Publications

Laura Gabriele Elsler, Muhammad Neil, Sebastian Ferse, Gabriela Navarrete Forero, Marion Glaser, Maja Schlüter. 2023. Compliance in small-scale fisheries is linked to fisher-trader relations: not fishers alone (Southeast Asian case study). Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-023-09783-6

Fisher-trader relations are influential in many small-scale fisheries worldwide. The ability to influence emergent fishing practices has shifted traders into focus of fisheries policy-making. Formal policies could be more effective if they were complementary to and build on an understanding of the role of traders, their interaction with fishers, and how these contribute to the emergence of compliant or non-compliant fishing pr...

Udita Sanga, Jineth Berrío-Martínez, Maja Schlüter‬. 2023. Modelling agricultural innovations as a social-ecological phenomenon. Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling. https://doi.org/10.18174/sesmo.18562

Agricultural innovations involve both social and social-ecological dynamics where outcomes emerge from interactions of innovation actors embedded within their ecological environments. Neglecting the interconnected nature of social-ecological innovations can lead to a flawed understanding and assessment of innovations. In this paper, we present an empirically informed, stylized agent-based model of agricultural innovation syste...

Stefan Partelow, Ben Nagel, Rebecca Gentry, Jessica A. Gephart, Juan Rocha. 2023. Archetypes of aquaculture development across 150 countries. SocArXiv Papers. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/9gnfu

Aquaculture is expanding and intensifying globally, with implications for environmental, livelihood, food security and nutrition impacts. However, the way that aquaculture impacts people and the environment varies significantly across the globe, making it important to understand what factors shape different trajectories. Here we compile and integrate 45 country-level indicators to examine the social, economic, governance and e...

Florian Humpenöder, Alexander Popp, Leon Merfort, Gunnar Luderer, Isabelle Weindl, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Miodrag Stevanović, David Klein, Renato Rodrigues, Nico Bauer, Jan Dietrich, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Johan Rockström. 2023. Dietary shifts increase the feasibility of 1.5°C pathways. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vq83bk3zd

A transition to healthy diets like the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet could considerably reduce GHG emissions. However, the specific contributions of dietary shifts for the feasibility of 1.5°C pathways remain unclear. Here, we use the open-source Integrated Assessment Modeling (IAM) framework REMIND-MAgPIE to compare 1.5°C pathways with and without dietary shifts. We find that a flexitarian diet increases the feasibility of...

Florian Humpenöder, Alexander Popp, Leon Merfort, Gunnar Luderer, Isabelle Weindl, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Miodrag Stevanović, David Klein, Renato Rodrigues, Nico Bauer, Jan Philipp Dietrich, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Johan Rockström. 2023. Data repository - Dietary shifts increase the feasibility of 1.5°C pathways. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8328217

Peter Schlosser, Johan Rockström, Clea Edwards, Paula Mirazo, Adrian Heilemann, Niklas Henrik Kitzmann, Siri Krobjinski. 2023. Accelerating transformations for a just, sustainable future: 10 ‘Must Haves’. Global Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2023.14

There is increasing evidence of extreme events and irreversible damage occurring faster than expected. Despite inescapable evidence of intersecting crises facing the Earth system and numerous efforts and agreements, global society is not on track to achieve its sustainability objectives. The 10 ‘Must Haves’ initiative aims to identify the pathways of accelerated systemic transformations needed across the globe toward a sustain...

Walter Willett, Johan Rockström, Marco Springmann, Tim Lang, Sonja Vermeulen, Tara Garnett, David Tilman, Fabrice DeClerck, Amanda Wood, Malin Jonell, Michael Clark, Line J Gordon, Jessica Fanzo, Corinna Hawkes, PhDh, Rami Zurayk, Juan A Rivera, Wim De Vries, Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Ashkan Afshin, Abhishek Chaudhary, Mario Herrero, Rina Agustina, Francesco Branca, Anna Lartey, Shenggen Fan, Beatrice Crona, Elizabeth Fox, Victoria Bignet, Max Troell, Therese Lindahl, Sudhvir Singh, Sarah E Cornell, K Srinath Reddy, Sunita Narain, Sania Nishtar, Christopher J L Murray. 2023. Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. EAT–Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(23)01290-4

In the 4 years since the EAT– Lancet Commission's report on food in the Anthropocene, so much has changed. Global volatile supplies and costs of food, fuel, and fertilisers contribute to inflation and social instability. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies and societies across the globe, and the risk of new emerging infectious diseases persists. Injustices and inequities embedded within the food system h...

Ellen Piercy, Willy Verstraete, Peter R. Ellis, Mason Banks, Johan Rockström, Pete Smith, Oliver C. Witard, Jason Hallett, Christer Hogstrand, Geoffrey Knott, Ai Karwati, Henintso Felamboahangy Rasoarahona, Andrew Leslie, Yiying He, Miao Guo. 2023. A sustainable waste-to-protein system to maximise waste resource utilisation for developing food- and feed-grade protein solutions. Green Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2gc03095k

A waste-to-protein system that integrates a range of waste-to-protein upgrading technologies has the potential to converge innovations on zero-waste and protein security to ensure a sustainable protein future. We present a global overview of food-safe and feed-safe waste resource potential and technologies to sort and transform such waste streams with compositional quality characteristics into food-grade or feed-grade protein....

Agnes B. Olin, Ulf Bergström, Örjan Bodin, Göran Sundblad, Britas Klemens Eriksson, Mårten Erlandsson, Ronny Fredriksson, Johan S. Eklöf. 2023. Spatial connectivity increases ecosystem resilience towards an ongoing regime shift. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.12.540484

Ecosystem regime shifts can have severe ecological and economic consequences, making it a top priority to understand how to make systems more resilient. Theory predicts that spatial connectivity and the local environment interact to shape resilience, but empirical studies are scarce. Here, we use >7000 fish samplings from the Baltic Sea coast to test this prediction in an ongoing, spatially propagating shift in dominance from ...

Matilda Baraibar Norberg, Lisa Deutsch. 2023. Ch 1: Combining insights from political economy and environmental history. The Soybean Through World History. Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367822866-1

This chapter introduces the book’s main aims, premise, structure, theoretical framework and fundamental arguments. First, it briefly overviews soy’s centrality in the contemporary agrofood system and spells out the originality and importance of a world historical approach. Second, the chapter situates the book’s distinct theoretical position in an area of engagement between political economy and environmental history and formu...