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Towards an evidence base for groundwater data investments 建立地下水数据投资的证据基础

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104014

W.A. Veness , W. Buytaert

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Knowledge representation in global environmental assessments - Patterns among authors of the Global Environmental Outlook 全球环境评估中的知识表示。全球环境展望作者之间的模式

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104004

Ulrike Zeigermann , Burcu Uçaray Mangıtlı

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Environmental management using a digital twin 使用数字孪生的环境管理

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104018

Jennifer M. Durden

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Towards a prioritization screening framework for chemicals, wastes, and pollution 建立化学品、废物和污染的优先筛选框架

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学

Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103994

Richard Fuller , David Hanrahan , Victor Kabay , Ernesto Sanchez-Triana , Martin Kayser , Wilfred Lunga , Peter Bridgewater , Robert Watson

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Between inflated expectations and inherent distrust: How publics see the role of experts in governing climate intervention technologies 在膨胀的期望和固有的不信任之间：公众如何看待专家在治理气候干预技术方面的作用

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104005

Livia Fritz , Lucilla Losi , Chad M. Baum , Sean Low , Benjamin K. Sovacool

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Promoting sustainable food systems: An empirical analysis of local Food Hub governance models and structures in 12 African settings 促进可持续粮食系统：对非洲12个地方粮食中心治理模式和结构的实证分析

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学

Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103983

Elisa Carloni , Claudia Giordano , Gianluca Nicola Di Fiore , Luca Mulazzani , Marco Setti , Luca Falasconi , Valentino Marini Govigli

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Assessing to act: A water-energy-food-ecosystem (WEFE) nexus governance assessment for the Inkomati-Usuthu river basin in South Africa 评估行动：南非因科马蒂-乌苏图河流域的水-能源-食物-生态系统（WEFE）关系治理评估

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103986

Eva Sievers , Ingrid Canovas , Daniella Kristensen , Frank Hüesker

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From environmental policy consensus to socio-environmental policy controversy: Discursive network dynamics of the Ghentian Low Emission Zone 从环境政策共识到社会环境政策争议：根田低排放区的话语网络动力学

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学

Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104013

Kimberley Vandenhole

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Institutional dependencies shape adaptation pathways for local service providers: A study of US water utilities responding to climatic stressors 制度依赖塑造了当地服务提供者的适应路径：美国水务公司应对气候压力的研究

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103982

Alexandra Smialek , Tamee R. Albrecht , Anita Milman

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Political embedding of climate assemblies. How effective strategies for policy impact depend on context 气候大会的政治嵌入。政策影响的有效策略如何取决于环境

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Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103993

Janosch Pfeffer, Jens Newig

{"title":"Political embedding of climate assemblies. How effective strategies for policy impact depend on context","authors":"Janosch Pfeffer, Jens Newig","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103993","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103993","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scholars and practitioners discuss how to increase the policy impact of climate assemblies (CAs) noting that their proposals tend to be more ambitious than government policy. CAs comprise groups of randomly selected citizens (minipublics) who deliberate on climate policy issues. We argue for greater focus on how political actors strategically use CAs and suggest welcoming some of this strategic use. We propose that CAs, and minipublics more generally, need <em>political embedding</em>. That means, minipublic designers should first consider how political actors will likely interact with a process given their interests and political context, and subsequently make deliberate use of strategies to foster objectives like policy impact. Using a thought experiment, we then demonstrate that the effectiveness of such political embedding strategies to promote CAs’ policy impact depends on political context. Our analysis shows that the impacts of mass publicity, commissioning actors, inclusion of perspectives, and strategic framings vary with the constellation of interests of climate political actors. This exercise challenges sweeping statements about optimal CA and minipublic design, contributing to more realistic theorizing. Considering political embeddedness will help democratic reformers assess potential models for minipublic institutionalization more accurately.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 103993"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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