Publications

Colding, J., et al., Urban green commons: Insights on urban common property systems. Global Environ. Change (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.05.006

The aim of this paper is to shed new light on urban common property systems. We deal with urban commons in relation to urban green-space management, referring to them as urban green commons. Applying a property-rights analytic perspective, we synthesize information on urban green commons from three case-study regions in Sweden, Germany, and South Africa, and elaborate on their role for biodiversity conservation in urban setti...

Wilkinson, C., T. Saarne, G. D. Peterson and J. Colding. 2013. Strategic Spatial Planning and the Ecosystem Services Concept - an > Historical Exploration. Ecology and Society 18 (1): 37. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss1/art37/

This study examines how ecosystem services (ES) have been taken into account historically in strategic spatial plans in Melbourne and Stockholm through a comparative case study analysis of eight strategic spatial plans from 1929-2010. We investigated the types of ES taken into account, and how human-nature relations and the valuation and trade-off discussions regarding ES were framed. An ES coding protocol was developed that...

Bendt, P. Barthel, S. and Colding, J. (2012). Civic greening and environmental learning in public-access community gardens in Berlin. Landscape and Urban planning. DOI:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.10.003.

We analyse environmental learning in public-access community gardens (‘PAC-gardens´) in Berlin, representing public green spaces that are collectively managed by civil society groups. Through extensive fieldwork, and drawing upon social theories of learning, we describe learning communities in four PAC-gardens and analyse factors that influence participation and boundary interaction, that is when experiences brought in from ...

Colding, J. 2011. Creating incentives for increased public engagement in ecosystem management through urban commons. Chapter 13 in Adapting Institutions: Meeting the Challenge of Global Environmental Change. Boyd, E. and Folke, C. (Eds). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Colding, J. 2011. The role of ecosystem services in contemporary urban planning. Pages 228-237 in J. Niemelä, (ed.), Urban Ecology: Patterns, processes and applications, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Marcus, L. and Colding, J. 2011. Towards a spatial morphology of urban social-ecological systems. Conference proceedings for the 18th International conference on urban form, ISUF2011, August 26-29 2011, Concordia University, Montreal.

Colding, J. 2011. Ekosystem sliter i städer. Formas Tidning Miljöforskning Nr 9, September 2011.

Stephan Barthel/Chans att sätta Stockholm på kartan/SvD/040211

Barthel, S., Colding, J., Ernstson, H., Marcus, L., Erixon, H., and Thorsvall, J. 2010. Qbook4-Hållbarthet, Albano Resilient Campus. Akademiska Hus.