Publications

Daniel Chrisendo, Venla Niva, Roman Hoffmann, Sina Masoumzadeh Sayyar, Juan Rocha, Vilma Sandström, Frederick Solt, Matti Kummu. 2024. Income inequality has increased for over two-thirds of the global population. Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5548291/v1

Income inequality is one of the most important measures to indicate economic health, social justice, and quality of life. Yet, especially at the subnational level, comprehensive global data on the distribution of incomes is widely missing. Such data is essential to assess patterns in inequality within countries and their development over time. We created seamless global subnational Gini coefficient and gross national income (G...

Sofia Maniatakou, Pero Olsson, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen. 2024. The role and capacities of large-scale actor coalitions in shaping sustainability transformations. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/mcp5j

Several transnational corporations, investors, international organizations and philanthropies have formed coalitions to respond to global social and environmental challenges. Do these coalitions, consisting of large-scale actors, have the capacities to contribute to the transformations that are needed, or do they perpetuate the same system dynamics that created the problem in the first place? We investigate this question by co...

Yafei WANG, Yao HE, Hao ZHOU, Garry Peterson, Jan Kuiper, Liam R Carpenter-Urquhart, Stefan Olin, Yuxuan YE, Shuwei SHEN, Jie Fan, Lennart Olsson, Murray Scown. 2024. Integrating cross-scale sustainability and ecosystem resilience for adaptative scenario planning in China. ESS Open Archive. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.173499112.24070386/v1

Climate change calls for adaptive strategies to manage landscapes across governance levels, as differing policy frameworks distinctly shape landscape patterns and long-term ecosystem resilience. This study presents a novel adaptive framework that integrates planning objectives, landscape patterns, and ecosystem resilience through iterative feedback loops. The framework aims to achieve the desired scenario, SUS-RES, which balan...

Noah Linder, Patrik Sörqvist, Daniel Lindvall, Sverker Jagers, Stephan Barthel. 2024. It would feel weird to not drive my car! Exploring the role of habits in public policy acceptance of carbon taxations. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02115-3

This study aims to expand the understanding of public acceptance of carbon taxes by exploring the role of habits. Habits play a pivotal role in guiding our behaviors and reasoning and can even influence our self perception and identity but remain an underexplored variable in relation to public policy acceptance. We employed a large scale ( N > 5200) national survey to measure public acceptance of higher carbon taxation in Sw...

Daria Tatsii, Ioanna Evangelou, Silvia Bucci, Lucie Bakels, Andreas Stohl. 2025. How much microplastic reaches the stratosphere? The example of road traffic-related emissions. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-8969

Depending on their size and shape, microplastic particles have the potential to be transported over great distances in the atmosphere, both vertically and horizontally. Recent studies have shown that they can even reach the stratosphere. However, there is a lack of information on the distribution and amount of microplastics in the stratosphere. Here, we estimate how much of microplastics from the second largest primary source...

A. Vatn, UNAI PASCUAL, R. Chaplin-Kramer, M. Termansen, P. Arias-Arévalo, P. Balvanera, S. Athayde, T. Hahn, E. Lazos. 2024. Incorporating diverse values of nature in decision-making—theory and practice. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0315

Values play a significant role in decision-making, especially regarding nature. Decisions impact people and nature in complex ways and understanding which values are prioritised, and which are left out is an important task for improving the equity and effectiveness of decision-making. Based on work done for the IPBES Values Assessment, this paper develops a framework to support analyses of how decision-making influence...

Niak Sian Koh, Grace Y. Wong, Thomas Hahn. 2024. Radical incrementalism: hydropolitics and environmental discourses in Laos. Environmental Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2372236

The Nam Theun 2 dam is an influential case of applying safeguards to mitigate social and environmental impacts from hydropower, being used as a model for large dams globally. However, these safeguards have produced mixed results. We examine the role of safeguards in hydropower, and how stakeholders have discussed its use. Based on a literature review and stakeholder interviews, we conduct a discourse analysis of narratives use...

Thomas Hahn, Johannes Morfeldt, Robert Höglund, Mikael Karlsson, Ingo Fetzer. 2024. Estimating countries’ additional carbon accountability for closing the mitigation gap based on past and future emissions. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54039-x

Quantifying fair national shares of the remaining global carbon budget has proven challenging. Here, we propose an indicator—additional carbon accountability—that quantifies countries’ responsibility for mitigation and CO2 removal in addition to achieving their own targets. Considering carbon debts since 1990 and future claims based on countries’ emission pathways, the indicator uses an equal cumulative per capita emissions ap...

Thomas Hahn, Johannes Morfeldt, Robert Höglund, Mikael Karlsson, Ingo Fetzer. 2024. Author Correction: Estimating countries’ additional carbon accountability for closing the mitigation gap based on past and future emissions. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55438-w

Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi-org.ezp.sub.su.se/10.1038/s41467-024-54039-x , published online 09 November 2024 The original version of this Article contained an error in sub-section “Estimating countries’ additional carbon accountability”, which incorrectly read ‘Four of 18 countries with additional carbon accountability have larger planned future emissions than additional accountabilities: China, Tür...

Sandra Hacón, Gloria Amparo Rivera, Ylana Elias Rodrigues, Federico Ernesto Viscarra Riveros, Cecilia Siliansky de Andreazzi, Gisele Winck, Victor Galaz, Nathália Nascimento, Putira Sacueana, Carlos Mena. 2024. Health in the Amazon: Environmental, Social and Economic Challenges. Science Panel for the Amazon. https://doi.org/10.55161/MEIO3673