Publications

Kinga Psiuk, Johan Enqvist. 2024. Control or coexist with urban baboons: Exploring residents' views and values in Cape Town. Conservation Science and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13203

Humans and wildlife increasingly share urban space, which elevates the risk of negative interactions. Management efforts conventionally focus on controlling species that are considered problematic, but polarization in affected communities' perceptions and values may pose a greater problem for management in cities where ideas about preferred human–wildlife interactions vary greatly. This study uses Q-method to investigate what ...

Michele-Lee Moore, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Örjan Bodin, Johan Enqvist, Fernando Jaramillo, Krisztina Jónás, Carl Folke, Patrick Keys, Steven J. Lade, Maria Mancilla Garcia, Romina Martin, Nathanial Matthews, Agnes Pranindita, Juan C. Rocha, Shuchi Vora. 2024. Moving from fit to fitness for governing water in the Anthropocene. Nature Water. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00257-y

We bring together two decades of research on cross-scale spatial and temporal connectivity of water in the Anthropocene to understand the implications for institutional fit and water governance, with a focus on river basin organizations and watershed-based bodies. There is strong evidence showing how hydrological cycles are tightly coupled across larger spatial scales than they were in the past, which implies a possible expans...

Johan Enqvist, Wessel van Oyen. 2023. Correction: Sustainable water tariffs and inequality in post-drought Cape Town: exploring perceptions of fairness. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01270-4

In the original publication of the article, under the acknowledgements section, the following sentence was missed “The research was made possible by support from Assoc. Prof. Gina Ziervogel and her research project on Urban Resilience.” The correct acknowledgements should read as follows “The authors wish to thank Laura Pereira, Neil Hassan and Lavinia Perumal for comments on an early draft of this manuscript, as well as two a...

Enqvist, J. and van Oyen, W. Sustainable water tariffs and inequality in post‑drought Cape Town: exploring perceptions of fairness. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01217-9

Fair allocation of diminishing natural resources is increasingly central to sustainability. This includes the allocation of costs related to providing access, such as dams, pipes and pumps delivering clean water. Water tariffs are often designed to both recover these costs, meet social needs of water services to the poor, and incentivise conservation in dry times. However, strained public finances, prolonged droughts and econo...

Enqvist, J., Ziervogel, G., Metelerkamp, L., van Breda, J., Dondi, N., Lusithi, T., Mdunyelwa, A., Mgwigwi, Z., Mhlalisi, M., Myeza, S. and Nomela, G., 2020. Informality and water justice: community perspectives on water issues in Cape Town’s low-income neighbourhoods. International Journal of Water Resources Development, pp.1-22.

Cape Town’s water injustices are entrenched by the mismatch between government interventions and the lived realities in many informal settlements and other low-income areas. This transdisciplinary study draws on over 300 stories from such communities, showing overwhelming frustration with the municipality’s inability to address leaking pipes, faulty bills and poor sanitation. Cape Town’s interventions typically rely on technic...

West., S., Haider, J.L., Masterson, V. et al. 2018. Stewardship, care and relational values. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Available online 5 November 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.10.008

Stewardship is a popular term for describing action in pursuit of sustainability. There is growing interest in how relational values, such as care, animate stewardship action. In this paper we develop relational understandings of care in stewardship, in so doing infusing the relational values literature with modes of ‘relational thinking’ increasingly adopted in sustainability science. We use three theoretical perspectives — d...

Enqvist, J.P., West, S., Masterson, V., Haider, J.L., Svedin, U., Tengö, M. 2018. Stewardship as a boundary object for sustainability research: Linking care, knowledge and agency. Landscape and Urban Planning, Volume 179, November 2018, Pages 17-37

Current sustainability challenges – including biodiversity loss, pollution and land-use change – require new ways of understanding, acting in and caring for the landscapes we live in. The concept of stewardship is increasingly used in research, policy and practice to articulate and describe responses to these challenges. However, there are multiple meanings and framings of stewardship across this wide user base that reflect di...

Krasny, M.E., E.S Svendsen, C.K. Van den Bosch, J. Enqvist, A. Russ. 2017. Environmental governance. Urban Environmental Education Review pp. 103-111.

Andersson, E., Enqvist, J., & Tengö. M. 2017. Stewardship in Urban Landscapes. In C. Bieling & T. Plieninger (Eds, The Science and Practice of Landscape Stewardship (pp. 222-238). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316499016.023

This is a chapter from the book "The Science and Practice of Landscape Stewardship". It provides insights into the challenges and the potential of landscape stewardship and identifies future paths for the science and practice of landscape-related sustainability efforts. Aligning analytical perspectives with practical applications, it brings together contributions from leading scholars and innovative models of landscape steward...

Enqvist, J. 2017. Stewardship in an urban world: Civic engagement and human–nature relations in the Anthropocene. PhD thesis, Stockholm University.

What can a responsible relationship to nature look like in a world where humanity is disrupting fundamental ecological processes at a planetary scale? Achieving sustainability is increasingly argued to require a shift towards ‘stewardship’, but often without clearly defining what the concept means or exactly how it is might address the unprecedented challenges of our time. In his doctoral thesis, Johan Enqvist addresses this k...