Publications

Jules Pretty, Dennis Garrity, Hemant Kumar Badola, Mike Barrett, Cornelia Butler Flora, Catherine Cameron, Natasha Grist, Leanne Hepburn, Heather Hilburn, Amy Isham, Erik Jacobi, Rattan Lal, Simon Lyster, Andri Snaer Magnason, Jacqueline McGlade, Jan Middendorf, E.J. Milner-Gulland, David Orr, Lloyd Peck, Chris Reij, Johan Rockström, Yarema Ronish, Osamu Saito, Joanne Smith, Pete Smith, Peter Thorne, Atsushi Watabe, Steve Waters, Geoff Wells. 2025. How the Concept of “Regenerative Good Growth” Could Help Increase Public and Policy Engagement and Speed Transitions to Net Zero and Nature Recovery. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17030849

Just and fair transitions to low-carbon and nature-positive ways of living need to occur fast enough to limit and reverse the climate and nature crises, but not so fast that the public is left behind. We propose the concept of “Regenerative Good Growth” (RGG) to replace the language and practice of extractive, bad GDP growth. RGG centres on the services provided by five renewable capitals: natural, social, human, cultural, and...

Owen Gaffney, Amy Luers, Franklin Carrero-Martinez, Berna Oztekin-Gunaydin, Felix Creutzig, Virginia Dignum, Victor Galaz, Naoko Ishii, Francesca Larosa, Maria Leptin, Ken Takahashi Guevara. 2025. The Earth alignment principle for artificial intelligence. Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01536-6

Per Becker, Örjan Bodin. 2025. The impact of political attention on collaborative environmental governance among municipal street‐level bureaucrats. Policy Studies Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.70020

Collaboration in governing complex environmental challenges is the norm. However, collaboration does not necessarily deliver desirable outcomes, and the importance of forming collaborative networks that effectively address the challenges at hand has been emphasized in theory and practice. Evidence for what constitutes a suitable network structure is still scarce, and the understanding of what factors drive collaboration that c...

Andrew Hattle, Cynthia Flores, Dianty Ningrum, Robert Blasiak, Frida Bengtsson, Henrik Österblom. 2025. An active academia for peace and sustainability. Peace and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nerpsj.2025.100004

With discontent rising in response to insufficient action to address climate, biodiversity, equity, democracy, and peace challenges, activism is prevalent. We explore a history of civil disobedience, direct action and protest related to gender equality, anti-war and anti-nuclear movements, the protection of indigenous rights, nature, and LGBT+ rights, to consider the role of academics amid interlinked climate, biodiversity and...

Josef Kaiser, Thomas Hahn, Tobias Krueger, Dagmar Haase. 2025. Investigating conservation performance payments alongside human–wildlife conflicts: The Swedish lynx and wolverine protection policies. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70010

Conservation performance payments are becoming an increasingly popular instrument to tackle human–wildlife conflicts. In Sweden, Sámi communities practicing reindeer husbandry receive performance payments as compensation for reindeer losses caused by lynxes and wolverines. This study examines the challenges and conflicts associated with the Conservation Performance payment scheme and aims to understand its effectiveness. We ca...

Laurel C. Field, Kendyl Wright, Jenna Sullivan-Stack, Jean M. Harris, Stephen P. Kirkman, Peter J. Fielding, Ané Oosthuizen, Siyabonga Dlulisa, Anastasiya Laznya, Emanuel J. Gonçalves, Kirsten Grorud-Colvert. 2025. Assessing South Africa’s marine protected area quality and progress towards conservation goals: An application of The MPA Guide framework. Marine Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106513

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a widely used area-based conservation tool for preventing or reversing the loss of marine biodiversity and sustaining the social-ecological systems that it underpins. Global targets for ocean protection typically track the extent of ocean area within MPAs. However, understanding the effectiveness of protection is crucial, as the level of protection and associated benefits for biodiversity and ...

Monika Onyszkiewicz, Marta Sylla. 2025. Current Status of the Community-Supported Agriculture Model in Poland—Exploring Key Areas of Sustainable Operations. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17072965

Social innovations responding to the local needs of farmers and consumers are the subject of recent studies, and their results indicate effectiveness in mitigating the effects of crises and, in the long run, in building the resilience of local communities to future challenges. One of the social innovations is the Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) model. This article presents the current status of active CSA groups in Polan...

Colette C.C. Wabnitz, William W. L. Cheung, Lauren Shea, Rashid Sumaila, Daniel Pauly. 2025. Spatial Distribution of Fishmeal and Fish Oil Factories Around the Globe. Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr6921

Fishmeal and fish oil (FMFO) are critical inputs for the compound aquatic feeds sustaining the fed aquaculture sector, yet there is limited publicly available information on the location of FMFO production factories around the globe. This makes it difficult to assess the environmental, social, and economic impacts of individual factories and the industry’s footprint as a whole. To fill this knowledge gap, we compiled location ...

Lucie Bakels, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Ruud van der Ent, Arie Staal, Patrick Keys, Delphine Clara Zemp, Ingo Fetz, Makoto Taniguchi, Line J. Gordon. 2025. Dry periods amplify the Amazon and Congo forests' rainfall self-reliance. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-21252

Moisture recycling is an important source of precipitation in the tropical forests of South America and Africa. Moisture is partly recycled from the tropical forests themselves (forest rainfall self-reliance) and is therefore subject to deforestation, which reduces evaporation. During the dry season, when water is already scarce, a further reduction in precipitation due to decreasing moisture recycling rates could potentially ...

Lucie Bakels, Michael Blaschek, Marina Duetsch, Andreas Plach, Vincent Lechner, Georg Brack, Leopold Haimberger, Andreas Stohl. 2025. A new computer mirror for studying air moving through space and time. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-21647

Computer mirrors are important for studying air. Most computer mirrors are about fixed points in space and time. This fixed approach is good for many studies, but studies focused on going through the air could use moving points in space and time. We made a computer mirror using moving points in space and time for all air in the world using winds from a computer mirror using fixed points in space and time. Everyone can use this...