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Emerging circular economy practices, environmental health risks, and the “tailings paradox” in Africa’s artisanal and small-scale mining: Evidence from Ghana 新兴循环经济实践、环境健康风险以及非洲手工和小规模采矿中的“尾矿悖论”：来自加纳的证据

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104305

Francis Arthur-Holmes, Diego A. Vazquez-Brust

This paper examines the dynamics of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) within the context of circular economy (CE) practices in Africa, with a focus on informal gold mining in Ghana. Utilising a case study approach and thematic analysis of qualitative data collected through 50 interviews and field/participant observations spanning from 2019 to 2023, the research uncovers diverse CE practices within the ASM sector and their impacts on rural communities and the natural environment. Based on our findings, CE practices in ASM include sorting waste rocks, recycling tailings, and reprocessing tailings. Applying the paradox knot framework for our study, the findings reveal a “Tailings paradox”, wherein the recycling of mine waste from ASM operations presents intertwined socio-economic opportunities and environmental and health challenges. We thus developed a Tailings Paradox Framework to explain how the “Tailing paradox” can be addressed through a dialectical process of paradox reduction—made up of a regulative system involving regulations, laws and policies, norms, collaborative governance structures, community-led monitoring, adoption of mercury-free technologies, and hybrid governance models —in a bid to formalise informal CE practices associated with mine tailings from ASM operations. Critical discussions from our framework reveal that interventions aimed at addressing environmental and health impacts may inadvertently limit access to economic and social benefits for the most disadvantaged individuals in rural communities. The findings underscore the importance of integrating CE principles into ASM operations to mitigate environmental degradation and promote sustainable development, while also emphasising the need for paradox-oriented collaborative governance approaches.

本文考察了非洲循环经济（CE）实践背景下的手工和小规模采矿（ASM）的动态，重点是加纳的非正式金矿开采。该研究采用案例研究方法，对2019年至2023年期间50次访谈和实地/参与者观察收集的定性数据进行专题分析，揭示了ASM部门的各种环保实践及其对农村社区和自然环境的影响。根据我们的研究结果，ASM的环保实践包括分类废石、回收尾矿和再加工尾矿。将悖论结框架应用到我们的研究中，研究结果揭示了一个“尾矿悖论”，其中ASM操作的矿山废物回收带来了交织在一起的社会经济机遇和环境与健康挑战。因此，我们开发了一个尾矿悖论框架，以解释如何通过悖论减少的辩证过程来解决“尾矿悖论”——由涉及法规、法律和政策、规范、协作治理结构、社区主导的监测、采用无汞技术和混合治理模型的监管系统组成——以使与ASM操作的矿山尾矿相关的非正式环保实践正规化。我们框架中的关键讨论表明，旨在解决环境和健康影响的干预措施可能会无意中限制农村社区最弱势个人获得经济和社会效益的机会。研究结果强调了将环境保护原则整合到ASM操作中以减轻环境退化和促进可持续发展的重要性，同时也强调了采用矛盾导向的协作治理方法的必要性。

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Associating climate change mitigation with protein security: The case of Ireland 将减缓气候变化与蛋白质安全联系起来：爱尔兰的案例

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104311

Marie Merlo , Cathal Buckley , Thia Hennessy , James A. O’Mahony

Meeting the world’s growing population’s protein demand, while minimising the environmental impact of food production, is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Livestock production systems are facing challenges regarding their environmental impact, while cropping systems are seen as more environmentally friendly protein sources. This dichotomy is observed in environmental policies. While the contribution of protein production to climate change must be reduced, the nutritional impact for a growing world population and the economic impact for farmers must be considered in policy developments. Protein security is defined as the number of individuals having their protein requirements met daily. This paper evaluates the net contribution, i.e., considering human edible inputs and outputs involved in the production process, of animal- and plant-based products, to protein output and security for the Republic of Ireland. The effects of environmental policies on this contribution are also analysed. Milk and arable production contribute more to net protein security than beef or sheep meat production. Overall, the Irish protein sector can meet the protein requirements of ca. 20 million people annually, 35 million people if digestibility is considered. While both Scenarios investigated would lead to a reduction in GHG emissions, a Business-as-Usual Scenario would lead to a decrease in gross margin but to an increase in protein output and security. A Climate Policy Scenario would lead to an increase in net protein output, but net digestible protein output would decrease due to beef protein being substituted for plant-based protein sources with a lower digestibility.

在满足世界人口不断增长的蛋白质需求的同时，尽量减少粮食生产对环境的影响，是我们这个时代面临的最大挑战之一。畜牧业生产系统正面临着环境影响方面的挑战，而种植系统则被视为更环保的蛋白质来源。这种二分法体现在环境政策中。虽然必须减少蛋白质生产对气候变化的影响，但在制定政策时必须考虑到不断增长的世界人口对营养的影响以及对农民的经济影响。蛋白质安全被定义为每天满足其蛋白质需求的个体数量。本文评估了净贡献，即考虑到动物和植物产品在生产过程中涉及的人类食用投入和产出，对爱尔兰共和国的蛋白质产出和安全。还分析了环境政策对这一贡献的影响。牛奶和耕地生产比牛肉或羊肉生产对净蛋白质安全的贡献更大。总体而言，爱尔兰蛋白质部门每年可以满足约2000万人的蛋白质需求，如果考虑消化率，则为3500万人。虽然所调查的两种情景都将导致温室气体排放的减少，但一切照旧情景将导致毛利率下降，但会增加蛋白质产量和安全性。气候政策情景将导致净蛋白质产量增加，但净可消化蛋白质产量将减少，因为牛肉蛋白质被消化率较低的植物性蛋白质来源所取代。

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Enabling system-level trust: Polycentric governance for complex, many-scaled environmental problems 启用系统级信任：针对复杂、多尺度环境问题的多中心治理

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104302

Paul D. Hirsch , Bryan G. Norton

Three forms of trust are contrasted: personal level trust (PLT), aggregated personal trust (APLT) and system-level trust (SLT). PLT and APLT are generally developed through face-to-face and other forms of direct relationships among participants in environmental governance. PLT and APLT, while unquestionably helpful and important in addressing environmental issues and policies, have proved insufficient to generate agreement and action in the face of today’s complex multi-scaled problems. These problems often affect larger populations, many numbers of which have no direct relationships with other stakeholders. Consequently, efforts at environmental governance in these cases often lack the support of appropriate levels of trust. It is shown that SLT cannot be built from either PLT or APLT; it requires delving into characteristics of the negotiating groups, themselves. Such groups are likely to find some success if: (1) they share a sense of place; (2) they acknowledge the importance of complexity in their work, and (3) they are focused on a shared problem or nest of problems. The concept of system-level trust is tested by application to collective actions in protecting common pool resources within multi-scaled systems incorporating polycentric governance.

本文对比了三种形式的信任：个人层面信任（PLT）、聚合个人信任（APLT）和系统层面信任（SLT）。PLT和applt一般是通过环境治理参与者之间面对面或其他形式的直接关系发展起来的。PLT和applt虽然在解决环境问题和政策方面毫无疑问是有帮助和重要的，但面对当今复杂的多尺度问题，它们已被证明不足以产生协议和行动。这些问题往往影响更大的人群，其中许多人与其他利益相关者没有直接关系。因此，在这些情况下，环境治理的努力往往缺乏适当程度的信任的支持。结果表明，SLT不能由PLT或APLT构建；这需要深入研究谈判小组本身的特点。如果：(1)他们有共同的地方感；(2)他们认识到复杂性在工作中的重要性，(3)他们专注于一个共同的问题或一系列问题。通过将系统级信任的概念应用于包含多中心治理的多尺度系统中保护公共池资源的集体行动，对系统级信任的概念进行了测试。

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Socioecological transitions that transcend hegemony: From co-optation to resistance regarding Buen Vivir in Ecuador 超越霸权的社会生态转型：从合作到抵制厄瓜多尔的Buen Vivir

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104320

César Carranza-Barona , Unai Villalba-Eguiluz

The article analyses Buen Vivir (BV) in Ecuador as an alternative proposal for socioecological transitions in counterhegemonic terms with respect to development. First, we set out the alternative potential of BV based on four dimensions proposed by Valencia-Hamilton and Ramcilovic-Suominen (2023) and Ramcilovic-Suominen (2023): transcending human/nature dualism; the logics of need satisfaction; autonomy and decentralisation of power; and onto-epistemic diversity. Second, we examine the way the governmentalisation of BV in Ecuador resulted in its co-optation and instrumentalization, thus limiting or neutralising its potential for radical socioecological transition. Finally, we show how the radical transformative capacity of BV is maintained and operates in the concrete experiences of social movements and organisations that have a resistance character. To this end, we present the case of a consumers’ organisation based on the Social and Solidarity Economy: the Sur-Siendo cooperative.

本文分析了厄瓜多尔的美好生活（BV）作为社会生态转型的替代方案，以反霸权的方式发展。首先，我们基于valenia - hamilton和Ramcilovic-Suominen（2023）和Ramcilovic-Suominen（2023）提出的四个维度，阐述了BV的替代潜力：超越人/自然二元论；需求满足的逻辑；自治和权力分散；认知多样性。其次，我们考察了厄瓜多尔BV的政府化导致其合作和工具化的方式，从而限制或中和了其激进的社会生态转型的潜力。最后，我们展示了BV的激进变革能力是如何在具有抵抗特征的社会运动和组织的具体经验中维持和运作的。为此，我们提出了一个基于社会和团结经济的消费者组织的案例：Sur-Siendo合作社。

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Whose doctrine, whose priority?: On the troublesome legal interpretation of the Aboriginal right to fish by Canadian courts 谁的学说，谁的优先权？：关于加拿大法院对土著人捕鱼权的棘手的法律解释

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104294

Erika Ruth Gavenus , Rachelle Beveridge , Iris Siwallace Skw'asmana , Terre Satterfield

Few policies are more important to Indigenous Peoples living along the coast of so-called British Columbia than those that govern how and when fishing occurs, and by whom. The Doctrine of Priority underlies these policies, defining the ordered priority for fisheries management as: 1. conservation, 2. the constitutional right to fish held by Indigenous Peoples, and 3. commercial and sport fishing. Indigenous Peoples have, however, expressed frustration with fisheries management decisions that contradict the spirit of the Doctrine by jeopardizing the availability of sufficient fish to support the actualisation of their rights. Through a document analysis of 271 reasons for judgements from 196 legal cases, we trace how the Canadian courts have characterized the rights of Indigenous Peoples recognized and affirmed by Section 35 of the Constitution, including the right to fish. Informed by principles of social justice and Indigenous laws, we analyse five potential characterizations of the right to fish: activity, abundance, allocation, amount, and authority. Based on the reviewed case law, we find that the applicability of the Doctrine of Priority in contexts of uncertain resource abundance and ongoing reconciliation is far from a settled matter and one that is likely to remain unresolved if guidance is only sought from the Canadian courts. Instead, Indigenous Peoples working to ensure access to fish to support their communities are enacting their right to fish in meaningful and diverse ways –innovations key to understandings of the Doctrine of Priority and the pursuit of just fisheries.

对于居住在所谓的不列颠哥伦比亚省沿岸的土著居民来说，没有什么政策比这些政策更重要了，这些政策规定了捕鱼的方式、时间和对象。优先原则是这些政策的基础，它将渔业管理的先后优先次序定义为：保护,2。2 .土著人民的宪法捕鱼权；商业和运动钓鱼。然而，土著人民对渔业管理的决定表示失望，因为这些决定违背了《原则》的精神，损害了获得足够的鱼类来支持实现其权利。通过对196个法律案件的271个判决理由的文件分析，我们追溯了加拿大法院如何描述《宪法》第35条承认和肯定的土著人民的权利，包括捕鱼权。根据社会正义原则和土著法律，我们分析了捕鱼权的五个潜在特征：活动、丰度、分配、数量和权威。根据所审查的判例法，我们发现优先权原则在资源不确定丰富度和正在进行的和解背景下的适用性远远不是一个解决的问题，如果只从加拿大法院寻求指导，这个问题可能仍未解决。相反，土著人民正在努力确保获得鱼类资源以支持他们的社区，他们正在以有意义和多样化的方式颁布他们的捕鱼权利——这是理解优先原则和追求公正渔业的关键创新。

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Transdisciplinarity in water management: A systematic review of concepts, practices, and challenges 水管理的跨学科性：对概念、实践和挑战的系统回顾

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104317

Ana Paula de Carvalho Silva , Margarida Ribau Teixeira , Luís Miguel Nunes

Transdisciplinarity has become a central paradigm for addressing complex socio-environmental challenges that transcend disciplinary and institutional boundaries. This article revisits the concept from the perspective of water resources management, questioning whether its increasing application has achieved the depth and transformative potential originally envisioned. A systematic review and bibliometric analysis were conducted to examine how transdisciplinarity has been conceptualized and operationalized across 61 international initiatives covering multiple governance scales and institutional contexts. The findings reveal that, although transdisciplinarity is now widely recognized in scientific and policy agendas, its implementation often remains rhetorical or fragmented. Persistent barriers include limited knowledge co-production, asymmetry between scientific and local expertise, and weak participatory mechanisms. Nonetheless, promising experiences demonstrate that when communities are engaged as co-authors of decisions, water governance becomes more legitimate, adaptive, and sustainable. By integrating empirical evidence with conceptual reflection, this study advances understanding of how ethical and methodological co-production can move transdisciplinarity from a normative paradigm toward an actionable framework for water governance.

跨学科已经成为解决超越学科和制度界限的复杂社会环境挑战的核心范式。本文从水资源管理的角度重新审视了这一概念，质疑其日益增加的应用是否达到了最初设想的深度和变革潜力。通过系统回顾和文献计量分析，研究了涵盖多种治理尺度和制度背景的61项国际倡议如何概念化和运作跨学科性。研究结果表明，尽管跨学科现在在科学和政策议程中得到广泛认可，但其实施往往仍然是口头上的或支离破碎的。持续存在的障碍包括有限的知识合作生产、科学和地方专业知识之间的不对称以及薄弱的参与机制。尽管如此，有希望的经验表明，当社区作为决策的共同作者参与时，水治理变得更加合法、适应性和可持续性。通过将经验证据与概念反思相结合，本研究促进了对伦理和方法合作生产如何将跨学科从规范范式转向可操作的水治理框架的理解。

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Integrating more-than-human approaches in urban planning pedagogy: A case study from Europe 在城市规划教学中整合超越人类的方法：来自欧洲的案例研究

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104321

Susa Eräranta , Adrianna Czarnecka , Monika Piotrkowska , Jonne Hytönen

Despite decades of sustainability efforts, urban planning often leads to environmental degradation. This paper questions the anthropocentric assumptions in planning education and advocates for integrating nonhuman perspectives through a more-than-human approach. To embrace the intrinsic value and agency of all actors, the paper approaches more-than-human planning education through three stages: recognition, inclusion, and co-flourishing. As traditional planning curricula prioritize human needs, overlooking the interconnectedness of all life, the paper provides already existing examples of more-than-human planning education by reflecting on the experiences of students and course staff on two Master's level studio courses at Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) and Aalto University (Finland) to learn from the potential of more-than-human education. These courses aimed to strengthen planners' roles in sustainability transformations by recognizing the agency and intrinsic value of nonhumans. The findings suggest that the core aim of planning from a more-than-human perspective is in protecting the planet’s life-supporting systems – not only in protecting individual humans, plants, or animals. This requires a shift from individually focused thinking towards more holistic systemic approaches. Based on this, the paper initiates a discussion on the need for a paradigm shift in planning education to embrace more-than-human perspectives.

尽管几十年的可持续发展努力，城市规划往往导致环境退化。本文质疑规划教育中的人类中心假设，并主张通过超越人类的方法整合非人类的观点。为了拥抱所有参与者的内在价值和能动性，本文通过三个阶段来探讨超越人类的规划教育：承认、包容和共同繁荣。由于传统的规划课程优先考虑人的需求，忽视了所有生活的相互联系，本文通过反思华沙理工大学（波兰）和阿尔托大学（芬兰）的两门硕士水平工作室课程的学生和课程人员的经验，提供了已经存在的超越人类的规划教育的例子，以了解超越人类教育的潜力。这些课程旨在通过认识非人类的能动性和内在价值，加强规划师在可持续性转型中的作用。研究结果表明，从超越人类的角度进行规划的核心目标是保护地球的生命支持系统，而不仅仅是保护个体人类、植物或动物。这需要从个人关注的思维转向更全面的系统方法。在此基础上，本文提出了规划教育范式转变的必要性，以拥抱超越人类的视角。

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Conditional visibility: Intersectional inequities marginalize local scholarship in conservation science 条件可见性：交叉不平等使保护科学的地方学术边缘化

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104328

Ronald J. Maliao , Béla Tóthmérész

Structural inequities in conservation science, rooted in center-periphery dynamics, funding asymmetries, and systemic gender disparities, marginalize Global South scholarship. This marginalization impedes the integration of Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK), effectively decoupling local scholarship from global conservation discourse. We analyzed 132 peer-reviewed articles on Philippine aquatic ILK and environmental stewardship. We modeled how author affiliation (International/Local), gender (Male/Female), and funding status (Funded/Unfunded) shaped scholarly visibility using scientometric mapping and factorial analysis. Our findings revealed a clear thematic segregation: international scholars focused on the highly visible Applied Conservation cluster (median Citations Per Year [CPY] = 2.06), but Philippine scholars concentrated on the less visible Ethnoecology and Governance cluster (median CPY = 0.80). Globally, our modeling reveals a significant three-way interaction (Analysis of Variance [ANOVA], F(1124) = 12.06, p < 0.001). Pairwise comparison confirmed an intersectional pattern: funded Philippine male scholars achieved statistical parity with international peers, yet funded Philippine female scholars remained significantly marginalized. This demographic hierarchy was absent in the Philippines-only subset (F(3,72) = 0.92, p > 0.05). These findings highlight conditional visibility: the impact of local scholarship is shaped not by merit alone but by intersectional hierarchies of affiliation, funding, and gender. Achieving global knowledge equity demands dismantling these hierarchies to end the erasure of local, and particularly female, scholarship in conservation science.

保护科学中的结构性不平等，源于中心-边缘动态、资金不对称和系统性性别差异，使全球南方奖学金边缘化。这种边缘化阻碍了土著和地方知识（ILK）的整合，有效地将地方学术与全球保护话语脱钩。我们分析了132篇关于菲律宾水生ILK和环境管理的同行评议文章。我们使用科学计量图和析因分析对作者隶属关系（国际/本地）、性别（男性/女性）和资助状况（资助/未资助）如何影响学术知名度进行了建模。我们的研究结果揭示了明显的主题隔离：国际学者关注的是高度可见的应用保护集群（年引用中位数[CPY] = 2.06），而菲律宾学者关注的是不太可见的民族生态学和治理集群（中位数CPY = 0.80）。在全球范围内，我们的模型揭示了显著的三方相互作用（方差分析[ANOVA]， F(1124) = 12.06,p <； 0.001）。两两比较证实了交叉模式：获得资助的菲律宾男性学者在统计上与国际同行持平，而获得资助的菲律宾女性学者仍然明显被边缘化。这种人口结构在仅菲律宾子集中不存在（F(3,72) = 0.92,p > 0.05）。这些发现强调了有条件的可见性：地方奖学金的影响不仅取决于成绩，还取决于隶属关系、资助和性别的交叉等级。要实现全球知识公平，就需要拆除这些等级制度，以结束对当地，尤其是女性，保护科学学术的抹去。

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Driving impacts through science-practitioner partnership: Professionalising water service delivery in rural Bangladesh 通过科学-从业者伙伴关系推动影响：使孟加拉国农村供水服务专业化

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104316

Sonia Ferdous Hoque , Rob Hope , Katrina J. Charles , Mohammad Monirul Alam , Md Nurul Osman , Mohammad Saiful Islam Mazomder

Academic research is under increasing pressure to demonstrate tangible societal, environmental, and economic impact, prompting increased engagement between scientists and practitioners. This paper investigates how such partnerships evolve, how science contributes across different phases of the policy process, and what conditions enable or constrain their effectiveness. It does so through the case of SafePani, a professional rural water service delivery model in Bangladesh. Conceptualised and piloted through UK-based research funding in schools and healthcare facilities, SafePani was later scaled under a six-year, results-based funding contract co-funded by the Government of Bangladesh. The study integrates the multi-level perspective, actor-centred institutionalism, and institutional work to analyse the micro-level activities that actors engaged in to build networks, shape dominant discourses and drive institutional change. Findings show that SafePani’s success stemmed not only from technical innovation but from its strategic adaptability. This included evolving actor configurations from academic-led research to government-led implementation, mobilising financial, intellectual, and political capital, engaging credible boundary actors to build trust, and engaging bureaucratic champions. Crucially, institutional stamina of the government, the model’s low cost and public value, and the funding flexibility enabled actors to overcome institutional inertia. SafePani offers a replicable example of how interdisciplinary science, sustained engagement, and contextual adaptation can drive institutional reform in complex policy environments.

学术研究面临越来越大的压力，需要证明切实的社会、环境和经济影响，这促使科学家和实践者之间的接触越来越多。本文研究了这种伙伴关系是如何演变的，科学如何在政策过程的不同阶段做出贡献，以及什么条件能够或限制它们的有效性。它通过SafePani的案例来做到这一点，SafePani是孟加拉国的一个专业农村供水服务提供模式。SafePani通过英国在学校和医疗机构的研究资助进行了概念化和试点，后来在孟加拉国政府共同资助的一项为期6年的基于成果的资助合同下扩大了规模。该研究整合了多层次视角、以行为者为中心的制度主义和制度工作，分析了行为者参与构建网络、塑造主导话语和推动制度变革的微观活动。研究结果表明，SafePani的成功不仅源于技术创新，还源于其战略适应性。这包括将参与者配置从学术主导的研究转变为政府主导的实施，调动金融、智力和政治资本，吸引可信的边界参与者建立信任，以及吸引官僚主义拥护者。至关重要的是，政府的制度耐力、该模式的低成本和公共价值以及资金灵活性使参与者能够克服制度惯性。SafePani提供了一个可复制的例子，说明跨学科科学、持续参与和情境适应如何在复杂的政策环境中推动制度改革。

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Conceptualizing transdisciplinarity: How do visuals mean? 概念化跨学科：视觉是什么意思？

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

Environmental Science & Policy

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104253

Merlijn van Hulst , Kirsty Holstead , Tamara Metze

Transdisciplinary research is commonly understood as a research collaboration between different academic disciplines and actors from different sectors of society to co-produce knowledge needed in addressing real-world problems. In this paper, we understand transdisciplinary research as an epistemological object and study how researchers conceptualize it through visualization. To do this, we analyzed a set of related visuals in their textual context published over the last 20 years. This multi-modal analysis shows that transdisciplinarity in our set has, throughout the years, consisted of three main categories: science, practice, and the transdisciplinary research process. Transdisciplinary research has been visualized as a stable double-joint cyclical narrative starting in the settings of science and practice, after which actors join to collaborate, both depart with the results of collaboration. An assumed principle is continuously and implicitly visualized: the idea and ideal that science and practice are contributing, collaborating, and reaping benefits on the basis of equality. Supported by the literature, we problematize this way visuals obscure imbalances in practice. Finally, we discuss how visuals mean and what other ways of conceptualizing an epistemic object like transdisciplinary are possible.

跨学科研究通常被理解为不同学科和社会不同部门的参与者之间的研究合作，共同产生解决现实问题所需的知识。在本文中，我们将跨学科研究理解为一个认识论对象，并研究研究者如何通过可视化将其概念化。为了做到这一点，我们分析了过去20年来出版的一组相关的视觉文本。这种多模态分析表明，多年来，我们集合中的跨学科性由三个主要类别组成：科学、实践和跨学科研究过程。跨学科研究被视为一种稳定的双联合循环叙事，始于科学和实践的背景，之后参与者加入合作，双方都带着合作的结果离开。一个假定的原则是不断地和含蓄地可视化：科学和实践在平等的基础上贡献、合作和收获利益的想法和理想。在文献的支持下，我们认为这种视觉效果掩盖了实践中的不平衡。最后，我们讨论了视觉的含义以及其他可能的概念化认知对象（如跨学科）的方法。

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