Publications

Fiona S Rickowski, Florian Ruland, Örjan Bodin, Thomas Evans, Mike S Fowler, Lotta C Kluger, Guillaume Latombe, Bernd Lenzner, Rafael L Macêdo, Tim Adriaens, Robert Arlinghaus, Gustavo A Castellanos-Galindo, Jaimie T A Dick, James W E Dickey, Franz Essl, Belinda Gallardo, Sabine Hilt, Yuval Itescu, Ivan Jarić, Sophia Kimmig, Lohith Kumar, Ana Novoa, Francisco J Oficialdegui, Cristian Pérez-Granados, Petr Pyšek, Wolfgang Rabitsch, David M Richardson, Núria Roura-Pascual, Menja von Schmalensee, Florencia A Yannelli, Montserrat Vilà, Giovanni Vimercati, Jonathan M Jeschke. 2026. A Systems Perspective: How Social–Ecological Networks Can Improve Our Understanding and Management of Biological Invasions. BioScience. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf174

Reversing biodiversity loss and the sustainability crisis requires approaches that explicitly consider human–nature interdependencies. Social–ecological networks, which incorporate social and ecological actors and entities, as well as their interactions, provide such an approach. Social–ecological networks have been applied to a range of complex issues, including sustainable resource use, management of ecosystem services and d...

Laura G. Elsler, Jessica A. Gephart, Jessica Zamborain-Mason, Tim Cashion, Max Troell, Rosamond L. Naylor, Rahul Agrawal Bejarano, Christopher D. Golden. 2026. Global nutritional equity of fishmeal and aquaculture trade flows. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2506699123

Aquaculture, the single fastest growing food sector, is central to achieving key Sustainable Development Goals (e.g., SDG 2: Zero Hunger). Linking the nutrient composition of >2,800 aquatic species with >2 million fishmeal and farmed fish transactions in international aquatic food trade between 2015 and 2019, we examined aquaculture’s nutritional flows and distributional equity. We found that aquaculture provided adequate inta...

Gabrielle Carmine, Melissa R Cronin, Carden Barkley, Chelsea L Tuohy, Guillermo Ortuño Crespo, Henrik Österblom, Jennifer Jacquet, Patrick N Halpin. 2025. An expanded evaluation of global fisheries management organizations on the high seas. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae1b1e

The high seas comprise nearly half the Earth’s surface and the 2023 United Nations Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction agreement renewed efforts to better manage this vast area. Regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) are tasked with a UN dual-mandate to ensure the (1) long-term conservation of fish stocks and their associated ecosystems while managing the (2) sustainable use of high seas fisheries. Building ...

Andrea Wiholm, Arne Remmen, Thomas Hahn. 2025. Decarbonization of container terminals: An organizational journey. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2025.101676

While initiatives to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases are abundant, there has been limited guidance on how ports and container terminals can implement a NetZero strategy. This study investigates the experiences of a global terminal operator transitioning from a high-level NetZero target toward concrete decarbonization strategies. Through action-based research, local decarbonization roadmaps were developed across ...

Xuemei Bai, Giles B. Sioen, Şiir Kilkiş, Timon McPhearson, Zeenat Niazi, Jago Dodson, Tri Atmaja, Kensuke Fukushi, Niki Frantzeskaki, Harini Nagendra, Wanyu Shih, Thomas Elmqvist, Tischa Muñoz-Erickson, Xiangzheng Deng, Burak Güneralp, Shuaib Lwasa, Noboru Zama. 2025. Reimagining urban science for global sustainability: Five strategic research areas. Global Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2025.10025

Cities, as complex systems, are faced with increasingly diverse and connected challenges across social, economic, environmental, and health domains. To help cities address these challenges, the Future Earth Urban Knowledge-Action Network developed a cross-disciplinary urban research agenda through expert elicitations and extensive consultation. Five research themes to guide urban sustainability research were identified includi...

Erica von Essen, Minh-Xuan A. Truong. 2025. Multitasking Moose Migration: Examining media multimodality in slow-TV nature programming. Telematics and Informatics Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teler.2025.100186

Media multitasking has become an integrated part of much media consumption. While some celebrate the practice for activating the viewer and connecting them to virtual others, perhaps discussing the show in real-time, critics point to cognitive costs and reduced productivity. A perhaps more scathing critique has been added to those multitasking while watching nature documentaries: you are already consuming nature through a scre...

Enrique Antonio Mejía. 2025. Productivity and plunder: Soybean frontier expansion and soil nutrient loss in the Argentine countryside. Doctoral Thesis in Economic History at Stockholm University. Department of Economic History and International Relations.

This compilation thesis investigates how Argentina’s rapid soybean expansion since the 1970s has fueled economic growth while causing significant environmental and social consequences, particularly soil nutrient loss. Existing research has overlooked critical gaps, including the under-representation of historical analyses connecting past agricultural expansion (primarily led by wheat) to current soybean dynamics, limited integ...

Sebastian Luckeneder. 2025. Spatial data approaches for assessing the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of mining activities. Doctoral thesis. Institute for Ecological Economics. WU Research.

The growing human population, economic expansion, urbanisation, and rising affluence have driven global resource consumption to unprecedented levels. Metals and minerals have experienced particularly rapid growth, and mining activities are projected to intensify due to higher demand in emerging economies, the global energy transition, and declining ore grades. While mining increasingly encroaches on vulnerable ecosystems, syst...

Piotr Krajewski, Marek Furmankiewicz, Marta Sylla, Iga Kołodyńska, Monika Lebiedzińska. 2025. Landscape Services from the Perspective of Experts and Their Use by the Local Community: A Comparative Study of Selected Landscape Types in a Region in Central Europe. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17156998

This study investigates the concept of landscape services (LS), which integrate environmental and sociocultural dimensions of sustainable development. Recognizing landscapes as essential to daily life and well-being, the research aims to support sustainable spatial planning by analyzing both their potential and their actual use. The study has three main objectives: (1) to assess the potential of 16 selected landscape types to ...

Andreas Plach, Lucie Bakels, Andreas Stohl. 2025. Reduction of residence time of air in the Arctic since the 1980s. ESS Open Archive. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.175318972.29624962/v1

The Arctic has seen dramatic changes in temperature, snow cover, and sea ice in recent decades. Here we use a simple metric, the Arctic residence time of air, that is, the time air spends uninterruptedly north of 70°N, to evaluate how these changes have affected the high-latitude atmospheric circulation in the last 40 years. We find that, on average, near-surface air resides between 7 (summer) and 12 (winter) days in the Arcti...