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{"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}

{"title":"A conceptual framework to improve climate-resilient health among Indigenous communities","authors":"Chrishma D. Perera ,&nbsp;Eranga K. Galappaththi ,&nbsp;Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo ,&nbsp;Timothy D. Baird ,&nbsp;Korine N. Kolivras","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104069","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104069","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change is affecting Indigenous communities’ well-being, especially health. The World Health Organization has introduced a climate-resilient health system approach to minimize climate-associated health risks. Indigenous communities are poorly served by this approach, given its limited recognition of Indigenous health practices compared to non-Indigenous practices. By conducting a global systematic literature review, we aim to identify opportunities to improve climate-resilient health system approaches among Indigenous communities. We analysed 137 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2013 and 2023. The study is aimed at three objectives: i) to identify health drivers of Indigenous communities, ii) to develop a health drivers-based conceptual framework to improve climate-resilient health system approach among Indigenous communities, and iii) to apply the proposed framework in case studies. We applied latent and manifest content analyses to examine the data, capturing explicit meanings and underlying themes from the quotes we collected through the systematic literature review. First, we identified fifteen health drivers for Indigenous communities, which were categorized into three categories: i) risk (n = 6), ii) protective (n = 3), and iii) overlapping (n = 6). Second, we developed a conceptual framework with two main components: (i) a place-centered feedback loop and (ii) the shaping of health drivers. The place-centered feedback loop consists of five elements: (i) place, (ii) causations, (iii) infirmities, (iv) interventions, and (v) sustaining. The shaping of health drivers includes three aspects: (i) shaping types, (ii) shaping opportunities, and (iii) stakeholders. Third, the case study assessment affirmed the applicability of the conceptual framework in different geographic locations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 104069"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143828776","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":"Regional governance solutions for sea-level rise adaptation: Perspectives from Humboldt Bay, California","authors":"Kristen Orth-Gordinier ,&nbsp;Laurie Richmond","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104053","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104053","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sea-level rise (SLR) is a complex challenge which could require the development of new special-purpose governance arrangements that allow for better coordination across jurisdictions and levels. This paper explores perspectives related to regional coordination for SLR adaptation in Humboldt Bay, California. Humboldt Bay is experiencing one of the fastest rates of SLR on the West Coast and exists in a complex regulatory environment with over 20 government entities, three Tribes, and numerous community members and groups connected to the issue. Through a mixed-methods approach that included 46 semi-structured interviews with and a survey of 107 coastal professionals connected to the Bay, we sought to capture local perspectives related to the barriers and opportunities for SLR adaptation, potential regional governance solutions for SLR, and the incorporation of community and equity considerations into SLR planning. Respondents identified several barriers including competing priorities and timelines, ineffective communication, lack of funding and capacity, and the strictness and inflexibility of environmental regulations and permitting processes. There was near universal agreement among respondents that some form of regional coordination on SLR was necessary, but views on the best governance framework were murkier. There was most support for establishing a formal collaborative partnership among local government entities and least support for creating a new authority with concerns that it could siphon time and funding and create an additional layer of bureaucracy. Most respondents preferred the planning authority to be under shared local and state control and preferred coordination to occur on a bay-wide scale, perhaps nested with planning at other scales. Respondents consistently brought up a need for a neutral facilitator to support coordination and they indicated a need to better incorporate community engagement and equity considerations. Findings reveal that development of novel arrangements related to climate governance needs careful consideration as there are potential advantages and drawbacks to new approaches. Development of these frameworks should not be a top-down process foisted upon local areas, but rather be a more bottom-up process designed and led by local actors with a stake or jurisdiction in the specific climate planning process.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 104053"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143817014","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":"Twinning green and digital futures in waste management","authors":"Charlotte Benedix ,&nbsp;Alena Bleicher ,&nbsp;Lina Sofie Schöne ,&nbsp;Diana Ayeh","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In waste management, a classic field of environmental governance, the political idea of “twinning” the green with the digital transition can be expected to gain performative power. To explore the question of how far this is the case and to what effect, we argue for a closer examination of enactments of and contestations around the twin transition policy discourse in daily practices of technology use. As a sensitizing concept, we use Mike Michael’s (2017) idea of the “ecology of futures” in order to help us explore ways and means by which digital and green futures are envisioned and become material in the technology-practice assemblages of a municipal waste management company in Germany. We identify three different “modes” of linking and decoupling these futures to and from each other. More precisely, we reveal how the “win-win” of a technology-mediated twinning policy is enacted, complemented, and even contested by other future visions at the company level. These are related to experimental playgrounds where, in their everyday routines, many workers do not refer to environmental goals at all. We conclude that considering such a plurality of perspectives may provide the basis for opening up and re-politicizing the debate around the twin transition. What role green visions of the future will play in this, however, remains open.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143807350","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":"Pushing the limits to participation in Argentina’s protected areas","authors":"Mattias Borg Rasmussen,&nbsp;Mariève Pouliot","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104059","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104059","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article analyzes the efforts to create and consolidate spaces for indigenous participation within a protected area in Argentina. It explores the significance of co-management in the indigenous Mapuche people’s struggles for autonomy over the decisions made within their ancestral territories. Co-management represents an important step towards institutional transformation in the relationship between park administration and people, but it is conditioned by the wider structures of domination and difference in settler colonial societies. The provincial Mapuche organization and community authorities strategize to push the limits to participation further by turning to <em>gobernanza</em>, literally governance, thereby moving from the management of specific resources to the governance of a set of broader territorial relationships.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143807266","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":"Soil policy principles and a policymaking framework using the soil security concept","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.2025.104057","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104057","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is a growing demand for more soil-centric policies to ensure sustainable land management and soil security. The concept of soil security enhances our understanding of soil multifunctionality as a comprehensive framework for soil protection. Utilising the soil security concept in policymaking can substantially improve the consistency and harmonisation of regional and global policies related to soil security. This paper reviews the fundamental aspects of the soil security concept, explores the diverse roles of soil, and proposes nine core principles for policymaking to guide the development of soil legislation. Comprehensive and effective soil policies should not only recognise these core principles but also encompass all dimensions of soil security. To illustrate this point, we analyse the current policy status and propose a policy framework for soil’s role in climate change mitigation and adaptation, which is a prominent topic of environmental debate. Our approach demonstrates how the policy principles are reflected in the five dimensions of soil security, leading to a policymaking framework that is soil-centric, inclusive, and verifiable.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143806990","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":"Models vs infrastructures? On the role of digital twins’ hype in anticipating the governance of the UK energy industry","authors":"Ola Michalec","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104041","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104041","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scientists and practitioners working on digital twins promise to deliver replicas of the energy system and its components, able to automatically operate in real-time and generate countless scenarios to advise with planning of new infrastructures. Despite the enthusiasm across the industry, digital twins received criticisms for being mere empty buzzwords, unable to contribute to the ‘twin transition’ of digital and energy sectors. This article aims to understand the phenomenon of hype surrounding digital twins, treating it as an attempt to surface or conceal particular issues regarding energy governance. The analysis reveals that initially hype helped to enrol a broad community of stakeholders through the promises of detailed, real-time modelling, developed in tandem with responsible innovation tools for data scientists. Soon after, this framing brought about disappointment and confusion. With data access emerging as a key challenge, practitioners are re-aligning the agenda towards the creation of the infrastructure for data sharing. However, the debate on the ethics and politics of digital twins stayed with the initial framing of ‘digital twins-as-models’. In other words, the politics of data sharing were concealed. As such, digital twins require sociotechnical analysis beyond the modelling-specific concerns of bias, accuracy or explainability. Energy governance should focus instead on anticipating the reconfiguration of the political and economic relationships enabled by new data sharing infrastructures. The article concludes with identifying three governance concerns related to data sharing infrastructures in energy: 1) transparent procurement; 2) public engagement in grid upgrades; 3) sustainable financing of public IT projects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143807349","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 high-powered study confirming the misleading nature of the Dublin Declaration","authors":"Romain Espinosa,&nbsp;Jochen Krattenmacher,&nbsp;Richard Twine,&nbsp;Edel Sanders,&nbsp;William Ripple","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104060","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104060","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"168 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143807351","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}