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{"title":"Corrigendum to “Challenges and perceptions of natural resource management among the Awajún and Wampis indigenous communities: A socioeconomic, cultural, political, and environmental analysis” [Environ. Sci. Policy, 180 (2026) 104402]","authors":"Guido Ayay-Arista , Segundo G. Chavez , Sebanias Cuja-Quiac , Cesar Gabriel Conde-Rios , José Octavio Ruiz-Tejada","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104411","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"180 ","pages":"Article 104411"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148178620","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":"Challenges and perceptions of natural resource management among the Awajún and Wampis indigenous communities: A socioeconomic, cultural, political, and environmental analysis","authors":"Guido Ayay-Arista ,&nbsp;Segundo G. Chavez ,&nbsp;Sebanias Cuja-Quiac ,&nbsp;Cesar Gabriel Conde-Rios ,&nbsp;José Octavio Ruiz-Tejada","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104402","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104402","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Natural resource management in indigenous communities is crucial for territorial sustainability, especially in contexts of increasing external pressure, ecological transformation, and sociocultural change. This study focused on the Awajún and Wampis communities in northern Peru, with the aim of identifying the specific challenges and perceptions they face in managing their natural resources, considering socio-economic, cultural, political, legal, and environmental barriers. A qualitative approach was used, under a phenomenological design, through semi-structured interviews with 18 community authorities, intentionally selected for their experience and leadership in self-management and conservation processes. Thematic analysis revealed a cross-cutting presence of structural factors that limit environmental sustainability and indigenous autonomy. Among the main challenges identified were deforestation, the expansion of illegal mining, weak implementation of intercultural public policies, the progressive loss of ancestral knowledge, and limited community participation in decision-making about their territories. Intergenerational tensions regarding the role of young people in conservation were also identified, as well as a critical perception of the passive role of the state. The graphical visualizations showed a high degree of interrelation between ecological and sociocultural factors, especially between climate change, environmental degradation, and the weakening of indigenous governance. In conclusion, the findings suggest the need to strengthen community participation in environmental management, revitalize ancestral knowledge, foster inter-institutional alliances, and design intercultural policies that recognize and respect the indigenous worldview. This study provides key inputs for the formulation of sustainable strategies aimed at territorial strengthening and the defense of the natural and cultural heritage of indigenous peoples.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"180 ","pages":"Article 104402"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148178630","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":"From communities to policy: Transdisciplinary lessons from the Global South","authors":"Laila Sandroni,&nbsp;Marcel Bursztyn,&nbsp;Renata Távora,&nbsp;Juliana Dalboni","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104405","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104405","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The international scientific community has made outstanding progress in integrating diverse academic disciplines to tackle complex sustainability problems. The challenge of our time is integrating non-academic knowledge from the \"real world\" towards transdisciplinary research. Further examination of transdisciplinary projects implemented in the Global South is crucial for identifying what challenges stand out in relation to the transdisciplinary literature, mostly based on experiences held in the global north. This article aims to help fill this gap by transversally analyzing the experience of more than 100 researchers across 6 study sites, who have contributed to a 7-year-long project in Brazil, focusing on the socio-environmental dynamics of communities vulnerable to climate change. We present the recurring challenges and opportunities recognized by the researchers involved in the project and reflect on their interaction with different types of societal actors. We recognize that many of the key points highlighted by the researchers reflect characteristics that are common to transdisciplinary practice elsewhere but that one critical component emerges: the urge felt by researchers in translating local demands into policy. We argue that a crucial benefit of transdisciplinary science in contexts where marginalized populations have little to no access to public policy and decision making is the production of bridges that create communication flows from communities to policy. We conclude by advocating for the role of transdisciplinary research in translating grassroots demands into climate action and indicating pathways for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"180 ","pages":"Article 104405"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148178627","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":"Reimagining water governance through feminist perspectives: Women’s everyday experiences in the Toltén Hydrosocial Territory, Southern Chile","authors":"Maite Hernando-Arrese,&nbsp;María Ignacia Ibarra,&nbsp;Paola Bolados","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104408","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104408","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines water governance challenges in Indigenous and rural areas of the Araucanía region, southern Chile, through the lens of feminist political ecology and decolonial feminist perspectives. Amid a prolonged megadrought and escalating water scarcity, the Chilean government faces growing pressure to transform its model of water governance. Drawing on field research conducted with women leaders of rural drinking water committees and cooperatives, social movements, and peasant women in the Toltén hydrosocial territory in southern Chile, this study critically examines how dominant colonial systems of thinking and governing water have marginalized women’s contributions. The research reveals how these women navigate and reimagine water governance through place-based initiatives rooted in Indigenous Mapuche cosmovision and women’s hope to create alternative futures. It explores their struggles to access water, their roles in decision-making, the transmission of ancestral knowledge, collaborative water management practices, and their visions for sustainable water futures. By engaging in community-based water management organizations, defending small-scale family farming, and implementing solutions like rainwater harvesting and artificial wetlands, women emerge as protagonists shaping alternative socioecological futures. This paper argues that bringing feminist political ecology and decolonial feminist approaches into dialogue advances water governance scholarship by foregrounding gendered, political, and territorial relations as constitutive of governance. In doing so, it emphasizes the need for unlearning neoliberal technocratic frameworks that treat water as a manageable resource detached from social, territorial, and relational worlds, while undoing colonial forms of water governance that marginalize Indigenous and women’s relational ways of knowing and governing water.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"180 ","pages":"Article 104408"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148178628","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":"Unlearning and undoing modernity-coloniality in an entangled and unravelling world: Toward relational and emergent governance","authors":"Ramcilovic-Suominen Sabaheta ,&nbsp;Jessica Böhme ,&nbsp;Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104404","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104404","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores pathways for unlearning and undoing modernity-coloniality in policy, through a trialogue between scholars drawing from political ontology, relational ontology, and practical eko-philosophy. We argue that conventional mechanistic policymaking fails to address the contemporary metacrises, which we argue require ethico-onto-politico-epistemological shifts from singular worlds to pluriverse. We examine the possibilities and pathways for unlearning and undoing modernity-coloniality in and through policy, asking specifically whether that requires undoing the state and state policy, and what role do predefined policy goals play. Our analysis reveals the need for simultaneous deconstruction of modernist assumptions and reconstruction of relational alternatives. Key pathways include (i) questioning dominant ethico-onto-politico-epistemological assumptions; (ii) reimagining the state as \"ontological negotiator\"; and (iii) abandoning fixed endpoints for cultivating conditions for pluriversal life-sustaining relations. Our work is inspired by eko-philosophy, Eastern philosophies, and onto-epistemological humility, and embracing of uncertainty as decolonizing methods. We propose \"Relational and emergent governance\" as a collective organizing arising from deconstructed certainties and reconstructed relationalities—requiring experimental institutions that can maintain relational depth across scales.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"180 ","pages":"Article 104404"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148178626","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 possible institutionalisation of the carbon removal budget concept across the UNFCCC, UNCBD, and corporate net-zero strategies","authors":"Jacopo Bencini ,&nbsp;Laura Iozzelli","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104390","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104390","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study provides a preliminary qualitative policy analysis exploring the possible institutionalisation of the novel Carbon Removal Budget concept into multilateral decision-making and net-zero target setting. The analysis focuses on enabling and constraining factors for institutionalisation across three domains, namely the multilateral climate and biodiversity regimes under the UNFCCC and the UN Biodiversity Convention, and corporate climate target setting under the Science-Based Targets initiative. The study draws parallels with the framing and institutionalisation of a similar epistemic object - the Carbon Budget concept - into the public discourse in recent years. Our analysis suggests that the institutionalisation of the CRB into these three domains faces both opportunities and challenges, and that recognition will play a key role. The UNFCCC appears to be the most fertile institutional ground for such policy development. While the UN Biodiversity regime appears less prepared to offer a holistic platform for institutionalising the concept, linkages can be built around goals listed in the Kunming-Montreal Framework specifically for most nature-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) applications. In the corporate sector, the SBTi draft standard currently under revision presents a timely opportunity to institutionalise the CRB within net-zero strategies, particularly for large, emission-intensive sectors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 104390"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147798311","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":"Governing the water-energy-food nexus: A multi-stage governance assessment approach embracing complexity and regional diversity","authors":"Léa Tatry ,&nbsp;Erik Laes ,&nbsp;Eunice Pereira Ramos ,&nbsp;Edo Abraham","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104388","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104388","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Integrated management of water, energy, and food (WEF) systems requires governance approaches that account for biophysical interdependencies while remaining grounded in the institutional arrangements through which decisions are made and implemented. Despite the widespread appeal of the WEF nexus, its operationalization remains limited, particularly in data and capacity-constrained contexts. This study presents a sequenced diagnostic framework to assess WEF nexus governance, explicitly linking biophysical interactions to institutional and policy processes. The approach begins with a basin-level analysis of subsystem interactions to characterize a clearly defined nexus challenge. It then situates this challenge within the broader governance landscape, before proceeding to detailed analyses of policy coherence and governance architecture, including proposal and approval procedures, formal implementation arrangements, and guiding principles. Applied to the Tana River Basin in Kenya, the framework identifies 50 explicit synergies and 7 trade-offs across national sectoral policies, alongside uneven coordination mechanisms between sectors. The findings show how land-use, water allocation, agricultural priorities, climate adaptation, and ecosystem protection are shaped by the interaction between biophysical constraints and sectoral mandates. By linking policy alignment with institutional design, the framework identifies actionable entry points for improving cross-sector coordination. Designed for both preliminary assessments and stakeholder-engaged processes, the approach provides a practical pathway for operationalizing WEF nexus governance in real-world settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 104388"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147798310","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":"Energy sovereignty and climate adaptation: A community model for empowering maya women in Ixil, Yucatan","authors":"Alejandra Vega-Camarena ,&nbsp;Iris Santos-González ,&nbsp;Marcela Torres-Wong ,&nbsp;Rebeca Rosado Medina ,&nbsp;Amina El Mekaoui","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104345","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104345","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite growing recognition of gender dimensions in climate adaptation and energy transitions, Indigenous women's agency in constructing climate knowledge and leading community-controlled renewable energy initiatives remains underexplored, particularly in Latin American contexts. This participatory action research examines how Maya women in Ixil, Yucatán, construct climate vulnerability and achieve multidimensional empowerment through solar irrigation technologies. Employing a novel methodological approach that structures participatory action research as simultaneous knowledge generation and community empowerment, we conducted 24 months of fieldwork (2022–2024), combining guided territory walks, memory journeys, focus groups, and ethnographic observations to document women's experiences with solar energy adoption and climate adaptation strategies. Findings reveal that Ixil women developed \"situated climatic vulnerability,\" an experiential understanding of environmental change grounded in intergenerational memory and daily practice. Through solar technology appropriation, women achieved multidimensional empowerment: technical mastery (solar panel maintenance, hurricane preparedness), economic autonomy (reduced fuel costs, diversified income through flower cultivation), political organization (collective territorial defense against real estate pressures), and cultural revitalization (integration of renewable energy with Maya cosmology). The study introduces the \"territory-body-energy\" nexus, expanding decolonial feminist theory, and the \"colloquia construction of climate vulnerability,\" challenging technocratic methodologies. These findings demonstrate that community-controlled energy transitions led by Indigenous women offer transformative pathways for climate adaptation that prioritize social justice, cultural continuity, and territorial sovereignty. We recommend policy frameworks that support Indigenous energy sovereignty, incorporate traditional ecological knowledge, and center women's leadership in climate adaptation strategies for the Global South.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 104345"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147400532","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":"Corrigendum to “Unlearning through spirituality: Mongolian and Western animistic traditions as pathways to enhance sustainability” [Environ. Sci. Policy 175 (2026), 104296]","authors":"Jesse Segura ,&nbsp;Julien-François Gerber ,&nbsp;Filka Sekulova","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104350","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104350","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 104350"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147400486","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":"Corrigendum to “Vulnerability to climate change, depopulation and the global food regime: An index-based approach for rural Spain” [Environ. Sci. Policy 174 (2025) 104254]","authors":"Sergio Villamayor-Tomas ,&nbsp;Daniel Gaitán-Cremaschi ,&nbsp;Esteve Corbera ,&nbsp;Ana Beatriz Pierri-Daunt ,&nbsp;Letícia Santos de Lima","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104346","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104346","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 104346"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147400485","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}