A new paper published in Ambio tackles this underexplored but critical dimension of environmental management. In “Time lags in environmental governance: A critical review,” authors Tali Hocherman, Tamar Trop, and Andrea Ghermandi synthesize findings from 101 studies to better understand how delays—both in ecosystems and societal responses—impact the effectiveness of governance efforts across domains such as climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.

Using the innovative temporal DPSIR (tDPSIR) framework, the authors categorize time lags across both ecological and social systems, offering a cross-disciplinary vocabulary to analyze these delays.

This research not only bridges gaps between socio-technical transitions and social-ecological systems thinking, but also calls for tools like improved risk modeling, behavioral nudges, and the precautionary principle to mitigate the cost of delay.

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