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Evaluating global carbon neutrality commitments: An integrated assessment model approach to the 2°C target 评估全球碳中和承诺：2°C目标的综合评估模型方法

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Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104280

Dowon Kim , Wonbeen Park , Taeyoung Jin

This study analyzes the impact of carbon-neutral policies on the global climate and economy using a RICE-2010 model, reflecting climate actions of 184 countries. We investigate scenarios including business-as-usual, nationally determined contributions (NDCs), net zero emissions, and 1.5°C compliance. Our findings show that current emission reduction targets, while significant, fall short of limiting global temperature rise to 2°C by 2300, resulting in a projected warming of approximately 2.48°C, or about 0.48°C above the 2°C target. The analysis reveals that an additional 5 GtCO2e reduction is needed by 2030 to align with the 2°C pathway, with major emitters like China, the US, and India requiring the largest additional efforts. The study highlights that climate change impacts and resilience vary based on the timing and degree of emission reductions. Importantly, the costs and difficulties of achieving carbon neutrality differ among countries, potentially leading to free-rider issues. To address this, we emphasize the need for stricter, cooperative global governance on carbon neutrality. While current policies represent substantial progress, enhanced international cooperation and more ambitious targets are crucial to fully achieve the 2°C goal. This study provides insights for policymakers on the scale of necessary adjustments and the importance of equitable burden-sharing in global climate action.

本研究利用RICE-2010模型分析了碳中和政策对全球气候和经济的影响，反映了184个国家的气候行动。我们研究了包括一切照旧、国家自主贡献（NDCs）、净零排放和1.5°C合规在内的情景。我们的研究结果表明，目前的减排目标虽然重要，但无法在2300年前将全球气温上升限制在2°C以内，这将导致预计升温约2.48°C，或比2°C目标高出约0.48°C。分析显示，到2030年，要达到2°C的目标，还需要再减少5亿吨二氧化碳当量，中国、美国和印度等主要排放国需要做出最大的额外努力。该研究强调，气候变化的影响和恢复能力因减排的时间和程度而异。重要的是，实现碳中和的成本和难度因国家而异，这可能导致搭便车的问题。为此，我们强调有必要就碳中和问题建立更严格、更具合作性的全球治理。虽然目前的政策取得了实质性进展，但加强国际合作和制定更雄心勃勃的目标对于全面实现2°C目标至关重要。这项研究为政策制定者提供了关于必要调整规模和全球气候行动中公平负担分担重要性的见解。

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The unintentional role of chemical regulation in regrettable substitution: The case of PFAS 化学法规在令人遗憾的替代中的无意作用：PFAS的案例

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104275

Olasunkanmi Dosunmu , Rob Whiting , Avtar Matharu , Nigel Watson , Andrew J. Sweetman

As we approach a century since their discovery, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have become integral in various applications, from medical devices and electronics to home and personal care products, due to their unique properties. However, PFAS are now recognised for their persistence, bioaccumulation, toxicity, and mobility (PBTM), posing significant risks to human health, and the environment. Regulating complex chemicals has historically been challenging, which is exemplified with the case of PFAS and the regrettable substitutions of one PFAS with another. As a response to changing regulations, the chemical industry has introduced a plethora of replacement substances, often with shorter chains, which are still persistent and mobile. We highlight the inadequacies in regulatory responses to global spread of PFAS, revealing an unintentional role that the approach to chemical management can create in regrettable substitution. To improve chemical regulation, we propose evaluating substances prior to issuance of registration numbers, comprehensive evaluation of policy impacts, such as the universal PFAS restriction, the need to harmonise the fragmented regulatory frameworks and encourage integration and communication both nationally and globally.

在发现全氟烷基和多氟烷基物质（PFAS）近一个世纪以来，由于其独特的性能，PFAS已成为从医疗设备和电子产品到家庭和个人护理产品等各种应用中不可或缺的一部分。然而，目前人们认识到PFAS具有持久性、生物蓄积性、毒性和流动性（PBTM），对人类健康和环境构成重大风险。从历史上看，管理复杂化学品一直是一项挑战，PFAS的案例以及令人遗憾的一种PFAS被另一种PFAS取代就是例证。为了应对不断变化的法规，化学工业引入了大量的替代物质，这些物质通常具有较短的链，但仍然具有持久性和流动性。我们强调了对PFAS全球蔓延的监管反应的不足，揭示了化学品管理方法可能在令人遗憾的替代中产生的无意作用。为了改善化学品监管，我们建议在发布注册号之前对物质进行评估，全面评估政策影响，例如普遍的PFAS限制，协调分散的监管框架的必要性，并鼓励国家和全球的整合和沟通。

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Transforming climate change adaptation in South Africa: Addressing leadership, governance, and community vulnerability through inclusive strategies and effective leadership 转型南非气候变化适应：通过包容性战略和有效领导解决领导力、治理和社区脆弱性问题

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104274

Richard Kwame Adom, Takalani Malivhadza, Mulala Danny Simatele

The climate change adaptation framework in South Africa encapsulates multi-layered and dimensional strategies encompassing policies, stakeholder engagements, institutional capacity building, resource allocation, research and knowledge sharing. The framework integrates localised planning, resistant infrastructure development, conservation strategies, disaster mitigation, technological innovation and resilient infrastructure. Despite this well-thought-out framework, the adaptation measures do not address the vulnerabilities of risk communities. Using a mixed-method of qualitative and quantitative approach this paper explores the influence of leadership styles in South Africa’s climate change adaptation process, identifies gaps in leadership, structural and institutional barriers hindering the implementation of framework, and explores alternative strategies to enhance its effective execution. The findings established that climate change adaptation frameworks in South Africa face significant weaknesses that include fragmented leadership across government levels, weak accountability mechanisms, constrained capacity and expertise, inadequate community involvement, insufficient funding, a short-term focus, bureaucratic delays, and poor integration of science into policy. This paper suggests that enhancing the implementation of the framework will require a multifaceted and concerted strategy that incorporates various stakeholders, strong political will and commitments, effective governance structures, and capacity building.

南非的气候变化适应框架包含了包括政策、利益相关者参与、机构能力建设、资源分配、研究和知识共享在内的多层和多维战略。该框架整合了地方规划、抗灾基础设施发展、保护战略、减灾、技术创新和抗灾基础设施。尽管有这个经过深思熟虑的框架，但适应措施并没有解决风险社区的脆弱性。本文采用定性和定量方法的混合方法，探讨了领导风格对南非气候变化适应过程的影响，确定了阻碍框架实施的领导差距、结构和体制障碍，并探讨了提高框架有效执行的替代战略。研究结果表明，南非的气候变化适应框架面临着显著的弱点，包括各级政府的领导分散、问责机制薄弱、能力和专业知识有限、社区参与不足、资金不足、短期关注、官僚主义拖延以及科学与政策的整合不足。本文建议，加强框架的实施将需要一个多方面和协调一致的战略，包括各种利益相关者、强烈的政治意愿和承诺、有效的治理结构和能力建设。

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Bridging the pathways of industrial and urban sustainability: A perspective for mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions into Industrial Parks 弥合工业和城市可持续发展的道路：将基于自然的解决方案主流化到工业园区的视角

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104278

Elena Di Pirro , Maria Rosaria Sessa , Jia-He Zhou , Francesco Sica

Industrial and urban areas are known for generating significant environmental and social impacts. While Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) have gained widespread adoption in urban areas to address these challenges, their integration in active industrial zones has been limited. NBS have primarily been applied in post-industrial contexts, but they hold the potential to be similarly utilized in industrial areas to address comparable sustainability challenges, such as pollution reduction, resource efficiency, and climate resilience. This perspective paper presents a viewpoint on the potential incorporation of NBS inside industrial areas to promote eco-innovative systems, particularly Eco-Industrial Parks (EIPs). To better contextualize the possible NBS mainstreaming in industrial areas for the advancement of more nature-positive frameworks, an overview of the main industrial and urban sustainability policies has been offered, followed by a brief literature review assessing the inclusion of NBS and related concepts within current industrial areas. Finally, a perspective is proposed as a framework to highlight NBS contribution for enhancing industrial sustainability by reducing environmental impacts, improving resource efficiency, and fostering biodiversity restoration. Particularly, within industrial areas already facing sustainability processes (e.g., EIPs), NBS projects can trigger public-private partnerships to achieve shared goals. By doing so, industries can contribute to a net-zero and nature-positive future, aligning with broader environmental and social objectives. Future research should focus on fostering collaboration and expanding NBS adoption in industrial contexts.

众所周知，工业和城市地区会产生重大的环境和社会影响。虽然基于自然的解决方案（NBS）已在城市地区得到广泛采用，以应对这些挑战，但它们在活跃工业区的整合受到限制。国家统计局主要在后工业背景下应用，但它们也有潜力在工业领域得到类似的利用，以应对类似的可持续性挑战，如减少污染、资源效率和气候适应能力。本文提出了在工业区内引入国家统计局以促进生态创新系统，特别是生态工业园区（eip）的观点。为了更好地将国家统计局在工业领域的主流化置于更有利于自然的框架中，本文概述了主要的工业和城市可持续性政策，然后简要回顾了国家统计局和相关概念在当前工业领域的应用情况。最后，提出了一个视角框架，以突出国家统计局通过减少环境影响、提高资源效率和促进生物多样性恢复来增强工业可持续性的贡献。特别是，在已经面临可持续发展进程的工业地区（例如EIPs），国家统计局项目可以触发公私伙伴关系，以实现共同目标。通过这样做，工业可以为零净和自然积极的未来做出贡献，与更广泛的环境和社会目标保持一致。未来的研究应侧重于促进合作和扩大NBS在工业背景下的采用。

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(De)constructing meanings and pathways of water and peace （德）构建水与和平的意义和路径

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-11-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104270

Laura Turley , Christian Bréthaut , Sumit Vij , Quentin Parent , Aline Wambüi Stüdeli , Irene Fiammetta Muscas

Water as an entry point for peace is increasingly highlighted in global policy discourse; however, the scientific evidence supporting this connection has not been systematically established or explored, in contrast to the extensive literature on water and conflict. This systematic review examines the literature on the relationship between water and peace from 2015 to 2022, utilizing the ROSES methodology for systematic reviews. Our findings indicate that while conceptual advances and empirical evidence demonstrate that water can serve as a vector for broader peace, this knowledge is dispersed across various epistemic communities, hindering the systematic accumulation of insights. To address this fragmentation, we unpack the different meanings of and linkages between water and peace and identify seven water-to-peace ‘pathways’ from an inductive analysis of the literature. We propose that the pathways can provide structure and shared language for future research on water and peace, aimed at fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and enhancing understanding of this critical relationship.

水作为和平的切入点在全球政策论述中日益受到重视；然而，与大量关于水和冲突的文献相比，支持这种联系的科学证据尚未得到系统的确立或探索。本系统综述利用ROSES方法对2015年至2022年期间有关水与和平关系的文献进行了系统综述。我们的研究结果表明，虽然概念上的进步和经验证据表明，水可以作为更广泛和平的载体，但这种知识分散在不同的认知群体中，阻碍了见解的系统积累。为了解决这一问题，我们对水与和平的不同含义和联系进行了解读，并通过对文献的归纳分析，确定了七条从水到和平的“途径”。我们建议，这些途径可以为未来的水与和平研究提供结构和共同语言，旨在促进跨学科合作，增进对这一关键关系的理解。

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The impact of municipal leadership tenure stability on low-carbon transition of urban economies in China 城市领导任期稳定性对中国城市经济低碳转型的影响

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104271

Xuerong Zhang , Zhe Liu

Against the backdrop of global climate urgency and China’s “dual carbon” goals, this study investigates how municipal leadership tenure stability shapes low-carbon transition of urban economies (LCTUE). In this study, a network SBM model was employed to deconstruct LCTUE into three systems: low-carbon production (ULP), consumption (ULC), and recycling (ULR), and analyze the heterogeneous impacts of officials’ tenure on each system. In addition, an “externally driven and internally locked-in” theoretical framework was developed under political promotion incentives to understand the mechanisms of impacts. Key findings reveal: (1) Extended tenure of municipal leaders significantly enhances overall low-carbon economic transition (UELT), yet effects vary by role and phase. While mayors’ prolonged tenure consistently improves ULP, party secretaries exhibit an inverted U-shaped relationship with ULP efficiency peaks in early tenure but declines after five years. Neither role demonstrates significant impacts on ULC or ULR. (2) External drivers amplify tenure effects: political promotion incentives strengthen UELT and ULP through intergovernmental yardstick competition, while public scrutiny enhances mayors’ contributions to UELT, ULP, and ULC. Target responsibility assessments improve ULR performance under promotion pressures, though mayors show greater sensitivity. (3) Internal constraints emerge: party secretaries exceeding double the average tenure experience diminishing marginal effects on UELT, ULP, and ULC, whereas mayors face no such penalties. Leaders nearing retirement age display reduced LCTUE incentives. These findings underscore the dual role of tenure stability as both catalyst and constraint, advocating for differentiated tenure management, incentive realignment, and institutional innovations to reconcile the paradox between China’s economic growth and climate governance.

在全球气候紧迫和中国“双碳”目标的背景下，本研究探讨了城市领导任期稳定性如何影响城市经济的低碳转型。本文采用网络SBM模型，将城市低碳经济分解为低碳生产（ULP）、低碳消费（ULC）和低碳回收（ULR）三个系统，并分析了官员任期对各系统的异质性影响。此外，在政治晋升激励下，建立了“外部驱动和内部锁定”的理论框架来理解影响机制。主要研究结果表明：(1)城市领导任期延长显著促进了整体低碳经济转型，但影响因角色和阶段而异。虽然市长任期延长持续提高ULP，但市委书记与ULP效率表现出倒u型关系，在任期早期达到峰值，但在五年后下降。这两个角色对ULC或ULR都没有显著影响。(2)外部驱动因素放大了任期效应：政治晋升激励通过政府间尺度竞争加强了城市教学和城市规划，而公众监督则增强了市长对城市教学、城市规划和城市规划的贡献。在晋升压力下，目标责任评估可以提高ULR的绩效，但市长表现出更大的敏感性。(3)内部约束出现：党委书记的平均任期超过两倍，对UELT、ULP和ULC的边际效应会减弱，而市长则不会面临这样的惩罚。接近退休年龄的领导人表现出较少的ltue激励。这些研究结果强调了权属稳定作为催化剂和约束的双重作用，主张通过差别化的权属管理、激励机制调整和制度创新来调和中国经济增长与气候治理之间的矛盾。

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Toward global environmental scenarios for (and by) the ‘bottom billion’? “最底层十亿人”的全球环境设想？

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104268

Arthur Lauer, Luis Llases, Paola López-Muñoz

The current Global Environmental Scenario landscape lacks transformative socio-ecological world futures that provide pathways of liberation for the ‘bottom billion’. Drawing on decolonial thought, we develop a set of proposals for future scenario development. These proposals include participatory processes with subaltern population groups to facilitate scenario co-creation based on different ways of knowing the world; replacing fixed and ahistoric subjectivities driving global environmental and economic change with the agency of different social groups who might collectively be able to challenge the status quo of the world system; and creating visions and pathways that consistently address the colonial matrix of power by integrating decolonial environmental justice into scenario storylines. The outlined proposals pose significant challenges to conventional participatory and quantitative methods in the field of scenario research but also enable global environmental scenarios to better fulfill their potential of shaping social imaginaries towards emancipatory futures for all human beings.

当前的全球环境情景缺乏变革的社会生态世界未来，无法为“底层十亿人”提供解放的途径。根据非殖民化思想，我们提出了一套关于未来情景发展的建议。这些建议包括与下层人口群体进行参与性进程，以促进基于不同认识世界方式的情景共同创造；取代推动全球环境和经济变化的固定和非历史性的主体性，代之以可能集体挑战世界体系现状的不同社会群体的能动性；并通过将非殖民化的环境正义融入情景故事情节，创造始终如一地解决殖民权力矩阵的愿景和途径。概述的建议对情景研究领域的传统参与性和定量方法提出了重大挑战，但也使全球环境情景能够更好地发挥其塑造社会想象的潜力，朝着全人类解放的未来发展。

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Procedural justice in participatory food system governance: An integrated framework 参与式粮食系统治理中的程序正义：一个综合框架

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104269

Haley Parzonko , Roberta Sonnino , Lada Timotijevic

Stakeholder participation has been signalled as a fundamental goal for achieving more inclusive and procedurally just forms of food system governance within a landscape characterized by ‘democratic deficits’. However, a comprehensive understanding of what constitutes procedurally just spaces and processes in participatory food system governance remains limited. To begin to address this gap, we present results from a comprehensive review of the literature, which identifies three key underlying themes framing debates on the procedural justice dimension of participation in food system governance. The first dimension—participants— addresses the stakeholders included in participation and their roles, interests and applied recruitment and selection processes. The second dimension—structural design—captures three key organizational processes that structure participation, including the design of deliberation spaces, decision-making frameworks and agenda-setting processes. The third dimension—discourses—addresses the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of participation, encompassing framing, outputs and purposes of participation. Based on these findings, we propose an integrated framework that offers an innovative lens for examining procedural justice concerns within participatory contexts. Moving beyond simplistic inclusive/exclusive categorizations, the framework provides analytical tools to identify which specific mechanisms, practices and norms advance or undermine procedural justice in stakeholder participation. In doing so, this research offers a unique contribution to scholarly debates on more equitable and inclusive food system governance mechanisms. It also raises the need for greater scrutiny towards the micro-politics occurring in the everyday practices of participatory food system governance.

利益攸关方的参与已被视为在“民主赤字”的情况下实现更具包容性和程序公正的粮食系统治理形式的基本目标。然而，对参与式粮食系统治理中程序公正的空间和过程的全面理解仍然有限。为了开始解决这一差距，我们提出了对文献进行全面审查的结果，其中确定了三个关键的基本主题，这些主题构成了参与粮食系统治理的程序正义维度的辩论。第一个维度——参与者——涉及参与的利益相关者及其角色、兴趣和应用的招聘和选拔过程。第二个维度——结构设计——捕捉了组织参与的三个关键组织过程，包括审议空间、决策框架和议程设置过程的设计。第三个维度——话语——涉及参与的“是什么”和“为什么”，包括参与的框架、产出和目的。基于这些发现，我们提出了一个综合框架，为研究参与性背景下的程序正义问题提供了一个创新的视角。该框架超越了简单的包容性/排他性分类，提供了分析工具，以确定哪些具体机制、做法和规范促进或破坏了利益攸关方参与的程序正义。因此，本研究为关于更公平和包容的粮食系统治理机制的学术辩论提供了独特的贡献。它还提出了对参与式粮食系统治理日常实践中发生的微观政治进行更严格审查的必要性。

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Regrettable for whom? GenX chemicals as a case study in detrimental chemical substitution 为谁感到遗憾？GenX化学品作为有害化学替代的案例研究

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104262

Alissa Cordner , Anna Allgeyer , Lindsay A. Tallon , Phil Brown

Numerous examples exist of widely-used chemicals with known or suspected health and environmental risks being replaced with chemicals with uncertain, unknown, or different hazards. This process where one harmful chemical is replaced by another is often referred to as “regrettable substitution,” suggesting an unfortunate but unintended outcome. Examining the case of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) used in fluoropolymer production, we conducted qualitative interviews and content analysis of newspaper articles, lawsuits, regulatory documents, advocacy websites, and chemical industry documents. We identify the structurally produced data gaps that facilitated years of toxic chemical emissions with little regulatory oversight or public knowledge. This harmful chemical substitution process results from structurally produced knowledge gaps related to three main factors: the capitalist growth imperative that incentivizes harmful corporate behavior, statutory limitations and loopholes, and self-imposed regulatory reticence. Rather than being regrettable, we argue that the substitution of GenX for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is a foreseeable product of structural factors, including corporate influence on science and regulation, that lead to favorable outcomes for industry to the detriment of the broader public. Avoiding this process of detrimental substitution requires vigorous implementation of laws and regulations that ensure greater transparency, accountability, and prioritization of public health.

有许多例子表明，广泛使用的具有已知或疑似健康和环境风险的化学品被具有不确定、未知或不同危害的化学品所取代。一种有害化学物质被另一种有害化学物质取代的过程通常被称为“令人遗憾的替代”，这意味着一个不幸但意想不到的结果。我们考察了全氟和多氟烷基物质（PFAS）在含氟聚合物生产中的使用情况，对报纸文章、诉讼、监管文件、倡导网站和化工行业文件进行了定性访谈和内容分析。我们确定了结构性产生的数据缺口，这些数据缺口导致有毒化学物质多年排放，却很少受到监管或公众了解。这种有害的化学替代过程源于与三个主要因素相关的结构性知识缺口：资本主义增长的必要性激励了有害的公司行为，法律限制和漏洞，以及自我强加的监管沉默。我们并不感到遗憾，而是认为，GenX取代全氟辛酸（PFOA）是结构性因素（包括企业对科学和监管的影响）的可预见的产物，这对工业产生了有利的结果，对更广泛的公众造成了损害。为了避免这种有害的替代过程，需要大力执行确保提高透明度、问责制和优先考虑公共卫生的法律和法规。

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Data in crisis: Mobility and fitness-for-Use in decentralized ecosystems 危机中的数据：去中心化生态系统中的移动性和适用性

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104267

Francesco Tonnarelli , Luca Mora

This study examines data mobility and fitness-for-use within decentralized data ecosystems in crisis contexts, using Somalia as a case study. Data practices are increasingly central to managing natural disasters, conflicts and the consequences of climate change, spanning short-term emergencies to long-term development and global sustainability. However, they face substantial challenges due to the dynamic and fragmented nature of data generation and storage, necessitating robust mechanisms for data sharing and reuse. The discussion has largely centered on the unspecified reuse of data globally, highlighting a significant gap in understanding the situatedness and contextuality of data for effective reuse and repurpose. By analyzing how data are processed, disseminated, and reused in various contexts across Somalia, we find that data's fitness-for-use is not an inherent quality but a dynamic status achieved through deliberate coordination and negotiation among actors. We identify a fundamental tension between vertical data aggregation, which sacrifices local detail for global comparability, and horizontal sharing, which is context-rich but prone to creating fragmentation. A strategy for decentralized but coordinated crisis data may lie not in greater standardization, but in fostering flexible interoperability frameworks and supporting the communities of practice in translating data across diverse institutional and methodological divides.

本研究以索马里为例，考察了危机背景下分散数据生态系统中的数据移动性和适用性。数据实践在管理自然灾害、冲突和气候变化后果方面日益发挥核心作用，从短期紧急情况到长期发展和全球可持续性。然而，由于数据生成和存储的动态性和碎片性，它们面临着巨大的挑战，需要强大的数据共享和重用机制。讨论主要集中在全球范围内未指定的数据重用上，突出了在理解数据的情境性和上下文性以实现有效重用和重新利用方面的重大差距。通过分析数据在索马里各地的各种情况下是如何处理、传播和再利用的，我们发现数据的适用性不是一种固有的质量，而是通过参与者之间的刻意协调和谈判实现的动态状态。我们确定了垂直数据聚合和水平共享之间的基本紧张关系，垂直数据聚合牺牲了局部细节以获得全局可比性，而水平共享是上下文丰富的，但容易产生碎片。分散但协调的危机数据的战略可能不在于更大程度的标准化，而在于促进灵活的互操作性框架，并支持实践社区跨越不同的机构和方法分歧转换数据。

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