Abstract Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) and ecosystem restoration are often conflated, but
cannot be assumed to be identical. Understanding and choosing between different framings …

Current agri-environmental policies are facing challenges to protect the environment,
including in delivering water quality improvements. These difficulties are mainly due to …

The circular economy (CE), which reimagines waste as economic opportunity, has been
largely overlooked by traditional entrepreneurs. One explanation for this oversight is that …

To optimize the implementation of environmental policies and foster green development in
China's economy, it is crucial to be vigilant about corporate pollution transfer behaviors and …

The construction of megaprojects has a significant impact on regional environments, and
green management is an effective way to reduce that impact. Previous studies have ignored …

Biodiversity offsets (BO) are increasingly promoted and adopted by governments and
companies worldwide as a policy instrument to compensate for biodiversity losses from …

Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is an important policy aiming to promote
environmental protection. However, existing studies only focus on the historical PES and …

The mixture of public goods that arise from rural land is shaped by multiple policy
instruments, such as regulations and economic incentives. Whilst there is a vast literature …

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) gained an increasing importance in science and
politics within the last decades. Although the enthusiasm about PES is particularly high in …

This introductory article to the special issue on the Institutional Resource Regime (IRR)
framework presents an overview of the latest developments of the framework. The IRR …