Publications

Simon P. Heselschwerdt, Thorsten Wagener, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Anna M. Ukkola, Yannis Markonis, Yuting Yang, Peter Greve. 2025. Supplementary material to "Large impact of extreme precipitation on projected blue-green water shares". EGUsphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5896-supplement

Precipitation partitioning into blue and green water resources is a fundamental hydroecological process shaping freshwater availability. This partitioning is determined by interactions among climatic conditions, land surface characteristics, and vegetation dynamics, which change with rising temperatures and CO2 concentrations. Yet, global shifts in blue and green water shares and their management implications remain uncertain....

Blanca González-Mon, Violeta Cabello, Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno, María Mancilla García, Antonio J. Castro, María D. López-Rodríguez, Michele-Lee Moore, Maja Schlüter. 2025. Unstable bridges—exploring the possibilities for “in between” spaces amidst divergent narratives in environmental governance. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01772-x

Social-ecological systems increasingly face polarization dynamics that challenge environmental governance. Such polarization implies the development of opposing narratives with limited interaction, each framing environmental problems and solutions in distinct ways. In this study, we analyze a case of narrative polarization around the eutrophication crises of the Mar Menor lagoon in Spain, focusing on how proposed solutions are...

Maria Brockhaus, Ayami Kan, Alain Mfoulou, Samuel Assembe-Mvondo, Aristide Chacgom, Gordon John Thomas, Felicien Kengoum, Daisuke Naito, Helena Varkkey, Grace Y. Wong. 2025. Forest land deals, resistance, and legitimisation – a comparative analysis of discourse coalitions and silent actors in Cameroon and Malaysia. Third World Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2555484

Forests and forestlands in the Global South have been claimed for a myriad of interconnected global interests since colonial times, for plantations, concessions for resource extraction and commodity production, and conservation. Resistance to these claims is expressed in discourse, contesting and clashing with often louder, more powerful, legitimations of resource extraction and production. Understanding who argues, how – and ...

Niak Sian Koh, Niina Pietarinen, Alizée Ville, Félicien Kengoum, Grace Wong, Maria Brockhaus. 2025. Follow the money: Can REDD+ finance compete with established and emerging land investments in Mai-Ndombe, Democratic Republic of Congo?. Forest Policy and Economics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103664

Climate finance is often considered an avenue of transformational change to address deforestation. However, financial dynamics influencing forests extend beyond climate related initiatives; forest landscapes are subject to a myriad of actors and interests. This paper examines if and how REDD+ finance can lead to transformative decisions in a complex political landscape of competing land uses, interests, and financial flows in ...

Moa Ohlsson, Cibele Queiroz, Magnus Nyström, Elissa Dickson, Petra Sieber, Zdeňka Lososová. 2025. Nature’s contributions to people across Europe: a review of stakeholder preferences. Ecosystems and People. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2025.2591075

Demand for material outputs, such as food and fuel, has led to intensification of agricultural production across European landscapes. At the same time, the potential for other Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP), such as climate regulation and cultural heritage, has diminished. Understanding how stakeholders in Europe value different NCP is critical for informing equitable land use decisions. However, many large-scale NCP a...

Malin Jonell, Abigayil Blandon, Julia Maria Charlotte Feine, Sofia Käll. 2025. Broadening the sustainable seafood movement—systemic and enabling approaches to transform blue food. Environmental Research: Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.1088/2976-601X/adfd62

The global appetite for environmentally sustainable and just seafood is expected to grow in coming decades. However, the sustainable seafood movement, including private governance tools like certifications and recommendation lists has yet to transform fisheries and aquaculture on a large scale. At the same time, alternative voluntary governance approaches have taken shape, each aiming to guide production and consumption toward...

A. Jonsson, K. Gerhardt, J. Andresen, K. Wendin. 2025. Sensory aspects of products based on the landrace cereal swidden rye (Secale cereale). Future Foods. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fufo.2025.100856

Consumer trends are shifting toward local and regional produce, particularly those with historical significance, such as landrace cereals. Increasing the production and consumption of landrace cereals has been identified as a key component of sustainable food systems. Furthermore, landrace cereals show promise for the development of healthy and gastronomically appealing products. Currently, the use of landrace cereals in comm...

Louis Delannoy, Jean-Charles Leveugle, Sofia Maniatakou, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen. 2025. More than a buzzword? Mapping interpretations of the ‘polycrisis’. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01790-9

The concept of ‘polycrisis’ leapt from Davos into everyday policy talk, yet its meaning remains fluid and sometimes contradictory. To take stock, we asked fifty experts to sort key related statements, and carried out a Q-methodology analysis to reveal four distinct framings. All experts agree that polycrisis spills across sectors and borders and reject the view that polycrisis is a mere buzzword. They diverge, however, on how ...

Petr Vesnovskii, Guillaume Wright, Pär Larshans. 2025. The need for strategic water actions within planetary boundaries. PLOS Water. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000480

Water is the bloodstream of the planet [ 1 ], a cornerstone of sustaining 10 billion people by 2050. With climate change impacts intensifying and growing resource pressures, strategic actions are required to remain within the safe operating space for humanity. Humanity has already crossed seven of the nine Planetary Boundaries (PBs), with the ocean acidification boundary transgression detected earlier in 2025 [ 2 , 3 ]. Wh...

Ziqian Zhong, Hans W. Chen, Aiguo Dai, Tianjun Zhou, Bin He, Bo Su. 2025. Sub-diurnal asymmetric warming has amplified atmospheric dryness since the 1980s. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63672-z

Rising atmospheric vapor pressure deficit (VPD)—a measure of atmospheric dryness, defined as the difference between saturated vapor pressure (SVP) and actual vapor pressure (AVP)—has been linked to increasing daily mean near-surface air temperatures since the 1980s. However, it remains unclear whether the faster increases in daily maximum temperature (Tmax) relative to daily minimum temperature (Tmin) have contributed to risin...