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Earth observation and sustainable development: A systematic literature review and content analysis about the New Space Economy 对地观测与可持续发展：新空间经济的系统文献综述与内容分析

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-12-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101088

Daniele Binci

The New Space Economy (NSE) is an increasingly debated topic due to its novelty and relevance to sustainable industrial practices. However, the overall effectiveness of NSE, particularly Earth Observation activities for sustainable development, is questioned mainly due to fragmented literature. This literature fails to adequately explore how integrating NSE technologies into environmental and technological processes interacts with learning and capacity building for NSE adoption, particularly in non-traditional sectors such as agriculture, health, and renewable energy.

Therefore, we analyze the state of the art through a systematic review and content analysis of NSE’s impact on sustainability challenges. We identify key concepts from 50 selected papers, organizing content into meaningful categories related to the intersection of NSE and sustainability. Many studies show that space data, ecosystem integration, and sustainable development should be synergistically connected, suggesting a transformation in space-related activities. Accordingly, we address the literature gap by proposing an original conceptual framework that emphasises the technological potential of space data as a powerful information source for businesses and policymakers. The framework highlights how space data, ecosystem integration among NSE stakeholders, and capacity development are essential to achieving sustainability targets.

Practical implications include using the framework as a blueprint for adopting the NSE, understanding its benefits, and expanding the scope of sustainable development across environmental domains and social and economic metrics.

由于其新颖性和与可持续工业实践的相关性，新空间经济（NSE）是一个越来越有争议的话题。然而，NSE的总体有效性，特别是促进可持续发展的地球观测活动受到质疑，主要是由于文献的碎片化。该文献未能充分探讨将NSE技术整合到环境和技术过程中如何与采用NSE的学习和能力建设相互作用，特别是在农业、卫生和可再生能源等非传统部门。因此，我们通过对NSE对可持续性挑战的影响的系统回顾和内容分析来分析目前的现状。我们从50篇选定的论文中确定关键概念，将内容组织成与NSE和可持续性交叉相关的有意义的类别。许多研究表明，空间数据、生态系统整合和可持续发展应该协同联系在一起，这意味着空间相关活动的转变。因此，我们通过提出一个强调空间数据作为企业和政策制定者强大信息源的技术潜力的原始概念框架来解决文献差距。该框架强调了空间数据、NSE利益相关者之间的生态系统整合和能力发展对实现可持续发展目标至关重要。实际意义包括使用该框架作为采用NSE的蓝图，了解其好处，并扩大跨环境领域和社会经济指标的可持续发展范围。

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How the structural composition of sectors shapes socio-technical transitions 部门的结构构成如何影响社会技术转型

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-12-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101065

Johan Miorner , Christian Binz , Lea Fuenfschilling

Recent studies provide compelling evidence that transition dynamics differ between sectors. This paper develops a theoretical framework for analysing the structural composition of a sector and how it shapes transition dynamics. We elaborate a conceptual approach, which emphasizes socio-technical configurations and their degrees of institutionalization and mutual alignment as the key building blocks for analysing sector-specific opportunities, barriers and leverage points for transitions. The framework is illustrated with examples from two sectors that fundamentally differ in their structural composition and resulting transition patterns: 1) Urban Water Management, in which one socio-technical configuration is dominating the field globally, and 2) Urban Mobility, which is characterized by a polycentric combination of configurations that provide mobility services in spatially diversified ways. Juxtaposing these two cases shows that the relevant transition dynamics and scales of intervention fundamentally differ between sectors’ structural compositions, which opens highly constructive avenues for more sector-specific and spatially sensitive theorizing of transition dynamics, and for deriving policy advice.

最近的研究提供了令人信服的证据，表明不同部门之间的转型动态不同。本文发展了一个理论框架来分析一个部门的结构组成，以及它如何塑造转型动态。我们详细阐述了一种概念性方法，强调社会技术配置及其制度化程度和相互一致性，作为分析特定行业转型机会、障碍和杠杆点的关键构建块。该框架通过两个部门的例子来说明，这两个部门在结构组成和由此产生的过渡模式上存在根本差异：1)城市水资源管理，其中一种社会技术配置在全球范围内占主导地位；2)城市交通，其特点是多中心组合配置，以空间多样化的方式提供交通服务。将这两个案例并列显示，相关的转型动态和干预规模在不同部门的结构构成之间存在根本差异，这为更具行业特异性和空间敏感性的转型动态理论化以及提供政策建议开辟了极具建设性的途径。

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Enacting justice in food systems transitions: A critical lens on governance, power and participation 在粮食系统转型中实现正义：从关键角度审视治理、权力和参与

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-12-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101087

Marta López Cifuentes , Guilherme Raj , Roberta Sonnino , Ferne Edwards

Food systems are characterised by persistent injustices – from exploitative labour and unequal access to healthy food to disproportionate environmental burdens on marginalised communities. These injustices have spurred diverse conceptual frameworks (e.g., food democracy, food sovereignty, food justice), resulting in a fragmented debate around justice that tends to conceptualise it as an ideal outcome, rather than as a process. In this paper, we introduce the concept of “just sustainability transitions” to integrate distributive, recognitive and procedural dimensions of justice within a dynamic, process-oriented approach to food governance. Focusing on Food Policy Networks (FPNs) – i.e., multi‐stakeholder networks operating at the intersection of policy and practice – we conducted 67 semi‐structured interviews across varied institutional and cultural contexts and examined how justice is negotiated, enacted and transformed in everyday governance. Our analysis reveals that distributive justice often remains aspirational rather than structurally embedded, whereas recognitive and procedural justice are pursued unevenly due to local power asymmetries and institutional cultures. Within these constraints, emergent practices – such as reconfigured leadership models and enhanced participatory mechanisms – illustrate how actors experiment with redistributing power and reimagining inclusion. These practices suggest that power redistribution should be understood not merely as a democratic outcome, but as a precondition for achieving meaningful and equitable participation. By framing justice as a plural, contested and evolving process, this study bridges fragmented discourses of justice in food systems research and positions participatory governance platforms such as FPNs as sites where “justice‐in‐the‐making” unfolds.

粮食系统的特点是持续存在不公正现象——从剥削性劳动和获取健康食品的不平等，到边缘化社区承受的不成比例的环境负担。这些不公正催生了各种概念框架（例如，粮食民主、粮食主权、粮食正义），导致围绕正义的辩论支离破碎，往往将其概念化为一种理想的结果，而不是一个过程。在本文中，我们引入了“公正的可持续性转型”的概念，将正义的分配、认知和程序维度整合到一个动态的、面向过程的食品治理方法中。关注粮食政策网络（fpn）——即在政策和实践的交叉点上运作的多方利益相关者网络——我们在不同的制度和文化背景下进行了67次半结构化访谈，并研究了正义是如何在日常治理中谈判、制定和转变的。我们的分析表明，分配正义往往是一种愿望，而不是结构上的嵌入，而由于地方权力不对称和制度文化，对认知和程序正义的追求并不均衡。在这些约束条件下，新兴实践——如重新配置的领导模式和增强的参与机制——说明了行动者如何尝试重新分配权力和重新构想包容性。这些做法表明，权力再分配不仅应被理解为一种民主结果，而且应被理解为实现有意义和公平参与的先决条件。通过将正义构建为一个多元的、有争议的和不断发展的过程，本研究将粮食系统研究中关于正义的零散话语联系起来，并将fpn等参与式治理平台定位为“正义在形成”的场所。

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Enacting neutrality or enabling change? The contested role of city administration in socio-ecological transformation 是保持中立还是促成变革？城市管理在社会生态转型中的争议角色

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101073

Marie Graef, Cordula Kropp

Research on sustainable transition and sustainability governance often focuses on informal niche actors and non-institutionalized networks. By contrast, the role of public administration (PA) in socio-ecological transformation processes remains underexplored. Similarly, sustainability has not been a prominent issue in PA research. This paper aims to contribute to filling in these gaps through an exploratory qualitative case study of the planning departments in three medium-sized German cities recognized as pioneers in climate action.

The findings highlight that, although daily practice necessarily involves the exercise of discretion and thus creates room for maneuver for municipal employees, a prevailing paradigm of neutrality exists within PA. This paradigm imposes significant constraints on transformative institutional work. It leads to the obscuring of power dynamics and limits the transformative potential of PA by inhibiting the explicit discussion, development, and dissemination of relevant knowledge.

关于可持续转型和可持续治理的研究往往侧重于非正式的利基行动者和非制度化的网络。相比之下，公共行政（PA）在社会生态转型过程中的作用仍未得到充分探讨。同样，可持续性在PA研究中也不是一个突出的问题。本文旨在通过对德国三个被公认为气候行动先驱的中型城市的规划部门进行探索性定性案例研究，为填补这些空白做出贡献。研究结果强调，尽管日常实践必然涉及自由裁量权的行使，从而为市政雇员创造了机动空间，但PA内部存在一种普遍的中立范式。这种范式对变革性的制度工作施加了重大限制。它导致权力动态的模糊，并通过抑制相关知识的明确讨论、发展和传播，限制了PA的变革潜力。

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A leverage point perspective for policymaking for circular transition - A case study of the Icelandic building industry 循环转型政策制定的杠杆点视角——冰岛建筑业案例研究

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101078

Agusta Thora Jonsdottir , Lara Johannsdottir , Brynhildur Davidsdottir , Federico Cosenz

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals requires systemic transformation through policy reforms that enable a socio-technical transition. This study examines the Icelandic building industry, a sector of significant environmental impact that has recently published a roadmap for sustainable development. Through a case study, the research evaluates the roadmap´s transformative potential through stakeholder-driven policy formulation. The study compares the transformative potential of the roadmap's interventions with those formulated using Meadows' (1999) leverage-point framework during the agenda-setting phase (TLP framework). Its findings show that the roadmap interventions do not sufficiently address the deep leverage points required for industry-wide transition. In contrast, applying the TLP framework during agenda-setting enhances the transformative potential of proposed interventions, supporting a shift toward a circular economy. This study contributes to transition studies by applying the multi-level perspective and circular economy lens to reveal the lack of transformative policies in Iceland's building industry roadmap. It demonstrates how the TLP framework can assess policy documents, inform agenda-setting, and enhance the transformative potential of interventions. The findings provide actionable guidance for policymakers in Iceland, including developing a shared circular economy vision, shifting business attitudes, and embedding circular principles into design, infrastructure, planning, and professional training. The findings may extend beyond the Icelandic context, requiring further research to test transferability.

实现联合国可持续发展目标需要通过政策改革进行系统性转型，实现社会技术转型。这项研究考察了冰岛建筑业，这是一个对环境有重大影响的部门，最近发布了可持续发展路线图。通过案例研究，本研究通过利益相关者驱动的政策制定来评估路线图的变革潜力。该研究比较了路线图干预措施的变革潜力与在议程设置阶段使用梅多斯（1999）杠杆点框架（TLP框架）制定的干预措施。研究结果表明，路线图干预措施不能充分解决全行业转型所需的深度杠杆点。相比之下，在议程设置过程中应用TLP框架可以增强拟议干预措施的变革潜力，从而支持向循环经济的转变。本研究运用多层次视角和循环经济视角，揭示了冰岛建筑业路线图中转型政策的缺失，为转型研究做出了贡献。它展示了TLP框架如何能够评估政策文件，为议程设置提供信息，并增强干预措施的变革潜力。研究结果为冰岛的政策制定者提供了可操作的指导，包括制定共同的循环经济愿景，转变商业态度，将循环原则融入设计、基础设施、规划和专业培训中。这一发现可能超出了冰岛的范围，需要进一步的研究来测试可转移性。

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How to scale beyond the niche? Fitting versus transforming strategies of grassroots initiatives and their impact on sustainability transitions 如何超越利基市场？基层倡议的适应与转变策略及其对可持续性转型的影响

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101058

P.M. Bögel , A. Böckmann , P. Upham , N. Braum , K. Augenstein , A. Möller

The question of how to increase the impact of grassroots initiatives via their scaling from niche to regime level is a key issue in transition studies. We add to the debate by analysing how organisational identities of energy cooperatives influence their scaling strategies. For this purpose, we use an explorative, qualitative research approach, conducted in collaboration with a federation of cooperatives in Germany. We identify several different identity types for the energy cooperatives studied (Classic GIs, Intermediary, Pragmatic, Tech drivers, & Economic-socials), observing that different identity types are associated with whether cooperatives pursue fit-and-conform or stretch-and-transform pathways. The findings are positioned in relation to broader debate on niche-regime dynamics. Namely, we highlight how the heterogeneity of types implies a need for nuance when thinking about scaling pathways. Our findings challenge simplistic policy narratives that prioritize expansion and instead call for nuanced support attuned to identity, agency and socio-spatial contexts.

如何通过将基层倡议从生态位扩展到制度层面来增加其影响是转型研究中的一个关键问题。我们通过分析能源合作社的组织身份如何影响其规模战略来增加辩论。为此，我们与德国的一个合作社联合会合作，采用了一种探索性质的研究方法。我们为所研究的能源合作社确定了几种不同的身份类型（经典GIs、中介、务实、技术驱动者和经济社会），观察到不同的身份类型与合作社是追求契合-顺应还是拉伸-转型路径有关。这些发现与更广泛的关于生态位制度动力学的辩论有关。也就是说，我们强调类型的异质性意味着在考虑缩放路径时需要细微差别。我们的研究结果挑战了过于简单化的政策叙述，即优先考虑扩张，而不是要求根据身份、机构和社会空间背景提供细致入微的支持。

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Aligning place-making, community investment, and sustainability experiments: Ecodistricts in the Pittsburgh metro region 将场所建设、社区投资和可持续性实验结合起来：匹兹堡都市区的生态区

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-11-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101063

Sarah Evi

Urban sustainability experiments are arising in cities worldwide to facilitate sustainability transitions. Experiments engage diverse coalitions in generating innovative solutions to on-the-ground development challenges in neighborhoods, campuses, and other districts. To interrogate experiments’ transformative potential, it is essential to unpack how they engage with uneven urban development patterns at multiple scales. Through a comparative qualitative case study of two ecodistricts in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania metropolitan region, this research engages a relational place-making lens to assess how experiments shape community investment dynamics. The analysis shows that the inclusivity of and the strength of alignments between place narratives, governance networks, and material landscapes within and beyond experiments influences how communities attract investment to sustainability projects and derive value from these investments. This highlights the importance of place-making to the embedded and multi-scalar dynamics through which experiments are mediated by and transform community investment and development patterns in cities.

世界各地的城市正在进行城市可持续性实验，以促进可持续性转型。实验让不同的联盟参与进来，为社区、校园和其他地区的实际发展挑战提供创新的解决方案。为了探究实验的变革潜力，有必要揭示它们如何在多个尺度上与不平衡的城市发展模式相结合。通过对宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡两个生态区的比较定性案例研究，本研究采用了一个相关的地方制造视角来评估实验如何塑造社区投资动态。分析表明，实验内外的地方叙事、治理网络和物质景观之间的一致性的包容性和强度影响着社区如何吸引可持续发展项目的投资，并从这些投资中获得价值。这突出了场所建设对嵌入式和多尺度动态的重要性，通过这种动态，实验被城市的社区投资和发展模式所调节和改变。

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Decolonising innovation in sustainability transitions for pluriversal justice and wellbeing 可持续性转型中的非殖民化创新，以实现多元正义和福祉

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-11-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101064

Saurabh Arora , Bipashyee Ghosh , Andy Stirling

Sustainability scholars address social-ecological injustices associated with innovation processes, through concepts such as ‘just transitions’ and ‘energy justice’. However, the making of today’s innovations by deep and pervasive formations of power and privilege – colonial modernities – is currently neglected in sustainability transition studies. We conceptualise nine epistemological and ontological foundations of distinctively colonial-modern innovation processes. These foundations include: fixing categorical divides on flowing relations; stratifying rigidly separated orders; promoting appropriation of privileges; objectifying and reifying realities; monopolising quantifications; standardising practices; singularising ontology, by approaching the pluriverse (of many different and connected ways of knowing, being and doing in disparate worlds) as just one world; and dominating other worlds by colonial-modern worldmaking.

Taken together, these interwoven foundations point to the following actions to help decolonise modern innovation processes: recognising and challenging colonial formations of concentrated power and privilege as they are built into modern knowing; extending egalitarian relations towards intersectionally marginalised contributors in knowledge production; grasping multifarious encompassment by wider material and living ecologies of beings notionally separated as ‘human’ or ‘nonhuman’; embracing inherent uncertainties in all that can be known or made, to imbue knowing and making with humility and care; admitting open pluralities of qualities, which include approaching dimensions of categories as fluid; and supporting pluriversal reparations spanning many ways of knowing, in struggles to dismantle coloniality everywhere. Decolonising innovation processes in these ways, we propose, can contribute to deeper decolonial transformations of modernities in solidarity with colonially subordinated peoples’ struggles for pluriversal wellbeing and justice. Without realising such justice for the flourishing of many worlds, sustainability may remain little more than a modern illusion.

可持续发展学者通过“公正过渡”和“能源公正”等概念解决与创新过程相关的社会生态不公正问题。然而，在可持续性转型研究中，深刻而普遍的权力和特权形成——殖民现代性——对今天的创新的影响目前被忽视了。我们概念化独特的殖民-现代创新过程的九个认识论和本体论基础。这些基础包括：确定流动关系的范畴划分；将严格分离的目分层；促进特权的挪用；客观化和物化现实；垄断量化;标准化实践;奇点本体，通过将多元宇宙（在不同的世界中许多不同的、相互联系的认识、存在和行为方式）视为一个世界；并通过殖民主义和现代主义统治其他世界。综上所述，这些相互交织的基础指向了以下行动，以帮助现代创新进程去殖民化：承认并挑战集中权力和特权的殖民形成，因为它们已融入现代知识；将平等主义关系扩展到知识生产中交叉边缘化的贡献者；通过更广泛的物质和生物生态来把握各种各样的范围，这些生物在概念上被划分为“人类”或“非人类”；拥抱所有已知或创造的固有的不确定性，以谦卑和关怀来灌输认知和创造；承认开放的多元性，其中包括接近作为流动的范畴的维度；并支持多元赔偿，跨越多种认识方式，在各地拆除殖民主义的斗争中。我们认为，以这些方式进行的非殖民化创新进程可以促进现代性的更深层次的非殖民化转变，与殖民地附属人民争取多元福祉和正义的斗争团结一致。如果不能为许多世界的繁荣实现这样的正义，可持续性可能仅仅是一种现代幻想。

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Applying a conflict typology to ecologies of intermediation: the case of a transitions intermediary in Spain 将冲突类型学应用于中介生态：西班牙过渡中介的案例

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101072

Paul Upham , Paula Bögel , Teresa Sanchez-Chaparro , Javier Mazorra , Kateryna Pereverza , Samanthi Dijkstra-Silva , Johann M. Majer

Within ecologies of intermediation, multiple intermediaries and their initiatives operate with overlapping remits and associated conflicts. To understand these, we propose a typology of conflict sources, applying this to the case of a university-based sustainability intermediary in Spain (itdUPM). itdUPM acts as an umbrella organisation for initiatives that connect stakeholders in pursuit of sustainability objectives. Analysing the case with its embedded sub-units, we distinguish between: (1) value conflicts connected to actors’ identities and ideologies; (2) socio-cognitive conflicts related to the need to hold consistent and socially validated cognitions; (3) conflicts of interests, which emerge when actors’ interests in terms of resource allocation, including power, are misaligned. We highlight the importance of a nuanced understanding of conflict types as part of intermediation processes, including those arising from the dynamic interactions between specific intermediation initiatives and their broader contexts. We also propose conflict management strategies to assist in this in practice.

在中介的生态系统中，多个中介及其主动性在重叠的权限和相关的冲突中运作。为了理解这些，我们提出了冲突来源的类型学，并将其应用于西班牙大学可持续发展中介机构（itdUPM）的案例。itdUPM作为倡议的伞形组织，将利益相关者联系起来，追求可持续发展目标。分析案例及其嵌入的子单元，我们区分了：(1)与行动者身份和意识形态相关的价值冲突；(2)与需要保持一致和社会验证的认知相关的社会认知冲突；(3)利益冲突，即行为体在资源配置（包括权力）方面的利益不一致。我们强调对调解过程中冲突类型进行细致理解的重要性，包括那些由具体调解倡议及其更广泛背景之间的动态互动产生的冲突类型。我们还提出了冲突管理战略，以在实践中协助实现这一目标。

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Distribution of forest-based innovations across Europe 基于森林的创新在欧洲的分布

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101066

Marko Lovrić , Mario Torralba , Francesco Orsi , Davide Pettenella , Carsten Mann , Davide Geneletti , Tobias Plieninger , Eeva Primmer , Monica Hernandez-Morcillo , Bo Jellesmark Thorsen , Thomas Lundhede , Loft Lasse , Sven Wunder , Georg Winkel

Vast majority of forestry research on innovations is based on case studies, which makes it difficult to ascertain their distribution across Europe. The relation between innovating activity and the forest within which it takes place is also an under-explored research area. In this study, we address these problems by combining survey data, spatially explicit datasets and machine learning to devise geographical probability distribution of innovation development across Europe. We differentiate between innovations focused on provision of wood and those which focus on biodiversity protection, carbon storage and forest recreation. We also show that most of the variability in the data depicting innovation development can be explained by place-based variables, such as the amount of tree biomass in the forest, tree species composition, nature protection status, terrain ruggedness and road density. Results suggest the need to further explore the role of ‘place-based’ contextual variables in innovation development and highlight various issues that different policies might face when aiming to modify forest management practices in Europe.

绝大多数关于创新的林业研究都是基于案例研究，因此很难确定它们在整个欧洲的分布情况。创新活动与其所在的森林之间的关系也是一个未被充分探索的研究领域。在本研究中，我们通过结合调查数据、空间显式数据集和机器学习来解决这些问题，以设计整个欧洲创新发展的地理概率分布。我们将专注于提供木材的创新与专注于生物多样性保护、碳储存和森林娱乐的创新区分开来。我们还发现，描述创新发展的数据中的大部分变异性可以用基于地点的变量来解释，例如森林中的树木生物量、树种组成、自然保护状况、地形崎岖度和道路密度。研究结果表明，需要进一步探索“基于地点”的环境变量在创新发展中的作用，并强调在旨在修改欧洲森林管理实践时，不同政策可能面临的各种问题。

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