{"title":"Sun, wind or water? Public support for large-scale renewable energy development in Canada","authors":"James Donald, Jonn Axsen, K. Shaw, B. Robertson","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2021.2000375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.2000375","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Public acceptance is one important aspect of broader social acceptability of renewable energy. Using a national, representative survey dataset of Canadian citizens (n = 1407), we examine public support for three infrastructure-scale renewables: large hydropower, wind farms, and solar farms. Few studies compare acceptance of multiple technologies or acceptance across sub-national regions. Due to differing levels of historical and current development of energy technologies, the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec provide a unique case for comparison. At the national level, results demonstrate strong support and high levels of familiarity for these renewable technologies, but limited belief they will lower greenhouse gas emissions. Lower levels of support for wind and hydro technologies were seen in provinces that recently experienced development. Using regression analysis, we found support for each of the technologies was influenced by a different set of factors. Important influencing factors included environmental and climate concern, familiarity with the technology, personal values, political affiliation, gender, age and education.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"97 1","pages":"175 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88563130","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":"Inside the black box of collaboration: a process-tracing study of collaborative flood risk governance in the Netherlands","authors":"E. Avoyan","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2021.2000380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.2000380","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Collaborative environmental governance is increasingly being used by public administrators to integrate divergent sectoral interests and deliver public goods that individual organizations would fail to deliver on their own. Yet, empirical studies on how exactly collaborative governance leads to integrative outputs remain scarce. This study applies a process-tracing methodology to test the hypothesized causal mechanism of collaboration dynamics leading to integrative output in a case of collaborative flood risk management from the Netherlands, the case of Grebbedijk. By drawing on multiple data sources, the analysis validates the mechanism and confirms that the dynamic interaction of highly functional principled engagement, sufficient shared motivation and a wide range of capacities for the joint action is a causal process linked to the successful output in the studied case. However, it also demonstrates that a set of pre-determined capacities for joint action, particularly initiating leadership, procedural arrangements and resources, were critical for the mechanism to unfold successfully. The findings of this study also suggest that well-organized processes of principled engagement facilitated by adaptive and connective leaders may compensate for lack of shared motivation among collaborating parties and succeed in delivering desired collaborative outputs without investing much in building trust and shared motivation.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"50 1","pages":"227 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74300521","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}
P. Thuy, T. Duyen, Nong Nguyen Khanh Ngoc, N. D. Tien
{"title":"Mainstreaming gender in REDD+ policies and projects in 17 countries","authors":"P. Thuy, T. Duyen, Nong Nguyen Khanh Ngoc, N. D. Tien","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2021.1903408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1903408","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT REDD+ is recognized in the Paris Agreement as a key mitigation policy for addressing climate change. However, a major challenge that has impeded REDD+ is ensuring gender equity. This paper analyses the policies and progress of gender mainstreaming in REDD+ processes in 17 countries between 2008 and 2019. Findings show that there are increasing political commitment and numerous policies in place that emphasize the need for gender equity in REDD+. There are differences in the level of gender mainstreaming across the 17 countries studied. We found several enabling conditions that would help countries to advance gender mainstreaming, including strong political commitment, clear gender action plans, strong law enforcement, dedicated funding for gender, and inclusive decision-making. The paper also illustrates how countries transform political commitment on gender mainstreaming in REDD+ into action.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"11 1","pages":"701 - 715"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78325226","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":"Policy mixes for biodiversity: a diffusion analysis of state-level citizens’ initiatives in Germany","authors":"J. Tosun, M. Koch","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2021.1992265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1992265","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 2018, a citizens’ initiative (CI) launched in the German State of Bavaria put forth the ‘policy idea’ of preserving and enhancing biodiversity and formulated a concrete policy proposal for implementing it. This policy idea diffused across Germany and resulted in the launch of similar CIs in the States of Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, and North Rhine-Westphalia. Research on policy diffusion through governmental channels has found that this process typically results in one of two outcomes: the policy in question is either adopted in a copy-and-paste manner or adapted to the respective local conditions. Did the diffusion process of the Bavarian CI result in the other CIs proposing a similar or different mix of policy goals and instruments? We find that the mix of policy goals corresponded closely to that of the Bavarian CI, suggesting diffusion through imitation or learning but with an element of adaptation as well. Striking differences exist between the mix of policy instruments employed by the Bavaria-based CI and the other CIs, which corroborates the importance of adaptation to local conditions.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"1 1","pages":"513 - 525"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83733711","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":"Radical energy justice: a Green Deal for Romanian coal miners?","authors":"M. LaBelle, Roxana Bucată, Ana Stojilovska","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2021.1992266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1992266","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 This article proposes the energy justice framework can benefit from a radical reframing to expose broader structural injustices in the transitions towards a net-zero energy system. There are two objectives of this paper: First, is to outline how energy justice can provide a radical critique of injustices of the energy system – a more activist centered approach; and second, to use energy justice to identify who is responsible for unjust policies within the energy system. The second point is important to understand what is meant by a ‘just transition.’ Who decides how others are compensated for the transition and the loss of their jobs? The theoretical limitation of energy justice is the normative framing which does not identify the structural causes of injustice and avoids identifying the source causing the structural injustice. This article develops and applies radical energy justice to the case of the Jiu Valley in Romania, a coal-mining region, and an early site for the European Union’s Green Deal Just Transition Mechanism.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"59 1","pages":"142 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82063611","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":"Taking control to do more: how local governments and communities can enact ambitious climate mitigation policies","authors":"Jan Armstrong","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2021.1992264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1992264","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While local governments have emerged as policy leaders on climate change, evidence indicates that many of the policies enacted do not significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This study focuses on ambitious climate policymaking, examining the stakeholders involved and their concerns, including the role of local control. The study analyzes Community Choice Aggregation in California, an impactful climate policy that local governments have pursued throughout the state over the past decade. A qualitative-driven approach is used, including interviews with policymakers and stakeholders in five areas of the state that adopted the policy and two areas that voted against it. An interconnected effort of local elected officials and grassroots groups led the policymaking process, driven by concern about climate change and a desire for local control. Grassroots engagement can be critical in building support and coalitions for ambitious climate policies. Stakeholders and governments embraced local control to shape policies to match their priorities and achieve a variety of co-benefits.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"17 1","pages":"160 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81313830","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":"The role of niche and regime intermediaries in building partnerships for urban transitions towards sustainability","authors":"F. Ehnert, Markus Egermann, Anna Betsch","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2021.1981266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1981266","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 The recent literature on intermediaries in urban sustainability transitions has studied their role as a translator between innovative niches and incumbent regimes. In urban sustainability transitions, intermediaries from both civil society and public institutions seek to bridge diverging world views and communicate innovative lessons learned back to the incumbent regime. How these intermediaries are embedded in local governance contexts and how the political dynamics inherent to urban sustainability transitions play out remains a research gap. As these transitions require political consensus-building, we explore the interaction between Transition Town Initiatives (TTIs) as niche intermediaries seeking to transform society from below, and regime-based transition intermediaries operating from above. In a comparative study of four German cities, we analyse why and how niche and regime intermediaries build partnerships for urban transitions towards sustainability. While Transition Town Hannover and Bluepingu in Nuremberg have successfully established partnerships with the municipalities, Transition Town Göttingen and Transition Town Kassel have struggled in their efforts to do so. These differences can be explained by the interactions between structural conditions, political priorities and institution-building, as well as the proficiency of transition intermediaries.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"3 1","pages":"137 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80263796","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":"Indigenous land systems and emerging of Green Infrastructure planning in the Peruvian coastal desert: tensions and opportunities","authors":"Claudia Tomateo","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2021.1960806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1960806","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT For many, Green Infrastructure (GI) is a modern ecological planning concept focusing on stormwater runoff. This paper argues for the importance of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) in GI planning and policy through the case study of the Tumbes Basin. The Basin serves as home to a diverse array of Pre-Hispanic Indigenous networked agro-ecological practices and landscape interventions guided by a worldview marrying humans and landscapes dating back to immemorial times of human habitation in the Americas (∼36,000 BP). By 900 BCE–1100 CE this planned regional network was actively managing landslides, stormwater runoff, and riverine flooding, all challenges are currently being exacerbated by climate change and urban development. Today, this landscape-level network is one of the biggest GI systems in Peru and yet remains unacknowledged in emergent GI policy and planning. By examining existing Peruvian scholarship on landscape practices, and visualizing Pre-Hispanic landscape networks in the Tumbes Basin, this study makes the case for Peruvian GI policy to be guided by Indigenous Knowledge and governance systems. Such a transformation requires a deeper integration of Indigenous conceptualizations of GI with other infrastructure systems and regional urban planning and design.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"08 1","pages":"683 - 700"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86037546","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":"The multifaceted geographies of green infrastructure policy and planning: socio-environmental dreams, nightmares, and amnesia","authors":"A. Matsler, Z. Grabowski, Alison D. Elder","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2021.1976565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1976565","url":null,"abstract":"The multifaceted geographies of green infrastructure policy and planning: socio-environmental dreams, nightmares, and amnesia A. Marissa Matsler, Zbigniew J. Grabowski and Alison D. Elder Environmental Science & Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, USA; Urban Systems Lab, The New School, New York, NY, USA; School of Geography, Development, & Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"36 1","pages":"559 - 564"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75331714","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":"How national bioeconomy strategies address governance challenges arising from forest-related trade-offs","authors":"T. Schulz, E. Lieberherr, A. Zabel","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2021.1967731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1967731","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The term ‘bioeconomy’ stands for an economy that primarily relies on renewable biotic resources and thus supports the vision of a low carbon society. The respective ‘bioeconomy strategies’ bear high conflict potential as they, sometimes unintentionally, rely on forest-land or wood as a resource, which are already appropriated also in other policies. We first outline the resulting governance challenges in terms of coherence of policy goals, consistency of instruments and the congruence between the two and identify trade-offs between forest ecosystem services that exhibit a high conflict potential regarding the bioeconomy. We then provide a comparative analysis of the extent to which bioeconomy strategies tackle the related governance challenges for two pairs of countries from the temperate (Germany and Switzerland) and the boreal (Sweden and Norway) forest zone. We find that the strategies do not mention conflicts related to wood mobilization. Coherence and consistency tend to be addressed for non-extractive forest utilizations that are perceived as a market opportunity rather than solely a restriction on wood mobilization. The latter seems more common in countries with a multi-functional forestry paradigm. Consequences for the prevailing forest management paradigm, however, are not explored in the strategies and thus policy congruence is neglected.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"113 1","pages":"123 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85190302","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}