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

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https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cjoe20
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Guardians of the green? A critical examination of procuratorial public interest litigation in China’s environmental governance

Hao Shen, Fudan University

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#PublicInterestLitigation #EnvironmentalGovernace #AuthoritarianEnvironmentalism
Guardians of the green? A critical examination of procuratorial public interest litigation in China’s environmental governance
Procuratorial public interest litigation has become a vital legal mechanism for advancing environmental protection in China. Although public authorities are mandated by law to safeguard the public ...
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February 10, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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New Issue (Vol 28, Issue 1, February 2026) is available online, including 9 papers, and covering topics such as #EnergyCooperatives, #TwinTransition, #GreenInfrastructure, #RiverRestoration, #MarineSpatialPlanning, #ChemicalLegislation and #GardeningGovernance

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Volume 28, Issue 1 of Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
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January 26, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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Managing urban development for biodiversity: a cross-country analysis of local planning practices

Sina Shahab, Enzo Falco, Eran Kaplinsky, Peter Lacoere & Fabian Wenner

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#biodiversity #planning
Managing urban development for biodiversity: a cross-country analysis of local planning practices
Biodiversity conservation is gaining prominence in urban and regional planning, yet limited attention has been paid to how local authorities translate high-level biodiversity policies into effectiv...
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January 23, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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Anchoring climate policy integration: progress and limitations under the European Green Deal

Sebastian Oberthür, Kati Kulovesi, Leonie Reins

@uniuef.bsky.social, Erasmus University Rotterdam

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#ClimatePolicy #EuropeanUnion
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January 19, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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Public participation towards procedural justice: oil and gas development in Colorado

Nathan Jeschke, Deserai Anderson, Betsy L. Smith, Gabriel Chavez, Lisa M. McKenzie & Katherine L. Dickinson

University of Colorado Denver

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#OilAndGas #participation
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January 14, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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A three-perspective problem? Sustainability governance of renewable hydrogen certification in Tasmania

Daniel Goodwin, Fred Gale, Heather Lovell, Kim Beasy, Hannah Murphy & Marion Schoen

@utas.edu.au

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#hydrogen #Tasmania #governance
A three-perspective problem? Sustainability governance of renewable hydrogen certification in Tasmania
Hydrogen generated using renewable energy can support decarbonisation in priority sectors where it has sustainability benefits compared with alternatives. To help navigate the governance of sustain...
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January 5, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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Understanding ‘Bad Governance’ in the urban south: a case study of solid waste management in Ghana

Eugenia Yaa Asabea Danso & Jinliao He

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Understanding ‘Bad Governance’ in the urban south: a case study of solid waste management in Ghana
Despite a substantial and growing literature on governance, dominant narratives remain centered on the Global North, creating significant gaps in understanding the distinct challenges of urban Sout...
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January 5, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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Happy New Year from us at the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning!! 🥳
January 5, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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Beyond wildfire crisis: explaining policy changes in the wildfire governance subsystem in Argentina through longitudinal analysis

Gabriela Huidobro, Lukas Giessen, Nestor Ignacio Gasparri & Sarah Lilian Burns

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#Wildfires #ForestFires
Beyond wildfire crisis: explaining policy changes in the wildfire governance subsystem in Argentina through longitudinal analysis
Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity worldwide, leading to the development of specialized governance systems that coordinate diverse actors across the different stages of fire events...
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December 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Community garden coproduction under collectivism

Hongmei Lu, Yanliu Lin, Pieter Hooimeijer & Yuelai Liu

@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, Tongji University

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#CommunityGarden #CoProduction #Collectivism
Community garden coproduction under collectivism
Coproduction, as both a policy instrument and a planning practice, involves citizens in producing public services, positioning them as consumers and producers. Small vacant lands in cities offer op...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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A user-oriented application for the economic evaluation of the CO2 sequestration function

Antonio Nesticò, Monica Sebillo, Pietro Battistoni, Gabriella Maselli & Federica Russo

University of Salerno, University of Sannio

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#CO2Sequestration
A user-oriented application for the economic evaluation of the CO2 sequestration function
Ecosystem services are essential for human survival, well-being, and prosperity. Their economic valuation plays a key role in sustainable environmental management and in tackling global challenges ...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Editorial, “Striking a balance? How the European Union manages the environment–trade nexus”, by guest editors Sieglinde Gstöhl and Simon Schunz @collegeofeurope.bsky.social outlines policy lessons and introduces the Special Collection on #TradeAndEnvironment:

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Striking a balance? How the European Union manages the environment-trade nexus
This article introduces the environment-trade nexus and embeds the special issue into the evolving academic and policy debates about its management by assessing to what extent the European Union (E...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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The Special Issue Vol. 27, Issue 6 (Dec) on the environment–trade nexus is now online. The Issue provides studies on the #EU management of the environment–trade nexus, with themes such as #CBAM, #WTO, #GreenDeal, #CorporateSustainability, and #Deforestation. www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjoe20/c...
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Striking a balance? How the European Union manages the environment-trade nexus. Volume 27, Issue 6 of Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
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December 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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The European Union’s CBAM: averting emissions leakage or promoting the diffusion of carbon pricing?

Michael A. Mehling, Geoffroy Dolphin & Robert A. Ritz

@mit.edu @ox.ac.uk @universitypress.cambridge.org

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#CBAM #EuropeanCommission #CarbonLeakage
The European Union’s CBAM: averting emissions leakage or promoting the diffusion of carbon pricing?
Adopted in 2023, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a significant component of the European Union’s ambitious decarbonization strategy under the European Green Deal. This article ques...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Divergent responses to the cadre evaluation system reform: contrasting strategies in Chinese cities towards environmental information disclosure

Chang Liu, Wei Peng, Siyi Zhang, Tingting Xiao, Zhong Liu

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#CadreEvaluation #RaceToTheBottom
Divergent responses to the cadre evaluation system reform: contrasting strategies in Chinese cities towards environmental information disclosure
The Chinese central government introduced the Cadre Evaluation System (CES) reform in December 2013 to prioritize environmental protection in performance evaluation. However, the impact of the refo...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Evaluating urban heat resilience in Indian cities through the comprehensive assessment of municipal plans

Rajashree Kotharkar & Maria Akhtar
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

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#ExtremeHeat #UrbanPlanning
Evaluating urban heat resilience in Indian cities through the comprehensive assessment of municipal plans
India, one of the most heat-exposed and vulnerable countries globally, is projected to experience increasingly even more frequent and intense heat waves in the future. Municipal-level plans have an...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Barriers to environmental policy implementation: stakeholder perceptions in the context of Ireland

Cara A. Augustenborg, Patricia Lentz & Anne Pender

@ucddublin.bsky.social

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#PolicyBarriers #EvironmentalGovernance
Barriers to environmental policy implementation: stakeholder perceptions in the context of Ireland
Environmental policies are embedded in political institutions worldwide, yet degradation persists, with failure to implement existing policies considered a significant contributing factor. Few stud...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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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

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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