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Energy sovereignty and climate adaptation: A community model for empowering maya women in Ixil, Yucatan 能源主权和气候适应：赋予尤卡坦伊西尔玛雅妇女权力的社区模式

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Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104345

Alejandra Vega-Camarena , Iris Santos-González , Marcela Torres-Wong , Rebeca Rosado Medina , Amina El Mekaoui

Despite growing recognition of gender dimensions in climate adaptation and energy transitions, Indigenous women's agency in constructing climate knowledge and leading community-controlled renewable energy initiatives remains underexplored, particularly in Latin American contexts. This participatory action research examines how Maya women in Ixil, Yucatán, construct climate vulnerability and achieve multidimensional empowerment through solar irrigation technologies. Employing a novel methodological approach that structures participatory action research as simultaneous knowledge generation and community empowerment, we conducted 24 months of fieldwork (2022–2024), combining guided territory walks, memory journeys, focus groups, and ethnographic observations to document women's experiences with solar energy adoption and climate adaptation strategies. Findings reveal that Ixil women developed "situated climatic vulnerability," an experiential understanding of environmental change grounded in intergenerational memory and daily practice. Through solar technology appropriation, women achieved multidimensional empowerment: technical mastery (solar panel maintenance, hurricane preparedness), economic autonomy (reduced fuel costs, diversified income through flower cultivation), political organization (collective territorial defense against real estate pressures), and cultural revitalization (integration of renewable energy with Maya cosmology). The study introduces the "territory-body-energy" nexus, expanding decolonial feminist theory, and the "colloquia construction of climate vulnerability," challenging technocratic methodologies. These findings demonstrate that community-controlled energy transitions led by Indigenous women offer transformative pathways for climate adaptation that prioritize social justice, cultural continuity, and territorial sovereignty. We recommend policy frameworks that support Indigenous energy sovereignty, incorporate traditional ecological knowledge, and center women's leadership in climate adaptation strategies for the Global South.

尽管人们越来越认识到气候适应和能源转型中的性别因素，但土著妇女在构建气候知识和领导社区控制的可再生能源倡议方面的作用仍未得到充分探索，特别是在拉丁美洲国家。这项参与性行动研究考察了伊西尔（Yucatán）的玛雅妇女如何构建气候脆弱性，并通过太阳能灌溉技术实现多维赋权。我们采用了一种新颖的方法，将参与式行动研究作为知识生成和社区赋权的同步结构，进行了24个月的实地调查（2022-2024），结合了有指导的领土漫步、记忆之旅、焦点小组和民族志观察，记录了妇女在采用太阳能和气候适应战略方面的经验。研究结果显示，Ixil女性发展了“情境气候脆弱性”，这是一种基于代际记忆和日常实践的对环境变化的经验理解。通过利用太阳能技术，妇女获得了多维度的权力：技术掌握（太阳能电池板维护，飓风准备），经济自主（降低燃料成本，通过养花实现多样化收入），政治组织（集体领土防御房地产压力）和文化振兴（可再生能源与玛雅宇宙观的融合）。该研究引入了“领土-身体-能量”的联系，扩展了非殖民化的女权主义理论，以及“气候脆弱性的座谈会建构”，挑战了技术官僚的方法论。这些发现表明，由土著妇女领导的社区控制的能源转型为气候适应提供了转型途径，优先考虑社会正义、文化连续性和领土主权。我们建议制定政策框架，支持土著能源主权，纳入传统生态知识，并使妇女在全球南方气候适应战略中发挥领导作用。

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Corrigendum to “Unlearning through spirituality: Mongolian and Western animistic traditions as pathways to enhance sustainability” [Environ. Sci. Policy 175 (2026), 104296] “通过灵性忘却：蒙古和西方万物有灵论传统作为提高可持续性的途径”的勘误表[环境]。科学。政策175 (2026),104296]

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Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104350

Jesse Segura , Julien-François Gerber , Filka Sekulova

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Corrigendum to “Vulnerability to climate change, depopulation and the global food regime: An index-based approach for rural Spain” [Environ. Sci. Policy 174 (2025) 104254] “易受气候变化、人口减少和全球粮食制度的影响：西班牙农村地区的一种基于指数的方法”的勘误表[Environ]。科学。政策174 (2025)104254]

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Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104346

Sergio Villamayor-Tomas , Daniel Gaitán-Cremaschi , Esteve Corbera , Ana Beatriz Pierri-Daunt , Letícia Santos de Lima

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Corrigendum to “Sustainability transition frameworks: Integrating space, scale, nature, power, and justice” [Environ. Sci. Policy 177 (2026) 104327] 《可持续性过渡框架：整合空间、规模、自然、权力和正义》的勘误表[环境]。科学。政策177 (2026)104327]

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Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104347

Chloé Nicolas-Artero , Jampel Dell'Angelo

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Biodiversity monitoring as data practices: Moving beyond actor-centric science-policy interfaces 作为数据实践的生物多样性监测：超越以行为主体为中心的科学-政策界面

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Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104315

Arne Langlet-Uranüs, Felix Wurm, Alice B.M. Vadrot

The uptake of biodiversity monitoring data for policy and decision-making has remained limited. While several studies and initiatives address the gap between science and policy-making, biodiversity monitoring frameworks such as the CBD’s Global Biodiversity Framework increasingly expect biodiversity monitoring data to directly inform reporting and subsequently decision-making frameworks. Most studies and initiatives approach this interface assuming predefined actor groups (e.g. scientists and policymakers). At the same time, a lack of knowledge persists on the actual data practices of the individuals involved in biodiversity-related monitoring, reporting and policy-making from local observation sites to research institutions, repositories and national or regional decision-making bodies. This study examines these practices by employing a latent class analysis using data from an online survey within the biodiversity monitoring community. The analysis examines shared and divergent data practices and tests whether respondents’ affiliations explain their data practices. It highlights the added value of a person- and practice-centric approach in comparison to an actor- or affiliation-centric analysis by demonstrating that certain practices transcend actor groups while also revealing differences. These findings advance the discourse on science-policy interfaces in biodiversity monitoring and environmental governance more broadly, arguing for understanding the biodiversity monitoring science-policy interface as a data-to-policy interface in which a community of individuals from different actor groups converge around and build common data practices rather than a bilateral bridging between two actor groups.

生物多样性监测数据在政策和决策方面的应用仍然有限。虽然一些研究和倡议解决了科学与决策之间的差距，但生物多样性监测框架，如《生物多样性公约》的《全球生物多样性框架》，越来越多地期望生物多样性监测数据直接为报告和随后的决策框架提供信息。大多数研究和计划都假定预定义的参与者群体（例如科学家和决策者）来处理这个接口。与此同时，从当地观察点到研究机构、资料库和国家或区域决策机构，参与生物多样性相关监测、报告和决策的个人的实际数据实践仍然缺乏知识。本研究利用来自生物多样性监测社区的在线调查数据，采用潜在类分析来检验这些做法。该分析考察了共享的和不同的数据实践，并测试了受访者的隶属关系是否解释了他们的数据实践。它通过证明某些实践超越了行动者群体，同时也揭示了差异，突出了以人为中心和以实践为中心的方法与以行动者或从属为中心的分析相比的附加价值。这些发现推动了对生物多样性监测和环境治理中科学-政策接口的讨论，主张将生物多样性监测科学-政策接口理解为数据-政策接口，其中来自不同行为体群体的个人社区聚集在一起并建立共同的数据实践，而不是两个行为体群体之间的双边桥梁。

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Caring in crises – Unsettling care in soil carbon sequestration 危机中的关怀——土壤碳封存中令人不安的关怀

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Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104337

Susanna Barrineau , Stina Powell

This article investigates the European policy context of soils and carbon farming where care for soils is promoted alongside climate neutrality and economic growth goals. Through a close reading of four policy documents, we outline three discourses to explore what is done in the name of care, and what care is acceptable and promoted. We speak back to these discourses through Whyte’s (2021) conceptualization of epistemologies of crisis, where we see a concern or care for nature, where nature is not in fact the subject of concern. Instead, to care for nature is about caring for humans and human futures. A focus on care reveals important information about the challenges of translating response-able care for soils into formal decision-making systems, and we propose that concepts of care ethics that align with feminist and indigenous conceptions can inform different priorities and methods in the project to care for soils. We argue for the necessity to unsettle ways of engaging with the world that work from epistemologies of crisis which hinder diverse and relational care and lead to colonized futures.

本文调查了欧洲土壤和碳农业的政策背景，其中土壤保护与气候中和和经济增长目标一起得到促进。通过对四份政策文件的仔细阅读，我们概述了三种话语，以探索以关怀的名义做了什么，以及什么样的关怀是可以接受和促进的。我们通过怀特（2021）对危机认识论的概念化来回顾这些话语，在那里我们看到了对自然的关注或关怀，而自然实际上并不是关注的主题。相反，关心自然就是关心人类和人类的未来。对土壤护理的关注揭示了将可响应性土壤护理转化为正式决策系统所面临的挑战的重要信息，我们提出，与女权主义和土著观念相一致的护理伦理概念可以为土壤护理项目的不同优先事项和方法提供信息。我们认为有必要改变与世界交往的方式，这种方式源于危机的认识论，它阻碍了多样化和关系关怀，导致了殖民的未来。

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Rethinking governance for the Global Biodiversity Framework: Legal gaps and lessons from Chile 重新思考全球生物多样性框架的治理：智利的法律空白和经验教训

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Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104313

María José Martínez-Harms , Jessica Castillo-Mandujano , Bárbara Saavedra , Cecilia Smith-Ramírez , Bárbara Larraín-Barrios , Patricio Pliscoff , Álvaro G. Gutiérrez , Micaela Poutay-Broussaingaray , Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda , Aníbal Pauchard , Olga Barbosa , Eduardo Fuentes-Lillo , Álvaro Salazar , Matías Moreno-Faguett , José Salgado-Rojas

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) calls for transformative governance to halt biodiversity loss and promote equitable, effective conservation. Yet implementation remains challenging in countries with fragmented and unequal governance systems. This Perspective introduces a place-based conceptual framework to assess and improve biodiversity governance under the GBF, integrating governance typologies, structural principles (e.g., polycentricity, resilience), and normative dimensions of good governance (e.g., legitimacy, inclusion, equity). We apply this framework to Chile, a country marked by jurisdictional fragmentation and uneven recognition of diverse governance models. Through a documentary analysis of 15 legal instruments, we examine their alignment with GBF Targets 1, 2, 3, and 22 and assess how good governance principles are formally reflected in national legal frameworks. Our findings reveal partial alignment with structural principles, stronger recognition of legitimacy and effectiveness, and persistent weaknesses in equity and accountability. The proposed framework offers a transferable perspective for identifying regulatory and institutional gaps, allowing for guidance on necessary reforms in the design of more adaptive, plural, and evidence-based conservation strategies. By revealing how legal design can enable or constrain progress, the framework supports institutional learning and highlights the need to promote the integration of community and indigenous governance into national planning. While developed through the Chilean case, the framework may inform similar efforts in other postcolonial settings. The effective implementation of the GBF requires reimagining governance, and design-based legal evaluation is crucial for diagnosing institutional architectures and highlighting where reforms are needed to achieve that dynamic and inclusive process, rooted in both legal mandates and diverse knowledge systems.

《昆明-蒙特利尔全球生物多样性框架》呼吁通过变革性治理来阻止生物多样性丧失，促进公平、有效的保护。然而，在治理体系支离破碎和不平等的国家，实施工作仍然具有挑战性。本视角介绍了一个基于地方的概念框架，以评估和改善GBF下的生物多样性治理，整合治理类型、结构原则（如多中心性、复原力）和良好治理的规范维度（如合法性、包容性、公平性）。我们将这一框架应用于智利，这个国家的特点是管辖权分散，对不同治理模式的认识不平衡。通过对15项法律文书的文献分析，我们检查了它们与GBF目标1、2、3和22的一致性，并评估了善治原则如何正式反映在国家法律框架中。我们的研究结果揭示了与结构原则的部分一致性，对合法性和有效性的更强认识，以及在公平和问责制方面的持续弱点。拟议的框架为确定监管和制度差距提供了一个可转移的视角，为设计更具适应性、多元化和基于证据的保护战略的必要改革提供了指导。通过揭示法律设计如何能够促进或制约进步，该框架支持机构学习，并强调了促进将社区和土著治理纳入国家规划的必要性。虽然该框架是通过智利的案例发展起来的，但它可以为其他后殖民背景下的类似努力提供参考。有效实施GBF需要对治理进行重新构想，而基于设计的法律评估对于诊断机构架构和突出需要改革的领域至关重要，以实现基于法律授权和多样化知识体系的动态和包容性进程。

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EU policy on forest carbon sinks revisited 欧盟森林碳汇政策重审

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Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104332

A. Maarit I. Kallio, Elias Garvik

The European Union’s (EU) policy for Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) sets carbon sink targets for LULUCF for 2021–2030. Managed forests play a key role in achieving them. Using a global forest sector model, we projected forest sector development with and without meeting the sink target during 2026–2030 under the LULUCF regulation. We also assessed changes in the global harvested wood product sink and greenhouse gas effects from material substitution that could result if the targets were met. Moreover, we examined the combined impact of meeting LULUCF goals and one possible implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, which seeks to conserve 30 % of EU land by 2030. Constant changes in emission statistics and other factors affecting LULUCF sinks complicate impact assessments, introducing uncertainty into our results. Under the assumptions made in this study, achieving sink targets, with or without additional forest conservation, requires an immediate and steep reduction in roundwood harvesting in EU member states and Norway (EU+N). This cut could reach 113–117 million m³ in 2030–2035 compared to a market-driven scenario, assuming no further policy tightening after 2030. Two-thirds of this decrease is projected to be offset by higher harvesting elsewhere, shifting income from EU+N to other regions and reducing the climate gains. Our indicative calculation suggests that the emission reduction costs could exceed €700/t CO₂. Given the high economic burden and availability of more cost-effective alternatives, the role of managed forests in EU climate policy warrants a reconsideration.

欧盟的土地利用、土地利用变化和林业政策（LULUCF）为LULUCF设定了2021-2030年的碳汇目标。管理森林在实现这些目标方面发挥着关键作用。利用全球森林部门模型，我们根据LULUCF法规预测了2026-2030年期间森林部门在实现和不实现碳汇目标的情况下的发展情况。我们还评估了如果达到目标可能导致的全球采伐木材产品汇和材料替代的温室气体效应的变化。此外，我们研究了实现LULUCF目标和实施欧盟2030年生物多样性战略的综合影响，该战略旨在到2030年保护30% %的欧盟土地。排放统计数据的不断变化和影响LULUCF汇的其他因素使影响评估复杂化，给我们的结果带来了不确定性。根据本研究的假设，无论是否有额外的森林保护，实现碳汇目标都需要欧盟成员国和挪威（EU+N）立即大幅减少圆木采伐。与市场驱动的情景相比，2030年至2035年，这一削减量可能达到1.13亿至1.17亿立方米，假设2030年之后没有进一步的政策收紧。这一减少的三分之二预计将被其他地区的高收成所抵消，这将使欧盟+N地区的收入转移到其他地区，并减少气候收益。我们的指示性计算表明，减排成本可能超过700欧元/吨二氧化碳。考虑到高昂的经济负担和更具成本效益的替代方案的存在，有必要重新考虑管理森林在欧盟气候政策中的作用。

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Indigenous engagement in oilfield remediation: a case study of the Norman Wells Oilfield, Northwest Territories, Canada 原住民参与油田修复：以加拿大西北地区诺曼威尔斯油田为例

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104339

Annie King , Tristan Pearce , Paul Dixon , Sinead Earley , Carly Dokis

Trust and mutual understanding are critical to meaningful engagement in natural resource development projects, yet a lack of intercultural competency, trust, and culturally appropriate methods continues to limit effective engagement with Indigenous communities in northern Canada. This paper responds to the need for a greater understanding of how community engagement processes include Indigenous perspectives in Northern Canada particularly in reclamation and closure planning. It focuses on the Indigenous people of the Sahtú region’s experience with the closure and reclamation of the Norman Wells Oilfield in the Northwest Territories. Data were collected through 42 semi-structured interviews using open-ended questions with Sahtú people, and an analysis of past engagement records. Findings reveal that past engagement approaches taken by Imperial Oil to engage are perceived by interviewees to have been ineffective due to misalignment with relational values and norms of governance and communication. The format of engagement has been incompatible with local cultural expectations, resulting in limited dialogue and limited diversity of perspectives. Infrequent and unidirectional engagement have resulted in a loss of trust, violation of Dene principles of reciprocity and respect, and overall ineffective engagement. Meaningful future engagement rooted in local Indigenous ontological frameworks and epistemes can enable relational healing through reclamation and advance reconciliation in environmental governance.

信任和相互理解对于自然资源开发项目的有意义参与至关重要，但缺乏跨文化能力、信任和文化上适当的方法继续限制与加拿大北部土著社区的有效参与。本文回应了更好地理解加拿大北部社区参与过程如何包括土著观点的需求，特别是在填海和关闭规划方面。它的重点是Sahtú地区土著人民在关闭和开垦西北地区诺曼威尔斯油田方面的经验。数据是通过42个半结构化访谈收集的，这些访谈使用了Sahtú人的开放式问题，并分析了过去的订婚记录。调查结果显示，受访者认为帝国石油公司过去采取的参与方法是无效的，因为与关系价值观和治理和沟通规范不一致。参与的形式与当地的文化期望不相容，导致对话有限，观点的多样性有限。不频繁和单向的接触会导致信任的丧失，违反互惠和尊重的原则，以及总体上无效的接触。基于当地土著本体框架和认知的有意义的未来参与可以通过开垦和促进环境治理中的和解来实现关系愈合。

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Reassessing nature-based solutions in global climate governance: Uncovering inequity in the construction of knowledge 重新评估全球气候治理中基于自然的解决方案：揭示知识构建中的不平等

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104336

Yousuf Mahid

The conceptualization of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) problematically creates a dichotomy between natural and unnatural climate change solutions. This dichotomization raises concerns about how the concept perceives human-environment relations and embeds climate solutions in its strategic approaches to environmental management. Despite the growing concerns, many conservation organizations and multilateral agencies are advocating for NbS in policy and funding, thus gaining the power to establish themselves as experts in this field. This research addresses the power dynamics of NbS knowledge construction by examining two interrelated questions: (1) How have international organizations conceptualized climate solutions and human-environment relations within the evolution of NbS in the global climate change discussion? (2) Who are the key actors promoting NbS, who opposes these solutions, and how does their participation intersect with NbS discourse? This study uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to analyze data from documents outside of the academic world and key informant interviews. The study results show that the underlying principles of NbS embody an anthropocentric view of Nature, where humans possess the knowledge to manage the environment through quantifiable metrics, reinforcing human-environment separation and controlling ecosystem access under the guise of solutions. The global promotion of NbS also imposes a dominant perspective on the formulation of climate change problems and their solutions, effectively perpetuating the colonial legacy of knowledge construction. This research calls for a critical reevaluation of NbS, urging not only a reconsideration of the concept but also a thorough deconstruction of the prevailing climate change narratives that propel the adoption of NbS.

基于自然的解决方案（NbS）的概念化有问题地在自然和非自然的气候变化解决方案之间创造了二分法。这种二分法引起了人们对该概念如何感知人与环境关系的关注，并将气候解决方案嵌入其环境管理的战略方法中。尽管越来越多的人担心，但许多保护组织和多边机构在政策和资金方面都在倡导国家生物多样性，从而获得了在该领域建立专家地位的权力。本研究通过考察两个相互关联的问题来解决国家统计局知识建构的权力动力学问题：(1)在全球气候变化讨论中，国际组织如何在国家统计局的演变中概念化气候解决方案和人与环境的关系？(2)谁是推动NbS的关键参与者，谁反对这些解决方案，他们的参与如何与NbS话语交叉？本研究使用批评性话语分析（CDA）来分析来自学术界以外文献和关键信息人访谈的数据。研究结果表明，NbS的基本原则体现了一种以人类为中心的自然观，即人类拥有通过可量化指标管理环境的知识，加强人与环境的分离，并在解决方案的幌子下控制生态系统的进入。国家统计局在全球的推广也对气候变化问题及其解决方案的制定施加了主导视角，有效地延续了知识建设的殖民遗产。本研究要求对国家统计局进行批判性的重新评估，不仅要求重新考虑这一概念，而且要求彻底解构推动国家统计局采用的主流气候变化叙事。

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