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Social capital as a policy catalyst: Enhancing municipal investment in climate risk reduction and adaptation 社会资本作为政策催化剂:加强市政在减少和适应气候风险方面的投资
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103041
Pablo Neudörfer , Patricio Valdivieso
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Projected land-use change emissions surpass climate change-induced carbon sinks in Sub-Saharan African biomes 预计的土地利用变化排放超过了撒哈拉以南非洲生物群落中气候变化引起的碳汇
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2025-07-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103039
Dabwiso Sakala, Maria J. Santos
{"title":"Projected land-use change emissions surpass climate change-induced carbon sinks in Sub-Saharan African biomes","authors":"Dabwiso Sakala,&nbsp;Maria J. Santos","doi":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103039","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103039","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) and climate change (CC) effects on carbon dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have the potential to transition the region’s carbon balance from sink to source. Future shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) for SSA show high vulnerability to CC, high urbanisation, and cropland and pasture demands expected to rise in the coming decades. Yet the realisations of these pathways may be biome-specific as these are expected to behave differently when it comes to carbon dynamics and also be affected by different demands. Here, we examine the impacts of LULCC and CC on Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE), Net Primary Productivity (NPP), and carbon turnover time of six SSA biomes, namely tropical rainforest, montane forest, moist savanna, dry savanna, temperate grassland and semi-desert, between 2015–2100 for the five SSPs. We performed four simulations where we (i) kept LULCC and CC constant, (ii) varied LULCC and kept CC constant, (iii) kept LULCC constant and varied CC, and (iv) varied both LULCC and CC and calculated their effect on NEE, NPP and carbon turnover time. We find that LULCC effects supersede those of CC, resulting in a net carbon source despite the sink effect of CC. LULCC alone drives major carbon losses across all scenarios, with moist and dry savannas resulting in the strongest carbon sources with cumulative NEE values of 74.93 and 44.85 PgC by 2100 under SSP4. In contrast, CC alone led to consistent carbon sinks across all scenarios in the semi-desert and tropical rainforest, with the strongest sinks observed under SSP5 (−8.36 PgC and − 3.77 PgC, respectively). Moist savanna also acted as a sink under SSP5 (−4.82 PgC) and SSP3 (−1.73 PgC). Combined effects largely reflect LULCC trends, confirming its dominant role in shaping future carbon dynamics. We further observe that intensifying LULCC may decrease biome carbon turnover time by 50 %, especially in tropical rainforests under SSP3 and SSP4. These results suggest that the CC-induced carbon sinks will unlikely dampen the increasing emissions from LULCC in SSA that may not be offset by 2100. Ultimately, our study demonstrates that sustaining SSA as a carbon sink will require urgent, biome-specific land management policies that integrate socioeconomic realities with the region’s evolving climate and development pathways.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":328,"journal":{"name":"Global Environmental Change","volume":"94 ","pages":"Article 103039"},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144662308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Uncovering decolonial pedagogies for learning agroecological transitions: comparative analysis of South America cases 揭示学习农业生态转型的非殖民化教学法:对南美案例的比较分析
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103042
Michelle Bonatti , Renata Guimarães Reynaldo , Berta Martín-López , Sergio Bolivar , María Cordero-Fernández , Giovanna Chavez Miguel , Adriana Martin , Janika Hämmerle , Barbara Schröter , Carla Erismann , Teresa da Silva Rosa , Jon Hellin , Izabella Schlindwein , Álvaro Acevedo Osorio , Leonardo Medina , Carla Baldivieso , Luca Eufemia , Johanna Jacobi , Ana Maria Lobo Guerrero , Stefan Sieber
{"title":"Uncovering decolonial pedagogies for learning agroecological transitions: comparative analysis of South America cases","authors":"Michelle Bonatti ,&nbsp;Renata Guimarães Reynaldo ,&nbsp;Berta Martín-López ,&nbsp;Sergio Bolivar ,&nbsp;María Cordero-Fernández ,&nbsp;Giovanna Chavez Miguel ,&nbsp;Adriana Martin ,&nbsp;Janika Hämmerle ,&nbsp;Barbara Schröter ,&nbsp;Carla Erismann ,&nbsp;Teresa da Silva Rosa ,&nbsp;Jon Hellin ,&nbsp;Izabella Schlindwein ,&nbsp;Álvaro Acevedo Osorio ,&nbsp;Leonardo Medina ,&nbsp;Carla Baldivieso ,&nbsp;Luca Eufemia ,&nbsp;Johanna Jacobi ,&nbsp;Ana Maria Lobo Guerrero ,&nbsp;Stefan Sieber","doi":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Agroecological transitions represent strategic pathways for transforming agricultural systems to meet urgent global sustainability goals. These transitions encompass fundamental changes in social-ecological relationships, knowledge systems, and power dynamics within food systems. However, the mechanisms facilitating such transitions remain insufficiently understood, particularly regarding the diversity and efficacy of pedagogical models employed in existing agroecological initiatives. This knowledge gap is especially pronounced within Global South contexts, especially Latin America, where decolonial approaches hold particular relevance and tradition within effective agroecology initiatives. Using a decolonial lens, this study explores the pedagogical models used in community-led agroecological initiatives in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. Drawing on semi-structured interviews and workshops (n 140), alongside participant observations, we applied a qualitative archetypes analysis to examine three community-led agroecology initiatives. We identified three distinct but interconnected contextual narratives: a. Living Pedagogies; b. Resistance Pedagogies; and c. Hybrid Pedagogies. Despite these different contextual narratives, they share clear patterns, which allowed us to identify one major archetype − the South pedagogies archetype. The decolonial pedagogy found can be fundamental to accelerate agroecological transitions. Traditional communities in Colombia and Peru have preserved and evolved their agroecology knowledge systems through generations of collective learning, offering profound insights into sustainable food production that transcend the limitations of Western scientific methodologies. In parallel, decolonial pedagogies in the Brazilian case were essential to promote urban agroecological transition that started during the 2000s. These findings inform agroecological transition development based on learning processes that value multiple ways of being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":328,"journal":{"name":"Global Environmental Change","volume":"94 ","pages":"Article 103042"},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144631406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Overshoot, potential air pollution co-benefits and food shortages 超载、潜在的空气污染和粮食短缺
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103040
Li-Jing Liu , Qiao-Mei Liang , Felix Creutzig , Hua Tong , Yu-Xuan Xiao , Xiang-Yan Qian , Hao Wang , Si-Yi Wei , Xiao-Chen Yuan , Biying Yu , Lan-Cui Liu , Yi-Ming Wei
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Heatwave adaptation conditioned by everyday life: Analysing interacting changes to daily activities during Pacific Northwest summers 日常生活条件下的热浪适应:分析太平洋西北夏季日常活动的相互作用变化
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2025-07-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103026
Shiv G. Yücel, Tim Schwanen
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Beyond property rights: all roads lead to sustainable grassland management 超越产权:所有的道路都通向可持续的草原管理
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2025-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103029
Lu Yu , Siyuan Qiu , Qi Chen , Lingling Hou
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Pathways to just conservation: A crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis of environmental defender mobilization in conservation conflicts 公正保护之路:保护冲突中环境保护者动员的脆集定性比较分析
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103030
Raphael Anammasiya Ayambire , Jeremy Pittman , Gideon Abagna Azunre , Cynthia Itbo Musah , Romeo Agominab , Abdul-Salam Jahanfo Abdulai , Owusu Amponsah , Stephen Appiah Takyi
{"title":"Pathways to just conservation: A crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis of environmental defender mobilization in conservation conflicts","authors":"Raphael Anammasiya Ayambire ,&nbsp;Jeremy Pittman ,&nbsp;Gideon Abagna Azunre ,&nbsp;Cynthia Itbo Musah ,&nbsp;Romeo Agominab ,&nbsp;Abdul-Salam Jahanfo Abdulai ,&nbsp;Owusu Amponsah ,&nbsp;Stephen Appiah Takyi","doi":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103030","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103030","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Conservation policies intended to address biodiversity loss and climate change are increasingly linked to land dispossession, human rights violations, and the criminalization of environmental defenders. While prior research has highlighted the risks defenders face, less is known about the strategies and conditions that enable them to succeed. This study uses crisp-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA) of 25 conservation conflict cases from the Environmental Justice Atlas to identify the pathways through which defenders effectively resist unjust conservation practices. We identify four causal pathways to successful mobilization: two epistemic strategies, where defenders use alternative knowledge mobilization to either strengthen legal claims or build broad coalitions; one preventive strategy focused on early mobilization; and a comprehensive strategy drawing on nearly all conditions, except direct action. Across all pathways, alternative knowledge mobilization, such as defender-led health studies and ecological assessments, plays a central role in successful mobilization, while direct action tactics were notably absent in all successful pathways. These findings challenge assumptions about confrontation as a necessary ingredient for effective resistance and advance new insights into how knowledge politics shape just outcomes in conservation conflicts. As the global conservation community intensifies efforts to safeguard biodiversity and uphold the rights of affected communities, centering the strategies and experiences of environmental defenders is essential to ensuring equitable and effective conservation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":328,"journal":{"name":"Global Environmental Change","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 103030"},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144338250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Climate change anxiety: A meta-analysis 气候变化焦虑:荟萃分析
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2025-06-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103015
Clara Kühner , Corinna Gemmecke , Joachim Hüffmeier , Hannes Zacher
{"title":"Climate change anxiety: A meta-analysis","authors":"Clara Kühner ,&nbsp;Corinna Gemmecke ,&nbsp;Joachim Hüffmeier ,&nbsp;Hannes Zacher","doi":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change anxiety is increasingly prevalent, attracting both scientific and societal interest. However, the potential antecedents and consequences of this phenomenon are not comprehensively understood. This meta-analysis synthesizes 94 studies including 170,747 adult participants from 27 countries, examining 33 correlates of climate change anxiety. We find that: (1) certain groups are more likely to experience climate change anxiety, including younger individuals, women, and individuals with higher levels of neuroticism, as well as people with left-leaning political views, individuals highly concerned about the future or the environment, and those exposed to perceived climate change consequences or frequent climate change information; (2) belief in climate change, climate change risk perceptions, and perceived consensus among climate scientists are positively associated with climate change anxiety; (3) climate change anxiety is negatively related to well-being, but positively related to climate action, with associations surpassing those of generalized anxiety. Implications for supporting vulnerable groups, channeling climate change anxiety into action, and recommendations for future research are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":328,"journal":{"name":"Global Environmental Change","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 103015"},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144330100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Enabling sustainable transitions in coal and carbon-intensive regions 促进煤炭和碳密集地区的可持续转型
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103022
Diana Mangalagiu, Jenny Lieu, Fulvio Biddau, Amanda Martinez Reyes, Baiba Witajewska-Baltvilka
{"title":"Enabling sustainable transitions in coal and carbon-intensive regions","authors":"Diana Mangalagiu,&nbsp;Jenny Lieu,&nbsp;Fulvio Biddau,&nbsp;Amanda Martinez Reyes,&nbsp;Baiba Witajewska-Baltvilka","doi":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Low-carbon transitions are particularly acute in coal and carbon-intensive regions (CCIRs), which face not only technological and economic barriers but also deep socio-political and cultural obstacles in moving away from carbon lock-in. Transforming these regions requires destabilizing and reconfiguring high-carbon regimes, often demanding structural changes across technological, socio-economic, political, and cultural domains. Despite increased attention to the decline of unsustainable energy systems, much research and policy remain short-sighted, often overlooking paradoxes, trade-offs, and spill-over effects during transitions. This Special Issue addresses the complexity of sustainability transitions in CCIRs from an interdisciplinary social science perspective, drawing on nine original contributions from the TIPPING+ project. The collection introduces advanced concepts, methods, and empirical evidence to better understand and navigate transitions in CCIRs, focusing on Social-Ecological Tipping Points. Through diverse case studies across Europe, Asia, and North America, the articles examine the interplay of forces shaping transition trajectories and highlight their non-linear, multi-scalar, and justice-sensitive nature. The Special Issue introduces frameworks for diagnosing transition states and identifying tipping dynamics, with attention to timing, territoriality, and equity. It further analyzes how political, economic, and governance conditions, as well as place-based narratives and cultural framings, influence the destabilization of carbon lock-ins and the legitimacy and direction of change. Collectively, the articles reframe transitions in CCIRs as embedded, justice-centred, and culturally contested processes, providing actionable insights for research, policy, and planning in sustainability transformations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":328,"journal":{"name":"Global Environmental Change","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 103022"},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144572468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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A systematic review of public acceptability and perceived impacts of eleven energy sources and mitigation technologies 对11种能源和缓解技术的公众可接受性和可感知影响进行系统审查
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2025-06-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103014
Robert Görsch, Goda Perlaviciute, Linda Steg
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