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The Rules of Engagement: Conditions for City-To-City Learning on Climate Change Policy 参与规则：城市间气候变化政策学习的条件

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70007

Elena Marie Enseñado, Jurian Edelenbos, Leon van den Dool

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A Multi-Layered Collaborative Marine Governance Model: Evaluating Change and Innovation of Marine Governance Arrangements 多层协同海洋治理模式：评估海洋治理安排的变化与创新

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70002

Carolijn van Noort, Judith van Leeuwen, Hilde Toonen, Jan van Tatenhove, Päivi Haapasaari, Wesley Flannery, Kåre Nolde Nielsen, Ben Boteler, Cristian Passarello, Sun Cole Seeberg Dyremose, Kamilla Rathcke, Riku Varjopuro

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Implementing Nature-Based Solutions in Cities: Testing and Refining the Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance 在城市实施基于自然的解决方案：测试和完善协作治理的综合框架

IF 3.9 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70000

Evi van Dorsselaer, Joris Voets, Claire Dupont

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Relational Responsibility and Host Communities in Complex and Contentious Environmental Situations: Coastal Fisheries and Treated Water at the Fukushima Dai'ichi Nuclear Plant, Japan 复杂和有争议的环境状况中的关系责任和收容社区：日本福岛第一核电站的沿海渔业和处理过的水

IF 3.9 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70003

Leslie Mabon, Midori Kawabe, Naotomo Nakahara, Xiaobo Lou

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Correction to “Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland” 修正“不受天气影响的法规：芬兰实施自然雨水管理的稳定性和变化的法律因素”

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-06-17 DOI: 10.1002/eet.70001

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Rethinking Knowledge Cumulation: Foregrounding Epistemic Justice in Environmental Governance Research 反思知识积累：环境治理研究中认识正义的前沿

IF 3.9 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2168

Laure Gosselin, Mathilde Gauquelin

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The Imperative of New and Shiny Clothes: A Discussion on Novelty and Its Effects in Water Governance Research 新衣闪亮的必要性：论新颖性及其在水治理研究中的作用

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2167

María Mancilla García, Örjan Bodin

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Forging Just Climate Policies: Reconciling Justice Perceptions in Deliberative Mini-Publics 制定公正的气候政策：协调协商迷你公众中的正义观念

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Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2165

Katariina Kulha

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Collaboration or Capture? Unpacking the Notion of Forest Governance in Madhupur and Lawachara Forests of Bangladesh 合作还是捕获？孟加拉马德胡普尔和拉瓦查拉森林的森林治理理念

IF 3.9 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2166

Mohammad Raqibul Hasan Siddique, Mahmood Hossain, A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid, Shahriar Nasim Shuvo, Md. Zahid Hasan

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The Quest for Coherence in Climate Actions: The Case for Québec's Climate Strategy 对气候行动一致性的追求：quacimbec气候战略的案例

IF 3.9 3区社会学

Environmental Policy and Governance Pub Date : 2025-04-20 DOI: 10.1002/eet.2164

Alain Fopa Tchinda, David Talbot

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