Publications

Mary Scheuermann, Amanda Wood, Line J. Gordon, Elin Röös, Lisen Schultz. 2024. Leverage points for increased grain legume consumption: a Swedish case study. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170524000267

Food production and consumption need to substantially change to meet global environmental and public health goals. Increasing grain legume consumption in most countries is key to providing nourishing food for all while contributing to cropping system sustainability with relatively low environmental impact. But what actions have the potential to increase such consumption? The wide knowledge of how to cultivate grain legumes amo...

Emmy Wassénius, Anne Charlotte Bunge, Mary K. Scheuermann, Kajsa Resare Sahlin, Agnes Pranindita, Moa Ohlsson, Abigayil Blandon, Chandrakant Singh, Kristin Malmcrona Friberg, Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez. 2023. Creative destruction in academia: a time to reimagine practices in alignment with sustainability values. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01357-6

Academia has experienced acceleration and expansion in parallel with the Great Acceleration, which has shaped the Anthropocene. Among other pressures, the expectation to be internationally mobile conflicts with many values held by sustainability scholars and results in disillusionment. The changes in the academic system can be seen through the framework of the adaptive cycle, which can help us understand historical parallels a...