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To innovate and to adapt: Tackling crises in the Ganges delta 创新与适应：应对恒河三角洲的危机

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104235

Sanchayan Nath , Nishat Shermin

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Plastic blindness: Lifting the blindfold through citizen science 可塑性失明：通过公民科学揭开眼罩

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104218

Kate Whitman , Cressida Bowyer , Marta Nieto-Garcia , Georgios Georgiou , Tegan Evans , Stephen Fletcher

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When it rains, it pours: Wastewater infrastructure in the face of natural hazards and social vulnerability 祸不单行：面对自然灾害和社会脆弱性的废水基础设施

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104232

Haoluan Wang , Hao Chen

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Environmental justice through epistemic diversification: A critical reflection on One Health for just environmental public health 认识多样化的环境正义：对“同一个健康”环境公共卫生公正的批判性反思

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104222

Laura Dominique Pesliak , Anton Killin

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Carbon sequestration ought to be permanent on climate-relevant timescales 在与气候相关的时间尺度上，碳封存应该是永久性的

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104223

Stephanie H. Arcusa , Klaus S. Lackner

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The Wetland Explorer: A digital tool for improved community engagement with water quality modelling for decision-making 湿地探索者：一个数字工具，用于改善社区参与，为决策建立水质模型

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104226

Catharina Landström , Helge Peters , Andrew G. Hughes , Christopher R. Jackson , Andrew A. McKenzie , Liam Spencer , Rebecca Turnpenney , John Bryden

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A threat to democracy? Water protests in France and Germany 对民主的威胁？法国和德国的水抗议活动

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104229

Lena Partzsch

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Policy intermediation for agri-food system transition: food policy groups from middle Europe, Australia and United States 农业粮食系统转型的政策中介：来自中欧、澳大利亚和美国的粮食政策团体

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104227

Friederike Elsner , Christian Herzig , Carola Strassner

{"title":"Policy intermediation for agri-food system transition: food policy groups from middle Europe, Australia and United States","authors":"Friederike Elsner , Christian Herzig , Carola Strassner","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104227","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104227","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Food policy groups (FPGs) are locally grounded approaches that engage with agri-food policy and challenge unsustainable practices. Thereby, FPGs intermediate between actors at the interface of civil society, science, policy and practice. As transition intermediaries, FPGs hold the potential to advance sustainability transitions. Yet, both their policy-related functions and the factors shaping their activities warrant closer investigation. Through the prism of transition intermediary research, we investigate the functions, policy priorities, organizational forms and relationships to government that constitute the policy intermediation of FPGs across three geographical contexts. Based on survey data of FPGs (n‎ = 260) across United States, middle Europe (mainly Germany) and Australia, we conduct a mixed-methods analysis, applying qualitative coding and statistical measures. We find that FPGs primarily intermediate in processes of social innovation, characterized by changing practices and social relations, rather than in the facilitation of technological innovations. We identify nine intermediary functions that remain similar across the three geographical contexts but differ from the functions typically associated with intermediation around technological innovations. FPGs engage in empowerment processes, network-building and work towards achieving collective goals. Due to FPGs’ nature as multi-actor platforms, they are conflict-ridden and arbitrate between distinct agri-food actors. The policy priorities, organizational forms and relationships to government differ across the three geographical contexts and thus seem to be context dependent. A stronger linkage to government does not appear to be associated with the policy priorities an FPG focusses on, suggesting that even FPGs with strong connections to government retain their independence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 104227"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145157339","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}

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What motivates local leaders of community forests in Nepal? An examination of leaders’ expressed values and experiences 是什么激励尼泊尔社区森林的当地领导人？对领导者所表达的价值观和经历的考察

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104220

Prabin Bhusal , Rajan Parajuli , Erin Sills , Conghe Song , Gregory E. Frey

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From shadows to spotlight: NGO pollution disclosure and the dual transformation of environmental and tourism landscapes 从阴影到聚光灯：NGO污染披露与环境与旅游景观的双重转型

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104219

Jianxian Wu

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