Amanda

Jimenez Aceituno

PhD

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amanda.jimenez@su.se

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  • Social-ecological systems
  • Transformations for sustainability
  • Transformation potential
  • Anthropocene
  • Scenarios

Amanda Jiménez Aceituno research focuses on resilience and transformations, as well as initiatives with high potential to contribute to a good Anthropocene

Jiménez-Aceituno is a postdoctoral researcher within the GRAID programme (Guidance for Resilience in the Anthropocene: Investments for Development). She is working on the analysis of an emerging database of initiatives that have a high potential to contribute to more sustainable social-ecological futures, and that are being collected by the Seeds of a Good Anthropocenes project. These “Seeds” are existing social-ecological initiatives that demonstrate one or more elements of a positive future that might contribute to creating a good Anthropocene. By applying novel analytical frameworks on sustainability transformations, her research aims to build understanding on the features of initiatives that have a high transformative potential, and analyse the contexts that best support these initiatives.

Prior to joining the SRC, Jiménez Aceituno worked as a PhD student at the Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, at the Ecology Department of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Jiménez Aceituno defended her PhD thesis Analysis of communication, education and participation projects for biodiversity conservation: cases of study of Spain and Costa Rica in 2015. In her thesis, she designed an integrated framework for analysing how conservation projects incorporate communication, education and participation strategies, evaluating their pitfalls and developing a set of strategic lines of future intervention.

As a part of her PhD thesis, she conducted fieldwork in Costa Rica for a total of seven months in 2010 and 2012. She was located at the Costa Rican National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) and interviewed a variety of stakeholders involved with environmental education programs (NGO´s, academy, government and private companies) and conducted a social network analysis. During 2011, she also held a long-term internship at the University of Florida, working with Dr. Susan K. Jacobson and Dr. Martha C. Monroe.

Jiménez Aceituno is heavily involved in the Seeds of a Good Anthropocene project, and she has participated in running the workshop for Envisioning better Anthropocenes for North Europe, implementing the methods previously used in the Anthropocene Visioning Workshop developed in Cape Town, South Africa (2016).

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Publications by Jimenez Aceituno, Amanda

Amplifying actions for food system transformation: insights from the Stockholm region

Journal / article | 2022

Lam, D., Jiménez-Aceituno, A., Guerrero Lara, L., Sellberg, M., Norström, A., Moore, M., Peterson, G., Olsson, P. 2022. Amplifying actions for food system transformation: insights from the Stockholm region. Sustainability Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01154-7

Food is essential to people and is one of the main ways in which people are connected to the world’s ecosystems. However, food systems often cause ecosystem degradation and produce ill-health, which has generated increasing calls to transform food systems to be more sustainable. The Swedish food system is currently undergoing substantial change. A varied set of local actors have created alternative sustainability initiatives t...

Assessing nature-based solutions for transformative change

Journal / article | 2021

Palomo, I., Locatelli, B., Otero, I., Colloff, M., Crouzat, E., Cuni-Sanchez, A., Gomez-Baggethun, E., Gonzalez-Garcia, A., Gret-Regamey, A., Jimenez-Aceituno, A., Martin-Lopez, B., Pascual, U., Zafra-Calvo, N., Bruley, E., Fischborn, M., Metz, R. & Lavorel, S. 2021. Assessing nature-based solutions for transformative change. One Earth 4(5), 730–741.

Global sustainability targets demand transformative changes. Nature-based solutions (NbS) are gaining traction in science and policy, but their potential for transformative change remains unexplored. We provide a framework to evaluate how NbS contribute to transformative change and apply it to 93 NbS from mountain social-ecological systems (SES). The framework serves to assess what elements may catalyze transformative change, ...

Indigenous and local knowledge in environmental management for human-nature connectedness: a leverage points perspective

Journal / article | 2020

Burgos-Ayala, A., Jiménez-Aceituno, A., Torres-Torres, A.M., Rozas-Vásquez, D. and Lam, D.P., 2020. Indigenous and local knowledge in environmental management for human-nature connectedness: a leverage points perspective. Ecosystems and People, 16(1), pp.290-303.

Indigenous peoples are key actors for environmental management because they hold valuable indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) for the sustainable stewardship of nature. However, the consideration of ILK in environmental management is still limited. We explore how environmental government institutions in Colombia have involved indigenous communities in 2212 environmental management projects between 2004 and 2015. Only 1% of t...

Integrating Ecosystem Services in Nature Conservation for Colombia

Journal / article | 2020

Burgos-Ayala, A., Jiménez-Aceituno, A. and Rozas-Vásquez, D., 2020. Integrating Ecosystem Services in Nature Conservation for Colombia. Environmental Management.

The ecosystem services (ES) approach has been introduced in environmental policies and management to serve as a link between nature and society. Communication, education, and participation actions (CEPA) have the potential to facilitate this link. In this research, we evaluated how CEPA have been implemented in biodiversity conservation projects that consider ES. We used content analysis to review 182 biodiversity conservation...