Publications

Angela M. Guerrero. 2023. Joining forces: How collaboration can help tackle Canada’s escalating wildfire threat. The Conversation.

Wildfires have become a hot topic in Canada this year — and for good reason. Thousands of Canadians have been evacuated from their homes. Millions have experienced smoky skies and air quality advisories. More hectares of land in Canada were burned by mid-June than in any previous year since records began. As our experiences with wildfires become more and more common in concert with changing climates, one pressing question keep...

Noah Linder, Patrik Sörqvist, Therese Lindahl, Robert Ljung. 2023. Managing waste behavior by manipulating the normative appeal of trash bins: Lessons from an urban field experiment. Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcradv.2023.200186

Littering is a problem in many human societies. In this study, 9 individual street bins were manipulated on a central street in the city of Gävle, Sweden. The aim was to explore if changing the appearance of the bins, thereby manipulating the different types of social norms they signal, can increase the amount of trash they collect and mitigate littering. A field experiment tested the effectiveness of two alternatives to the c...

Karl Samuelsson, S Anders Brandt, Stephan Barthel, Noah Linder, Nancy Joy Lim, Matteo Giusti. 2023. Diverse experiences by active travel for carbon neutrality: Longitudinal study reveals a persistent discrepancy across residential contexts. IDEAS. DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/2m3st

To inform spatial planning promoting low-carbon travel and well-being, we investigate the potential for experiential diversity by active travel across different residential contexts. We use spatiotemporal tracking and experience data from the Gävle city-region, Sweden, generated by 165 participants over the course of 15 months. Findings reveal a discrepancy between typical travel distances to locations of positive experiences ...

Lotcheris, R.A., Schreyers, L.J., Le Bui, T.K., Thi, K.V.L., Nguyen, H.Q., Vermeulen, B., van Emmerik, T.H.M.. 2023. Plastic Does Not Simply Flow into the Sea: River Transport Dynamics Affected by Tides and Floating Plants. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4449742

Plastic pollution is ubiquitous in aquatic environments worldwide. Rivers connect terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and therefore play a key role in the transport of land-based plastic waste towards the sea. Emerging research suggests that in estuaries and tidal rivers, the transition zone between rivers and the ocean, tidal dynamics play a significant role in plastic transport and retention dynamics. To date, observations an...

de Lange, S.I., Mellink, Y., Vriend, P., Tasseron, P.F., Begemann, F., Hauk, R., Aalderink, H., Hamers, E., Jansson, P., Joosse, N., Löhr, A.J., Lotcheris, R., Schreyers, L., Vos, V., van Emmerik, T.H.M.. 2023. Sample size requirements for riverbank macrolitter characterization. Frontiers in Water. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.1085285

Anthropogenic litter is omnipresent in terrestrial and freshwater systems, and can have major economic and ecological impacts. Monitoring and modeling of anthropogenic litter comes with large uncertainties due to the wide variety of litter characteristics, including size, mass, and item type. It is unclear as to what the effect of sample set size is on the reliability and representativeness of litter item statistics. Reliable ...

Rachel Mazac. 2023. Appetite for Change : Incorporating novel and future foods in sustainable diets and food-based dietary guidelines. HELDA.

The exorbitant environmental and detrimental health impacts of current food systems have prompted the need for changes which expeditiously and concurrently meet multiple sustainability aims. Dietary consumption changes are posited as one facet of food systems transformation which could be an efficacious means to meet multiple sustainability ends simultaneously. Such sustainable shifts, resulting in transitions away from relati...

Celinda Palm. 2023. Sustainable fashion: to define, or not to define, that is not the question. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2023.2261342

Fashion’s unsustainability needs transformative action, as policymakers, business, and wider society all agree. The lack of a clear definition of sustainable fashion is often given as a major reason behind fashion’s increasing unsustainability. Taking a social-ecological system perspective, augmented by a feminist critical realist understanding of being (ontology) and knowledge of being (epistemology), I examine the past two d...

Agnes M. Nowaczek, Carolin Seiferth. 2023. Towards exclusively inclusive visitor experience. The Routledge Handbook of Nature Based Tourism Development. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003230748-23

Visitor experience lies at the epicentre of the tourism industry, regardless of the ever-evolving array of tourism niches, destinations, and products. Although tourism literature is quite abundant with theory and practical insights on visitor experience, it tends to isolate differently abled visitors. One of the better examples of holistic travel, sustainable tourism, seems to omit equity and inclusion from its philosophical u...

Erik Zhivkoplias, Agnes Pranindita, Paul Dunshirn, Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Robert Blasiak. 2023. Novel database reveals growing prominence of deep-sea life for marine bioprospecting. Nature Sustainability/Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3136354/v1

Perceptions that marine bioprospecting will deliver vast commercial benefits have placed ‘marine genetic resources’ at the center of key policy processes yet our knowledge about their importance remains limited. Here, we introduce a novel global database of marine gene sequences referenced in patent filings, the MArine Bioprospecting PATent (MABPAT) Database. It includes 25,682 sequences from 1,092 marine species associated wi...

Robert Blasiak, Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Diva J. Amon, Joachim Claudet, Paul Dunshirn, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Agnes Pranindita, Colette C. C. Wabnitz, Erik Zhivkoplias, Henrik Österblom. 2023. Making marine biotechnology work for people and nature. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01976-9