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{"title":"Tracing the Path of Knowledge on “Environmental Governance Processes” for Theory-Building","authors":"Liza Wood,&nbsp;Francesca Pia Vantaggiato,&nbsp;Tyler Scott","doi":"10.1002/eet.2151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2151","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The vast range of environmental governance case studies makes one thing clear: social processes are at the heart of environmental problems—and solutions. But fragmentation in how different contributions define and study environmental governance processes prevents us from drawing lessons from the field. What is the extent of knowledge cumulation in the field, and what gaps remain unfilled in this literature? We address these questions by analyzing the bibliometric citation network of English language academic research focused on environmental governance processes. We identify eight clusters of research, where four highly cited “poles” stand out: (1) social-ecological systems, (2) collaborative governance, (3) global environmental governance, and (4) political ecology. We identify four organizing concepts that are common to all clusters (scale, the importance of social outcomes, consideration of the environment, and the role of government), but with limited shared understandings of them. The field is wider than it is deep, limiting our ability to narrow down on a few overarching theoretical statements. We argue that environmental governance needs to link up with the environmental politics literature to be able address two important roadblocks in environmental governance processes: power asymmetries and trade-offs of environmental decisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 3","pages":"505-524"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2151","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197646","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}

{"title":"Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Through the Governance of Local Food Systems in Western Countries: A Realist Synthesis","authors":"Laurence Guillaumie,&nbsp;Samuel Éric Kamgang,&nbsp;Marie-Christine Brotherton,&nbsp;Olivier Boiral","doi":"10.1002/eet.2153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2153","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over the last decade, various studies have focused on the functioning of local food policy councils and their key role in institutionalizing participatory governance mechanisms involving stakeholders concerned with the promotion of sustainable food systems. Nevertheless, the literature remains scattered, inconclusive, and mostly dissociated from the sustainable development goals (SDGs), which are increasingly used by organizations and government agencies alike. Based on a systematic analysis of 99 academic articles, this realist synthesis sheds light on sustainability outcomes and key success factors of local food system governance. Findings show that local food systems can play a significant role in achieving sustainability, although the coverage of the SDGs remains very uneven across the objectives considered. The study also shows the key role of several collaborative governance principles—including broad participation, facilitative leadership, and consensus-building—in the success of these systems. Contributions to the literature and managerial implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 3","pages":"488-504"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2153","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197508","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}

{"title":"Is Policy Coherence Leaving No One Behind? Analyzing Gender Inequality in the Governance of the Sustainable Development Goals in India","authors":"Nikki J. J. Theeuwes,&nbsp;Marjanneke J. Vijge,&nbsp;Koen Beumer","doi":"10.1002/eet.2154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2154","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The pledge to Leave No One Behind is central to the 2030 Agenda and cuts across all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To realize this cross-sectoral approach to inequality, policy coherence is considered an important tool. This article questions whether and how policy coherence leaves no one behind. We focus on the often-overlooked politics of policy coherence by studying gender inequalities in institutions, interests, and ideas in subnational governance processes for SDG implementation in India. Our findings show that policy coherence does not automatically reach the furthest behind in India. Despite ambitions to Leave No One Behind, SDG policy coherence processes are built around pre-existing, unequal and often siloed government structures, interests, and ideas. While this enhances national ownership, it also perpetuates inequalities in SDG policy coherence processes, including around gender. We argue that paradoxically, in seeking to implement all the SDGs equally for all, countries need to prioritize between competing goals in which historically prioritized institutions, interests, and ideas prevail over others. The article raises important questions about the universal applicability of policy coherence as means to achieve the SDGs and calls for further research on the synergies and trade-offs between policy coherence and Leave No One Behind in different (sub)national contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 3","pages":"471-487"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2154","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197092","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}

{"title":"Analysing Coherence in Policy for Multi-Functional Landscapes: An Exploratory Framework","authors":"Frida Öhman,&nbsp;Mikael Karlsson","doi":"10.1002/eet.2149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2149","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To address biodiversity loss and other negative environmental effects of land use, science and policy are increasingly recognising multi-functional landscape governance. This approach involves place-based policymaking across multiple governance levels, engaging various stakeholders and balancing multiple landscape values and functions. Due to the complexity involved, calls have been made for additional research addressing institutional challenges, policy coherence and practical tools and frameworks. This article introduces a novel framework for analysing coherence in multi-functional landscape governance, designed to be useful for both researchers and policymakers in land use contexts. The exploratory framework is inspired by multiple policy frameworks such as the European Landscape Convention and IPBES and draws from the two literatures on multi-functional landscape governance and policy coherence. By applying this framework, users can systematically analyse trade-offs and synergies between multiple, interacting policies, with a focus on landscape, multi-functionality and stakeholders throughout policy processes. The study includes an illustrative application of the framework to the EU Biodiversity Strategy and the Swedish Forest Strategy, revealing a lack of coherence on a series of parameters of relevance for biodiversity protection, including critical policy instruments. The article concludes by identifying areas that warrant further research to advance multi-functional landscape governance and thereby potentially improve biodiversity protection.</p>","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 3","pages":"450-470"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2149","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197091","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}

{"title":"Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland","authors":"Francesco Venuti,&nbsp;Aleksi Heinilä,&nbsp;Peter R. Davids","doi":"10.1002/eet.2150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2150","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The implementation of natural stormwater management (SWM), namely SWM carried out through nature-based solutions (NBS), is still problematic despite their benefits in climate change adaptation. Private landownership is commonly cited as the factor limiting extensive NBS. However, the Finnish model demonstrates that, regardless of whether the needed land is private or public, implementing actors face numerous legal challenges in efforts to carry out SWM using NBS. We study the Finnish SWM and land use planning frameworks to uncover the legal barriers to and drivers of NBS implementation as well as the interaction of the frameworks with the wider governance setting. By doing so, we highlight the need for a regulatory approach to NBS that will facilitate their uptake. We first explore how the Finnish legal framework regulates natural SWM. Secondly, we use the policy arrangement approach (PAA) and the framework on stability and change in flood risk management to combine the results of the legal analysis with the findings from a series of interviews with urban planners from several Finnish municipalities. This in turn enables us to visualise how the law interacts with the broader governance system to limit and shape the options for implementing natural SWM. The main factors of stability (namely, keeping the status quo) for NBS include the lack of regulations and unclear and fragmented SWM responsibilities. The main factors encouraging change include cities' acquisition or ownership of public land, an integrated governance approach to SWM, the Green Area Factor (GAF), pilot projects and stormwater working groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 3","pages":"431-449"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2150","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197611","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}

{"title":"Knowledge cumulation and interdisciplinarity: Integrating epistemologies, disciplines, and sectors to produce actionable environmental governance research","authors":"Liza Khmara","doi":"10.1002/eet.2146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2146","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For environmental governance research (EGR) to be actionable to catalyze solutions for environmental challenges in policy and praxis, it must allow for knowledge cumulation that demonstrates the applicability of EGR to existing and future issues, improves the robustness and validity of EGR, and identifies conditions, causal mechanisms and other underlying features of environmental governance. It is recognized that EGR cannot produce such knowledge without integrating various disciplines to connect environmental issues with their political dimensions and implications. Yet, EGR resembles a “fragmented adhocracy” that lacks standardized theoretical frameworks, concepts, and research approaches. To overcome this disciplinary fragmentation and develop mechanisms to effectively aggregate environmental governance evidence, it is critical to understand knowledge cumulation processes and identify research practices that can impede the integration of knowledge. This narrative review examines the dimensions of EGR to argue that (1) knowledge cumulation in EGR lies in interdisciplinary knowledge integration; and (2) EGR will only fulfill its goals of informing policy and praxis if knowledge cumulation between researchers is considered as a precondition of actionable knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 3","pages":"416-430"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197606","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}

{"title":"The Evolution of China's Domestic Climate Policy Frames (2009–2024): Problems, Solutions, and Motivations","authors":"Beibei Yang,&nbsp;Mathieu Blondeel,&nbsp;Philipp Pattberg","doi":"10.1002/eet.2148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2148","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over the past decade, The People's Republic of China has increased its influence in global climate governance. Despite the strong interest in policy frames related to climate change at the global level, few studies have explored policy frames <i>within</i> China. This paper therefore adopts a frame analysis to study the evolution in framing of domestic climate policies in China over the period 2009–24. Our research finds that diagnostic frames (the “problem”) identify development pressure, energy sector, and the impacts of natural disasters, pollution and ecosystem damage/change as key issues to be addressed. Prognostic frames (the “solutions”) encompass energy system decarbonization, industry reform, nature-based solutions, market-oriented solutions, and international cooperation. The motivational framings (the “ideational motivations”), include green development, ecological civilization, the principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR), and multilateralism. The study reveals shifts in diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational frames of the national government across three periods.</p>","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 3","pages":"397-415"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2148","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197179","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}

{"title":"The transformative potential of environmental governance integration for sustainable land use: The case of subsidence in the Dutch peatlands","authors":"Mandy A. van den Ende,&nbsp;Peter P. J. Driessen,&nbsp;Dries L. T. Hegger,&nbsp;Heleen L. P. Mees","doi":"10.1002/eet.2147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2147","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Transformations of existing systemic structures are needed to address the root cause of many environmental land-use (ELU) problems: unsustainable land use. One policy principle that can help achieve such transformation entails integrating cross-cutting ELU problems with non-environmental policy domains, also known as environmental policy integration (EPI). Its transformative potential is disputed, however, because different forms of integration involve varying degrees of value attribution to environmental concerns vis-à-vis other policy goals. Since the EPI literature indicates this degree is greatly influenced by actors and institutions, we consider environmental governance integration (EGI) a more appropriate term for evaluations. Using the case of subsidence in the Dutch peatlands, we aim to provide insights into EGI's potential and scope for improvement in facilitating transformative change toward sustainable land use. Our study reveals generally low to moderate EGI, because ELU concerns were integrated within the boundaries of a land-use system that prioritizes prevailing economic interests. This indicates EGI being a (business-as-usual) governance approach that merits the label <i>economic</i> governance integration, since (transformative) <i>environmental</i> governance integration would entail an exploration of a myriad of different sustainable land-use options, irrespective of existing system structures. We recommend a cognitive shift as a precondition for institutional reform and politics favoring transformative governance.</p>","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 3","pages":"385-396"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2147","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197054","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}

{"title":"Practitioners' perspectives on the enablers and barriers to successful Antarctic science-policy knowledge exchange","authors":"Natasha Blaize Gardiner,&nbsp;Daniela Liggett,&nbsp;Neil Gilbert,&nbsp;Christopher Cvitanovic","doi":"10.1002/eet.2143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2143","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Multilateral environmental governance regimes like the Antarctic Treaty System are pivotal in addressing today's wicked transboundary socio-ecological problems and central to their success is the facilitation of constructive knowledge exchange (KE) between research and policymaking communities. Consequently, the literature is now ripe with studies that aim to uncover the elements that enable or hinder KE successes across diverse environmental governance settings. Yet, in the Antarctic context, the KE practices that comprise Antarctic science-policy interfaces remain empirically under examined. Here we contribute by exploring the perspectives of 31 Antarctic practitioners to develop our understandings of successful KE practices in the policy contexts of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings and the Committee for Environmental Protection. By adopting a reflexive thematic analysis, we identify 11 enablers and 9 barriers to KE success that are overlapping, interconnected and complex. According to practitioners, in the face of pervasive barriers, such as the often overshadowing effect of politics, a deficiency of KE incentives and large-scale wicked policy problems, certain Antarctic institutions and practitioners portray strong boundary spanning expertise, which despite the many challenges identified, serves to facilitate KE in support of evidence-informed decision-making. However, the extent to which boundary spanners are influential in their leadership varies, and while acknowledging that influential leadership is an important enabler for success, we raise several questions regarding the potentially unexplored assumptions that underpin current KE practices. As Antarctic practitioners share a desire to foster inclusive, iterative and multidirectional science-policy dialogues among other identified improvements, we suggest that harnessing reflexivity and humility within these processes will be critically important for ensuring that existing asymmetries or inequities are not reinforced under the guise of improved ways of working.</p>","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 2","pages":"362-381"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2143","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143749410","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}

{"title":"Influence of messaging and party affiliation on energy conservation behavior: An evaluation from the US","authors":"Cali Curley,&nbsp;Corey Keiwei Xu,&nbsp;Ben Orlove,&nbsp;Hale Forster,&nbsp;Nicky Harrison","doi":"10.1002/eet.2137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2137","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Governments have numerous avenues available to them to leverage energy consumption reductions. Low-cost policy options may be as simple as incorporating information related to energy consumption reduction. Despite the viability of these low-cost options, there is little understanding of how individual characteristics influence the viability of messaging strategies. This study fills the research gap by investigating how residents' political affiliation may affect their response to utility messaging for reducing energy consumption. We use the City of Tallahassee, Florida, as a testbed to investigate how informational messages alter customers' energy consumption behavior. We examined the effects of monthly messages on a random sample of 3000 households from 2011 to 2015. Our analysis reveals that pro-environmental and cost savings frames result in different levels of energy conservation according to political affiliation. This study helps resolve previous studies' inconsistent findings by expanding the information analysis to fine-scale data observed in actual energy consumption behavior. For practitioners, our results shed new light on how to effectively alter customers' energy conservation behavior through messaging by strategically accounting for the characteristics of customers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47396,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Policy and Governance","volume":"35 2","pages":"292-310"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2137","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143749794","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}