Publications

Sana Okayasu, Jan J. Kuiper, Ghassan Halouani, HyeJin Kim, Brian W. Miller, América Paz Durán, Angelique Vermeer, Machteld Schoolenberg, Shizuka Hashimoto, Carolyn Lundquist. 2025. Catalyzing change: a literature review on the implementation of the Nature Futures Framework. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01682-y

The Nature Futures Framework (NFF), developed under the Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), serves as a catalyst for advancing new scenarios and models focused on biodiversity and ecosystem services within the broader research community. In particular, the framework facilitates the development of scenarios and models that can help guide change processes toward desirable fut...

Y Ran, U M Persson, T Lindahl, M Jonell, A Brons, B Macura, J Candel, A Abu Hatab, E Röös. 2025. Are interventions for environmentally sustainable dietary behaviours effective? A review. Environmental Research: Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.1088/2976-601X/adda4e

In the face of growing environmental pressures, understanding how governance can promote more sustainable dietary behaviours is increasingly critical. However, a synthesis of available intervention strategies for behavioural change is currently missing. This umbrella review synthesizes findings from 29 reviews published between 2018–2024, assessing effectiveness of governance interventions aimed at reducing consumer-level food...

Scott Hawken, Christian Isendahl, Keir Strickland, Stephan Barthel. 2025. Towards intergenerational neutrality in urban planning and governance: Reflections on temporality in sustainability transitions research. Urban Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241307907

In urban studies, ‘presentism’ – the prioritisation of present-day concerns at the expense of historical and future considerations – has emerged as a critical bias that is rarely challenged, either through governance structures, institutional frameworks and urban planning and design, or as the ethical basis for our communities and social relations. From the vantage of the historical social sciences, we problematise application...

Petr Vesnovskii, Michele-Lee Moore. 2025. Mapping Global Water Resilience Risks for River Basin Governance. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-18128

Global water resilience is a critical concern for both nature and society in the face of increasing environmental and socio-economic pressures. Numerous studies have produced global maps highlighting a diversity of water-related risks. Yet, efforts to understand the cumulative nature of those risks and how that information can be used for decision-making remain crucial. This study aims to provide an exploratory global mapping ...

Nielja Knecht, Romi Lotcheris, Ingo Fetzer, Juan Rocha. 2025. Limitations of early warning signals: evaluating the performance of resilience loss detection methods to predict forest die-back events from remote sensing data. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-18547

Terrestrial ecosystems worldwide are under increasing stress due to changing climate and weather regimes, as well as direct anthropogenic influences such as land use changes. The combination of stressors can erode an ecosystem’s ability to resist and recover from external shocks and pressures. Vegetation resilience loss is often assessed by applying temporal early warning signals (EWS) based on dynamical systems theory to rem...

Fabio Benedetti, Jonas Wydler, Corentin Clerc, Nielja Knecht, Meike Vogt. 2025. Emergent Relationships Between the Functional Diversity of Marine Planktonic Copepods and Ecosystem Functioning in the Global Ocean. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70094

Copepods are a major group of the mesozooplankton and thus a key part of marine ecosystems worldwide. Their fitness and life strategies are determined by their functional traits which allow different species to exploit various ecological niches. The range of functional traits expressed in a community defines its functional diversity (FD), which can be used to investigate how communities utilize resources and shape ecosystem pr...

Rachel Mazac, Kajsa Resare Sahlin, Iisa Hyypiä, Fanny Keränen, Mari Niva, Nora Berglund, Iryna Herzon. 2025. Does “better” mean “less”? Sustainable meat consumption in the context of natural pasture-raised beef. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-025-10707-2

Livestock production has significant environmental impacts, requiring sustainable dietary shifts with reduced meat consumption. The concept of "less but better" has gained attention as a pragmatic approach to dietary and production changes, advocating for reduced meat consumption while focusing on sustainably produced, high-quality products. We focus on the interplay between "less" and "better" and critically evaluate the appr...

Erik Zhivkoplias, Paul Dunshirn, Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Robert Blasiak. 2025. From genes to innovation: exploring the use of marine genetic resources in biotechnology. One Ocean Science Congress. https://doi.org/10.5194/oos2025-498

Marine genetic resources (MGRs) are crucial for understanding marine biodiversity and tracking changes in ecosystems, while also providing a valuable foundation for biotechnological innovation. The recent adoption of the UN Treaty on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Treaty) and the inclusion of digital sequence information in this legally binding agreement open new opportunities for protecting biodiversity in th...

Ana Paula D Aguiar, David Collste, Sofia Cortés-Calderón, Taís Sonetti-González, Minella Alves-Martins, Antonio J. Castro, Amadou Diallo, Karl Martin Eriksson, Deborah Goffner, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno, María D. López-Rodríguez, María Mancilla-García, Veronica Olofsson, Aldrin Perez-Marin, Francisco Gilney Silva-Bezerra, Hanna Sinare, Claire Stragier. 2025. Unravelling deep roots in drylands: A systems thinking participatory approach to the SDGs. Global Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2025.6

Achieving sustainability on the ground poses a challenge in decoding globallydefined goals, such as sustainable development goals, and aligning them withlocal perspectives and realities. This decoding necessitates theunderstanding of the multifaceted dimensions of the sustainabilitychallenges in a given context, including their underlying causes. In casestudies from Brazilian drylands, we illustrate how an enhanced multiscalep...

Gerald Singh, Nancy Karigitu, Leopoldo Gerhardinger, Frank Mirobo, Laura Pereira, Samiya Selim, Anna Zivian, Heloise Jean. 2025. Fostering inclusion and equity in ocean sustainability through knowledge co-construction. One Ocean Science Congress. https://doi.org/10.5194/oos2025-432

Ocean science plays a critical role in decision-making processes with distributional effects, which inherently carry equity implications. At the same time, concerns about equity shape how ocean science is conducted, influencing which scientific questions are prioritized. Expanding participation in setting research agendas through inclusive processes can significantly alter the trajectory of ocean science. Recent initiatives pr...