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"We are protectors, not protestors": global impacts of extractivism on human-nature bonds. "我们是保护者，不是抗议者"：采掘业对人与自然关系的全球影响。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Sustainability Science Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-23 DOI: 10.1007/s11625-024-01526-1

Ksenija Hanaček, Dalena Tran, Arielle Landau, Teresa Sanz, May Aye Thiri, Grettel Navas, Daniela Del Bene, Juan Liu, Mariana Walter, Aida Lopez, Brototi Roy, Eleonora Fanari, Joan Martinez-Alier

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Negotiating biophysical limits in the European Union's bioeconomy: a critical analysis of two conflicts over regulating biomass use in EU policy. 欧盟生物经济中的生物物理限制谈判：对欧盟政策中有关生物质使用监管的两场冲突的批判性分析。

IF 5.1 2区环境科学与生态学

Sustainability Science Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1007/s11625-024-01543-0

Benjamin Fleischmann, Andreas Mayer, Christoph Görg, Melanie Pichler

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(Too) high hopes? How Austrian energy community actors construct their roles in the energy transition (希望过高？奥地利能源界行动者如何构建自己在能源转型中的角色

IF 6 2区环境科学与生态学

Sustainability Science Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1007/s11625-023-01433-x

Andrea Vogler, Barbara Kump