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{"title":"Storytelling to save the planet: who gets to say what is sustainable, who tells the stories, and who should listen and change?","authors":"Sofie Joosse, Martin Westin, Fanny Möckel, Holly Keasey, Sönke Lorenzen","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2258276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2258276","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decade, storytelling has been popularised as a method for societal sustainability transformations. With this growing popularity, there has also been a rapid increase in those identifying as storytellers. Perhaps because storytelling for sustainability has an innocent ring to it, it has not yet been studied from a power perspective. However, as it is fast-spreading and has explicit change purposes, it is important to clarify assumptions about knowledge, power and change. This article offers a first step towards understanding and evaluating the wide variety of applications behind the label of storytelling for sustainability. We perform a frame analysis of how storytellers describe their storytelling for sustainability. Our findings demonstrate that the label of storytelling for sustainability encompasses fundamentally different ideas about whose knowledge counts. The article raises critical questions that can help assess the legitimacy and appropriateness of different applications of storytelling for sustainability.","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135993704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The quest for “nature” in selfies: how platforms shape nature/society relationships","authors":"Malte Rödl, Jutta Haider, Sofie Joosse","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2265548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2265548","url":null,"abstract":"Social media and other platforms have become an essential part of outdoor activities as they influence how nature is experienced and engaged with, but also what good nature is seen as. In this article, we explore how social understandings of nature and digital technologies are mutually performed. Using the empirical case of nature selfies—an archetype of imagery on social media platforms—posted on Instagram, Facebook, and Tripadvisor, and a small participatory “breaching experiment” aimed at collecting “ugly nature selfies,” we analyse and interrogate nature/society relationships displayed online within the platform contexts of attention economy and affordances. We conclude that nature selfies reinforce the desirability of consuming “beautiful” nature, while attention economy and platform affordances limit the possibilities for alternative nature/society relationships to be developed and promoted.","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136033287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How do environmental regulations and financial support for agriculture affect agricultural green development? The mediating role of agricultural infrastructure","authors":"Ling-Yan Xu, Jing Jiang, Jian-Guo Du","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2263637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2263637","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractEnvironmental regulations and financial support for agriculture have been respectively proved as important means to break through the dilemma of agricultural green development in China. While their interactive influences on agricultural green development are rarely focused, as well as the mediation mechanism. This paper provides an interactive perspective by exploring the direct and indirect mechanisms affecting the relationship between environmental regulations, financial support for agriculture, and agricultural green development, among which the mediating effects of agricultural infrastructure, are further discussed. Based on the provincial panel data for China from the year 2000 to 2021, this paper constructs a fixed effect model, mediating effects model, and threshold panel model to empirically test the direct and indirect effects of environmental regulations and financial support for agriculture on agricultural green development. The results show that: (1) The full sample of agricultural green development in China shows an M-shaped trend, environmental regulations and financial support for agriculture show spatial and temporal heterogeneity among regions. (2) Environmental regulations, financial support for agriculture, and their interaction all have positive effects on agricultural green development, while their interactive effect is greater. (3) Agricultural power facilities not only significantly mediate the relationship between financial support for agriculture and agricultural green development, but also play a mediating role in the positive effect of the interaction between environmental regulations and financial support on agricultural green development. While rural transportation facilities only significantly mediate the positive effect of the interaction between environmental regulations and financial support for agriculture on agricultural green development. (4) Heterogeneity analysis results show that the effect of the interaction between environmental regulations and financial support for agriculture on agricultural green development is greatest in agricultural optimized developing areas; however moderate developing areas are insignificant. This research contributes to understanding how environmental regulations and financial support for agriculture affect agricultural green development and extends the mediating role of agricultural infrastructure in their relationships.Keywords: environmental regulationsfinancial support for agricultureagricultural green developmentagricultural infrastructure Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis research received financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 72174076, 72174054, and 71974081); National Social Science Foundation of China (No. 22AGL028), Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Nos. 21GLB016 and 22GLA007); Special Research Project of School of Emergency Manage","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136208769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The support of Multilateral Development Banks to renewable energy projects in developing countries","authors":"Maria Basílio","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2263904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2263904","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractMultilateral Development Banks (MDBs) are extensively involved in the Paris Climate Agreement and play a key role in climate finance. However, the amounts recently channeled to carbon-based projects may raise doubts about this involvement. This empirical approach seeks to explore whether MDB participation actually favors renewable energy projects in developing countries, aligning with their commitment to this Agreement. An empirical analysis is conducted to explore the determinants of MDBs’ participation in energy infrastructure projects developed in 64 countries using data from 2011 to 2018 obtained from the World Bank’s Private Participation in Infrastructure Database. The results reveal that MDBs’ participation is higher in renewable energy projects, confirming their commitment to clean energy; however, this is not confirmed by the amount of financial support provided.Keywords: climate financelimited dependent variable modelsMultilateral Development Banksrenewable energy projectsJEL classification codes: H54Q54F35 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Supplemental dataSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2263904.Notes1 MDBs are international financial institutions that assist developing countries in reducing poverty, fostering economic growth, and tackling global challenges. MDBs operate as cooperative entities owned and funded by member countries. Their development finance activities include concessional and non-concessional loans, leveraging capital, risk mitigation, co-financing, technical assistance and policy advise.2 The MDBs included in this analysis are the World Bank Group, the European Investment Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Islamic Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Bank and the new MDBs established in 2015: the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (initiated by China) and the New Development Bank (BRICS bank).3 We follow the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and classify hydropower as a renewable source. The largest sources of GHG emissions for hydropower are the construction of the facilities, and biomass decomposition from reservoir flooding (Steinhurst, Knight, and Schultz Citation2012) but large hydropower plants produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions when compared with fossil fuel-based plants.4 In the PPI database, government support may be Direct support - capital subsidy, revenue subsidy or in-kind (lands, for instance); Or Indirect support, in the form of guarantees (e.g., payment guarantee, debt guarantee, revenue guarantee, exchange-rate guarantee).5 Because only the percentage of private participation in each project is available on the database, it is not possible to use the financial amounts provided by the private sector.6 Variables such as “control of corruption” and “government effective","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136099278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Regulating eco-innovation in the European Union","authors":"Alberto Quintavalla, Orlin Yalnazov","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2263636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2263636","url":null,"abstract":"This article develops a framework to guide the EU in the choice of legal form for the regulation of eco-innovation. The framework distinguishes between uncertain and risky applications of eco-innovation. An uncertain eco-innovation, which poses an incalculable risk, is more difficult to regulate because the EU legislator needs to accumulate information in order to plug gaps in knowledge. In that context, directives are superior to regulations because they are conducive to experimentation and information accumulation. Risky eco-innovations, conversely, should be covered by regulations; otherwise, the cost of legal heterogeneity would outweigh the benefits of information accumulation. We also show that there are ways of conceptualising the choice between directives and regulations that are more productive than the sovereignty-versus-competition model that predominates in current legal thinking.","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136208781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Challenges in managing public space: insights from public space management practice","authors":"Mozafar Said, Barbara Tempels","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2263635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2263635","url":null,"abstract":"Public spaces face long-term challenges, such as energy transition and climate adaptation, which involve a range of adaptations in the existing public spaces. Simultaneously, managers face short-term everyday challenges. This article explores how Dutch public space managers deal with short- and long-term challenges that affect the effectiveness of public space management. This qualitative study based on exploratory interviews with managers provides insight into the obstacles public space managers face in dealing with these long-term and short-term challenges. The study found four characteristics of the current practice: (1) the sectoral division between design and management, (2) the conflict-and-action approach, (3) the asset-based focus, and (4) the linear approach. Together, these characteristics prevent the current practice from effectively facing both long-term and short-term challenges. The findings provide a starting point to think about how public space management could be reorganized to ensure the quality and functionality of public space in the future.","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136295526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Industrial agglomeration, environmental protection, and high-quality economic development: evidence from cities along the Yellow River Basin of China","authors":"Qianwen Zang, Weixian Xue","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2260556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2260556","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractChina’s economy has entered a new phase of development, but ecological and environmental issues continue to hinder the quality of economic development. Meanwhile, the externalities of industrial agglomeration are seen as essential for promoting high-quality economic development. This article proposes a theoretical framework to examine the relationship between industrial agglomeration, environmental protection, and high-quality economic development. Using cities along the Yellow River Basin as the research object, a spatial econometric model is employed to verify the hypothesis. Ultimately, the conclusions are as follows. First, there is a significant U-shaped curve relationship between industrial agglomeration and high-quality economic development, as well as between environmental protection and a high-quality economy. Industrial agglomeration plays a significant role in promoting environmental protection. Second, high-quality economic development exhibits spatial spillover effects under both spatial weight matrices, while industrial agglomeration and environmental protection only show spatial spillover effects based on geographical distance spatial weight matrices. Finally, the article suggests that cities should accelerate the degree of industrial agglomeration to achieve the dual effect of promoting environmental protection and high-quality economic development. Additionally, governments should pay special attention to inter-regional synergistic mechanisms when fostering ecological protection and high-quality economic development.Keywords: industrial agglomerationenvironmental protectionhigh-quality economic developmentspatial econometric modelcities along the Yellow River Basin Author contributionsQianwen Zang: conceptualization, methodology, investigation, writing – original draft, software, formal analysis, writing – review and editing, project administration, validation, visualization; Weixian Xue: resources, funding acquisition, and supervision.Disclosure statementThe authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this article.Data availabilityMaterials described in the manuscript will be freely available to any researcher wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes, without breaching participant confidentiality.Notes1 This paper focuses on 57 cities in China, including Taiyuan, Datong, Yangquan, Changzhi, Jincheng, Shuozhou, Jinzhong, Yuncheng, Xinzhou, Linfen, Lvliang, Hohhot, Baotou, Wuhai, Ordos, Bayannur, Ulanqab, Jinan, Zibo, Dongying, Jining, Tai’an, Dezhou, Liaocheng, Binzhou, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Luoyang, Anyang, Hebi, Xinxiang, Jiaozuo, Tongchuan, Puyang, Sanmenxia, Xi’an, Tongchuan, Baoji, Heze, Xining, Weinan, Yan’an, Yulin, Shangluo, Lanzhou, Baiyin, Tianshui, Wuwei, Pingliang, Qingyang, Dingxi, Longnan, Yinchuan, Shizuishan, Wuzhong, Guyuan, and Zhongwei.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported b","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136294865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A framework for assessing the sustainable transition potential of municipal climate change mitigation plans","authors":"Carsten Nico Hjortsø, Brigitte Epprecht, Teis Hansen","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2260090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2260090","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractLocal climate change mitigation plans can be essential in enabling sustainability transitions at the municipality level. However, existing frameworks for assessing the quality of climate plans inadequately address their potential to foster sustainability transitions. We develop an assessment framework consisting of indicators and associated questions by integrating elements of the transition management framework with essential quality dimensions of climate plans and planning processes identified through a literature review. We illustrate and validate the assessment framework by applying it to the climate plans of three medium-sized cities in Switzerland. Our findings demonstrate that the local climate change mitigation plans performed well regarding the tactical and operational indicators but were less optimal concerning strategic and reflexive indicators. Nevertheless, the transition management framework provided a useful framework contributing to a comprehensive and systemic assessment highlighting the importance of stakeholder involvement, inter-sectoral coordination, and monitoring and evaluation as a means for social learning.Keywords: Climate change mitigationlocal climate action plansplan qualityassessment frameworktransition management AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions.Disclosure statementThe authors report there are no competing interests to declare.Notes1 Sustainability transitions refer to radical changes towards greater sustainability in central systems of production and consumption, which are needed to address the multiple current environmental crises, including climate change and biodiversity loss. Importantly, such changes necessitate not only new technologies, but also modifications in infrastructures, consumption patterns, rules and regulations, business models, etc. (Köhler et al. Citation2019). ‘Transitions management’ has long been recognized as a useful framework for understanding and influencing these complex long-term changes needed for cities to become sustainable in the future (Loorbach Citation2007; Loorbach, Frantzeskaki, and Avelino Citation2017), including the type of processes that are needed to engage in substantial local mitigation of GHG emissions.2 Due to the, in general, limited literature on LCAP quality, we have in addition to the dedicated mitigation action plans also included relevant studies that assess LCAP covering both mitigation and adaptation. In such cases, we have analysed the study with regard to the mitigation planning related findings.Additional informationFundingTeis Hansen acknowledges funding from the Research Council of Norway through FME NTRANS, grant 296205.","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135591021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How does digital finance accelerate low-carbon development: evidence from the Yellow River Basin, China","authors":"Qingfang Liu, Wei Wu, Jinping Song, Teqi Dai, Huaxiong Jiang, Jianhui Xu, Jianmei Li, Huiran Han, Mengqi Li","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2258449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2258449","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractDigital finance has become one of the most important factors that drives the transformation toward a low-carbon economy. Although some researchers have examined the association between digital finance and low-carbon development, the indirect effect and asymmetric effect of digital finance on low-carbon development still needs to receive more attention. Taking 71 cities in the Yellow River Basin as an empirical area, this study analyzed how digital finance accelerates low-carbon development, proving that digital finance can directly boost low-carbon development. Moreover, technological innovation and industrial upgrading driven by digital finance can also reduce carbon emission intensity and accelerate low-carbon development. Furthermore, the results of the asymmetric test indicate that cities with higher carbon emission intensity have a more substantial positive influence. The recommendations presented in this study are beneficial for accelerating the progress of low-carbon development in the Yellow River Basin.Keywords: digital financelow-carbon developmentthe mediation effectYellow River Basin Disclosure statementThe authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication in this article.Supplemental dataSupplemental data for this article can be accessed here.Additional informationFundingThis study was mainly supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (No. 2019QZKK0406), and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 42271224 and 42171170).","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135536261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can civilized city construction facilitate green total factor productivity? A quasi-natural experiment based on China’s pilot civilized city","authors":"Lulu Zhao, Jingjing Ye","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2259602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2259602","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis paper uses a double difference method to examine the impact of civilized city policies on urban green total factor productivity and its mechanism of action using Chinese city-level data from 2005 to 2021. The study finds that the civilized city policy promotes urban green development. The mechanism test finds that the civilized city policy achieves urban green development by strengthening government investment in environmental governance, optimizing industrial structure upgrading, and promoting urban innovation. The moderating mechanism finds that economic growth targets and environmental regulations influence the green growth effect of civilized city policy. Heterogeneity analysis found that the green growth effect of civilized cities has an asymmetric relationship in the east-central region, in areas with lower population density, and was more pronounced in cities with high human capital, high local government financial autonomy, and high levels of information technology.Keywords: Civilized cities policygreen total factor productivitygovernment actionquasi-natural experiments Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}