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Grassroots Innovations and Projectification: Diffusion Processes of the European Ecovillage Movement 草根创新与投射：欧洲生态村运动的传播过程

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70013

André Girardi, Lasse Kos, Rebeca Roysen, Ana Margarida Esteves, Nadine Bruehwiler

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Mapping the Ontology and Epistemology of Research Into Forest Carbon Offsetting in Developing Countries 发展中国家森林碳补偿研究的本体论与认识论映射

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-08-07 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70015

Mark Purdon, Patrick Byakagaba

{"title":"Mapping the Ontology and Epistemology of Research Into Forest Carbon Offsetting in Developing Countries","authors":"Mark Purdon, Patrick Byakagaba","doi":"10.1002/eet.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.70015","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider knowledge cumulation in one of the most polarized areas of environmental governance research: forest carbon offsetting in developing countries. Our specific contribution is a critical review of the ontological and epistemological positioning of 31 studies published in the peer-reviewed literature on forest carbon offsetting in Uganda. At the surface, differences appear related to methodological gaps along the qualitative-quantitative divide. However, probing deeper suggests a lack of agreement on fundamental ontological and epistemological issues, which challenges traditional understandings of scientific knowledge cumulation. Among our key findings is that research into forest carbon offsetting in Uganda is predominated by epistemologies we characterize as neopositivist (approximately half) and neo-Marxist overdetermination (approximately one-third). Structural ontologies were significantly more frequently identified in our critical review than agentic ontologies, while structure–agency balancing ontologies were the least represented. Notably, research most critical of forest carbon offsetting was characterized by an epistemology of neo-Marxist overdetermination and structural/synchronic ontology. While recognizing the limits of our critical review into forest carbon offsetting in Uganda, knowledge cumulation appears to be frustrated by a lack of agreement on fundamental ontological and epistemological presuppositions. Nonetheless, given the polarized debate on forest carbon offsetting, delineating such fundamental differences may help lay the groundwork for promoting dialogue between different research traditions. But such epistemic fragmentation or diversity may not in itself constitute epistemic justice, which requires additional attention to broader power imbalances involved in the conduct of environmental governance research in developing countries.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 5","pages":"928-944"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145242908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Laggard by Intent or Constraint? Rethinking Environmental Implementation Deficits in Greece Through the Capacity–Intentionality Framework 故意滞后还是约束滞后？从能力-意向性框架重新思考希腊的环境执行赤字

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70011

Michail Melidis, Athanassios Gouglas

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Beyond Regulation: Coordinating an Environmental Federalist Response to “Forever Chemicals” in Drinking Water 超越监管：协调环境联邦主义者对饮用水中“永久化学物质”的反应

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-08-03 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70012

Adrienne R. Brown, Adriana Zuniga-Teran, Andrea Gerlak, Gina Gilson, Gemma Smith, Alison Elder

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Synthesizing Archetypes of Social-Ecological Systems: Identifying Common Building Blocks 综合社会生态系统的原型：识别共同的构建模块

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70006

Klaus Eisenack, Graham Epstein, Lydia Finzel, Elke Kellner, Ben Nagel, Stefan Partelow, Matteo Roggero, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas

{"title":"Synthesizing Archetypes of Social-Ecological Systems: Identifying Common Building Blocks","authors":"Klaus Eisenack, Graham Epstein, Lydia Finzel, Elke Kellner, Ben Nagel, Stefan Partelow, Matteo Roggero, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas","doi":"10.1002/eet.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.70006","url":null,"abstract":"A growing number of studies apply the social-ecological systems (SES) framework with its standardized set of variables to examine place-based environmental governance. Yet, due to the wide diversity of social-ecological systems, a general theory about how variables interact—and systems can be governed—lacks empirical support. Despite many case studies, knowledge cumulation is hindered by data heterogeneity, and by the difficulties with synthesizing a large number of cases into middle-range theories, possibly understood as re-occurring patterns of the larger theoretical puzzle of environmental governance. Thus, this paper aims to cumulate knowledge by identifying repeating configurations of variables across 71 models from SES framework case studies using archetype analysis. We propose a building-blocks approach to identify eight archetypes, each characterized by a triad (presence of three variables), an explanation of this triad, and a qualitative characterization with cases which exemplify them. The triads relate to, for example: shared operational agency; small households in remote, inaccessible places; property and accountability; or formal investment conditions. We show how a relatively small set of triads can be combined in various ways to represent a larger diversity of SES, and illustrate this by re-visiting several cases. We argue that identifying these recurring archetypes advances the field because it allows scholars to focus their theorizing and empirical research around a known set of triads. More broadly, the paper contributes to advancing empirically supported claims about SES and environmental governance, new uses of the SES framework, and techniques for knowledge cumulation using archetype analysis.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 5","pages":"882-897"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145243153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Deliberating Justice in Citizen Jury Processes—Lessons for Just Transitions Governance 公民陪审团程序中的审慎正义——公正过渡治理的经验教训

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70010

Suvi Huttunen, Katariina Kulha, Simo Kyllönen, Hanna Mela, Maria Ojanen, Katriina Soini, Jaana Sorvali, Ninni Suni, Heli Saarikoski

{"title":"Deliberating Justice in Citizen Jury Processes—Lessons for Just Transitions Governance","authors":"Suvi Huttunen, Katariina Kulha, Simo Kyllönen, Hanna Mela, Maria Ojanen, Katriina Soini, Jaana Sorvali, Ninni Suni, Heli Saarikoski","doi":"10.1002/eet.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.70010","url":null,"abstract":"Citizen juries are suggested as an effective tool for promoting just transition to low-carbon societies. However, citizen juries are influenced by participation rules, accepted discourses, and participants' perceptions about the need for climate policies. Therefore, it is crucial to better understand how citizens comprehend and deliberate justice in sustainability transition contexts. We analyzed two citizen juries conducted in Finland. One jury focused on the low-carbon transition in the transport sector, and the other on forest governance. We identified citizens' justice claims regarding the key aspects of justice (distributive, procedural, recognition, and restorative justice), supplemented by global, intergenerational, and ecological justice considerations. We analyzed how these claims developed during the deliberation. The transport jury emphasized distributive and recognition justice and increased awareness of diverse capacities and vulnerabilities related to the mobility transition. This jury also reinforced the participants' expectations regarding the legitimacy of certain nonsustainable lifestyles, such as private motoring. The forest jury emphasized procedural justice and forests as an intergenerational common good, but they also recognized forest owners' rights and legitimate claims for forest income. The juries demonstrate that citizen deliberation helps address justice concerns by revealing jurors' expectations regarding lifestyles and livelihood sources and proposing practical solutions. Our results suggest that citizen juries can enhance the formation of more informed and consistent, and thus legitimate, expectations.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 5","pages":"868-881"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145243152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Winners, Losers, and the Implications of Inequality in Biodiversity Conservation Policies: Insights From European Development Aid to Central Africa 生物多样性保护政策的赢家、输家和不平等的影响：来自欧洲发展援助中非的见解

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70004

Alexandra Rasoamanana, Max Krott, Symphorien Ongolo

{"title":"Winners, Losers, and the Implications of Inequality in Biodiversity Conservation Policies: Insights From European Development Aid to Central Africa","authors":"Alexandra Rasoamanana, Max Krott, Symphorien Ongolo","doi":"10.1002/eet.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.70004","url":null,"abstract":"International aid for biodiversity conservation is expected to provide alternative livelihoods for forest-dependent communities to offset restrictions on forest use. This aligns with the contemporary conservation discourse that promotes pro-poor, human rights-based, and sustainability principles. We used the Central Africa Forest Ecosystem Program (ECOFAC), the longest-running EU-funded initiative with nearly 200 million euros invested for about 30 years, as a case study to analyze how international aid, has attempted to achieve fair and sustainable conservation practices. Through a longitudinal study of the design of ECOFAC, we assessed its implementation arrangements, budget distribution, prioritized technical solutions, and target actors to identify to whom it has benefited the most (winners) and for whom it has not been beneficial or even harmful (losers). Our findings show that the EU biodiversity conservation program has prioritized the reinforcement of state administrations to strengthen their coercive power in protected areas. A co-dependency has developed between transnational actors, preferred by the EU as implementing partners, and state conservation actors. This relationship has become a barrier to meaningful reform within ECOFAC despite decades of policy learning. The pro-poor discourse and human rights concerns of the EU aid have not been reflected in the types of activities funded nor in the level of investments aimed at incentivizing forest-dependent communities to support conservation restrictions. EU policymakers need to pay more attention to how their interventions in biodiversity conservation policies create or reinforce power asymmetries and inequality, especially in Central Africa.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 5","pages":"839-851"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.70004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145242917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Flood Risk-Sensitive Land Use Governance: Explaining Enforcement Gaps in the Case of Accra, Ghana 洪水风险敏感型土地利用治理：以加纳阿克拉为例解释执法缺口

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70005

Sylvia Kruse, Julio César Millán Espinosa, Fafali R. Ziga-Abortta, Martin Oteng-Ababio

{"title":"Flood Risk-Sensitive Land Use Governance: Explaining Enforcement Gaps in the Case of Accra, Ghana","authors":"Sylvia Kruse, Julio César Millán Espinosa, Fafali R. Ziga-Abortta, Martin Oteng-Ababio","doi":"10.1002/eet.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.70005","url":null,"abstract":"Research has shown that effective flood risk management is closely connected to land use governance, i.e., the land use system involving diverse, relevant stakeholders (e.g., landowners, public authorities, disaster management organisations) and their formal and informal land development practices. Our research scrutinises the often-observed enforcement gaps emerging when unauthorised encroachment in flood-prone areas occurs despite existing formal regulations on building activities. The study identifies factors that help explain these enforcement gaps in flood risk-sensitive land use governance by applying an institutional analysis and development (IAD) framework and a property rights perspective. Our empirical research focuses on Accra, Ghana, which has a long history of both regular and extreme flood events and is experiencing significant growth and high in-migration rates, leading to increased demand for land. This, paired with land litigation and limited security of tenure, has led to unplanned settlements and encroachments of flood-prone areas, thus heightening the local population's vulnerability—conditions typical of many similar cases in Sub-Saharan Africa. The research builds on analysing policy documents and interviews with diverse stakeholders related to flood risk management and land use governance in Accra. Applying qualitative content analysis, we identified explanatory factors in connection with the enforcement gaps, which include overlapping property rights, outpaced planning efforts, land conflicts, legal loopholes, authority mismatch, information gaps, political influence and selective enforcement, and socio-economic pressures.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 5","pages":"852-867"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145242912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Promoting Stakeholder Interaction to Facilitate Wildfire Management: Insights From a Case Study in Monreale, Sicily 促进利益相关者互动以促进野火管理：来自西西里岛Monreale案例研究的见解

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70008

Erika Piroli, Donato Salvatore La Mela Veca, Jay Mistry, Yiannis Kountouris

{"title":"Promoting Stakeholder Interaction to Facilitate Wildfire Management: Insights From a Case Study in Monreale, Sicily","authors":"Erika Piroli, Donato Salvatore La Mela Veca, Jay Mistry, Yiannis Kountouris","doi":"10.1002/eet.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.70008","url":null,"abstract":"Wildfires in Southern European Mediterranean regions, exacerbated by climatic conditions and human activity, pose significant threats to ecosystems and human well-being. Current fire management policies tend to prioritize fire exclusion, neglecting traditional land use practices and socio-ecological interactions underlying the human–fire relationship. Diverging from exclusion-dominated management paradigms is challenging due to entrenched beliefs and conflicting interests across local stakeholders. Developing effective fire management and characterizing the mechanisms driving wildfire frequency and severity requires understanding the interests of stakeholder groups, the historical and institutional context these emerged in, and their interactions with land use management practices. We examine the diverse narratives shaping fire management attitudes and policy in fire-prone regions at the urban–wildland interface with a long history of land use management conflict. We focus on Monreale, Sicily, a region characterized by frequent catastrophic wildfires. Employing a participatory approach with representatives of local authorities, government agencies, and civil society, we formalize diverse stakeholder perspectives on land use and fire management, revealing the socio-economic and political dimensions that contribute to deep-rooted conflicts. We provide insights into the role of local governance, social, and institutional complexities and highlight the need for cross-stakeholder collaboration to foster resilient and sustainable fire management.","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 5","pages":"822-838"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.70008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145242982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Integrating Science With Indigenous and Experiential Knowledge in Collaborative Governance 协同治理中科学与本土经验知识的整合

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-13 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70009

Tomas M. Koontz, Craig W. Thomas, Katherine R. Cheng

{"title":"Integrating Science With Indigenous and Experiential Knowledge in Collaborative Governance","authors":"Tomas M. Koontz, Craig W. Thomas, Katherine R. Cheng","doi":"10.1002/eet.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 With the growth of collaborative governance and multistakeholder forums, tensions arise between expert-driven decision making and inclusivity of decision processes. Scientific experts can bring vital information to inform decisions, but scientific jargon, assumptions, methodologies, and underlying concepts may disempower participation from stakeholders who bring different knowledge, such as expertise in Indigenous (including traditional ecological) knowledge and experiential knowledge. Participants in collaborative organizations thus navigate and use diverse kinds of knowledge. Unfortunately, little is known about how collaborative partnership participants value and integrate science in relation to other knowledge sources. This study examines collaborative ecosystem restoration in the Puget Sound basin, USA. Our analysis compares the use of scientific knowledge to other forms of knowledge by actors across different collaborative organizations. Survey results indicate natural science is seen by participants in collaborative partnerships as the most important type of information, followed by Indigenous (including traditional ecological) knowledge, and then several kinds of experiential knowledge. Ranking lower are two kinds of science, social-ecological systems science and social science. While these multiple ways of knowing are all seen as important, respondents overwhelmingly expressed the view that science should be privileged over other kinds of knowledge. Respondents reported low frequency of barriers to accessing scientific and other information, which center mainly on lack of time to find it. Respondents perceive factors that promote knowledge integration through deliberation are largely present. Overall, this study highlights the challenges of integrating scientific with other kinds of knowledge in collaborative processes for ecosystem restoration.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 5","pages":"808-821"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145243122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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