustainability transitions in Los Angeles’ water system: the ambivalent role of incumbents in urban experimentation Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Tessa Mauw, Shaun Smith, Jonas Torrens
ABSTRACT Growing urban populations, climate change, drought, and ageing infrastructures increase pressure on water delivery. This prompts the search for innovations, with incumbents increasingly attempting to enable and steer ‘experimental’ approaches. Historically, incumbents were assumed to be largely resistant to potentially disruptive innovations. However, their strategic orientations may be changing
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Protected areas and Indigenous rights in Sápmi: an agonistic reading of conflict and collaboration in land use planning Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Rasmus Kløcker Larsen, Kaisa Raitio
ABSTRACT The recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ rights has sailed up as one of the most critical issues in land use planning, globally. In this paper, we use a recent planning process for a national park on traditional Sámi territory in northern Sweden to demonstrate how state officials engaged in everyday conservation planning are pivotal in navigating colonial legislation and promoting policy change
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Urban decarbonization policy as assembling process: heterogeneous elements, networks and (un)making of target groups in a Swedish municipality between serendipity and design Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Francesco Colona
ABSTRACT In this paper, I approach urban decarbonization policy as an assembling process. Based on interview material in the municipality of Umeå, Sweden, the article highlights three important aspects of how planners, strategists and project managers produce decarbonization policies, initiatives or experimental projects. The first shows how an important part of the policymaking is to contend with
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Who participates in green infrastructure initiatives and why? Comparing participants and non-participants in Philadelphia’s GI programs Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Tenley M. Conway, Annie Yachen Yuan, Lara A. Roman, Megan Heckert, Hamil Pearsall, Stephen T. Dickinson, Christina D. Rosan, Camilo Ordóñez
ABSTRACT Green infrastructure (GI) refers to trees, rain gardens, rain barrels, and other features that address stormwater management, climate change and other challenges facing many cities. GI is often not equitably distributed across urban landscapes, making its benefits unevenly experienced. Cities have multiple initiatives focused on different types of GI in residential areas, including underserved
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‘Time’ as a focus for planning research: exploring temporalities of coastal change Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Mick Lennon, Fiadh Tubridy
ABSTRACT ‘Time’ is a taken-for-granted backdrop for most planning research. However, a nascent body of work suggests the need for greater sensitivity to the influence of time in stimulating views on what ‘is’ happening and ‘should be’ done about it. This paper extends such work by exploring how temporalities shape interpretations of reality in ways that can profile thinking and action. To achieve this
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Assessing biodiversity policy designs in Australia, France and Sweden. Comparative lessons for transformative governance of biodiversity? Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Brian Coffey, Florence L. P. Damiens, Erik Hysing, Nooshin Torabi
ABSTRACT Biodiversity decline undermines the conditions for life on Earth resulting in calls for transformative governance of biodiversity. Under the Convention on Biological Diversity, national biodiversity strategies provide the primary mechanism through which governments demonstrate their conservation efforts. With many countries due to develop new strategies under the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity
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Designing policy mixes for the sustainable management of water resources Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Simon Schaub, Colette Vogeler, Florence Metz
ABSTRACT Today’s complex policy problems are strongly characterized by interdependencies across sectors. Such interdependencies hamper the sustainable management of natural resources such as water. The protection of water resources exhibits manifold interlinkages, often with energy and food policy. Interdependent policy problems entail trade-offs across policy sectors and therefore present decision-makers
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The Isle of Man Biosphere Reserve: an entire nation approach to sustainable development Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Zoe Russell
ABSTRACT Biosphere Reserves are learning sites for sustainable development. Although based on specific UNESCO criteria, implementation varies to accommodate regional and national circumstances. The Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea, was designated as an ‘entire nation’ biosphere in 2016 and is governed through a stakeholder partnership, led by the Isle of Man Government Department for Environment, Food
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Drivers and energy justice implications of renewable energy project siting in the United States Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Eric O’Shaughnessy, Ryan Wiser, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, Salma Elmallah
ABSTRACT The rapid expansion of solar and wind energy projects is raising questions of energy justice. Some scholars argue that solar and wind project development could burden under-resourced communities with negative impacts such as environmental harm and reduced access to resources. Conversely, other scholars argue that project development could be a boon to under-resourced communities, providing
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Is non-zoning of land impossible? Eight fundamental propositions of zoning Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Lawrence W. C. Lai, Stephen N. G. Davies
ABSTRACT This essay explains that by virtue of having its boundary delineated, each parcel of land thus defined (or, more technically, zoned) acquires a unique boundary rendering it a discretely differentiated good. Zoning is about enclosing otherwise common resources with clear boundaries, both land and sea, to constrain rent dissipation, and enable betterment and conservation. By referring to parallels
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What does an inclusive bioeconomy mean for primary producers? An analysis of European bioeconomy strategies Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Hyunjin Park, Philipp Grundmann
ABSTRACT Agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and aquaculture are activities in the primary sectors that are core sectors of the European bioeconomy. However, they have not been considered sufficiently in the bioeconomy policy framework, and neglecting the needs of actors in these sectors could have serious implications for sustainability. Against the background that the updated EU bioeconomy strategy
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It’s not all about the money—landowner motivation and high voltage grid development Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Mark Koelman, Thomas Hartmann, Tejo J. M. Spit
ABSTRACT The transition to a renewable energy future requires the extensive expansion of current high voltage grids. Due to the amount of land needed for expansion, issues related to land use have led to increased grid development opposition among landowners which in turn leads to significant project planning and budget overruns. Yet knowledge about why landowners support or object to high voltage
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The governmentality of tropical forests and sustainable food systems, and possibilities for post-2020 sustainability governance Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (IF 3.977) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 J. Miller Smallwood, I. Delabre, S. Pinheiro Vergara, P. Rowhani
ABSTRACT Continued conversion of tropical forests to agriculture risks jeopardising planetary integrity. The UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets to halt deforestation by 2020, alongside other global measures for zero deforestation, were not achieved. Applying a governmentality lens, we aim to better understand global governance mechanisms for tropical forests and sustainable food systems