Publications

Blasiak, R., Jouffray, J., Amon, D., Moberg, F., Claudet, J., Søgaard Jørgensen, P., Pranindita, A., Wabnitz, C., Österblom, H.. 2022. A forgotten element of the blue economy: marine biomimetics and inspiration from the deep sea. PNAS Nexus. doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac196

The morphology, physiology, and behavior of marine organisms have been a valuable source of inspiration for solving conceptual and design problems. Here, we introduce this rich and rapidly expanding field of marine biomimetics, and identify it as a poorly articulated and often overlooked element of the ocean economy associated with substantial monetary benefits. We showcase innovations across seven broad categories of marine b...

Österblom, H., Folke, C., Rocha, J. et al. Scientific mobilization of keystone actors for biosphere stewardship. Sci Rep 12, 3802 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07023-8

The biosphere crisis requires changes to existing business practices. We ask how corporations can become sustainability leaders, when constrained by multiple barriers to collaboration for biosphere stewardship. We describe how scientists motivated, inspired and engaged with ten of the world’s largest seafood companies, in a collaborative process aimed to enable science-based and systemic transformations (2015–2021). CEOs face...

Economy and Finance for a Just Future on a Thriving Planet

Graells, T., Lambraki, I.A., Cousins, M., Léger, A., et.al. 2022. Studying Factors Affecting Success of Antimicrobial Resistance Interventions through the Lens of Experience: A Thematic Analysis. Antibiotics (Basel). 2022 May 10;11(5):639. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics11050639.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) affects the environment, and animal and human health. Institutions worldwide have applied various measures, some of which have reduced antimicrobial use and AMR. However, little is known about factors influencing the success of AMR interventions. To address this gap, we engaged health professionals, designers, and implementers of AMR interventions in an exploratory study to learn about their exp...

Wernli, D., Clausin, M., Antulov-Fantulin, N., Berezowski, J., Biller-Andorno, N., Blanchet, K., Böttcher, L., Burton-Jeangros, C., Escher, G., Flahault, A., Fukuda, K., Helbing, D., Jaffé, P., Søgaard Jørgensen, P., Kaspiarovich, Y., Krishnakumar, J., Lawrence, R., Lee, K., Léger, A., Levrat, N., Martischang, R., Morel, C., Pittet, D., Stauffer, M., Tediosi, F., Vanackere, F., Vassalli, J., Wolff, G., Young, O.. 2021. Building a multisystemic understanding of societal resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic. BMJ Global Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006794

The current global systemic crisis reveals how globalised societies are unprepared to face a pandemic. Beyond the dramatic loss of human life, the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered widespread disturbances in health, social, economic, environmental and governance systems in many countries across the world. Resilience describes the capacities of natural and human systems to prevent, react to and recover from shocks. Societal resil...

Lambraki, I.A., Majowicz, S.E., Parmley, E.J., Wernli, D., Leger, A., Graells, T., Cousins, M., Harbarth, S., Carson, C., Henriksson, P., Troell, M. & Jorgensen, P.S. 2021. Building social-ecological system resilience to tackle antimicrobial resistance across the One Health spectrum: Protocol for a mixed methods study. Jmir Research Protocols 10(6), e24378.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an escalating global crisis with serious health, social, and economic consequences. Building social-ecological system resilience to reduce AMR and mitigate its impacts is critical. The aim of this study is to compare and assess interventions that address AMR across the One Health spectrum and determine what actions will help to build social and ecological capacity and readiness to sustainably ...

Léger, A., Lambraki, I., Graells, T., Cousins, M., Henriksson, P., Harbarth, S., Carson, C., Majowicz, S., Troell, M., Parmley, E., Jørgensen, P., Wernli, D.. 2021. Characterizing social-ecological context and success factors of antimicrobial resistance interventions across the One Health spectrum: analysis of 42 interventions targeting E. coli. BMC Infectious Diseases. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06483-z

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is among the most pressing One Health issues. While interventions and policies with various targets and goals have been implemented, evidence about factors underpinning success and failure of interventions in different sectors is lacking. The objective of this study is to identify characteristics of AMR interventions that increase their capacity to impact AMR. This study focuses on AMR intervent...

Léger A, Lambraki I, Graells T, Cousins M, Henriksson PJG, Harbarth S, Carson C, Majowicz S, Troell M, Parmley EJ, Jørgensen PS, Wernli D. 2021. AMR-Intervene: a social-ecological framework to capture the diversity of actions to tackle antimicrobial resistance from a One Health perspective. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2021 Jan 1;76(1):1-21. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkaa394. PMID: 33057678.

The global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) requires coordinated actions by and across different sectors. Increasing attention at the global and national levels has led to different strategies to tackle the challenge. The diversity of possible actions to address AMR is currently not well understood from a One Health perspective. AMR-Intervene, an interdisciplinary social–ecological framework, describes interventions t...

Carrière, Y., Brown, Z., Aglasan, S., Dutilleul, P., Carroll, M., Head, G., Tabashnik, B.E., Jørgensen, P.S. and Carroll, S.P., 2020. Crop rotation mitigates impacts of corn rootworm resistance to transgenic Bt corn. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(31), pp.18385-18392.

Transgenic crops that produce insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) can suppress pests and reduce insecticide sprays, but their efficacy is reduced when pests evolve resistance. Although farmers plant refuges of non-Bt host plants to delay pest resistance, this tactic has not been sufficient against the western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera . In the United States, some populations of this ...

Wernli, D., Jørgensen, P.S, Parmley, E.J., Troell, M. et.al. 2020. Evidence for action: a One Health learning platform on interventions to tackle antimicrobial resistance. The Lancet Infectous Diseases, Vol. 20, Issue 12, E307-311, December 01, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30392-3

Improving evidence for action is crucial to tackle antimicrobial resistance. The number of interventions for antimicrobial resistance is increasing but current research has major limitations in terms of efforts, methods, scope, quality, and reporting. Moving the agenda forwards requires an improved understanding of the diversity of interventions, their feasibility and cost–benefit, the implementation factors that shape and und...