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Letting People in: Redefining Collaboration in Wildland–Urban Interface Governance

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intensifying wildfire regimes and expanding human settlements into wilderness areas have heightened concerns about the wildland–urban interface (WUI) due to the associated increase in fire risk. However, the WUI presents broader social‐ecological challenges that go beyond wildfire risk and remain understudied.
Clara Mosso, Harrison Fried, Karissa Courtney, Jonathan Salerno, Stephanie Kampf, Andrea Baudoin Farah   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Formation characteristics and decentralization analysis of post-urban agglomerations from the perspective of spatial reshaping: a case study of the great lakes urban agglomeration. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Yang R, Zhen F, Wang J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Learning Networks Drive Environmental Innovation: Evidence From Fourth‐Stage Purification Diffusion

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contaminants of emerging concern, including pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals, threaten water quality globally. In the European Union (EU), until the adoption of the revised Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive in 2024, a regulatory gap had left the member states and the municipalities in them without binding removal standards ...
Simon Bulian, Jale Tosun, Katrina Smith Korfmacher, Theresa Baur   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban vibrancy: An analogy of biodiversity, retail diversity, and activity-based urban diversity measures. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Yiu ECY, Pacheco D, Di Clemente R, Botta F.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Varieties of Local Implementation for Net Zero in China: Evidence From Three Cities

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since China updated its nationally determined contributions in 2021, achieving carbon peaking before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060—the so‐called “dual carbon” goals—has become the new guiding principle of China's climate governance. However, few studies have examined the implementation of China's dual carbon goals, particularly the ...
Ting Guan, Ziwei Gou, Yixian Sun
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing the urban heat island intensity response to ENSO across the local climate zones in Suzhou and Shanghai, China. [PDF]

Sci Prog
Lu X, Chen S, Zhang M, Zhang W, Li Y, Cui X, Huang Q, Zhang H, Zhang Q.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Power, (De)Politicisation and Polycentric Governance: Evidence From UK Local Climate Policy

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article extends (de)politicisation theory to elucidate power dynamics in polycentric governance. It develops an original analytical framework to empirically investigate how governmental, societal and discursive (de)politicisation processes emerge within and across decision‐making centres. The framework focuses on dimensions of technocracy,
Timea Nochta, Samuel Warner, Louise Reardon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cooling effect of urban green spaces: LCZ-based assessment comparing four cities at similar latitudes via hotspot and regression models. [PDF]

Int J Biometeorol
Yilmaz D, Isinkaralar O, Isinkaralar K, Yeboah E, Sarfo I, Sharifi A, Öztürk S, Oduro C, Soltani A, Qadikolaei MR.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Towards Transformative Climate Governance: Capacities and Constraints for Local Government in Aotearoa New Zealand

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An emerging consensus calls for transformative climate governance. However, what instigates and sustains transformative pathways remains unclear. This study characterises the existence, quality and structural underpinnings of transformative governance capacities in local government climate change response in Aotearoa New Zealand, applying a ...
Gangadari K. Ranawaka, Anna L. Berka, Karen F. Hytten, Florentine D. van Noppen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shaping industrial spatial density: How floor area ratio varies across regions and sectors in Zhejiang, China. [PDF]

PLoS One
Tu F, Ji R, Zhou J, Ling GHT.
europepmc   +1 more source