Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning

In this article we present a ‘narrative network' approach, which by virtue of its engagement with the non-human and with collaborative decision-making, is especially well suited to support social scientists in better comprehending the diverse possibilities for environmental governance in the Anthropocene. The most highly salient Anthropocene narrative is focused on physical phenomena, and neglects the importance and dynamism of the social landscape. Despite the dire warnings conveyed by this narrative dominated by the physical sciences, the solutions it recommends rely on status quo institutional arrangements. In this article, we explain and illustrate how the narrative-network analysis can identify and describe successful political action by largely informal networks that bridge geographic, economic, cultural, and political differences and embrace participatory environmental governance. We illustrate the power of narrative-network analysis to reveal an environmental network in the case of the Sonora Desert at the US–Mexican border. Such networks can be the vanguard of discourse and policy change, raising neglected issues and undertaking collaborative action that foreshadows later formalization, and enlist the participation of actors ordinarily far outside the policy-making process. We add to our previous work on narratives by explaining how the narrative-network analysis can be useful to discursive scholarship in environmental planning and policy. We harness analytical methods associated with narratology and social psychology to tap into the communicative dimension of the discourse dynamics.

Mrill Ingram

Helen Ingram

Raul Lejano

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

Environmental Action in the Anthropocene: The Power of Narrative-Networks

人类世的环境行动：叙事网络的力量

The idea of the ‘smart city’ is increasingly central to debates on urban development and sustainability, and a host of cities are now pursuing ‘smartness’ as a way to improve energy efficiency, transport, and public services. However, existing research does not provide a clear picture of how this smart city agenda actually contributes to sustainability. The social science literature has been critical toward urban smartness, with most of the empirical research focusing on the politics of data-driven and entrepreneurial urbanism. This article seeks to contribute to this debate by empirically examining the role that sustainability plays in the smart city discourse. Its distinctive approach is to investigate how urban smartness and sustainability are framed by an authoritative institution (the European Union) and then to trace these framings down to a particular city (Stavanger, Norway). The data show that the smartness approach is strongly tied to innovation, technology, and economic entrepreneurialism, and sustainability does not appear to be a very important motivating driver. Nevertheless, the ‘sustainability component’ of the smart city agenda becomes clearer the closer we come to the city level.

Håvard Haarstad

Constructing the sustainable city: examining the role of sustainability in the ‘smart city’ discourse

Alin Kadfak

Tong Thi Hai Hanh

Marie Widengård

The impact of state-led traceability on fisheries sustainability

国家主导的可追溯性对渔业可持续性的影响

Car-centric planning exacerbates the climate crisis, compromises public health, and erodes public space. Street-space reallocation programmes, which redistribute road space from cars to active travel, leisure and urban green, are an important strategy to respond to these challenges. In line with a wider shift towards collaborative planning, many of these programmes include public participation. However, participatory planning approaches face criticism for being exclusionary, favouring a loud or privileged minority. Following an epistemic justice perspective, this paper invites to consider the question: 'who is (not) in the room?' Based on in-depth qualitative analysis of the participatory processes linked to a pedestrianisation scheme in Berlin, we focus on the link between non-participation in invited participatory spaces and the emergence of claimed spaces of participation. We found all participants to have participated in one of them. The decision of how to participate is a complex interplay between the relevance of the scheme and the feeling of being heard. We show that it seems irrelevant whether this interplay applies to oneself or to one's social network. Based on our findings, we argue that epistemically just participatory planning approaches to transitions need to go beyond invited spaces to include claimed spaces both spatially and temporally.

Anke Klaever

Ersilia Verlinghieri

Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions

谁在（不在）房间里？低碳交通转型的认知正义视角

A growing number of local governments are adopting Green Infrastructure (GI) as a strategy for urban stormwater management. In the United States, GI has gained particular momentum through federal initiatives. Previous studies have identified regulatory factors playing a pivotal role in the adoption of GI at the local level. However, the integration of GI with federal enforcement actions has received limited research attention. This study examines the first generation of federal consent decrees with GI provisions to provide insights into federal GI policy and local GI planning. The findings reveal inconsistency in GI requirements, with some cases merely encouraging GI adoption, while others mandating a more specific approach to planning and implementation. Drawing on existing GI scholarship, the results of this study suggest the establishment of universal requirements, such as piloting projects, defining success criteria, and incorporating equity considerations into local GI planning.

Chaeri Kim

‘Green icing on the Gray Cake?’ Green infrastructure in federal enforcement action

“灰色蛋糕上的绿色糖衣？” 联邦执法行动中的绿色基础设施

The ways in which complex systems are governed often generate democratic malaise due to a gap between people's expectations and the ability of authorities to meet these expectations. Additionally, misalignment between ecological and social systems makes it difficult for decision-makers to adapt to dynamic environments. Co-governance, which involves collaboration and engagement between governments and a range of stakeholders, is a common mechanism to address these challenges. However, co-governance has been criticized for being exclusionary, ad hoc, and counter to democratic principles. We argue that principles of environmental democracy offer a way to strengthen the effectiveness and legitimacy of co-governance. We base this argument on findings from research on the governance of national historic waterways in Ontario, Canada, specifically the Rideau Canal and Trent-Severn Waterway. These waterways reach across multiple watersheds, territories, and jurisdictions, involving a range of authorities and different stakeholder groups, many of whom have expressed dissatisfaction with current decision-making structures. By examining the difficulties involved in governing these waterways, we propose three reforms to co-governance that would enhance environmental democracy: (1) tiered-mechanisms that facilitate collaborative governance, (2) targeted collaborative exercises to create and strengthen within-ties across stakeholder groups, and (3) semi-regular forums to support communication among stakeholder groups.

Christine Beaudoin

Isha Mistry

Nathan Young

Placing environmental democracy at the heart of co-governance: rethinking the governance of complex waterways

将环境民主置于协同治理的核心：重新思考复杂水道的治理

Authoritarian leaders around the world have recognized that citizen engagement is a core element of successful environmental governance. Faced with a massive environmental crisis, also authoritarian China is mobilizing its citizens to address its ecological problems. However, taking a functional approach to public participation, the Chinese party-state like other authoritarian regimes attempts to channel citizen action into institutional pathways and away from more contentious extra-institutional ones. Little research has investigated citizens' reactions to such attempts. This paper analyses citizen participation between institutional and extra-institutional venues at the case of Chinese environmental governance. It finds that Chinese citizens use a mix of both channel types, but are overall more drawn to extra-institutional channels despite the risks. Moreover, our findings point to different motivations for the use of venues: personal grievances are more linked with the use of institutional channels, broader environmental concerns with extra-institutional ones. This shows, first, that channeling attempts have not yet been successful in crowding out noninstitutional channels. And second, that citizens seem to attach different meanings to the different channel types. This will make it hard for the Chinese and other authoritarian regimes to phase out extra-institutional action without severe losses for the effectiveness of environmental governance.

Danqi Guo

Maria Bondes

Genia Kostka

Wiebke Rabe

In or outside the box? Citizen action between institutional and extra-institutional channels in Chinese environmental governance

体制内还是体制外？中国环境治理中公民行动在制度与非制度渠道间的选择

短名	J. Environ. Policy Plan.
Journal Impact	2.77
国际分区	REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING(Q2)
期刊索引	SCI Q2中科院 3 区

ISSN	1522-7200, 1523-908X
h-index	65
国内分区	社会学(3区)社会学发展研究(4区)社会学区域与城市规划(4区)

涉及主题	经济政治学地理生物环境科学生态学业务环境资源管理法学环境规划哲学社会学计算机科学工程类历史自然资源经济学考古物理政治地质学管理环境伦理学财务
出版信息	出版商: Routledge，出版周期: ，期刊类型: journal，开源期刊: 否
基本数据	创刊年份: 1999，原创研究文献占比: 100.00%，自引率:3.40%， Gold OA占比: 47.68%

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Environmental Action in the Anthropocene: The Power of Narrative-Networks

Constructing the sustainable city: examining the role of sustainability in the ‘smart city’ discourse

The impact of state-led traceability on fisheries sustainability

Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions

‘Green icing on the Gray Cake?’ Green infrastructure in federal enforcement action

Placing environmental democracy at the heart of co-governance: rethinking the governance of complex waterways

In or outside the box? Citizen action between institutional and extra-institutional channels in Chinese environmental governance

‘Green icing on the Gray Cake?’ Green infrastructure in federal enforcement action

Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions

The impact of state-led traceability on fisheries sustainability