Blanca

Gonzalez García-Mon

PhD

Researcher, theme leader

blanca.gonzalez@su.se

+46 8 674 73 96

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  • Supply chains / Trade networks
  • Resilience
  • Small-Scale Fisheries
  • Governance
  • Mixed methods
  • Network Analysis
  • Complexity

Blanca González García-Mon works across diverse social-ecological systems to understand complex human-environmental problems, such as the adaptation and transformation of food systems, in a polycrisis context.

González García-Mon is a sustainability scientist working towards understanding the complexity of social-ecological systems from diverse perspectives. She develops and applies methodologies that consolidate empirical knowledge of diverse case studies and theories and methods rooted in different disciplines. González García-Mon is currently working on the ReSET project, where she investigates the resilience capacities of small-scale fisheries supply chains facing coalescing changes, with a focus on understanding capacities that enable the development of transformative actions towards sustainability.

González García-Mon is a theme leader in the Conflict and Collaboration in a hyperconnected world theme at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. She is interested in relational approaches to conflict and collaboration, and how they matter in the in-between spaces that bridge across diverse perspectives.

She also participates in the project TRANSMOD, investigating the role of crises in the unfolding of transformative change processes from a process-relational and a complex adaptive systems perspective.

González García-Mon did her Postdoc in the CoMET project (developing Methodologies to study Complex causation in human-environmental systems), developing a mixed-method approach to investigate bridging spaces across polarised narratives in the case of the Mar Menor lagoon, Spain.

She holds a PhD in sustainability science. Her PhD research focused on investigating cross-scale interactions in small-scale food systems. Using network analysis, qualitative methods and agent-based models as her main analytical tools, she studied the structure and dynamics of trade networks within social-ecological systems. She also holds a Master of Science in Sustainability from the Master’s programme Social-Ecological Resilience for Sustainable Development at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (2015-2017), with her thesis focusing on investigating a seafood supply chain in Baja California Sur, Mexico, from a social-ecological network approach.

Supervision
Maura van der Ark, BSc, co-supervisor

Key publications


González-Mon, B., Mancilla-García, M., Bodin, Ö., Malherbe, W., Sitas, N., Pringle, C. B., ... & Schlüter, M. 2024. The importance of cross-scale social relationships for dealing with social-ecological change in agricultural supply chains. Journal of Rural Studies, 105, 103191

González-Mon B, Bodin Ö, Schlüter M. 2023. Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes. Ecology and Society 28(3).

González-Mon B., Lindkvist E., Bodin Ö., Zepeda Domínguez JA., Schlüter M. 2021. Fish provision in a changing environment: the buffering effect of regional trade networks. PloS ONE 16 (12), e0261514.

González-Mon, B., Bodin, Ö., Lindkvist, E., Frawley, T. H., Giron-Nava, A., Basurto, X., Nenadovic, M., Schlüter, M. 2021. Spatial diversification as a mechanism to adapt to environmental changes in small-scale fisheries. Environmental Science and Policy, 116, 246–257.

González-Mon, B., Bodin, Ö., Crona, B., Nenadovic, M., & Basurto, X. 2019. Small-scale fish buyers’ trade networks reveal diverse actor types and differential adaptive capacities. Ecological Economics, 164, 106338.

Publications by González García-Mon, Blanca

The seeds’ substrate: a concept to understand how transformations toward Good Anthropocenes can be enabled

Journal / article | 2025

Gianelli, I., Trimble, M., Juri, S., Pereira, L.M., González-Mon, B., Villasante, S.. 2025. The seeds’ substrate: a concept to understand how transformations toward Good Anthropocenes can be enabled. Ecology and Society. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-15792-300138

The importance of connectedness in laying the ground for social-ecological transformations or in spreading new ideas and practices for transformation is increasingly recognized. However, the role of networks in supporting the emergence and growth of seeds (initiatives with the potential to positively shape the future) has not yet been comprehensively studied empirically. To this end, we introduce a novel concept, the seeds’ su...

The importance of cross-scale social relationships for dealing with social-ecological change in agricultural supply chains

Journal / article | 2024

Blanca González-Mon, María Mancilla-García, Örjan Bodin, Willem Malherbe, Nadia Sitas, Catherine B. Pringle, Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, Maja Schlüter. 2024. The importance of cross-scale social relationships for dealing with social-ecological change in agricultural supply chains. Journal of Rural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103191

Agricultural systems are important for the livelihoods and food security of millions of people. These systems are increasingly interconnected across scales and face challenges in responding to multiple, and coalescing types of environmental, social, and economic change. Most studies on how actors respond to change have focused on farmers and farming communities. In this study, we investigate the connectivity of farming systems...

Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes

Journal / article | 2023

Blanca González-Mon, Örjan Bodin, Maja Schlüter. 2023. Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes. Ecology and Society. https://doi.org/10.5751/es-14265-280309

Global change is threatening the production and livelihoods of millions of smallholders. The capacity of smallholders to deal with such changes is influenced by the increasingly complex trade networks that connect them to local and global markets. Moreover, the social relationships (e.g., trust, reciprocity) in which these trade networks are embedded likely influence smallholders’ capacity to respond to change. However, the pr...

Reframing the local-global food systems debate through a resilience lens

Journal / article | 2023

Wood, Amanda, Queiroz, Cibele, Deutsch, Lisa, Gonzalez-Mon, Blanca, Jonell, Malin, Pereira, Laura, Sinare, Hanna, Svedin, Uno, Wassenius, Emmy. 2023. Reframing the local-global food systems debate through a resilience lens. Nature Food. https://doi.org/10.1038/S43016-022-00662-0

Despite the growing knowledge that food system solutions should account for interactions and drivers across scales, broader societal debate on how to solve food system challenges is often focused on two dichotomous perspectives and associated solutions: either more localized food systems or greater global coordination of food systems. The debate has found problematic expressions in contemporary challenges, prompting us to revi...