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{"title":"Unveiling disparities between planned and perceived equity arrangements in protected area co-governance: Evidence from the North Luangwa Ecosystem in Zambia","authors":"Rhoda Nthena Kachali ,&nbsp;Jacqueline Loos","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Environmental equity discussions have increasingly influenced conservation policies at local, national, and international levels. Various community-based natural resource management interventions strive to incorporate equity within conservation practices, with a particular focus on resolving human-wildlife conflicts. Nevertheless, the challenge persists in ensuring that equity measures translate into both tangible and perceived fairness. This study examined and disaggregated perceptions of equity among representatives from government and non-government entities, and local community members residing within co-governance frameworks that honor traditional governance structures in three Game Management Areas adjacent to the North Luangwa National Park in Zambia. We conducted key informant interviews with 15 Government officials and 15 NGO representatives in conjunction with 20 focus group discussions with local community members from six Village Action Groups. The government and NGO actors reported efforts to enact both distributional and procedural equity concurrently with conservation aims. Despite intentions to mitigate human-wildlife conflicts and foster cooperative conservation, these measures precipitated local dissatisfaction, as they perceived that the equity-facilitating interventions inadequately addressed the costs associated with coexisting with wildlife. Furthermore, a profound sense of misrecognition was felt as wildlife and conservation objectives appeared prioritized over their well-being. Divergent perceptions of equity influence conservation efficacy, as top-down equity measures may boost biodiversity yet simultaneously diminish local support and stewardship, thereby risking long-term community engagement. The disparity between anticipated and realized equity outcomes underscores the necessity of prioritizing recognitional equity by acknowledging the heterogeneity of interests, capacities, and influence of local populations before and during the implementation of conservation interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 104068"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143869792","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 “Soil policy principles and a policymaking framework using the soil security concept” [Environ. Sci. Policy 168 (2025) 104057]","authors":"Amin Sharififar ,&nbsp;Pasquale Borrelli ,&nbsp;Sandra J. Evangelista ,&nbsp;Damien Field ,&nbsp;Trevan Flyn ,&nbsp;Nicolas Francos ,&nbsp;Irene Heuser ,&nbsp;Anilkumar Hunakunti ,&nbsp;Alex McBratney ,&nbsp;Budiman Minasny ,&nbsp;Fatima Moreira ,&nbsp;Cristine L.S. Morgan ,&nbsp;Wartini Ng ,&nbsp;Thomas O’Donoghue ,&nbsp;Julio C. Pachón Maldonado ,&nbsp;Mercedes Román Dobarco ,&nbsp;Quentin Styc ,&nbsp;Mara Thiene ,&nbsp;David Watt ,&nbsp;Penelope Wensley ,&nbsp;Jae E. Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104081","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104081","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 104081"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143882253","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":"Expanding socioecological justice through photo narratives: An autoethnography of a researcher collaborating with Azorean fishing communities","authors":"Alison Laurie Neilson","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104075","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104075","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This autoethnographical analysis explores collaborative attempts to expand normative narratives about fishing communities to serve socioecological justice and alternative socioecological futures for small-scale fishing communities. It challenges normative framing of environmental narratives and investigates how knowledge is pictured and viewed in a world of increasing ocean industrialisation. It explores issues of power within the realm of storytelling. This analysis arises from long term collaborative engagement with fishing communities in the Azores Islands. It focuses on the creation of a photo narrative book that highlights the continuous legacy of relationships between people and the ocean. The book tells stories that frame fishermen and fisherwomen as important participants and leaders who are fighting to maintain sustainably just relationships with a wild ocean. This article explores the co-creation of knowledge and the power of various underlying images to valorise some people and some cultures, while marginalizing others. It answers to calls for more research into the roles of fisheries in cultural heritage, and the concern about marginalization created through the policies of the Blue Economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 104075"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143859832","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":"How consistent are adaptation strategies with ongoing climatic and environmental changes in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: A systematic review","authors":"Thi Minh Hoang Vo ,&nbsp;Thi Phuong Linh Huynh ,&nbsp;Peter Tamas ,&nbsp;Marie-Noëlle Woillez ,&nbsp;Etienne Espagne ,&nbsp;Laurent Umans ,&nbsp;Sepehr Eslami ,&nbsp;Hong Quan Nguyen ,&nbsp;Philip S.J. Minderhoud","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104064","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104064","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The densely populated Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD), the third-largest delta globally, plays a vital role in regional and global food security. However, it has undergone significant climatic and environmental changes over recent decades, driven by intricate interactions between global climate change and human activities within the VMD and its upstream river basin. The rapid evolution and quantification of these changes, as evidenced by recent scientific studies, suggest continued and substantial alterations in the near future, posing a serious threat to the delta's sustainability. Given the urgency of these environmental transformations, it is imperative to evaluate the extent to which current climate adaptation policies and delta development plans integrate state-of-the-science knowledge on environmental changes and future trajectories. To assess the coherence between scientific knowledge and prevailing policy directives shaping delta development, we conducted a systematic review of 27 existing adaptation plans and/or strategies for the VMD. This review, supplemented by an examination of projects in five provinces identified as hotspots for relative sea-level rise and saltwater intrusion, is enriched by an analysis of evolutionary trajectories of various key policies and adaptation plans over time, offering valuable insights into their historical influence on the delta. We found that while most documents acknowledge the reality of climate change, they often lack clarity regarding which dimensions of its environmental effects are addressed. The predominant focus tends to be on issues related to saltwater intrusion, floods, and seasonal inundation, whereas the existential threat posed by accelerating land subsidence and consequent relative sea-level rise receives comparatively less attention. Moreover, the significant role of sediment starvation, particularly due to sand mining, in exacerbating saltwater intrusions in the VMD’s estuary system is largely overlooked. Our results show that the climatic and environmental pressures garnering the most attention are typically those resulting in obvious, direct, and event-based impacts on the delta's population and livelihoods. However, these pressures often serve as symptoms of underlying, steadily escalating, longer-scale processes, such as land subsidence or sediment starvation, which are inadequately addressed in current policy steering documents and adaptation plans. Neglecting these potentially existential environmental pressures not only leads to missed opportunities for adaptation and mitigation in current delta development but also jeopardizes the delta's long-term sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 104064"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143851681","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":"Just sortition, communitarian deliberation: Two proposals for grounded climate assemblies","authors":"Nicole Curato ,&nbsp;Amiltone Luís ,&nbsp;Melisa Ross ,&nbsp;Lucas Veloso","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104070","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104070","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sortition or recruiting randomly selected everyday citizens is a core feature of climate assemblies. Sortition, the argument goes, enforces the principle of inclusiveness, as everyone has a fair shot at getting invited to the climate assembly. This form of recruitment, however, faces criticism. It challenges traditional structures of representation and decision-making where elders, religious leaders, elected representatives, and community organisers typically give voice to the ideas and grievances of everyday people. For some, sortition valorises the atomised individual who can speak their mind in a forum, without any mechanism for the individual to reconnect their deliberative experience to the wider community. In this article, we draw on the experience of the province of Zambezia in Mozambique as one randomly selected Assembly Member took part in the world’s first Climate Assembly on the Climate and Ecological Emergency. Based on in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and feedback sessions with local organisations in Zambezia, we offer practical insight on how sortition can deepen community connection and maximise the impact of climate assemblies in delivering practical outcomes for climate change adaptation. Using grounded normative theory, our study demonstrates how sortition can promote justice by elevating the voices of those most impacted by climate change. We also demonstrate why a communitarian approach to citizen assemblies enhances accountability and shared learning and empowers members to translate global deliberations into local actions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 104070"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143851481","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 role of decision support tools in drought management: Insights from the Netherlands","authors":"Marleen R. Lam ,&nbsp;Liduin M.T. Bos-Burgering ,&nbsp;Miriam (A.M.J.) Coenders-Gerrits ,&nbsp;Ruud P. Bartholomeus ,&nbsp;Petra J.G.J. Hellegers ,&nbsp;Lieke A. Melsen ,&nbsp;Adriaan J. Teuling ,&nbsp;Pieter R. van Oel","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104065","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104065","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Droughts have an increasing impact on the entire European continent. As the frequency and intensity of droughts rise in many parts of Europe, the implementation of effective drought adaptation and mitigation strategies becomes increasingly important. However, it is not known how diverse tools are used in drought management with increasing drought severity. This study explores the role of Decision Support Tools (DSTs) in strategic and operational drought management in the Netherlands. Through a survey among national and regional water authorities, this study shows the increasing reliance of water managers on field measurements, Data Information Systems (DISs), stakeholder consultation, and legislation with increasing drought severity. Weather forecasts and expert knowledge remain important throughout all drought management phases. Despite the increased use of DISs with drought severity, the use of hydrological models does not follow the same trend. DISs, which often incorporate hydrological models, reveal a ‘hidden’ use of these models. Rather than serving as ‘key artifacts’ for modelers, they become active ‘participants’ in broader data systems during advanced phases of drought management. All these aspects influence key responsibilities in model use including appropriateness and transferability, reproducibility, and transparency. These factors are critical to consider when aiming to bridge the gap between science and policy in the application and development of DSTs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 104065"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143837906","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 role of governance in large-scale mining sector in Latin America","authors":"Manuel A. Zambrano-Monserrate","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104071","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104071","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a surge in global raw material demand since 2021, suggesting the onset of a potential minerals and oil supercycle. This rebound has been driven by post-pandemic economic growth, infrastructure expansion, the transition to renewable energy, and sector electrification. These dynamics offer an opportunity to improve mineral resource governance, as highlighted by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which stresses the role of institutional design. In this context, State Mining Enterprises (SMEs) have gained renewed importance, as several countries promote them to strengthen state ownership, foster innovation, and support public investment. While state-owned enterprises dominate the oil, gas, and mining sectors globally, they often face challenges related to inefficiency and corruption. This paper analyzes the governance of SMEs in Chile, Ecuador, and Bolivia, focusing on differences in sustainability practices, transparency, and their capacity to promote innovation and value creation. In Chile, CODELCO and ENAMI demonstrate a stronger institutional framework and lead innovation efforts within the region. In contrast, Bolivia’s COMIBOL and YLB struggle with operational implementation and lack effective oversight mechanisms. Ecuador’s ENAMI EP is shifting its strategy toward diversification beyond mining, particularly in energy and infrastructure. However, sustainability and transparency standards remain weak across the three countries, with CODELCO standing out as the only enterprise consistently aligning with international best practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 104071"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143834661","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":"Out of sight, out of mind? The crisis of decentralized water and wastewater servicing in Indigenous communities","authors":"Ayla Lauret ,&nbsp;Kerry Black ,&nbsp;Stavan Golwala ,&nbsp;Tim Vogel","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104058","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104058","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Access to clean water and adequate wastewater services is a fundamental human right, yet many Indigenous communities in Canada continue to face significant challenges in this area. Despite governmental commitments and ongoing efforts, numerous communities remain under longstanding drinking water advisories, and inadequate wastewater management persists, creating a public health and environmental crisis. This review examines the complex interconnections between decentralized water and wastewater systems in Indigenous communities, with a primary focus on rural Alberta. It highlights the critical gaps in available data, the lack of holistic approaches to understanding these systems, and the barriers created by current regulatory frameworks and funding policies. The analysis reveals how decentralized systems, such as cisterns and septic tanks, often fail due to inadequate infrastructure, insufficient funding, and regulatory ambiguities. Particular attention is given to the pervasive issue of \"shoot-outs\"—untreated wastewater discharges that disproportionately impact First Nations communities. The paper argues for a re-evaluation of current policies and funding models to better address the unique needs of Indigenous communities, proposing a framework that integrates technical, social, and political considerations. This review calls for an urgent response to reconcile disparities, enhance collaborative governance, and ensure equitable access to safe water and wastewater services for all Indigenous peoples in Canada.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 104058"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143837905","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":"Critiquing the Dublin Declaration based on underpowered analysis and inadequate methods undermines trust in the sciences – A response to Krattenmacher et al. 2024","authors":"Keith Belk,&nbsp;Frank R. Dunshea,&nbsp;Peer Ederer,&nbsp;Michael R.F. Lee,&nbsp;Frédéric Leroy","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104054","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 104054"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143837900","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 citizens’ assemblies into local climate governance: Lessons from a UK case study","authors":"Alice Moseley,&nbsp;Rebecca Sandover,&nbsp;Patrick Devine-Wright","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104052","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104052","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the growing international use of citizens’ assemblies to address climate change challenges, there remains a lack of consensus about the best means of integrating these into existing political decision-making contexts, particularly at the local level. Furthermore, there is a dearth of research which evaluates the ‘robustness’ of efforts to integrate mechanisms such as climate assemblies into structures of governance whilst also examining their role in unlocking creative solutions to climate change. We fill this gap with findings from an interview-based study of a local climate assembly in Devon, England. We apply and evaluate the framework of Boswell et al (2023) which incorporates three dimensions of robust integrative design relating to polity, policy and politics. The framework aids in the identification and categorisation of facilitators and processes of integration relevant to local climate assemblies. However, our research also identifies salient barriers to integration on each dimension, which occur both within and across scales of governance. Recognising and addressing these obstacles, we suggest, is as important as adopting formal processes of integration. Barriers to <em>polity</em> robustness include party political differences and competing priorities across organisations. Challenges for <em>policy</em> robustness include resource and capacity issues, a lack of clarity over implementation responsibility, and national government policy. <em>Political</em> robustness is inhibited by difficulties with engaging certain stakeholders such as business, and cross-sectoral tensions. Finally, a narrow focus on achievable outcomes linked to existing organisational priorities may undermine climate assemblies’ more transformational potential, suggesting trade-offs between polity/policy robustness and political robustness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 104052"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143834660","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}