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International journal that publishes research with strong conceptual and theoretical engagement.

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Uncertainty confounds justice: the offshore wind ‘Devil they don't know’ in the Northeast United States

Emma Korein, Sara Swett, Tiffany Smythe, Jeremy Firestone, David Bidwell & Kelsey Leonard

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#WindEnergy #offshore #justice
Uncertainty confounds justice: the offshore wind ‘Devil they don't know’ in the Northeast United States
Renewable energy deployment has faced setbacks in part due to political pushback and social opposition. Recent research has focused on the justice dimensions of renewable energy, including fair par...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Concerted action in a polycentric landscape of climate governance? – National policymakers’ positionings in industry’s green transition

Cecilia Enberg

@liu.se
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#ClimateGovernance #Industry #Sweden
Concerted action in a polycentric landscape of climate governance? – National policymakers’ positionings in industry’s green transition
The aim of this paper is to bring insights into the lack of concerted action in the governing of Swedish industry’s green transition by investigating national policymakers’ views on the polycentric...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Exploring the governance of wicked problems: insights from South Africa's Breede Valley urban food system

Carolina Milhorance, Magalie Bourblanc & Sara Mercandalli

@umontpellier.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social

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#UrbanFood #SouthAfrica
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October 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Urban carrying capacity in practice: supporting growth management and climate planning in the United States

Jesse M. Keenan, Benjamin D. Trump & Igor Linkov
@tulaneu.bsky.social, @umich.edu, Carnegie Mellon University

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#coasts #GrowthManagement
Urban carrying capacity in practice: supporting growth management and climate planning in the United States
This article outlines the various strains of urban planning literature that have sought to develop a framework for urban carrying capacity (UCC) as a means to understand and manage the sustainable ...
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October 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Privatizing environmental governance: the evolving relationship between regulators and private entities
Avri Eitan
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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#privatization #environmentalgovernance
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October 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Just give them the money? Voting behaviour on agricultural policies in the European Parliament

Anne-Marie Parth & Colette Vogeler
University of Speyer
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#agriculture #EuropeanParliament #sustainability
Just give them the money? Voting behaviour on agricultural policies in the European Parliament
Voting on legislative acts on agriculture can be contentious: public pressure towards transforming European agricultural policies is high. At the same time, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs...
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October 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Spatializing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): the role of urbanization in SDGs localization across spatial scales
Nikos Katsikis, Pier Paolo Saraceno, Iraklis Stamos
Delft University of Technology, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
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#SDGs
Spatializing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): the role of urbanization in SDGs localization across spatial scales
This paper examines the question of localizing SDGs by linking them to the variegated spatialities of urbanization. The guiding hypothesis is that the processes underlying SDGs are connected to dom...
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October 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Characterizing bioeconomy policy instruments A global comparative analysis of bioeconomy strategies
Nicolai Goritz, Jonas von Pfister, Maria Proestou, Peter H. Feindt
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#BioEconomy #PolicyInstruments
Characterizing bioeconomy policy instruments A global comparative analysis of bioeconomy strategies
Over the past two decades, the concept of the bioeconomy has gained significant traction in policy making and research. While the visions and goals of bioeconomy policy strategies are well-research...
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October 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Making institutions more reflexive – governance structures for transformative change

Monika Berg

#ÖrebroUniversity
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#reflexivity #institutions
Making institutions more reflexive – governance structures for transformative change
Reflexive institutions are upheld as critical for greening states and societies. However, attempts to increase institutional reflexivity are generally introduced through projects and institutional ...
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September 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Public engagement practice for electricity grid system change

Alexandra Revez, Evan Boyle, Aoife Deane, Michelle Walsh, Avril Wilson & Brian Ó. Gallachóir

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#PublicEngagement #EnergyTransition #Ireland
Public engagement practice for electricity grid system change
This paper explores practitioner reflections on engaging the public in grid infrastructure development focusing on policy development and knowledge transfer for energy system change. We overlay lit...
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September 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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New Issue out! Vol. 27, Issue 5 (2025) is now published online, bringing together 9 papers on topics such as #OrphanedWells, #GreenPartnerships, #HeatMitigation, #CircularEconomy and more!
See the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjoe20/2...
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Volume 27, Issue 5 of Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
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September 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Published online Open Access: Controversial cycle lanes: lessons from Cycleway C9, Chiswick High Road
Yonat Rein-Sapir & Robin Hickman
@ucl.ac.uk
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#cycling #StreetsForWhom
Controversial cycle lanes: lessons from Cycleway C9, Chiswick High Road
Implementing cycle projects often encounters significant challenges. This paper examines the planning and implementation of Cycleway C9 in Chiswick, west London. In-depth interviews and thematic an...
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September 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Upcoming JEPP Special Issues deadline at the end of October!

Check the guidelines (at the bottom of the page) and previous Special Issues, which have made significant contributions to their fields, here:
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September 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Municipal administration and citizens linkages in strategic environmental assessment: exploring agency features in participatory decision-making processes of municipal master plans

Ticiana Ponte, Maria da Luz Fernandes, Filipe Teles & Alexandra Polido

doi.org/10.1080/1523...
Municipal administration and citizens linkages in strategic environmental assessment: exploring agency features in participatory decision-making processes of municipal master plans
Radical, structural, and multidimensional transformations are urgently needed in urban systems to advance sustainability on local and global scales. Combining traditional and new local governance a...
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September 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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From local to EU: understanding energy citizenship and the willingness to join energy communities across geographical levels
Johanna Held & Katja Corcoran
Karl-Franzens-University Graz
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#EnergyCitizenship #transition
From local to EU: understanding energy citizenship and the willingness to join energy communities across geographical levels
The concept of energy citizenship addresses active participation and involvement of citizens in the energy sector. Understanding the contexts and conditions under which energy citizenship might eme...
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September 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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The promises and pitfalls of Hanoi’s urban mobility transition: how residents are navigating the infrastructural politics of a new urban railway
Michelle Kee & Sarah Turner
McGill University
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#Hanoi #mobility #infrastructure
The promises and pitfalls of Hanoi’s urban mobility transition: how residents are navigating the infrastructural politics of a new urban railway
Low-carbon, urban mobility transitions are being fanfared across the Global South to promote environmental sustainability, while also improving mobility justice. In Vietnam’s capital city Hanoi, an...
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September 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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The evolving environment-trade nexus in the EU and WTO: building blocks of a just transition?
Emily Reid
University of Southampton, Southampton Law School
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#JustTransition #SustainableDevelopment
The evolving environment-trade nexus in the EU and WTO: building blocks of a just transition?
This article evaluates the environment-trade nexus in the European Union (EU) and World Trade Organisation (WTO) in the light of the imperatives created by complex global challenges such as climate...
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August 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Discursive strategies and paths forward for EU chemical legislation: bridging German stakeholder narratives on pollution and competitiveness for the announced REACH revision
Henry Hempel, Anran Luo, Beate I. Escher & Sina Leipold
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#REACH #chemicals
Discursive strategies and paths forward for EU chemical legislation: bridging German stakeholder narratives on pollution and competitiveness for the announced REACH revision
The European Union’s (EU) chemicals policy attempts to balance human health and environmental protection with economic performance, innovation, and substance circulation. Responding to increasing p...
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August 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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The new issue (Vol. 17, Issue 4, August 2025) is now available on Taylor & Francis Online, featuring 10 research articles, and topics such as #biodiversity, the role of #experts in policy design, #ExtremeHeat planning, and #SustainableAviation.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjoe20/2...
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Volume 27, Issue 4 of Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
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July 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Levels and layers of integration: early experience of terrestrial and marine spatial planning for the Gulf of Eilat, Israel

Stephen Jay, Heather Ritchie, Daniella Vatine, Inbar Schwartz & Michelle Portman
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Levels and layers of integration: early experience of terrestrial and marine spatial planning for the Gulf of Eilat, Israel
Marine spatial planning (MSP) and land-use or terrestrial spatial planning (TSP) usually operate separately, with numerous mismatches, even though there are many reasons for integration between the...
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July 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Gardening governance: CSO-government dynamics in Shanghai's urban renewal
Mengqi Shao & Linjun Xie
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
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#CivilSociety #UrbanGovernance
Gardening governance: CSO-government dynamics in Shanghai's urban renewal
This paper explores the intricate dynamics of civil society organization (CSO)-government relationships through the lens of community gardens as governance spaces in Shanghai, drawing on theoretica...
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July 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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(In)formality at play in river restoration: planning beyond confined locality and short-term perspectives
Ni Made Gilang Wargyawati, Iulian Barba Lata, Barbara Tempels & Marleen Buizer
‪@w-u-r.bsky.social, Radboud University
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#RiverRestoration
(In)formality at play in river restoration: planning beyond confined locality and short-term perspectives
This paper delves into the politics of the Citarum River restoration by engaging with the intricate interplay between informal and formal practices. As such, it calls attention to practices that ma...
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July 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Published online: The influence of ecosystem service values on green infrastructure and urban development: insights from 5 Canadian municipalities
Nicklas N. Baran & S. Jeff Birchall
‪@ualberta.bsky.social‬
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#GreenInfrastructure #UrbanEcosystem
The influence of ecosystem service values on green infrastructure and urban development: insights from 5 Canadian municipalities
To restore critical ecosystem services (ES) often lost during urbanization, municipalities have begun to implement green infrastructure (GI). Much research has addressed the incorporation of ES sci...
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July 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Check out a new blog post based on a recent JEPP article on the topic of sustainable aviation: www.linkedin.com/pulse/airpor...
Airports’ development: between growth and constraint
Sofia Pagliarin & Peter Marks (2025) based on paper: Airports’ environmental effects and limits to growth: An integrated framework https://doi.org/10.
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July 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Policymaking and developments towards governance in green infrastructure design: the case of Taipei city
Meng-Chin Tsai, Leslie Mabon, Alice Moncaster and Alice Fraser-McDonald
The Open University
doi.org/10.1080/1523...
#greeninfrastructure #Taipei
Policymaking and developments towards governance in green infrastructure design: the case of Taipei city
Green infrastructure (GI) has emerged as a key component in urban resilience strategies for integrating ecological and social benefits. Initially driven by government bodies, GI initiatives have ex...
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June 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM