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Of Practices and (Micro)politics: Challenges of Organic Waste Segregation in Dschang, Cameroon The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Eric Moye Kongnso, Aristide Yemmafouo, Joël Sagne Moumbe, Rolande Christelle Makamté Kakeu–Tardy, Marlyne Sahakian, René Véron
Waste generation in Sub-Saharan Africa is increasing rapidly. While biodegradable waste remains predominant, it is rarely treated separately by municipal solid waste management systems, thus foregoing the possibility to reduce the volume going to landfills or dumpsites. This paper discusses the unique case of the small city of Dschang, Cameroon, where the municipality operates two central composting
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Determinants of Visitors’ Willingness to Pay for Enhanced Ecosystem Services in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India: A Contingent Valuation Approach The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Rajkumar V, Boopathi S
This study examined the factors influencing visitors’ willingness to pay for improved ecosystem services through the conservation of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) in the Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India. The MTR plays a crucial role in providing and protecting various ecosystem services. However, it is vulnerable to negative externalities and drivers of ecosystem change, which affect the quality
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Slaying the Toothless Tiger: Social Equity as the Legal Element of the Blue Economy The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Marcus J. Schweinberg, Andreas Raspotnik
The ‘blue economy’ is slowly emerging as a catch-all concept that captures the goals of sustaining economic development opportunities while simultaneously maintaining ocean ecosystem health. However, identifying the scope and boundaries of the blue economy has proven to be a challenging task. The aim of this article is to provide a new approach to finding a practical definition of the blue economy
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Do ESG and Diversity Scores Predict Global Firms’ Environmental Innovation? The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Mehmet Bahri Saydam, Victor Oluwafemi Olorunsola, Hasan Evrim Arici, Mehmet Ali Koseoglu
Environmental innovation (EI) is fundamental to sustainable development goal (SDG) number 9. Indirectly, it contributes to the achievement of SDG 7 by laying the groundwork for producing renewable energy. Firms involve environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and diversity practices to achieve sustainable success. ESG and diversity scores on EI need to be predicted, yet EI predictors are few in
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Synthesising and Conceptualising Circular Supply Chains: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Chiranjit Das
The advent of the circular economy principle has triggered supply chain transformation in recent years. This article aims to conduct a state-of-the-art review of circular supply chains. To this aim, 91 peer-reviewed published journal articles from academic databases were collected and evaluated using an inductive approach. The study findings are classified into multiple dimensions of circular supply
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Unpacking the Food Security Crisis in the Ecologically Fragile and Conflict-Ridden Lake Chad Basin: Interrogating NGOs' Response to the Climate Change-Security Nexus The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Lotsmart Fonjong, James E. Wanki
A 2018 United Nations report highlights the growing need for funding and assistance to the Lake Chad Basin (LCB). The food security crisis in the LCB is a blend of complex factors relating to the declining water of Lake Chad and protracted insecurity fanned by Boko Haram insurgency. Unfortunately, development agencies sometimes focus less on how the climate change-insecurity nexus is becoming increasingly
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Achieving Carbon-Neutrality in MENA Countries: Does Financial Inclusion Matter? The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Rabie Said, Alex O. Acheampong
This study examines the relationship between financial inclusion, renewable energy, and CO2 emissions using data from 11 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries from 2004 to 2019. Evidence from fixed effects-ordinary least squares (FE-OLS), dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS), fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS), and canonical correlation regression (CRR) showed that financial inclusion
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30 Years of International Climate Negotiations: Are They Still our Best Hope? The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Raymond Clémençon
30 years of international climate talks have not prevented the globe from heating up more than 1 degree Celsius over post-industrial times, nor have they kept the year 2022 from breaking new temper...
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NGO and Global Voluntary Standards in Sustainable Seafood: The Case of Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) in Indonesia The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Moch Faisal Karim, Jassinda Almira
This article examines the role of non-governmental organisation in supporting the implementation of global voluntary certification. This article investigates how World Wildlife Fund (WWF) helps imp...
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Does Science Shape Sentiment? Scientific Inputs and the Deliberations in the Convention on Biological Diversity The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Casey Stevens
Can the tone of scientific reports shape the ensuing political debates? This question is of utmost importance as global science bodies like the IPCC and IPBES release increasingly fervent calls to ...
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What’s the Catch? A Review of the Fiscal Treatments of Fisheries in Sub-Saharan Africa The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Giovanni Occhiali
Virtually no attention has been directed towards how tax policies shape fisheries development in Sub-Saharan Africa and to their contribution to government revenue. This is despite abundant evidenc...
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Aiding Animals: Does Foreign Aid Reduce Wildlife Crime? The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Jonas Gamso
The illegal wildlife trade has come to the forefront of global politics, driven by concerns about biodiversity loss, illicit markets, and animal-borne infectious diseases. Yet, poaching remains com...
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Can Mining Help Deliver the SDGs: Discourses, Risks and Prospects The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Tomas Frederiksen, Glenn Banks
In this paper, we explore the mining sector’s potential to contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by examining its past engagement with sustainable development. Once a pariah, th...
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Varieties of Green Stimulus Policies: Comparative Analysis of the Green Growth and Green New Deal Policies in South Korea The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Heejin Han, Taedong Lee
Globally, several governments have adopted various forms of green stimulus policies (GSP) to manage environmental challenges and revitalize their national economies during crises. However, research...
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Narratives of Environmentalism in National Laws The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Julia Jester, Shumaila Fatima, Alphonse Opoku, Nidhi Bangalore, Farah Hennawi, Caroline Nabbie, Sneha Saravanan, Andreas Duit, Andrew Hargrove, Jamie M. Sommer
For several decades, national environmental framework laws have come into existence to define its citizens’ environmental rights and duties, as well as express how the government will manage and pr...
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Water Governance, Institutions and Conflicts in the Maasai Rangelands The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2022-09-04 Kennedy Mkutu Agade, David Anderson, Klerkson Lugusa, Evelyne Atieno Owino
Water scarcity in Narok county, Kenya may be attributed to demographic pressures, land-use changes, environmental degradation and the effects of climate change. This article combines methodologies ...
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Lessons on the Community Conservancy Model for Wildlife Protection in Namibia The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2022-08-28 Michael Wenborn, Magdalena S. Svensson, Stein Katupa, Roger Collinson, Vincent Nijman
The growing human population in Africa is putting increasing pressure on habitats and wildlife outside of protected areas. The wildlife conservancy model in Namibia empowers rural communities to de...
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The Shadow of History in Inter-Organizational Cooperation for the Environment The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Azusa Uji
Why do international organizations (IOs) adopt different arrangements for cooperation? Drawing on the theory of institutional context and the rational theory of international design, I argue that a...
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Mainstreaming Internal Migration in Law and Policy Frameworks in Bangladesh: Analysis of a Rights-Based Approach to a Wicked Policy Problem The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Shawkat Alam, Joanna Endacott
Internal migration presents many challenges for governmental coordination due to the extensive and immediate action required to address this problem. However, it also poses opportunities regarding ...
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Protecting Indigenous and Local Knowledge Through a Biocultural Diversity Framework The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2022-05-28 Gabriel R. Nemogá, Amanda Appasamy, Cora A. Romanow
Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) is intrinsically connected to knowledge holders’ worldviews and relationships to their environments. Mainstream rights-based approaches do not recognize this in...
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Making Sustainable Palm Oil? Developmentalist And Environmental Assemblages In The Brazilian Amazon The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Diana Córdoba, Renata Moreno, Daniel Sombra
The question of how to generate development while preserving the environment is central to the history of the Brazilian Amazon. Many decades of top-down state interventions conceived and executed u...
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The Green Morocco Plan in Boudnib: Examining Effects on Rural Livelihoods The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Alison D. Elder
In southeastern Morocco, irrigated agriculture is expanding rapidly in a desert area formerly characterized by oasis agriculture and livestock grazing. The 2008 Green Morocco Plan (GMP) is fueling ...
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The Impact of the European Green Deal on EU Environmental Policy The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Susanna Paleari
The European Green Deal is the cornerstone of a comprehensive strategic package (European Green Deal Strategic Framework, EGDSF) which aims at transforming the EU into a climate-neutral and competi...
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Advocacy Coalitions and Knowledge Transfer within Geothermal Policy Change in Indonesian Conservation Forests The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2022-02-27 Santi Pratiwi, Nataly Juerges
The utilization of geothermal energy is recently disrupting the management of conservation forests. It has taken more than a decade to change related forest policy in justifying geothermal energy u...
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Tanzanian Environmental Impact Assessment Laws and Practice for Projects in World Heritage Sites The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Elia Mwanga
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is an integral component of sound decision-making. Environmental impact assessment helps to prevent or reduce environmental harms by informing the decision-makers the likely environmental impacts of intended project, its alternatives and/or mitigation measures before the implementation starts. This study examines the effectiveness of Tanzania EIA laws and related
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Ecological Contradictions of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Malaysia The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Mariko L. Frame, William G. McDowell, Ellen T. Fitzpatrick
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promote a broad set of socio-economic and environmental goals. Through a case study on Malaysia, this paper investigates how economic Goal 8 (economic growth), Goal 9 (industry), and Goal 17(increased partnerships) are likely to conflict with environmental Goal 13 (climate action), Goal 14 (life below water), and Goal 15 (life on land). We analyze
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Green Transition of Iron Cities: A Comparative Case Study of Kitakyushu and Pohang The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Hanbee Lee, Eunkyoung Choi, Eungkyoon Lee
This comparative case study explores why two cities similar in socio-economic factors diverge in their pathways to environmental improvement. Our research looks at the changing local economies and environmental pollution problems facing Kitakyushu in Japan and Pohang in South Korea. Both cities drove their nations’ rapid economic growth as the main heavy industry hubs but have performed radically differently
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Paradoxes of Ratification: The Nagoya Protocol and Brazilian State Transformations The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2021-12-12 Thomas R. Eimer, Flavia Donadelli
This article explores the paradoxical behaviour of Brazil in relation to its national and international approaches to the regulations of access to genetic resources and benefits sharing with indigenous and other traditional communities. Brazil was one of the leaders in the international negotiations that led to the UN Nagoya Protocol but only ratified it 11 years later, after remarkable transformations
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Quality of Life and the Carbon Footprint: A Zip-Code Level Study Across the United States The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Matthew Thomas Clement, Chad L. Smith, Tyler Leverenz
Much sustainability scholarship has examined the environmental dimensions of subjective and objective well-being. As an alternative measure of human well-being, we consider the notion of quality of life and draw on a framework from the sustainability literature to study its association with ecological impact, specifically the carbon footprint. We conduct a quantitative analysis, combining zip-code
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Inclusion of Waste Pickers Into Municipal Waste Management Systems: A Comparison Between Colombia and Brazil The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2021-10-25 Ana Julieth Calderón Márquez, Nathalia Silva de Souza Lima Cano, Emília Wanda Rutkowski
This article aims to identify and comprehend the challenges and strengths behind public policies on integrating waste pickers (WPs) within waste management systems in Colombia and Brazil. In both, WPs started to come together and found organisations and external agents such as NGOs began to support organised groups of WPs. After 10 years of judicial court actions in Colombia, WPs organisations were
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Waste Pickers and Their Practices of Insurgency and Environmental Stewardship The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Jutta Gutberlet, Santiago Sorroche, Angela Martins Baeder, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
Informed by different grassroots learning and educational practices engaged in waste management, and drawing from the concepts of insurgent citizenship and environmental stewardship, we examine the role of waste picker organizations and movements in creating new pathways towards more sustainable environmental waste governance. Two case studies (Argentina and Brazil) demonstrate how waste pickers inform
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Climate Change and Young People in Uganda: A Literature Review The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2021-10-03 Anthony Mugeere, Anna Barford, Paul Magimbi
The disruptions of anthropogenic climate change are increasingly severe. People living in sub-Saharan Africa are especially exposed to these risks, and amongst them young people. It is well established that climate disruptions have the potential to halt education, displace populations, and wreck infrastructure. This rigorous literature review focuses on climate change in the landlocked East African
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A Climate Backlash: Comparing Populist Parties’ Climate Policies in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2021-06-23 Antto Vihma, Gunilla Reischl, Astrid Nonbo Andersen
The rise of authoritarian populism has disrupted the patterns of party competition in many Western societies. Related to this development, the current debates in the United States and European Union illustrate how empirical science on climate change may become intensely politicized, and all ambitious climate policies challenged in the contemporary political landscape. We set out an analytical framework
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A Systems-Based Approach to Analyze Environmental Issues: Problem-Oriented Innovation System for Water Scarcity Problem in Iran The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Sepehr Ghazinoory, Mohammad Khosravi, Shohreh Nasri
Environmental issues such as water scarcity are typically multidimensional problems, and resolving them requires a systems-based approach and socio-technical innovations. This article applies the “Problem-oriented Innovation System (PIS)” as a new approach to resolve water scarcity problem. In Iran, this has not been the case as natural water scarcity along with decades of mismanagement has turned
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More ‘Creative’ Than ‘Destructive’? Synthesizing Schumpeterian and Developmental State Perspectives to Explain Mixed Results in Korea’s Clean Energy Shift The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2021-05-19 Elizabeth Thurbon, Sung-Young Kim, John A. Mathews, Hao Tan
We develop a new way of analysing the state’s strategic role in the clean energy shift. We do so by synthesizing Schumpeterian understandings of ‘creative destruction’ and techno-economic change with cutting-edge developmental state theorizing centred on ‘developmental environmentalism’. Our approach allows us to explain South Korea’s mixed results in the clean energy shift over the 2008–2020 period
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Pulp Friction in the La Plata Basin: The Importance of Natural Resource Governance for South American Regionalism The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Karen M. Siegel
Over the last two decades, natural resource governance has become an increasingly important element of South American regionalism as commodities became a central driver for regional development strategies. Yet, due to socio-environmental impacts and dissatisfaction with decision-making processes, it is also frequently contested. This article focuses on one particularly prominent contestation with transboundary
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Household’s Allocation of Payment for Ecosystem Services in “La Antigua” Watershed, Veracruz, México The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Veronique Sophie Avila-Foucat, Karla J. Rodriguez-Robayo, Kelly W. Jones, Erin C. Pischke, David Torrez, Jacob Salcone, Theresa Selfa, Kathleen E. Halvorsen
Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is an environmental policy looking to improve ecosystem conservation and well-being. Assets have been used to evaluate socioeconomic outcomes of the program; however, the allocation of PES at a household level and its explaining variables have not been addressed. Thus, the aim of this article is to study the allocation of PES in nondurable and durable goods and
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The Role of Institutions in Creating Circular Economy Pathways for Regional Development The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2021-03-19 Maryna Henrysson, Cali Nuur
In the past decade, the circular economy has gained attention as a mechanism of transition toward a regenerative, low carbon, and resource-efficient society. As the history of previous radical transformations shows, successful transition toward the circular economy cannot take place without understanding the institutional features of industrial transformations. This article highlights the significance
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Representation by Development Organizations: Evidence From India and Implications for Inclusive Development The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Suparana Katyaini, Margit van Wessel, Sarbeswar Sahoo
This article focuses on development organizations’ construction of representative roles in their work at the environment–development interface and on implications of these constructions for inclusiveness. While much of the past literature on representation has dealt with electoral representation, this article highlights the importance of nonelectoral representation. It follows a constructivist approach
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An Environmental Justice Perspective on Smallholder Pesticide Use in Sub-Saharan Africa The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Ellinor Isgren, Elina Andersson
Pesticide use is increasing in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, and many smallholders purchase, handle, and apply toxic pesticides with inadequate equipment, knowledge, and technical support. Thro...
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Energy Cooperation With North Korea: Conditions Making Renewable Energy Appropriate The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Heejin Han
North Korea remains one of the countries whose energy conditions should be drastically improved not just for its own people but also for the international community to achieve multiple energy-related goals under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. To generate future energy cooperation ideas, this study examines previously proposed or implemented programs between North Korea and international
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Drought Management Norms: Is the Middle East and North Africa Region Managing Risks or Crises? The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2020-10-06 Theresa Jedd, Stephen Russell Fragaszy, Cody Knutson, Michael J. Hayes, Makram Belhaj Fraj, Nicole Wall, Mark Svoboda, Rachael McDonnell
The Middle East and North Africa region experiences severe socioeconomic and political impacts during droughts and faces increasing drought risk in future climate projections. The UN Office for Dis...
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Rural Industrialization and Environmental Governance Challenges in the Red River Delta, Vietnam The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2020-07-28 Trung D. Dang, Thong A. Tran
This article examines factors and root causes of dilemma and environmental governance challenges in the Red River Delta of Vietnam. Since the Renovation (Đổi Mới) period, there has been an accelerating growth of craft villages and industrial clusters in rural areas. While these processes contribute to creating jobs, increasing rural income, and assuaging rural–urban migration pressures, little attention
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Disentangling Environmental and Development Discourses in a Peripheral Spatial Context: The Case of the Aysén Region, Patagonia, Chile The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2020-07-07 Pamela Bachmann-Vargas, C.S.A. (Kris) van Koppen
In places with a predominantly natural heritage, environmental and development discourses are intertwined and often competing. A key dimension is the social construction of socio-spatial relationships, and particularly, the attribution of core and periphery features. In this article, we investigate environmental and development discourses in the peripheral spatial context of the Aysén region of Chile
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Positioning the Nordic Countries in European Union Environmental Policy The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Sanna C. Sääksjärvi
The influence of the Nordic countries on the European Union’s (EU's) policy processes has been researched from various angles, but there is a lack of research that comprehensively examines all policy positions advanced by Nordic actors within a given policy context. This article introduces a new design for studying policy positions and influence in the EU and examines the phenomenon from a multilevel
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Potential Development Contribution of Fisheries Reform: Evidence From Pakistan The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2020-06-03 David J. Kaczan, Pawan G. Patil
Mismanagement threatens the productivity and sustainability of an increasing number of capture fisheries globally, hindering these resources’ ability to contribute to socioeconomic and environmental outcomes such as those embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals. Using Pakistan as a case study, we assess the contribution that improved management of Pakistan’s marine fisheries can make to development
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Exporting Forest Loss? A Cross-National Analysis of the United States Export–Import Bank Financing in Low- and Middle-Income Nations The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2020-03-09 Michael Restivo, John M. Shandra, Jamie M. Sommer
Dependency theory argues that due to unequal economic relationships, including exports, multinational corporations, and loans from multilateral lending institutions, high-income nations exploit the labor and resources of low- and middle-income nations. We extend this line of reasoning to the United States Export–Import Bank, as it has recently come under scrutiny for its lending in the forestry sector
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Energy Transition in Europe and the United States: Policy Entrepreneurs and Veto Players in Federalist Systems The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2019-12-03 Andreas Balthasar, Miranda A. Schreurs, Frédéric Varone
The focus of this special issue is on the energy transformations taking place in several European countries (Austria, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland) and at the federal and subnational (state) levels in the United States with special attention given to California. The cases examined all have federalist structures, and with the exception of the federal level of the United States, all have relatively
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Expansion of Renewable Energy in Federal Settings: Austria, Belgium, and Germany in Comparison The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2019-11-26 Stefan Wurster, Christian Hagemann
In the face of accelerating climate change, the transition towards a nonnuclear renewable energy system represents a key political challenge, which can be aggravated by the increasing energy supply uncertainty created by the shift away from fossil fuels. In this article, we conduct a comparison of the expansion of renewable energy sources in Austria, Belgium, and Germany at the level of their subnational
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The Politics of Renewable Energy Production in a Federal Context: The Deployment of Small Hydropower in the Swiss Cantons The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2019-11-22 Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, Stefan Rieder, Chantal Strotz
This article explores the factors that hinder and promote the deployment of renewable energy generating infrastructure in/across the Swiss cantons (i.e., the country’s federal units). Using the example of small-scale hydropower, we shed light on how political regulations at the cantonal level interact with national policies and the local political process to affect the deployment of renewable energy
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State Leadership in U.S. Climate Change and Energy Policy: The California Experience The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2019-11-14 Daniel A. Mazmanian, John L. Jurewitz, Hal T. Nelson
It is a long-held belief among scholars and practitioners that the State of California is a notable subnational leader in environmental and climate change policy. This article focuses primarily on four essential contextual factors that explain why and how within the United States’ federal system of government California has become such an important leader, performing far in excess of the national government
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Federalism as a Double-Edged Sword: The Slow Energy Transition in the United States The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2019-11-12 Roger Karapin
Much literature on federalism and multilevel governance argues that federalist institutional arrangements promote renewable energy policies. However, the U.S. case supports a different view that federalism has ambivalent effects. Policy innovation has occurred at the state level and to some extent has led to policy adoption by other states and the federal government, but the extent is limited by the
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Energy Cooperatives and Municipalities in Local Energy Governance Arrangements in Switzerland and Germany The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2019-11-07 Benjamin Schmid, Thomas Meister, Britta Klagge, Irmi Seidl
Participation of citizens in local energy decisions is increasingly recognized as helpful for a successful decentralized energy transition. In this article, we focus on energy cooperatives in which private individuals jointly develop facilities to generate energy from renewable sources, thus involving citizens both politically and economically. Focusing on Switzerland and Germany, we show that there
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Entanglement of Top-Down and Bottom-Up: Sociotechnical Innovation Pathways of Geothermal Energy in Switzerland The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2019-11-06 Olivier Ejderyan, Franziska Ruef, Michael Stauffacher
By looking at deep geothermal energy in Switzerland, this article illustrates how innovation pathways in federal countries take entangled forms between top-down and bottom-up. The Swiss federal government presents deep geothermal energy as an important technology to decarbonize electricity production. Setbacks in early projects have slowed these efforts. Despite strong policy incentives from the federal
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Antiwhaling Groups in Japan: Their Historical Lack of Development and Relationship With National Identity The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2019-10-08 Ko Nomura
This article reviews the history of antiwhaling groups in Japan from a politicocultural perspective, examining how the connection between whaling and national identity has significantly constrained their development. It is interesting to note that this connection, or “framing,” in terms of social movement theory, was not an invention of the prowhaling camp. It was rather induced and facilitated by
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Climate Financing Through the Adaptation Fund: What Determines Fund Allocation? The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2019-10-01 Akihisa Mori, Syed M. Rahman, Md. Nasir Uddin
There is an ongoing debate about criteria based on which allocation of climate finance, particularly financing adaptation, is made. This article aims at investigating the determinants of fund allocation and the consequences of rearrangement considering the case of the Adaptation Fund (AF). This research conducts a mixed-method approach including binary logistic regression and multiple regressions to
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Supporting Sustainable Innovations: An Examination of India Farmer Agrobiodiversity Conservation The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2019-08-27 Natalie Kopytko
Critical to sustainable agriculture, agrobiodiversity conservation provides immediate benefits and retains options for climate change adaptation. Reframing conservation as sustainable seed innovation allows for a dynamic view of farmer contributions. Sustainable seed innovation entails in situ conservation and the innovation of new plant varieties through traditional practices. Farmer interviews from
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A Simplified Environmental Assessment Methodology for Research Projects as an Alternative to Life-Cycle Assessment The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2019-08-13 Matt Fulton, Alex Nurse, Andy Plater
Small and medium enterprises and research institutes engaged on eco-innovative research projects are often required to account for environmental benefits of new products, processes, or services. This article describes an environmental assessment methodology for calculating auditable environmental benefits, highlighting case studies as examples. It addresses the challenges involved in conducting assessments
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Environmental Cooperation in Conflict Zones: Riparian Infrastructure at the Armenian–Turkish Border The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2019-07-12 Mehmet Altingoz, Saleem H. Ali
Due to historical grievances, Armenia and Turkey experience severe international conflicts and do not maintain diplomatic ties. Yet, as a vestige of the Soviet period, when Armenia was not an independent country, both nations share the Arpacay/Akhuryan Dam, and riparian cooperation exists at the local level. We observed that local cross-border water institutions are authorized to manage the dam and
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New Oil Developments in a Remote Area: Environmental Justice and Participation in Turkana, Kenya The Journal of Environment & Development (IF 2.639) Pub Date : 2019-06-26 Kennedy Mkutu, Tessa Mkutu, Martin Marani, Augustine Lokwang Ekitela
Recent discoveries of oil and gas in eastern Africa often happen in marginalized and underdeveloped areas, such as Turkana, Kenya, an arid county inhabited predominantly by pastoralists. As a result of low political participation and weak governance frameworks for the emerging hydrocarbon industry, the pastoralists face displacement from land, exposure to environmental hazards, and exclusion from decision-making