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View article: Will the Transition Ever Be Just? Three Sites of Discursive Struggle Over Justice in Transition Governance
Will the Transition Ever Be Just? Three Sites of Discursive Struggle Over Justice in Transition Governance Open
A growing interest in the justice implications of sustainability transitions among politicians and other decision‐makers as well as researchers has given rise to a wealth of case studies, analyses and theorisations of justice in transition…
View article: Doing Justice, Doing the Transition: Narratives of the Just Transition Fund and the Swedish Steel Industry
Doing Justice, Doing the Transition: Narratives of the Just Transition Fund and the Swedish Steel Industry Open
Through the Just Transition Fund, the EU aims to support regions that face unemployment and declining welfare due to the green transition, primarily by supporting diversification of the economy. In northern Sweden, the fund targets the ste…
View article: Climate Backlash and Policy Dismantling: How Discursive Mechanisms Legitimised Radical Shifts in Swedish Climate Policy
Climate Backlash and Policy Dismantling: How Discursive Mechanisms Legitimised Radical Shifts in Swedish Climate Policy Open
Climate backlash and policy dismantling, that is, the reversal of existing decarbonisation policies, can be observed in an increasing number of countries. Typically, policy change tends to be slow, while climate backlash can unfold quite f…
View article: Comparing stakeholder perspectives and biodiversity models in assessing scenarios of management change
Comparing stakeholder perspectives and biodiversity models in assessing scenarios of management change Open
Bringing together local, contextualised knowledge with generalised, scientific knowledge is seen as best practice in decision making for biodiversity management. However, there is the potential for conflict if predictions from these differ…
View article: How research on communication can help to understand the management of natural resources and sustainability transformations: practices, concerns and new perspectives on environmental communication
How research on communication can help to understand the management of natural resources and sustainability transformations: practices, concerns and new perspectives on environmental communication Open
Communication is an integral part of natural resource management and sustainability transformations, and questions on how communication helps or hinders the development of more sustainable relationships between people and their environment…
View article: Fresh meat: Women's motivations to hunt and how they challenge hunting structures
Fresh meat: Women's motivations to hunt and how they challenge hunting structures Open
Hunting has a unique status as a sport and leisure activity alongside its practices having high stakes for society related to ecology, biosecurity, animal welfare and public safety. As such, hunting must increasingly legitimate itself befo…
View article: Exploring the impacts of woodland management on ecosystem services – a deliberative method
Exploring the impacts of woodland management on ecosystem services – a deliberative method Open
There is a need for operational decision-making methodologies applicable at local management scales which are inclusive and enable the integration of plural values, knowledges and perspectives of co-produced ecosystem services. Here we des…
View article: How justice shapes transition governance – a discourse analysis of Swedish policy debates
How justice shapes transition governance – a discourse analysis of Swedish policy debates Open
In both policy-making and academia, the realisation is growing that transitions striving for sustainability have to be just to be socially accepted. This insight has given rise to institutionalised approaches to a "just transition" - but a…
View article: Who decides? The governance of rewilding in Scotland ‘between the cracks’: community participation, public engagement, and partnerships
Who decides? The governance of rewilding in Scotland ‘between the cracks’: community participation, public engagement, and partnerships Open
Rewilding is a conservation approach which seeks to restore natural processes and ecosystem functionality. However, it also has a strong social dimension, characterised by a recently increasing emphasis on the place of people in rewilding.…
View article: Mainstreaming biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people in Europe and Central Asia: insights from IPBES to inform the CBD post-2020 agenda
Mainstreaming biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people in Europe and Central Asia: insights from IPBES to inform the CBD post-2020 agenda Open
Recent global and regional assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) show that Nature's Contributions to People (NCP) are under an alarming threat due to the contin…
View article: Communicating nature during lockdown – How conservation and outdoor organisations use social media to facilitate local nature experiences
Communicating nature during lockdown – How conservation and outdoor organisations use social media to facilitate local nature experiences Open
Social media impact not only our communication and social interactions but also our relationships to the natural environment. Social media can increase understanding of our environment by offering information and sharing calls to action, w…
View article: Conservation in conversation: People's perspectives on a woodland with high conservation value—A qualitative study
Conservation in conversation: People's perspectives on a woodland with high conservation value—A qualitative study Open
Concepts such as ecosystem services and nature's contributions to people are frameworks for articulating the value of nature and biodiversity conservation. Yet it remains difficult to argue for the conservation of species and habitats wher…
View article: Fight or Flight? Understanding Different Stakeholder Responses to Conservation Conflicts
Fight or Flight? Understanding Different Stakeholder Responses to Conservation Conflicts Open
Efforts to manage conservation conflicts are typically focused on reconciling disputes between opposing stakeholders over conservation objectives. However, this is an oversimplification of conflict dynamics, driven by the difficulties of u…
View article: Expanding arenas for learning hunting ethics, their grammars and dilemmas: An examination of young hunters’ enculturation into modern hunting
Expanding arenas for learning hunting ethics, their grammars and dilemmas: An examination of young hunters’ enculturation into modern hunting Open
Although hunting is declining in western countries, the number of people taking the hunting exam in Sweden are stable, and new demographic groups are becoming hunters. Through interviews done in Sweden with both new and experienced hunters…
View article: Concept, Validation, Pilot Phase, and Evaluation of a Resilience Training Course for Leadership Personnel in the German Military Police Forces
Concept, Validation, Pilot Phase, and Evaluation of a Resilience Training Course for Leadership Personnel in the German Military Police Forces Open
Leadership personnel in the German military police are often responsible for units that are frequently exposed to highly stressful situations due to their tasks and skills. As German military leaders are expected to take care of and suppor…
View article: A cup of tea? – The role of social relationships, networks and learning in land managers’ adaptations to policy change
A cup of tea? – The role of social relationships, networks and learning in land managers’ adaptations to policy change Open
Within international and, more specifically, European policy there is a shift towards managing land for multiple benefits and in the public interest. This necessitates greater collaboration between different actors, often with diverging ma…
View article: The Instagrammable outdoors – Investigating the sharing of nature experiences through visual social media
The Instagrammable outdoors – Investigating the sharing of nature experiences through visual social media Open
Despite the growing popularity of Instagram as a medium to portray nature and the outdoors, there remains limited research available exploring its influence on people's experiences in nature. We investigate Instagram as a three‐way negotia…
View article: Exploring the Potential of Citizen Social Science for Environmental and Sustainability Research: Experiences of and with Community-Based Researchers
Exploring the Potential of Citizen Social Science for Environmental and Sustainability Research: Experiences of and with Community-Based Researchers Open
Citizen social science has been developing in meaning and prevalence over the past few years, building on experiences with both citizen (natural) science and established social science methods such as participatory action research. However…
View article: Climate Change Engagement – Assessing the Impacts of the Climate Challenge Fund
Climate Change Engagement – Assessing the Impacts of the Climate Challenge Fund Open
The Scottish Government established the Climate Challenge Fund (CCF) in 2008 to help local communities in the transition to a low-carbon society. The fund supports community-led projects which lead to reductions in carbon emissions, and wh…
View article: The role of species charisma in biological invasions
The role of species charisma in biological invasions Open
Commonly used in the literature to refer to the “attractiveness”, “appeal”, or “beauty” of a species, charisma can be defined as a set of characteristics – and the perception thereof – that affect people's attitudes and behaviors toward a …
View article: Critical, Engaged and Change-oriented Scholarship in Environmental Communication. Six Methodological Dilemmas to Think With
Critical, Engaged and Change-oriented Scholarship in Environmental Communication. Six Methodological Dilemmas to Think With Open
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View article: Fighting talk: Organisational discourses of the conflict over raptors and grouse moor management in Scotland
Fighting talk: Organisational discourses of the conflict over raptors and grouse moor management in Scotland Open
Conflict is currently one of the greatest challenges facing wildlife conservation. Whilst conflicts may first appear to concern wildlife, they are often embedded within wider debates surrounding land use, land ownership, and the governance…
View article: From urban gardening to planetary stewardship: human–nature relationships and their implications for environmental management
From urban gardening to planetary stewardship: human–nature relationships and their implications for environmental management Open
The current phase in the history of the Earth has been conceptualised as the Anthropocene, in which humans have become a significant, maybe the dominant, environmental and geographical force. Human...
View article: Shopping versus Nature? An Exploratory Study of Everyday Experiences
Shopping versus Nature? An Exploratory Study of Everyday Experiences Open
Although a growing volume of empirical research shows that being in nature is important for human wellbeing, the definition of what constitutes an 'experience in nature,' and how this is different from other types of experiences, is very o…