Publications

Francesco Marzolla, Przemysław Nowak, Rohit Sahasrabuddhe, Chakresh Singh, Matteo Straccamore, Erik Zhivkoplias, Elsa Arcaute. 2023. Spaces of innovation and venture formation: the case of biotech in the United Kingdom. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2306.17547

Patents serve as valuable indicators of innovation and provide insights into the spaces of innovation and venture formation within geographic regions. In this study, we utilise patent data to examine the dynamics of innovation and venture formation in the biotech sector across the United Kingdom (UK). By analysing patents, we identify key regions that drive biotech innovation in the UK. Our findings highlight the crucial role ...

Jasmine J. Wells, Lindsay Stringer, Anna J. Woodhead, Elizabeth Wandrag. 2023. Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa. Ecosystem Services. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101511

Fast-growing, stress-tolerating tree species belonging to the genera Acacia , Eucalyptus and Pinus have historically been introduced to many tropical and sub-tropical regions to support various economic and environment-regulating functions. While these non-native tree (NNT) species are often highly useful, many are simultaneously invasive, generating negative environmental impacts. Current knowledge regarding the impact...

Geoff Wells, Unai Pascual, Chris Stephenson, Casey M. Ryan. 2023. Confronting deep uncertainty in the forest carbon industry. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh8117

Global momentum on carbon markets has the potential to direct substantial capital toward protecting the world’s forests. Yet the billion-dollar forest-carbon-offsetting industry is attracting criticism, in part from doubts about the methods used to measure and causally attribute changes in tree cover and biomass ( 1 ). Many actors in the industry are thus pursuing increasingly detailed measurement and monitoring of carbon out...

Tim M. Daw, Nicole J. Reid, Sarah Coulthard, Tomas Chaigneau, Vilma Machava António, Christopher Cheupe, Geoff Wells, Edgar Bueno. 2023. Life satisfaction in coastal Kenya and Mozambique reflects culture, gendered relationships and security of basic needs: Implications for ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101532

Life satisfaction is both a desirable ‘end’ for sustainable development, and a means to understand the priorities, and behaviour of people towards local ecosystems. Ecosystem-services research on life satisfaction has focused on cultural services in wealthy, Western contexts, although ecosystem services are essential for poor people’s livelihoods in the Global South. We examined reported life satisfaction from a survey of over...

Laura M. Pereira, Steven R. Smith, Lauren Gifford, Peter Newell, Ben Smith, Sebastian Villasante, Therezah Achieng, Azucena Castro, Sara M. Constantino, Ashish Ghadiali, Coleen Vogel, Caroline Zimm. 2023. Risks, Ethics and Justice in the governance of positive tipping points. EGUsphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1454

Biophysical tipping points pose existential threats to current and future generations, both human and non-human, with those currently underserved being the most vulnerable. Social tipping points, as deliberate interventions into systems with the expectation of non-linear impacts and widespread change, have the potential to address some of these challenges. However, the imperative to act cannot increase risks nor perpetuate unj...

Emmy Wassénius, Anne Charlotte Bunge, Mary K. Scheuermann, Kajsa Resare Sahlin, Agnes Pranindita, Moa Ohlsson, Abigayil Blandon, Chandrakant Singh, Kristin Malmcrona Friberg, Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez. 2023. Creative destruction in academia: a time to reimagine practices in alignment with sustainability values. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01357-6

Academia has experienced acceleration and expansion in parallel with the Great Acceleration, which has shaped the Anthropocene. Among other pressures, the expectation to be internationally mobile conflicts with many values held by sustainability scholars and results in disillusionment. The changes in the academic system can be seen through the framework of the adaptive cycle, which can help us understand historical parallels a...

Julian Joseph, Sylvia Tramberend, Diana V. Luna-Gonzalez, Günther Fischer, Taher Kahil. 2023. Modeling Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture under Resource Constraints. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6817

Sustainable Intensification of agriculture is a means to meet increasing future food demand in regions with rapidly growing populations and economies. In many of these regions, productivity is currently low. Increasing productivity while limiting additional use of resources such as water and land is therefore key to providing demanded and nutritious food in these countries. To model sustainable intensification, we build an opt...

Han Su, Timothy Foster, Maarten S. Krol, Rick Hogeboom, Barbara Anna Willaarts, Diana V. Luna-Gonzalez, Oleksandr Mialyk, Joep F. Schyns. 2023. Smallholder farming and water scarcity: contributions, benefits, and limitations. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-1529

Smallholders make up the vast majority of farms globally in terms of numbers (over 400 million), cultivate around 20% of global cropland, and produce 30% of global food. Although 70-80% of smallholders are located in areas already facing water scarcity which may be further exacerbated by climate change and population and economic growth, little is known about the relationship between smallholder farming and water scarcity. Thi...

Daniel Itzamna Avila Ortega, Stephanie Garcidueñas Nieto, Daniel D. Moran, Sarah Cornell, Jordi Cravioto, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Cynthia Flores-Santana, Rigoberto García Ochoa, Gustav Engstrom. 2023. Mexico's Carbon Inequality: Why Income Matters. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4542924

Income inequality poses a significant challenge for many countries, including Mexico. By 2018, according to CONEVAL, 52.4 million Mexicans were living in poverty, equalling 41.9% of the population. Mexico’s status as the 15th largest economy worldwide makes it a compelling case for analysing income distribution and its impacts on social class structure, particularly since Mexico was the 11th largest GHG emitter. This study foc...

Paula Andrea Sanchez García, Krisztina Jonas, Kara Pellowe, Hanna Ekström, Mary Scheuermann. 2023. How is social-ecological transformation and equityality theories acquainted? Scopus search and coding exercise. FigShare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24100413

This dataset contains the coding exercise of the critical review conducted by Sánchez-García et al. (s.f.). The study aims to identify how social-ecological transformation research addresses tridimensional equity also considering the role that intersubjective factors such as gender, ethnicity, class, and age play in equitable outcomes. The PDF file has the list of all evaluated references, while the Excel file contains the rea...