Publications

Carolin Seiferth, Erik Andersson, Maria Tengö. 2025. The role of relational learning in knowledge co-production. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70116

1. Learning, and how we learn, is integral for the governance of complex social-ecological systems. With the growing interest in knowledge co-production comes a need to further study how to better enable learning between different actors engaged in dialogue-based processes. 2. We use an empirical case of a workshop series centred on collaborative water and landscape governance on Sweden, to explore how a process partly design...

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...

Abigayil Blandon, Malin Jonell, Hiroe Ishihara, Aiora Zabala. 2025. What does “sustainable seafood” mean to seafood system actors in Japan and Sweden? Ambio. Pages 1010–1025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02122-4

“Sustainability” can mean different prioritisations of society, environment and economy to different people. As one of the largest globally traded food commodities, for seafood, these differences could have large implications. The study captures different understandings of “sustainable seafood” among 29 key actors along the seafood supply chain—government, NGOs, industry bodies, retailers and producers—using a novel cross-coun...

Hana Matsubara, Abigayil Blandon, Mary Tomita, Sonia Batten, Sanae Chiba, Tetsuo Fujii, Daisuke Hasegawa, Marloes Kraan, Doug Lipton, L Richard Little, Alondra Sofia Rodriguez Buelna, Mitsutaku Makino. 2025. Shaping the future of marine socio-ecological systems science: combining interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches and knowledge co-creation with diverse stakeholders. ICES Journal of Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaf059

Following the first symposium held in Brest, France, in 2016, the second Marine Socio-Ecological Systems Symposium (MSEAS) was held in Yokohama, Japan, in 2024, after 4 years of postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2016, interdisciplinary efforts to inform ocean governance using the Social-Ecological System (SES) approach was highlighted as highly necessary. MSEAS 2024 emphasized the combination of interdisciplinary a...

Shun Kageyama, Abigayil Blandon, Robert Blasiak. 2025. Exploring the diverse values local people associate with marine protected areas and the implications for sustainable ocean management. Ocean & Coastal Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107523

Marine protected area (MPA) management requires local people's participation in order to deliver lasting ecological and social benefits . This is crucial to avoid “paper parks” and to encourage self-regulation and enhance social well-being among stakeholders. However, promoting sustained participation by diverse stakeholders is a challenge due to the diversity of ways in which they perceive the benefits of MPAs, and some o...

Mary Scheuermann, Jacob Hileman, Line J Gordon, Lisen Schultz. 2025. Who can change what? Self-perceived, attributed and structural influence among actors in the Swedish grain legume system. Environmental Research: Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.1088/2976-601X/ae07e4

Increasing the supply and human consumption of grain legumes is one important strategy to orient food systems towards healthy and sustainable diets. This requires well-performing value chains and collaboration among a diverse set of actors, from governments to farmers. Using Sweden as an illustrative case, this study explores actors’ perceptions of influence over actions identified to have leverage to change grain legume consu...

Agnes Pranindita, Adriaan J. Teuling, Ingo Fetzer, Lan Wang-Erlandsson. 2025. Publisher Correction: Forests support global crop supply through atmospheric moisture transport. Nature Water. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00546-0

Agnes Pranindita, Adriaan J. Teuling, Ingo Fetzer, Lan Wang-Erlandsson. 2025. Forests support global crop supply through atmospheric moisture transport. Nature Water. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00518-4

Anomalous precipitation patterns associated with climate change increasingly threaten global crop supply. Forests, as major moisture source, could potentially buffer these risks, yet their specific role in sustaining agriculture and global crop supply remains underexplored. We investigate global forests’ contribution to crop production and export by estimating moisture flows from forests to agricultural areas and pairing them ...

Johan Enqvist, Kinga Psiuk, Luke Metelerkamp. 2025. Mobilizing stewardship through theater: Pathways to transform polarizing conservation conflicts. Earth Stewardship. https://doi.org/10.1002/eas2.70028

Since human–nature relationships are inherently complex, so are stewardship responses to environmental problems. This can cause social conflict and polarization, especially when the complexity is overwhelming and responses seem to challenge fundamental ideas about human–nature relations. Arts-based methods and creative practices can help people reflect and reimagine such ideas. This paper uses Vervoort et al.'s nine dimensions...

Hallie Eakin, Johan Enqvist, Maike Hamann, Nadine Methner, Martha Nthambi Sibanda, Jade Sullivan, Ernita van Wyk, Gina Ziervogel. 2025. Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity. Ecology and Society. https://doi.org/10.5751/es-16059-300220

Informality is a distinguishing characteristic of cities in the Global South and is strongly associated with urban inequality. Yet, in pursuing resilience, urban resilience strategies and planning have yet to grapple with the role of informality in social-ecological dynamics, resulting in incomplete representations of the reality of these cities’ socioeconomic and demographic diversity. Neglect of informality has significant, ...