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What roles do governments play vis-à-vis niche actors? A typology illustrated with transition dynamics in the Dutch agri-food system 政府对-à-vis利基参与者扮演什么角色?在荷兰农业食品系统的过渡动态说明类型学
IF 5.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104206
Hens Runhaar , Sophie van Doorm , Laura Bello Cartagena , Sabine de Graaff , Charlotte Offringa , Laura van Oers , Nataliia Pustilnik , Evelien Remorie , Willem Lageweg , Rob Raven
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Revisiting the challenges to monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and learning for climate adaptation 重新审视气候适应监测、评估、报告和学习方面的挑战
IF 5.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104199
Sean Goodwin , Marta Olazabal
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A conceptual framework for knowledge integration in cross-disciplinary collaborations 跨学科合作中知识整合的概念框架
IF 5.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104197
Shruti Punjabi , Shalini Misra , Megan A. Rippy , Stanley B. Grant , Eranga Galappaththi , Theodore Lim , Thomas A. Birkland
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Investigating the extent and quality of health-focused climate adaptation planning: Insights from Western Canadian cities 调查以健康为重点的气候适应规划的范围和质量:来自加拿大西部城市的见解
IF 5.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104192
Desiree Rose, S. Jeff Birchall
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Navigating justice tensions in managed retreat 在有管理的撤退中应对司法紧张局势
IF 5.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104191
Erica R. Bower , A.R. Siders , Caroline M. Kraan , Katharine J. Mach , Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
{"title":"Navigating justice tensions in managed retreat","authors":"Erica R. Bower ,&nbsp;A.R. Siders ,&nbsp;Caroline M. Kraan ,&nbsp;Katharine J. Mach ,&nbsp;Gabrielle Wong-Parodi","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104191","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Under intensifying climate change, purposeful permanent movement of people away from hazardous areas has gained salience as a possible – albeit controversial – adaptation strategy. Many people involved in this process, here called managed retreat, agree it should be “just”, yet agreeing on what justice means in practice is extremely difficult. Importantly, the researchers and practitioners framing, designing, and implementing retreat policies and programs have pluralistic visions on many issues relevant to procedural, distributive and recognition justice. To date, the resulting justice dilemmas have included five key tensions: whether retreat should always be voluntary or not, whether communities or governments should initiate, whether the most exposed or most historically marginalized should be prioritized, whether retreat is a net harm or benefit, and whether retreat should be a “measure of last resort” or not. Here we present the results of an empirical study of researcher and practitioner perspectives on these five justice tensions, drawing on focus groups, surveys, and discussions with 39 individuals professionally engaged in retreat research, policy, and practice. Participants’ views on justice tensions varied based on differences in moral reasoning, linked to personal traits (i.e., professional identities, knowledges, and values) and retreat imaginaries (i.e., the particular example a participant has in mind, including who and how wealthy a retreating person is, where and how they will retreat, and their historical relationship to place). We found researcher and practitioner views on justice in managed retreat are highly context specific, both temporally and spatially. We also found that when participants reflected on the context specificity of their retreat imaginaries and engage in dialogue about their moral reasoning with others, they become more open minded, see more nuance, and in some cases change their minds. Intentional reflection and dialogue making implicit perspectives visible can facilitate more transparent discussion of how to advance justice aims in retreat policy and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 104191"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144903464","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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The transition to an impact-based weather-health alerting system in England: An evaluation of stakeholder perspectives 过渡到影响为基础的天气健康警报系统在英格兰:利益相关者的观点的评估
IF 5.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104189
Thomas Roberts , Valentine Seymour , Haeyoung Eun , Sarah L. Bulloch , Katya Brooks , Ross Thompson
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Addressing gaps in integrative water-energy-food-forest (WEFF) nexus governance 解决水-能源-粮食-森林一体化关系治理中的差距
IF 5.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104195
HM Tuihedur Rahman, David Natcher
{"title":"Addressing gaps in integrative water-energy-food-forest (WEFF) nexus governance","authors":"HM Tuihedur Rahman,&nbsp;David Natcher","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104195","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104195","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forests play a critical role in sustaining water, energy, and food (WEF) systems of communities. While the ecological interlinkages between WEF-forest (WEFF) systems are relatively evident, the management of these integrated systems is typically compartmentalized and centered around sector-specific rules and policies. In this paper, we employ a modified Inter-Institutional Gaps (IIG) framework to identify and characterize the governance gaps that may exist at different levels of WEFF governing institutions. We apply the framework to a case study of the Prince Albert Model Forest (PAMF), Saskatchewan, Canada to demonstrate how strategies that minimize governance gaps can bring about positive outcomes for WEFF sectors. The PAMF was one of the first Model Forests in Canada. Major socio-economic activities in the forest area involve mining, forest industries and the Indigenous uses of forest resources for cultural services and livelihood activities. The forest has a history of conflicting land use practices, water pollution and loss of wildlife and wild food. We collected data using multiple methods including interviews, participant observation, and systematic document analysis. Our analysis suggests that the PAMF has performed benefactor, facilitator, broker, advocate, and entrepreneurial roles to develop a partnership-based proto-institutional practice that helps to go beyond sectoral, scalar, and cultural boundaries for the integration of WEFF governing state and non-state institutions. These practices help mobilize knowledge and resources required for an effective WEFF nexus governance system.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 104195"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144895992","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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Trade-offs in expanding citizen participation in low-carbon transitions: Seven transition arena experiments 在低碳转型中扩大公民参与的权衡:七个转型舞台实验
IF 5.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104198
Jani P. Lukkarinen , Satu Lähteenoja , Sampsa Hyysalo , Tatu Marttila , Maija Faehnle , Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki
{"title":"Trade-offs in expanding citizen participation in low-carbon transitions: Seven transition arena experiments","authors":"Jani P. Lukkarinen ,&nbsp;Satu Lähteenoja ,&nbsp;Sampsa Hyysalo ,&nbsp;Tatu Marttila ,&nbsp;Maija Faehnle ,&nbsp;Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104198","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104198","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amid the complex and persistent challenges of sustainability transitions, experimental governance has emerged as a way to foster reflexivity, learning, and policy innovation through diverse participatory practices. This paper examines the role of transition arena methodologies in expanding and deepening civic engagement in low-carbon transitions, specifically through seven experimental processes focused on \"climate-wise housing\" in Finland in 2023. These experiments combined digital and in-person facilitation in an attempt to involve citizens in co-producing actionable insights on climate-smart behaviors, building renovations, and renewable energy adoption, hitherto directing the envisioned transition. The research explores three “avenues” of widening participation in transition arenas, namely expanding, complementing, and opening such arenas to explore questions regarding the potential and limitations of widening transition arena participation and the impact of such breadth on the depth of citizen engagement. Findings highlight trade-offs between different scopes and modes of citizen participation and reveal how participatory processes shape public engagement and policy responsiveness. By suggesting four implications on designing and implementing citizen engagement processes, the study contributes to a nuanced understanding of participation in transition governance and its implications for sustainability transformations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 104198"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144895993","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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Exploring agricultural stakeholders’ mental models of the water-energy-food-ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus: Insights from Mediterranean case studies 探索农业利益相关者对水-能源-食物-生态系统(WEFE)关系的心理模型:来自地中海案例研究的见解
IF 5.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104196
Enrica Garau , Gabriela de Abreu , Irene Pérez-Ramírez , Nora Schütze , Yasmine Farhat , Hala El Moussaoui , Jessica Loureiro , Olfa Mahjoub , Abir Ben Slimane , Hacib Amami , Abdellaziz Zairi , Andreas Thiel , Antonio J. Castro
{"title":"Exploring agricultural stakeholders’ mental models of the water-energy-food-ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus: Insights from Mediterranean case studies","authors":"Enrica Garau ,&nbsp;Gabriela de Abreu ,&nbsp;Irene Pérez-Ramírez ,&nbsp;Nora Schütze ,&nbsp;Yasmine Farhat ,&nbsp;Hala El Moussaoui ,&nbsp;Jessica Loureiro ,&nbsp;Olfa Mahjoub ,&nbsp;Abir Ben Slimane ,&nbsp;Hacib Amami ,&nbsp;Abdellaziz Zairi ,&nbsp;Andreas Thiel ,&nbsp;Antonio J. Castro","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104196","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104196","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Environmental crises, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and food insecurity, pose global challenges that threaten ecosystems and human well-being. The water-energy-food-ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus concept advocates integrated resource management to optimize synergies, minimize trade-offs, and promote sustainability. Despite its prominence in policy and research, the WEFE Nexus often overlooks local socio-cultural contexts and stakeholder perspectives. This study addresses this gap by examining how stakeholders from the food sector conceptualize and value the WEFE Nexus across four Mediterranean case studies in Lebanon, Portugal, Spain, and Tunisia. Using a qualitative approach, we conducted semi-structured interviews alongside graphical visualization techniques, including hand-drawn illustrations and colored dot exercises, to explore agricultural stakeholders' mental models of the WEFE Nexus. The findings reveal significant variability in their perceptions of relationships among water, energy, food, and ecosystems, shaped by diverse socio-cultural, environmental, and economic contexts. Instrumental and relational values were most frequently identified, while intrinsic values were less commonly recognized. Agricultural stakeholders' interpretations ranged from a holistic framework of interconnected components to a narrower focus on specific elements like water or energy. Graphical representations generally aligned with oral descriptions, and four distinct patterns emerged between the identified relations among WEFE components: overlapping circular, overlapping linear, overlapping and separated, and ambiguous relations. This study underscores the importance of tailored, participatory approaches that incorporate stakeholders’ diverse perceptions into policy-making and resource management. By combining oral descriptions with visual representations, it provides an innovative framework for exploring the cognitive understandings and values that underpin the social-ecological dynamics shaping WEFE Nexus perspectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104196"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144890253","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 is ‘good evidence’ for environmental decision making? Insights from professionals working at the science-policy interface 什么是环境决策的“好证据”?来自科学政策领域专业人士的见解
IF 5.2 2区 环境科学与生态学
Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104176
Elizabeth A. Nyboer , Andrew N. Kadykalo , Nathan Young , Vivian M. Nguyen , Trina Rytwinski , John-Francis Lane , Joseph R. Bennett , Nathan Harron , Susan M. Aitken , Graeme Auld , David Browne , Aerin L. Jacob , Kent Prior , Paul Allen Smith , Karen E. Smokorowski , Steven Alexander , Steven J. Cooke
{"title":"What is ‘good evidence’ for environmental decision making? Insights from professionals working at the science-policy interface","authors":"Elizabeth A. Nyboer ,&nbsp;Andrew N. Kadykalo ,&nbsp;Nathan Young ,&nbsp;Vivian M. Nguyen ,&nbsp;Trina Rytwinski ,&nbsp;John-Francis Lane ,&nbsp;Joseph R. Bennett ,&nbsp;Nathan Harron ,&nbsp;Susan M. Aitken ,&nbsp;Graeme Auld ,&nbsp;David Browne ,&nbsp;Aerin L. Jacob ,&nbsp;Kent Prior ,&nbsp;Paul Allen Smith ,&nbsp;Karen E. Smokorowski ,&nbsp;Steven Alexander ,&nbsp;Steven J. Cooke","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104176","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104176","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Effective protection and management of natural ecosystems demands policies and decisions that are based on the best available evidence. However, it remains unclear how policymakers define evidence and prioritize or neglect different evidence types in environmental decisions. Here we analyze perspectives and experiences of Canadian professionals working at the science-policy interface to develop a definition of “good evidence” for environmental policy, and assess the evidence types (e.g., peer reviewed science, Indigenous knowledge, expert consultation) used most frequently to inform environmental decisions. We derived a new definition of “good evidence” from the participant responses, as follows: <em>Good evidence for environmental policy is reliable, diverse <strong>information</strong> collected systematically through <strong>established methodologies</strong> (including Western social and natural science, Indigenous science, and place-based knowledge accumulated intergenerationally by close and continuous observation) that is <strong>credible</strong> and <strong>yields practical advice</strong> or relevant conclusions while being <strong>transparent</strong> about uncertainties.</em> We found that a majority of environmental policymakers use peer reviewed literature mostly from the natural sciences to guide policy decisions. Evidence arising from local knowledge, Indigenous knowledge, and the social sciences tends to be neglected. However, there was a sense that perceptions of what constitutes evidence is changing and that implicit biases that prioritize some types of information over others are being questioned. Different conceptions of the salience, credibility and legitimacy of information types fundamentally shape debates around best practices for evidence-informed decision making. We suggest several routes toward a more holistic framing of environmental policy problems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104176"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144890254","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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