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Understanding how landscape value and climate risk discourses can improve adaptation planning: Insights from Q-method 了解景观价值和气候风险论述如何改善适应规划：Q 方法的启示

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103947

Malcolm S. Johnson , Vanessa M. Adams , Jason A. Byrne

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The multiple meanings of knowledge in scholarship at the science-policy interface 科学政策界面学术研究中知识的多重含义

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103948

Nicole Klenk

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Flood data platform governance: Identifying the technological and socio-technical approach(es) differences 洪水数据平台治理：确定技术和社会技术方法的差异

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103938

Mahardika Fadmastuti , David Nowak , Joep Crompvoets

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Articulating futures: Community storylines and assisted ecosystem adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef 阐明未来：大堡礁的社区故事情节和辅助生态系统适应性

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103944

Gillian Paxton , Stewart Lockie , Vincent Backhaus

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Insights into the public engagement of coastal geoscientists 沿海地球科学家公众参与的启示

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103943

Ana Matias , Bruno Pinto , Neide P. Areia , A. Rita Carrasco

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Navigating the pathway from collaborative governance to impacts under uncertainty: A theory of change for watershed visions 从合作治理到不确定情况下的影响：流域愿景的变革理论

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103937

Päivi Haapasaari , Mika Marttunen , Veera Salokannel , Jukka Similä

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A wake-up call? A review of inequality based on the forest-related higher education literature 警钟？基于与森林有关的高等教育文献的不平等审查

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103942

Pipiet Larasatie , Emily Jones , Eric Hansen , Siegfried Lewark

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A database on pharmaceuticals in the environment: What do stakeholders need? 环境中的药物数据库：利益相关者需要什么？

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103946

Cristiana Cannata , Rodrigo Vidaurre , Ad M.J. Ragas , Caroline T.A. Moermond

{"title":"A database on pharmaceuticals in the environment: What do stakeholders need?","authors":"Cristiana Cannata , Rodrigo Vidaurre , Ad M.J. Ragas , Caroline T.A. Moermond","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103946","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103946","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pharmaceutical pollution has raised concerns about how these contaminants affect ecosystems. Data to assess the environmental risk of pharmaceuticals exist but are dispersed and not always publicly accessible. To address this issue, the European Commission recently proposed to develop a data source for human medicinal products, involving relevant stakeholders, including healthcare and industry representatives. The aim of our study was to define the user requirements for such a database on pharmaceuticals in the environment (PiE). We reached out to over 100 professionals that work on PiE, asking what data should be incorporated in the database and what features it should have. The results show that most stakeholders are affected by data gaps, mainly related to ecotoxicity, monitoring, transformation products, metabolites and removal rates in wastewater treatment plants. Interest in the mechanism of action of active pharmaceutical ingredients was specifically expressed by the pharma sector, including stakeholders related to the authorisation, production and use of medicines. Researchers and stakeholders dealing with environmental and water quality have greater interest for mass spectrum data, modelled environmental concentrations and data on transformation products and metabolites. While showing that the key actors working on PiE strongly endorse the development of an accessible and transparent database, we provide recommendations for creating such a data repository on pharmaceuticals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103946"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142657035","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}

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Mapping barriers to food, energy, and water systems equity in the United States 绘制美国粮食、能源和水系统公平的障碍图

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103941

Haleigh N. Summers , Tiffanie F. Stone , Loulou C. Dickey , Chris R. Rehmann , Emily K. Zimmerman , John C. Tyndall , Lu Liu

{"title":"Mapping barriers to food, energy, and water systems equity in the United States","authors":"Haleigh N. Summers , Tiffanie F. Stone , Loulou C. Dickey , Chris R. Rehmann , Emily K. Zimmerman , John C. Tyndall , Lu Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103941","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103941","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Barriers to affordable, accessible, high-quality food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) harm social equity. Connections within and across FEWS suggest that co-occurring barriers to equity can compound vulnerability. We hypothesized that barriers to FEW resources are strongly associated with geographic location, both within and across FEWS, as they rely heavily on localized sociopolitical and natural environments. This study explored the geographic relationships between FEWS barriers and social equity through a spatial analysis of census tracts within the United States. Cluster analyses showed that all FEWS barriers had a positive spatial autocorrelation (Moran's I = 0.12–0.94), with energy barriers being the most spatially clustered and affordability barriers being the least spatially clustered. In 54 % of census tracts, we observed the co-occurrence of low barriers to water quality and access. Barriers to FEWS affordability almost always co-occurred in parallel (e.g., high barriers to affordability in one system co-occurred with high barriers to affordability in another system). Finally, we developed a spatial index of the barriers to FEWS equity to determine vulnerability at the census tract scale, which had a positive spatial autocorrelation (Moran's I = 0.41). Clusters and intersections of FEWS equity barriers suggest that resources are interconnected, resulting in additional challenges for people living in these areas. The maps of barriers to equity in FEWS are useful tools that could help stakeholders (e.g., federal agencies, city planners, utilities) distribute FEWS resources fairly and begin engagement with communities about FEWS barriers in their local context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103941"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142657033","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}

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Sámi trust in hydropower governance: A survey study 萨米人对水电管理的信任：调查研究

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103918

Katarina Inga , Peter M. Rudberg , Rasmus Kløcker Larsen

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