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Policy entry points and associated interventions for sustainably transforming urban food systems 可持续转变城市粮食系统的政策切入点和相关干预措施

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104186

Angel Lázaro , Joyce Delnoij , Francisco Alpízar , Eveline van Leeuwen , Roger Cremades

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The ClimateHack: How tech entrepreneurship shapes climate action 《气候黑客：科技创业如何塑造气候行动

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104184

Paula Bialski , Daniela Weinmann , Julien McHardy

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How can a research program influence public policy? Evaluating a decade of research impact using an evidence-based theory of change 一个研究项目如何影响公共政策？用基于证据的变革理论评估十年来的研究影响

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104182

EA Jensen , S. Noles , MS Reed , P. Lang

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Tracing sources of funds used to lobby the US government about carbon capture, use, and storage 追踪用于游说美国政府关于碳捕获、利用和储存的资金来源

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104171

Lindsey E. Gulden , Charles Harvey

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Engagement for genetic modification technologies in conservation: For whom, how, and for what ends? 基因改造技术在自然保护中的应用：为谁、如何以及为了什么目的？

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104190

Sylvia Nissen , Franca A. Buelow , Riley Taitingfong , Amanda Black

{"title":"Engagement for genetic modification technologies in conservation: For whom, how, and for what ends?","authors":"Sylvia Nissen , Franca A. Buelow , Riley Taitingfong , Amanda Black","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104190","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104190","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Questions of engagement loom large for the use of genetic modification technologies in conservation. As scientific teams rapidly move towards implementing changes that will fundamentally alter entire species, concerns are regularly raised that associated engagement activities are inadequate. It is therefore vital to take stock of recent social research that critically examines how engagement is being enacted: who is engaged and by whom, how and on what terms, and for whom or what those processes serve. Despite a rise in calls for engagement, our review shows emergent gestures towards engagement by developers and regulators lean strongly towards narrow instrumental approaches that reinforce knowledge hierarchies and existing power imbalances. It contributes to engagement practices that are often vague and tokenistic, and focused on one-way education and snapshots of opinion, rather than mutual reciprocity and dialogue. To counter these undercurrents, our review draws attention to the ways social researchers are seeking to reorient engagement for genetic modification towards its more substantive and democratic possibilities, through articulating process, amplifying plurality, and acknowledging contestation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104190"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144852141","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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Navigating cascading food-energy-water insecurities: A case of community leadership in Puerto Rico 引导层叠的食物-能源-水不安全感：波多黎各社区领导的一个案例

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104188

Anaís Delilah Roque , Mary Angelica Painter , Wendy Prudencio , Sameer H. Shah , Enid Quintana Torres , Fernando Tormos-Aponte , Kenneth de León Colón , Fernando Cuevas Quintana

{"title":"Navigating cascading food-energy-water insecurities: A case of community leadership in Puerto Rico","authors":"Anaís Delilah Roque , Mary Angelica Painter , Wendy Prudencio , Sameer H. Shah , Enid Quintana Torres , Fernando Tormos-Aponte , Kenneth de León Colón , Fernando Cuevas Quintana","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104188","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104188","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change increases the frequency of intense hazards and disasters, affecting critical food, energy, and water (FEW) systems. As a result, local communities can experience food, energy, and water insecurities and associated public health risks. Amid long-standing contexts of chronic state negligence, ineffective disaster response, and infrastructural degradation, community leaders often become first responders to the potential risks and realizations of cascading FEW system failures. Using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) methodology with local leaders in Corcovada, a rural community in western Puerto Rico, we analyze the connections and interdependencies of food, energy, and water insecurity experiences, along with associated community health challenges in the context of compounding hazards and disasters. Through a thematic qualitative analysis, we find that energy security is crucial for community food and water security, as exemplified by its role in food preparation, nutritional choices, water availability, and water quality. Similarly, energy reliability to store medication and operate health equipment are central community health challenges. By engaging community leaders through CBPR, FEW securities can be enhanced through building capacity, identifying context-specific challenges, and developing community-driven responses. We contend that local community leaders are important governance actors to consider in FEW nexus policy- and decision-making. Community engagement in FEW nexus research can deepen understandings of integrated challenges following hazards and disasters and facilitate the development of potential solutions that benefit frontline communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104188"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144858205","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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Value of Information analysis for marine conservation decision making 信息分析对海洋保护决策的价值

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104164

Amelie Luhede , Prateek Verma , Thorsten Upmann

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Interdisciplinary challenges for wildfire futures 野火未来的跨学科挑战

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104175

T.A. Fairman , J. Aryal , P.J. Baker , A. Best , J. Cawson , H. Clarke , M.S. Fletcher , L. Gibbs , G. Foliente , L. Godden , M. Gibson , L. Kelly , A. King , T. Kompas , C. Leppold , C. Li , A. March , M. McCarthy , T. Ngo , K. Parkins , L.T. Bennett

{"title":"Interdisciplinary challenges for wildfire futures","authors":"T.A. Fairman , J. Aryal , P.J. Baker , A. Best , J. Cawson , H. Clarke , M.S. Fletcher , L. Gibbs , G. Foliente , L. Godden , M. Gibson , L. Kelly , A. King , T. Kompas , C. Leppold , C. Li , A. March , M. McCarthy , T. Ngo , K. Parkins , L.T. Bennett","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104175","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104175","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wildfire has shaped many ecosystems across Earth, and humans have in turn shaped fire and its interactions within a range of socio-ecological systems. Climate change is changing fire regimes, and recent major and disruptive fire seasons around the globe have indicated a need to reimagine and redefine how fire research is conducted. One potential path forward is increased promotion and development of interdisciplinary approaches to fire research, yet these are hindered by a lack of a common language and ‘framing’ of the ‘problem’. In this paper, we seek to advance the field of interdisciplinary fire research by bringing together experts from a wide range of disciplines to identify the key challenges for understanding and living with wildfires of the future (‘Wildfire Futures’). Through an iterative process, we identify seven major interdisciplinary challenges relating to Wildfire Futures in south-eastern Australia: data and understanding of fire; the need to reorientate cultural relationships with fire; recognising diverse tangible and intangible values of fire; exploring different ways to understand fire risk; adaptation pathways to envision alternate ways of living with fire; exploring the uncertainties and trade-offs inherent in decision making around fire; and how inertia in multiple systems hinders transformative change and interdisciplinary progress. Our paper illustrates how researchers from diverse disciplines can develop a common language for interdisciplinary fire research and identifies fire challenges relevant to many other regions around the world.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 104175"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144738964","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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Legitimising different futures: Swedish forest management as a climate change mitigation measure 使不同的未来合法化：瑞典森林管理作为减缓气候变化的措施

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104174

Alexander Olsson , Johanna Johansson

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Embodying the impact of climate change for decision makers using augmented reality (AR): A case study of climate-threatened cultural heritage sites in Western Alaska 利用增强现实（AR）为决策者体现气候变化的影响：阿拉斯加西部气候威胁文化遗产地的案例研究

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104178

Emma L. Verstraete , Sharon Kuo , Natasha Adams , Alexandra J. Zachwieja

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