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{"title":"Human-animal connections: expanding and cross-worlding relational approaches to resilience","authors":"Janine Natalya Clark","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2295098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2295098","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":"54 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138950862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Air quality sensors and distributional environmental justice: a case study of Salt Lake County, Utah","authors":"Casey J. Mullen, S. Grineski, T. W. Collins, Aaron B. Flores","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2295099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2295099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":"172 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138995052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban green governance and mechanisms of generation of ecosystem services: Milan’s green governance models","authors":"Oscar Luigi Azzimonti","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2277972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2277972","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper studies the governance of the green spaces in the metropolitan area of Milan, aiming to understand the political mechanisms that underpin the generation of ecosystem services in the urban context. Based on semi-structured interviews to relevant policymakers and stakeholders and on the study of planning documents and greening policies, the research identifies the main actors who are involved in green planning and management in the city and in the metropolitan area. By analysing their green management and planning roles, economic resources and greening visions and priorities, the study depicts five coexisting green governance models. In particular, the research highlights the decreasing influence of public institutions in green planning and management and the rising relevance of private-public collaborations. These dynamics of green governance may affect the generation and the distribution of ecosystem services. On the one hand, greening in private-led regeneration processes tend toward recreational and final ecosystem services, aiming to raise land values. On the other hand, the civic projects of afforestation have evolved in territorial initiatives that go beyond the mere objective of implementing new green spaces, looking at broader planning themes – i.e. soft mobility and social welfare – demanding a stronger metropolitan coordination.KEYWORDS: Urban green spacesgovernanceecosystem servicespolitical ecologyurban regenerationMilan Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Informed consent statementInformed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.In accordance with the Italian and European legislation, the research was exempt from approval of the Institutional Ethical Committee. (https://www.unimib.it/ateneo/organizzazione/organi/comitato-etico)Supplementary materialSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2277972Notes1. See Pasqui (Citation2019) or Moini et al., (Citation2019) for detailed analyses on the governance of urban regeneration processes in Milan.2. See, for instance the last Metropolitan Plan on heat waves and nature-based solutions (Città Metropolitana di Milano Citation2020) and the project Life Metro Adapt (http://www.lifemetroadapt.eu/it/) [last retrieved: 30/01/2022]3. The final budget for ordinary and extraordinary maintenance in all the parks that are managed by the municipality is around € 1 per m2 (per year), which, as one of the municipal green sector supervisors claimed, it’s a rather low budget. « We keep a level of expenses which is rather low in relation to the quality of the green spaces, that we would like to have much improved. » [I1]4. See https://bam.milano.it/en/ [Last retrieved 30/04/2023]5. Parco Nord is officially a regional park, and therefore an institutional actor. However, considering the peculiar story of the afforestation and of the park, it could also be considered as","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":" 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135286163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social mycorrhiza: The social infrastructure of agroecological farming economies","authors":"Isaac Sohn Leslie","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2267828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2267828","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAlternative agriculture (e.g. agroecology and organics) aims to address global environmental and social problems: goals that hinge on alternative farms’ economic viability. Viability depends on farmers accessing key resources (e.g. land), typically through markets, but also through social relationships. In this article, I offer a theory of how agroecological farmers’ social infrastructure can enable resource access. ‘Social mycorrhiza’ uses ecological mycorrhiza as a metaphor to conceptualize how individuals with simultaneous market interests and movement-based values (like alternative farmers) create social networks that facilitate resource access, in circumstances where they trust each other will act according to both their economic interests and their social and environmental values, over time. Social mycorrhiza highlights cooptation – when social and environmental values are sacrificed for economic interests – and burnout – when economic viability is sacrificed forsocial and environmental values. I illustrate social mycorrhiza using a case study of alternative (organic and agroecological) farmers in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. In short, social mycorrhiza describes the social relational infrastructure of agroecological farming economies.KEYWORDS: Agrarian questionagroecologyfarm viabilitypolitical economysocial movementscommunity and economic developmentfood justice AcknowledgmentsI thank the farmers and other alternative food system leaders I interviewed for this study. Clara Craviotti, Jane Collins, Monica White, Mike Bell, Steph Tai, Pinar Batur, Angela Serrano, Jaclyn Wypler, Tom Safford, Emily Kyker-Snowman, and Mark Anthony each shaped this project in important ways.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1. Similarly, the Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition uses the term ‘social mycelium’ to describe social ties in their network (Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition Citation2020). Ecologically speaking, ‘mycelium’ refers to a collection of hyphae, described below. In contrast to this use of social mycelium, I use social mycorrhiza to describe a more specific type of social relationship that involves resource flows between at least two entities. Whereas ‘mycelium’ refers to the part of a fungus that delivers resources, ‘mycorrhiza’ refers to the relationship between fungi and plants where they can mutualistically exchange resources between each other under certain conditions, also described below.2. Polanyi themself was ambiguous about the distinction between money and credit in their theory of fictitious commodities, which is important for political economic theory (Jessop Citation2019), but not for this article. For a discussion of the importance of credit to agriculture, the historical expansion of the credit system into agriculture, and credit as a fictitious commodity, see Henderson (Citation1998).3. For a complete discussion of methods, see Leslie (Citation2020). Before starting th","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":" 45","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135244533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unyielding humanity from catastrophic ruins: new political society for social and environmental justice after Bhopal","authors":"Nikhil Deb","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2270284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2270284","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper analyzes the ways in which a site of catastrophic ruins transpires as a new political society for critical social and environmental justice. Predicated on two and half months of fieldwork in Bhopal – consisting of 60 interviews with gas and water victims and activists, archival research, and observation of sites and events – the paper specifically explains how the Bhopal Movement, the longest-running social movement in post-colonial India, has become an exemplar of what I call ‘unyielding humanity,’ one that rejects conciliatory posturing and ad-hoc solutions, constraining states and corporations alike to meaningfully address the ongoing social and environmental mutilation of Bhopal. Underlining the agency, targets, means, objectives, and determinations of the subaltern people, the paper illustrates how this women-led movement poses triumphant challenges to dominant narratives by focusing on the politics of long-term, intergenerational suffering. Findings indicate that prolonged marginalization can give rise to distinct forms of politics, diverging not only from labor and identity politics but also from various environmental justice movements that have been theorized emphasizing primarily material, visible, and immediate consequences. The paper holds implications for social and environmental justice struggles worldwide.KEYWORDS: Unyielding humanitynew political societyBhopalcritical social and environmental justiceUnion Carbide and Dow Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Dow refused to accept any liabilities for previous corporations, maintaining that it never owned the Bhopal plant, and therefore, that the cleanup of the contaminated sites, according to its official statement, is not its responsibility. See Dow’s official statement here: https://corporate.dow.com/en-us/about/issues-and-challenges/bhopal.2. Recently, Indian farmers marched to New Delhi with the skulls of farmers who committed suicide due to a devastating loan burden. In 2007, in Nandigram, West Bengal, 14 people were killed, and many women were raped to protect their land from the corporation. Repression to Narmada Bachao activists is well known. Antinuclear activism by fishermen in India was also met with state repression. Relatedly, Bhopal survivors’ 2011 Rail Blockade Movement met with massive attacks on women and older adults.3. The works of various scholars shed light on the implications of long-standing patterns of environmental injustice. Cordner and Brown (Citation2015) delve into the convergence of different sectors in response to environmental risks. Rea and Frickel (Citation2023) show how state actions tied to less captivating ‘ordinary’ features lack resonance and fail to generate public backing, leading to environmental injustice manifesting in various ways. Gill et al. (Citation2012) examine the effects of the BP oil spill, while Bunker (1988) investigates how extractive economies contribute ","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":"51 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135869197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Land means the world: narratives of place and colonial ecological violence in the media framing of the Bears Ears National Monument","authors":"Amanda Ricketts","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2267832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2267832","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTSettler colonialism shapes the governance of public land in what is now called the United States, contributing to eco-social disruptions for Indigenous populations. The Bears Ears National Monument was established in December 2016 in an unprecedented collaboration between the federal government and an inter-tribal coalition. Less than a year later, in December 2017, the Trump administration issued a presidential proclamation removing and bisecting 85% of the protected land for energy exploration. I analyze media coverage of Bears Ears National Monument from December 2016 to December 2017 to observe the effects of this framing on elimination projects of the settler state in public land conflicts. I find through the repeated erasure and redirection of Indigenous narratives, local media coverage centralizes the interests of the settler state by classifying land as an asset, making settler political concerns the central contentious issue. To understand how colonial ecological violence shapes the governance of public land, like the case of the Bears Ears National Monument under the Trump administration, scholars should attend to how the media advances narratives of place and contributes to cultural elimination.KEYWORDS: Colonial ecological violencesettler colonialismBears Ears National Monumentpublic landmedia AcknowledgmentsI would like to extend thanks to Raoul Lievanos, Kari Norgaard, Ryan Light, Claire Herbert, and the members of the Janet Smith Cooperative, whose comments and support made the writing of this article possible.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAmanda RickettsAmanda Ricketts, MS, is a PhD student at the University of Oregon. Their research focuses on social movements, space and environment, and narratives of place and colonial ecological violence in public land management.","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136033844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Performing zero waste: lifestyle movement, consumer culture, and promotion strategies of social media influencers","authors":"Danning Lu","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2267829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2267829","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTZero waste movement has been gaining popularity in the recent decade and social media influencers’ promotion is central to movement growth. How do influencers popularize zero waste lifestyle practices that counter the dominant consumption norms? Are their strategies successful? This article examines influencers’ lifestyle advocacy as social performance, focusing on their scripts and visual presentations to social media audience. Based on content analysis of 250 Instagram posts, this article uses a cultural sociology lens to analyze zero waste influencers’ strategies and the audience responses. Problematization of wasteful consumption norms and legitimization of zero waste alternatives through demonstrating its feasibility, attractiveness, and integration with socio-political concerns are four prominent strategies. Zero waste influencers employ performance elements such as textual and visual scripts, means of symbolic production, and mise-en-scene to enhance authenticity and mobilize zero waste practices. Meanwhile, insufficient accountability of corporate waste culprits, limited representativeness of the privileged influencers, and contradictory embeddedness in consumer culture still threaten the legitimacy of their performance. This article centers the analysis of sustainable lifestyle movement leaders and their social media presentation, which have been little discussed but increasingly important. It also provides practical strategies for promoting sustainable lifestyle on social media.KEYWORDS: zero wastelifestyle movementsustainable lifestyleconsumer culturesocial performancesocial media influencerconsumption AcknowledgementI express deep gratitude to the anonymous reviewers for their detailed and insightful comments. I want to thank Dr. Philip Smith, Dr. Jeffrey Alexander, and all cultural sociology colleagues at Yale who have given valuable advice and supported me greatly during the publishing of this article. I am grateful for the zero waste community and practitioners who inspire me.dgments.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Pictures from: trashisfortossers instagram page, book cover of zero waste: Simple Life Hacks to Drastically Reduce Your Trash, johnson.html’ title=“Ctrl+Click to follow link” element-type=“link” ref-type=“DOI” aid=“1s45y2i0x763v8a” icoretag=“uri” ia_version=’0”>https://zerowastemegan.weebly.com/bea-johnson.html, https://money.com/savings-eliminating-plastic-money-tips/2. Other terms including environmental/green/eco-friendly lifestyle refer to the same construct that I try to capture here, which is a lifestyle that intends to reduce environmental impact. Sustainable lifestyle entails subcategories including pro-environmental behaviors, sustainable consumption,anti-consumption, voluntary simplicity, vegetarianism, veganism etc.3. https://www.zerowaste.com/blog/the-top-ten-zero-waste-influencers-in-the-world-today/4. https://www.trvst.world/sustainable-liv","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135198244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public perceptions of environmental degradation in the Arab World: evidence from surveys about water, air, and sanitation","authors":"Nimah Mazaheri","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2251785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2251785","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTMany Arab countries are struggling to combat a range of environmental problems from air pollution to water salinization to overflowing garbage. Yet little is known about how people in this region perceive these environmental problems and the factors that influence their perceptions. This article analyzes surveys conducted by the Arab Barometer with 13,850 people across 12 Arab countries in 2018–19. The focus is on public perceptions about water pollution, air pollution, and trash. About 91% of respondents said that water pollution is a very serious or serious problem. About 89% and 73% feel the same way about trash and air pollution, respectively. Perceptions about environmental quality are mainly shaped by a person’s age, educational background, financial status, and how they view the current economic situation. Although perceptions about water and trash are directly connected to a national environmental quality measure, they are unconnected to specific measurements of clean water access and sanitation quality. Furthermore, perceptions about air quality are unconnected to any general or specific (national- or local-level) measurements. Instead, a person’s age, gender, educational background, financial status, and minority status are better predictors of how much they view air quality to be a problem. These findings shed light on the topic of environmental concern in a comparatively understudied area of the world, highlighting the ways that individual, local, and national factors shape how the average person evaluates environmental problems.KEYWORDS: EnvironmentpollutionArab worldpublicsurveys Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The term ‘Arab World’ refers to the 22 Arab countries located in the Greater Middle East and North African regions: Algeria, Bahrain, the Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.2. Studies of environmental attitudes in Middle Eastern countries that use qualitative, ethnographic, or case study approaches can be found in Croitoru et al. (Citation2010); Jones (Citation2010); Davis and Burke (Citation2011); and Sowers (Citation2013).3. Dunlap et al. (Citation1993), p. 10. Note that Turkey was the only Middle Eastern country surveyed in this study.4. For instance, refer to the survey by the AFED (Citation2017), which uses online convenience sampling methods.5. It is expected that online surveys with probability-based designs will soon be marshaled to generate insights into the environmental attitudes across the Middle East and North Africa. Online surveys are already widely employed in the study of political behavior in the United States (Ansolabehere and Schaffner Citation2018), and this choice of survey mode only increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Arab Barometer project, too, was affected by the p","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135481038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Locking-in white-nose syndrome? The limits of the endangered species act & non-charismatic megafauna","authors":"Jordan Hadlock, Brent Z. Kaup","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2261684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2261684","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWhite-nose syndrome is a deadly pathogenic fungus that has killed millions of bats. In this article, we ask why, despite a well-coordinated response and a relatively steady federal funding stream, WNS has continued to spread with lethal results? To answer this question, we bring together the tools of political ecologists studying health and diseases with social scientific observations on the impacts of lock-ins on social change. We argue that while federal legislation such as the Endangered Species Act (ESA) allowed researchers to quickly recognize the emergence of WNS, the ESA’s focus and directives to protect individual species constrained the ability of scientists to more rapidly understand both the fungus causing WNS and the broader ecosystem dynamics in which the disease can flourish. In addition, while the ESA was written to protect endangered species regardless of their public perception or perceived economic value, such dynamics influence what gets classified as endangered and how much funding a species receives for protection. We thus further argue that the anthropocentric nature of policy making has made it difficult to address WNS and other wildlife diseases with less obvious human impacts in a more holistic way.KEYWORDS: White-nose syndromeendangered species actpolitical ecologylock-ins AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank Amy A. Quark and the studies’ participants who took the time out of their schedules to read over earlier drafts of the manuscript. All errors and claims are of course the responsibility of the authors.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. When first discovered, the fungus was scientifically referred to as Geomyces destructans.2. We recognize that justifying the focus of this manuscript on the economic importance and value of bats is a bit ironic. As many of our informants noted, bats have intrinsic value and are distinctly unique mammals. However, given the anthropocentric nature of the discipline of sociology, we highlight their value to human populations here.3. Bats in Europe are thought to have evolved a resistance to P. destructans and do not suffer from WNS even when the fungus is present on their bodies or in their caves (Blehert et al. Citation2009).Additional informationFundingThe research for this paper was funded by the William & Mary Environment & Sustainability Program Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship.Notes on contributorsJordan HadlockJordan Hadlock is a student in Department of Sociology and the Environment & Sustainability Program at William & Mary. They have future career and research aspirations in conservation and social and environmental justice.Brent Z. KaupBrent Z. Kaup is a Professor of Sociology at William & Mary. His research focuses on the links between finance, landscape change, and infectious disease.","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Politics in the energy-security nexus: an epistemic governance approach to the zero-carbon energy transition in Finland, Estonia, and Norway","authors":"Marja Helena Sivonen, Paula Kivimaa","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2023.2251873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2251873","url":null,"abstract":"To reduce the energy sector’s CO2 emissions, sustainability transitions are essential but may have unexpected national security consequences. We investigate policymaking around energy transitions and national security, combining sociology with sustainability transitions thinking to analyse 73 policy documents issued between 2006 and 2023 in Estonia, Finland, and Norway and investigate how zero-carbon energy and security issues have co-evolved with, strengthened, or undermined one another by analysing the rhetoric in official national strategy documents. With an epistemic governance framework, we identify the discourses that contextualise, justify, and explain policymaking in the energy–security nexus. We find that sustainable energy transitions are strengthened by connections to national security when alternative energy niches have matured but undermined for the same reason when fossil fuels are viewed as more robust sources of security. We detect policy intervention points aiming to indicate how transitions are enabled. Estonia and Finland evince strategic directions to destabilise the regime while supporting niches, whereas Norway focuses on continued oil and gas production. Whereas all are in principle in favour of sustainability transitions, they define transitions differently: Estonia values national sovereignty, Finland preparedness and the economy, and Norway sustainable development and economic security tied to hydrocarbons.","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134912685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}