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{"title":"Out of flood front areas: Wetland restoration may reduce internal displacement","authors":"Leonardo Felipe Bairos Moreira ,&nbsp;Iberê Farina Machado ,&nbsp;Natália Paludo Smaniotto ,&nbsp;Leonardo Maltchik","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104146","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104146","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Heavy rainfall and flooding have triggered record numbers of displacements in southern Brazil. Evidence indicates that human-driven climate change is exacerbating displacement trends in South America. Human factors, including inadequate flood protection systems and wetland degradation for agricultural expansion, further amplified the devastation. The economic toll is staggering, with losses exceeding US$6.1 billion in income and recovery costs estimated at US$7.2 billion. We advocate for a multi-stakeholder approach that integrates wetland restoration, disaster risk financing, and institutional coordination, aligning with existing frameworks such as Brazil’s National Climate Change Policy and Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan. Displacement costs are still not often integrated into national policies and planning. Voluntary relocation, often without minimal support from local governments, is the overall rule in many hazard-exposed communities. Planned relocation is a complex, long-term strategy requiring substantial investment. Options of early warning and shelter may be discouraging where the perceived risk is high. In such cases, state officials may incentivize landowners to abandon lands destined for wetland restoration. Although the idea represents a significant paradigm shift, there are few available options where the river fluctuations are extreme. Beyond relocating at-risk communities, effective flood risk management must incorporate wetland restoration into climate adaptation policies. Lessons from global cases demonstrate the need for structured funding, landowner incentives, and community-driven relocation strategies. As Brazil prepares to host COP30, prioritizing wetland recovery could position the country as a leader in climate resilience while addressing the urgent needs of flood-vulnerable populations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104146"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144329717","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":"SaRVO framework for urban water utilities: Building resilient, liveable, and sustainable cities","authors":"Chandni Bedi ,&nbsp;Arun Kansal ,&nbsp;Pierre Mukheibir","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104135","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>People’s engagement with policies and management systems influences their effectiveness in making cities resilient, liveable and sustainable. It is, therefore, crucial to understand people's perceptions and values. We used a novel Stakeholders and actors, Relationships, Values and Outcomes – Urban Water Management (SaRVO-UWM) framework and fuzzy cognitive mapping to examine the differences in perceptions of, and the values attached to, water as a scarce resource by domestic water users living in three settlement types, namely mainstream areas in cities, slums, and peri-urban areas, within Gurugram City, in the northern Indian state of Haryana in Global South. The perceptions and values were ascertained through FGDs to reveal the participants’ values on the liveability concepts of urban water management systems derived from multiple sources. The assessment revealed the differences in the prioritization of values attached to water among the three groups. The relevant drivers across environmental, social, technical, and economic factors were identified with overlaps between them. The study highlights the need for diverse adaptive strategies, such as investing in a secure water supply and promoting mandatory water harvesting, to improve liveability across different urban settlements. It emphasizes the importance of incorporating water-related traditions into urban water management and suggests effective communication tailored to each settlement to foster pro-planet behaviour. Policymakers are encouraged to develop affordable pricing mechanisms for reliable water use and design localized policies that align with global frameworks, promoting equity in building resilient and sustainable cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104135"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144322462","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":"Negotiating knowledge and action for sustainable rangeland management: Successes and failures of boundary work at the science-policy-society interface in Iceland.","authors":"Jónína S. Þorláksdóttir ,&nbsp;Annemarie van Paassen ,&nbsp;Bryndís Marteinsdóttir ,&nbsp;Isabel C. Barrio ,&nbsp;Ása L. Aradóttir","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104134","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104134","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rangeland degradation due to unsustainable land use is a global concern. In Iceland, livestock overgrazing has contributed to significant degradation and desertification, yet policy and management efforts to align agricultural practices with sustainability goals have fallen short of intended social and ecological outcomes. This study examines four episodes of boundary work in Icelandic rangeland governance between 1997 and 2021, analysing how actor relationships, shifting governance structures, and knowledge integration influenced sustainability outcomes. Findings reveal an initial period of openness, where scientists and policymakers successfully mobilised farmers toward sustainability-oriented actions. Limited knowledge co-production and frequent institutional restructuring, however, disrupted trust-building efforts, weakened legitimacy, and led farmers to increasingly question sustainability criteria, which resulted in policy resistance and contested governance arrangements. Ecological assessments became sources of conflict, reflecting divergent stakeholder understandings of sustainability and knowledge credibility. The episode-based analysis of boundary used within this study demonstrated how credibility, legitimacy, and salience of knowledge evolve over time, shaping governance trajectories. The study highlights the need for stable yet adaptive governance mechanisms that embed participatory knowledge co-production from the outset, explicitly address power-dynamics, and ensure transparency, accountability, and continuous social-ecological monitoring and evaluation. It also demonstrates that participation alone does not guarantee sustainability transformation unless it challenges existing power structures and fosters institutional adaptation. Strengthening scientists’ capacities for transdisciplinary research and knowledge brokerage is essential for promoting more inclusive and effective sustainability governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104134"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144322461","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 typology of water-energy-food nexus research","authors":"J. Leah Jones-Crank","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104131","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104131","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The water-energy-food (WEF) nexus was introduced as an approach to address the combined water, energy, and food security challenges of the late 2000s. As an integrated approach, the WEF nexus combines these three resources together to measure and manage the trade-offs, co-benefits, and relationships between them and to integrate collaboration and policy between their related governance sectors. However, scholars have noted that a key challenge in the literature is a lack of a clear and consistent definition of the WEF nexus. With the volume and diversity of WEF nexus publications, a single definition may no longer be sufficient. Therefore, this perspective article addresses this limitation by developing a typology of the WEF nexus to categorize the framings and definitions of WEF nexus research. This typology provides clarity both in designing future WEF nexus research projects and in categorizing existing research. It develops the typology across two categories: the level of integration within the research design (as multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, or transdisciplinary integration) and the weighting of the three sectors (whether water, energy, and food are all considered equally or whether one sector is emphasized over the other two). By using these two dimensions, this article develops a typology with six categories of the WEF nexus. Scholars may use this typology to accurately and consistently describe and design WEF nexus research within the specific context of their research study.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104131"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144322463","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":"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":"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":"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":"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}