Publications

Sánchez-García, P.A., Galaz, V., Rocha, J.C. & Barbour, F. 2025. Climate change, nature degradation, and financial stability: a review of domino-effects between finance, climate, and the biosphere. Ecology & Society, vol. 30 (2). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-16130-300236

The threat associated with climate change and nature degradation poses complex financial challenges. Our systematic literature review of 88 finance-related publications published between 2015 and early 2022 revealed a gap in research on nature-related financial risks and their connections to climate change, particularly regarding ocean-related risks beyond rising sea levels. Although methods are available to assess these risks...

Ahlström, H. Williams, A., Wassénius, E. & Downing, A.S. 2025. Deepening the Conversation on Systemic Sustainability Risks: A Social-Ecological Systems Approach. Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 199, pages 495–506. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05860-3

Narrow views of systemic sustainability risks can result in ecological concerns being neglected, as well as giving rise to unequal distribution and exploitation of natural resources, creating injustice. Given recent advancements in integrating justice with the safe space environmentally, as defined by the planetary boundaries, now is a critical moment for business ethics researchers to deepen the conversation on managing syste...

Lucie Bakels, Daria Tatsii, Anne Tipka, Marina Dütsch, Michael Blaschek, Silvia Bucci, Andreas Plach, Martin Vojta, Petra Seibert, Ignacio Pisso, Sabine Eckhardt, Massimo Cassiani, Christine Groot Zwaaftink, Marie Mulder, Andreas Stohl. 2025. FLEXPART-11: Advancements in a Lagrangian Atmospheric Model for Enhanced Accuracy, Efficiency and Flexibility. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-2652

Numerical methods and advanced simulation codes play a crucial role in helping us understand complex atmospheric processes. As technology progresses, it's important to develop sophisticated code for accurate and efficient simulations. In this update to FLEXPART, a Lagrangian model used in numerous studies for the past 30 years, we've made significant improvements. This version of FLEXPART shows improvements in accuracy and com...

Mattia Saccò, Xander Huggins, Alejandro Martínez, Robert Reinecke. 2025. Collaborative Science for Groundwater Biodiversity Conservation. Groundwater. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.13495

Depletion and quality degradation of groundwater ecosystems trigger impacts on diverse, highly specialized, and often locally endemic biota, ranging from microbes to cavefish. The extent to which groundwater ecosystems are threatened is alarming: underground biological extinction is already happening (Humphreys 2022 ). The full breadth of this challenge is unknown, yet the large-scale and widespread depletion and quality deg...

Michael Blaschek, Lucie Bakels, Marina Dütsch, Andreas Stohl. 2025. FLEXWEB - A flexible particle dispersion model web interface. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-15051

Flexpart (FLEXible PARTicle dispersion model) is a numerical model that simulates the dispersion of gases and aerosols in the atmosphere. In order for Flexpart to be used, it must be installed and run on a (super)computer. However, this is associated with obstacles, as not all scientists have access to a supercomputer and there are often technical problems during installation or execution. In this project, we therefore want to...

Silvia Bucci, Daria Tatsii, Ioanna Evangelou, Lucie Bakels, Andreas Stohl. 2025. Tracking the sources of atmospheric microplastic using FLEXPART v.11. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-16953

An emerging number of studies highlighted the presence of microplastic in the atmosphere all over the world. The presence of such particles has been observed at the poles, in the marine atmosphere above the surface of the oceans, in clouds, on the fresh snow of high mountains and high concentrations has been observed in the atmospheric fallout in densely populated areas. Despite so, the main sources of atmospheric microplastic...

Hannah Zoller, Juan Rocha, Ingo Fetzer, C. Kendra Gotangco Gonzales, Nitin Chaudhary, Steve Lade. 2025. A bottom-up spatial pattern of Earth system interactions. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-12239

The intricate interplay of the Earth system’s biophysical processes provides the basis for Earth resilience and human wellbeing. While this interplay has been systematically studied on a global scale, a better understanding of the sub-global interactions is crucial in order to fully assess the systemic environmental impact of human activities. Building on the quantitative framework provided by the Earth system impact metric ...

Johan Rockström, Jennie Barron. 2025. A reply to Lankford and Agol (2024). Irrigation is more than irrigating: agricultural green water interventions contribute to blue water depletion and the global water crisis. Water International. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2025.2452115

Callum M. Roberts, Emilia Dyer, Sylvia A. Earle, Andrew Forrest, Julie P. Hawkins, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Jessica J. Meeuwig, Daniel Pauly, Stuart L. Pimm, U. Rashid Sumaila, Johan Rockström, Mark Lynas. 2025. Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01665-0

International waters, also known as the high seas, make up 61% of the ocean and cover 43% of Earth’s surface — amounting to two-thirds of the biosphere by volume. They have been exploited since the seventeenth century for whales, and from the mid-twentieth century for fish, sharks and squid, depleting wildlife. Now, climate change is reducing the productivity of the high seas through warming and through depletion of nutrients ...

E. Röös, M. Jacobsen, L. Karlsson, W. Wanecek, J. Spångberg, R. Mazac, L. Rydhmer. 2025. Introducing a comprehensive and configurable tool for calculating environmental and social footprints for use in dietary assessments. Journal of Cleaner Production. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.146002

The urgent need to transform dietary patterns to mitigate climate change, biodiversity loss, and other environmental challenges is well-established. While life cycle assessments and footprinting approaches provide valuable insights at the product level, comprehensive evaluations of entire diets are necessary to inform sustainable food choices. This paper presents the Sustainability Assessment of Foods And Diets (SAFAD)-tool, a...