Publications

Örjan Bodin. 2023. Social-ecological networks: What are they, why are they useful, and how can I use them?. Book chapter. The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis.

This new edition of The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis builds on the success of its predecessor, offering a comprehensive overview of social network analysis produced by leading international scholars in the field. Brand new chapters provide both significant updates to topics covered in the first edition, as well as discussing cutting edge topics that have developed since, including new chapters on: · General ...

Timon McPhearson, Erik Andersson, Filipa Grilo, Bianca Lopez, Nour Zein. 2023. Urban ecological resilience: ensuring urban ecosystems can provide nature-based solutions. Nature-Based Solutions for Cities. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376762.00013

With climate change-driven extreme events increasing in frequency and inten- sity, cities are on the front lines of needs for innovative climate adaptation and resilience efforts (Dodman et al. 2022). Nature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly at the center of efforts to transform cities for climate adap- tation, improve the physical and mental health of residents, and contribute to sustainability, equity, and inclusiv...

Jakub Kronenberg, Edyta Laszkiewicz, Erik Andersson, Magdalena Biernacka. 2023. Popular but exclusive. Geoforum. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103774

Territorial conflicts related to the use of urban green spaces typically result from conflicting preferences and institutions not being able to account for the equitable distribution of benefits. Our study focuses on the value conflicts and contestations around using an urban green space as a "social good" and the political processes of defining what makes it "good." It investigates the institutional setting and the preference...

Brenda B. Lin, Erik Andersson. 2023. A Transdisciplinary Framework to Unlock the Potential Benefits of Green Spaces for Urban Communities Under Changing Contexts. BioScience. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad009

New urban models increasingly seek to create more sustainable, livable, and healthier cities by reinvigorating green space. In this article, we highlight and briefly review several main but disconnected areas of study in which the factors that frame human-environment interactions and therefore also influence the potential well-being outcomes of those interactions are studied. We then use the intersection of affordance theory a...

Brenda B. Lin, Chia-chen Chang, Thomas Astell-Burt, Xiaoqi Feng, John Gardner, Erik Andersson. 2023. Nature experience from yards provide an important space for mental health during Covid-19. npj Urban Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-023-00094-0

Urban dwellers' use of public and private green spaces may have changed during the early years of the Covid-19 pandemic due to movement restriction. A survey was deployed in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia 1 year after the start of Covid-19 restrictions (April 2021) to explore relationships of mental health and wellbeing to different patterns of private yard versus public green space visitation. More frequent yard use during th...

Brenda Lin, Chia-chen Chang, Erik Andersson, Thomas Astell-Burt, John Gardner, Xiaoqi Feng. 2023. Visiting Urban Green Space and Orientation to Nature Is Associated with Better Wellbeing during COVID-19. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043559

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely challenged mental health and wellbeing. However, research has consistently reinforced the value of spending time in green space for better health and wellbeing outcomes. Factors such as an individual’s nature orientation, used to describe one’s affinity to nature, may influence an individual’s green space visitation behaviour, and thus influence the wellbeing benefits gained. An online survey...

Brian Walker, Anne Sophie Crépin, Magnus Nyström, John M. Anderies, Erik Andersson, Thomas Elmqvist, Cibele Queiroz, Scott Barrett, Elena Bennett, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Stephen R. Carpenter, F. Stuart Chapin, Aart de Zeeuw, Joern Fischer, Carl Folke, Simon Levin, Karine Nyborg, Stephen Polasky, Kathleen Segerson, Karen C. Seto, Marten Scheffer, Jason F. Shogren, Alessandro Tavoni, Jeroen van den Bergh, Elke U. Weber, Jeffrey R. Vincent. 2023. Response diversity as a sustainability strategy. Nature sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-01048-7

Financial advisers recommend a diverse portfolio to respond to market fluctuations across sectors. Similarly, nature has evolved a diverse portfolio of species to maintain ecosystem function amid environmental fluctuations. In urban planning, public health, transport and communications, food production, and other domains, however, this feature often seems ignored. As we enter an era of unprecedented turbulence at the planetary...

Lars Marcus, Johan Colding. 2023. Placing Urban Renewal in the Context of the Resilience Adaptive Cycle. Land. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13010008

Abstract Resilience thinking provides valuable insights into the dynamics of complex adaptive systems. To achieve resilience in urban systems, it can be fruitful to delve into the intricacies of resilience processes. This paper theorizes about how the specific characteristics of resilient systems can be integrated into the spatial design of cities. Emphasizing the importance of the built form and spatial systems in maintainin...

Nielja S. Knecht, Fabio Benedetti, Urs Hofmann, nina Bednaršek, Sonia Chaabane, Catharina de Weerd, Katja Peijnenburg, Ralf Schiebel, Meike Vogt. 2023. The impact of zooplankton calcifiers on the marine carbon cycle. ESS. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.167283650.05543210/v1

Shelled pteropods and planktic foraminifers are calcifying zooplankton that contribute to the biological carbon pump, but their importance for regional and global plankton biomass and carbon fluxes is not well understood. Here, we modelled global annual patterns of pteropod and foraminifer total carbon (TC) biomass and total inorganic carbon (TIC) export fluxes over the top 200m using an ensemble of five species distribution m...

Erica von Essen, David Redmalm. 2023. Natural born cullers? How hunters police the more-than-human right to the city. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231221021

Urban areas are a messy more-than-human interface for humans and synanthropic wildlife. Norms for what constitutes a ‘problem’ animal to be culled, a displaced animal to be rescued, or a species nuisance whom one simply has to let live, are undergoing rapid change. We investigate the changing expectations that municipal hunters experience that they have from society in relation to managing problem wildlife in cities. Adding to...