21 years of research for the twenty-first century: revisiting the <i>journal of environmental policy and planning</i>

Ellis, Geraint; Gerlak, Andrea K.; Daugbjerg, Carsten; Feindt, Peter H.; Metze, Tamara; Wu, Xun

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2020.1816937

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“…Whatever the focus of governance analysis, discourses, as the visible expressions of power/knowledge configurations, always play a pivotal role in governance and hence in the understanding of change in governance [44]. The body of literature that explicitly analyses the importance of discourses is relatively small [18,45]. Additionally, the linkages with other approaches that, for example, focus on institutions or actors, are rather weak.…”

Section: Key Drivers Of Change Are Discursive Processesmentioning

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“…The emphasis on sustainability transformations and the related processes of learning, innovation, and adaptation has inspired a growing interest in theories that help to grasp the processes of change in governance [12][13][14][15]. Yet, various authors argue that the literature on change in environmental governance and, more specifically, on sustainability transitions is rather fragmented, and hence that there is a dire need for the further integration of different insights and knowledge [16][17][18]. At the same time, one should recognize that knowledge integration concerning governance and sustainability transitions will always be partial because of different ontological and epistemological assumptions, diverging points of departure and focus, and because the literature puts forward a myriad of descriptive and normative perspectives that simply cannot be brought together in a unified theory that captures all aspects of governance.…”

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Evolutionary Perspectives on Environmental Governance: Strategy and the Co-Construction of Governance, Community, and Environment

2022

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The attention to sustainability transformations and related processes of learning, innovation, and adaptation has inspired a growing interest in theories that help to grasp the processes of change in governance. This perspective paper and the Special Issue of which it is part explore how evolutionary perspectives on environmental governance can enrich our understanding of the possibilities and limits of environmental policy and planning. The aim of this paper is to highlight some key notions for an evolutionary understanding of governance theory and to show how such an evolutionary perspective can help to develop a more integrated perspective on environmental governance in which the temporal dimension and the effects of steering attempts play a pivotal role. It is argued that the effects of environmental governance on the material environment, community, and governance itself must be considered in their interrelation. Such insight in couplings and co-evolutions can be of great value in the everyday practice of environmental policy and governance and even more so when attempting to transform the governance system towards more ambitious and coordinated goals.

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Section: Key Drivers Of Change Are Discursive Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolutionary Perspectives on Environmental Governance: Strategy and the Co-Construction of Governance, Community, and Environment

2022

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“…Environmental policy has been an appealing topic for practitioners and academics in the last decade [12]. Environmental policy research is multidisciplinary, including agenda settings for implementation and evaluation [13]. Environmental policy often contradicts adherents of a country's economic growth, which causes environmental sustainability to be often ruled out.…”

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The Issue of “Environmental Policy” during a COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bibliometric Overview

2021

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Pandemics have affected all aspects of human life, including environmental issues. This article analyses environmental policy issues during a COVID-19 pandemic using a bibliometric approach method from 173 published articles. Bibliometric data was retrieved from the 2020 Scopus database with "environmental policy" keyword by making use of VOSviewer, using co-occurrence visualization maps to evaluate the conceptual clusters. Further, co-authorship analysis was used to evaluate collaboration between authors and countries' related environmental policy publications. The review result shows, there are seven main clusters of concepts related to environmental policy. The United States is the most productive country on environmental policy literature. Finally, the environmental policy issue revolves around eleven areas. These results inform future research to a more comprehensive understanding of environmental policy.

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The interface between research funding and environmental policies in an emergent economy using neural topic modeling: Proposals for a research agenda

Barbosa,

Gomes

2024

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Researchers have been calling for further analysis of the relationships between academia and policy making. Since several studies are conducted with resources from public funding agencies, it is essential to assess whether governments have been supporting research that can contribute to future environmental policies and whether research has been supporting the elaboration of public policies. To fill these gaps, the objective of this study was to evaluate the similarities and gaps between research and environmental policies. A bibliometric analysis of studies funded by Chilean agencies and text analytics techniques were employed to analyze research and environmental policies. We used BERTopic, a topic modeling technique that generates coherent topic representations. Then, topics obtained from the two sets of documents (research and policies) were compared. This study found that sustainability, life‐cycle assessment, climate change, and ecosystem services are central research themes in the country. The topic modeling analysis showed that research has been concentrated on the areas of “Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture Management” and “Sustainable Bioenergy Production and Chemical Processes.” The topics most frequently present in the environmental policies were “Environmental Education for Children: Awareness and Care,” “Bird Conservation and Habitat Importance in Chile,” and “National Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use Strategy.” The greatest gaps are observed in the clusters of “Sustainable Bioenergy Production and Chemical Processes” and “Copper Mining and Mineral Processing Techniques” (prevalent in research) and in “Anatomy and Physiology of Aquatic and Terrestrial Organisms” and “Biogeography and Taxonomy of Southern Hemisphere Insects” (prevalent in policy).

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21 years of research for the twenty-first century: revisiting the journal of environmental policy and planning

Cited by 3 publications

References 41 publications

Evolutionary Perspectives on Environmental Governance: Strategy and the Co-Construction of Governance, Community, and Environment

Evolutionary Perspectives on Environmental Governance: Strategy and the Co-Construction of Governance, Community, and Environment

The Issue of “Environmental Policy” during a COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bibliometric Overview

The interface between research funding and environmental policies in an emergent economy using neural topic modeling: Proposals for a research agenda

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