Publications

Johanna Hedlund, Florence Metz, Örjan Bodin. 2025. Networking strategies for coordinating interdependent policy issues: A motif approach. Policy Studies Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12588

Complex societal challenges, such as climate change and environmental degradation, are encumbered by numerous interdependences across different policy issues. Coordination of interdependent policy issues is thus critical. However, coordination challenges persist, partly because coordinating interdependent policy issues among actors often involves high costs. While network governance literature often advocates for management st...

Daniel Lindvall, Patrik Sörqvist, Sofie Lindeberg, Stephan Barthel. 2025. The polarization of energy preferences – A study on social acceptance of wind and nuclear power in Sweden. Energy Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114492

Using Sweden as a study case, this article explores the polarized opinions to wind and nuclear energy, two low carbon energy options that have been shown to be politically controversial. In a wide-scale survey (N = 5200), general attitudes to wind and nuclear energy are captured, as well as to projects in the proximity of people's homes. The study demonstrates a deep polarization of energy preferences in Sweden, finding strong...

Artur Branny, Erik Andersson, Timon McPhearson. 2025. Micro-climate of nature-based solutions in Stockholm royal seaport. Nature-Based Solutions. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2024.100206

Extreme weather events are on the rise, increasingly impacting cities and their urban populations. In response, urban greening and nature-based solutions (NbS) have emerged as key approaches for reducing risks from multiple types of extreme climate and weather events while making a positive impact on urban social and environmental inequities. NbS interventions are high on urban agendas worldwide, but in practice, they often ar...

Anita Lazurko, Michele-Lee Moore, L. Jamila Haider, Simon West, Daniel D. P. McCarthy. 2025. Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach. Global Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2024.49

Transdisciplinary sustainability scientists work with many different actors in pursuit of change. In so doing they make choices about why and how to engage with different perspectives in their research. Reflexivity – active individual and collective critical reflection – is considered an important capacity for researchers to address the resulting ethical and practical challenges. We developed a framework for reflexivity as a t...

Victoria Flexer, Cornelis van Leeuwen, Kirsi Niinimäki, Shilong Piao, Erica R. Siirila-Woodburn, Lan Wang-Erlandsson. 2025. Reflecting on impactful articles at Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00623-0

Maya Dutta, Pablo Herreros-Cantis, Timon McPhearson, Ahmed Mustafa, Matthew I. Palmer, Mika Tosca, Jennifer Ventrella, Elizabeth M. Cook. 2025. New York City 2100: Environmental justice implications of future scenarios for addressing extreme heat. Landscape and Urban Planning. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105249

Climate-driven hazards, such as extreme heat or precipitation, are threatening the current and future livability of New York City (NYC) and disproportionately affecting low-income communities and communities of color. To envision future climate resilience, government stakeholders and researchers co-produced future scenarios for 2100 in response to climate hazards for NYC during participatory workshops in Fall 2021. A commonly ...

Christine Kaufhold, Matteo Willeit, Stefanie Talento, Andrey Ganopolski, Johan Rockström. 2025. Data set for the study "Interplay between climate and carbon cycle feedbacks could substantially enhance future warming". Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14598490

In light of uncertainties regarding climate sensitivity and future anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, we explore the plausibility of global warming over the next millennium which is significantly higher than what is usually expected. Although efforts to decarbonize the global economy have significantly shifted global anthropogenic emissions away from the most extreme emission scenarios, intermediate emission scenarios are...

Bruno Locatelli, Sandra Lavorel, Matthew J. Colloff, Emilie Crouzat, Enora Bruley, Giacomo Fedele, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Tobias Plieninger, Erik Andersson, Mick Abbott, James Butler, Tahia Devisscher, Houria Djoudi, Titouan Dubo, Alberto González-García, Paulina G. Karim, Claudia Múnera-Roldán, Margot Neyret, Fabien Quétier, Nicolas Salliou, Gretchen Walters. 2025. Intertwined people–nature relations are central to nature-based adaptation to climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0213

Adaptation to climate change is a social–ecological process: it is not solely a result of natural processes or human decisions but emerges from multiple relations within social systems, within ecological systems and between them. We propose a novel analytical framework to evaluate social–ecological relations in nature-based adaptation, encompassing social (people–people), ecological (nature–nature) and social–ecological (peopl...

Artur Branny, Erik Andersson, Timon McPhearson. 2025. Micro-climate of nature-based solutions in stockholm royal seaport. Nature-Based Solutions. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2024.100206

Extreme weather events are on the rise, increasingly impacting cities and their urban populations. In response, urban greening and nature-based solutions (NbS) have emerged as key approaches for reducing risks from multiple types of extreme climate and weather events while making a positive impact on urban social and environmental inequities. NbS interventions are high on urban agendas worldwide, but in practice, they often ar...

O. Care, Julie G. Zaehringer, Michael J. Bernstein, Mollie Chapman, Cecilie Friis, Sonia Graham, L. Jamila Haider, Mónica Hernández-Morcillo, Harry Hoffmann, Maria Lee Kernecker, Hannah Pitt, Verena Seufert. 2025. Reaping what we sow: Centering values in food systems transformations research. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02086-5

In many transdisciplinary research settings, a lack of attention to the values underpinning project aims can inhibit stakeholder engagement and ultimately slow or undermine project outcomes. As a research collective (The Careoperative), we have developed a set of four shared values through a facilitated visioning process, as central to the way we work together: care, reflexivity, inclusivity, and collectivity. In this paper, w...