Environmental Science & Policy最新文献

英文中文

Identifying leverage points for sustainable transitions in urban – rural systems: Application of graph theory to participatory causal loop diagramming

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103996

Anton Rozhkov , Moira Zellner , John T. Murphy , Dean Massey

Socio-ecological systems are vital for integrated urban and rural environments. Causal loop diagrams (CLDs) help identify system connections and future planning and policy interventions. This article applies graph theory to the assessment of a CLD of the Food – Energy – Water nexus in integrated urban – rural regions, drawn within a participatory modeling effort with domain experts. We applied well-known measures and developed a new method that considers the loop-based structure of the system. The loop-based structure complements well-established node- and network-based metrics by identifying hidden leverage points that may play a crucial role in disseminating systemic change. Our multi-method approach allows us to identify the most transformative lever points, distinguishing between initiators (e.g., non-commodity local food products, urbanization, and local budgets) from reinforcers of change capable of cementing these transitions by bridging across the system (e.g., climate activism, recreational space, and water pollution). Our analysis confirms some insights derived through the conversations shaping and shaped by the collaborative causal loop diagramming. With our approach, we also find that some policies, while popular in the literature and professional circles, may not be transformative due to their location within the interconnected system. Our approach thus strengthens the contribution of participatory CLD processes to complex problem-solving and policy design.

{"title":"Identifying leverage points for sustainable transitions in urban – rural systems: Application of graph theory to participatory causal loop diagramming","authors":"Anton Rozhkov , Moira Zellner , John T. Murphy , Dean Massey","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103996","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103996","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Socio-ecological systems are vital for integrated urban and rural environments. Causal loop diagrams (CLDs) help identify system connections and future planning and policy interventions. This article applies graph theory to the assessment of a CLD of the Food – Energy – Water nexus in integrated urban – rural regions, drawn within a participatory modeling effort with domain experts. We applied well-known measures and developed a new method that considers the loop-based structure of the system. The loop-based structure complements well-established node- and network-based metrics by identifying hidden leverage points that may play a crucial role in disseminating systemic change. Our multi-method approach allows us to identify the most transformative lever points, distinguishing between initiators (e.g., non-commodity local food products, urbanization, and local budgets) from reinforcers of change capable of cementing these transitions by bridging across the system (e.g., climate activism, recreational space, and water pollution). Our analysis confirms some insights derived through the conversations shaping and shaped by the collaborative causal loop diagramming. With our approach, we also find that some policies, while popular in the literature and professional circles, may not be transformative due to their location within the interconnected system. Our approach thus strengthens the contribution of participatory CLD processes to complex problem-solving and policy design.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 103996"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099366","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}

引用次数: 0

Climate change assemblies as spaces for the potential mitigation of climate policy misperceptions: A survey experiment

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103995

Jane Suiter , Kevin Saude , Brenda McNally

Climate action stands as one of the paramount challenges in contemporary society. A significant impediment lies in the prevalence of misperceptions, notably the dissemination of narratives that either endorse climate policy delay or outright climate denial, often perpetuated by vested interests. The World Economic Forum, recognising the gravity of this issue, has underscored” misinformation and disinformation” as the preeminent global risk in the coming biennium, while the UN IPCC has stated that rampant disinformation is delaying climate action. Significantly, misinformation has been linked to climate misperceptions, for example, the belief in technological utopianism, for example, that climate change policies are ineffective and technological solutions will fix the problem in the future, which normalises acceptance of the status quo despite the urgent need for transformative actions. Recent scholarly literature posits that deliberative forums, commonly referred to as mini-publics, can contribute to mitigating such misperceptions while ensuring democratic legitimacy (Muradova et al. 2023) by informing the public. This paper contributes to the special issue on how Climate Change Assemblies (CAs) can contribute to reflexive environmental governance and help societies address the climate emergency, by exploring how CAs perform for the mitigation of climate policy misperceptions. In particular, we focus on whether communication about the procedural, aspects of citizen assemblies to the broader public emerges as a critical component. We understand these mechanisms to be contingent upon complex institutional dynamics, including mechanisms integral to their functioning such as the roles of representation, competence, and voice within assemblies. This empirical inquiry is situated within the framework of a survey experiment conducted across five European countries with varying climate policy salience and emissions levels. We find for most people reading about a climate citizens’ assembly makes little difference. We do find some minimal effects for the wider citizenry in general related to voice, although there are larger effects for some more sceptical cohorts, particularly for representation.

{"title":"Climate change assemblies as spaces for the potential mitigation of climate policy misperceptions: A survey experiment","authors":"Jane Suiter , Kevin Saude , Brenda McNally","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103995","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103995","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate action stands as one of the paramount challenges in contemporary society. A significant impediment lies in the prevalence of misperceptions, notably the dissemination of narratives that either endorse climate policy delay or outright climate denial, often perpetuated by vested interests. The World Economic Forum, recognising the gravity of this issue, has underscored” misinformation and disinformation” as the preeminent global risk in the coming biennium, while the UN IPCC has stated that rampant disinformation is delaying climate action. Significantly, misinformation has been linked to climate misperceptions, for example, the belief in technological utopianism, for example, that climate change policies are ineffective and technological solutions will fix the problem in the future, which normalises acceptance of the status quo despite the urgent need for transformative actions. Recent scholarly literature posits that deliberative forums, commonly referred to as mini-publics, can contribute to mitigating such misperceptions while ensuring democratic legitimacy (Muradova <em>et al.</em> 2023) by informing the public. This paper contributes to the special issue on how Climate Change Assemblies (CAs) can contribute to reflexive environmental governance and help societies address the climate emergency, by exploring how CAs perform for the mitigation of climate policy misperceptions. In particular, we focus on whether communication about the procedural, aspects of citizen assemblies to the broader public emerges as a critical component. We understand these mechanisms to be contingent upon complex institutional dynamics, including mechanisms integral to their functioning such as the roles of representation, competence, and voice within assemblies. This empirical inquiry is situated within the framework of a survey experiment conducted across five European countries with varying climate policy salience and emissions levels. We find for most people reading about a climate citizens’ assembly makes little difference. We do find some minimal effects for the wider citizenry in general related to voice, although there are larger effects for some more sceptical cohorts, particularly for representation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 103995"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099372","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}

引用次数: 0

From framing to implementation: The experience of local sustainability administration in the US

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104003

Naomi Bick

Research on municipal sustainability and climate policy has grown substantially in recent years and has been shaped by the choices and efforts of local policymakers and administrators. Recent research has looked at the framing and language used by policymakers and city administrators as they draft and implement climate change policy. This project provides additional information about the evolution of climate change language in municipal government to understand how municipal actors conceptualize the work they do and the language they use. This project analyzes content from city plans along with elite interviews of municipal staff to capture the ways that communities tap into environmental policymaking and how their understanding of these ideas has changed over time. Relying on data from Western United States and Southern United States cities, this research examines the usage of the dialogues surrounding sustainability, climate mitigation and adaptation, and resilience by municipal governments. It demonstrates that there have been changes in how municipal governments think about different climate change concepts, as well as further insights about sustainability framing links to implementation efforts by municipalities.

{"title":"From framing to implementation: The experience of local sustainability administration in the US","authors":"Naomi Bick","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research on municipal sustainability and climate policy has grown substantially in recent years and has been shaped by the choices and efforts of local policymakers and administrators. Recent research has looked at the framing and language used by policymakers and city administrators as they draft and implement climate change policy. This project provides additional information about the evolution of climate change language in municipal government to understand how municipal actors conceptualize the work they do and the language they use. This project analyzes content from city plans along with elite interviews of municipal staff to capture the ways that communities tap into environmental policymaking and how their understanding of these ideas has changed over time. Relying on data from Western United States and Southern United States cities, this research examines the usage of the dialogues surrounding sustainability, climate mitigation and adaptation, and resilience by municipal governments. It demonstrates that there have been changes in how municipal governments think about different climate change concepts, as well as further insights about sustainability framing links to implementation efforts by municipalities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 104003"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099383","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}

引用次数: 0

Promises and perils of water sensitivity as a new hydro-social imaginary for Kozhikode, India

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103985

Raquel H. Silva , Geert J.M. van der Meulen , Margreet Z. Zwarteveen , Dominic Stead , Machiel J. van Dorst , Taneha K. Bacchin

Water-Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) proposes integrating the management of urban water cycles into urban planning and design as a strategy to better respond to water challenges in the urban environment. Proposed frameworks try capturing urban water sensitivity in terms of generic, transferable principles. In this article, we trace the water history of Kozhikode in India to make a plea for epistemic justice and context-specificity in the definition of water sensitivity, recognizing how the quality and direction of contemporary urban water flows are the outcome of particular – (post-)colonial, neo-liberal – histories. We mobilize insights from political ecology to do this. Concepts like waterscapes and hydro-social imaginaries help acknowledge that waters and cities co-evolve to create often highly uneven waterscapes. This usefully denaturalizes and thereby politicizes urban water sensitivity, giving much-needed prominence to the ‘who’ questions: who will benefit (most), and who will stand to lose? For Kozhikode, with its fishing enclaves, sacred groves, ponds, and a colonial canal crossing its coastal plain, treating water sensitivity as a mere techno-managerial question risks reinforcing middle-class dominance and aspirations, while also provoking ecological decay.

{"title":"Promises and perils of water sensitivity as a new hydro-social imaginary for Kozhikode, India","authors":"Raquel H. Silva , Geert J.M. van der Meulen , Margreet Z. Zwarteveen , Dominic Stead , Machiel J. van Dorst , Taneha K. Bacchin","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103985","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103985","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Water-Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) proposes integrating the management of urban water cycles into urban planning and design as a strategy to better respond to water challenges in the urban environment. Proposed frameworks try capturing urban water sensitivity in terms of generic, transferable principles. In this article, we trace the water history of Kozhikode in India to make a plea for epistemic justice and context-specificity in the definition of water sensitivity, recognizing how the quality and direction of contemporary urban water flows are the outcome of particular – (post-)colonial, neo-liberal – histories. We mobilize insights from political ecology to do this. Concepts like waterscapes and hydro-social imaginaries help acknowledge that waters and cities co-evolve to create often highly uneven waterscapes. This usefully denaturalizes and thereby politicizes urban water sensitivity, giving much-needed prominence to the ‘who’ questions: who will benefit (most), and who will stand to lose? For Kozhikode, with its fishing enclaves, sacred groves, ponds, and a colonial canal crossing its coastal plain, treating water sensitivity as a mere techno-managerial question risks reinforcing middle-class dominance and aspirations, while also provoking ecological decay.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 103985"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099387","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}

引用次数: 0

Effective stakeholder engagement for decision-relevant research on food-energy-water systems

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103988

E.J. Trammell , J.L. Jones-Crank , P. Williams , M. Babbar-Sebens , V.H. Dale , A.M. Marshall , A.D. Kliskey

Given the integrated nature of food-energy-water systems (FEWS), stakeholder engagement is central to developing solution-oriented projects. However, effective engagement requires substantial time and resources, by both the organization conducting the project and the stakeholders themselves, making effective engagement challenging for many projects. To help teams prioritize, prepare, and sustain stakeholder-engaged environmental projects, we propose a methodological foundation for effective engagement based on six gears: diversity, listening, value, trust, accountability, and flexibility/adaptability. The application of these gears is demonstrated using a set of case studies in Arizona, Idaho, Mexico, and Guatemala. In practice, incorporating all the gears during stakeholder engagement can be challenging. This framework can help teams implement and foster more sustained, comprehensive, robust, actionable, equitable, inclusive, and timely engagement, processes, and outcomes.

引用次数: 0

A stakeholder analysis based on project managers’ perceptions: Unlocking transformative potential in Natura 2000 projects

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104011

Ruxandra Malina Petrescu-Mag , Kinga-Olga Reti , Tibor Hartel , Alexandru Sabin Bădărău , Vlad Măcicăşan , Dacinia Crina Petrescu

Divergent values and interests among stakeholders lead to conflicts during the implementation of biodiversity projects. The present study reveals the perception of project managers about stakeholders’ needs, interests, positions, attitudes, and power that ultimately shape the relationships between these actors within Natura 2000 projects in Romania. Analyzing three selected projects, the research explores the existence of transformative change premises in terms of integrative, capability-responsiveness, and power equilibrium features. The thematic analysis of the interviews revealed a conflict network between stakeholders that poses a threat to the integrative attribute. “Academia” was found to be capable of fulfilling a mediator role, emphasizing the need for neutral entities in conflict resolution. Stakeholders segregate based on interests – those prioritizing economic functions show less concern for biodiversity. The need to use inclusive language in Natura 2000 projects was pointed out to prevent power imbalances and enhance overall inclusiveness. The study advocates for a project-specific approach to stakeholder analysis, thus avoiding the one-size-fits-all model.

{"title":"A stakeholder analysis based on project managers’ perceptions: Unlocking transformative potential in Natura 2000 projects","authors":"Ruxandra Malina Petrescu-Mag , Kinga-Olga Reti , Tibor Hartel , Alexandru Sabin Bădărău , Vlad Măcicăşan , Dacinia Crina Petrescu","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Divergent values and interests among stakeholders lead to conflicts during the implementation of biodiversity projects. The present study reveals the perception of project managers about stakeholders’ needs, interests, positions, attitudes, and power that ultimately shape the relationships between these actors within Natura 2000 projects in Romania. Analyzing three selected projects, the research explores the existence of transformative change premises in terms of integrative, capability-responsiveness, and power equilibrium features. The thematic analysis of the interviews revealed a conflict network between stakeholders that poses a threat to the integrative attribute. “Academia” was found to be capable of fulfilling a mediator role, emphasizing the need for neutral entities in conflict resolution. Stakeholders segregate based on interests – those prioritizing economic functions show less concern for biodiversity. The need to use inclusive language in Natura 2000 projects was pointed out to prevent power imbalances and enhance overall inclusiveness. The study advocates for a project-specific approach to stakeholder analysis, thus avoiding the one-size-fits-all model.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 104011"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099471","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}

引用次数: 0

Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104002

Kristin L. Olofsson , Jared B. Fitzgerald , Md Belal Hossain

This study engages sustainability thinking to better understand challenges faced by communities in the United States. Sustainability thinking recognizes that communities are complex systems in which economic development, social equity, and ecological integrity form the basis of resiliency, and those drivers should inform policymaking. To that end, this study develops a whole community sustainability (WCS) index that relies on complexity as a strength of the measure. Taking inspiration from the framework approach of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the authors identify 16 unique measures that capture different aspects of community sustainability. Using data from 2010 to 2014, each component of the index is calibrated using techniques from Qualitative Comparative Analysis and then combined to yield a robust index that can be compared across and within space and over time. After constructing the measure, we apply to the case of Oklahoma and find that rural Oklahoma counties outperformed urban counties on WCS during the time period. However, there is higher variability among rural communities relative to non-rural counties in Oklahoma for the overall index and its subcomponents, as both the highest and lowest performing counties are rural. Further analysis indicates that there are racial and class differences in counties that perform well compared to those that perform poorly. This study contributes to literature on sustainability and rural development by creating a replicable model that highlights the importance of a whole community approach. By recognizing the complexities that feed into the characterization of communities, policymakers and community leaders could utilize the WCS index to develop stronger approaches to community sustainability.

{"title":"Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach","authors":"Kristin L. Olofsson , Jared B. Fitzgerald , Md Belal Hossain","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study engages sustainability thinking to better understand challenges faced by communities in the United States. Sustainability thinking recognizes that communities are complex systems in which economic development, social equity, and ecological integrity form the basis of resiliency, and those drivers should inform policymaking. To that end, this study develops a whole community sustainability (WCS) index that relies on complexity as a strength of the measure. Taking inspiration from the framework approach of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the authors identify 16 unique measures that capture different aspects of community sustainability. Using data from 2010 to 2014, each component of the index is calibrated using techniques from Qualitative Comparative Analysis and then combined to yield a robust index that can be compared across and within space and over time. After constructing the measure, we apply to the case of Oklahoma and find that rural Oklahoma counties outperformed urban counties on WCS during the time period. However, there is higher variability among rural communities relative to non-rural counties in Oklahoma for the overall index and its subcomponents, as both the highest and lowest performing counties are rural. Further analysis indicates that there are racial and class differences in counties that perform well compared to those that perform poorly. This study contributes to literature on sustainability and rural development by creating a replicable model that highlights the importance of a whole community approach. By recognizing the complexities that feed into the characterization of communities, policymakers and community leaders could utilize the WCS index to develop stronger approaches to community sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 104002"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099384","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}

引用次数: 0

What change? Assessing the Extinction Rebellion’s support for climate assemblies

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104010

Roberto Falanga , Tiago Carvalho

Extinction Rebellion (XR), founded in 2018, advocates for citizens' assemblies (CAs) on the climate and ecological crisis. This demand underscores XR's aim to enhance democracy “beyond politics” and promote inclusive, effective decision-making to achieve change. The article explores XR's understanding of politics and the democratic legitimacy of CAs in driving change. It examines XR's discourse and repertoire of action by triangulating document analysis, consultation of media resources and interviews with some activists in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Portugal. By situating this research within the broader context of global environmental activism and emerging connections with democratic innovations, this article discusses an emerging paradox inherent in XR's support for CAs. XR simultaneously critiques electoral politics and supports CAs, which maintain a strong connection to party politics though. Moreover, while invoking social pressure beyond the realm of CAs, questions arise about what democratic legitimacy the movement attributes to this type of deliberative mini-publics in the pursuit of change.

{"title":"What change? Assessing the Extinction Rebellion’s support for climate assemblies","authors":"Roberto Falanga , Tiago Carvalho","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Extinction Rebellion (XR), founded in 2018, advocates for citizens' assemblies (CAs) on the climate and ecological crisis. This demand underscores XR's aim to enhance democracy “beyond politics” and promote inclusive, effective decision-making to achieve change. The article explores XR's understanding of politics and the democratic legitimacy of CAs in driving change. It examines XR's discourse and repertoire of action by triangulating document analysis, consultation of media resources and interviews with some activists in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Portugal. By situating this research within the broader context of global environmental activism and emerging connections with democratic innovations, this article discusses an emerging paradox inherent in XR's support for CAs. XR simultaneously critiques electoral politics and supports CAs, which maintain a strong connection to party politics though. Moreover, while invoking social pressure beyond the realm of CAs, questions arise about what democratic legitimacy the movement attributes to this type of deliberative mini-publics in the pursuit of change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 104010"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099466","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}

引用次数: 0

Testing four design interventions for sustained participation in an agricultural citizen science project

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103981

Birgit Vanden Berghen, Iris Vanermen, Liesbet Vranken

Citizen science has emerged as a collaborative model that engages non-professional scientists in scientific research, leveraging their contributions to achieve large-scale data collection and fostering community engagement. Despite its successes, participant retention remains a critical challenge. Drawing upon the Octalysis Framework, this study examines the effectiveness of four intervention strategies—creation of an online ‘Community’, ‘Gamification’, highlighting the importance of ‘Individual Contribution’, and ‘Social feedback’—on sustained participation in an agricultural citizen science project. Data analysis revealed that ‘Community’, ‘Gamification’ and ‘Individual contribution’ significantly improved overall participation and reduced drop-out rates compared to the control group. Moreover, ‘Community’ demonstrated a particularly high retention rate during the challenging flowering stage, attributed to collaborative support. Regression analysis highlighted the influence of age on intervention effectiveness, with younger participants (18−34) responding most positively to ‘Gamification’, while middle-aged (46−55) participants responded very negatively to ‘Social feedback’, and senior participants (65 +) positively benefited from all interventions. These findings suggest that tailored intervention strategies can enhance long-term engagement in citizen science projects. By addressing both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations through targeted design interventions, project leaders can improve participant retention, ensuring the sustainability and success of citizen science initiatives. This study provides practical recommendations for optimizing engagement strategies across different project stages and demographic groups, offering valuable insights for future citizen science projects.

{"title":"Testing four design interventions for sustained participation in an agricultural citizen science project","authors":"Birgit Vanden Berghen, Iris Vanermen, Liesbet Vranken","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103981","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103981","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Citizen science has emerged as a collaborative model that engages non-professional scientists in scientific research, leveraging their contributions to achieve large-scale data collection and fostering community engagement. Despite its successes, participant retention remains a critical challenge. Drawing upon the Octalysis Framework, this study examines the effectiveness of four intervention strategies—creation of an online ‘Community’, ‘Gamification’, highlighting the importance of ‘Individual Contribution’, and ‘Social feedback’—on sustained participation in an agricultural citizen science project. Data analysis revealed that ‘Community’, ‘Gamification’ and ‘Individual contribution’ significantly improved overall participation and reduced drop-out rates compared to the control group. Moreover, ‘Community’ demonstrated a particularly high retention rate during the challenging flowering stage, attributed to collaborative support. Regression analysis highlighted the influence of age on intervention effectiveness, with younger participants (18−34) responding most positively to ‘Gamification’, while middle-aged (46−55) participants responded very negatively to ‘Social feedback’, and senior participants (65 +) positively benefited from all interventions. These findings suggest that tailored intervention strategies can enhance long-term engagement in citizen science projects. By addressing both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations through targeted design interventions, project leaders can improve participant retention, ensuring the sustainability and success of citizen science initiatives. This study provides practical recommendations for optimizing engagement strategies across different project stages and demographic groups, offering valuable insights for future citizen science projects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 103981"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143102250","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}

引用次数: 0

Raising standards for stakeholder engagement in Nature-based Solutions: Navigating the why, when, who and how

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103971

Alhassan Ibrahim, Keith Marshall, Esther Carmen, Kirsty L. Blackstock, Kerry A. Waylen

Working with people is inherent to Nature-Based Solutions (NbS). The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) requires interventions to work with and for society, acknowledging and integrating stakeholder views in all aspects of NbS in landscapes. However, existing guidance on NbS does not fully reflect all the insights and guidance available from an extensive literature on stakeholder engagement, empowerment, participation and related concepts. This paper provides guidance on achieving stakeholder engagement in NbS, by using the literature to analyse the role of stakeholder engagement in eight NbS criteria of the IUCN Global Standard. Each criterion represents themes orienting engagement, briefly: (1) societal challenges, (2) design at scale, (3) biodiversity net-gain, (4) economic feasibility, (5) inclusive governance, (6) balancing trade-off (7) adaptive management and (8) sustainability and mainstreaming. We show it is imperative to clearly differentiate stakeholders and their differing roles in different aspects of NbS. Hence, for each criterion there should be: a clearly defined rationale (why), the different stakeholder groups (who), the stage of the project (when) and the appropriate pathways (how) by which stakeholders will be engaged. We conclude with a discussion on the implications of the framework for those planning, resourcing and enabling nature-based solutions. We emphasise stakeholder engagement as multidimensional, requiring reflexibility and attention to inclusivity, equity and transparency. We also highlight the wicked problems of stakeholder engagement, in terms of the need for political support, resource commitment and competence to make engagement in NbS fit-for-purpose.

{"title":"Raising standards for stakeholder engagement in Nature-based Solutions: Navigating the why, when, who and how","authors":"Alhassan Ibrahim, Keith Marshall, Esther Carmen, Kirsty L. Blackstock, Kerry A. Waylen","doi":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103971","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103971","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Working with people is inherent to Nature-Based Solutions (NbS). The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) requires interventions to work with and for society, acknowledging and integrating stakeholder views in all aspects of NbS in landscapes. However, existing guidance on NbS does not fully reflect all the insights and guidance available from an extensive literature on stakeholder engagement, empowerment, participation and related concepts. This paper provides guidance on achieving stakeholder engagement in NbS, by using the literature to analyse the role of stakeholder engagement in eight NbS criteria of the IUCN Global Standard. Each criterion represents themes orienting engagement, briefly: (1) societal challenges, (2) design at scale, (3) biodiversity net-gain, (4) economic feasibility, (5) inclusive governance, (6) balancing trade-off (7) adaptive management and (8) sustainability and mainstreaming. We show it is imperative to clearly differentiate stakeholders and their differing roles in different aspects of NbS. Hence, for each criterion there should be: a clearly defined rationale (why), the different stakeholder groups (who), the stage of the project (when) and the appropriate pathways (how) by which stakeholders will be engaged. We conclude with a discussion on the implications of the framework for those planning, resourcing and enabling nature-based solutions. We emphasise stakeholder engagement as multidimensional, requiring reflexibility and attention to inclusivity, equity and transparency. We also highlight the wicked problems of stakeholder engagement, in terms of the need for political support, resource commitment and competence to make engagement in NbS fit-for-purpose.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":313,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Science & Policy","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 103971"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143102692","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}

引用次数: 0

首页上一页

下一页尾页

类型

全部化学•材料生命科学医学物理工程技术环境•农林材料科学地球科学法学管理学化学环境科学与生态学计算机科学教育学经济学农林科学人文科学生物学数学物理与天体物理心理学综合性期刊其他工业工程理学历史学农学文学信息工程

数据库

全部 ACS Publications Elsevier ieeexplore Springer The Royal Society of Chemistry Wiley

期刊

Environmental Science & Policy

全部 Acc. Chem. Res. ACS Applied Bio Materials ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces ACS Appl. Nano Mater. ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. ACS BIOMATER-SCI ENG ACS Catal. ACS Cent. Sci. ACS Chem. Biol. ACS Chemical Health & Safety ACS Chem. Neurosci. ACS Comb. Sci. ACS Earth Space Chem. ACS Energy Lett. ACS Infect. Dis. ACS Macro Lett. ACS Mater. Lett. ACS Med. Chem. Lett. ACS Nano ACS Omega ACS Photonics ACS Sens. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. ACS Synth. Biol. Anal. Chem. BIOCHEMISTRY-US Bioconjugate Chem. BIOMACROMOLECULES Chem. Res. Toxicol. Chem. Rev. Chem. Mater. CRYST GROWTH DES ENERG FUEL Environ. Sci. Technol. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. IND ENG CHEM RES Inorg. Chem. J. Agric. Food. Chem. J. Chem. Eng. Data J. Chem. Educ. J. Chem. Inf. Model. J. Chem. Theory Comput. J. Med. Chem. J. Nat. Prod. J PROTEOME RES J. Am. Chem. Soc. LANGMUIR MACROMOLECULES Mol. Pharmaceutics Nano Lett. Org. Lett. ORG PROCESS RES DEV ORGANOMETALLICS J. Org. Chem. J. Phys. Chem. J. Phys. Chem. A J. Phys. Chem. B J. Phys. Chem. C J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Analyst Anal. Methods Biomater. Sci. Catal. Sci. Technol. Chem. Commun. Chem. Soc. Rev. CHEM EDUC RES PRACT CRYSTENGCOMM Dalton Trans. Energy Environ. Sci. ENVIRON SCI-NANO ENVIRON SCI-PROC IMP ENVIRON SCI-WAT RES Faraday Discuss. Food Funct. Green Chem. Inorg. Chem. Front. Integr. Biol. J. Anal. At. Spectrom. J. Mater. Chem. A J. Mater. Chem. B J. Mater. Chem. C Lab Chip Mater. Chem. Front. Mater. Horiz. MEDCHEMCOMM Metallomics Mol. Biosyst. Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. Nanoscale Nanoscale Horiz. Nat. Prod. Rep. New J. Chem. Org. Biomol. Chem. Org. Chem. Front. PHOTOCH PHOTOBIO SCI PCCP Polym. Chem.

﹀