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Local varieties of state-directed green and digital innovation processes in China: Evidence from Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Longyan 中国国家引导的绿色和数字创新过程的地方多样性：来自上海、杭州和龙岩的证据

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104247

Chris Brueck , Ingo Liefner

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Unveiling global narratives of restoration policy: Big data insights into competing framings and implications 揭示恢复政策的全球叙事：大数据洞察竞争框架和影响

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104241

Ida N.S. Djenontin , Harry W. Fischer , Junjun Yin , Guangqing Chi

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More than ‘self-help’: The urban governance of the Ebola outbreak in Monrovia, Liberia 不仅仅是“自助”：利比里亚蒙罗维亚埃博拉疫情的城市治理

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104250

Hillary Birch

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Struggles over value, access and positionality: Differentiated dis/association agency in humanitarian aid 价值、准入和定位的斗争：人道主义援助中分化的分离/关联机构

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104258

Dorothee Nussbruch, Lotte Thomsen

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Subjects of injustice: Inequity, misframing and human rights violations in a Tanzanian REDD+ pilot project 《不公正的主题：坦桑尼亚REDD+试点项目中的不平等、误解和侵犯人权》

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104245

Emma Jane Lord , Siddharth Sareen

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Figurations of belonging – How high-skilled migrants form relations of recognition 归属的形象-高技能移民如何形成认可关系

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104249

Gregor Schäfer , Claire Maxwell

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Governance of future-making: Green hydrogen in Namibia and South Africa 未来制造的治理：纳米比亚和南非的绿色氢

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104244

Britta Klagge , Benedikt Walker , Linus Kalvelage , Clemens Greiner

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Seeing like a pond: Amphibious stories of coastal subsidence in Central Java 像池塘一样看：中爪哇海岸下沉的两栖故事

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104248

Marie Belland , Bagas Yusuf Kausan , Michelle Kooy , Margreet Zwarteveen

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Defending the territory by the rules: The role of environmental law in Yucatan’s renewable energy conflicts 以规则捍卫领土：环境法在尤卡坦半岛可再生能源冲突中的作用

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104243

Antonio Bontempi , Ivet Reyes Maturano , Jazmín Sanchéz Arceo , Rodrigo T. Patiño Díaz

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Urban financialization in the shadow of the resource-constrained system: Uneven geography of local government bonds in Chinese cities 资源约束体制下的城市金融化：中国城市地方政府债券的不均衡地理分布

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104239

Mengdi Wu , Ronghao Jiang

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