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Harness gender empowerment to achieve climate justice, sustainability, and equity 利用性别赋权实现气候正义、可持续性和公平

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104314

Benjamin K. Sovacool , Jin In

In this Perspective, we argue that ending discrimination against girls and women is vital for climate action and inclusive sustainable development. Grave gender inequality persists across almost every society in the world, embedded in socio-cultural norms, practices, and policies that discriminate against females. These intersect with other demographic attributes such as age, ethnicity, and economic status and interweave deeply with patterns of unsustainability and environmental issues such as fishing, climate change, agriculture and forestry, energy access, and water and sanitation. Women and girls are 14 times more likely to die in a climate change-related disaster than men or boys, and females represent 80 % of people displaced by extreme weather events. Women and girls contribute to more than half of the agricultural labor force in low to middle income countries, but struggle with poverty given they are not the owners of land which they harvest and cultivate, with 90 % of them prohibited from access to resources and services. In fact, less than 1 percent of women and girls live in countries with high women's empowerment—although it is an indispensable and a catalytic mechanism of achieving sustainability outcomes. We call on energy and climate planners, practitioners, policymakers and scholars to better value and prioritize gender empowerment, particularly girls, compensate them for contributions, count them in their data collection, be accountable to them when implementing reforms, and encourage greater roles for them positions of political and civic leadership.

在这一视角中，我们认为，消除对女童和妇女的歧视对于气候行动和包容性可持续发展至关重要。严重的性别不平等在世界上几乎每个社会都存在，根植于歧视女性的社会文化规范、做法和政策中。这些因素与年龄、种族和经济地位等其他人口统计属性相互交织，并与不可持续性模式和环境问题（如渔业、气候变化、农业和林业、能源获取、水和卫生设施）密切相关。妇女和女孩死于与气候变化有关的灾害的可能性是男性或男孩的14倍，在因极端天气事件而流离失所的人中，女性占80% %。在低收入和中等收入国家，妇女和女孩占农业劳动力的一半以上，但由于她们不是自己收获和耕种的土地的所有者，她们与贫困作斗争，其中90% %被禁止获得资源和服务。事实上，只有不到1%的妇女和女童生活在妇女赋权程度高的国家——尽管这是实现可持续发展成果不可或缺的催化机制。我们呼吁能源和气候规划者、从业者、政策制定者和学者更好地重视和优先考虑性别赋权，特别是女孩，对她们的贡献给予补偿，将她们纳入数据收集，在实施改革时对她们负责，并鼓励她们在政治和公民领导岗位上发挥更大作用。

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Why carbon offsets may fail in complex systems: A causal inference perspective 为什么碳补偿在复杂系统中可能失败：因果推理视角

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104325

Pushpendra Rana , Forrest Fleischman , Amit Sharma

Social-ecological system dynamics present a fundamental challenge to the attribution of changes in carbon stocks to actions taken by carbon offset sellers. We illustrate this challenge by demonstrating theoretical limitations to causal attribution in two cases from Brazil and India. We show that carbon outcomes in these nature-based carbon offset projects emerge from non-linear and independent dynamics that are the result of the inherent complexity of social-ecological systems, where large numbers of variables jointly influence causal processes. This creates high levels of uncertainty about the causes of outcomes, and thus makes it very difficult to attribute changes in carbon storage to specific causes, such as offset-funded programs. Furthermore, the predominant solution to this problem suggested in the literature, improved causal inference methods, fails to address the challenge because these methods are designed to estimate average effects across many cases, not to measure causality in specific cases. Even well-designed and resourced projects, such as our two cases, must demonstrate their own measurable impact to serve as offsets, and our analysis suggests that current methods are unable to overcome the joint challenges of causal complexity and methods that estimate average, not individual effects. The need for offsets to demonstrate individual causality makes them quite different from analogous conservation tools such as Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), highlighting why project-based offsetting consistently struggles to meet the expectations of credibility. To achieve effective climate change mitigation, policymakers need to focus on policies that do not depend on inherently uncertain causal attribution.

社会生态系统动力学对将碳储量的变化归因于碳抵消销售者的行为提出了根本性的挑战。我们通过在巴西和印度的两个案例中展示因果归因的理论局限性来说明这一挑战。我们表明，这些基于自然的碳抵消项目中的碳结果来自非线性和独立的动态，这是社会生态系统固有复杂性的结果，其中大量变量共同影响因果过程。这造成了对结果原因的高度不确定性，因此很难将碳储量的变化归因于具体原因，例如抵消资助的项目。此外，文献中提出的主要解决方案，改进的因果推理方法，未能解决这一挑战，因为这些方法旨在估计许多情况下的平均效果，而不是衡量特定情况下的因果关系。即使是设计良好、资源充足的项目，比如我们的两个案例，也必须证明它们自己的可衡量的影响作为补偿，我们的分析表明，当前的方法无法克服因果复杂性和估计平均而非个别影响的方法的共同挑战。对证明个体因果关系的补偿的需求使它们与类似的保护工具（如生态系统服务付费（PES））有很大不同，这突出了为什么基于项目的补偿一直难以满足可信度的期望。为了实现有效的气候变化缓解，决策者需要把重点放在不依赖于内在不确定的因果归因的政策上。

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Whose knowledge counts for transformative change? – Operationalizing epistemic justice for transdisciplinary knowledge co-production 谁的知识对变革至关重要？-实现跨学科知识合作生产的知识正义

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104322

Stefanie Burkhart , Flurina Schneider

Recent calls for transformative change recognize the need to integrate plural ways of knowing. This also entails the need to address existing and emerging issues of justice as part of transformation processes. Besides distributional, procedural and recognition justice, the concept of epistemic justice has gained momentum to identify whose knowledge counts when problems and solutions are determined. Since transdisciplinarity offers ways to integrate diverse ways of knowing, it is considered a participatory and transformative mode of knowledge production. Synthesizing how epistemic justice has been conceptualized and operationalized in transdisciplinarity and conservation contexts so far, this paper introduces a framework for understanding and addressing epistemic justice in transdisciplinary co-production processes. The framework offers entry points for systematically reflecting on how to approach epistemic justice along different dimensions of transdisciplinary co-production processes. This reflection is required to avoid (re-)producing (existing) injustices and address justice in current knowledge production systems as a deep lever of transformations.

最近对变革的呼吁认识到需要整合多种认识方式。这也需要作为改革进程的一部分来处理现有的和新出现的司法问题。除了分配正义、程序正义和承认正义之外，认识正义的概念也获得了发展势头，即在确定问题和解决方案时确定哪些知识是重要的。由于跨学科提供了整合多种认识方式的方法，它被认为是知识生产的参与性和变革性模式。本文综合了迄今为止在跨学科和保护背景下如何概念化和操作知识正义，介绍了一个在跨学科合作生产过程中理解和解决知识正义的框架。该框架为系统地反思如何沿着跨学科合作生产过程的不同维度接近认识正义提供了切入点。这种反思是必要的，以避免（重新）产生（现有的）不公正，并解决当前知识生产系统中的正义作为变革的深层杠杆。

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Emerging circular economy practices, environmental health risks, and the “tailings paradox” in Africa’s artisanal and small-scale mining: Evidence from Ghana 新兴循环经济实践、环境健康风险以及非洲手工和小规模采矿中的“尾矿悖论”：来自加纳的证据

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104305

Francis Arthur-Holmes, Diego A. Vazquez-Brust

This paper examines the dynamics of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) within the context of circular economy (CE) practices in Africa, with a focus on informal gold mining in Ghana. Utilising a case study approach and thematic analysis of qualitative data collected through 50 interviews and field/participant observations spanning from 2019 to 2023, the research uncovers diverse CE practices within the ASM sector and their impacts on rural communities and the natural environment. Based on our findings, CE practices in ASM include sorting waste rocks, recycling tailings, and reprocessing tailings. Applying the paradox knot framework for our study, the findings reveal a “Tailings paradox”, wherein the recycling of mine waste from ASM operations presents intertwined socio-economic opportunities and environmental and health challenges. We thus developed a Tailings Paradox Framework to explain how the “Tailing paradox” can be addressed through a dialectical process of paradox reduction—made up of a regulative system involving regulations, laws and policies, norms, collaborative governance structures, community-led monitoring, adoption of mercury-free technologies, and hybrid governance models —in a bid to formalise informal CE practices associated with mine tailings from ASM operations. Critical discussions from our framework reveal that interventions aimed at addressing environmental and health impacts may inadvertently limit access to economic and social benefits for the most disadvantaged individuals in rural communities. The findings underscore the importance of integrating CE principles into ASM operations to mitigate environmental degradation and promote sustainable development, while also emphasising the need for paradox-oriented collaborative governance approaches.

本文考察了非洲循环经济（CE）实践背景下的手工和小规模采矿（ASM）的动态，重点是加纳的非正式金矿开采。该研究采用案例研究方法，对2019年至2023年期间50次访谈和实地/参与者观察收集的定性数据进行专题分析，揭示了ASM部门的各种环保实践及其对农村社区和自然环境的影响。根据我们的研究结果，ASM的环保实践包括分类废石、回收尾矿和再加工尾矿。将悖论结框架应用到我们的研究中，研究结果揭示了一个“尾矿悖论”，其中ASM操作的矿山废物回收带来了交织在一起的社会经济机遇和环境与健康挑战。因此，我们开发了一个尾矿悖论框架，以解释如何通过悖论减少的辩证过程来解决“尾矿悖论”——由涉及法规、法律和政策、规范、协作治理结构、社区主导的监测、采用无汞技术和混合治理模型的监管系统组成——以使与ASM操作的矿山尾矿相关的非正式环保实践正规化。我们框架中的关键讨论表明，旨在解决环境和健康影响的干预措施可能会无意中限制农村社区最弱势个人获得经济和社会效益的机会。研究结果强调了将环境保护原则整合到ASM操作中以减轻环境退化和促进可持续发展的重要性，同时也强调了采用矛盾导向的协作治理方法的必要性。

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Associating climate change mitigation with protein security: The case of Ireland 将减缓气候变化与蛋白质安全联系起来：爱尔兰的案例

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104311

Marie Merlo , Cathal Buckley , Thia Hennessy , James A. O’Mahony

Meeting the world’s growing population’s protein demand, while minimising the environmental impact of food production, is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Livestock production systems are facing challenges regarding their environmental impact, while cropping systems are seen as more environmentally friendly protein sources. This dichotomy is observed in environmental policies. While the contribution of protein production to climate change must be reduced, the nutritional impact for a growing world population and the economic impact for farmers must be considered in policy developments. Protein security is defined as the number of individuals having their protein requirements met daily. This paper evaluates the net contribution, i.e., considering human edible inputs and outputs involved in the production process, of animal- and plant-based products, to protein output and security for the Republic of Ireland. The effects of environmental policies on this contribution are also analysed. Milk and arable production contribute more to net protein security than beef or sheep meat production. Overall, the Irish protein sector can meet the protein requirements of ca. 20 million people annually, 35 million people if digestibility is considered. While both Scenarios investigated would lead to a reduction in GHG emissions, a Business-as-Usual Scenario would lead to a decrease in gross margin but to an increase in protein output and security. A Climate Policy Scenario would lead to an increase in net protein output, but net digestible protein output would decrease due to beef protein being substituted for plant-based protein sources with a lower digestibility.

在满足世界人口不断增长的蛋白质需求的同时，尽量减少粮食生产对环境的影响，是我们这个时代面临的最大挑战之一。畜牧业生产系统正面临着环境影响方面的挑战，而种植系统则被视为更环保的蛋白质来源。这种二分法体现在环境政策中。虽然必须减少蛋白质生产对气候变化的影响，但在制定政策时必须考虑到不断增长的世界人口对营养的影响以及对农民的经济影响。蛋白质安全被定义为每天满足其蛋白质需求的个体数量。本文评估了净贡献，即考虑到动物和植物产品在生产过程中涉及的人类食用投入和产出，对爱尔兰共和国的蛋白质产出和安全。还分析了环境政策对这一贡献的影响。牛奶和耕地生产比牛肉或羊肉生产对净蛋白质安全的贡献更大。总体而言，爱尔兰蛋白质部门每年可以满足约2000万人的蛋白质需求，如果考虑消化率，则为3500万人。虽然所调查的两种情景都将导致温室气体排放的减少，但一切照旧情景将导致毛利率下降，但会增加蛋白质产量和安全性。气候政策情景将导致净蛋白质产量增加，但净可消化蛋白质产量将减少，因为牛肉蛋白质被消化率较低的植物性蛋白质来源所取代。

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Enabling system-level trust: Polycentric governance for complex, many-scaled environmental problems 启用系统级信任：针对复杂、多尺度环境问题的多中心治理

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104302

Paul D. Hirsch , Bryan G. Norton

Three forms of trust are contrasted: personal level trust (PLT), aggregated personal trust (APLT) and system-level trust (SLT). PLT and APLT are generally developed through face-to-face and other forms of direct relationships among participants in environmental governance. PLT and APLT, while unquestionably helpful and important in addressing environmental issues and policies, have proved insufficient to generate agreement and action in the face of today’s complex multi-scaled problems. These problems often affect larger populations, many numbers of which have no direct relationships with other stakeholders. Consequently, efforts at environmental governance in these cases often lack the support of appropriate levels of trust. It is shown that SLT cannot be built from either PLT or APLT; it requires delving into characteristics of the negotiating groups, themselves. Such groups are likely to find some success if: (1) they share a sense of place; (2) they acknowledge the importance of complexity in their work, and (3) they are focused on a shared problem or nest of problems. The concept of system-level trust is tested by application to collective actions in protecting common pool resources within multi-scaled systems incorporating polycentric governance.

本文对比了三种形式的信任：个人层面信任（PLT）、聚合个人信任（APLT）和系统层面信任（SLT）。PLT和applt一般是通过环境治理参与者之间面对面或其他形式的直接关系发展起来的。PLT和applt虽然在解决环境问题和政策方面毫无疑问是有帮助和重要的，但面对当今复杂的多尺度问题，它们已被证明不足以产生协议和行动。这些问题往往影响更大的人群，其中许多人与其他利益相关者没有直接关系。因此，在这些情况下，环境治理的努力往往缺乏适当程度的信任的支持。结果表明，SLT不能由PLT或APLT构建；这需要深入研究谈判小组本身的特点。如果：(1)他们有共同的地方感；(2)他们认识到复杂性在工作中的重要性，(3)他们专注于一个共同的问题或一系列问题。通过将系统级信任的概念应用于包含多中心治理的多尺度系统中保护公共池资源的集体行动，对系统级信任的概念进行了测试。

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Socioecological transitions that transcend hegemony: From co-optation to resistance regarding Buen Vivir in Ecuador 超越霸权的社会生态转型：从合作到抵制厄瓜多尔的Buen Vivir

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104320

César Carranza-Barona , Unai Villalba-Eguiluz

The article analyses Buen Vivir (BV) in Ecuador as an alternative proposal for socioecological transitions in counterhegemonic terms with respect to development. First, we set out the alternative potential of BV based on four dimensions proposed by Valencia-Hamilton and Ramcilovic-Suominen (2023) and Ramcilovic-Suominen (2023): transcending human/nature dualism; the logics of need satisfaction; autonomy and decentralisation of power; and onto-epistemic diversity. Second, we examine the way the governmentalisation of BV in Ecuador resulted in its co-optation and instrumentalization, thus limiting or neutralising its potential for radical socioecological transition. Finally, we show how the radical transformative capacity of BV is maintained and operates in the concrete experiences of social movements and organisations that have a resistance character. To this end, we present the case of a consumers’ organisation based on the Social and Solidarity Economy: the Sur-Siendo cooperative.

本文分析了厄瓜多尔的美好生活（BV）作为社会生态转型的替代方案，以反霸权的方式发展。首先，我们基于valenia - hamilton和Ramcilovic-Suominen（2023）和Ramcilovic-Suominen（2023）提出的四个维度，阐述了BV的替代潜力：超越人/自然二元论；需求满足的逻辑；自治和权力分散；认知多样性。其次，我们考察了厄瓜多尔BV的政府化导致其合作和工具化的方式，从而限制或中和了其激进的社会生态转型的潜力。最后，我们展示了BV的激进变革能力是如何在具有抵抗特征的社会运动和组织的具体经验中维持和运作的。为此，我们提出了一个基于社会和团结经济的消费者组织的案例：Sur-Siendo合作社。

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Whose doctrine, whose priority?: On the troublesome legal interpretation of the Aboriginal right to fish by Canadian courts 谁的学说，谁的优先权？：关于加拿大法院对土著人捕鱼权的棘手的法律解释

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104294

Erika Ruth Gavenus , Rachelle Beveridge , Iris Siwallace Skw'asmana , Terre Satterfield

Few policies are more important to Indigenous Peoples living along the coast of so-called British Columbia than those that govern how and when fishing occurs, and by whom. The Doctrine of Priority underlies these policies, defining the ordered priority for fisheries management as: 1. conservation, 2. the constitutional right to fish held by Indigenous Peoples, and 3. commercial and sport fishing. Indigenous Peoples have, however, expressed frustration with fisheries management decisions that contradict the spirit of the Doctrine by jeopardizing the availability of sufficient fish to support the actualisation of their rights. Through a document analysis of 271 reasons for judgements from 196 legal cases, we trace how the Canadian courts have characterized the rights of Indigenous Peoples recognized and affirmed by Section 35 of the Constitution, including the right to fish. Informed by principles of social justice and Indigenous laws, we analyse five potential characterizations of the right to fish: activity, abundance, allocation, amount, and authority. Based on the reviewed case law, we find that the applicability of the Doctrine of Priority in contexts of uncertain resource abundance and ongoing reconciliation is far from a settled matter and one that is likely to remain unresolved if guidance is only sought from the Canadian courts. Instead, Indigenous Peoples working to ensure access to fish to support their communities are enacting their right to fish in meaningful and diverse ways –innovations key to understandings of the Doctrine of Priority and the pursuit of just fisheries.

对于居住在所谓的不列颠哥伦比亚省沿岸的土著居民来说，没有什么政策比这些政策更重要了，这些政策规定了捕鱼的方式、时间和对象。优先原则是这些政策的基础，它将渔业管理的先后优先次序定义为：保护,2。2 .土著人民的宪法捕鱼权；商业和运动钓鱼。然而，土著人民对渔业管理的决定表示失望，因为这些决定违背了《原则》的精神，损害了获得足够的鱼类来支持实现其权利。通过对196个法律案件的271个判决理由的文件分析，我们追溯了加拿大法院如何描述《宪法》第35条承认和肯定的土著人民的权利，包括捕鱼权。根据社会正义原则和土著法律，我们分析了捕鱼权的五个潜在特征：活动、丰度、分配、数量和权威。根据所审查的判例法，我们发现优先权原则在资源不确定丰富度和正在进行的和解背景下的适用性远远不是一个解决的问题，如果只从加拿大法院寻求指导，这个问题可能仍未解决。相反，土著人民正在努力确保获得鱼类资源以支持他们的社区，他们正在以有意义和多样化的方式颁布他们的捕鱼权利——这是理解优先原则和追求公正渔业的关键创新。

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Transdisciplinarity in water management: A systematic review of concepts, practices, and challenges 水管理的跨学科性：对概念、实践和挑战的系统回顾

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104317

Ana Paula de Carvalho Silva , Margarida Ribau Teixeira , Luís Miguel Nunes

Transdisciplinarity has become a central paradigm for addressing complex socio-environmental challenges that transcend disciplinary and institutional boundaries. This article revisits the concept from the perspective of water resources management, questioning whether its increasing application has achieved the depth and transformative potential originally envisioned. A systematic review and bibliometric analysis were conducted to examine how transdisciplinarity has been conceptualized and operationalized across 61 international initiatives covering multiple governance scales and institutional contexts. The findings reveal that, although transdisciplinarity is now widely recognized in scientific and policy agendas, its implementation often remains rhetorical or fragmented. Persistent barriers include limited knowledge co-production, asymmetry between scientific and local expertise, and weak participatory mechanisms. Nonetheless, promising experiences demonstrate that when communities are engaged as co-authors of decisions, water governance becomes more legitimate, adaptive, and sustainable. By integrating empirical evidence with conceptual reflection, this study advances understanding of how ethical and methodological co-production can move transdisciplinarity from a normative paradigm toward an actionable framework for water governance.

跨学科已经成为解决超越学科和制度界限的复杂社会环境挑战的核心范式。本文从水资源管理的角度重新审视了这一概念，质疑其日益增加的应用是否达到了最初设想的深度和变革潜力。通过系统回顾和文献计量分析，研究了涵盖多种治理尺度和制度背景的61项国际倡议如何概念化和运作跨学科性。研究结果表明，尽管跨学科现在在科学和政策议程中得到广泛认可，但其实施往往仍然是口头上的或支离破碎的。持续存在的障碍包括有限的知识合作生产、科学和地方专业知识之间的不对称以及薄弱的参与机制。尽管如此，有希望的经验表明，当社区作为决策的共同作者参与时，水治理变得更加合法、适应性和可持续性。通过将经验证据与概念反思相结合，本研究促进了对伦理和方法合作生产如何将跨学科从规范范式转向可操作的水治理框架的理解。

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Integrating more-than-human approaches in urban planning pedagogy: A case study from Europe 在城市规划教学中整合超越人类的方法：来自欧洲的案例研究

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104321

Susa Eräranta , Adrianna Czarnecka , Monika Piotrkowska , Jonne Hytönen

Despite decades of sustainability efforts, urban planning often leads to environmental degradation. This paper questions the anthropocentric assumptions in planning education and advocates for integrating nonhuman perspectives through a more-than-human approach. To embrace the intrinsic value and agency of all actors, the paper approaches more-than-human planning education through three stages: recognition, inclusion, and co-flourishing. As traditional planning curricula prioritize human needs, overlooking the interconnectedness of all life, the paper provides already existing examples of more-than-human planning education by reflecting on the experiences of students and course staff on two Master's level studio courses at Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) and Aalto University (Finland) to learn from the potential of more-than-human education. These courses aimed to strengthen planners' roles in sustainability transformations by recognizing the agency and intrinsic value of nonhumans. The findings suggest that the core aim of planning from a more-than-human perspective is in protecting the planet’s life-supporting systems – not only in protecting individual humans, plants, or animals. This requires a shift from individually focused thinking towards more holistic systemic approaches. Based on this, the paper initiates a discussion on the need for a paradigm shift in planning education to embrace more-than-human perspectives.

尽管几十年的可持续发展努力，城市规划往往导致环境退化。本文质疑规划教育中的人类中心假设，并主张通过超越人类的方法整合非人类的观点。为了拥抱所有参与者的内在价值和能动性，本文通过三个阶段来探讨超越人类的规划教育：承认、包容和共同繁荣。由于传统的规划课程优先考虑人的需求，忽视了所有生活的相互联系，本文通过反思华沙理工大学（波兰）和阿尔托大学（芬兰）的两门硕士水平工作室课程的学生和课程人员的经验，提供了已经存在的超越人类的规划教育的例子，以了解超越人类教育的潜力。这些课程旨在通过认识非人类的能动性和内在价值，加强规划师在可持续性转型中的作用。研究结果表明，从超越人类的角度进行规划的核心目标是保护地球的生命支持系统，而不仅仅是保护个体人类、植物或动物。这需要从个人关注的思维转向更全面的系统方法。在此基础上，本文提出了规划教育范式转变的必要性，以拥抱超越人类的视角。

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