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Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research 环境治理研究中的知识积累

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-11-04 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70032

Michael Rose, Jens Newig, Sina Leipold

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Will the Transition Ever Be Just? Three Sites of Discursive Struggle Over Justice in Transition Governance 转型会公平吗？转型治理中关于正义的话语斗争的三个地点

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-10-25 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70028

Anke Fischer, Josefina Marklund, Nora Förell, Sofie Joosse, Annabel Pinker, Wiebren J. Boonstra

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Spatial Statecraft and Carbon Governance in Semi-Peripheral Uzbekistan 半边缘乌兹别克斯坦的空间治理与碳治理

IF 3.9 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-10-24 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70030

Youn-Jin Ahn, Zuhriddin Juraev

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Spatial Statecraft and Carbon Governance in Semi-Peripheral Uzbekistan 半边缘乌兹别克斯坦的空间治理与碳治理

IF 3.9 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-10-24 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70030

Youn-Jin Ahn, Zuhriddin Juraev

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Doing Justice, Doing the Transition: Narratives of the Just Transition Fund and the Swedish Steel Industry 公正，转型：公正转型基金和瑞典钢铁工业的叙述

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70020

Sofie Joosse, Kornelia Johansson, Nora Förell, Anke Fischer

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Digital Technology Empowering Rural Environmental Governance: Evidences From Villages in Shanghai, China 数字技术促进农村环境治理：来自中国上海农村的证据

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-10-18 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70029

Qiang Bai, Pingyang Liu, Yiting Qing

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Do Transnational Municipal Networks Accelerate the Net-Zero Transition? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the C40 Cities Initiative and the Challenge of Urban Climate Change Mitigation 跨国城市网络是否加速了净零转型？C40城市倡议与城市气候变化减缓挑战的混合方法分析

IF 3.9 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-10-13 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70026

Chitransh Lot, Nihit Goyal, Thomas Hoppe

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Sufficiency Policy in Rural Municipalities: Measures, Enablers, and Barriers 农村自治市的充分性政策：措施、推动因素和障碍

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70027

Tonja Iten, Irmi Seidl, Marco Pütz

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Correction to “Knowledge Cumulation at Science-Policy Interfaces: Opportunities for Environmental Governance Research” 对“科学-政策界面的知识积累：环境治理研究的机遇”的更正

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70025

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Social Innovation in Small-Scale Blue Food Systems: A Case Study of Oyster Harvesters in The Gambia, West Africa 小规模蓝色食品系统中的社会创新：西非冈比亚牡蛎收获者的案例研究

IF 3.9 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-09-26 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70024

Richard A. Nyiawung, Raymond K. Ayilu

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