Publications

Wood, A., Swain. J., Masino, T., Tørnqvist, B. & Röös, E. 2025. Meat is healthy, green and vital to social and economic sustainability: frames used by the red meat industry during development of the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations. Environmental Research: Food Systems. 2 015010. DOI 10.1088/2976-601X/ad8e6b

To reduce environmental impacts from the food system, demand-side changes, especially reductions in the consumption of animal products in high-consuming populations, are needed. This will require policies promoting red meat reductions, since dietary patterns are difficult to change, but such policies will likely meet opposition from certain food industry actors. An example is provided by the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations (N...

Johan Rockström, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, Walter C Willett, Line J Gordon, Mario Herrero, Christina C Hicks, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Nitya Rao, Marco Springmann, Ellen Cecilie Wright, Rina Agustina, Sumati Bajaj, Anne Charlotte Bunge, Bianca Carducci, Costanza Conti, Namukolo Covic, Jessica Fanzo, Nita G Forouhi, Matthew F Gibson, Xiao Gu, Ermias Kebreab, Claire Kremen, Amar Laila, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Theresa M Marteau, Carlos A Monteiro, Anna Norberg, Jemimah Njuki, Thais Diniz Oliveira, Wen-Harn Pan, Juan A Rivera, James P W Robinson, Marina Sundiang, Sofie te Wierik, Detlef P van Vuuren, Sonja Vermeulen, Patrick Webb, Lujain Alqodmani, Ramya Ambikapathi, Anne Barnhill, Isabel Baudish, Felicitas Beier, Damien Beillouin, Arthur H W Beusen, Jannes Breier, Charlotte Chemarin, Maksym Chepeliev, Jennifer Clapp, Wim de Vries, Ignacio Pérez-Domínguez, Natalia Estrada-Carmona. 2025. The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems. The Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(25)01201-2

The 2025 EAT- Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems presents new evidence-based insights on nutrition and human health, within safe and just planetary boundaries. New to this Commission are updates to the planetary health diet, measurement and assessment of the impact food systems have in driving transgressions of planetary boundaries, an exploration of multi-dimensional and underlying issues of fo...

Sánchez-García, P.A., Galaz, V., Rocha, J.C. & Barbour, F. 2025. Climate change, nature degradation, and financial stability: a review of domino-effects between finance, climate, and the biosphere. Ecology & Society, vol. 30 (2). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-16130-300236

The threat associated with climate change and nature degradation poses complex financial challenges. Our systematic literature review of 88 finance-related publications published between 2015 and early 2022 revealed a gap in research on nature-related financial risks and their connections to climate change, particularly regarding ocean-related risks beyond rising sea levels. Although methods are available to assess these risks...

Ahlström, H. Williams, A., Wassénius, E. & Downing, A.S. 2025. Deepening the Conversation on Systemic Sustainability Risks: A Social-Ecological Systems Approach. Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 199, pages 495–506. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05860-3

Narrow views of systemic sustainability risks can result in ecological concerns being neglected, as well as giving rise to unequal distribution and exploitation of natural resources, creating injustice. Given recent advancements in integrating justice with the safe space environmentally, as defined by the planetary boundaries, now is a critical moment for business ethics researchers to deepen the conversation on managing syste...

Lucie Bakels, Daria Tatsii, Anne Tipka, Marina Dütsch, Michael Blaschek, Silvia Bucci, Andreas Plach, Martin Vojta, Petra Seibert, Ignacio Pisso, Sabine Eckhardt, Massimo Cassiani, Christine Groot Zwaaftink, Marie Mulder, Andreas Stohl. 2025. FLEXPART-11: Advancements in a Lagrangian Atmospheric Model for Enhanced Accuracy, Efficiency and Flexibility. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-2652

Numerical methods and advanced simulation codes play a crucial role in helping us understand complex atmospheric processes. As technology progresses, it's important to develop sophisticated code for accurate and efficient simulations. In this update to FLEXPART, a Lagrangian model used in numerous studies for the past 30 years, we've made significant improvements. This version of FLEXPART shows improvements in accuracy and com...

Mattia Saccò, Xander Huggins, Alejandro Martínez, Robert Reinecke. 2025. Collaborative Science for Groundwater Biodiversity Conservation. Groundwater. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.13495

Depletion and quality degradation of groundwater ecosystems trigger impacts on diverse, highly specialized, and often locally endemic biota, ranging from microbes to cavefish. The extent to which groundwater ecosystems are threatened is alarming: underground biological extinction is already happening (Humphreys 2022 ). The full breadth of this challenge is unknown, yet the large-scale and widespread depletion and quality deg...

Michael Blaschek, Lucie Bakels, Marina Dütsch, Andreas Stohl. 2025. FLEXWEB - A flexible particle dispersion model web interface. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-15051

Flexpart (FLEXible PARTicle dispersion model) is a numerical model that simulates the dispersion of gases and aerosols in the atmosphere. In order for Flexpart to be used, it must be installed and run on a (super)computer. However, this is associated with obstacles, as not all scientists have access to a supercomputer and there are often technical problems during installation or execution. In this project, we therefore want to...

Silvia Bucci, Daria Tatsii, Ioanna Evangelou, Lucie Bakels, Andreas Stohl. 2025. Tracking the sources of atmospheric microplastic using FLEXPART v.11. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-16953

An emerging number of studies highlighted the presence of microplastic in the atmosphere all over the world. The presence of such particles has been observed at the poles, in the marine atmosphere above the surface of the oceans, in clouds, on the fresh snow of high mountains and high concentrations has been observed in the atmospheric fallout in densely populated areas. Despite so, the main sources of atmospheric microplastic...

Hannah Zoller, Juan Rocha, Ingo Fetzer, C. Kendra Gotangco Gonzales, Nitin Chaudhary, Steve Lade. 2025. A bottom-up spatial pattern of Earth system interactions. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-12239

The intricate interplay of the Earth system’s biophysical processes provides the basis for Earth resilience and human wellbeing. While this interplay has been systematically studied on a global scale, a better understanding of the sub-global interactions is crucial in order to fully assess the systemic environmental impact of human activities. Building on the quantitative framework provided by the Earth system impact metric ...

Johan Rockström, Jennie Barron. 2025. A reply to Lankford and Agol (2024). Irrigation is more than irrigating: agricultural green water interventions contribute to blue water depletion and the global water crisis. Water International. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2025.2452115