Publication archive

Lin, B.B., Ossola, A., Alberti, M., Andersson, E., Bai, X., Dobbs, C., et.al. 2021. Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change. The Lancet Planetary Health. Viewpoint, Vol. 5, Issue 5, E479-E486, July 01, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00135-2

Record climate extremes are reducing urban liveability, compounding inequality, and threatening infrastructure. Adaptation measures that integrate technological, nature-based, and social solutions can provide multiple co-benefits to address complex socioecological issues in cities while increasing resilience to potential impacts. However, there remain many challenges to developing and implementing integrated solutions. In thi...

Pereira, L.. 2021. Follow the ‘Ting: sorghum in South Africa. Food, Culture & Society. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2021.1984631

This paper follows sorghum, an indigenous, but currently underutilized, grain in South Africa, through six encounters to discover its potential to transform the country’s food system. By listening to stories from diverse perspectives, it shows that the re-inclusion of sorghum could not only diversify diets, but could also move toward breaking colonial stereotypes of what constitutes aspirational food. It employs a Follow the T...

Chow, C., Wassénius, E., Dornelas, M., Hoey, A.. 2021. Species differences drive spatial scaling of foraging patterns in herbivorous reef fishes. Oikos. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.08713

Herbivory is a core ecosystem function that is delivered heterogeneously across space. Disentangling the drivers of foraging patterns is key to understanding the functional impact of herbivores. Because intrinsic drivers of foraging like metabolism, nutritional requirements and movement costs scale allometrically, foraging movement patterns in terrestrial herbivores have been shown to also scale positively with body size. Howe...

Ammar, Y., Voss, R., Niiranen, S., Blenckner, T.. 2021. Quantifying socio‐economic novelty in fisheries social‐ecological systems. Fish and Fisheries. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/faf.12626

Socio-economic development has shaped fisheries social-ecological systems (SES) worldwide across different scales. No work has yet undertaken how this development led to novel, not experienced before, systems structure in marine SES. Here, we quantify socio-economic novelty as the degree of dissimilarity relative to a specific spatiotemporal baseline in the Baltic Sea fisheries SES between 1975 and 2015. We used catch by "gea...

Spotswood, E., Benjamin, M., Stoneburner, L., Wheeler, M., Beller, E., Balk, D., McPhearson, T., Kuo, M., McDonald, R.. 2021. Nature inequity and higher COVID-19 case rates in less-green neighbourhoods in the United States. Nature Sustainability. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00781-9

Urban nature—such as greenness and parks—can alleviate distress and provide space for safe recreation during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, nature is often less available in low-income populations and communities of colour—the same communities hardest hit by COVID-19. In analyses of two datasets, we quantified inequity in greenness and park proximity across all urbanized areas in the United States and linked greenness and par...

Mascarenhas, A., Langemeyer, J., Haase, D., Borgström, S., Andersson, E.. 2021. Assessing the learning process in transdisciplinary research through a novel analytical approach. Ecology and Society. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/es-12631-260419

Inter- and transdisciplinary research projects bring with them both challenges and opportunities for learning among all stakeholders involved. This is a particularly relevant aspect in social-ecological research projects, which deal with complex real-world systems and wicked problems involving various stakeholders’ interests, needs, and views, while demanding expertise from a wide range of disciplines. Despite its importance i...

Hamel, P., Hamann, M., Kuiper, J., Andersson, E., Arkema, K., Silver, J., Daily, G., Guerry, A.. 2021. Blending Ecosystem Service and Resilience Perspectives in Planning of Natural Infrastructure: Lessons from the San Francisco Bay Area. Frontiers in Environmental Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.601136

Globally, cities face massive environmental and societal challenges such as rapid population growth and climate change. In response, natural infrastructure is increasingly recognized for its potential to enhance resilience and improve human well-being. Here, we examine the role of the ecosystem services and resilience approaches in urban planning, which both aim to sustain the long-term benefits of natural infrastructure in ci...

Borgström, S., Andersson, E., Björklund, T.. 2021. Retaining multi-functionality in a rapidly changing urban landscape: insights from a participatory, resilience thinking process in Stockholm, Sweden. Ecology and Society. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/es-12432-260417

Urban social-ecological resilience research has focused on conceptual explorations, while less attention has been paid to how resilience thinking in practice may inform urban development. Using the rapidly urbanizing landscape in Stockholm as a case, we explore the urban specifics of resilience thinking practice and thereby contribute to the development of knowledge and practice of social-ecological resilience thinking general...

Martin, M., Sendra, O., Bastos, A., Bauer, N., Bertram, C., Blenckner, T., Bowen, K., Brando, P., Rudolph, T., Büchs, M., Bustamante, M., Chen, D., Cleugh, H., Dasgupta, P., Denton, F., Donges, J., Donkor, F., Duan, H., Duarte, C., Ebi, K., Edwards, C., Engel, A., Fisher, E., Fuss, S., Gaertner, J., Gettelman, A., Girardin, C., Golledge, N., Green, J., Grose, M., Hashizume, M., Hebden, S., Hepach, H., Hirota, M., Hsu, H., Kojima, S., Lele, S., Lorek, S., Lotze, H., Matthews, H., McCauley, D., Mebratu, D., Mengis, N., Nolan, R., Pihl, E., Rahmstorf, S., Redman, A., Reid, C., Rockström, J., Rogelj, J., Saunois, M., Sayer, L., Schlosser, P., Sioen, G., Spangenberg, J., Stammer, D., Sterner, T., Stevens, N., Thonicke, K., Tian, H., Winkelmann, R., Woodcock, J.. 2021. Ten new insights in climate science 2021 – a horizon scan. Global Sustainability. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/sus.2021.25

Cosens, B., Ruhl, J., Soininen, N., Gunderson, L., Belinskij, A., Blenckner, T., Camacho, A., Chaffin, B., Craig, R., Doremus, H., Glicksman, R., Heiskanen, A., Larson, R., Similä, J.. 2021. Governing complexity: Integrating science, governance, and law to manage accelerating change in the globalized commons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2102798118

The speed and uncertainty of environmental change in the Anthropocene challenge the capacity of coevolving social–ecological–technological systems (SETs) to adapt or transform to these changes. Formal government and legal structures further constrain the adaptive capacity of our SETs. However, new, self-organized forms of adaptive governance are emerging at multiple scales in natural resource-based SETs. Adaptive governance in...