Environmental Policy and Governance is an international, inter-disciplinary journal affiliated with the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE). The journal seeks to advance interdisciplinary environmental research and its use to support novel solutions in environmental policy and governance. The journal publishes innovative, high quality articles which examine, or are relevant to, the environmental policies that are introduced by governments or the diverse forms of environmental governance that emerge in markets and civil society. The journal includes papers that examine how different forms of policy and governance emerge and exert influence at scales ranging from local to global and in diverse developmental and environmental contexts.

Environmental Policy and Governance is an international, interdisciplinary journal affiliated with the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE). The journal aims to advance interdisciplinary environmental research and its application to support innovative solutions in environmental policy and governance. It publishes innovative, high-quality articles that examine or are relevant to the environmental policies introduced by governments and the diverse forms of environmental governance that emerge in markets and civil society. The journal includes papers that investigate how different forms of policy and governance emerge and exert influence at scales ranging from local to global, in various developmental and environmental contexts.

《Environmental Policy and Governance》是一本国际性跨学科期刊，隶属于欧洲生态经济学会（ESEE）。该期刊旨在推动跨学科的环境研究，并将其应用于支持环境政策和治理的新解决方案。期刊发表创新且高质量的文章，这些文章探讨或与各国政府推出的环境政策及市场和公民社会中出现的各种环境治理形式相关。期刊涵盖的论文研究不同形式的政策和治理如何在地方到全球的不同层面上产生和施加影响，并在多样的发展和环境背景下进行分析。

Environmental Policy and Governance

Abstract Sustainable lifestyles research to date reveals a need for empirical insight to how it is defined in practice within the context of societal change. This article attends to this gap by demonstrating how sustainable lifestyles are understood in one of the world's “greenest” cities: Copenhagen (DK). On the basis of ethnographic field research with local policy‐makers and sustainability‐oriented community groups, I found that a dominant theme reflects Copenhagen's green city policy goals, as it envisions a techno‐moral, energy‐efficient citizen. Three contradictions were evident in this imaginary: privilege (class), suburbanites (scale), and disincentivizing (measurement). I give examples of how this green city citizen imaginary is inserted in policy, which demonstrates a disjuncture between how sustainable lifestyles are understood in practice and theory. This study empirically contributes to the ambiguous concept of sustainable lifestyles, while shedding light on potential social tensions of technocentric green city policy.

Amanda K. Winter

The green city citizen: Exploring the ambiguities of sustainable lifestyles in Copenhagen

Abstract Soft regulatory measures are argued to represent a useful alternative to hard regulation when policy‐makers seek to deal with difficult problems. This article investigates the impact of a national guideline on climate and energy planning adopted in Norway, a soft regulatory instrument, which sought to encourage stronger local climate mitigation policies. To assess the effectiveness of this policy approach the research reported here investigated the impact of the guideline on the institutionalization of local climate policy activity in a set of Norwegian municipalities. Our findings indicate that for municipalities in the early phases of developing their climate mitigation policy the planning guideline contributed to legitimizing climate policy by linking it to other policy areas. For municipalities that had come further in developing their climate mitigation policy, however, the planning guideline made little difference. The findings indicate that even if soft policy instruments might be needed in a situation with complex regulatory issues, it is difficult to achieve results without the support of harder policy measures. This is particularly the case if local authorities face financial constraints and lack manpower in their work in developing effective climate mitigation policy. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

Sjur Kasa

Hege Westskog

Lawrence E. Rose

Municipalities as Frontrunners in Mitigation of Climate Change: Does soft regulation make a difference?

城市作为气候变化减缓的先行者：软性法规是否有所作为？

Abstract Transformations of existing systemic structures are needed to address the root cause of many environmental land‐use (ELU) problems: unsustainable land use. One policy principle that can help achieve such transformation entails integrating cross‐cutting ELU problems with non‐environmental policy domains, also known as environmental policy integration (EPI). Its transformative potential is disputed, however, because different forms of integration involve varying degrees of value attribution to environmental concerns vis‐à‐vis other policy goals. Since the EPI literature indicates this degree is greatly influenced by actors and institutions, we consider environmental governance integration (EGI) a more appropriate term for evaluations. Using the case of subsidence in the Dutch peatlands, we aim to provide insights into EGI's potential and scope for improvement in facilitating transformative change toward sustainable land use. Our study reveals generally low to moderate EGI, because ELU concerns were integrated within the boundaries of a land‐use system that prioritizes prevailing economic interests. This indicates EGI being a (business‐as‐usual) governance approach that merits the label economic governance integration, since (transformative) environmental governance integration would entail an exploration of a myriad of different sustainable land‐use options, irrespective of existing system structures. We recommend a cognitive shift as a precondition for institutional reform and politics favoring transformative governance.

Mandy A. van den Ende

Peter P. J. Driessen

Dries L. T. Hegger

Heleen L. P. Mees

The transformative potential of environmental governance integration for sustainable land use: The case of subsidence in the Dutch peatlands

环境治理整合对可持续土地利用的变革潜力：以荷兰泥炭地沉降为例

Abstract Climate change requires locally tailored solutions that consider diverse environmental and cultural contexts. This study situates climate action within Sweden's forest landscapes, exploring how local forest stakeholders prioritize and motivate climate action targets for immediate implementation. By engaging in knowledge co‐production processes in local communities, we sought to develop place‐based climate action pathways, rooted in stakeholders' visions for their communities' futures. We identified three main climate action pathways: forest‐based bioeconomy, localism, and global systemic change. These pathways varied in policy targets, governance directions, focus of change, and preferred economic systems. We found that while the pathways generally aligned with the underlying assumptions of overarching scenario archetypes, their ideological differences regarding governance and policy levels and directions were less distinct. Moreover, despite differing foci and perspectives, forest management strategies were similar in all pathways. The ideological dimensions of the climate action pathways became less visible when considering the management of forests. Our findings underscore the embeddedness of local climate action within broader environmental, social, and political structures, and the challenges of linking local landscape understandings to global environmental processes. While practical, locally specific solutions can transcend ideological debates, they may also obscure necessary ideological and political considerations for effective land use and management strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Elsa Reimerson

Isabella Hallberg‐Sramek

Janina Priebe

“Here and now, by us”: Co‐production of climate action pathways in forest landscapes

“此时此地，由我们共同创造”：森林景观中气候行动路径的协同生产

Abstract Governments have numerous avenues available to them to leverage energy consumption reductions. Low‐cost policy options may be as simple as incorporating information related to energy consumption reduction. Despite the viability of these low‐cost options, there is little understanding of how individual characteristics influence the viability of messaging strategies. This study fills the research gap by investigating how residents' political affiliation may affect their response to utility messaging for reducing energy consumption. We use the City of Tallahassee, Florida, as a testbed to investigate how informational messages alter customers' energy consumption behavior. We examined the effects of monthly messages on a random sample of 3000 households from 2011 to 2015. Our analysis reveals that pro‐environmental and cost savings frames result in different levels of energy conservation according to political affiliation. This study helps resolve previous studies' inconsistent findings by expanding the information analysis to fine‐scale data observed in actual energy consumption behavior. For practitioners, our results shed new light on how to effectively alter customers' energy conservation behavior through messaging by strategically accounting for the characteristics of customers.

Cali Curley

Corey Keiwei Xu

Ben Orlove

Hale Forster

Nicky Harrison

Influence of messaging and party affiliation on energy conservation behavior: An evaluation from the <scp>US</scp>

信息传递和党派归属对节能行为的影响：来自美国的评估

Abstract Multilateral environmental governance regimes like the Antarctic Treaty System are pivotal in addressing today's wicked transboundary socio‐ecological problems and central to their success is the facilitation of constructive knowledge exchange (KE) between research and policymaking communities. Consequently, the literature is now ripe with studies that aim to uncover the elements that enable or hinder KE successes across diverse environmental governance settings. Yet, in the Antarctic context, the KE practices that comprise Antarctic science‐policy interfaces remain empirically under examined. Here we contribute by exploring the perspectives of 31 Antarctic practitioners to develop our understandings of successful KE practices in the policy contexts of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings and the Committee for Environmental Protection. By adopting a reflexive thematic analysis, we identify 11 enablers and 9 barriers to KE success that are overlapping, interconnected and complex. According to practitioners, in the face of pervasive barriers, such as the often overshadowing effect of politics, a deficiency of KE incentives and large‐scale wicked policy problems, certain Antarctic institutions and practitioners portray strong boundary spanning expertise, which despite the many challenges identified, serves to facilitate KE in support of evidence‐informed decision‐making. However, the extent to which boundary spanners are influential in their leadership varies, and while acknowledging that influential leadership is an important enabler for success, we raise several questions regarding the potentially unexplored assumptions that underpin current KE practices. As Antarctic practitioners share a desire to foster inclusive, iterative and multidirectional science‐policy dialogues among other identified improvements, we suggest that harnessing reflexivity and humility within these processes will be critically important for ensuring that existing asymmetries or inequities are not reinforced under the guise of improved ways of working.

Natasha Blaize Gardiner

Daniela Liggett

Neil Gilbert

Christopher Cvitanovic

Practitioners' perspectives on the enablers and barriers to successful Antarctic science‐policy knowledge exchange

南极科学-政策知识交流的成功促进因素与障碍：从业者观点

Abstract In this paper, we examine the role of trust in the international climate negotiations. We (1) identify forms of trust inferred from institutional designs, (2) analyse effects of institutional design on social and political trust and (3) describe the relationship between social and political trust in international climate change negotiations. We do this by combining document analysis, literature review and interviews. We find that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement imply different forms of trust and thereby produce different levels of trust. Social trust is generally medium to high, political trust rather low. Our analysis illustrates tensions and contradictions between human agency and intention, on the one hand, and political agency and process, on the other. These tensions and contradictions are such that, although delegates at the international climate conferences do at least partly trust each other, they meet in an institutional context that is marked by lack of political trust. Moving forward, we discuss whether this lack of trust is well‐founded or not given the current institutional and organisational structures of the UNFCCC and its subsequent agreements and what it is highlighting in terms of specific flaws or omissions in the UNFCCC's design.

Abbreviation	Env Pol Gov
Journal Impact	3.01
Quartiles(Global)	ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES(Q2)

ISSN	1756-932X, 1756-9338
h-index	58

Publication Information	Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2009，Proportion of original research papers: 98.28%，Self Citation Rate:6.70%， Gold OA Rate: 55.32%

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The green city citizen: Exploring the ambiguities of sustainable lifestyles in Copenhagen

Municipalities as Frontrunners in Mitigation of Climate Change: Does soft regulation make a difference?

The transformative potential of environmental governance integration for sustainable land use: The case of subsidence in the Dutch peatlands

“Here and now, by us”: Co‐production of climate action pathways in forest landscapes

Influence of messaging and party affiliation on energy conservation behavior: An evaluation from the US

The transformative potential of environmental governance integration for sustainable land use: The case of subsidence in the Dutch peatlands

Practitioners' perspectives on the enablers and barriers to successful Antarctic science‐policy knowledge exchange

“Here and now, by us”: Co‐production of climate action pathways in forest landscapes

Influence of messaging and party affiliation on energy conservation behavior: An evaluation from the US

The role of trust in the international climate negotiations