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{"title":"Balancing stakeholder engagement in climate action: A symbiotic typology approach","authors":"James Badu ,&nbsp;Bjørn Ivar Kruke ,&nbsp;Gunhild Birgitte Sætren","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103953","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103953","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change presents an urgent and complex challenge, demanding immediate and effective action. This conceptual paper uses a narrative approach and a snowballing strategy to examine the intricate balance between stakeholders’ willingness to engage in climate action and their comfort with the resulting changes. We propose a novel typology that draws parallels with three types of ecological symbiotic interactions: parasitism, commensalism, and mutualism. This analogy helps us categorize different stakeholder responses to climate action. Within our typology, mutualism represents actions that benefit both the environment and human society, exemplifying an ideal balance in which stakeholders’ willingness to act aligns with their comfort levels. Commensalism describes scenarios where actions benefit one party without significantly harming the other, yet these actions could sometimes negatively affect stakeholders’ willingness or comfort. Parasitism, conversely, benefits one party at the significant expense of the other, leading to discomfort and reluctance among stakeholders. Our paper contributes to the broader discourse on climate change management, offering a unique lens to understand and influence stakeholder dynamics in climate action and policymaking.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 103953"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142744414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The power of human narrative: Inspiring action on climate change","authors":"Asif Husain-Naviatti","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103954","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103954","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>News reporting on climate catastrophes can be sensational and shocking, and thereby rightly evoke the commensurate sense of enormity and immense challenge inherent in climate change. The global governance solutions, however, present as insufficient to the scale of the problem and hampered by geopolitical, economic, energy resource needs and other complexities. Whether transmitted through the traditional print press, television or modern media, such headlines influence perceptions on climate change either directly, among those choosing to follow climate issues, or else passively. This perspective article acknowledges the potentially powerful role of ordinary people everywhere in driving implementation through personal, household, consumer or producer choices as models of behaviour or through the pressure this brings to bear on leaders and society at large. It looks at how this potential may be affected by the fear engendered by global headlines. Combining this with the inherent political, social, economic and other complexities of climate change, looming deadlines determined by global governance processes, and perceived absence of adequate solutions in those processes, despair can result, which disempowers, undermines agency and deters self-efficacy. Such dissemination of knowledge on the devastating social and environmental consequences of climate change, in apparent absence of adequate solutions, may therefore hinder rather than motivate the efforts and perceptions of ordinary people at grassroots level, individually and collectively, and thus stymy a significant potential driver of mitigation and adaptation implementation. The article suggests that invoking hope, empathy and shared experience in communication on climate change, rather than fear alone, can be potentially far more motivating. It concludes that disseminating stories of human triumph over climate adversities, of which there are many global examples, has the potential to educate, inspire and contribute to driving transformational change at scale, by harnessing the cumulative actions and positive influence of ordinary people, householders, consumers and business owners everywhere. It remains important, at the same time, to also convey the seriousness and realistic concerns for our climate future. This article utilises international news and other publications to illustrate the news coverage of catastrophic climate events and international climate governance processes which address the challenges. It draws upon literature including international agency and academic journal publications to look at relevant aspects of climate communication and examples of positive climate narratives. This perspective article is written from the perspective and observations of a former senior United Nations official with over 25 years’ experience on multilateral governance in sustainable development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 103954"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142744413","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 application of analytical hierarchy process to assess adaptation strategies for flood and landslides risks: A case study of a multi-risk area community","authors":"Diana Caporale ,&nbsp;Anna Rinaldi","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103959","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103959","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The increasing frequency of flood-related emergencies has heightened discussions on climate adaptation and risk management. Despite investments in infrastructure, early warning systems, urban planning improvements, and awareness initiatives, sustained attention and action are essential. The efficacy of preventive measures relies heavily on local community decisions and their cooperation with authorities, impacting the entire risk management cycle. This study investigates the factors influencing flood and landslide adaptation strategies and their perception by citizens in vulnerable areas, aiming to identify key variables that shape citizen behaviour for effective planning and management of adaptation actions. Focusing on Ischia Island, Italy, a multi-risk area, the study applied the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in focus groups to achieve three objectives: i) Highlight the critical role of citizen perceptions in forming adaptation strategies, emphasizing the need for cohesive efforts among policymakers, experts, and communities to enhance resilience. ii) Examine residents' views on flood and landslide risks to understand local concerns and vulnerabilities. iii) Use multi-criteria analysis to evaluate the importance of factors shaping adaptation strategies, providing a systematic framework for decision-making in disaster risk management. Findings reveal an optimism bias in respondents' perceptions of their home security despite recognizing the area's vulnerability and mistrust in authorities. Environmental and social factors are deemed most important, with environmental strategies focused on harm reduction and local environment enhancement, and social strategies emphasizing information dissemination and mortality reduction. This research offers valuable insights into community perceptions and factors influencing adaptation strategies for flood and landslide risks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 103959"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142744415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ontological conflict over forests in Inari/Aanaar: Sámi’s fight for preservation and renewal","authors":"Anna Ott","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103957","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103957","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores the conflict over forests in the Sámi homeland of Northern Finland with a focus on recent events since 2018 and the role of the Forest Steward Council (FSC) certification scheme. Data gathered during fieldwork was analysed utilising narrative analysis and a Political Ontology lens to establish: 1) how the conflict over forests in Finnish Sápmi is an ontological conflict, and 2) how different ontologies were performed into being and with what consequences. Three conflict narratives were identified that highlight different understandings of the conflict. Focusing on these revealed the conflict to be much more than a disagreement over logging, bringing to light ontological politics. It is a conflict in which Sámi defend their world founded on relationality against the Euro-modern world and engage in resisting unwanted interventions to their land and building alternatives to industrial land uses simultaneously. The Euro-modern world finds expression and support in forestry planners dismissing herders’ knowledge of forests, the FSC relying only on measurable indicators to understand forests, and discursive practices invalidating reindeer herding’s dependence on unfragmented pastures. Resolving the conflict requires addressing the root cause, the misrecognition of the connection between the Sámi, reindeer, and the land. Promoting its recognition requires the ratification of ILO169, developing the interpretative capacity of local people, politicians, and officials to make sense of the Sámi’s experience and knowledge, overcoming the principle of overlapping use as a guiding principle to forestry policy, and drawing equally on scientific and Sámi Indigenous knowledge in planning processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 103957"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142702014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Uncertain climate futures: Cultivating 3 A resilience in urban Ghana","authors":"Francisca Agyei ,&nbsp;Michael Osei Asibey ,&nbsp;Patrick Brandful Cobbinah","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103952","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103952","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Whilst scholars have argued that research on urban resilience in Africa is in its infancy, and on climate change in cities evolving, we argue that responses to building resilience fall short of fully embracing the radical potential of community residents’ perspectives. This paper examines the absorptive, anticipatory, and adaptation/adaptive (3 A) capacities and strategies of residents toward building resilience to climate change hazards in an African city. We examine this purpose by focusing on Ahensan, one of the most climate-induced disaster-vulnerable communities in the second largest city in Ghana, Kumasi. Using a qualitative-led mixed methods research approach involving households and key informants’ interviews, findings indicate that strategies employed by households were more anticipatory than absorptive and adaptive. The notable strategies employed include elevating walls and staircases to prevent flood water from entering rooms and temporarily relocating outside the neighbourhood at the onset of rainfall. Limited funds to invest in sustainable strategies, low awareness of social interventions, and poor self-mobilization from residents remain key local barriers impeding 3 A resilience efforts, particularly absorptive and adaptive capacities. Recommendations are further proffered.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 103952"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142702013","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":"A conceptual framework for responding to cross-border climate change impacts","authors":"Sara Talebian ,&nbsp;Magnus Benzie ,&nbsp;Katy Harris ,&nbsp;Łukasz Jarząbek ,&nbsp;Piotr Magnuszewski ,&nbsp;Timothy R. Carter ,&nbsp;Noam Obermeister","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103949","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103949","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change adaptation is most often defined as a local and national governance issue. While the scientific literature recognizes the potential significance of cross-border climate impacts, adaptation responses and strategies are mostly confined within tightly defined sectoral contexts or specific geographical regions. These approaches overlook transmission of impacts across sectors and borders and fail to lay the groundwork for systemic adaptation responses and cross-scale solutions for resilience building. We propose a conceptual framework for identifying and analysing different types of responses to cross-border climate impacts. The response framework provides typologies of cross-border climate impacts and responses and define different configurations of actors who may respond to impacts. A set of alternative governance approaches are then proposed to address different types of cross-border climate impact, potentially minimising undesirable consequences of adaptation responses. The framework offers a sequence of steps to assess historical responses and map policy gaps and under-represented response types, enhancing the design and implementation of adaptation strategies in future. We apply our framework to a historical example, the food affordability crisis in 2010, and a hypothetical case of a global food security crisis in future. We conclude that our framework enhances understanding of responses to cross-border climate impacts and inform policy of a range of response options and governance approaches to reduce and manage risks based on the nature and dynamic of impacts, the level of cross-scale coordination and governance capacities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 103949"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142702012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What is equitable urban forest governance? A systematic literature review","authors":"Kaitlyn Pike ,&nbsp;Lorien Nesbitt ,&nbsp;Tenley Conway ,&nbsp;Susan D. Day ,&nbsp;Cecil Konijnendijk","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103951","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103951","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban forest governance comprises the formal and informal rules, institutions, and processes that influence collective decision-making in urban forest management. As such, it shapes key processes and outcomes that are implicated in urban environmental justice, including whose priorities and values are reflected in urban forest management and how and where urban trees are distributed. However, despite its central role in determining urban forest processes and outcomes, equity within urban forest governance remains obscure. To address this, we conducted a literature review to identify how equitable urban forest governance is conceptualized and evaluated in the literature, and what gaps in knowledge remain. Our review found that while distributional justice was the prevalent framing in the literature, recommendations for collaborative governance approaches reflect a shift towards procedural and recognitional justice. Most studies, however, used a top-down approach to evaluate policy outcomes and few incorporated community experiences or involvement within governance processes, leaving the roles and experiences of community actors underexplored. Our findings suggest that the existing literature has thus far failed to explicitly interrogate procedural and recognitional justice within urban forest governance. This highlights a critical need to more clearly incorporate procedural and recognitional justice themes and approaches into future urban forest governance theory, research, and practice. Based on our review, we offer a guiding analytical framework that identifies key considerations for equitable urban forest governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103951"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"DEA-based index systems for addressing the United Nations’ SDGs","authors":"Vincent Charles,&nbsp;Ali Emrouznejad","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103950","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103950","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a global commitment to tackling pressing challenges such as poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation by 2030. This special issue focuses on applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a tool for measuring and benchmarking progress towards these goals across various sectors. DEA, known for its capacity to handle multiple dimensions of performance, offers a comprehensive framework for assessing the efficiency of different systems in achieving sustainability targets. The 16 papers included in this issue are organised into three thematic sections: Sustainable Efficiency in Resource Management, Environmental and Energy Efficiency for Sustainability, and Governance, Policy, and Social Dimensions of SDG Implementation. Each section explores the application of DEA to key areas such as water management, energy use, waste management, public transport, and governance, providing insights into how DEA-based index systems can drive progress toward achieving the SDGs. The issue also sets a future research agenda, highlighting the need for expanding DEA applications across underrepresented regions and sectors, addressing data challenges, and incorporating dynamic and behavioural factors into DEA models. This collection of papers provides valuable contributions to academics, policymakers, and practitioners working to advance global sustainability efforts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103950"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698991","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":"Anticipatory stakeholder engagement provides insights for gene drive in invasive species through the case of gene drive grey squirrels","authors":"Sarah Hartley ,&nbsp;Robert D.J. Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103939","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103939","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Invasive and non-native species present a major threat to biodiversity, ecosystem services and quality of life that has resulted in calls for more ambitious and radical management approaches. One such approach is gene drive technology that in theory could remove an invasive species from an ecosystem. In 2019, researchers proposed using gene drive technology to remove invasive grey squirrels from the UK. We use this case to explore what expert stakeholders think about gene drive technology and identify key issues that concern them. Through anticipatory stakeholder engagement, we provide the first empirical stakeholder engagement data for gene drive in Europe. Results reveal six prominent matters of concern: The problem to be solved; efficacy of the gene drive; type of gene drive; existing management alternatives; target organism; and public perceptions. We develop these matters of concern into a heuristic capable of providing insights to those funding, developing and governing gene drive technologies for invasive species management, not just in the case of gene drive grey squirrels but for all potential gene drive applications in conservation. Lastly, we argue that such knowledge-focused engagement would be a productive way to shape and govern gene drive trajectories.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103939"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forest owners’ perceptions of machine learning: Insights from swedish forestry","authors":"Joakim Wising ,&nbsp;Camilla Sandström ,&nbsp;William Lidberg","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103945","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103945","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Machine learning is becoming increasingly important in environmental decision-making, particularly in forestry. While forest-owner typologies help in understanding private forest management strategies, they often overlook owners' relationships with technology. This is crucial for ensuring that data-driven advancements in forestry benefit society. Using Swedish forestry policy as a case, we applied Q-methodology to explore forest owners' perceptions of machine learning. We conducted 11 qualitative interviews to generate 33 <strong>statements</strong>, which were then ranked by 26 participants. Inverted factor analysis identified four ideal-type perceptions of machine learning, interpreted through self-determination theory. The first perception views machine learning as unhelpful and socially disruptive. The second sees it as a complement to forest governance. The third expresses no strong opinions reflecting a relative disengagement from forestry. The fourth considers it essential for decision-making, particularly for absentee forest owners. The extracted perceptions align with existing forest owner typologies when it comes to reliance on others and willingness to take advice. The discussion includes concrete policy recommendations, focusing on privacy concerns, educational initiatives, and strategies for communicating uncertainty.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103945"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142657054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}