Publications

Manuel Wolff, Benjamin Labohm, Dagmar Haase, Erik Andersson. 2024. Mapping protection effects and gaps of forest dynamics in Europe 2012 to 2018. Ecological Indicators. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112895

Forest management and conservation can help forests adapt to and minimize the effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbance factors on forest mortality. However, little quantitative information is currently available on the impact of different management and conservation practices on forest dynamics in Europe focusing on forest extent and health simultaneously. Against this background, this paper aims to understand the effe...

Simon West, Wiebren Johannes Boonstra, Sasha Quahe. 2024. Theorizing the ‘Anthropos’ in the Anthropocene. In K. Sherren, G. Thondhlana, & D. Jackson-Smith (Eds.), Opening Windows: Embracing New Perspectives and Practices in Natural Resource Social Sciences (pp. 261-270). University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.7330/9781646426300.c013

Simon West. 2024. Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches. Environmental Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2441021

Climate-Just Behavior brings insights from psychology, behavioural economics and neuroscience to the pursuit of climate justice. In so doing, this short, accessible and informative book attempts to link individualist and voluntarist theories of pro-environmental behavior to structural and collective action approaches rooted in sociology and political economy. This is an ambitious task: in a methodological sense the differenc...

Greta Semplici, L. Jamila Haider, Ryan Unks, Tahira S. Mohamed, Giulia Simula, Palden Tsering (Huadancairang), Natasha Maru, Linda Pappagallo, Masresha Taye. 2024. Relational resiliences: reflections from pastoralism across the world. Ecosystems and People. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2024.2396928

Resilience is a common concept in pastoralism scholarship and policy-making, especially in dryland environments where livelihoods are considered vulnerable to frequent shocks such as droughts, pests and epidemics, and conflicts. Resilience lends itself to pastoral studies due to its ability to capture uncertainty, complexity and dynamism: key characteristics of dryland environments and pastoral systems. However, resilience has...

S. E. Bunn, B. Stewart-Koster, C. Ndehedehe, C. Gordon, J. Rockström, J. Gupta, D. Qin, S. J. Lade. 2024. Reply to: Concerns regarding proposed groundwater Earth system boundary. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08083-8

REPLYING TO: M. O. Cuthbert et al. Nature https://doi-org.ezp.sub.su.se/10.1038/s41586-024-08082-9 (2024). Groundwater is widely used for domestic and agricultural purposes, but is subject to increasing risks from overexploitation. Responding to this global significance, we recently defined a safe and just Earth system boundary (ESB) for groundwater and, in the absence of a consistent data source on baseline aquifer vol...

Johan Rockström, Jonathan F. Donges, Ingo Fetzer, Maria A. Martin, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Katherine Richardson. 2024. Planetary Boundaries guide humanity’s future on Earth. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00597-z

Human pressures have pushed the Earth system deep into the Anthropocene, threatening its stability, resilience and functioning. The Planetary Boundaries (PB) framework emerged against these threats, setting safe levels to the biophysical systems and processes that, with high likelihood, ensure life-supporting Holocene-like conditions. In this Review, we synthesize PB advancements, detailing its emergence and mainstreaming acro...

Mingzhu Cao, Weiguang Wang, Jia Wei, Giovanni Forzieri, Ingo Fetzer, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson. 2024. Revegetation Impacts on Moisture Recycling and Precipitation Trends in the Chinese Loess Plateau. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR038199

The Loess Plateau in China has experienced a remarkable greening trend due to vegetation restoration efforts in recent decades. However, the response of precipitation to this greening remains uncertain. In this study, we identified and evaluated the main moisture source regions for precipitation over the Loess Plateau from 1982 to 2019 using a moisture tracking model, the modified WAM‐2layers model, and the conceptual framewor...

Chandrakant Singh, Ruud van der Ent, Ingo Fetzer, Lan Wang-Erlandsson. 2024. Multi-fold increase in rainforest tipping risk beyond 1.5–2 °C warming. Earth System Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-1543-2024

Tropical rainforests rely on their root systems to access moisture stored in soil during wet periods for use during dry periods. When this root zone soil moisture is inadequate to sustain a forest ecosystem, they transition to a savanna-like state, losing their native structure and functions. Yet the influence of climate change on ecosystem's root zone soil moisture storage and the impact on rainforest ecosystems remain uncert...

Elizabeth Drury O'Neill, Tim M. Daw, Rosemarie N. Mwaipopo, Emilie Lindkvist. 2024. The complexity of compliance—Diverse responses to octopus fishery closures in Zanzibar. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10742

Marine protected areas like periodic closures are increasingly used to improve both fisheries management and biodiversity conservation, and often secondarily, human well-being. Yet rule breaking, whether formal regulations, or community-agreed norms, continues to negate expected management and conservation outcomes, remaining a major challenge. Although compliance scholarship today is expanding beyond non-economic explanation...

Elizabeth Drury O'Neill, Tim Daw, Lorna Slade, Fatma Khamis, Salim Nassor Mbarouk, Jineth Berrío-Martínez, Andrew Wamukota, Rosemarie N. Mwaipopo, Emilie Lindkvist. 2024. Multidimensional human wellbeing in periodic octopus closures in Zanzibar. Ecosystems and People. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2024.2412616

Our study of periodic octopus closures helps to fill an empirical gap in community-based marine protected area (MPA) research on socially-diverse multidimensional wellbeing impacts. Human wellbeing provides a more meaningful and holistic measure of social impacts than previous economic measures while recognising equity- evidence that ultimately ensures support and enables long-term success in conservation. We trace the flow of...