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{"title":"Bridging NbS and legal literature: Institutional, procedural and substantive barriers to nature-based solutions implementation","authors":"Francesco Venuti","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107502","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107502","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Nature-based solutions (NbS) are considered key measures for tackling various environmental challenges and attaining multiple urban sustainability goals. In recent years, the barriers to urban NbS implementation have been increasingly discussed by the literature in an effort to highlight what factors impede widespread NbS in cities. However, the urban NbS literature generally neglects the legal perspective of these barriers, which have been rarely highlighted and assessed through a legal lens, despite the significant role that the law plays in influencing urban sustainability transitions. Thus, a legal perspective seems to be missing from the current literature on barriers to urban NbS implementation. This paper aims to test this hypothesis and, by connecting some of these barriers with relevant ongoing discussions in the legal literature, to establish an agenda for future legal research on NbS. To do so, a scoping review is firstly conducted on the literature on governance- and policy-related barriers to urban NbS implementation. The review reveals a number of barriers which, although not discussed from a legal perspective in the literature, can be divided into three categories, namely institutional, procedural and substantive. The main findings of the review are then discussed in the light of the current debates in the legal literature on the division of powers, participatory rights, and the notion of ownership. This analysis demonstrates how some of the issues raised by the legal literature are similar and, at times, overlapping with the problems encountered when implementing urban NbS. The agenda resulting from this comparison suggests that future legal research on NbS should focus on facilitating decentralised governance approaches, enable tailored and easily enforceable public participation mechanisms, and promote the reconsideration of private land ownership on the basis of its socio-environmental function.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 107502"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143372802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trending discourses and silences around the role of women in wildfires: A systematic scoping review and some reflections from the field","authors":"Marien González-Hidalgo ,&nbsp;Ana Cabana Iglesia","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103553","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103553","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In mainstream social imaginaries, wildfires are still a ‘manly’ issue. Addressing the question ‘how are women depicted in the literature of wildfires?’ this paper systematically analyses current literature on this subject. We identify five roles of women in a sample of 81 papers, and we show that women's roles are repeatedly structured as follows: women as impacted by wildfires, women as holders of particular knowledges and perceptions, women as firefighters, women as caregivers, and women as setters of fire. We supplement this analysis with our own observations from fieldwork in wildfires in Spain, Chile and Sweden. Our analysis of these roles allows us to depict a diversity of women's capacities, vulnerabilities and contradictions beyond discourses around virtuosity or victimhood; to discuss how and why women's various roles are unequally valued or avoided; and to consider the interconnection of gendered discourses on women and wildfires across geographies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103553"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143349962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mining global decarbonisation for development in Africa? Regional geopolitics and the question of South Africa in Africa","authors":"Michael Nassen Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101624","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101624","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research into the geopolitics of ‘critical’ mineral mining is expanding. However, there remains a notable dearth of analysis concerned with addressing how global decarbonisation relates to regional relations and configurations of power. This absence is concerning given the relatively widespread acceptance that regional development strategies should be embraced by economies seeking to leverage their ‘green’ transition mineral endowment for industrialisation and development. This paper revisits the debate on character of the South African state in Africa, from the vantage point of the mineral intensity of global decarbonisation and the competitive dynamics of the contemporary global political economy. The paper primarily assesses the view that South Africa should be seen as a sub-imperialist actor in the maintenance of the global neoliberalism, arguing that this perspective offers a rigid view of the world capitalism and geopolitics and presents a thin theory of state formation and economic and social relations in the periphery. By examining South Africa's role in contemporary Zambia in the context of increasing international competition for access and control of Zambia's 'green' mineral reserves, the paper highlights the ambiguity of South African state action and the evolving and dynamic relations it forges with domestic and international class and state forces.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101624"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143348436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"I am now being who I am and I'm proud of it\": Hair related personal and social identity and subjective wellbeing of older Black women in the UK.","authors":"Gabriela Daniels, Ameerah Khadaroo, Young-Jin Hur, Caroline Searing, Dion Terrelonge, Hannah Zeilig","doi":"10.1080/08952841.2024.2437208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2024.2437208","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hair is an important personal attribute defined by the person's natural hair shape, form and colour as well as by age and health. The hair of Black women has a specific curly texture that has been commonly manipulated to resemble straighter European hair, following centuries of oppressive beauty norms. The biological hair aging also presents challenges to some women due to the traditional social constructs of beauty and the persistent pressure on women to maintain their appearance. This interdisciplinary study explores the evolution of hair management practices of Black women from age-related biological, personal, social and well-being perspectives. A mixed methods approach was adopted, based on an online survey (n = 46) followed by in depth semi-structured interviews (n = 10). A statistically significant shift towards less frequent use of complex hair styles and visits to the hairdressers over a 30-year period was found, but frequency of hair colouring was not impacted. Three main qualitative themes were identified: 1) managing hair greying represented an important age-related negotiation of personal and social identity; 2) curly hair texture remained a strong personal and cultural identity symbol in light of historical dominance of Eurocentric hair beauty standards and hair-based discrimination; and 3) subjective well-being was strengthened by increased confidence in one's personal hair aesthetics and better-informed choices about hair management. Overall, age did not diminish the desire to maintain good hair. Increasing the visibility of older Black women's hair will further support their capacity to negotiate their presence and participation in social and professional contexts and to enhance their subjective well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":47001,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Women & Aging","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143374741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Virtual justice, or justice virtually: Navigating the challenges in China’s adoption of virtual criminal justice","authors":"Han Qin ,&nbsp;Li Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.clsr.2025.106112","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clsr.2025.106112","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Positioned within China’s <em>Trial Informatization</em> framework, the availability of virtual litigation has played a crucial role in enhancing access to justice. In the criminal justice system, the implementation of virtual litigation has transformed various areas, including pre-trial interviews, simplified criminal procedures, witness testimony, commutation hearings, and the reception of petitions. However, these technological advancements pose challenges to the authority, legitimacy, engagement and public deterrence aspects of criminal trials. To address these challenges, virtual litigation should be reframed as a tool to effect incremental change and be limited in application to cases where in-person hearings and other court processes are unfeasible. Further, more stringent rules need to be imposed on the finding of an implicit acceptance by accused persons to a remote trial process so as to preserve their autonomy. Courts should bear responsibility for third-party interfaces utlised as part of the criminal justice process, such as video conferencing platforms or digital document repositories. Finally, on the other side of the bench, defense counsel should have an equal say as the prosecution in determining whether a trial is conducted remotely.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51516,"journal":{"name":"Computer Law & Security Review","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 106112"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143350252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Natural: Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair By Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson","authors":"Camille Wise","doi":"10.1177/08912432251318708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251318708","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143371553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Opioid consumption frequency and its associations with potential life problems during opioid agonist treatment in individuals with prescription-type opioid use disorder: exploratory results from the OPTIMA Study.","authors":"Anne Bouthillier, Gabriel Bastien, Christina McAnulty, Hamzah Bakouni, Bernard Le Foll, M Eugenia Socias, Didier Jutras-Aswad","doi":"10.1186/s12954-025-01157-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-025-01157-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Traditional treatment approaches for prescription-type opioid use disorder (POUD), centered on abstinence, have limitations and hinder the development of interventions that meet the needs of people with POUD. Reduction in use without complete abstinence presents a promising avenue for intervention enhancement, but supporting data is scarce regarding its translation into positive patient outcomes. This study explores whether reducing opioid use frequency (OUF) during opioid agonist treatment correlates with reduced potential life problems in individuals with POUD, including those using fentanyl.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study is an exploratory analysis of the OPTIMA trial, a pragmatic, open-label, randomized controlled study comparing the effectiveness of flexible take-home dosing of buprenorphine/naloxone and supervised methadone in reducing opioid use amongst individuals with POUD. OUF was assessed every two weeks for 24 weeks after treatment initiation using the Timeline Followback. Potential life problems were evaluated at baseline and study completion using the Addiction Severity Index Self-Report. The 114 participants who completed both baseline and end-of-study questionnaires were included. A repeated-measures generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) was used to evaluate the influence of OUF on potential life problems.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Reducing OUF was significantly associated with fewer problems related to medical status (p = 0.049), psychiatric status (p = 0.019), and alcohol problem severity (p = 0.001). The interaction was non-significant for employment (p = 0.264), family status (p = 0.352) and legal status (p = 0.050). Life improvements emerged with ≤ 21 days of opioid use per 28-day period.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Findings underscore the significance of harm reduction goals focusing on opioid use reduction, which translated in improvements across many life domains.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>Study was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03033732) prior to participant enrollment.</p>","PeriodicalId":12922,"journal":{"name":"Harm Reduction Journal","volume":"22 1","pages":"14"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143373593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The German scramble for green hydrogen in Namibia: Colonial legacies revisited?","authors":"Johanna Tunn ,&nbsp;Franziska Müller ,&nbsp;Jesko Hennig ,&nbsp;Jenny Simon ,&nbsp;Tobias Kalt","doi":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103293","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103293","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Namibia is positioning itself as a green hydrogen superpower to supply the German market with the much-needed energy carrier. While the hydrogen hype is marketed as a pathway facilitating the German and European green transition that is mutually beneficial for African interests, social movements and affected communities have been denouncing green colonialist tendencies of the hydrogen rush. This paper is centring these claims. Applying a heuristic of green colonialism along the lines of externalisation, enactment, expansion, exclusion and empowerment, we highlight colonial tendencies of the hydrogen rush in Namibia. While still in a nascent stadium, current developments indicate patterns to transform Southern economies according to European interest, which can then uphold their allegedly superior image as renewable energy pioneers. Our study indicates that the green hydrogen rush resembles a longue durée of (neo)colonial violence: while clinging to old colonial patterns, it takes advantage of the post-colonial state, and at the same time uses narratives of contemporary multiple crises to advance and legitimise a supposedly green, but intrinsically violent transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48262,"journal":{"name":"Political Geography","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 103293"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143372249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Imperfect detection of terrestrial mammals in environmental impact assessment (EIA) baseline surveys may compromise decision-making and mitigation measures","authors":"Amanda M.S. Dias ,&nbsp;Carly Cook ,&nbsp;Adriano Pereira Paglia ,&nbsp;Rodrigo Lima Massara","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107850","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107850","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is critical for managing human impacts on biodiversity. Reliable baseline data is essential to assess potential development effects, while inaccurate information about species presence or absence can lead to poor decisions. We examined how methodological choices, such as sampling methods (i.e., camera traps, census, indirect sign surveys, interviews with locals), affect species detection in baseline biodiversity surveys for EIA in mining projects and scientific inventories, focusing on the Iron Quadrangle region of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We employed occupancy models, which consider imperfect detections, to assess how study type and methodological attributes influence false-positive and true detections of medium to large-sized terrestrial mammals. Our analysis revealed that study type strongly predicted false positives, with a potential additive effect with sampling method. In EIA baseline surveys, sign surveys registered 2.1 % false positives, rising to 4.4 % for interviews, while scientific studies had nearly zero false positives. For true detections, we found an interaction between study type and sampling method, where species census, camera traps, and sign surveys were up to three times less likely to detect species in EIA surveys compared to scientific studies. This suggests that EIA characteristics may reduce correct species detection. Both false-positive and true detections may be influenced by the inadequate quality of EIA baseline surveys. This underscores the need to incorporate detection estimates into biodiversity surveys. If studies fail to account for detection probability they can lead to biased and misleading results, which in the case of baseline surveys, could result in unfounded decisions within the EIA process.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 107850"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143351266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers By Caitlin Killian","authors":"Grace Howard","doi":"10.1177/08912432251315495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251315495","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143371514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}