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{"title":"A Procedural Learning Framework for Co-creating Sponge Solutions across Scales: Supporting Integrated Management of Water-Resilient River Landscapes.","authors":"Maike Gebker, Phoebe King, Sarah Gottwald, Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf, Laddaporn Ruangpan, Ellis Penning, Kelsey Wentling, Christian Albert","doi":"10.1007/s00267-026-02638-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-026-02638-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Under the pressures of climate change, floods and droughts are increasingly challenging global water systems, requiring transformative approaches for the integrated and adaptive management of water-resilient river landscapes. Enhancing landscape \"sponge functioning\", the capacity to intercept, retain, store, and release water, is increasingly promoted, yet guidance remains fragmented between local measures and landscape-scale strategies, limiting the coordinated prioritization and implementation of water-retention interventions. This paper proposes a Procedural Learning Framework to support the co-creation of sponge measures and strategies across spatial levels. It was developed through a scoping review of process-oriented implementation frameworks and action-oriented research with stakeholder knowledge in the Horizon Europe Innovation Action project SpongeWorks. The framework includes four transformation principles: shared system understanding, multi-scale transitions, co-creation, and learning and reflexivity. It operationalizes them into interconnected building blocks for strategies and measures, and introduces guiding questions to support collaborative learning. By aligning actions across spatial levels and temporal scales, the Procedural Learning Framework contributes to more coherent and adaptive planning efforts, addressing complex social-ecological-technical challenges and advancing the integrated management of water-resilient landscapes as a transferable decision-support approach for environmental management in the EU and beyond.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":"76 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149369722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Stakeholder-Based Assessment of Non-Conventional Water Resources for Agricultural Irrigation in Semi-Arid Mediterranean Regions.","authors":"Cintya Villacorta-Ranera, Irene Blanco-Gutiérrez, Paloma Esteve, Mario Ballesteros-Olza","doi":"10.1007/s00267-026-02652-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-026-02652-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mediterranean agricultural regions face increasing pressure on freshwater resources, requiring more resilient water management strategies. This study assesses the current and future role of non-conventional water resources (NCW) (reclaimed and desalinated water), in compensating for declining conventional supplies in southeastern Spain. Using participatory Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM), we analysed four scenarios: expansion of NCW, desalination cost recovery, investment in renewable energy and capacity building. The model identified 25 components and 37 causal relationships, highlighting the importance of economic, institutional, environmental, social and technical drivers. Results show that NCW expansion and renewable energy investment generate the greatest improvements in water supply guarantee and agricultural income, while capacity building has moderate positive effects. In contrast, cost recovery reduces desalinated water use and agricultural income. Implementation of the Segura River Basin Management Plan (SRBMP) further increases the strategic relevance of NCW, underscoring their key role in integrated water planning in semi-arid regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":"76 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149369723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Role of Territorial Planning Policies in Groundwater Recharge","authors":"Fabiane Wiederkehr,&nbsp;Clódis de Oliveira Andrades-Filho,&nbsp;Ana Maria Pimentel Mizusaki","doi":"10.1007/s00267-026-02642-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00267-026-02642-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Identifying and preserving groundwater recharge potential zones (GWRPZs) is essential for integrating water security into territorial planning. While maintaining high recharge potential theoretically supports subsurface water storage and landscape resilience against extreme weather events, long-term spatial evaluations of how land-use policies preserve these functions remain limited. Despite the abundance of water resources in Brazil, insufficient coordination between land-use planning and groundwater management compromises water security. There is a knowledge gap regarding long-term spatial-temporal evaluations of how territorial policies, rather than land use alone, affect the maintenance of groundwater recharge potential. This study addresses this gap by assessing the impact of territorial policies on aquifer recharge potential over time. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the need for territorial policies governing freshwater management to support long-term water security. This study examined a volcanic plateau in southern Brazil to illustrate a framework. Using a GIS approach, this paper established a method for evaluating GWRPZ changes between 1985 and 2022 and compared these changes with territories under different land-use restrictions. The resulting GWRPZ change map showed areas where recharge potential had improved and others where it had been reduced between 1985 and 2022. Higher GWRPZ maintenance was associated with a higher degree of area protection. Agriculture was identified as the main pressure on GWRPZs, whereas the main resistance was forest recovery. These data can help inform policy decision-making to identify more applicable and appropriate solutions for sustainable development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":"76 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00267-026-02642-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149338591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Pesticide Pollution to Healthy Soils: Policy Assessment and Reform Options in Germany","authors":"Katharine Heyl,&nbsp;Jessica Stubenrauch,&nbsp;Felix Klickermann","doi":"10.1007/s00267-026-02605-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00267-026-02605-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Soil pollution in the EU and Germany is a pressing environmental issue. Multiple stressors contribute to soil pollution, including the use of plant protection products (here: pesticides). Policy goals, however, demand that the EU and Germany protect biodiversity and soils. Against this background, the present article adopts a qualitative governance analysis to investigate the extent to which German pesticide policies contribute to reduced pesticide pollution risks as well as biodiversity and soil health goals. Results indicate that (1) pesticide <i>use</i> requirements have a very limited steering effect on reducing pesticide pollution risks because they lack precision and enforceability, (2) pesticide <i>spatial</i> measures suffer from enforcement and control issues, an extensive exception regime and poorly implemented restrictions. (3) Overarching soil and nature conservation policies are largely ineffective as pesticide policies (lex specialis) override overarching policies. Still, certain policy elements such as training and certification, as well as the expansion of water protection areas contribute to some extent to reduced pesticide pollution risks, biodiversity and soil health. These results indicate that effective soil protection not only requires incremental changes in existing policies but comprehensive amendments to the agricultural sector including the adoption of economic instruments and measures from the global to the local level.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":"76 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00267-026-02605-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149316942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Patterns and Drivers of Sustainable Agricultural Practice Adoption Among Mennonite Farmers in a Closed Endorheic Basin of Northern Mexico","authors":"Emmanuel Yeboah Okyere,&nbsp;Jesus Manuel Ochoa-Rivero,&nbsp;Mercedes Borja-Bravo,&nbsp;John Amoah-Nuamah,&nbsp;Omar Castor Ponce-Garcia,&nbsp;Sergio Arellano-Arciniega,&nbsp;Hugo A. Gutiérrez-Jurado","doi":"10.1007/s00267-026-02637-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00267-026-02637-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Agricultural sustainability in closed endorheic basins is constrained by periodic water scarcity, hydrological isolation, and the cumulative effects of intensive land use. The Cuauhtémoc region of northern Mexico hosts long-established Mennonite farming communities whose mechanized and irrigation-dependent agriculture constitutes an important component of the regional economy and resource-use system. This study examined the prevalence, diversity, and drivers of sustainable agricultural practices among 95 Mennonite farmers in the Bustillos Lagoon region. Thirteen practices spanning soil and residue management, water conservation, biological soil-fertility management, and agrochemical stewardship were assessed, while a conservation-practice breadth indicator quantified the number of ten resource-management practices used by individual farmers. Among 92 farmers with complete practice data, conservation-practice breadth ranged from 2 to 8 practices (mean = 3.76 ± 1.06). Residue incorporation (98.9%), residue cover (89.4%), and rainwater collection (71.0%) were widespread, whereas zero tillage (1.1%), compost/leachate use (5.3%), mycorrhiza application (5.3%), and reduced tillage (8.5%) were uncommon. Robust Poisson regression showed that technical assistance was associated with a 37.8% higher expected conservation-practice count (IRR = 1.378, 95% CI 1.168-1.626, <i>p</i> &lt; 0.001), while environmental concern was associated with an 18.7% higher count (IRR = 1.187, 95% CI 1.017-1.385, <i>p</i> = 0.030). Water-supply problems, farm area, producer-organization membership, and education showed no independent associations. The findings demonstrate that sustainable management is better characterized as a heterogeneous portfolio of practices than as a binary adoption decision and highlight institutional support and environmental orientation as important correlates of management diversification in water-constrained agricultural landscapes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":"76 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00267-026-02637-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149214632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relationships Not Transactions: Relational Payment for Ecosystem Services Among the Batak People of Tapanuli, Indonesia","authors":"Hamid Arrum Harahap,&nbsp; Yonariza,&nbsp;Manuel Boissière,&nbsp;Simone Maynard","doi":"10.1007/s00267-026-02592-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00267-026-02592-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) has been widely promoted as a market-based mechanism in which conservation is achieved through conditional, monetary transactions between service providers and beneficiaries. However, this framing often overlooks the relational, cultural, and moral dimensions through which many Indigenous communities engage with ecosystems. This paper examines an alternative understanding of “payment” among the Batak people in Tapanuli, Indonesia. Drawing on qualitative methods, including participant observation, oral histories, in-depth interviews and group discussions, we analyse how governance arrangements such as the Jago Bondar system and Parpatihan organize contributions that sustain human–nature relationships beyond market-based exchange. We develop the concept of relational payment to describe contributions embedded in socially recognized institutional and normative systems, tied to rights of access, participation, or belonging, and necessary for the reproduction of ecosystem governance over time. In this context, contributions in rice, benzoin resin, labor, and ritual practice function not as market transactions or generalized reciprocity, but as structured obligations that sustain both social relations and ecological systems. By situating these findings within debates on ecosystem services and value pluralism, the paper complicates the universality of transaction-based PES frameworks and highlights the limits of approaches that conceptualize conservation primarily through market transactions. Rather than extending PES, we argue for a reconsideration of what constitutes “payment” in contexts where value is produced through enduring social–ecological relationships.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":"76 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149189764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mining Legacies and Environmental Injustice: Systematic Mining-Led LULC Change in the Witwatersrand Mining Belt, Gauteng, South Africa (1990–2020)","authors":"Samkelisiwe Khanyile,&nbsp;Wendy Tsoriyo,&nbsp;Phemelo Mahamuza","doi":"10.1007/s00267-026-02543-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00267-026-02543-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mining activities significantly shape landscapes and often pose sustainability and environmental justice challenges for surrounding communities. This paper examines land use and land cover (LULC) transitions and their sustainable development implications along the Witwatersrand mining belt in Gauteng, South Africa (1990–2020). Leveraging geospatial analysis, chi-square statistical testing, and spatial clustering, the findings highlight a critical tension between mining and sustainability efforts. While 54.53 km² of mining areas successfully transitioned to natural vegetation, landscape-scale degradation persisted, natural and planted vegetation declined, and barren land increased, with informal settlements also increasing and concentrating in mining-adjacent areas. Statistical significance tests (χ² = 11,319,251.69, <i>p</i> &lt; 0.001; Cramér’s V = 0.60) indicate that 97.9% of transitions are systematic rather than random, and that they concentrate in previously disadvantaged communities. Mining land was also converted to residential areas despite regulatory protections and buffer zones, indicating a policy and implementation gap. This study highlights the crucial role of LULC assessments in post-mining landscape management, concluding that practical mining sustainability requires an integrated approach of stronger regulation, affordable housing, participatory rehabilitation planning, and accountability mechanisms grounded in quantitative evidence of distributive and environmental justice.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":"76 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13653844/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149168070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conservation Practitioners’ Perspectives on Management Responses to Poaching in South African Protected Areas","authors":"Ndivhuwo Shivambu,&nbsp;Tinyiko Cavin Shivambu,&nbsp;Takalani Nelufule,&nbsp;Tsireledzo Goodwill Makwarela,&nbsp;Tshifhiwa Constance Nangammbi,&nbsp;Nimmi Seoraj-Pillai","doi":"10.1007/s00267-026-02634-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00267-026-02634-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Biodiversity across Africa faces escalating threats from agricultural expansion, urbanisation, resource overexploitation, and pollution, particularly at the margins of protected areas (PAs). These land‑use changes intensify interactions between people and wildlife by compressing habitats, increasing competition for space and resources, and disrupting ecological processes, thereby exacerbating human–wildlife conflict and threatening conservation outcomes. In this context, conservation practitioners play an important role in managing these conflicts by implementing conservation management interventions. A total of 49 conservation practitioners across KwaZulu‑Natal, Limpopo, and Mpumalanga in South Africa were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire to document the implementation of key conservation measures and to examine their association with practitioner-reported poaching occurrence. Most reserves implemented perimeter fencing and shared boundaries with adjacent local communities. Community engagement and environmental education programmes were also widely reported. The proportion of practitioners reporting poaching was highest in KwaZulu‑Natal (84.2%), followed by Limpopo (71%) and Mpumalanga (61.5%). Binary logistic regression revealed that community engagement was significantly associated with lower odds of poaching. Sustaining PAs requires integrated strategies that combine enforcement, community engagement, and adaptive management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":"76 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13653863/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149164802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Microplastic Biomonitoring: Global Distribution, Matrix Selection, and Intrinsic and Extrinsic Effects","authors":"Shijing Wan,&nbsp;Yuchuan Meng","doi":"10.1007/s00267-026-02596-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00267-026-02596-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Due to their widespread distribution, persistence, and potential to release additives and adsorb environmental pollutants, microplastics pose complex risks to ecosystems and human health. Bioindicators can reflect microplastic pollution levels in specific environments, as well as reveal microplastic bioavailability, food chain transfer potential, and associated ecological risks, thereby providing key evidence for early warning systems and ecological health impact assessments. However, current biomonitoring studies have not yet provided a comprehensive synthesis of bioindicator distribution, monitoring matrix selection, intrinsic physiological traits, and extrinsic environmental influences. This review systematically analyzes these key aspects, with the following major findings: current research is unevenly distributed (primarily concentrated in Europe, Asia, and water environment; indicator species include fish and bivalves; and the biological substrate is mainly the digestive tract). By integrating factors including monitoring duration, quantitative accuracy, and ethical constraints, we established a research-objective-oriented decision tree for sample matrix selection. Further demonstrates that the correlation between biological traits and microplastic burden is species- and metric-dependent, and highlights the urgent need to establish a multi-indicator integrated assessment system and a novel toxicological framework.</p><div><figure><div><div><picture><source><img></source></picture></div></div></figure></div></div>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":"76 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149163703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rationality Criteria for Complex Goal Systems: The case of the EU Water Framework Directive","authors":"Neelke Doorn,&nbsp;Karin Edvardsson Björnberg,&nbsp;Sven Ove Hansson","doi":"10.1007/s00267-026-02635-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00267-026-02635-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We extend a previous list of four rationality criteria for the setting of a single goal to a list of six rationality criteria for the construction of large goal systems, such as those commonly established for sustainability policies. These criteria are applied to the European Union’s Water Framework Directive (WFD). For each of the six criteria we find deficiencies that should preferably be redressed in future revisions of the framework. Based on this example, we argue that in the future, complex goal systems should be carefully analysed from the viewpoint of goal-setting rationality before they are adopted.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":"76 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13653833/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149163628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}