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{"title":"To speak truth as, with, and through power: Co-producing knowledge politics of a just transition with Swedish citizens and trade unions","authors":"Tatiana Sokolova","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104166","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104166","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Just transitions necessitate democratic interfaces where knowledge and action are co-produced by researchers and societal actors. However, the risk of delegitimisation due to being seen as politically involved makes co-production of research with non-academic actors an Augean undertaking for researchers. Co-production efforts have been critiqued for inattention to relational and power dynamics and reproduction of simplistic linear models of connecting knowledge to action – ‘speaking truth to power’. Such critique necessitates nuancing the understandings of co-production and the relationship of truth and power it generates. To this end, this paper investigates how two understandings of co-production, as a collaborative process and a sociopolitical phenomenon, are connected in praxis through a layer of normative ideals and theories of societal change held by researchers and societal actors. This connection is explored through the analysis of two knowledge-action interfaces: the climate citizens’ assembly and the training programme for trade union executives run by a Swedish policy-relevant research programme. The two interfaces explicate the complexity of knowledge politics aimed at democratically embedding scientific research in a political conjuncture which is not conducive to ambitious climate policy. The challenges facing the researchers are the clashing ideas of justice, sectoral and political heterogeneity of trade unions, polarisation, and climate backlash. They try to overcome these through designing processes where the ideas of truth are complexly connected to various forms of power: speaking truth as, with, and through power. The paper opens the black box of co-production, showing how research shapes and is shaped by norms, values, and theories of societal change of the different actors involved in the process, and how co-production is structured and legitimised in response to its sociopolitical context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104166"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144656587","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":"Opportunities to better integrate inland fish and fisheries in multilateral environmental agreements","authors":"Abigail J. Lynch ,&nbsp;Devin Bartley ,&nbsp;T. Douglas Beard, Jr. ,&nbsp;Gabriel Borba ,&nbsp;Steven J. Cooke ,&nbsp;Ian G. Cowx ,&nbsp;Vittoria Elliott ,&nbsp;Holly Embke ,&nbsp;Edith Gondwe ,&nbsp;Zeb Hogan ,&nbsp;Jonathan G. Low ,&nbsp;Jamie C. Madden ,&nbsp;Sui Phang ,&nbsp;Emma D. Rice ,&nbsp;Nicholas Sievert ,&nbsp;Gretchen L. Stokes ,&nbsp;Leonard Akwany ,&nbsp;Edward H. Allison ,&nbsp;Robert Arlinghaus ,&nbsp;Robert Arthur ,&nbsp;Cassie M. VanWynen","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104089","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104089","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Inland fish and fisheries are globally important to environmental function and human services, yet their persistent lack of recognition in global agreements, especially multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), may hinder progress towards biodiversity conservation and human well-being. The connection between inland fish, fisheries, and their ecosystems means that addressing the needs of fish directly offers opportunities to meet multiple global commitments and provide indicators of progress towards many global goals. In this perspective, we highlight opportunities to better integrate inland fish and fisheries into MEAs, specifically the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Convention on Wetlands (commonly known as the Ramsar Convention), Convention on Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS), Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), and World Heritage Convention (WHC). Greater attention on inland fish and fisheries through MEAs could help ensure more holistic planning, investment, and conservation of these important fish and fisheries, their biodiversity, the essential resources they provision, and the environments they inhabit.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104089"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144656586","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":"Urban-rural interdependencies from an Earth system’s view – Principles and perspectives leading to new integrative and transformative research","authors":"Barbara Warner ,&nbsp;Annette Piorr ,&nbsp;Hans-Peter Grossart ,&nbsp;Mike Müller-Petke ,&nbsp;Jochen Schanze ,&nbsp;Georg Schiller","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104165","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104165","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent advances in the Earth system sciences have enabled cross-scale analyses of the socio-ecological crisis of the Anthropocene. At the same time, research on the regional urban-rural interrelations has revealed mutual interdependencies, particularly referring to natural resource flows. While the Earth system sciences focus on the cumulative effects of human activities on the Earth system as well as the site-specific societal impacts of the Earth system change, there is little research on the specific potentials of utilizing urban-rural synergies for foster the sustainability of the Anthropocene. Based on the thematic examples of food, material, water and land use, the paper derives three fundamental principles: ‘circularity’, ‘spatial justice’ and ‘participation’. Two heuristic perspectives are considered particularly instructive to consistently address these three principles: ‘socio-ecological system thinking’ and ‘framing and governance’. In order to advance knowledge about these three principles and the two perspectives, an expansion of the existing research agendas is proposed. First, this covers the development of interdisciplinary frameworks that enable consistent description of the complex and dynamic urban-rural interdependencies and their interlinkages with the Earth system. Second, it involves the derivation of scientific references for regional targets embedded in the context of Earth boundaries and global societal goals. Third, transformative research needs to examine governance structures to enable common or shared frameworks. These should be used to design and monitor effective implementation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104165"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144656588","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 afterlife of a ghost-written paper: How corporate authorship shaped two decades of glyphosate safety discourse","authors":"Alexander A. Kaurov ,&nbsp;Naomi Oreskes","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104160","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104160","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Corporate ghost-writing is a form of scientific fraud: a paper is falsely presented as the work of people other than its actual authors. When such papers circulate, they undermine the integrity of scientific research and policy decisions based wholly or in part on that research. This paper examines the impact of a single ghost-written study, Williams, Kroes, and Munro (2000) (WKM2000), published in <em>Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology</em>. The paper was crafted by Monsanto to support claims of the safety of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup. Despite revelations of its ghostwritten nature in the Monsanto Papers, the paper has not been retracted and continues to be cited. Using a case study approach, we trace the impact of WKM2000 across three domains. We find that WKM2000 has exerted considerable influence over two decades, shaping public understanding, scientific discourse, and policy decisions. WKM2000 has been frequently cited on Wikipedia to support the safety of glyphosate; attempts to contextualize its ghostwritten origins have been repeatedly reversed or removed, illustrating how corporate-sponsored science infiltrates public knowledge platforms. An analysis of policy and governance documents citing WKM2000 revealed that the vast majority referenced it uncritically. In academic literature, WKM2000 is in the top 0.1 % by citation count among papers discussing glyphosate, indicating broad uptake, with minimal acknowledgment of conflict of interest. Our findings underscore the need for stricter journal policies to screen and retract ghostwritten papers, in order to safeguard science integrity, as well as public health and safety.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104160"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144656583","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":"What’s the concern about persistent chemicals? Insights from a Delphi study","authors":"Karen Thiele ,&nbsp;Hilde Tobi ,&nbsp;Silke Gabbert","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104109","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104109","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Persistent chemicals are in the focus of regulators owing to their potential for long-term impacts on the environment and on human health. Since these impacts are difficult to predict and empirical data on their risks and effects is scarce, expert knowledge is a source of information that can facilitate a prioritisation of persistent chemicals for regulatory action. This Delphi study explored experts’ opinions on what kind of information is considered to be relevant to specify the concern associated with persistent chemicals. In addition, we asked experts to rate the importance of different factors of persistent chemicals to characterise the concern. Results show that experts considered a wide range of factors important, with factors related to the temporal and spatial scale of pollution as well as related to the severity of potential impacts receiving the highest ratings. The agreement among experts was relatively low, which may partly result from their different professional backgrounds, including different affiliations and geographic regions. When asked about recently emerging topics in the risk management of persistent chemicals, the majority of participants considered PMT chemicals to be of equal concern as PBT/vPvB chemicals. Also, they supported that ‘extreme persistence’ needs to be distinguished from the current regulatory definitions of ‘persistent’ and ‘very persistent’. Overall, the results of this Delphi study imply that for the effective risk management of persistent chemicals regulators should base their decisions on a broader range of information than exclusively focussing on a limited set of hazard criteria.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104109"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144633155","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 vulnerability in regional climate adaptation planning in Europe – Conceptions, operationalisations and shared challenges","authors":"Mette Juhl Jessen ,&nbsp;Christian Fertner ,&nbsp;Ole Fryd","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104161","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104161","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Attention to social vulnerability in relation to climate change has grown, but its incorporation into adaptation planning practice remains underexplored. This study examines how social vulnerability is conceptualised and operationalised in regional climate adaptation planning across 12 European regions, and analyses interregional challenges to inform a socially just transition. Empirically, the study gathers data from stakeholders across 12 European regions, within partner institutions involved in the EU Horizon project Regions4Climate. The study follows a three-phase approach: (1) a written survey (2) 12 semi-structured focus group interviews with stakeholders (planners, government officials, researchers and consultants), and (3) a thematic analysis. This study articulates the perspectives of planners, government officials, researchers and consultants from within planning processes, to bridge the gap between index-oriented theoretical contributions and the planning practices. Findings show that while social vulnerability is gaining attention, it remains a novel and ambiguous concept in the climate adaptation planning process, with varying definitions, foci and indicators employed. There are tendencies to disassociate climate adaptation planning and social vulnerability concerns and limited formalised approaches to identification and involvement of socially vulnerable groups. Shared challenges related to involvement in regional climate adaptation processes generally, and of socially vulnerable groups specifically, are found across the regions. Key questions to advance social vulnerability considerations in regional climate adaptation planning are formulated. These address: Contextual understandings; explicit articulation of social vulnerability concerns; representation in plans and planning processes; structures and resources; cross-sectoral collaboration; and mediation of involvement in abstract, long-term and large-scale regional climate adaptation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104161"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144632476","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":"Interdisciplinary solutions to enable nature-based solutions for coastal protection achieve ecological and engineering outcomes","authors":"Alice J. Twomey ,&nbsp;Katherine Erickson ,&nbsp;Melanie J. Bishop ,&nbsp;Kris Boody ,&nbsp;David P. Callaghan ,&nbsp;Toni Cannard ,&nbsp;Catherine E. Lovelock ,&nbsp;Mariana Mayer-Pinto ,&nbsp;Rebecca L. Morris ,&nbsp;Andrew W.M. Pomeroy ,&nbsp;Megan I. Saunders ,&nbsp;Andy Steven ,&nbsp;Nathan J. Waltham ,&nbsp;Ana Bugnot","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104157","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104157","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Nature-based solutions (NbS) present a promising approach to coastal protection, leveraging the natural capacity of coastal ecosystems to mitigate hazards. Despite their potential, the practical implementation of NbS faces obstacles, including a lack of clear guidance for design and implementation. In this study, we conducted interviews with 34 practitioners involved in NbS projects for coastal protection to (1) identify key perceived barriers and suggested/or realised solutions and (2) assess how these varied among practitioner groups, spanning Coastal Engineers, Coastal Engineering Scientists, Ecologists, and/or Project Managers. During the interviews, practitioners identified 34 distinct challenges to NbS implementation, falling into 14 categories and 345 solutions into 15 categories. Both challenges and solutions varied between practitioner groups. While all groups identified unfamiliarity with NbS as a key challenge, Coastal Engineers and Coastal Engineering Scientists had more design-focused views about NbS challenges (e.g. risk, technical guidelines and data deficits) and solutions (e.g. hybrid solutions). In contrast, Ecologists and Project Managers typically had more implementation-focused challenges (e.g. cost/lack of funding) and opportunity-driven solutions (e.g. community acceptance and education). The solutions most suggested by Coastal Engineers were for hybrid solutions, whereas Coastal Engineering Scientists suggested interdisciplinary teams. The anthropocentric-ecocentric gap between engineers and ecologists highlights the need for NbS teams to be interdisciplinary and utilise standardised language. Overcoming challenges to NbS will also require advocacy for government support and policy reform, along with early, meaningful engagement and capacity building with Indigenous people, which was identified as a crucial solution to current NbS challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104157"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144614846","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 local and Indigenous knowledge with sustainable development goals in lithium mining impact assessment for a fair energy transition","authors":"Andrea E. Izquierdo ,&nbsp;Marina Mautner ,&nbsp;Romina Díaz Gomez ,&nbsp;Florencia Nieva ,&nbsp;Lucrecia Estigarribia ,&nbsp;Laura Forni","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104155","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104155","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy has accelerated the extraction of minerals critical to energy transmission and storage, including lithium—raising pressing questions of socio-environmental justice, particularly for Indigenous and local communities. While global frameworks for impact assessment exist to work towards sustainable development, they fail to reflect the values, priorities, and knowledge systems of these communities. This study foregrounds Indigenous and local knowledge to identify socio-environmental impacts of lithium mining in the Argentinian High Andean Plateau and to propose locally grounded indicators aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To achieve this, we 1) identify and classify the socio-environmental impacts of lithium extraction in the region reported in scientific literature; 2) explore local and Indigenous knowledge regarding these impacts; and 3) identify local indicators of these impacts aligned with the UN SDGs to inform policy decisions. The literature review identified 15 impacts of lithium mining, which were then verified through a survey of four local and indigenous communities. Through the specific local impacts reported, we propose potential indicators to measure them. By analyzing these locally relevant indicators against the UN SDGs, we found that the local indicators contribute to all but one of the UN SDGs. However, there were some local indicators that did not have corresponding global goals, revealing that local knowledge is not necessarily represented in global policies. Overall, this research consists of an iterative process to contribute to a more equitable, sustainable, and fair energy transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104155"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144581374","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":"Conceptualizing the state of the art of social license to operate: A visualization-based word frequency analysis","authors":"Yu Chen ,&nbsp;Xiaoyan Luo ,&nbsp;Min Xu ,&nbsp;Bo Xia ,&nbsp;Yongjian Ke ,&nbsp;Martin Skitmore ,&nbsp;Yong Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104163","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social license to operate (SLO) has emerged as a key concept in understanding the relationships between communities, businesses, and governments, particularly in industries with significant social and environmental impacts. This study conducts a systematic literature review to examine the status quo, trends, and gaps in research into SLO. A systematic process involving a two-phase word frequency analysis and search of research topics helps to identify core research clusters and reduced subjectivity in hotspot detection. The analysis revealed four major thematic areas: SLO measures, Factors affecting SLO, access mechanisms to SLO, and Spatio-temporal dynamic evolution. Findings highlight clear disparities in SLO knowledge production between the Global North and the Global South, with SLO-related research concentrated in developed Western countries represented by Australia, Canada, Netherlands, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Based on the above discussion, this study proposes four directions for future research, and these insights offer a roadmap for advancing the theoretical and practical understanding of SLO across diverse contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104163"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144581373","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":"Climate justice: A view from the Latin American context","authors":"Gabriela Guevara-Cue","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104156","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104156","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate justice critically integrates ethical, social, and political dimensions into climate change discourse, recognizing its disproportionate impacts on vulnerable populations and intensifying pre-existing inequalities. This article argues that operationalizing climate justice in Latin America requires fundamentally decentering Global North frameworks, rigorously addressing socio-historical injustices, prioritizing Indigenous knowledge, and fostering inclusive institutional arrangements. Latin America's unique context, marked by colonialism, extractives’, and deep-seated social inequality, fundamentally shapes its understanding of justice and creates distinct vulnerabilities. Implementing climate justice faces significant challenges, including weak regulatory frameworks, economic dependencies perpetuating extractives’ practices, and the marginalization of Indigenous knowledge systems. These issues necessitate a political redefinition of justice beyond compensation, challenging structural power asymmetries that benefit extractive industries at the expense of local communities. Effective strategies must embrace a multifaceted approach, emphasizing procedural and cognitive justice through participatory governance and integrating diverse epistemologies. Ultimately, achieving genuine climate justice in Latin America demands a paradigm shift towards development models prioritizing socio-ecological well-being, confronting systemic inequalities, and ensuring that climate action leads to truly equitable outcomes rather than exacerbating historical injustices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104156"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144571901","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}