Pub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104022
Peter Michael Rosset , Ivanete Ferreira Fernandes , Lia Pinheiro Barbosa , Cosma dos Santos Damasceno , Weeraboon Wisartsakul
In this article we discuss the use of an inventory or mapping of agroecological practices, part of the "Peasant to Peasant" (PtP) methodology that is used to promote the territorialization of peasant agroecology, as a method for the epistemic decolonization of a territory. The so-called Green Revolution involved the imposition of exogenous technologies and knowledge, causing the fragmentation and devaluation of local peasant farming knowledge and practices adapted to local conditions, while locking farmers into external dependence. It was an epistemic colonization. The construction of an emancipatory horizontal process of peasant agroecology, on the other hand, necessarily requires “unlearning” that externally imposed exogenous knowledge. We use the case of the PtP process in the Santana Settlement, an agrarian reform community of the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) in Ceará, Brazil, in order to demonstrate and analyze the inventory as a collective tool for decolonization.
{"title":"Unlearning the green revolution: Inventory of agroecological practices in Ceará, Brazil, an instrument for decolonizing territory and (re)valuing peasant knowledge","authors":"Peter Michael Rosset , Ivanete Ferreira Fernandes , Lia Pinheiro Barbosa , Cosma dos Santos Damasceno , Weeraboon Wisartsakul","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this article we discuss the use of an inventory or mapping of agroecological practices, part of the \"Peasant to Peasant\" (PtP) methodology that is used to promote the territorialization of peasant agroecology, as a method for the epistemic decolonization of a territory. The so-called Green Revolution involved the imposition of exogenous technologies and knowledge, causing the fragmentation and devaluation of local peasant farming knowledge and practices adapted to local conditions, while locking farmers into external dependence. It was an epistemic colonization. The construction of an emancipatory horizontal process of <em>peasant agroecology</em>, on the other hand, necessarily requires “unlearning” that externally imposed exogenous knowledge. We use the case of the PtP process in the Santana Settlement, an agrarian reform community of the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) in Ceará, Brazil, in order to demonstrate and analyze the inventory as a collective tool for decolonization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 104022"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143509113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Pub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104024
Matthew Abunyewah , Thayaparan Gajendran , Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie , Charles Baah , Seth Asare Okyere , Amila Kasun Sampath Udage Kankanamge
Global warming continues to exacerbate heatwave severity, duration, and frequency causing impacts that threaten humanity, and the physical and anthropogenic environment. Although research on heatwave impacts has increased, the majority of studies have focused on social effects relegating to the background other crucial impacts. Such a narrow focus on social impacts limits the realization of a thorough understanding of the net impacts of heatwaves. Using the PRISMA protocol, this study conducts a review of 127 peer-reviewed articles to provide a systematic and comprehensive taxonomy of heatwave impacts highlighting key policies, adaptation strategies and barriers. The review found traceable evidence of heatwaves impact on human and environmental ecosystems via 11 thematic pathways namely, health, food crisis/water shortage, infrastructure/energy use, disaster hazard displacement, labour productivity, living cost, industry loss, infrastructure cost, water resources/marine life, vegetation/wildlife, and ozone/air/particulate pollution grouped under social, economic, and environmental dimensions. These multidimensional impacts of heatwaves necessitate stakeholder synergies in pooling resources and integrating diverse types of information to tackle impacts and develop inclusive policies and adaptation strategies for better heat resilience.
{"title":"The multidimensional impacts of heatwaves on human ecosystems: A systematic literature review and future research direction","authors":"Matthew Abunyewah , Thayaparan Gajendran , Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie , Charles Baah , Seth Asare Okyere , Amila Kasun Sampath Udage Kankanamge","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104024","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global warming continues to exacerbate heatwave severity, duration, and frequency causing impacts that threaten humanity, and the physical and anthropogenic environment. Although research on heatwave impacts has increased, the majority of studies have focused on social effects relegating to the background other crucial impacts. Such a narrow focus on social impacts limits the realization of a thorough understanding of the net impacts of heatwaves. Using the PRISMA protocol, this study conducts a review of 127 peer-reviewed articles to provide a systematic and comprehensive taxonomy of heatwave impacts highlighting key policies, adaptation strategies and barriers. The review found traceable evidence of heatwaves impact on human and environmental ecosystems via 11 thematic pathways namely, health, food crisis/water shortage, infrastructure/energy use, disaster hazard displacement, labour productivity, living cost, industry loss, infrastructure cost, water resources/marine life, vegetation/wildlife, and ozone/air/particulate pollution grouped under social, economic, and environmental dimensions. These multidimensional impacts of heatwaves necessitate stakeholder synergies in pooling resources and integrating diverse types of information to tackle impacts and develop inclusive policies and adaptation strategies for better heat resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 104024"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143510826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-21DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104025
Jeffrey Chow , Tianle Liu , Coco Dijia Du , Rui Hu , Xun Wu
Despite the consensus that science can inform policymakers about environmental problems and solutions, the empirical literature on the pathways and dynamics of how science influences environmental policymaking is limited. Particularly understudied is how institutional factors shape scientific contributions to environmental policy - from research support systems to the nature of policy recommendations that emerge. Through scientometric meta-analysis, this study examines the contribution of scientific research to air pollution policy discussions in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) of China by investigating: the types of institutions funding and conducting research, the relationship between institutional characteristics and likelihood of policy recommendations, and how institutional arrangements shape the types of recommendations made. Governed under the "One Country, Two Systems" framework, the GBA offers an opportunity to examine how institutional factors such as political systems and government involvement in funding and co-authorship shape the science-policy interface. By analyzing a dataset of scientific studies on air pollution in the GBA, we find that English-language articles focused on Hong Kong are less likely to have government co-authors and are more likely to include policy recommendations when compared with the Chinese literature focused on the entire GBA. Scientific papers published in the Chinese literature have more government involvement in terms of both funding and authorship, with these papers tending to be more cautious in their policy recommendations. Although Hong Kong studies are more likely to propose new policies, such studies become less critical of existing policies if they are funded by mainland city governments or overseas national governments.
{"title":"From research to policy recommendations: A scientometric case study of air quality management in the Greater Bay Area, China","authors":"Jeffrey Chow , Tianle Liu , Coco Dijia Du , Rui Hu , Xun Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the consensus that science can inform policymakers about environmental problems and solutions, the empirical literature on the pathways and dynamics of how science influences environmental policymaking is limited. Particularly understudied is how institutional factors shape scientific contributions to environmental policy - from research support systems to the nature of policy recommendations that emerge. Through scientometric meta-analysis, this study examines the contribution of scientific research to air pollution policy discussions in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) of China by investigating: the types of institutions funding and conducting research, the relationship between institutional characteristics and likelihood of policy recommendations, and how institutional arrangements shape the types of recommendations made. Governed under the \"One Country, Two Systems\" framework, the GBA offers an opportunity to examine how institutional factors such as political systems and government involvement in funding and co-authorship shape the science-policy interface. By analyzing a dataset of scientific studies on air pollution in the GBA, we find that English-language articles focused on Hong Kong are less likely to have government co-authors and are more likely to include policy recommendations when compared with the Chinese literature focused on the entire GBA. Scientific papers published in the Chinese literature have more government involvement in terms of both funding and authorship, with these papers tending to be more cautious in their policy recommendations. Although Hong Kong studies are more likely to propose new policies, such studies become less critical of existing policies if they are funded by mainland city governments or overseas national governments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 104025"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143453220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-18DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104021
Renee Zahnow , Ali Rad Yousefnia , Mahnoosh Hassankhani , Ali Cheshmehzangi
Climate change is tightly coupled with patterns of inequality at both the global and local spatial scales. Inequitable access to climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies can exacerbate existing social vulnerabilities and enhance disparities in the impacts of climate change. Despite advances in the development of sustainable adaptation and mitigation strategies, the extent to which access to practical initiatives is equitable across the population remains poorly understood. This study provides a systematic review of empirical studies that consider social equality in access to climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives. Our findings show that in the last decade, research has tended to focus on international income inequalities and climate injustice while few studies have considered inequalities in access to mitigation and adaptation initiatives at the neighbourhood or city level. Also largely absent from the reviewed research, were studies focused on vulnerabilities other than economic disadvantage, such as immigrant status, language barriers or physical disabilities. We suggest that more studies using mixed-methods are required to co-develop sustainable climate change adaptation practices that are accessible for all individuals and appropriate within local contexts.
{"title":"Climate change inequalities: A systematic review of disparities in access to mitigation and adaptation measures","authors":"Renee Zahnow , Ali Rad Yousefnia , Mahnoosh Hassankhani , Ali Cheshmehzangi","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change is tightly coupled with patterns of inequality at both the global and local spatial scales. Inequitable access to climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies can exacerbate existing social vulnerabilities and enhance disparities in the impacts of climate change. Despite advances in the development of sustainable adaptation and mitigation strategies, the extent to which access to practical initiatives is equitable across the population remains poorly understood. This study provides a systematic review of empirical studies that consider social equality in access to climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives. Our findings show that in the last decade, research has tended to focus on international income inequalities and climate injustice while few studies have considered inequalities in access to mitigation and adaptation initiatives at the neighbourhood or city level. Also largely absent from the reviewed research, were studies focused on vulnerabilities other than economic disadvantage, such as immigrant status, language barriers or physical disabilities. We suggest that more studies using mixed-methods are required to co-develop sustainable climate change adaptation practices that are accessible for all individuals and appropriate within local contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 104021"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143428737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-17DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104023
Viola Hakkarainen , Christopher M. Raymond
Rapid and inclusive approaches to biodiversity conservation globally depend on recognizing the multiple values of nature and shifting away from purely economic valuation towards the inclusion of more plural values. However, issues of power, politics, and agency in local level environmental governance contexts remain critically under-examined in regard to working with plural values. In this paper, we shine a spotlight on urban biodiversity conservation as a contested political context for negotiating diverse values and interests. We study and develop the notion of the endogenous action space of urban biodiversity governance through civil servants’ perceptions of their political and organizational working contexts, agency, and strategies to articulate for biodiversity values in their organizational positions. We employed a case study approach and drew on social constructivism to conduct interviews with 15 civil servants engaged in biodiversity-related work in seven municipalities in the northern Stockholm region, Sweden, and two authorities in the County Administrative Board of Stockholm. Our results exemplify the fragmented socio-political realities and diversity in related action space in local government organizations in which these individuals work. Furthermore, we show that biodiversity governance is shaped by the ‘serendipity of agency’, which gives rise to a subjectivity of actions largely enabled by relationships and constrained by a lack of resources. Additionally, civil servants articulating for biodiversity value employ multiple strategies that diversify their roles beyond their immediate areas of expertise. We conclude by discussing our findings in relation to the transformative ideals of biodiversity governance.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-08DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104015
Zulfaqar Sa’adi , Nor Eliza Alias , Zulkifli Yusop , Neo Sau Mei , Choong Weng Wai , Nor Zaiha Arman , Wan Asiah Nurjannah Wan Ahmad Tajuddin , Muhamad Anwar Ramzan , Azmi Aris , Juhaizah Talib , Ainul Syarmimi Rosli , Zainura Zainon Noor , Salmiati Salmiati
This research endeavours to address the exigency of climate change-induced flooding in the Johor river basin (JRB), Malaysia, through the development of climate change-induced flood co-adaptation approach. The methodology revolves around the multi-step co-creation process with key stakeholders by 1) utilization of dotmocracy to identify the perceive level of flood and flood vulnerable areas on land use map, 2) ideation process based on wall of ideas to populate the adaptation options according to the past, current, and future practices, and 3) ranking process based on roundtable discussion to identify the most practical and relevant adaptation options under diverse near-future (2021–2061) scenarios under Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP) 1–2.6 and SSP5–8.5, respectively. These co-creation methods and consensus-building techniques visually represent stakeholders' preferences for addressing floods in the identified area. The main goal of this research is to formulate flood co-adaptation strategies to address climate change challenges across various scenarios. The study employs participatory methods to foster co-creation among technical stakeholders, facilitating collaborative problem-solving and the generation of sustainable flood adaptation solutions. The significance of this research lies in its potential to contribute empirical evidence and practical insights to the discourse on flood co-adaptation strategies. The study's findings in the JRB, prone to climate-induced flooding, are particularly relevant to water resource managers, policymakers, and researchers working on climate resilience. In conclusion, this research aspires to elucidate a novel and integrative approach to flood co-adaptation, leveraging dotmocracy mapping as a catalyst for collaboration and informed decision-making among key technical stakeholders in the JRB.
{"title":"Enhancing climate change-induced flood co-adaptation in the Johor river basin, Malaysia: A dotmocracy mapping approach with key technical stakeholders","authors":"Zulfaqar Sa’adi , Nor Eliza Alias , Zulkifli Yusop , Neo Sau Mei , Choong Weng Wai , Nor Zaiha Arman , Wan Asiah Nurjannah Wan Ahmad Tajuddin , Muhamad Anwar Ramzan , Azmi Aris , Juhaizah Talib , Ainul Syarmimi Rosli , Zainura Zainon Noor , Salmiati Salmiati","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research endeavours to address the exigency of climate change-induced flooding in the Johor river basin (JRB), Malaysia, through the development of climate change-induced flood co-adaptation approach. The methodology revolves around the multi-step co-creation process with key stakeholders by 1) utilization of dotmocracy to identify the perceive level of flood and flood vulnerable areas on land use map, 2) ideation process based on wall of ideas to populate the adaptation options according to the past, current, and future practices, and 3) ranking process based on roundtable discussion to identify the most practical and relevant adaptation options under diverse near-future (2021–2061) scenarios under Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP) 1–2.6 and SSP5–8.5, respectively. These co-creation methods and consensus-building techniques visually represent stakeholders' preferences for addressing floods in the identified area. The main goal of this research is to formulate flood co-adaptation strategies to address climate change challenges across various scenarios. The study employs participatory methods to foster co-creation among technical stakeholders, facilitating collaborative problem-solving and the generation of sustainable flood adaptation solutions. The significance of this research lies in its potential to contribute empirical evidence and practical insights to the discourse on flood co-adaptation strategies. The study's findings in the JRB, prone to climate-induced flooding, are particularly relevant to water resource managers, policymakers, and researchers working on climate resilience. In conclusion, this research aspires to elucidate a novel and integrative approach to flood co-adaptation, leveraging dotmocracy mapping as a catalyst for collaboration and informed decision-making among key technical stakeholders in the JRB.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 104015"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143350703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
This paper explores the potential of participatory legal research approaches to address the challenges associated with sustainability transitions. Examining research projects conducted in collaboration with Indigenous communities from Peru and Brazil, the paper details the participatory methods adopted in each case study and subsequently demonstrates the effectiveness of these participatory and co-created research approaches in tackling sustainability issues. The active engagement of Indigenous communities, in the research design and implementation process was found to generate context-specific knowledge and foster a sense of ownership and shared responsibility. The findings suggest that a participatory and co-created research approach can provide a way forward to achieving effective, transformative solutions in the context of sustainability transitions.
{"title":"Effective participation in a sustainability transition that leaves no one behind","authors":"Margherita Paola Poto , Juliana Hayden-Nygren , Patricia Urteaga-Crovetto","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the potential of participatory legal research approaches to address the challenges associated with sustainability transitions. Examining research projects conducted in collaboration with Indigenous communities from Peru and Brazil, the paper details the participatory methods adopted in each case study and subsequently demonstrates the effectiveness of these participatory and co-created research approaches in tackling sustainability issues. The active engagement of Indigenous communities, in the research design and implementation process was found to generate context-specific knowledge and foster a sense of ownership and shared responsibility. The findings suggest that a participatory and co-created research approach can provide a way forward to achieving effective, transformative solutions in the context of sustainability transitions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 104001"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143355117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104017
Benjamin K. Sovacool , Steve Griffiths , Hans Jakob Walnum , Dylan Daniel Furszyfer , Marfuga Iskandarova
This article reveals how interaction among values and different material, economic, political, and cultural dimensions shapes sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization. In identifying this range of phenomena, the article highlights the persistent obstacles that countries face in aligning their approaches to net-zero industry. The article is based on a mixed-methods research design involving 139 in-depth interviews with experts from the energy and industrial sectors and 124 site visits in Norway, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. For Norway, the article identifies a pathway of clean fossil fuels that focuses on making sure that future energy pathways are still coupled with, and prolong the use, of natural gas and oil. For the United Arab Emirates, it focuses on a pathway of incumbent innovation, the overlapping imperatives over defossilization and decarbonization with the reality that the country is constrained in the diversity of its natural resources. For the United States, it identifies a pathway of capitalist salvation, which harnesses the brainpower legacy of technology industries with considerable scale and scope. The article argues that a better understanding of the embedded values of energy systems in national geopolitical realities could ultimately break path dependence and inform more realistic low carbon industrial pathways. Moreover, it lends support to the recognition that more proactive and interventionist national policy approaches may be needed if countries dependent on carbon-intensive energy systems are to move out of their incumbent energy regimes while simultaneously achieving goals enshrined within a just transition.
{"title":"Competing values, ideologies and lock-in dependencies in sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization","authors":"Benjamin K. Sovacool , Steve Griffiths , Hans Jakob Walnum , Dylan Daniel Furszyfer , Marfuga Iskandarova","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article reveals how interaction among values and different material, economic, political, and cultural dimensions shapes sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization. In identifying this range of phenomena, the article highlights the persistent obstacles that countries face in aligning their approaches to net-zero industry. The article is based on a mixed-methods research design involving 139 in-depth interviews with experts from the energy and industrial sectors and 124 site visits in Norway, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. For Norway, the article identifies a pathway of <em>clean fossil fuels</em> that focuses on making sure that future energy pathways are still coupled with, and prolong the use, of natural gas and oil. For the United Arab Emirates, it focuses on a pathway of <em>incumbent innovation,</em> the overlapping imperatives over defossilization and decarbonization with the reality that the country is constrained in the diversity of its natural resources. For the United States, it identifies a pathway of <em>capitalist salvation,</em> which harnesses the brainpower legacy of technology industries with considerable scale and scope. The article argues that a better understanding of the embedded values of energy systems in national geopolitical realities could ultimately break path dependence and inform more realistic low carbon industrial pathways. Moreover, it lends support to the recognition that more proactive and interventionist national policy approaches may be needed if countries dependent on carbon-intensive energy systems are to move out of their incumbent energy regimes while simultaneously achieving goals enshrined within a just transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 104017"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143308024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104009
Abdul Waheed , Sajida Kousar , Muhammad Irfan Khan , Thomas Bernward Fischer
Globally, the pursuit of sustainable development (SD) is of key importance. Sustainability assessments of large-scale infrastructure development projects play a critical role in balancing economic growth with social, environmental, and climate responsibilities. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a key initiative for regional and global economic advancement. It can also serve as a case study for sustainable development practices. This paper presents results from a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis to explore the sustainability of the CPEC plan 2017–2030. A mixed method approach of SWOT Analysis integrated with multicriteria decision-making methods, including the Best Worst Method- mV Model (a linear programming method) has been applied to analyze, weight, and rank SWOT criteria. A survey of experts was conducted to scale assessment criteria related to CPEC sustainability. Results highlight that with regards to “internal strength criteria”, the geostrategic position is the highest scoring criterion, and with regards to “internal weakness criteria”, increased dependency on China is the lowest scoring criterion. With regards to “internal strength criteria”, the geostrategic position was identified as the highest scoring criterion and cultural friendliness as the lowest scoring criterion. With regards to “internal weakness criteria”, technological inefficiencies were identified as the best, and increased dependency on China as the worst scoring criteria. In the context of “external opportunity’s criteria”, increased job opportunities and regional connectivity were the highest scoring criteria, and mutual trade gain was the lowest scoring criterion. Finally, for “external threats criteria”, natural resource exploitation was identified as the best scoring criterion. The results highlight the need to diversify partnerships within the Belt and Road Initiative in order to enhance environmental friendliness, and climate resilience, as well as to reducedependency risks, and foster equitable development.
{"title":"Expert perceptions on CPEC sustainability appraisal: SWOT analysis for informed policy decisions","authors":"Abdul Waheed , Sajida Kousar , Muhammad Irfan Khan , Thomas Bernward Fischer","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Globally, the pursuit of sustainable development (SD) is of key importance. Sustainability assessments of large-scale infrastructure development projects play a critical role in balancing economic growth with social, environmental, and climate responsibilities. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a key initiative for regional and global economic advancement. It can also serve as a case study for sustainable development practices. This paper presents results from a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis to explore the sustainability of the CPEC plan 2017–2030. A mixed method approach of SWOT Analysis integrated with multicriteria decision-making methods, including the Best Worst Method- mV Model (a linear programming method) has been applied to analyze, weight, and rank SWOT criteria. A survey of experts was conducted to scale assessment criteria related to CPEC sustainability. Results highlight that with regards to “internal strength criteria”, the geostrategic position is the highest scoring criterion, and with regards to “internal weakness criteria”, increased dependency on China is the lowest scoring criterion. With regards to “internal strength criteria”, the geostrategic position was identified as the highest scoring criterion and cultural friendliness as the lowest scoring criterion. With regards to “internal weakness criteria”, technological inefficiencies were identified as the best, and increased dependency on China as the worst scoring criteria. In the context of “external opportunity’s criteria”, increased job opportunities and regional connectivity were the highest scoring criteria, and mutual trade gain was the lowest scoring criterion. Finally, for “external threats criteria”, natural resource exploitation was identified as the best scoring criterion. The results highlight the need to diversify partnerships within the Belt and Road Initiative in order to enhance environmental friendliness, and climate resilience, as well as to reducedependency risks, and foster equitable development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 104009"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103992
Theo Stanley, Mark Hirons, Jonathon Turnbull, Jamie Lorimer, Eric Mensah Kumeh, Caitlin Hafferty, Lea May Anderson, Constance L. McDermott
A rising interest in nature recovery has expanded the focus of conservation beyond protected areas to encompass a range of terrestrial and marine areas, from forests, fields, and farms, to cities, coasts and oceans. These expansions create new practical and theoretical contestations regarding how, why, and for whom nature recovery projects should be pursued. Such contestations are particularly pronounced in Scotland, a country with a long history of struggles over land rights, widespread loss of natural habitats, and highly unequal land ownership patterns. This paper examines how different framings of justice, and different approaches to nature recovery, interact to either entrench or redress past and present injustices in a range of Scottish examples. We argue that multispecies conceptions of justice that eschew human-centric framings provide a normative basis for recovering nature, while multi-dimensional framings of justice as distributive, procedural and recognitional help specify a range of requirements for social change. Both frames highlight injustices in current trajectories and the need for alternative approaches to deliver a just transition in nature recovery. We outline a three-step process for further research on justice issues and for developing policy recommendations. This entails 1) historicising contexts, 2) considering both multispecies and multi-dimensional understandings of justice, and 3) uncovering alternative nature recovery strategies that might more explicitly foreground justice considerations.
{"title":"Just nature recovery: A framework for centring multispecies and multi-dimensional justice in land management","authors":"Theo Stanley, Mark Hirons, Jonathon Turnbull, Jamie Lorimer, Eric Mensah Kumeh, Caitlin Hafferty, Lea May Anderson, Constance L. McDermott","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103992","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103992","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A rising interest in nature recovery has expanded the focus of conservation beyond protected areas to encompass a range of terrestrial and marine areas, from forests, fields, and farms, to cities, coasts and oceans. These expansions create new practical and theoretical contestations regarding how, why, and for whom nature recovery projects should be pursued. Such contestations are particularly pronounced in Scotland, a country with a long history of struggles over land rights, widespread loss of natural habitats, and highly unequal land ownership patterns. This paper examines how different framings of justice, and different approaches to nature recovery, interact to either entrench or redress past and present injustices in a range of Scottish examples. We argue that multispecies conceptions of justice that eschew human-centric framings provide a normative basis for recovering nature, while multi-dimensional framings of justice as distributive, procedural and recognitional help specify a range of requirements for social change. Both frames highlight injustices in current trajectories and the need for alternative approaches to deliver a just transition in nature recovery. We outline a three-step process for further research on justice issues and for developing policy recommendations. This entails 1) historicising contexts, 2) considering both multispecies and multi-dimensional understandings of justice, and 3) uncovering alternative nature recovery strategies that might more explicitly foreground justice considerations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 103992"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
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