The existing literature on China’s industrial green and low-carbon transformation primarily concerns the government’s top-down formal environmental regulation. A few studies have systematically investigated role of informal regulation represented by public supervision non-governmental organizations impact ENGOs its mechanism is empirically examined in this paper using a system GMM model provinc...

We conducted a pre-registered, between-subjects experiment to investigate whether experiencing climate change consequences virtually can influence cognitions, emotions, and pro-environmental intentions behaviors. Participants (N = 277) experienced wildfire through different media that varied in their degree of technological immersiveness (virtual reality vs. regular video magazine articles only...

Public participation is playing an increasingly important role in environmental governance. This paper uses panel data from Chinese cities to evaluate the causal relationship between public participation, regional carbon emissions, and intensity. We obtain following conclusions: (1) significantly reduces emissions intensity, which remains robust after a series of robustness endogeneity discussi...

The European Union has some of the world's most ambitious and highly developed environmental laws on its books, but their effectiveness is severely compromised by non-compliance. With UNECE Aarhus Convention (1998), Europe launched an innovative legal experiment, democratizing enforcement conferring third party citizens non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) with rights access to information, p...

Conservation policy and practice is increasingly turning towards market-based interventions to reconcile the growing conflicts between environmental conservation and rural livelihood needs. This short introductory paper to the special issue on ‘‘market-oriented conservation governance’’ critically investigates the growing commitment to markets as a means of meeting conservation objectives and l...

Abstract European environmental governance has radically transformed over the past two decades. While traditionally enforcement of law been responsibility public authorities (public EU Member States, themselves policed by Commission), this paradigm now taken a democratic turn. Led changes in international and particular UNECE Aarhus Convention (UNECE, United Nations Economic Commission for Euro...

Marine life plays a vital role in the ocean’s biological pump by sequestering and mediating fluxes of carbon to deep sea floor. The roles that fish other marine vertebrates play are increasingly attracting scientific policy attention. In this paper, we investigated interest possibilities for international governance open ocean ecosystem services. We used semi-structured interviews with represen...

in modern times, trust has become an issue crucial to human societies and it has basic role in confronting policies with social problems, particularly in the field of environmental risks. to counter environmental risks such as climate change requires knowledge that is gained through trust to its related informational institutions. these institutions cause the awareness of environmental issues a...

Citizen Science (CS), the voluntary participation of lay people in scientific work, is well-established fields nature conservation and biodiversity monitoring due to its potential create large environmental datasets. This study aims understand familiarity, perceptions attitudes towards CS key actors Greece. The target group consisted employees and/or representatives Environmental Non-Government...

Environmental NGOs (ENGOs) have played a major role in promoting the inclusion and advancement of local knowledge – and, indeed, environmental issues as a whole – in international negotiations, not least through the discussions surrounding the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This NGO nebula, however, should no longer be regarded as a coherent body of actors championing the same cause ...