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{"title":"Integrating cultural resources and heritage in climate action: A review of nine climate plans","authors":"Guzman Paloma ,&nbsp;Daly Cathy","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104127","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104127","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the integration of cultural resources into climate governance by identifying key entry points for their inclusion in policy. Analyzing nine national, regional, and municipal climate plans, we assess whether cultural resources function as passive elements or active contributors to sustainable climate action. Using a systematic coding process, we categorize references into three dimensions—conceptualization, policy context, and governance treatment— providing a structured framework for evaluating their role and transformative potential. Seventeen recurring entry points emerge from the analysis, representing key actions that facilitate cultural resource integration into climate planning. These entry points reveal opportunities within governance frameworks to enhance cultural resource management in adaptation, risk reduction, and mitigation strategies. Rather than serving as prescriptive measures, they reflect common policy themes and suggest context-specific pathways to accelerate transformative governance. Our findings confirm widespread recognition of cultural resources in climate action and underscore the importance of stakeholder dialogue and the inclusion of both tangible and intangible cultural elements. However, significant gaps persist, including insufficient monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, weak cross-sectoral integration, and narrow definitions that hinder operationalizing intangible attributes. We conclude that fully leveraging cultural resources for transformative climate governance requires relational, reflexive, and multi-level approaches. Such strategies must optimize cultural resource management within existing governance systems while critically addressing broader unsustainable patterns—structural inequalities, sectoral silos, and rigid policy frameworks—that limit their transformative potential.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104127"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144308166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fixing sustainability through technoscience and diversity: The case of EU agriculture policy","authors":"Mascha Gugganig","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104121","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104121","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sustainability is a conveniently vague boundary term with which a variety of interest groups can identify. Over time, it has grown together with a technoscientific paradigm which demands a closer look at how actors envision science, technology, digitization, and innovation to foster said sustainability, and how the latter has shifted as a result. Sustainability also continues to hold strong value and political weight in the EU, where technoscientific optimism has had a binding effect, particularly in efforts of environmental protection in agriculture (in light of the Green Deal), in an increasingly decentralized political union. This paper discusses these processes in the recent reform of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP; 2023–2027) by focusing on the one hand on how sustainability’s three pillars – the environmental, the social, and the economic – are ‘reconciled,’ and on the other, on the new ‘eco-schemes’ as an instrument to achieve a more sustainable agriculture. Empirical data gleaned from participant observation, expert interviews and policy document analysis show how in EU agriculture policy science, digitization/technology and innovation are imagined as fixtures that cohere these pillars, thereby maintaining a growth paradigm imminent to dominant sustainability discourses. This <em>technoscientific sustainability</em> is also evident in agriculture measures on the ground, in the new eco-schemes, which offer a diversity of farming approaches for EU's member states, ranging from agroforestry to precision farming. In this technocratic instrument, holistic systems, like agroecology, are rendered technical ‘tools’ that member states can combine at will, fostering a <em>politics of toolkit diversity</em> that accommodates diverse farming approaches and philosophies while evading environmental compliance. Scientific epistemology, technical quantification, digital tools and innovation thus act as wider discursive fixture that not only hold together the holy trinity of sustainability, but also accommodates diverse landscapes and member states, and through that the political union of an increasingly decentralized EU.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104121"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144308164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Natural capital approaches to decision-making for collaborative landscape governance","authors":"Jayne H. Glass ,&nbsp;Kerry Waylen ,&nbsp;Mark S. Reed ,&nbsp;Leo Peskett ,&nbsp;Brady Stevens","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104133","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104133","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores if and how natural capital approaches can support collaborative landscape governance. We selected six initiatives across the UK that have taken varied approaches to working with natural capital. We assessed how they have articulated, described and valued their landscapes and natural systems, and the consequences of doing so. We found that processes of systematically describing natural assets and their benefits can stimulate local investment in ecosystem markets and bring people together to co-produce plans. However, efforts to monetarily value natural capital assets were not always necessary: in some cases, new partners and resources were enroled without monetary valuations. These findings challenge the current emphasis on valuation framings in natural capital approaches. They show how natural capital approaches can help address the simultaneous challenges of connecting disparate priorities and securing new funding sources. This offers insights for international efforts to support collaborative landscape governance that delivers multiple benefits for people and nature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104133"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144308165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysing the Global Assembly’s influence: The challenges of linking to the deliberative system of global climate governance","authors":"Wendy Conway-Lamb ,&nbsp;Pierrick Chalaye ,&nbsp;Kari De Pryck ,&nbsp;Stephen Elstub ,&nbsp;Emerson M. Sanchez ,&nbsp;Novieta H. Sari","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104124","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104124","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While there has been a proliferation of climate assemblies in recent years at national and sub-national levels, 2021 saw the world’s first global-scale citizens’ assembly bringing together 100 citizens from across the globe to deliberate about the climate and ecological crisis and present their conclusions at COP26 in Glasgow. The Global Assembly (GA) thus offers a unique chance to examine the opportunities and challenges for a global mini-public seeking to achieve influence in global climate governance. While the GA’s internal qualities have been analysed elsewhere, this paper evaluates the extent to which it achieved its ‘external’ goal of giving ordinary people a voice in global climate governance. Initial verdicts were that it had limited impact, partly due to the logistics of operationalising such an ambitious event and the complexities of global climate governance. Yet these challenges remain, and we argue that any future GA would benefit from a clearer sense of what ‘influence’ means in this global context and the nature of institutional links it requires. This paper compares the organizers’ and assembly members’ perceptions of influence with analysis of the GA’s actual influence, by examining the GA’s efforts to ‘couple’ with institutions of global climate governance, and its contribution to deliberation-making, legitimacy-seeking, and deliberative capacity-building. We conclude that any future global climate assembly needs to recognise global climate governance as a deliberative system, conceptualise dynamics of influence in systemic terms, and seek to build multi-directional links across this system.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104124"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144298106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social network analysis of conservation and one health governance in Madagascar","authors":"Karine L. Mahefarisoa ,&nbsp;Hajaniaina A. Ratsimbazafy ,&nbsp;Ellen Decaestecker ,&nbsp;Leo Delpy ,&nbsp;Jean Hugé ,&nbsp;Nicolas Antoine-Moussiaux ,&nbsp;Raf Aerts","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104132","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104132","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Madagascar, a globally recognised biodiversity hotspot, faces escalating biodiversity loss and zoonotic disease risks. Weak response systems and fragmented governance further exacerbate these threats. This study identifies key conservation and health actors and analyses their connections to understand decision-making and information flow. The findings emphasise the need to integrate One Health into conservation strategies to address interconnected public health and biodiversity challenges. Following the Laumann-Marsden-Prensky framework, a social network analysis (SNA) survey was conducted between March 14 and June 24, 2022. The study involved 30 senior leaders (≥5 years experience) in biodiversity conservation and health in Madagascar. Key network metrics, indegree, outdegree, and eigenvector centrality, identified influential actors, while network density and centralisation assessed structural cohesion. Participants listed collaborators in conservation and health projects and funding sources. The strength of One Health integration and interaction was quantified. Among 287 identified actors, 54.4 % are international entities. SNA shows that foreign organisations dominate collaboration and funding networks in conservation and public health governance, while local government bodies have limited involvement. Only a few stakeholders have effectively integrated the One Health approach into their conservation and health governance practices. These findings highlight a reliance on international actors, primarily due to funding access, with limited local participation. While international support provides crucial resources, greater national and local leadership is essential for the sustainable implementation of One Health. This study provides insights to enhance local involvement in conservation governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104132"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144298105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The political economy of carbon farming: Analyzing agribusiness’ accumulation strategy and the imaginary of soil carbon markets","authors":"Sarah Hackfort ,&nbsp;Tobias Haas","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104123","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104123","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global food regime plays a significant role in accelerating the climate crisis. Carbon Farming (CF) has emerged as a new strategy aimed at reducing emissions and removing carbon from the atmosphere. Major agribusiness corporations, such as BASF, Bayer, Cargill, Corteva, Syngenta, and Yara International, are driving the development and promotion of CF schemes as part of climate-smart agriculture. In this paper, we analyze their motivations, approaches, and the material and discursive practices behind this from a Cultural Political Economy perspective. Using a qualitative analysis of documents, websites and interviews we identify <em>infrastructuring, assetization</em> and <em>incorporation</em> as foundational components of the accumulation strategy, while <em>robust carbon measurement, soil carbon markets</em>, and <em>co-benefits</em> are key components of the imaginary related to CF. We conclude that although the concept of CF remains somewhat vague, it resonates with problematic patterns seen in other sectors, particularly regarding incumbency and the risk of mitigation deterrence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104123"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144291514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“In agriculture 1+1 does not equal 2”: Re-configurations and frictions around the implementation of the Digital Farm Book","authors":"Paloma Yañez Serrano ,&nbsp;Lucía Argüelles Ramos","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104128","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104128","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drawing on insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Feminist Political Ecology (FPE), this qualitative study emphasises the importance of integrating everyday and embodied dimensions to understand agriculture’s digitalisation. We explore reactions and dynamics around the implementation of a Digital Farm Book (DFB) in Spain as a key practice of the turn to “farming by numbers”, an agribiopolitical regime that aims at managing agriculture as a calculable environment. We do so by paying special attention to farmers’ embodied knowledge and their diverse forms of collecting, interpreting, or questioning data as well as changes in everyday practices and relations at the farm. We found that the DFB brings several re-arrangements which farming actors find challenging. We organize these “frictions” around three main aspects: the depreciation of sensorial, tacit, and experiential knowledge; the shifting roles and new practices favouring particular agrarian structures; and the contested conceptions around environmental sustainability. Yet, farmers and technicians do not fully reject the digital tools, nor data collection or data-driven knowledge. It is mostly the rigidity and standardization of the DFB that makes its adoption and integration challenging. In turn, we show how farming actors’ multiple knowledges around farming and data enrich our understanding of agricultural systems and highlight in the limits and challenges of agriculture’s digitalisation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104128"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144298104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Drivers of water use change: A multiscale integrated analysis for 13 European countries","authors":"Valeria Andreoni","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104117","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104117","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, the water metabolism of 13 European countries and the main drivers of water use are analysed for the time period 2010–2020. By combining the MuSIASEM approach and an index decomposition technique, the water changes of countries is investigated through sectoral disaggregation, human time allocation and GDP generation. Compared to existing studies, the proposed methodology allows the integration of information across levels and domains and is suitable to analyse the water use in relation to the socio-economic characteristics of countries. The results of this study, show that the EU integration strategies and the policy initiatives aiming to improve the water management of the Member States have contributed to the water efficiency increase. However, consumer responsibility and demand related strategies are also needed, as GDP change was the main driver of water use. The proposed methodology is suitable to be replicated across different geographical areas, as it compares the water use in relation to the specific characteristics of countries. Given the rising challenges imposed by climatic changes further analyses are needed to investigate how efficiency and demand-related policies can be used to support the transition from a crisis to a risk management strategy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104117"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144270378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How to promote the integrative ability of transdisciplinary graduate students","authors":"René Eschen ,&nbsp;Sanford Eigenbrode ,&nbsp;Troy Hall ,&nbsp;Marisa Rinkus ,&nbsp;Urs Schaffner ,&nbsp;Michael O’Rourke","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104114","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104114","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>By integrating the insights of academic researchers and stakeholders from outside the academy, transdisciplinary research promises to help address complex challenges that threaten the safety and well-being of people the world over. This promise has led to the development of systematic efforts to train graduate students to conduct transdisciplinary research, and there is increasing interest in transdisciplinary education in the graduate training literature. This article discusses the promotion of integrative ability in transdisciplinary graduate students, focusing specifically on an educational approach that fostered transdisciplinary skills in a complex, transdisciplinary, international and multi-year project dealing with invasive alien woody plant species in eastern Africa, the “Woody Weeds” Project. Graduate students in the project were expected to collaborate with each other, with senior scientists, and with stakeholders in several work packages to conduct research addressing the project’s goals. Research success required integrating perspectives across many differences, including different disciplines, institutions, languages, nations, and cultures. The Woody Weeds graduate student training program was designed to help students meet integration challenges across these categories of difference. Using the Woody Weeds training program as a framework, we offer a set of ideas for others interested in designing programs that can produce graduate students capable of conducting international, transdisciplinary research by fostering the <em>integrative consciousness</em> of individual students and the <em>integrative capacity</em> of student teams. We critically assess the extent to which the training program enhanced integrative ability using interviews with participants, outputs of the project, and the author team’s experiences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104114"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144270377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the complex nexus of climate change, food security, and public health: A scientific perspective through bibliometric analysis","authors":"Nurul Izzati Mohd Ali ,&nbsp;Nur Syamimi Mohamad ,&nbsp;Nurul Izzaty Hassan ,&nbsp;Zein Kallas ,&nbsp;Muhammad Adzran Che Mustapa ,&nbsp;Kuok Choy Lam ,&nbsp;Kadaruddin Aiyub ,&nbsp;Sharif Shofirun Sharif Ali ,&nbsp;Najwa Imani Mohd Ali","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104118","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104118","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change poses a significant threat to food security and public health, with potential impacts on nutrition, food safety, and the spread of diseases. Through a comprehensive bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer software and Scopus database algorithms spanning the years 2007–2023, this study aims to explore the complex interactions among public health, food security, and climate change. Key disciplinary intersections were identified in Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Medicine, and Social Sciences. Scarborough, P., stood out as a notable contributor. The research landscape on this multifaceted nexus was explored through co-occurrence network mapping and keyword cluster classification. As a result, six primary research clusters were delineated, including climate change vulnerability and health adaptation, climate-resilient agriculture for sustainable food security, balancing nutrition and environmental footprint; epidemiological insights based on climate, dietary, and gender changes, aquaculture’s role in global food systems and public health, and food insecurity-public health challenges. This thorough analysis reveals the current research trends, ranging from general viewpoints on food security and climate change to more focused domains like agriculture, the environment, human health, and nutrition, frequently mediated by adaption techniques. Furthermore, the results underscore the need for interdisciplinary cooperation and stakeholder involvement in the execution of successful sustainability initiatives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104118"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144239416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}