Publications & Theses

Theses

Matthée, S. (In progress). Human-nature relationships and environmental values in agricultural peatlands in Austria

von den Benken, P. (In progress). Living Cultures: Multispecies Care and Farming Resilience in Small-Scale Dairying in Salzburger Land

 

ASSEMBLE books & papers in progress

Book: Haider, LJ and Rieser J. Mountain Spacetime: Time, change and sustainability on a thousand year old farm.

Haider, LJ & Rieser J. Being with Change: Time, change and sustainability on a thousand-year-old farm.

L.J Haider, Storre, V., Mack, P., Pattison, A., Richter, T. Focusing on change changes everything? How farmers’ relationships to European agri-environmental goals are represented in the media.

 

Peer-reviewed Publications

From ASSEMBLE:

  • Haider, L.J., Rieser, J. (2025). From reflexive co-production to diffractive co-becoming: insights from new materialism for sustainability sciences. Nature: Humanities and Social Science Communications 12, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-05101-6

Related:

  • Semplici, G., LJ Haider, R Unks, Mohamed, TS. Simula, G., Tsering (Huadancairang), P, Maru, N., Pappagallo, L., Taye, M. (2024) Relational Resiliences: Reflections from Pastoralism across the World. Ecosystems and People. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2024.2396928
  • West, S. LJ Haider, M Mancilla-Garcia, T Hertz, ML Moore (2024) Relational Approaches to sustainability transformations: walking together in a world of many worlds. Ecosystems and People. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2024.2370539
  • Haider, L. J., & Cleaver, F. (2023). Capacities for resilience: Persisting, adapting and transforming through bricolage. Ecosystems and People, 19(1), 2240434. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2023.2240434
  • Wyss, R., Luthe, T., Pedoth, L., Schneiderbauer, S., Adler, C., Apple, M., Acosta, E. E., Fitzpatrick, H., Haider, LJ., & Ikizer, G. (2022). Mountain Resilience: A Systematic Literature Review and Paths to the Future. Mountain Research and Development, 42(2), A23–A36.

Other:

  • Lazurko, A., Moore, M.-L., Haider, L. J., West, S., & McCarthy, D. D. P. (2025). Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: Introducing a critical systems approach. Global Sustainability, 8, e1. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2024.49
  • Care, O., JG Zaehringer, MJ Berstein, M Chapman, C Friis, S Graham, LJ Haider¨, M Hernandez-Morcillo, H Hoffman, ML Kernecker, H Pitt, V Seufert. Reaping what we sow: Centering values in food systems transformations research (2024). Ambio. https://10-1007/s13280-024-02086-5
  • Jonsson, A. LJ Haider, Pereira L, Folke C, Fremier A, Tengö M, Gordon, L. (2024) Nurturing gastronomic landscapes for biosphere stewardship. Global Food Security. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100789
  • Currie, TE, M Beorgerhoff Mulder, L Fogarty, M Schluter, P Sogaard Jorgensen, LJ Haider, G Caniglia, A Tavoni, R Jansen, C Folke, T Waring.(2024). Integrating evolutionary theory and social-ecological systems research to address the sustainability challenges of the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 379 (1893), 20220262
  • Lazurko, A., Haider, L. J., Hertz, T., West, S., & McCarthy, D. D. P. (2023). Operationalizing ambiguity in sustainability science: Embracing the elephant in the room. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01446-6
  • Haider, L. J., Schlüter, M., Folke, C., & Reyers, B. (2021). Rethinking resilience and development: A coevolutionary perspective. Ambio, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01485-8
  • Reyers, B., Moore, M. L., Haider, L. J., & Schlüter, M. (2022). The contributions of resilience to reshaping sustainable development. Nature Sustainability 2022 5:8, 5(8), 657–664. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00889-6
  • Radosavljevic, S., Haider, L. J., Lade, S. J., & Schlüter, M. (2021). Implications of poverty traps across levels. World Development, 144, 105437. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.WORLDDEV.2021.105437
  • West, S., Haider, L. J., Stålhammar, S., & Woroniecki, S. (2021). Putting relational thinking to work in sustainability science – reply to Raymond et al. Ecosystems and People, 17(1), 108–113. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2021.1898477
  • Care, O., Bernstein, M., Chapman, M., Diaz Reviriego, I., Dressler, G., Felipe-Lucia, M., Friis, C., Graham, S., Haenke, H., Haider, L.J, Hernández-Morcillo, M., Hoffmann, H., Kernecker, M., Nicol, P., Piñeiro, C., Pitt, H., Schill, C., Seufert, V., Shu, K., … Zaehringer, J. (2021). Creating leadership collectives for sustainability transformations. Sustainability Science, 16(2), 703–708. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-00909-y
  • Folke, C., Haider, L. J., Lade, S. J., Norström, A. V., & Rocha, J. (2021). Commentary: Resilience and Social-Ecological Systems: A Handful of Frontiers. Global Environmental Change, 71, 959–3780. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.GLOENVCHA.2021.102400
  • Hanspach, J., Haider, L.J, Oteros‐Rozas, E., Stahl Olafsson, A., Gulsrud, N. M., Raymond, C. M., Torralba, M., Martín‐López, B., Bieling, C., García‐Martín, M., Albert, C., Beery, T. H., Fagerholm, N., Díaz‐Reviriego, I., Drews‐Shambroom, A., & Plieninger, T. (2020). Biocultural approaches to sustainability: A systematic review of the scientific literature. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10120
  • West, S., Haider, L. J., Stålhammar, S., & Woroniecki, S. (2020). A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations. Ecosystems and People, 16(1), 304–325. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2020.1814417
  • Radosavljevic, S., Haider, L. J., Lade, S. J., & Schlüter, M. (2020). Effective alleviation of rural poverty depends on the interplay between productivity, nutrients, water and soil quality. Ecological Economics, 169, 106494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106494
  • Gupta, R., Haider, L. J., & Österblom, H. (2020). The theory of cross-scale interactions: An illustration from remote villages in Sikkim, India. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 22(4), 3777–3804. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-019-00329-0
  • Lade SJ., Walker B.H., and Haider, L.J. (2020).Resilience as pathway diversity: Linking systems, individual and temporal perspectives on resilience. Ecology and Society 25 (3): 19.
  • Haider, L. J., Boonstra, W. J., Akobirshoeva, A., & Schlüter, M. (2019). Effects of development interventions on biocultural diversity: A case study from the Pamir Mountains. Agriculture and Human Values, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-10005-8
  • Schlüter, M., Haider, L. J., Lade, S. J., Lindkvist, E., Martin, R., Orach, K., Wijermans, N., & Folke, C. (2019). Capturing emergent phenomena in social-ecological systems: An analytical framework. Ecology and Society, 24(3). https://www.jstor.org/stable/26796977
  • Blandon, A., Daw, T., Haider, L. J., & Stone-Jovicich, S. (2019). Conceptualisations of fisheries development in Eastern Africa over time and between actors. Marine Policy, 107, 103512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103512
  • Haider, L.J, Neusel, B., Peterson, G. D., & Schlüter, M. (2018). Past management affects success of current joint forestry management institutions in Tajikistan. Environment, Development and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-018-0132-0
  • West, S., Haider, L. J., Masterson, V., Enqvist, J. P., Svedin, U., & Tengö, M. (2018). Stewardship, care and relational values. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 35, 30–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.10.008
  • Haider, LJ, FJW van Oudenhoven. (2018). Food as a daily art: Ideas for its use as a method in development practice. Ecology and Society. 23(3):14
  • Enqvist, J. S West, V Masterson, LJ Haider, U Svedin, M Tengö. (2018). Stewardship as a boundary object for sustainability research in the Anthropocene: Linking care, knowledge and Agency. Landscape and Urban Planning. 179: 17-37.
  • Haider, L.J., W. Boonstra, G.D. Peterson, M. Schlüter (2018). Traps and Sustainable Development in Rural Areas: A review. World Development. 101: 311-321. DOI 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.05.038
  • Gordon, L. J., Bignet, V., Crona, B., Henriksson, P. J. G., Holt, T. V., Jonell, M., Lindahl, T., Troell, M., Barthel, S., Deutsch, L., Folke, C., Haider, L. J., Rockström, J., & Queiroz, C. (2017). Rewiring food systems to enhance human health and biosphere stewardship. Environmental Research Letters, 12(10), 100201. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa81dc
  • Lade, S. J., Haider, L. J., Engström, G., & Schlüter, M. (2017). Resilience offers escape from trapped thinking on poverty alleviation. Science Advances, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1603043 (Joint first authorship)
  • Haider, L.J. J Hentati-Sundberg, M. Giusti, J. Goodness, M. Hamman, V. Masterson, M. Meacham, A. Merrie, D. Ospina, C, Schill, H. Sinare (2017). The undisciplinary journey: Early-career perspectives in sustainability science. Sustainability Science. 13(1):191-204
  • Haider, LJ & WJ Boonstra (2017). Social ecological farming as a middle-ground solution to a polarized debate. Solutions (8):1.
  • Boonstra, WJ, E Bjorkvik, LJ Haider, V Masterson (2016). Human responses to social-ecological traps. Sustainability Science, 11:811. doi:10.1007/s11625-016-0397-x
  • Quinlan, A, M Berbes-Blanquez. LJ Haider, GD Peterson (2015). Assessing and Measuring Resilience in Practice. Ecological Applications. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.1255
  • Mikulcak, F., Haider, L.J, Abson, D. J., Newig, J., & Fischer, J. (2015). Applying a capitals approach to understand rural development traps: A case study from post-socialist Romania. Land Use Policy, 43, 248–258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.10.024
  • West, S., Haider, L.J., Sinare, H., & Karpouzoglou, T. (2014). Beyond divides: Prospects for synergy between resilience and pathways approaches to sustainability. In STEPS Working Paper 65 (p. 27 pp). STEPS Centre.
  • Sutherland, William J; Gardner, Toby A; Haider, LJ; Dicks, L. V. (2013). How can local and traditional knowledge be effectively incorporated into international assessments ? Oryx, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12046
  • Haider, LJ & FJW van Oudenhoven (2012). Hopeful Harvest: Food and Agriculture as a Foundation for Peace in Northern Afghanistan. Solutions 3(5), 18-23.
  • Van Oudenhoven, FJW & LJ Haider (2012). Imagining alternative futures through the lens of food in the Afghan and Tajik Pamir Mountains. La Revue d’Ethnoecologie 1 (2).
  • Haider, LJ, AE Quinlan & GD Peterson (2012) Resilience Assessment of Pasture Management Committees in Northern Afghanistan. Planning Theory & Practice 13 (2). 299-333

 

Books & Articles

  • Van Oudenhoven, FJW and Haider, J. 2015; 2nd edition 2017. With Our Own Hands: A celebration of food and life in the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan and Tajikistan. LM Publishers: Utrecht, Netherlands. ISBN: 9789460222276

Winner of “World’s Best Cook Book 2016” by Gourmand World CookBook Awards.

Book Chapters
  • Haider LJ. (2021) “Rituals and biocultural diversity in the Pamir Mountains.” Seedways – The circulation, control and care of plants in a warmer world. Edited by B. Karlsson & A. Rabo. Series: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, Konferenser 104. ISBN: 978-91-88763-2-1
  • Tengö M., Enqvist, J., West, S., Svedin, U., Masterson, V.A., Haider L.J. (2022). Stewardship in the Anthropocene: Meanings, Tensions, Futures. In Stewardship and the Future of the Planet. Routledge.
  • Preiser, R., Schlüter, M., Biggs, R., García, M. M., Haider, L.J., Hertz, T., & Klein, L. (2021). Complexity-based social-ecological systems research: Philosophical foundations and practical implications. In The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems (pp. 27–46). Routledge. https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/49560/1/9781000401516.pdf#page=60
  • Haider, LJ, A. Iribarrem, T. Gardner, A. Latawiec, H. Alves-Pinto, B. Strassburg. (2015).”Understanding indicators and monitoring for sustainability in the context of complex social ecological systems” In Sustainability Indicators in Practice Eds. A. Latiewec and D. Agol. Warsaw: De Grutyer.