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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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Varieties of disagreement in transformative policy missions: A Q study on the decarbonization of Swedish industry 变革政策使命中的各种分歧：瑞典工业脱碳的Q研究

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101069

Johnn Andersson , Hans Hellsmark , Elizaveta Johansson

Governments increasingly launch transformative policy missions to address complex societal challenges such as climate change. While the literature on mission-oriented innovation policy highlights the role of stakeholder contestation and emphasizes the need to promote alignment, it often overlooks the nature of underlying disagreements. This paper distinguishes between factual and normative disagreement across problems, solutions, and interventions, and applies Q methodology to identify and analyze four distinct stakeholder narratives in the mission to decarbonize Swedish industry. The narratives reveal different varieties of disagreement, ranging from factual concerns about technological feasibility and policy effectiveness to normative critiques of directionality and legitimacy. Our findings demonstrate that missions involve not only alignment, but also disjointment – persistent divergences of opinion rooted in fundamentally conflicting values and beliefs. Recognizing disjointment underscores the need for mission-oriented policymaking to balance efforts to foster alignment with strategies that address enduring conflict through mediation, recognition, redistribution, and compensation.

各国政府越来越多地发起变革性政策使命，以应对气候变化等复杂的社会挑战。虽然关于使命导向创新政策的文献强调了利益相关者争论的作用，并强调了促进协调的必要性，但它往往忽视了潜在分歧的本质。本文区分了问题、解决方案和干预措施之间的事实和规范分歧，并应用Q方法来识别和分析瑞典工业脱碳使命中的四种不同的利益相关者叙述。这些叙述揭示了不同种类的分歧，从对技术可行性和政策有效性的事实关注到对指向性和合法性的规范性批评。我们的研究结果表明，使命不仅涉及一致，也涉及脱节——源于根本冲突的价值观和信仰的持续意见分歧。认识到脱节强调了以使命为导向的政策制定的必要性，以平衡促进协调的努力与通过调解、承认、再分配和补偿解决持久冲突的战略。

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Modelling energy justice: Reconceptualizing the modelling process to include procedural and recognition justice 建模能源正义：重新定义建模过程，包括程序和识别正义

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101070

Aarthi Sundaram , Yilin Huang , Igor Nikolic , Eefje Cuppen

Interest in linking energy models with energy justice is growing, with a rising number of studies explicitly addressing the three tenets of justice – distributive, procedural, and recognition – and reviews mapping this field. Yet procedural and recognition justice have been treated in limited ways, leaving it unclear how models can meaningfully engage with them. This paper addresses this gap through a structured review of 63 peer-reviewed studies that develop or use models to support local and regional energy transition decisions while incorporating justice considerations. We find that procedural justice is primarily operationalized as stakeholder participation, with less efforts made to explicitly address other principles such as transparency, inclusivity, accountability and to include non-participatory ways of including stakeholder input. Recognition justice is either omitted or conflated with procedural principles, whereas energy justice literature defines it in systemic terms that extend beyond the mere acknowledgement of stakeholder groups. We argue that early-stage decisions such as funding, research design, and stakeholder selection significantly influence whose values are represented in models, whose knowledge is excluded, and which outcomes are prioritized. These influences, despite their justice implications, are rarely acknowledged, with existing efforts biased toward implementations of justice within model logic. We propose expanding the scope of modelling to include these early-stage influences and outline four recommendations for modellers: broaden justice conceptualizations beyond model logic; evaluate early-stage justice implications; adopt reflexive practices; and leverage multi-modelling approaches to capture the multi-dimensionality of energy justice.

将能源模型与能源正义联系起来的兴趣正在增长，越来越多的研究明确地解决了正义的三个原则——分配、程序和承认——以及对这一领域的评论。然而，程序正义和识别正义的处理方式有限，使模型如何有意义地参与其中尚不清楚。本文通过对63项同行评议研究的结构化审查来解决这一差距，这些研究开发或使用模型来支持地方和区域能源转型决策，同时纳入司法考虑。我们发现，程序正义主要是通过利益相关者的参与来实现的，而在明确解决透明度、包容性、问责制等其他原则以及包括利益相关者投入的非参与性方式方面所做的努力较少。承认正义要么被省略，要么与程序原则混为一谈，而能源正义文献则从系统的角度对其进行了定义，而不仅仅是对利益相关者群体的承认。我们认为，早期决策（如资助、研究设计和利益相关者选择）显著影响模型中代表谁的价值、排除谁的知识以及优先考虑哪些结果。这些影响，尽管它们的正义含义，很少被承认，现有的努力偏向于在模型逻辑中实现正义。我们建议扩大建模的范围，以包括这些早期阶段的影响，并概述了对建模者的四项建议：在模型逻辑之外扩大正义概念；评估早期司法影响；采取反思性做法；并利用多模型方法来捕捉能源正义的多维度。

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Replicating grassroots innovations in the Global South: A case study of ecovillages for marginalized groups in Colombia 在全球南方复制基层创新：哥伦比亚边缘群体生态村案例研究

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101068

Rebeca Roysen , Diego Hernando Florez Ayala , Mónica Ramos-Mejía , Lasse Kos , Nadine Bruehwiler , Jens Koehrsen

This study analyses a case of replication of ecovillages for marginalized groups in Colombia. Ecovillages are a grassroots innovation aimed at fostering sustainable communities. This paper explores how the institutional and sociocultural context shapes the replication of ecovillages in the Global South. Data was collected through fieldwork at a Colombian ecovillage and interviews with members of organizations engaged in replicating the ecovillage’s model. The results show that the sociocultural context influences replication through reframing dynamics. Reframing dynamics involves two steps: An initial frame alignment followed by shifts in the collective action frames. The interpretative flexibility of the ecovillage concept enables its adaptation to diverse sociocultural contexts. However, in the Global South, limited economic resources, weak state institutions, and uneven access to knowledge can compel marginalized groups to rely on brokers with the knowledge and political leverage to mobilize the necessary resources. Despite these challenges, interviewee accounts suggest that rural ecovillages with social (subsidized) housing may offer a viable solution for marginalized groups in the Global South seeking to integrate economic productivity, ecological sustainability and a strong sense of community.

本研究分析了哥伦比亚边缘群体生态村的复制案例。生态村是一项旨在培育可持续社区的基层创新。本文探讨了制度和社会文化背景如何塑造了全球南方国家生态村的复制。数据是通过在哥伦比亚一个生态村的实地调查和对参与复制生态村模式的组织成员的采访收集的。结果表明，社会文化背景通过重构动态来影响复制。重新构建动态包括两个步骤：最初的框架对齐，然后是集体行动框架的转变。生态村概念的解释灵活性使其能够适应不同的社会文化背景。然而，在全球南方，有限的经济资源、薄弱的国家机构和不平等的知识获取途径可能迫使边缘化群体依赖具有知识和政治影响力的中间人来调动必要的资源。尽管存在这些挑战，但受访者的说法表明，拥有社会（补贴）住房的农村生态村可能为寻求整合经济生产力、生态可持续性和强烈社区意识的全球南方边缘化群体提供一个可行的解决方案。

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Upscaling niche innovations by circular start-ups for sustainability transitions 通过循环初创企业为可持续发展转型升级利基创新

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-10-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101067

Sabrina Tabares , Wisdom Kanda

While research acknowledges the role of start-ups in introducing niche innovations, the way these firms contribute to sustainability transitions through upscaling circular business models remains under-theorized. To advance this understanding, we analyze how circular start-ups (CSUs) upscale niche innovations within regimes to foster sustainability transitions. By combining the literature on circular economy and sustainability transitions, we draw on the frameworks of niche empowerment, the Business Model Design Space (BMDS), and the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) to analyze upscaling strategies through a multiple-case study of 30 CSUs in Latin America. Our study offers a nuanced interpretation of how circular business model innovation (CBMI) diffuses via empowerment strategies: (a) fit-and-conform, which manifests through the upscaling practices of adapt-and-comply and adjust-and-refine; and (b) stretch-and-transform, which unfolds through renew-and-reconfigure and alter and-replace upscaling practices. By positioning this phenomenon within the MLP, we interpret CBMI upscaling by examining the interplay between stabilizing and disruptive forces that drive sustainability transitions. In particular, we examine how these transition dynamics are linked to the specific business model typologies adopted by CSUs. Finally, we offer insights for sustainability transitions from a Global South perspective, acknowledge the study’s limitations, and propose avenues for future research

虽然研究承认初创企业在引入利基创新方面的作用，但这些公司通过升级循环商业模式为可持续发展转型做出贡献的方式仍然缺乏理论。为了推进这一理解，我们分析了循环初创企业（csu）如何在制度内提升利基创新，以促进可持续性转型。结合循环经济和可持续转型方面的文献，我们利用利基赋权、商业模式设计空间（BMDS）和多层次视角（MLP）框架，通过对拉丁美洲30个csu的多案例研究，分析了升级战略。我们的研究对循环商业模式创新（CBMI）如何通过授权策略进行扩散提供了细致入微的解释：(a)适应与顺应，这体现在适应与遵守和调整与完善的升级实践中；(b)拉伸和转换，通过更新和重新配置以及改变和替换升级实践展开。通过将这一现象定位在MLP中，我们通过研究驱动可持续性转型的稳定力量和破坏性力量之间的相互作用来解释CBMI升级。特别地，我们将研究这些转换动态如何与csu所采用的特定业务模型类型相关联。最后，我们从全球南方的角度对可持续发展转型提出了见解，承认了研究的局限性，并提出了未来研究的途径

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Transition and transformation: A cross-fertilizing approach to complement the study of systemic and sustainable changes (food system application) 过渡和转型：一种补充系统性和可持续变化研究的交叉施肥方法（粮食系统应用）

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-10-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101059

Joséphine Dalimier , Kevin Maréchal , Nicolas Dendoncker

The terms "transition" and "transformation" are frequently used to describe systemic and sustainable change. However, their conceptual boundaries remain ambiguous. While some studies suggest semantic overlap, others emphasize subtle distinctions. Nonetheless, few have examined their mutual contributions when used jointly. This paper presents a qualitative analysis of food systems literature that distinguishes between the two terms. Two key findings emerge: semantic duality persists, with "transition" exhibiting conceptual stability and "transformation" encompassing diversity, and their relationship follows three patterns: complementary, nested, or independent. Our results suggest that "transformation" supports the cross-fertilization of research on sustainable and systemic changes by engaging with underexplored themes in Sustainability Transition Research, such as power relations, politics, normativity, governance, social movements, culture, paradigms, and systemic and transdisciplinary approaches. The flexibility of "transformation" offers both an opportunity for rupture and progress toward sustainability, and a risk of dilution, underscoring the need for continued clarification of the concept.

术语“过渡”和“转型”经常用于描述系统和可持续的变化。然而，它们的概念界限仍然模糊不清。虽然一些研究表明语义重叠，但其他研究强调细微的区别。然而，很少有人审查它们在联合使用时的共同贡献。本文提出了食品系统文献的定性分析，区分这两个术语。出现了两个关键发现：语义二元性持续存在，“过渡”表现出概念稳定性，“转换”包含多样性，它们的关系遵循三种模式：互补、嵌套或独立。我们的研究结果表明，通过参与可持续转型研究中未被探索的主题，如权力关系、政治、规范性、治理、社会运动、文化、范式以及系统和跨学科方法，“转型”支持可持续和系统性变化研究的交叉施肥。“转变”的灵活性既提供了断裂的机会，也为可持续发展提供了进步的机会，也有稀释的风险，强调了继续澄清概念的必要性。

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Just transition as transition in justice: Really learning from, about and with China Just transition as transition in justice：真正向中国学习，了解中国，与中国一起学习

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101060

David Tyfield , Ping Huang

Humanity is undergoing an unprecedented and irreversible transformation, reshaping both the planet and society. The concept of "just transition" has become a central narrative in climate and environmental discourses, yet prevailing scholarship often treats justice as a fixed, universal ideal, attaching it to transition without critically examining its contextual and evolving nature. This Perspective challenges such static interpretations, arguing that just transition should be understood as an ongoing process embedded in historically and culturally specific contexts, and so as a question, not a settled standpoint. We delineate what just transition is not: it is neither a predefined endpoint, nor simply the absence of injustice, nor a mechanism that inherently flattens power hierarchies. Drawing on empirical insights from China, we illustrate how local understandings of justice are shaped by place-specific cultural values and historical power structures. By critiquing dominant assumptions and advocating for a more dynamic, context-sensitive approach, this Perspective contributes to a more inclusive and globally relevant discourse on just transition, offering critical insights for scholars and policymakers navigating the complexities of sustainability transformations.

人类正在经历一场前所未有的、不可逆转的变革，重塑着地球和社会。“公正转型”的概念已经成为气候和环境话语的中心叙述，但主流学术往往将正义视为一种固定的、普遍的理想，将其与转型联系在一起，而没有批判性地审视其背景和演变的性质。这一观点挑战了这种静态的解释，认为公正的过渡应该被理解为嵌入在历史和文化特定背景中的持续过程，因此是一个问题，而不是一个既定的立场。我们描述了公正的过渡不是什么：它既不是预先定义的终点，也不是简单地没有不公正，也不是一种内在地使权力等级扁平化的机制。借鉴中国的经验见解，我们说明了当地对正义的理解如何受到地方特定文化价值观和历史权力结构的影响。通过对主流假设的批判，倡导一种更动态、更情境敏感的方法，这一视角有助于形成更具包容性和全球相关性的公正转型论述，为学者和政策制定者在可持续性转型的复杂性中导航提供重要见解。

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The enhancement of diffusion capabilities by transition intermediaries: A longitudinal study on the UK electrification of transport 过渡中介机构对扩散能力的增强：对英国交通电气化的纵向研究

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-10-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101062

Horacio Gonzalez

Transition intermediaries are fundamental in promoting diffusion processes. However, previous research has rarely explored how the ecology of transition intermediaries enhances managerial capabilities in niches to accelerate the diffusion of technological innovation. This paper expands this literature by examining a longitudinal case study on the battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) in the UK. The analysis reveals that transition intermediaries shape diffusion capabilities in niches for validating technical and business aspects of technological innovation. Building on these results, the present study extends the transition intermediary literature by integrating the capability approach from the management theory of the Resource-Based View (RBV) as a missing piece to illuminate the acceleration of diffusion processes during sustainable transitions.

过渡中介人是促进扩散进程的根本。然而，以往的研究很少探讨过渡中介生态如何提高生态位的管理能力，从而加速技术创新的扩散。本文通过对英国电池电动汽车（BEVs）的纵向案例研究，扩展了这一文献。分析表明，过渡中介塑造了利基中的扩散能力，以验证技术创新的技术和商业方面。在此基础上，本研究通过整合资源基础观（RBV）管理理论中的能力方法来扩展转型中介文献，以阐明可持续转型过程中扩散过程的加速。

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