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New directions in climate justice? A dialogue between critical climate justice and policy studies scholars 气候正义的新方向？关键气候正义和政策研究学者之间的对话

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Earth System Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.esg.2025.100283

Andrea Schapper, Paul Cairney, Neil Crawford, Clemens Hoffmann, Hyeyoon Park, Hannes Stephan

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What space for justice? The just energy transition partnership with South Africa 正义的空间是什么？与南非的能源转型伙伴关系

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Earth System Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.esg.2025.100285

Konrad Gürtler

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Sustainability transitions in corporations: The influence of the sustainable development goals on corporate financial performance 企业的可持续转型：可持续发展目标对企业财务绩效的影响

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Earth System Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.esg.2025.100293

Xue Ruo Ng, Shirin Malekpour, Rob Raven

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Resolving climate action and inequality in tandem? A global review of states’ climate pledges to the Paris Agreement 同时解决气候行动和不平等问题？对各国对《巴黎协定》的气候承诺进行全球审查

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Earth System Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.esg.2025.100289

Maria Jernnäs

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Failure or success? Biodiversity policy integration into the agricultural policy of the new EU Member States – the Croatian experience 失败还是成功？将生物多样性政策纳入欧盟新成员国的农业政策-克罗地亚的经验

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Earth System Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.esg.2025.100284

Lucija Pečurlić , Emil Erjavec , Tihana Sudarić , Tanja Šumrada

{"title":"Failure or success? Biodiversity policy integration into the agricultural policy of the new EU Member States – the Croatian experience","authors":"Lucija Pečurlić , Emil Erjavec , Tihana Sudarić , Tanja Šumrada","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100284","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100284","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the adoption of EU nature conservation legislation, Central and Eastern European countries have witnessed accelerated biodiversity declines in recent decades. This paper explores the reasons behind the relatively weak integration of biodiversity policy into the agricultural sector, with Croatia serving as a case study. Conceptually, this study contributes to the understanding of biodiversity policy integration (BPI) by applying an adapted analytical framework that reveals how institutional and structural constraints shape the depth of integration in post-socialist contexts, offering insights for future EU enlargements and vertical policy integration. The study involved a comprehensive review of national legislation and an analysis of interviews with stakeholders and experts. Historically, Croatia's biodiversity conservation efforts were primarily concentrated on protected areas, with limited involvement of farmers. Agri-environmental schemes (AES) for biodiversity were introduced during the 2014–2022 CAP period, but were implemented on less than 2 % of farmland. Factors such as limited institutional capacity, a lack of biodiversity data, and insufficient experience in designing conservation programs resulted in relatively poorly tailored measures. Despite increased flexibility in the post-2023 CAP, few significant policy changes have been made, primarily due to a lack of stakeholder collaboration and inadequate institutional support for new approaches.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100284"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144893835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ecosystems republics 生态系统的共和国

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Earth System Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.esg.2025.100299

Nupur Chowdhury

{"title":"Ecosystems republics","authors":"Nupur Chowdhury","doi":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100299","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esg.2025.100299","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite global efforts towards sustainability and conservation, as per the latest Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Report, biodiversity depletion has only hastened since the turn of the century and all species are facing an existential threat. Unremitting exploitation of nature by humans is the primary reason for this ongoing environmental catastrophe. Capitalist extractivism, supported by centralized apparatus of the state, has spectacularly failed in ensuring environmental sustainability. I suggest <em>ecosystems republics</em> as an alternate form of political and economic organization to address this challenge. There is an urgent need to reimagine and therefore reorganize nation-states into a series of <em>ecosystem republics</em> with the objective of ensuring their integrity and environmental sustainability. Drawing on Gandhian ideas of <em>swaraj</em> and <em>ahimsa,</em> I explore and elucidate on a decentralized governance model based on three fundamental principles—demarcating and safeguarding ecosystem integrity; ensuring that all interests critical of ecosystems integrity are voiced and secured through their operation as republics; and finally recognizing that ecosystems are <em>sui generis</em> entities necessarily requiring the recognition of subsidiarity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":33685,"journal":{"name":"Earth System Governance","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100299"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145465924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Multi-level salmon governance and adaptation to institutional change in Indigenous fishing communities in Kamchatka, Russia 俄罗斯堪察加半岛土著渔业社区多层次鲑鱼治理与制度变迁适应

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Earth System Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.esg.2025.100295

Tatiana Degai , Maria Monakhova , Andrey Petrov , Victoria N. Sharakhmatova , Yulia Vasilieva

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Earth System Governance Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.esg.2025.100296

Upasana Dasgupta

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Accelerating the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals at the local level: Unpacking governance processes and tensions 在地方一级加快落实可持续发展目标：剖析治理进程和紧张局势

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Earth System Governance Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.esg.2025.100264

Magdalena Bexell , Basil Bornemann , Enayat A. Moallemi , Ha B. Vien

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The state of planning, policy, and justice for human mobility in national adaptation plans 国家适应计划中人口流动的规划、政策和司法状况

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Earth System Governance Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.esg.2025.100266

Jesse M. Keenan , Idowu Ajibade , Bethany C. Tietjen

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