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The Wetland Explorer: A digital tool for improved community engagement with water quality modelling for decision-making 湿地探索者：一个数字工具，用于改善社区参与，为决策建立水质模型

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104226

Catharina Landström , Helge Peters , Andrew G. Hughes , Christopher R. Jackson , Andrew A. McKenzie , Liam Spencer , Rebecca Turnpenney , John Bryden

Participatory modelling is a way to include local people’s knowledge in environmental computer modelling. It has primarily been analysed as a process enhancing scientific understanding and public understanding of science, rarely for generating decision-supporting knowledge in environmental management. This article presents a co-design project creating a digital interface that makes it possible for local communities to deploy the outputs of participatory environmental modelling after the conclusion of the research activity. The empirical context is water management in a location in north London in the UK, a country with an advanced system for community involvement with surface water governance. However, research shows that scientific and technical expertise continue to dominate decision-making, even within organisations designed to include local communities. Hence, the objective of the project was to create a digital tool that would enable community groups to engage with outputs from participatory scientific modelling in the context of water management. A co-design project, in collaboration with the local environmental charity Thames21, focused on making outputs from a previous participatory modelling project comprehensible and open to probing by community groups. The project created the interactive Wetland Explorer tool, a web-based interface for visualisation of modelling results. The Wetland Explorer demonstrates the potential of digital tools for public engagement with scientific models. User feedback from a trial with the tool also points to future research needs. This account of the creation of the Wetland Explorer contributes to the advancement of public engagement with water science in the context of environmental management.

参与式模型是一种将当地居民的知识纳入环境计算机模型的方法。它主要被分析为一个增进科学理解和公众对科学的理解的过程，很少被分析为在环境管理方面产生支持决策的知识。本文提出了一个共同设计项目，该项目创建了一个数字界面，使当地社区能够在研究活动结束后部署参与式环境建模的输出。实证背景是英国伦敦北部某地的水管理，这是一个拥有先进的社区参与地表水治理系统的国家。然而，研究表明，科学和技术专长继续主导着决策，甚至在旨在包括当地社区的组织中也是如此。因此，该项目的目标是创建一个数字工具，使社区团体能够参与水管理背景下参与式科学建模的产出。与当地环境慈善机构Thames21合作的一个共同设计项目，重点是使以前的参与式建模项目的产出易于理解，并向社区团体开放探索。该项目创建了交互式湿地探索者工具，这是一个基于网络的界面，用于可视化建模结果。湿地探索者展示了数字工具在公众参与科学模型方面的潜力。试用该工具的用户反馈也指出了未来的研究需求。这篇关于“湿地探索者”创建的文章有助于在环境管理的背景下促进公众对水科学的参与。

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A threat to democracy? Water protests in France and Germany 对民主的威胁？法国和德国的水抗议活动

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104229

Lena Partzsch

Environmental crisis narratives are used to justify the exercise of power, including against democratic state authority. In the cases of Danone in Volvic, France, and Tesla in Grünheide, Germany, activists are challenging the official state approval of multinationals’ exploitation of local resources amid declining water levels. This article compares the narratives that activists use in their campaigns regarding power and democracy. There are differences in the perception of the state and its potential. The Volvic water crisis in France is attributed to the state’s lethargy. In contrast, the Grünheide protest in eastern Germany is about more fundamental asymmetries. Activists reject the power of a global investor at the expense of the local institutions. This protest is about more than just protecting local water sources.

环境危机叙事被用来为权力的行使辩护，包括反对民主国家权威。在法国Volvic的达能（Danone）和德国gr nheide的特斯拉（Tesla）的案例中，活动人士对政府在水位下降之际批准跨国公司开采当地资源的做法提出了挑战。这篇文章比较了活动人士在他们的运动中使用的关于权力和民主的叙述。对国家及其潜力的看法存在差异。法国的Volvic水危机被归咎于政府的怠惰。相比之下，德国东部的grangnheide抗议活动涉及更根本的不对称。活动人士反对全球投资者以牺牲当地机构为代价获得权力。这次抗议不仅仅是为了保护当地的水资源。

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Policy intermediation for agri-food system transition: food policy groups from middle Europe, Australia and United States 农业粮食系统转型的政策中介：来自中欧、澳大利亚和美国的粮食政策团体

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104227

Friederike Elsner , Christian Herzig , Carola Strassner

Food policy groups (FPGs) are locally grounded approaches that engage with agri-food policy and challenge unsustainable practices. Thereby, FPGs intermediate between actors at the interface of civil society, science, policy and practice. As transition intermediaries, FPGs hold the potential to advance sustainability transitions. Yet, both their policy-related functions and the factors shaping their activities warrant closer investigation. Through the prism of transition intermediary research, we investigate the functions, policy priorities, organizational forms and relationships to government that constitute the policy intermediation of FPGs across three geographical contexts. Based on survey data of FPGs (n‎ = 260) across United States, middle Europe (mainly Germany) and Australia, we conduct a mixed-methods analysis, applying qualitative coding and statistical measures. We find that FPGs primarily intermediate in processes of social innovation, characterized by changing practices and social relations, rather than in the facilitation of technological innovations. We identify nine intermediary functions that remain similar across the three geographical contexts but differ from the functions typically associated with intermediation around technological innovations. FPGs engage in empowerment processes, network-building and work towards achieving collective goals. Due to FPGs’ nature as multi-actor platforms, they are conflict-ridden and arbitrate between distinct agri-food actors. The policy priorities, organizational forms and relationships to government differ across the three geographical contexts and thus seem to be context dependent. A stronger linkage to government does not appear to be associated with the policy priorities an FPG focusses on, suggesting that even FPGs with strong connections to government retain their independence.

粮食政策小组（FPGs）是基于当地的方法，参与农业粮食政策并挑战不可持续的做法。因此，FPGs是介于民间社会、科学、政策和实践之间的角色。作为过渡中介，fpga具有推进可持续性转型的潜力。然而，它们与政策有关的职能和影响其活动的因素都值得进一步研究。通过过渡中介研究的棱镜，我们研究了构成三种地理背景下FPGs政策中介的功能、政策优先事项、组织形式和与政府的关系。基于美国、中欧（主要是德国）和澳大利亚的FPGs （n = 260）的调查数据，我们采用定性编码和统计方法进行了混合方法分析。我们发现，FPGs主要是社会创新过程的中介，其特征是改变实践和社会关系，而不是促进技术创新。我们确定了九种中介功能，它们在三种地理环境中保持相似，但与技术创新中介的典型功能不同。fpg参与授权过程、网络建设和实现集体目标的工作。由于fps作为多参与者平台的性质，它们充满了冲突，并在不同的农业食品参与者之间进行仲裁。政策重点、组织形式和与政府的关系在三个地理环境中有所不同，因此似乎与环境有关。与政府的紧密联系似乎与FPG关注的政策优先事项无关，这表明即使与政府有紧密联系的pg也会保持其独立性。

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What motivates local leaders of community forests in Nepal? An examination of leaders’ expressed values and experiences 是什么激励尼泊尔社区森林的当地领导人？对领导者所表达的价值观和经历的考察

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104220

Prabin Bhusal , Rajan Parajuli , Erin Sills , Conghe Song , Gregory E. Frey

Nepal’s community forestry (CF) program, a globally recognized model of participatory forest management, relies on voluntary local leaders to guide forest management and governance decisions. Sustaining voluntary leadership has become increasingly challenging because of outmigration, declining forest dependence, and growing urban influence on rural livelihoods. In this study, we explore the values and motivations of existing leaders of community forest user groups (CFUGs), which underpin the leadership characteristics in sustaining these local institutions. We surveyed 144 leaders of 49 CFUGs in Nepal’s mid-hills and used their responses as indicators of leadership values, derived from the “Motivation to Lead” and related theoretical frameworks. Using exploratory factor analysis and a multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) model, we identify three motivation factors and examine their associations with leaders’ individual and CF characteristics. The results suggest that, out of the 16 indicators, eight explain core values and motives clustered into three latent motivation factors, indicating three axes of leadership motivation in Nepal’s CF program: environmental stewardship, altruism, and power and influence. Leaders were likely to be motivated by either environmental stewardship or altruism. However, leaders motivated by either altruism or environmental stewardship were also motivated by the power and influence. Furthermore, individual leadership characteristics such as leadership position and duration, and CF characteristics such as forest type, support from non-governmental organizations, fire incidences, and leadership experience in local governments, are associated with leadership motivation factors. These findings inform understanding of voluntary leadership drivers in CFUGs, for strengthening and sustaining community-based forest management in Nepal.

尼泊尔的社区林业（CF）项目是全球公认的参与式森林管理模式，它依靠自愿的地方领导人来指导森林管理和治理决策。由于人口外迁、对森林的依赖程度下降以及城市对农村生计的影响越来越大，维持自愿领导已变得越来越具有挑战性。在这项研究中，我们探讨了社区森林用户团体（CFUGs）现有领导人的价值观和动机，这些价值观和动机支撑着这些地方机构的领导特征。我们调查了尼泊尔中部山区49个cfug的144名领导人，并将他们的回答作为领导价值观的指标，这些指标来自“领导动机”和相关理论框架。运用探索性因子分析和多指标多原因（MIMIC）模型，我们确定了三个激励因素，并考察了它们与领导者个人和CF特征的关系。结果表明，在16个指标中，有8个解释了核心价值和动机聚集在三个潜在动机因素中，表明了尼泊尔CF计划中领导动机的三个轴：环境管理、利他主义、权力和影响力。领导者的动机可能是环境管理或利他主义。然而，无论是出于利他主义还是环境管理的动机，领导者也受到权力和影响力的驱动。此外，个人领导特征（如领导职位和任期）和CF特征（如森林类型、非政府组织的支持、火灾发生率和地方政府的领导经验）与领导动机因素相关。这些发现有助于了解尼泊尔社区森林管理小组中自愿领导的驱动因素，以加强和维持尼泊尔社区森林管理。

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From shadows to spotlight: NGO pollution disclosure and the dual transformation of environmental and tourism landscapes 从阴影到聚光灯：NGO污染披露与环境与旅游景观的双重转型

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104219

Jianxian Wu

In an era where traditional environmental governance faces mounting challenges, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have emerged as pivotal actors in bridging information gaps that constrain effective pollution control and sustainable economic development. This study exploits the staggered implementation of pollution information disclosure by NGOs across Chinese cities since 2008 to investigate its environmental and economic impacts. The results demonstrate that enhanced transparency in pollution data leads to a significant reduction of fine particulate matter by 2.44 %, driven by increased governmental attention, public petitions, green innovation, and industrial restructuring. Additionally, the disclosure of pollution information contributes to a rise in per capita tourism revenue by ¥2611.8, facilitated by improvements in labor productivity and heightened travel demand. The positive effects of pollution disclosure are particularly pronounced in Han-majority regions, especially those boasting a higher concentration of prestigious tourist attractions, whereas minority regions experience a comparatively limited impact. Cost-benefit analyses reveal that the advantages of non-state-led transparency governance substantially outweigh the associated costs. These findings provide compelling evidence for policymakers to integrate NGO-driven environmental disclosure mechanisms into broader sustainable development frameworks. Furthermore, the research offers a replicable model for emerging economies seeking to harness information transparency as a driver of environmental accountability and economic prosperity.

在传统环境治理面临日益严峻挑战的时代，非政府组织已成为弥合制约有效污染控制和可持续经济发展的信息差距的关键行动者。本研究利用2008年以来中国各城市非政府组织污染信息披露的阶段性实施，考察其对环境和经济的影响。结果表明，在政府关注、公众请愿、绿色创新和产业结构调整的推动下，污染数据透明度的提高导致细颗粒物显著减少2.44 %。此外，由于劳动生产率的提高和旅游需求的增加，污染信息的披露使人均旅游收入增加了2611.8元。污染披露的积极影响在汉族占多数的地区尤其明显，特别是那些拥有较高集中度的著名旅游景点的地区，而少数民族地区的影响相对有限。成本效益分析显示，非国家主导的透明治理的优势大大超过了相关成本。这些发现为决策者将非政府组织推动的环境信息披露机制纳入更广泛的可持续发展框架提供了强有力的证据。此外，该研究还为寻求利用信息透明度推动环境问责和经济繁荣的新兴经济体提供了一个可复制的模式。

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Rural adaptation and resilience to climate change in Eswatini 斯瓦蒂尼农村对气候变化的适应和复原力

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104230

Richard Mbatu , Sizwe Mabaso , Celani Mabuza , Samkele Tfwala , Felix Mamba , Mthobisi Masilela

The majority of people in Eswatini, roughly 75 % of them, live in rural areas with limited access to necessities like affordable, clean energy, wholesome food, and clean, safe water. The wellbeing of Eswatini's impoverished rural communities is impacted both directly and indirectly by the insufficiency or, in certain cases, the complete absence of these essential resources. The nation is seeing a decline in rainfall, increased water stress, soil loss and degradation, decreased crop yields, increased livestock losses, more frequent and severe droughts and floods, and an increase in pest infestations, among other effects of climate change. To better understand the social, cultural, economic, political, and scientific aspects of climate change adaptation in Eswatini as they relate to the food, energy, and water (FEW) nexus, this study applied a multi-level transdisciplinary value chain analysis approach. It then makes recommendations for national adaptation strategies that are meant to build resilient rural communities. The FEW nexus refers to the complex relationships between the availability of food, energy, and water for both micro and macroeconomic applications. The multidisciplinary value chain analysis of the FEW nexus considers redundancy in activities while clarifying trade-offs and mutually beneficial interactions between sectors at both the macro and microeconomic levels. To gain a better understanding of how rural communities in Eswatini perceive the relationship between FEW issues and climate change, we conducted two focus group discussions and a survey in five of the country's four ecological regions' most vulnerable rural communities. The results emphasized the trade-offs associated with the FEW nexus that are hindered by the sectoral climate "silos" that are in place today. The findings also identified strategies for adaptation aimed at preserving the resilience of rural communities in the face of climate change.

斯瓦蒂尼的大多数人，大约75% ，生活在农村地区，获得负担得起的清洁能源、卫生食品和清洁安全的水等必需品的机会有限。这些基本资源的不足或在某些情况下完全没有，直接或间接地影响到斯瓦蒂尼贫困农村社区的福祉。这个国家正在经历降雨减少，水资源压力增加，土壤流失和退化，农作物产量下降，牲畜损失增加，干旱和洪水更加频繁和严重，害虫侵扰增加，以及气候变化的其他影响。为了更好地了解斯瓦蒂尼气候变化适应的社会、文化、经济、政治和科学方面，因为它们与食物、能源和水（FEW）关系有关，本研究采用了多层次跨学科价值链分析方法。然后，它为旨在建设具有复原力的农村社区的国家适应战略提出建议。少数联系是指在微观和宏观应用中食物、能源和水的可用性之间的复杂关系。对FEW关系的多学科价值链分析考虑了活动中的冗余，同时在宏观和微观经济层面澄清了部门之间的权衡和互利互动。为了更好地了解斯瓦蒂尼的农村社区如何看待少数问题与气候变化之间的关系，我们在该国四个生态区域中最脆弱的五个农村社区进行了两次焦点小组讨论和调查。结果强调了与少数联系相关的权衡，这些权衡受到目前存在的部门气候“孤岛”的阻碍。研究结果还确定了旨在保持农村社区面对气候变化的复原力的适应战略。

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Catch me if you can: Microplastics hidden in plain sight 如果你能抓住我：隐藏在视线中的微塑料

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104217

Karin Mattsson , Pere Masque , Thomas Maes , Marc Metian

Microplastic (MP) pollution is widely recognised as a pressing environmental issue, yet certain major sources remain under-addressed. This paper focuses on three significant but often overlooked contributors: paint particles, textile fibres, and tire wear particles (TWP). Together, these sources account for over 25 % of global MP emissions, nearly 3 million tonnes annually, yet they are rarely singled out in research or regulation. Each presents unique analytical and regulatory challenges due to their complex compositions, diffuse emissions, and strong ties to daily life. We enumerate current knowledge on their environmental pathways, emission estimates, and detection methods, highlighting the need for multi-method analytical approaches to overcome sampling and identification limitations. Monitoring remains constrained by technical barriers, particularly for pigment interference in paint particles, fibre contamination, and the heterogeneous nature of TWP. Despite their significant impact, policy responses remain limited. The current draft of the Global Plastics Treaty acknowledges these sources under the general MP category but lacks specific measures. Effective mitigation will require enhanced regulatory frameworks, product redesign, expanded Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), and greater investment in innovation. Moreover, system-level interventions, societal and behavioral changes, such as improved public transport can help reduce TWP at source. In addressing these "hidden in plain sight" pollutants, this paper calls for coordinated national and global action to reduce their release and integrate them into broader MP policy agendas. Only through such targeted efforts can we ensure these overlooked pollutants no longer escape meaningful regulation and environmental accountability.

微塑料（MP）污染被广泛认为是一个紧迫的环境问题，但某些主要来源仍未得到充分解决。本文着重于三个重要但经常被忽视的贡献者：油漆颗粒，纺织纤维和轮胎磨损颗粒（TWP）。这些来源加起来占全球温室气体排放量的25% %以上，每年近300万吨，但它们很少在研究或监管中被单独列出。由于其复杂的成分、漫射排放和与日常生活的紧密联系，每种都提出了独特的分析和监管挑战。我们列举了目前关于它们的环境途径、排放估计和检测方法的知识，强调需要多方法分析方法来克服采样和识别限制。监测仍然受到技术障碍的限制，特别是油漆颗粒中的颜料干扰、纤维污染和TWP的异质性。尽管它们具有重大影响，但政策反应仍然有限。目前的《全球塑料条约》草案承认这些来源属于一般MP类别，但缺乏具体措施。有效的缓解措施需要加强监管框架、重新设计产品、扩大生产者延伸责任（EPR）以及加大创新投资。此外，系统层面的干预、社会和行为改变，如改善公共交通，可以帮助从源头上减少TWP。为了解决这些“隐藏在显眼处”的污染物，本文呼吁采取协调一致的国家和全球行动，减少它们的排放，并将它们纳入更广泛的MP政策议程。只有通过这些有针对性的努力，我们才能确保这些被忽视的污染物不再逃避有意义的监管和环境问责。

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The underexplored potential of the arts in environmental social sciences 艺术在环境社会科学中未被发掘的潜力

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104224

Maria Loroño-Leturiondo , Marta Olazabal

During the last two decades, there has been a growing focus on art-science collaborations in the field of environmental social sciences. Often still seen as an end-of-pipe tool for education and communicating scientific ideas, here, we call for broadening the arts and science interdisciplinary space, emphasising the role of art in knowledge co-production and participatory research in environmental social sciences. In particular, our perspective shifts focus towards the underexplored potential of the arts in contributing to the scientific inquiry itself, that is, the role the arts can play in the scientific study and analysis of the world or its views. To this end, art is presented here as a means for eliciting diverse forms of knowledge, including experiential and lay knowledge, and for advancing more participatory, decolonial, and culturally sensitive social-environmental research practices. Through carefully selected examples using written and visual arts, this paper explores how art is used and proposes a framework to understand the role it has taken during the scientific knowledge production process. This paper concludes that art has great potential to enhance scientific inquiry by opening the space for alternative forms of knowledge that are usually marginalised or are simply more difficult to access through traditional means. We suggest that this newly produced social capital has important implications for the construction of more just, relevant and legitimate social and environmental policies.

在过去的二十年中，环境社会科学领域的艺术与科学合作日益受到关注。在这里，我们呼吁拓宽艺术和科学的跨学科空间，强调艺术在环境社会科学的知识合作生产和参与性研究中的作用，艺术通常仍被视为教育和交流科学思想的最后工具。特别是，我们的观点将重点转向艺术在促进科学探究本身方面未被开发的潜力，也就是说，艺术在科学研究和分析世界或其观点方面可以发挥的作用。为了达到这个目的，艺术在这里是作为一种手段来引出各种形式的知识，包括经验和外行知识，并推进更多的参与性，非殖民化和文化敏感的社会环境研究实践。通过精心挑选的使用书面和视觉艺术的例子，本文探讨了艺术是如何被使用的，并提出了一个框架来理解它在科学知识生产过程中所扮演的角色。本文的结论是，艺术通过为通常被边缘化或通过传统手段更难以获得的其他形式的知识打开空间，具有增强科学探究的巨大潜力。我们认为，这种新产生的社会资本对构建更公正、相关和合法的社会和环境政策具有重要意义。

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A systematic investigation of flood resilience measures in the Mekong River Basin 湄公河流域抗洪措施的系统调查

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104228

Thanh Phuoc Ho , Matthias Garschagen , Van Pham Dang Tri , Liang Emlyn Yang

The Mekong River has encountered severe flooding challenges due to increasingly extreme weather conditions. Despite these challenges, residents of the Mekong River Basin (MRB) have developed and demonstrated remarkable flood resilience in various ways, enabling a dynamic and thriving socio-economic system in the flood-prone environment. This study presents a systematic review and meta-analysis based on 460 search results from Scopus and Web of Science datasets, covering literature from 1999 to 2024, focused on the MRB. The review aims to investigate the measures developed by people in the MRB to improve their flood resilience, as determined through a comprehensive scoping review of peer-reviewed literature. The review revealed the following findings: (1) A total of 85 measures were identified and categorized into nine measure groups and three approaches based on their characters, (2) statistical analysis indicates a rising trend in stakeholder cooperation, with over 66 % of the total mentioned measures involving coordinated approaches rather than being strictly top-down or bottom-up, (3) infrastructure and engineering investments, as well as advancements in agricultural technology, were the dominant measures observed across Mekong River Basin countries, and (4) a Venn diagram illustrates overlapping measures applied across various countries, with Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand contributing significant efforts to improving flood resilience. This study provides valuable insights for policymakers and researchers into the flood resilience situation within the region, supporting the development of effective future flood management frameworks and research approaches.

由于日益极端的天气条件，湄公河遭遇了严重的洪水挑战。尽管面临这些挑战，湄公河流域（MRB）的居民已经以各种方式发展并展示了非凡的抗洪能力，在洪水易发的环境中建立了一个充满活力和繁荣的社会经济系统。本研究对来自Scopus和Web of Science数据集的460个检索结果进行了系统回顾和荟萃分析，涵盖1999年至2024年的文献，重点是MRB。这篇综述的目的是通过对同行评议的文献进行全面的范围审查，调查MRB中人们为提高其抗洪能力而制定的措施。检讨的结果如下：(1)共确定了85项措施，并根据其特点将其分为9个措施组和3种方法；(2)统计分析表明利益相关者合作的趋势有所上升，超过66% %的上述措施涉及协调方法，而不是严格的自上而下或自下而上；(3)基础设施和工程投资，以及农业技术进步；(4)维恩图显示了不同国家采用的重叠措施，越南、柬埔寨和泰国为提高抗洪能力做出了重大努力。本研究为决策者和研究人员了解该地区的洪水恢复力状况提供了有价值的见解，为未来有效的洪水管理框架和研究方法的发展提供了支持。

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Neglect to recognition: Embracing women as key agents in climate solutions 忽视承认：接受妇女作为气候解决方案的关键推动者

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104216

Debarchana Biswas , Anamika Barua

Women are often portrayed as victims rather as central agents of change in climate resilience and adaptation literature. Despite their vital contributions, they remain underrepresented in climate-related sectors and excluded from leadership roles, undermining both policy and societal progress. This paper highlights this critical gap in climate discourse. Using a bibliometric analysis of 384 Scopus-indexed publications (2002–present), we trace the evolution of gender-climate research through keyword mapping and thematic visualization in Biblioshiny and VOSviewer. Our findings identify three developmental phases: the Gender Foundation Phase, which established equality frameworks; the Gender Advancement Phase integrating gender-responsive strategies; and the Gender Transformation Phase, emphasizing women's leadership in climate governance. Despite progress, critical gaps remain in documenting and leveraging women's real-world experiences in climate adaptation. Emphasizing gender-equitable approaches is essential for fostering inclusive governance structures that position women as leaders, ensuring effective, equitable climate solutions driven by their unique perspectives and resilience. We advocate for future research to bridge these gaps by connecting environmental science with policy and societal impacts. This connection would create a foundation for more just, inclusive, and effective climate policies, ultimately benefiting society as a whole.

在气候恢复和适应文献中，妇女往往被描绘成受害者，而不是变化的核心推动者。尽管她们做出了重要贡献，但她们在气候相关部门的代表性仍然不足，并且被排除在领导角色之外，从而阻碍了政策和社会进步。本文强调了气候话语中的这一关键差距。通过对384篇以scopus为索引的出版物（2002年至今）的文献计量学分析，我们通过Biblioshiny和VOSviewer中的关键词映射和主题可视化追踪了性别气候研究的演变。我们的研究结果确定了三个发展阶段：性别基础阶段，该阶段建立了平等框架；纳入促进性别平等战略的提高性别地位阶段；性别转型阶段，强调妇女在气候治理中的领导作用。尽管取得了进展，但在记录和利用妇女在气候适应方面的实际经验方面仍存在重大差距。强调性别平等方法对于建立包容性治理结构至关重要，这种治理结构将妇女定位为领导者，确保在其独特观点和韧性的推动下，有效、公平地解决气候问题。我们提倡未来的研究通过将环境科学与政策和社会影响联系起来来弥合这些差距。这种联系将为更加公正、包容和有效的气候政策奠定基础，最终使整个社会受益。

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