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{"title":"Beyond green growth: Mapping sustainability pathways for rural transformations in Norway","authors":"Elisabeth Veivåg Helseth ,&nbsp;Hildegunn Nordtug ,&nbsp;Inga Marie Skavhaug ,&nbsp;Erik Gómez-Baggethun","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104110","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104110","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Competing sustainability pathways reflect different values and preferred solutions in response to the climate and environmental crisis. The recent Values Assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) states that mobilizing a diversity of sustainability-aligned values (such as care and reciprocity) are key to sustainability transformations. This paper examines the role of values and livelihood options as leverage points for rural sustainability transformations. Drawing on IPBES’s analytical framework, we assess support to four different sustainability pathways in rural Norway: i) green growth, ii) degrowth, iii) earth stewardship, and iv) nature protection. Data was collected from an analysis of fifteen policy documents (N = 15) and a survey (N = 3591) distributed among local population in 12 Norwegian rural municipalities. Three main results are highlighted. First, green growth and associated values firmly dominate sustainability thinking in Norwegian policy agendas for rural development, followed by nature protection, and earth stewardship, while degrowth ideas are only marginally represented. Second, while 17.5 % of survey respondents describe profit or economic growth as key for sustainable development, one fourth (26.1 %) emphasize nature protection, sufficiency, or local production. Finally, green growth supporters emphasize instrumental values through tourism and industry, while degrowth supporters emphasize intrinsic and relational values through localized small-scale farming and resource use. Our results indicate that if Norwegian rural policy is to align with IPBES’ recommendation to balance diverse values for sustainability transformations, rural policies should extend their attention beyond green growth, drawing on alternative sustainability pathways to incorporate a wider diversity of values.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104110"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144203365","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":"Disaster capitalism in Merapi post-2010 eruption: Tracing the co-optation footprints of the disaster risk reduction agenda","authors":"M. Bobby Rahman ,&nbsp;Pieter Van den Broeck","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104103","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104103","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines how the dynamics of disaster capitalism that emerged after the 2010 Mount Merapi eruption diverted disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and generated disaster risk creation (DRC). Field observations, semi-structured interviews, and literature reviews were conducted across three districts: Sleman, Magelang, and Klaten. These districts share Mount Merapi’s upstream area and face common risks from lahar floods and river sedimentation; however, their governance contexts differ. Sleman, part of Yogyakarta Special Province under a provincial subnational monarchy led by a sultan as governor, contrasts with Klaten and Magelang, which are governed by directly elected governors in Central Java Province. While all three districts allow the utilization of Merapi’s sand resources for both economic and risk reduction purposes, DRR policies remain largely dominated by central government interventions due to Mount Merapi’s status as a national park. Applying a hybrid framework of political ecology and disaster capitalism, the findings reveal that policies intended to mitigate lahar flood risks have unintentionally encouraged extensive sand mining in the Merapi uplands, resulting in new socio-environmental vulnerabilities. Empirical evidence across the three districts demonstrates disaster capitalism footprints through widespread sand exploitation, unequal sand wealth distribution, problematic sabo dam management, vertical-horizontal governance conflicts, and fatalities linked to mining activities. This study finds that recovery processes prioritized economic extraction over genuine risk reduction, thereby marginalizing local communities and reinforcing existing inequalities. Overall, disaster capitalism has predominantly supplanted the DRR agenda associated with lahar risk, transforming it into a DRC mechanism that produces fatalities and deepens inequalities while serving the interests of specific groups and corporate actors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104103"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144168244","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":"Being everything for everybody all at once: Facework for trustworthiness of a citizens’ assembly for the climate","authors":"Laila Mendy ,&nbsp;Tatiana Sokolova ,&nbsp;Fanny Möckel","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104104","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104104","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the context of distrust and scepticism about the climate issue, researchers are exploring the potential of deliberative mini-publics, such as citizens’ assemblies about climate change, to find new fora for just climate governance. However, while the literature suggests such arenas have potential to temper climate scepticism, it is less clear how specific design components of these innovations may relate to specific reasons for distrust. This paper operationalises the processes of facework, a concept denoting the translation between institutional and interpersonal trust, to capture how anticipation of distrust featured in the planning process of the Sweden's first national citizen's assembly on the climate, and how choices were made by the organisers to abate such distrust. To this end, we analyse interviews with researchers and science communicators prior to the event. Researchers employ strategies of legitimation, signification, and domination in order to build a trustworthy citizens assembly and mitigate reasons for distrust. Our findings indicate how multiple purposes of the citizens’ assembly, the anticipated heterogeneity of the assembly’s audiences, and subsequent design choices led to trade-offs that potentially undermine each other or embed incoherence into the project. Our paper concludes with a reflection on the increasing likelihood of researchers finding themselves in such contexts and how they may navigate precariousness and avoid adverse effects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104104"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144168245","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":"Unpacking the success among water quality collaborative governance efforts in the United States","authors":"Hadi Veisi ,&nbsp;Christine J. Kirchhoff","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104108","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104108","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Water quality is worsening in many parts of the world and traditional governance approaches have done little to ameliorate this trend. Collaborative governance (CG) shows promise for the potential to improve water quality. However, we do not understand fully what aspects of collaborative governance contribute to water quality improvement and under what conditions. To begin to address this gap, we conducted a systematic literature review to identify and then code fifty-six collaborative water quality governance cases across the US. Results indicate that motivations and goals for CG explain water quality improvement, when CG is government-led. However, results also suggest that water quality improvement is not always possible despite sound CG approaches. Instead, CG may achieve other intermediate outcomes such as reduced conflict, actionable knowledge production, or broadened networks. But factors associated with these outcomes differ suggesting there may be trade-offs in orienting CG towards water quality improvement or towards a different outcome of interest. We conclude that there is no \"one-size-fits-all\" for collaborative governance; rather, CG must be carefully designed to align with the desired outcomes and impacts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104108"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144168246","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":"Climate-related healthy housing risk factors: a scoping review of citizen science approaches","authors":"Adelle Mansour ,&nbsp;Maria Rosa Gatto ,&nbsp;Samantha Rowbotham ,&nbsp;Kathryn Bowen ,&nbsp;Rebecca Bentley","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104102","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104102","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The profound effects of climate change jeopardise the ability of housing to protect human health and wellbeing. Citizen science, with its potential for generating data and engaging individuals and communities in action, is an important addition to the suite of tools needed to prepare our housing for this reality. Our scoping review assessed how citizen science approaches have been used to identify and address climate-related housing risk factors that impact upon health. We searched five electronic databases and conducted forwards and backwards citation searching to identify studies for inclusion. We synthesised data on key study characteristics, as well as their focus, methods, and reported impacts. Fifty-six studies were included. Most studies focused on water quality (53.6 %), followed by toxic substances (35.7 %), air quality (19.6 %), noise (7.1 %), and indoor temperature (1.8 %). Studies utilised quantitative (100 %) and, to a much lesser extent, qualitative data collection methods (8.9 %). Over one-third of studies reported impacts, ranging from benefits to citizen scientists through to influencing government action. Citizen science holds great potential for collecting large amounts of data, incorporating diverse perspectives, generating awareness of issues, and catalysing action to improve housing in the face of climate change. By focusing on a broad set of risk factors and methods, integrating mechanisms to improve data quality, and articulating impacts, citizen science approaches could better meet the needs of research that seeks to involve communities and create change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104102"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147970","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":"Can a Science Week empower scientists for conservation advocacy?","authors":"Ana Stritih ,&nbsp;Constance Brouillet ,&nbsp;Manuela Habe,&nbsp;Nicolas Salliou ,&nbsp;Gabriel Singer ,&nbsp;Anna Scaini","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104098","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104098","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scientists feel a growing need to advocate for knowledge-driven policies to address climate change and biodiversity loss, yet few feel empowered to do so. During the Neretva Science Week (NSW) 2023, an international group of scientists conducted research on the threatened Neretva River in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and had the opportunity to engage with activists and journalists. We used a questionnaire to investigate the perspectives of these scientists on public engagement, scientific advocacy, ecological grief, and perceived political empowerment. To assess how these views might be influenced by participation in the NSW, we administered the questionnaire at the beginning of the NSW, immediately after, and three months following the event. We found high levels of ecological grief and moderate levels of perceived political empowerment. Scientists working outside of academia reported higher levels of empowerment, and local scientists had a more positive attitude towards being involved in decision-making about ecosystem management. Attitudes towards scientific advocacy were already mostly positive before the NSW and did not improve during the week, but most participants reported being motivated to increase their public engagement after the NSW. Although unlikely to change deeply rooted beliefs about the role of science, events such as the NSW can play a critical role in bridging the gap between academia and advocacy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104098"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144123854","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":"Reading rivers from libraries: A participatory initiative to assess and improve urbanised rivers using citizen science","authors":"Pau Fortuño ,&nbsp;Marina Codina ,&nbsp;Jose Luís Herrera ,&nbsp;Montserrat Álvarez ,&nbsp;Núria Bonada ,&nbsp;Jeymmy Milena Walteros-Rodríguez ,&nbsp;Nieves López-Rodríguez ,&nbsp;José María Fernández-Calero ,&nbsp;Carlota Sánchez-Campaña ,&nbsp;Raúl Acosta ,&nbsp;Narcís Prat ,&nbsp;Maria Soria","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104099","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104099","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Public libraries can serve as a key starting point for initiating citizen participation projects related to the local environment. To illustrate this, we implemented the <em>Llegim el riu</em> project, a citizen participatory initiative aimed at engaging citizens in the assessment and management of rivers close to urban municipalities in the province of Barcelona. After a training exercise led by researchers, citizens and stakeholders were involved in both the diagnosis and the co-creation process of measures. To that purpose, several approaches were used such as interviews, surveys, workshops, dissemination of science, environmental education activities and citizen science tools. In particular, the project comprises 8 steps, where steps 1–5 were considered as the first round of the project, conducted in a training format and dynamized by university researchers and an NGO, while steps 6–8 were considered as the second round and conducted as a reinforcement. These steps consisted of: (1) a local tandem training (i.e. environmental and library technicians from each municipality), (2) a stakeholder field trip using the RiuNet citizen science tool to assess an urban river from each municipality, (3) an analysis of all available data from each sampling site, (4) a co-creation process of measures, (5) a second local tandem training, (6) same as step 2 but dynamized by both researchers and local tandem, (7) a review of the co-created measures, and (8) an implementation of at least one of the co-created measures. The third and subsequent rounds were the same as the second, but entirely dynamized by the local tandem. Citizen participation enhances the effectiveness of adaptive river management approaches by creating resilient and sustainable solutions for urban rivers, crucial for tackling current and future global challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104099"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144116107","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":"Examining indicators of quality green and blue space: A mixed method study investigating multifunctionality","authors":"Hebe Nicholson,&nbsp;Michaela Roberts,&nbsp;Chloe Thompson,&nbsp;Kuang-Heng Li,&nbsp;Katherine N. Irvine","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104100","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104100","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We are in a time of multiple crises, with record declines in biodiversity, a rapidly changing climate, and increasing economic divides. Governments are recognising the need for policies and management to address these multiple domains. Green and blue spaces are one such area where delivery of multiple functions is required. Understanding how quality of these spaces is measured in relation to their multifunctionality can contribute to improving policy, management, and decision making to produce better outcomes, for both people and the environment. The purpose of this study is to understand the indicators used to explore multifunctional green and blue quality, using Scotland as a case study. We apply the ‘Four Capitals’ (environment, people, community, business) framework to explore green and blue space quality, through a mixed methods design, including a scoping literature review, a survey, and stakeholder workshops. Our research identified 72 indicators of green and blue space quality. When categorised into the Four Capitals, the majority aligned with the environment or people categories. We consider the Four Capitals categories, along with the identified use and importance of the various indicators, to understand how well these account for multifunctionality. In addition to practical and policy implications of the quality indicators, our work also highlights the application of the Four Capitals framework, potential mismatches between policy needs, and the multiple demands placed on green and blue spaces, and the available scientific evidence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104100"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144123860","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":"Factors contributing to climate adaptation lag in practice: Insights from local and territorial government interactions","authors":"S. Jeff Birchall ,&nbsp;Nicole Bonnett ,&nbsp;Desiree Rose ,&nbsp;Erin Gilchrist","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104097","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104097","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Local governments across the globe are facing worsening climate impacts. In response, many decision-makers have initiated processes of planning for climate change adaptation. However, implementation frequently lags in practice. Scholarship exploring adaptation lag often focuses on the role of governance, specifically as it relates to interactions between various common levels of government (e. g., provincial, state, federal). However, there is a dearth of academic literature that targets the relationship between local and territorial governments, particularly in a northern context. To contribute to the narrowing of this gap, we explore the relationship between local and territorial governments in Canada in an effort to shed light on the ways in which government interactions influence progress on adaptation. Specifically, this qualitative study focuses on three local governments (Dawson City, Haines Junction and Whitehorse) in Yukon, a territory in northwest Canada, to explore how enablers and barriers emerge and influence climate adaptation action. Results demostrate that local government decision-makers (e. g., elected officials and senior managers) are eager to adapt. However, challenges impede implementation of adaptation policies in practice. Application of an evolutionary governance lens reveals that path dependencies associated with an awareness of the need to respond to climate impacts facilitate buy-in for adaptation. In contrast, goal dependencies that prioritize mitigation over adaptation stymie momentum on adaptation. Moreover, interdependencies and complex power dynamics related to the local-territorial relationship create unclear roles, further constraining the implementation of adaptation policies in practice. Recommendations geared towards overcoming these challenges are provided.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104097"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144115532","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":"Gaps in public perceptions of extreme heat highlight UK’s lack of preparedness","authors":"Candice Howarth ,&nbsp;Heidi Zamzow ,&nbsp;Niall McLoughlin ,&nbsp;Ganga Shreedhar","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104101","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104101","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Under a changing climate, heatwaves are expected to become more frequent, prolonged and extreme, posing substantial risks to populations around the world. Public perceptions of extreme heat are chronically under-researched, despite being important precursors to heat protective actions, policy acceptance and community heat resilience. We present and discuss findings from a nationally representative survey of 1750 UK residents conducted in summer 2023, where we identify gaps and contradictions in heat perceptions concerning national and individual-level preparedness, heat behaviours and communication. We find that firstly, whilst heat is viewed as life-threatening, the public believes the UK is not prepared; secondly that increasing risks of heatwaves and hot weather to other people are acknowledged, however few individuals see themselves at risk; and thirdly underlying vulnerabilities and geographies are important factors in perceptions of heatwaves and hot weather. The findings make an important contribution to the literature and particularly highlight that proactive, people-centred measures must bear in mind the gaps discussed in this paper to minimise the impacts of extreme heat and safeguard those most vulnerable in the UK and beyond.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104101"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144105127","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}