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What drives public engagement by scientists? An Australian perspective Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Michael Murunga, Emily Ogier, Catriona Macleod, Gretta Pecl
There is an increasing expectation for more scientists to engage with industry, government, and communities to solve climate change. A group for whom these calls are now prevalent are marine (natural and social) scientists working on environmental change, including climate change. Yet, there is limited empirical evidence of what drives them to embrace or avoid engaging distinct publics, including policymakers
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Defining and conceptualizing equity and justice in climate adaptation Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 S.E. Walker, E.A. Smith, N. Bennett, E. Bannister, A. Narayana, T. Nuckols, K. Pineda Velez, J. Wrigley, K.M. Bailey
Diverse disciplines are contributing to the growing body of evidence exploring the interaction between climate adaptation and justice and/or equity. As a result, the literature lacks consistency in how the terms equity and justice are applied and defined, challenging efforts to synthesize evidence and translate it into policy and practice. This scoping review aims to investigate the diversity of ways
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Adapting ecosystem accounting to meet the needs of Indigenous living cultural landscapes: A case study from Yawuru Country, northern Australia Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Anna Normyle, Bruce Doran, Dean Mathews, Julie Melbourne, Michael Vardon
Despite global recognition of the need to protect and preserve Indigenous knowledge and values in the context of land use change, the extent and significance of these values on Indigenous lands remains not well understood and poorly considered in environmental management and planning. Including Indigenous values in the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) may be one way to better ensure
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Transformative labor: The hidden (and not-so-hidden) work of transformations to sustainability Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Susanne C. Moser
The urgent need for transformations to sustainability has been widely established, but the seeming lack of swift and comprehensive progress have led to well-founded doubts about meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement, the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and other related global agreements. Often vacuous and potentially misleading pointers to partial progress are not reassuring, while defeatist
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Legacies of childhood learning for climate change adaptation Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Rowan Jackson, Andrew Dugmore, Felix Riede
Using archaeological, historical, and ethnographic analysis of Norse and Inuit toys and miniatures, this paper argues that legacies of childhood learning can create limits to climatic change adaptation and provide lessons from the past relevant today. In Medieval Greenland, Norse children played with objects that would have familiarised them with the expected norms and behaviours of farming, household
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Accelerated contraction of future climate comfort zones in the southern subtropics: Insights from analysis and simulation of hiking big data Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Shenghong Wang, Yuwei Tan, Rob Law, Luyu Yang, Haolong Liu, Yao Liu, Jun Liu
Many people are highly exposed to climate change through tourism activities. However, conventional evaluations of tourism climate suitability have consistently relied on uniform indicators. In reality, the combination of meteorological factors that tourists are sensitive to and the threshold ranges for their comfort vary across different climate zones. This study, for the first time, utilizes a dataset
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The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Fanny Moffette, Daniel Phaneuf, Lisa Rausch, Holly K. Gibbs
Lack of property rights is associated with lower investment, development, and welfare. In the Brazilian Amazon, insecure property rights have historically led to civil conflicts and deforestation, which would be expected to provide incentives for landowners to seek formal title. In this paper, we construct a novel database of land prices in Brazil to measure the market value of formal title to land
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Progress and gaps in U.S. Adaptation policy at the local level Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Bethany Tietjen, Jenna Clark, Erin Coughlan de Perez
As climate impacts intensify, local governments across the United States are developing ad-hoc policies and plans to increase their resilience to climate hazards across all sectors, but there is limited assessment of what policies currently exist in U.S. communities to adapt to climate change. In this article, we develop a novel policy inventory for adaptation policies in five U.S. counties. Using
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A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Giorgio A. Bidoglio, Florian Schwarzmueller, Thomas Kastner
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Pathways to conventional and radical climate action: The role of temporal orientation, environmental cognitive alternatives, and eco-anxiety Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Charlie R. Pittaway, Kelly S. Fielding, Winnifred R. Louis
Motivating climate action is challenging because the worst consequences of climate change are in the future, triggering a conflict between short- and long-term interests. Prior research suggests that orienting to the future facilitates pro-environmental behavior whereas orientation to the present inhibits it; however, we consider whether different temporal orientations simply make some kinds of climate
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A new dynamic framework is required to assess adaptation limits Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Sirkku Juhola, Laurens M. Bouwer, Christian Huggel, Reinhard Mechler, Veruska Muccione, Ivo Wallimann-Helmer
Anthropogenic climate change is already causing dangerous and widespread disruptions in global ecological and social systems and affects the lives of billions of people around the world. Even with scaled-up risk management and adaptation, the limits of adaptation will often be reached. Currently, very little is known about the degree to which societies can adapt to climate change, and where and when
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Climate beliefs, climate technologies and transformation pathways: Contextualizing public perceptions in 22 countries Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Livia Fritz, Chad M. Baum, Elina Brutschin, Sean Low, Benjamin K. Sovacool
As emerging methods for carbon removal and controversial proposals around solar radiation modification are gaining traction in climate assessments and policy debates, a better understanding of how the public perceives these approaches is needed. Relying on qualitative data from 44 focus groups (n = 323 respondents), triangulated with a survey conducted in 22 countries (n = over 22 000 participants)
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Are energy transitions reproducing inequalities? Power, social stigma and distributive (in)justice in Mexico Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Paola Velasco-Herrejón, Thomas Bauwens
Activists, scholars, and policymakers worldwide have increasingly recognised the intrinsic linkages between energy transitions and justice issues. However, little research exists on how groups affected by renewable energy siting interpret and mobilise justice narratives to legitimise their actions and question development plans. Building on the notion of 'framing' in social movement theory, this study
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Does stricter sewage treatment targets policy exacerbate the contradiction between effluent water quality improvement and carbon emissions mitigation? An evidence from China Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Xuan Yang, Cuncun Duan, Bin Chen, Saige Wang
Rapid expansion and upgrading of wastewater treatment facilities globally, driven by stricter wastewater policies, significantly contribute to carbon emissions. China has contributed 30 % of carbon emissions in the world, 1 % of which comes from wastewater treatment, necessitating more understanding of the impact of policies, especially the stringent “10-Point Water Plan” policy. From a micro perspective
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Impact of lifestyle, human diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production on eutrophication of global aquifers and surface waters Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-15 A.F. Bouwman, A.H.W. Beusen, J.C. Doelman, E. Stehfest, H. Westhoek
A spatially explicit (0.5 degree resolution) analysis is presented of the impact of human lifestyle, diet and nutrient use efficiency in food production and wastewater treatment on exceedance of threshold concentrations for nitrate in groundwater, and total N and total P concentrations in surface water, as well as criteria for their ratio. This analysis starts from the middle-of-the-road (SSP2) and
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Migrants as sustainability actors: Contrasting nation, city and migrant discourses and actions Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Claudia Fry, Emily Boyd, Mark Connaughton, W. Neil Adger, Maria Franco Gavonel, Caroline Zickgraf, Sonja Fransen, Dominique Jolivet, Anita H. Fábos, Ed Carr
Although it is widely recognized that migration is socially transformative, the potential contributions of migrants to transformations towards sustainability in their destination areas are often overlooked in mainstream discourse on environmentalism and sustainability. Here we seek to identify current narratives of migrants and sustainability across individual, urban, and national scales. Migrants
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Biological invasions as burdens to primary economic sectors Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Anna J. Turbelin, Emma J. Hudgins, Jane A. Catford, Ross N. Cuthbert, Christophe Diagne, Melina Kourantidou, David Roiz, Franck Courchamp
Many human-introduced alien species economically impact industries worldwide. Management prioritisation and coordination efforts towards biological invasions are hampered by a lack of comprehensive quantification of costs to key economic sectors. Here, we quantify and estimate global invasion costs to seven major sectors and unravel the introduction pathways of species causing these costs — focusing
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From grey to green? Tipping a coal region incrementally Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Franziska Mey, Arno Weik, Johan Lilliestam
A rapid and full decarbonisation of both energy and industry is essential to meet the targets in the Paris agreement, which brings coal- and carbon-intensive regions under significant pressure. Some regions have advanced in their transition and can provide insights in the system change processes. In this paper, we investigate the socio-economic transition processes of Essen and Duisburg as part of
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Methodological issues with deforestation baselines compromise the integrity of carbon offsets from REDD+ Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Thales A.P. West, Barbara Bomfim, Barbara K. Haya
The number of voluntary interventions seeking to generate carbon offsets by reducing deforestation and forest degradation, generally known as REDD+ projects, has increased significantly over the past decade. Offsets are issued based on project performance in comparison to a baseline scenario representing the expected deforestation in a project area in the absence of REDD+. Baselines from most ongoing
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Greening to shield: The impacts of extreme rainfall on economic activity in Latin American cities Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-08 Rafael Van der Borght, Montserrat Pallares-Barbera
Latin American cities are increasingly impacted by floods and this trend is likely to be further exacerbated under the combined effects of climate change and urbanisation. To reduce urban flood risk, green infrastructure and the ability to preserve and rehabilitate green spaces is often mentioned as an option to improve the hydraulic response of cities. Yet, little empirical evidence exists about the
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Tracking the global anthropogenic gallium cycle during 2000–2020: A trade-linked multiregional material flow analysis Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Ziyan Gao, Yong Geng, Meng Li, Jing-Jing Liang, Khaoula Houssini
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Common property regimes in participatory guarantee systems (PGS): Sharing responsibility in the collective management of organic labels Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Philippe Ninnin, Sylvaine Lemeilleur
Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) are certification schemes, which offer a guarantee that labelled products comply with a related quality standard. They differ from the prevailing Third-Party Certification (TPC) because in a PGS, food system stakeholders are involved in the decision to award a label. With TPC, a single certification body takes the decision and certification costs may be too high
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The educational divide in climate change attitudes: Understanding the role of scientific knowledge and subjective social status Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Anne G. Hoekstra, Kjell Noordzij, Willem de Koster, Jeroen van der Waal
Research has frequently found that less-educated citizens are more skeptical about climate change and show less trust in climate science than their more-educated counterparts. We advance insights on why this educational divide exists by: 1) scrutinizing the relevance of the dominant knowledge-deficit explanation by uniquely using an objective measure of scientific knowledge; and 2) theorizing and empirically
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Divergent agricultural development pathways across farm and landscape scales in Europe: Implications for sustainability and farmer satisfaction Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Julian Helfenstein, Samuel Hepner, Amelie Kreuzer, Gregor Achermann, Tim Williams, Matthias Bürgi, Niels Debonne, Thymios Dimopoulos, Vasco Diogo, Wendy Fjellstad, Maria Garcia-Martin, Józef Hernik, Thanasis Kizos, Angela Lausch, Christian Levers, Jaan Liira, Franziska Mohr, Gerardo Moreno, Robert Pazur, Tomasz Salata, Beatrice Schüpbach, Rebecca Swart, Peter H. Verburg, Anita Zarina, Felix Herzog
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Does creation-oriented culture promote ESG activities? Evidence from the Chinese market Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Quan Wen, Shipian Shao, Yaopeng Wang, Jingke Hong, Ke Lu, Qingyue Zhao, Heran Zheng, Li Ma
This study investigates the relationship between a creation-oriented culture and environmental, social, and governance activities in Chinese listed companies between 2008 and 2022. We conduct a textual analysis of firms’ annual reports to quantify the creation-oriented culture and environmental, social, and governance levels. The results reveal that a creation-oriented culture positively affects environmental
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“These industries have polluted consciences; we are unable to envision change“: Sense of place and lock-in mechanisms in Sulcis coal and carbon-intensive region, Italy Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Fulvio Biddau, Valentina Rizzoli, Paolo Cottone, Mauro Sarrica
European coal and carbon-intensive regions (CCIRs) face the intricate challenge of navigating destabilization-reconfiguration pathways, requiring a nuanced understanding of how phase-out intertwines with innovation and lock-in mechanisms. The success of this transformation depends on a multitude of factors, including socio-political, economic, and material conditions, as well as psychosocial and cultural
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Economic factors mediate the impact of drought on farmer suicides in India Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Yoav Rothler, David Blakeslee, Deepak Malghan, Ram Fishman
The occurrence of farmer suicides has come to symbolize what is likely widespread and deep, but often hidden, agrarian distress. While this tragic phenomena has attracted tremendous attention in public discourse, its primary drivers remain poorly understood. In particular, climatic stress is often considered to be one such driver, but the mechanisms through which it triggers suicide remain disputed
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Finding tipping points in the global steel sector: A comparison of companies in Australia, Austria, South Korea and the USA Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Raphaela Maier, Timo Gerres, Andreas Tuerk, Franziska Mey
The global steel sector is responsible for 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions, highlighting the need for significant changes in production practices and the adoption of low-carbon breakthrough technologies to achieve net-zero emissions. This study was conducted to explore positive tipping points at the company level, taking into account socio-political, economic and industry pressures that initiate
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An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Marie Pratzer, Patrick Meyfroidt, Marina Antongiovanni, Roxana Aragon, Germán Baldi, Stasiek Czaplicki Cabezas, Cristina A. de la Vega-Leinert, Shalini Dhyani, Jean-Christophe Diepart, Pedro David Fernandez, Stephen T. Garnett, Gregorio I. Gavier Pizarro, Tamanna Kalam, Pradeep Koulgi, Yann le Polain de Waroux, Sofia Marinaro, Matias Mastrangelo, Daniel Mueller, Robert Mueller, Ranjini Murali, Sofía
Land use is a key driver of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and therefore also a major opportunity for its mitigation. However, appropriately considering the diversity of land-use actors and activities in conservation assessments and planning is challenging. As a result, top-down conservation policy and planning are often criticized for a lack of contextual nuance widely acknowledged to be required
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Increasing single households challenges household decarbonization in Japan Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Liqiao Huang, Yin Long, Zhiheng Chen, Yuan Li, Jiamin Ou, Yosuke Shigetomi, Yoshikuni Yoshida
In light of societal shifts such as an aging population, delayed marriages, and higher rates of divorce, there's a notable rise in solitary living, affecting society, the economy, and the environment. To understand the implications of these demographic shifts, our research examines the nexus between solo living and its broader social-environmental consequences. Using Japan, one of the countries with
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The substantial impacts of carbon capture and storage technology policies on climate change mitigation pathways in China Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Jing-Li Fan, Wenlong Zhou, Zixia Ding, Xian Zhang
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, considered as a pivotal tool in mitigating climate change within the fossil energy system, particularly in China, has experienced slower development than expected. The exploration of direct incentive policies to facilitate its growth remains relatively underdeveloped. This study developed a hybrid dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to simulate
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Diversity in global environmental scenario sets Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Henrk Carlsen, Sara Talebian, Simona Pedde, Kasper Kok
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Evaluating behavioral responses to climate change in terms of coping and adaptation: An index approach Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Alexandra Paige Fischer, Riva C.H. Denny
As individuals and households have increasingly suffered the effects of climate change, substantial research has focused on understanding behavioral adaptation, the process of individuals and households responding to climate change to reduce future risk and improve well-being. However, this research is limited by the challenge of evaluating adaptation and differentiating it from coping. The theoretical
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Regimes of global and national oil palm cultivations from 2001 to 2018 Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Hao Yu, Dongjie Fu, Ze Yuan, Jiasheng Tang, Ye Xiao, Lu Kang, Vincent Lyne, Fenzhen Su
Oil palm is the dominant global oil crop due to its high productivity and diversified usage in many sectors. Since the late 20 century, oil palm cultivations proliferated in Southeast Asia, West Africa, and Latin America. However, global market factors, different national and regional policies, and smallholder versus commercial planting regimes in different areas lead to significant differences in
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China’s nature-based solutions in the Global South: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Annah Lake Zhu, Niklas Weins, Juliet Lu, Tyler Harlan, Jin Qian, Fabiana Barbi Seleguim
China increasingly engages in environmental diplomacy through South-South cooperation across the developing world. Since 2019, the rise of the discourse of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) within this cooperation has been exponential. Coined just over ten years ago, NbS refers to the underexplored potential of leveraging the natural world to address socio-environmental challenges. The concept finds particular
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Automatic deforestation driver attribution using deep learning on satellite imagery Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Neel Ramachandran, Jeremy Irvin, Hao Sheng, Sonja Johnson-Yu, Kyle Story, Rose Rustowicz, Andrew Y. Ng, Kemen Austin
Deforestation is a leading contributor to greenhouse gas emissions globally. Understanding the direct drivers of forest loss is essential for developing targeted forest conservation and management policies. However, this data is hard to collect at scale due to the complexity of forest loss drivers and expertise required for accurately identifying them. To address this challenge, we developed a deep
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Developing action competence for sustainability – Do school experiences in influencing society matter? Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Ane Eir Torsdottir, Daniel Olsson, Astrid Tonette Sinnes
In terms of developing students’ action competence when it comes to sustainability, the research literature highlights the importance of sustainability action taking in education for sustainable development. However, few studies have statistically investigated the relation between sustainability action taking and students’ action competence. Recognising the importance of action taking in education
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The environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the Italian National Parks: Time and spillover effects across different geographical contexts Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Riccardo D'Alberto, Matteo Zavalloni, Francesco Pagliacci
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Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Etienne Berthet, Julien Lavalley, Candy Anquetil-Deck, Fernanda Ballesteros, Konstantin Stadler, Ugur Soytas, Michael Hauschild, Alexis Laurent
Advanced technologies are inherently dependent on critical minerals and their related metals. The mining extraction of these critical minerals leads to significant social and environmental impacts that extend beyond the regions where those advanced technologies are ultimately used. This study explores the global socio-environmental challenges arising from the European Climate Law's aim for net-zero
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Prospects for a sustainable and climate-resilient African economy post-COVID-19 Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Godwell Nhamo, Lazarus Chapungu
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Corrigendum to “Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate” [Glob. Environ. Chang. (2020) 102133] Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 E. Calliari, O. Serdeczny, L. Vanhala
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Assessing the supply risks of critical metals in China's low-carbon energy transition Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Pengfei Yuan, Dan Li, Kuishuang Feng, Heming Wang, Peng Wang, Jiashuo Li
The unprecedented low-carbon energy transition has heightened concerns about the security of critical metals (CMs) supplies that are essential for clean energy technologies. As the world's largest consumer and importer, China’s CMs supply may face significant challenges due to geopolitical uncertainties, price volatility, and other dynamics. Here, we introduce a risk-modeling framework to holistically
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Warming-and-wetting trend over the China’s drylands: Observational evidence and future projection Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Boyang Li, Dongwei Liu, Entao Yu, Lixin Wang
A recent “warming-and-wetting” trend over China’s drylands has raised widespread attention in the scientific community. Based on the observations and model projections of temperature and precipitation, this study shows that the warming and regional wetting trend in China’s drylands is becoming stronger. Over the past 60 years, the temperature in China's drylands has increased at a rate of 0.34 °C/10a
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Corrigendum to “Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management” [Glob. Environ. Chang. 84 (2024) 102799] Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Arundhati Jagadish, Anna Freni-Sterrantino, Yifan He, Tanya O' Garra, Lisa Gecchele, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Hugh Govan, Alifereti Tawake, Margaret Tabunakawai Vakalalabure, Michael B. Mascia, Morena Mills
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Status quo in transboundary waters: Unpacking non-decision making and non-action Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Sumit Vij, Jeroen F. Warner, Anusha Sanjeev Mehta, Anamika Barua
Transboundary water decision-making takes place in a power-loaded environment. Apart from conflicts or cooperation-based outcomes, partial or complete status quo is also possible outcome in transboundary water interactions. Literature in the last two decades has primarily focused on conflicts and/or cooperation only, with a limited understanding of the status quo and its various forms. Drawing from
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The rise, fall and rebirth of ocean carbon sequestration as a climate 'solution' Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Kari De Pryck, Miranda Boettcher
While the ocean has long been portrayed as a victim of climate change, threatened by ocean warming and acidification, it is now increasingly framed as a key solution to the climate crisis. In particular, the promising carbon sequestration potential of the ocean is being emphasised. In this paper, we seek to historicise the practices, discourses and actors that have constructed the ocean as a climate
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How seasonal cultures shape adaptation on Aotearoa – New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Scott Bremer, Paul Schneider
There is a growing literature on the cultural capacities influencing communities’ adaptation to environmental and social change, including the temporal frameworks they draw on for timely action. This paper focuses on seasonal cultures, and how they enable communities on the Coromandel Peninsula to interpret and adapt practical timings to disrupted patterns of seasonal rhythms. The paper develops and
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Grappling with a sea change: Tensions in expert imaginaries of marine carbon dioxide removal Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Sara Nawaz, Javier Lezaun
While research on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) expands apace, significant unknowns persist regarding the risks and benefits of individual mCDR options. This paper analyses the assumptions and expectations that animate expert understandings of mCDR, with a focus on issues that are central to the responsible governance of this emerging field of climate action. Drawing upon interviews with experts
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Vulnerability locked in. On the need to engage the outside of the adaptation box Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Julia Teebken
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Democracy through technocracy? Reinventing civil society as a state-monitored and unpaid service provider in the EU FLEGT VPA in Laos Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen
This paper analyses the European Union’s (EU’s) democratising agenda within the frame of the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) in Laos. In particular, it focuses on the requirement for the participation of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the VPA and the Lao state actors’ responses to this requirement. I frame the VPA’s democratising
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Impacts of air pollution on child growth: Evidence from extensive data in Chinese counties Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Lili Xu, Kuishuang Feng, Shuai Shao
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Experience with extreme weather events increases willingness-to-pay for climate mitigation policy Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Rachelle K. Gould, Trisha R. Shrum, Donna Ramirez Harrington, Virginia Iglesias
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Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Timothy H. Frawley, Blanca González-Mon, Mateja Nenadovic, Fiona Gladstone, Keiko Nomura, José Alberto Zepeda-Domínguez, Salvador Rodriguez-Van Dyck, Erica M. Ferrer, Jorge Torre, Fiorenza Micheli, Heather M. Leslie, Xavier Basurto
As global change accelerates, natural resource-dependent communities must respond and adapt. Small-scale fisheries, essential for coastal livelihoods and food security, are considered among the most vulnerable of these coupled social-ecological systems. While previous studies have examined vulnerability and adaptation in fisheries at the individual, household, and community level, these scales of organization
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Beyond the binary of trapped populations and voluntary immobility: A people-centered perspective on environmental change and human immobility at Lake Urmia, Iran Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Sebastian Fernand Transiskus, Monir Gholamzadeh Bazarbash
Empirical research on the links between environmental change and human (im)mobility has made considerable progress in the last decade. However, most attention is given to migration rather than understanding immobility, where human-centered perspectives are scarce and various regions remain critically understudied. This paper seeks to address these deficits. Methodologically based on 75 qualitative
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MAPPING WILDFIRE JURISDICTIONAL COMPLEXITY REVEALS OPPORTUNITIES FOR REGIONAL CO-MANAGEMENT Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Kate Jones, Jelena Vukomanovic, Branda Nowell, Shannon McGovern
Wildfires often burn across boundaries affecting multiple jurisdictions, landowners and levels of government. Wildfire co-management across jurisdictions is expected to increase in complexity as wildfire severity, size, and frequency increase due to climate change, and growing populations bring more people into close proximity with wildfire. A systematic method to assess jurisdictional complexity for
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Ambient vulnerability Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Caitlin Robinson, Joe Williams
In this paper we introduce the concept of ambient vulnerability. Ambience concerns the overlapping and shifting material forms that constitute a person’s surroundings – including (but not limited to) air quality, flow, temperature, humidity, noise and light – that contribute to their health, wellbeing and (dis)comfort. Building on a growing movement across a range of disciplines towards the study of
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Scaling Indigenous-led natural resource management Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Arundhati Jagadish, Anna Freni-Sterrantino, Yifan He, Tanya O' Garra, Lisa Gecchele, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Hugh Govan, Alifereti Tawake, Margaret Tabunakawai Vakalalabure, Michael B. Mascia, Morena Mills
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The role of visions in sustainability transformations: Exploring tensions between the Agrarwende vanguard vision and an established sociotechnical imaginary of agriculture in Germany Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Christine Polzin
Although much research recognises the importance of visions as key ingredients of transformations to sustainability, it remains unclear how and why some visions become collectively binding. This paper uses the lens of sociotechnical imaginaries, i.e., collectively shared, institutionally stabilised, and publicly performed visions of desirable futures, to analyse the so-called Agrarwende (agricultural
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The organizational structure of global gene drive research Glob. Environ. Chang. (IF 8.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Florian Rabitz
Gene drives are a proposed biotechnological intervention that could grant unprecedented control over key challenges of global sustainable development by potentially providing effective countermeasures to invasive alien species, agricultural pests or disease vectors. Gene drives also raise complex biosafety challenges and face scrutiny due to an allegedly-outsized involvement of certain philanthropic-