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Toward a leading-agency coordinated collaboration model? lessons learned from interagency collaboration in Chinese environmental protection 走向领导-机构协调合作模式?中国环境保护跨部门合作的经验教训

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Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2023-07-06 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2023.2227571

Jing Huang, Yanwei Li

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Implementation gap of China’s environmental policies: logic behind the over-implementation of the coal to gas transition 中国环境政策的执行缺口:煤改气过度实施背后的逻辑

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Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2023.2232313

Jiancai Shao

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How can an alternative natural resource co-management system be established? —Evidence from Chinese community forestry 如何建立另一种自然资源共同管理制度?——来自中国社区林业的证据

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Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2023-06-26 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2023.2229271

Bohao Jin, Xianlei Ma, Yanqiang Du

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Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act 我们能否促进多元的地方可持续发展途径?威尔士《未来世代法》实施的启示

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Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2023-06-09 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2023.2221182

Isabelle K. Carter, E. MacKillop

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Do water-saving policies improve water-use technical efficiency? Evidence from the water-receiving cities of China’s South–North Water Transfer Project 节水政策是否提高了用水技术效率?来自中国南水北调工程受水城市的证据

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Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2023-06-05 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2023.2221187

Jichuan Sheng, M. Webber

{"title":"Do water-saving policies improve water-use technical efficiency? Evidence from the water-receiving cities of China’s South–North Water Transfer Project","authors":"Jichuan Sheng, M. Webber","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2023.2221187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2023.2221187","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT China has implemented a series of water-saving policies in response to the growing threat of water shortages. However, it remains unclear whether these water-saving policies, which aim to reduce water-use intensity, will actually improve water-use technical efficiency. This study scrutinizes water-use technical efficiency within an extended human-environment framework by using the case of China's South–North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP). An improved estimation method for water-use technical efficiency based on stochastic frontier analysis is adopted to empirically investigate the variations in water-use intensity and technical efficiency in the SNWTP's water-receiving cities. This study argues that there is no definitive link between improvements in water-use technical efficiency and decreases in water-use intensity, and thus water-saving policies oriented toward reducing water-use intensity do not necessarily increase water-use technical efficiency. In addition, achieving the goals of water-saving policies by reducing water use intensity alone remains challenging and requires improving the water-use technical efficiency caused by endogenous technological progress. Finally, setting a unified target to reduce water-use intensity leads to inequitable sharing of water-saving tasks between regions, resulting in conflicts of interest among government bureaucracies.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"3 1","pages":"493 - 509"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89697787","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}

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Strategic visions for local sustainability transition: measuring maturity in Swedish municipalities 地方可持续发展转型的战略愿景:衡量瑞典市政当局的成熟度

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Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2023-06-04 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2023.2218273

Max Rosvall, M. Gustafsson, Magnus Åberg

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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 公众咨询在未来农药使用决策中的作用:来自欧盟“从农场到餐桌”战略公众咨询的见解

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Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2023-06-02 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2023.2212369

A. Frelih-Larsen, Charlotte-Anne Chivers, Irina Herb, J. Mills, M. Reed

{"title":"The role of public consultations in decision-making on future agricultural pesticide use: insights from European Union’s Farm to Fork Strategy public consultation","authors":"A. Frelih-Larsen, Charlotte-Anne Chivers, Irina Herb, J. Mills, M. Reed","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2023.2212369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2023.2212369","url":null,"abstract":"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 complex challenges. We explore different perspectives around the future of agricultural pesticide use and find evidence of polarised submissions. Those in favour of reducing pesticides tend to argue on the grounds of planetary and human health, emphasizing that alternatives already exist and resistance to change results from a lack of political will. Those arguing against setting further restrictions on pesticide use, focus on food security and the lack of viable alternatives. Taking inspiration from Arnstein’s (1969) [A ladder of citizen participation. Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 35(4), 216–224] ladder of participation and Fishkin’s (2011) [Making deliberative democracy practical. Chapter 4. In When the people speak: Deliberative democracy and public consultation (pp. 95–105] questions around what makes deliberative democracy practical, we argue that consultations are not merely ‘tokenistic’, but do appear to be inadequate where discourses are strongly polarised, as they are not sufficiently inclusive or thoughtful, using scientific findings only where these support pre-existing views. As such, we explore how other deliberative approaches may be more adequate for seeking legitimate solutions to complex challenges.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"84 1","pages":"476 - 492"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76215665","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}

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Settling an unsettled phenomenon: citizens’ views and understandings of voluntary carbon offsetting in Finland 解决一个悬而未决的现象:芬兰公民对自愿碳补偿的看法和理解

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Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2023-05-15 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2023.2211539

Kamilla Karhunmaa, Saara Salmivaara, V. Varho, M. Virtanen, Tapio Eerikäinen, Annukka Vainio

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What does an inclusive bioeconomy mean for primary producers? An analysis of European bioeconomy strategies 包容性生物经济对初级生产者意味着什么?欧洲生物经济战略分析

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Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2022.2094353

Hyun-doo Park, P. Grundmann

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Heat vulnerability, climate readiness, and health outcomes: linking anticipatory adaptation in Urban Korea 热脆弱性、气候准备和健康结果:韩国城市预期适应的联系

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Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2023-03-23 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2023.2191316

Hyun Kim, Hyewon Kim, K. Woosnam, Chul-Hee Lim, Gyu Seomun

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