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Corrigendum to “Challenges and perceptions of natural resource management among the Awajún and Wampis indigenous communities: A socioeconomic, cultural, political, and environmental analysis” [Environ. Sci. Policy, 180 (2026) 104402] “Awajún和Wampis土著社区对自然资源管理的挑战和看法：社会经济、文化、政治和环境分析”的勘误表。科学。政策，180 (2026)104402]

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Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104411

Guido Ayay-Arista , Segundo G. Chavez , Sebanias Cuja-Quiac , Cesar Gabriel Conde-Rios , José Octavio Ruiz-Tejada

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Challenges and perceptions of natural resource management among the Awajún and Wampis indigenous communities: A socioeconomic, cultural, political, and environmental analysis Awajún和Wampis土著社区对自然资源管理的挑战和看法：社会经济、文化、政治和环境分析

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Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104402

Guido Ayay-Arista , Segundo G. Chavez , Sebanias Cuja-Quiac , Cesar Gabriel Conde-Rios , José Octavio Ruiz-Tejada

Natural resource management in indigenous communities is crucial for territorial sustainability, especially in contexts of increasing external pressure, ecological transformation, and sociocultural change. This study focused on the Awajún and Wampis communities in northern Peru, with the aim of identifying the specific challenges and perceptions they face in managing their natural resources, considering socio-economic, cultural, political, legal, and environmental barriers. A qualitative approach was used, under a phenomenological design, through semi-structured interviews with 18 community authorities, intentionally selected for their experience and leadership in self-management and conservation processes. Thematic analysis revealed a cross-cutting presence of structural factors that limit environmental sustainability and indigenous autonomy. Among the main challenges identified were deforestation, the expansion of illegal mining, weak implementation of intercultural public policies, the progressive loss of ancestral knowledge, and limited community participation in decision-making about their territories. Intergenerational tensions regarding the role of young people in conservation were also identified, as well as a critical perception of the passive role of the state. The graphical visualizations showed a high degree of interrelation between ecological and sociocultural factors, especially between climate change, environmental degradation, and the weakening of indigenous governance. In conclusion, the findings suggest the need to strengthen community participation in environmental management, revitalize ancestral knowledge, foster inter-institutional alliances, and design intercultural policies that recognize and respect the indigenous worldview. This study provides key inputs for the formulation of sustainable strategies aimed at territorial strengthening and the defense of the natural and cultural heritage of indigenous peoples.

土著社区的自然资源管理对领土的可持续性至关重要，特别是在外部压力增加、生态转型和社会文化变革的背景下。本研究的重点是秘鲁北部的Awajún和Wampis社区，目的是确定他们在管理自然资源方面面临的具体挑战和看法，考虑到社会经济、文化、政治、法律和环境障碍。在现象学设计下，通过与18个社区当局进行半结构化访谈，采用定性方法，有意选择他们在自我管理和保护过程中的经验和领导能力。专题分析揭示了限制环境可持续性和土著自治的结构因素的交叉存在。所确定的主要挑战包括森林砍伐、非法采矿的扩大、跨文化公共政策执行不力、祖传知识的逐渐丧失以及社区对其领土决策的参与有限。还确定了关于年轻人在保护中的作用的代际紧张关系，以及对国家被动角色的批判性看法。图表显示了生态和社会文化因素之间的高度相互关系，特别是气候变化、环境退化和土著治理弱化之间的相互关系。总之，研究结果表明，需要加强社区对环境管理的参与，振兴祖先知识，促进机构间联盟，并制定承认和尊重土著世界观的跨文化政策。这项研究为制定旨在加强领土和保护土著人民的自然和文化遗产的可持续战略提供了关键投入。

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From communities to policy: Transdisciplinary lessons from the Global South 从社区到政策：来自全球南方的跨学科经验教训

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Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104405

Laila Sandroni, Marcel Bursztyn, Renata Távora, Juliana Dalboni

The international scientific community has made outstanding progress in integrating diverse academic disciplines to tackle complex sustainability problems. The challenge of our time is integrating non-academic knowledge from the "real world" towards transdisciplinary research. Further examination of transdisciplinary projects implemented in the Global South is crucial for identifying what challenges stand out in relation to the transdisciplinary literature, mostly based on experiences held in the global north. This article aims to help fill this gap by transversally analyzing the experience of more than 100 researchers across 6 study sites, who have contributed to a 7-year-long project in Brazil, focusing on the socio-environmental dynamics of communities vulnerable to climate change. We present the recurring challenges and opportunities recognized by the researchers involved in the project and reflect on their interaction with different types of societal actors. We recognize that many of the key points highlighted by the researchers reflect characteristics that are common to transdisciplinary practice elsewhere but that one critical component emerges: the urge felt by researchers in translating local demands into policy. We argue that a crucial benefit of transdisciplinary science in contexts where marginalized populations have little to no access to public policy and decision making is the production of bridges that create communication flows from communities to policy. We conclude by advocating for the role of transdisciplinary research in translating grassroots demands into climate action and indicating pathways for future research.

国际科学界在整合不同学科以解决复杂的可持续性问题方面取得了显著进展。我们这个时代的挑战是将来自“现实世界”的非学术知识整合到跨学科研究中。进一步审查在全球南方实施的跨学科项目对于确定与跨学科文献相关的挑战是至关重要的，这些文献大多基于全球北方的经验。本文旨在通过横向分析6个研究地点的100多名研究人员的经验来帮助填补这一空白，这些研究人员参与了巴西一个为期7年的项目，重点关注易受气候变化影响的社区的社会环境动态。我们展示了参与项目的研究人员所认识到的反复出现的挑战和机遇，并反思了他们与不同类型的社会参与者的互动。我们认识到，研究人员强调的许多关键点反映了其他地方跨学科实践的共同特征，但一个关键组成部分出现了：研究人员在将当地需求转化为政策时感受到的冲动。我们认为，在边缘化人群几乎没有机会参与公共政策和决策的情况下，跨学科科学的一个关键好处是，它为社区和政策之间的沟通建立了桥梁。最后，我们倡导跨学科研究在将基层需求转化为气候行动方面的作用，并指出未来研究的途径。

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Reimagining water governance through feminist perspectives: Women’s everyday experiences in the Toltén Hydrosocial Territory, Southern Chile 从女权主义视角重新构想水治理：智利南部托尔特海姆水文社会地区妇女的日常经历

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Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104408

Maite Hernando-Arrese, María Ignacia Ibarra, Paola Bolados

This article examines water governance challenges in Indigenous and rural areas of the Araucanía region, southern Chile, through the lens of feminist political ecology and decolonial feminist perspectives. Amid a prolonged megadrought and escalating water scarcity, the Chilean government faces growing pressure to transform its model of water governance. Drawing on field research conducted with women leaders of rural drinking water committees and cooperatives, social movements, and peasant women in the Toltén hydrosocial territory in southern Chile, this study critically examines how dominant colonial systems of thinking and governing water have marginalized women’s contributions. The research reveals how these women navigate and reimagine water governance through place-based initiatives rooted in Indigenous Mapuche cosmovision and women’s hope to create alternative futures. It explores their struggles to access water, their roles in decision-making, the transmission of ancestral knowledge, collaborative water management practices, and their visions for sustainable water futures. By engaging in community-based water management organizations, defending small-scale family farming, and implementing solutions like rainwater harvesting and artificial wetlands, women emerge as protagonists shaping alternative socioecological futures. This paper argues that bringing feminist political ecology and decolonial feminist approaches into dialogue advances water governance scholarship by foregrounding gendered, political, and territorial relations as constitutive of governance. In doing so, it emphasizes the need for unlearning neoliberal technocratic frameworks that treat water as a manageable resource detached from social, territorial, and relational worlds, while undoing colonial forms of water governance that marginalize Indigenous and women’s relational ways of knowing and governing water.

本文通过女权主义政治生态学和去殖民化女权主义的视角，考察了智利南部Araucanía地区土著和农村地区的水治理挑战。在长期的特大干旱和日益严重的水资源短缺中，智利政府面临着越来越大的压力，要求其改变水治理模式。通过对智利南部托尔特海姆水域农村饮用水委员会和合作社、社会运动的妇女领导人以及农民妇女进行的实地研究，本研究批判性地考察了占主导地位的殖民思维和水管理系统是如何将妇女的贡献边缘化的。该研究揭示了这些妇女如何通过植根于土著马普切世界观的基于地方的倡议和妇女创造替代未来的希望来驾驭和重新构想水治理。它探讨了他们获取水的斗争，他们在决策中的作用，祖传知识的传播，协作水管理实践，以及他们对可持续水未来的愿景。通过参与社区水管理组织，捍卫小规模家庭农业，实施雨水收集和人工湿地等解决方案，妇女成为塑造替代社会生态未来的主角。本文认为，通过将性别、政治和领土关系作为治理的组成部分，将女权主义政治生态学和非殖民化女权主义方法引入对话，可以促进水治理学术的发展。在此过程中，它强调需要摒弃新自由主义技术官僚框架，这种框架将水视为一种脱离社会、领土和关系世界的可管理资源，同时废除殖民形式的水治理，这种水治理将土著和妇女认识和管理水的关系方式边缘化。

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Unlearning and undoing modernity-coloniality in an entangled and unravelling world: Toward relational and emergent governance 在一个纠缠和解体的世界中忘却和消除现代性-殖民主义：走向关系和紧急治理

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Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104404

Ramcilovic-Suominen Sabaheta , Jessica Böhme , Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes

This paper explores pathways for unlearning and undoing modernity-coloniality in policy, through a trialogue between scholars drawing from political ontology, relational ontology, and practical eko-philosophy. We argue that conventional mechanistic policymaking fails to address the contemporary metacrises, which we argue require ethico-onto-politico-epistemological shifts from singular worlds to pluriverse. We examine the possibilities and pathways for unlearning and undoing modernity-coloniality in and through policy, asking specifically whether that requires undoing the state and state policy, and what role do predefined policy goals play. Our analysis reveals the need for simultaneous deconstruction of modernist assumptions and reconstruction of relational alternatives. Key pathways include (i) questioning dominant ethico-onto-politico-epistemological assumptions; (ii) reimagining the state as "ontological negotiator"; and (iii) abandoning fixed endpoints for cultivating conditions for pluriversal life-sustaining relations. Our work is inspired by eko-philosophy, Eastern philosophies, and onto-epistemological humility, and embracing of uncertainty as decolonizing methods. We propose "Relational and emergent governance" as a collective organizing arising from deconstructed certainties and reconstructed relationalities—requiring experimental institutions that can maintain relational depth across scales.

本文从政治本体论、关系本体论和实践生态哲学的角度出发，通过学者之间的三方对话，探讨了政策中现代性-殖民性的忘却与消解途径。我们认为，传统的机械决策未能解决当代元危机，我们认为这需要从单一世界到多元世界的伦理-个人-政治-认识论转变。我们研究了在政策中和通过政策消除和消除现代性殖民主义的可能性和途径，具体询问这是否需要消除国家和国家政策，以及预定义的政策目标发挥什么作用。我们的分析揭示了同时解构现代主义假设和重建关系替代的必要性。关键途径包括(i)质疑占主导地位的伦理-个体-政治-认识论假设；（ii）将国家重新想象为“本体论的谈判者”；（三）放弃固定的终点，以培养多元生命维持关系的条件。我们的工作受到生态哲学、东方哲学和本体认识论的启发，并将不确定性作为去殖民化的方法。我们提出“关系和紧急治理”是一种集体组织，源于解构的确定性和重建的关系，这需要能够跨尺度保持关系深度的实验机构。

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The possible institutionalisation of the carbon removal budget concept across the UNFCCC, UNCBD, and corporate net-zero strategies 在《联合国气候变化框架公约》、《联合国生物多样性公约》和企业净零战略中，碳减排预算概念可能的制度化

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Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104390

Jacopo Bencini , Laura Iozzelli

This study provides a preliminary qualitative policy analysis exploring the possible institutionalisation of the novel Carbon Removal Budget concept into multilateral decision-making and net-zero target setting. The analysis focuses on enabling and constraining factors for institutionalisation across three domains, namely the multilateral climate and biodiversity regimes under the UNFCCC and the UN Biodiversity Convention, and corporate climate target setting under the Science-Based Targets initiative. The study draws parallels with the framing and institutionalisation of a similar epistemic object - the Carbon Budget concept - into the public discourse in recent years. Our analysis suggests that the institutionalisation of the CRB into these three domains faces both opportunities and challenges, and that recognition will play a key role. The UNFCCC appears to be the most fertile institutional ground for such policy development. While the UN Biodiversity regime appears less prepared to offer a holistic platform for institutionalising the concept, linkages can be built around goals listed in the Kunming-Montreal Framework specifically for most nature-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) applications. In the corporate sector, the SBTi draft standard currently under revision presents a timely opportunity to institutionalise the CRB within net-zero strategies, particularly for large, emission-intensive sectors.

本研究提供了一个初步的定性政策分析，探讨了将新的碳去除预算概念制度化到多边决策和净零目标设定的可能性。该分析侧重于三个领域制度化的有利因素和制约因素，即《联合国气候变化框架公约》和《联合国生物多样性公约》下的多边气候和生物多样性机制，以及科学减排目标倡议下的企业气候目标设定。该研究与近年来公共话语中类似认知对象（碳预算概念）的框架和制度化进行了类比。我们的分析表明，CRB在这三个领域的制度化面临着机遇和挑战，认识到这一点将发挥关键作用。《联合国气候变化框架公约》似乎是制定此类政策最肥沃的制度土壤。虽然联合国生物多样性机制似乎还没有准备好提供一个将这一概念制度化的整体平台，但可以围绕《昆明-蒙特利尔框架》中列出的目标建立联系，这些目标专门针对大多数基于自然的二氧化碳去除（CDR）应用。在企业部门，目前正在修订的SBTi标准草案提供了一个及时的机会，将CRB制度化，纳入净零战略，特别是对于大型排放密集型行业。

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Governing the water-energy-food nexus: A multi-stage governance assessment approach embracing complexity and regional diversity 管理水-能源-粮食关系：包含复杂性和区域多样性的多阶段管理评估方法

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104388

Léa Tatry , Erik Laes , Eunice Pereira Ramos , Edo Abraham

Integrated management of water, energy, and food (WEF) systems requires governance approaches that account for biophysical interdependencies while remaining grounded in the institutional arrangements through which decisions are made and implemented. Despite the widespread appeal of the WEF nexus, its operationalization remains limited, particularly in data and capacity-constrained contexts. This study presents a sequenced diagnostic framework to assess WEF nexus governance, explicitly linking biophysical interactions to institutional and policy processes. The approach begins with a basin-level analysis of subsystem interactions to characterize a clearly defined nexus challenge. It then situates this challenge within the broader governance landscape, before proceeding to detailed analyses of policy coherence and governance architecture, including proposal and approval procedures, formal implementation arrangements, and guiding principles. Applied to the Tana River Basin in Kenya, the framework identifies 50 explicit synergies and 7 trade-offs across national sectoral policies, alongside uneven coordination mechanisms between sectors. The findings show how land-use, water allocation, agricultural priorities, climate adaptation, and ecosystem protection are shaped by the interaction between biophysical constraints and sectoral mandates. By linking policy alignment with institutional design, the framework identifies actionable entry points for improving cross-sector coordination. Designed for both preliminary assessments and stakeholder-engaged processes, the approach provides a practical pathway for operationalizing WEF nexus governance in real-world settings.

水、能源和粮食（WEF）系统的综合管理需要考虑到生物物理相互依赖关系的治理方法，同时仍以制定和实施决策的制度安排为基础。尽管世界经济论坛的联系具有广泛的吸引力，但其运作仍然有限，特别是在数据和能力有限的情况下。本研究提出了一个排序诊断框架来评估世界经济论坛关系治理，明确地将生物物理相互作用与制度和政策过程联系起来。该方法从对子系统相互作用的盆地级分析开始，以描述明确定义的关联挑战。然后，在继续详细分析政策一致性和治理体系结构（包括建议和批准程序、正式实施安排和指导原则）之前，将这一挑战置于更广泛的治理环境中。该框架应用于肯尼亚的塔纳河流域，确定了50个明确的协同效应和7个跨国家部门政策的权衡，以及部门之间不平衡的协调机制。研究结果表明，土地利用、水资源分配、农业优先事项、气候适应和生态系统保护如何受到生物物理限制和部门任务之间的相互作用的影响。通过将政策调整与制度设计联系起来，该框架确定了改善跨部门协调的可行切入点。该方法为初步评估和利益相关者参与过程设计，为在现实环境中实施世界经济论坛关系治理提供了切实可行的途径。

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Energy sovereignty and climate adaptation: A community model for empowering maya women in Ixil, Yucatan 能源主权和气候适应：赋予尤卡坦伊西尔玛雅妇女权力的社区模式

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104345

Alejandra Vega-Camarena , Iris Santos-González , Marcela Torres-Wong , Rebeca Rosado Medina , Amina El Mekaoui

Despite growing recognition of gender dimensions in climate adaptation and energy transitions, Indigenous women's agency in constructing climate knowledge and leading community-controlled renewable energy initiatives remains underexplored, particularly in Latin American contexts. This participatory action research examines how Maya women in Ixil, Yucatán, construct climate vulnerability and achieve multidimensional empowerment through solar irrigation technologies. Employing a novel methodological approach that structures participatory action research as simultaneous knowledge generation and community empowerment, we conducted 24 months of fieldwork (2022–2024), combining guided territory walks, memory journeys, focus groups, and ethnographic observations to document women's experiences with solar energy adoption and climate adaptation strategies. Findings reveal that Ixil women developed "situated climatic vulnerability," an experiential understanding of environmental change grounded in intergenerational memory and daily practice. Through solar technology appropriation, women achieved multidimensional empowerment: technical mastery (solar panel maintenance, hurricane preparedness), economic autonomy (reduced fuel costs, diversified income through flower cultivation), political organization (collective territorial defense against real estate pressures), and cultural revitalization (integration of renewable energy with Maya cosmology). The study introduces the "territory-body-energy" nexus, expanding decolonial feminist theory, and the "colloquia construction of climate vulnerability," challenging technocratic methodologies. These findings demonstrate that community-controlled energy transitions led by Indigenous women offer transformative pathways for climate adaptation that prioritize social justice, cultural continuity, and territorial sovereignty. We recommend policy frameworks that support Indigenous energy sovereignty, incorporate traditional ecological knowledge, and center women's leadership in climate adaptation strategies for the Global South.

尽管人们越来越认识到气候适应和能源转型中的性别因素，但土著妇女在构建气候知识和领导社区控制的可再生能源倡议方面的作用仍未得到充分探索，特别是在拉丁美洲国家。这项参与性行动研究考察了伊西尔（Yucatán）的玛雅妇女如何构建气候脆弱性，并通过太阳能灌溉技术实现多维赋权。我们采用了一种新颖的方法，将参与式行动研究作为知识生成和社区赋权的同步结构，进行了24个月的实地调查（2022-2024），结合了有指导的领土漫步、记忆之旅、焦点小组和民族志观察，记录了妇女在采用太阳能和气候适应战略方面的经验。研究结果显示，Ixil女性发展了“情境气候脆弱性”，这是一种基于代际记忆和日常实践的对环境变化的经验理解。通过利用太阳能技术，妇女获得了多维度的权力：技术掌握（太阳能电池板维护，飓风准备），经济自主（降低燃料成本，通过养花实现多样化收入），政治组织（集体领土防御房地产压力）和文化振兴（可再生能源与玛雅宇宙观的融合）。该研究引入了“领土-身体-能量”的联系，扩展了非殖民化的女权主义理论，以及“气候脆弱性的座谈会建构”，挑战了技术官僚的方法论。这些发现表明，由土著妇女领导的社区控制的能源转型为气候适应提供了转型途径，优先考虑社会正义、文化连续性和领土主权。我们建议制定政策框架，支持土著能源主权，纳入传统生态知识，并使妇女在全球南方气候适应战略中发挥领导作用。

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Corrigendum to “Unlearning through spirituality: Mongolian and Western animistic traditions as pathways to enhance sustainability” [Environ. Sci. Policy 175 (2026), 104296] “通过灵性忘却：蒙古和西方万物有灵论传统作为提高可持续性的途径”的勘误表[环境]。科学。政策175 (2026),104296]

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104350

Jesse Segura , Julien-François Gerber , Filka Sekulova

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Corrigendum to “Vulnerability to climate change, depopulation and the global food regime: An index-based approach for rural Spain” [Environ. Sci. Policy 174 (2025) 104254] “易受气候变化、人口减少和全球粮食制度的影响：西班牙农村地区的一种基于指数的方法”的勘误表[Environ]。科学。政策174 (2025)104254]

IF 5.2 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104346

Sergio Villamayor-Tomas , Daniel Gaitán-Cremaschi , Esteve Corbera , Ana Beatriz Pierri-Daunt , Letícia Santos de Lima