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Advancing participatory sensing and knowledge production methods for city air quality governance: Applying the Breathe London Community Programme model 推进城市空气质量治理的参与式感知和知识生产方法：应用“呼吸伦敦”社区项目模式

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104092

Kayla Schulte, Andrew Grieve, Benjamin Barratt, Timothy Baker, Hima Coonjobeeharry, Mohammed Mead

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“To care and improve little by little, that's how we can do it”: Exploring Indigenous perspectives on environmental health and community solutions through participatory workshops in Amantaní, Peru “关心和逐步改善，这就是我们的做法”：通过在秘鲁Amantaní举办的参与性讲习班，探索土著对环境卫生和社区解决办法的看法

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104093

Laura J. Brown , Hannah Buddry , Blenda Milagros Abarca Díaz , Renan Espezua , Carla Cortez-Vergara , Hattie Lowe , María Calderón , Jenevieve Mannell

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Framing of innovation in urban Australian municipal climate policy 澳大利亚城市气候政策的创新框架

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104094

Grace Rodgerson , Megan Farrelly , Rob Raven , Darren Sharp

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Avoiding an anticipated social-ecological trap in biodiversity conservation on private lands in Quebec province, Canada 在加拿大魁北克省的私人土地上避免生物多样性保护中预期的社会生态陷阱

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学

Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-05-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104095

Louis Tanguay , Jean-François Bissonnette , Sophie Calmé , Konstantia Koutouki , Katrine Turgeon

{"title":"Avoiding an anticipated social-ecological trap in biodiversity conservation on private lands in Quebec province, Canada","authors":"Louis Tanguay , Jean-François Bissonnette , Sophie Calmé , Konstantia Koutouki , Katrine Turgeon","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104095","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104095","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>During the last decades, global conservation efforts shifted from a mostly top-down process to preserve ecosystems on public lands to diverse governance processes involving stakeholders and conservation on private lands. Following these trends, the Quebec government (Canada) also engaged in biodiversity conservation efforts on private lands to reduce perceived environmental injustice arising from imposed conservation measures. However, citizen involvement has remained mainly a communicative or consultative participation, lacking effective citizen contribution. Based on our work with conservation actors in Quebec, we present a double-loop social-ecological (SE) trap that we foresee for conservation measures implemented on private lands used for production purposes. We used the SE-AS framework to illustrate the SE trap which suggests that including merely consultative landowner participation in the design of conservation measures might lead to a misunderstanding of both the production ecosystems dynamics and the interests and concerns of landowners. This misunderstanding could result in a mismatch between conservation measures and production ecosystems, lower production, lost opportunities and disengagement from conservation measures on the part of landowners. Such a context could, in turn, induce decision-makers to perceive participative efforts as failures, resulting in the re-establishment of top-down decision-making. Ultimately, landowners might react to these imposed conservation measures just as they did in the past, perceiving them as environmental injustice and refusing to comply. We conclude that effective landowner participation through active involvement in cooperative planning and co-management, supported by a systemic perspective, would allow better integration of the knowledge and concerns of landowners, and ultimately, better integration of conservation efforts with production activities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"170 ","pages":"Article 104095"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143931754","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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Water conflicts: Exploring how stakeholder behaviours influence conflict (de-)escalation in practice 水资源冲突：探讨利益相关者行为在实践中如何影响冲突（降级）升级

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104096

Heather K. Anderson, Richard S. Quilliam, Heather Price

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Assessing extreme heat risk perception: Awareness, worry, preparedness and social capital in Texas 评估极端高温风险感知：德克萨斯州的意识、担忧、准备和社会资本

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104072

Sandeep Paul , Kayee Zhou , R. Patrick Bixler

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Understanding stakeholder influence on resident participation in neighborhood rehabilitation from a project lifecycle perspective 从项目生命周期的角度理解利益相关者对居民参与社区修复的影响

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-05-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104091

Yu Li , Penglin Zhu , Erwin Mlecnik , Henk J. Visscher , Queena K. Qian

{"title":"Understanding stakeholder influence on resident participation in neighborhood rehabilitation from a project lifecycle perspective","authors":"Yu Li , Penglin Zhu , Erwin Mlecnik , Henk J. Visscher , Queena K. Qian","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104091","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Active resident engagement and effective organizer management are crucial for participatory neighborhood rehabilitation. Yet, existing public participation research focuses on residents, leaving the behaviors of organizers and their influence on outcomes less examined. Furthermore, most renewal studies treat the rehabilitation process as homogeneous and static, overlooking how stakeholders’ objectives, strategies, and actions evolve throughout the project lifecycle. To address these gaps, this paper employs stakeholder theory to propose the Stakeholder Influence Model (SIM), which investigates the multifaceted influence of stakeholders on resident participation across different phases of neighborhood rehabilitation. Drawing on 44 in-depth interviews and a four-month participant observation in Wuhan, China, deductive content analysis reveals stakeholders’ distinct influence strategies and both stimulating or disincentivizing effects on resident engagement. Specifically, indirect local government involvement, excessive delegation to neighborhood committees, and imbalanced power dynamics among residents are identified, jeopardizing the fairness, inclusiveness, and long-term viability of rehabilitation initiatives. By highlighting diverse stakeholders’ evolving impacts, this study advances current understanding of participatory urban renewal. The proposed SIM provides a robust framework for analyzing stakeholder interactions and informs policy interventions aimed at fostering more equitable and inclusive urban rehabilitation in China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 104091"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143917454","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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Opening Editorial: The contested nature of climate change: Feminist and decolonial perspectives for transformative adaptation 社论：气候变化的争议性：变革适应的女权主义和非殖民化观点

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-05-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104082

Irene Iniesta-Arandia , Federica Ravera

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Cultivating collective imagination beyond crisis 培养超越危机的集体想象力

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学

Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104074

Rose Cairns

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Setting global deadlines for the elimination of major groups of persistent organic pollutants 为消除主要类别的持久性有机污染物设定全球最后期限

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104090

Ishmail Sheriff

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