Enabling a Circular Water Transition: Identifying Governance Pathways for Wastewater Reuse
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over 80% of the world's wastewater is discharged untreated, making reuse a widely underutilised strategy for addressing water scarcity. Due to the complexity of implementing water reuse systems, supportive governance conditions are required to steer this process and overcome barriers.
Kirsty Holstead +4 more
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Investigating the impacts of urban agglomeration spatial structures on carbon emissions based on spatial networks of cities. [PDF]
Sci RepTan G +6 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Open space networks provide multiple ecosystem services and other benefits which are particularly important to urban regions. Accordingly, there are many examples around the world of urban‐regional open space policies such as regional parks and green belts that connect non‐built‐up areas over several municipalities. Yet it is still unclear how
Gerd Lintz, Mariam Diagayété
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Resurgence of malaria in Ethiopia: a national landscape analysis of systemic and operational gaps. [PDF]
Malar JSasie SD +4 more
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Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
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Comprehensive framework for optimizing ecological security and infrastructure in the Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao Greater Bay Area. [PDF]
Sci RepYang M, He J, Shi L.
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Governing Within the Constraints of Carbon Budgets: Regional Insights From Sweden
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Staying within the limits of a rapidly shrinking global carbon budget while avoiding dependency on negative emissions technologies and carbon dioxide removal remains a significant challenge in a multi‐level governance system, where resources and responsibilities are dispersed among different actors.
Paula Lenninger, Magdalena Kuchler
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Editorial: Human health affected by changing ecological environment in the rapid urbanization. [PDF]
Front Public HealthZhang Y, Uddin MG, Yang J, Cicchella D.
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Policy Integration for Enabling Environments: Decentralised Water Technologies for Rural Water Reuse
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Water reuse holds significant promise for addressing global water challenges, yet wide scale implementation remains limited. Decentralised water technologies for reuse have been highlighted as a potential aide in the reduction of water challenges, specifically for environments that have typically been considered ‘water rich’, and in rural ...
Elizabeth Lawson, Jaime Amezaga
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increasing electricity demand from data centres, industrial applications, electric vehicles and domestic heating is creating pressure to develop electricity systems in many parts of the world, but especially in Western countries. In response to challenges such as grid congestion, interconnection queues and climate‐related hazards, network ...
Jussi Valta +3 more
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