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Tackling material dependency in sustainability transition: rationales and insights from the agriculture sector 解决可持续转型中的物质依赖:来自农业部门的基本原理和见解

IF 3.2 3区社会学

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2021.2022467

L. Pellizzoni, Laura Centemeri

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引用次数: 1

‘No-one visits me anymore’: Low Emission Zones and social exclusion via sustainable transport policy “没人再来看我了”:可持续交通政策带来的低排放区和社会排斥

IF 3.2 3区社会学

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2021.2022465

Eva De Vrij, T. Vanoutrive

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引用次数: 7

Mainstreaming passive houses: more gradual reconfiguration than transition 被动式房屋主流化:更多的是渐进式重构，而不是过渡

IF 3.2 3区社会学

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2021.2019575

Johan Niskanen, H. Rohracher

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引用次数: 2

The scaling up of the tiny house niche in Quebec – transformations and continuities in the housing regime 魁北克微型住宅的规模扩大——住房制度的转变和连续性

IF 3.2 3区社会学

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2021.2022464

Guillaume Lessard

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引用次数: 0

Exploring the interaction between social norms and perceived justice of wind energy projects: a qualitative analysis 探索社会规范和风能项目感知正义之间的相互作用:定性分析

IF 3.2 3区社会学

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2021-12-29 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2021.2020631

Irmak Karakislak, J. Hildebrand, P. Schweizer-Ries

{"title":"Exploring the interaction between social norms and perceived justice of wind energy projects: a qualitative analysis","authors":"Irmak Karakislak, J. Hildebrand, P. Schweizer-Ries","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2021.2020631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.2020631","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The deployment of wind energy projects (WEP) within the process of energy transition changes energy landscapes and daily living environments. With regard to social acceptance as one social response towards WEP, the role of different aspects of justice (i.e. procedural, distributive, recognition) has been discussed. This study highlights the importance of social norms and their influence on perceived justice regarding WEP, which has been neglected in the literature so far. The relationship between social norms and perceived justice is explored as a conceptual framework through a systematic literature review and expert interviews. This framework aims to explain how social norms and their relationship with justice are defined, interlinked and how they affect perceptions of WEP. The results argue that social norms surface in situations where all the key elements of a project are decided without public impact. Thus, norms of fairness emerge under uncertain situations with the influence of similar emotions within groups. Moreover, social norms and perceived justice would explain several responses, such as local conflicts, or the motivation to further develop WEP. This study concludes by discussing the applicability of the framework, which needs further analysis as an analytical tool and deeper empirical investigation.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"43 1","pages":"155 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85891498","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}

引用次数: 7

Policy integration from a practice-theoretical perspective: integrated food policy in the making in two German cities 实践-理论视角下的政策整合:德国两个城市食品政策的整合

IF 3.2 3区社会学

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2021.2015305

J. Baldy, Basil Bornemann, D. Kleinschmit, S. Kruse

引用次数: 1

Governing complex environmental policy mixes through institutional bricolage: lessons from the water-forestry-energy-climate nexus 通过机构拼凑管理复杂的环境政策:从水-林业-能源-气候关系中吸取的教训

IF 3.2 3区社会学

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2021.2015684

Ching Leong, Michael Howlett, Theodore Lai

引用次数: 3

Reconfiguring energy flows: energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks 重新配置能源流:能源电网锁定和区域在塑造电力基础设施网络中的作用

IF 3.2 3区社会学

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2021-12-03 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2021.2008235

Carla De Laurentis, R. Cowell

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引用次数: 4

Biogas at the intersection of agricultural, environment and energy governance: (potentially) conflicting interests and consistent policy framework? 沼气在农业、环境和能源治理的交叉点上:(潜在的)利益冲突和一致的政策框架?

IF 3.2 3区社会学

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2021.2009333

H. Nielsen, A. B. Pedersen

{"title":"Biogas at the intersection of agricultural, environment and energy governance: (potentially) conflicting interests and consistent policy framework?","authors":"H. Nielsen, A. B. Pedersen","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2021.2009333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.2009333","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Many policy issues are interdependent, while much policy making occurs in sector silos, involving sectoral networks each dominated by their own policy ideas and interests. Such parallel policy-making increases the risk of incoherent policy mixes across policy sectors. However, when new policy issues emerge that cut across existing sectors, opening a new policy field, it presents opportunities for a reconfiguration of actors in new networks. Such network reconfigurations could lead to more coherent policies for interdependent policy issues. This paper examines the Danish policy framework to promote biogas, focusing on the consistency of the policy mix with regards to sustainable development of biogas, and how reconfigurations of actor networks across policy sectors have affected the policy mix. We find that the policy mix is coherent, integrating policy objectives across sectors, and show that this owes in part to a policy community type network that evolved over time. The paper contributes to research on policy instrument mixes by showing how certain types of policy networks may contribute to developing consistent policy mixes. We also identify important coordinating roles of two new intermediary actors, including a government task force, suggesting that procedural policy instruments may contribute to developing consistent policy mixes.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"60 1","pages":"472 - 485"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89008831","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}

引用次数: 2

Raising the voice of science in complex socio-political contexts: an assessment of contested water decisions 在复杂的社会政治背景下提高科学的声音:对有争议的水决策的评估

IF 3.2 3区社会学

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Pub Date : 2021-11-29 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2021.2007762

S. Greenhalgh, K. Müller, Steve Thomas, Marsha L. Campbell, T. Harter

{"title":"Raising the voice of science in complex socio-political contexts: an assessment of contested water decisions","authors":"S. Greenhalgh, K. Müller, Steve Thomas, Marsha L. Campbell, T. Harter","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2021.2007762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.2007762","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Agencies are increasingly developing evidence-based policies to manage natural resources. However, the influence of science in policy is not straightforward nor guaranteed. Critiques based on literature meta-analyses or policy-maker interviews suggest deficiencies in science production and delivery with some studies highlighting the importance of human dimensions. In interviews with decision-makers in freshwater policy in New Zealand and California, we investigated barriers to using science in complex and contested policy contexts. Findings highlighted the importance of the science, scientist, decision-maker, and the decision maker’s relationship with the scientist, for improving the influence of science on policy decisions. The influence depended more on the scientist delivering the information and the audience receiving it, than on the nature of the science itself. Frameworks like CRELE (credibility, relevance, legitimacy) and ACTA (applicability, comprehensiveness, timing, accessibility) are essential but outweighed by the human dimensions of policy development. With greater public, industry and NGO oversight of policy debates related to highly contested resources like water, the volume and quality of science for policy has greatly improved, meaning CRELE and ACTA factors have less prevalence. We give three categories of recommendations for improving the use of science in decision-making – science communication, science production and policy processes.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"61 1","pages":"242 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83836904","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}

引用次数: 1