Publications

Jiménez, M., Pérez-Belmont, P., Schewenius, M., Lerner, A.M., Mazari-Hiriart, M. 2020. Assessing the historical adaptive cycles of an urban social-ecological system and its potential future resilience: the case of Xochimilco, Mexico City. Reg Environ Change 20, 7 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-020-01587-9

As the bulk of the world’s population becomes urban, maintaining urban ecosystem services for environmental and social well-being in cities is crucial. According to resilience theory, maintaining such services requires for a complex adaptive systems perspective that helps in identifying key elements and dynamics behind cross-scale social-ecological interactions. In this context, the objective of this article is to use a resili...

Borgström, Sara, N. Oreskovic, N. Linder, M. Svensdotter, M. Schewenius, A. Emmelin, M. Tuvendal. 2017. Lokala initiativ – en outnyttjad potential i Stockholmsregionens arbete för hållbar utveckling pp. In Boren, T. (Eds.) Urban utveckling och interaktioner. 189-212.

Schewenius, M., P. Keränen, R. al Rawaf. (Eds.) 2017. Dreams and Seeds: The role of campuses in sustainable urban development. Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences and Stockholm Resilience Centre.

The role of universities is changing, expanding from being purely education and research institutions towards one of being active partners in local and regional urban development. As incubators for knowledge development, critical thinking, and innovations, universities and campuses are becoming increasingly important for identifying, designing, and implementing pathways to sustainable urban development. The project Live Baltic...

Kremer, P., Z. Hamstead, D. Haase, T. McPhearson, N. Frantzeskaki, E. Andersson, N. Kabisch, N. Larondelle, E.L. Rall, A. Voigt, F. Baró, C. Bertram, E. Gómez-Baggethun, R. Hansen, A. Kaczorowska, J.-H. Kain, J. Kronenberg, J. Langemeyer, S. Pauleit, K. Rehdanz, M. Schewenius, C. Van Ham, D. Wurster, T. Elmqvist. 2016. Key insights for the future of urban ecosystem services research. Ecology and Society 21(2): 29

Understanding the dynamics of urban ecosystem services is a necessary requirement for adequate planning, management, and governance of urban green infrastructure. Through the three-year Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (URBES) research project, we conducted case study and comparative research on urban biodiversity and ecosystem services across seven cities in Europe and the United States. Reviewing > 50 peer-reviewed ...

Schewenius, M., T. McPhearson, T. Elmqvist. 2014. Opportunities for increasing resilience and sustainability of urban social-ecological systems: Insights from the URBES and the Cities and Biodiversity Outlook Projects. Ambio 43(4): 434-444.

Urban futures that are more resilient and sustainable require an integrated social–ecological system approach to urban policymaking, planning, management, and governance. In this article, we introduce the Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (URBES) and the Cities and Biodiversity Outlook (CBO) Projects as new social–ecological contributions to research and practice on emerging urban resilience and ecosystem services. W...

Nagendra, Harini; H. S. Sudhira; Madhusudan Katti; Maria Tengö; Maria Schewenius. 2014. La urbanización y su impacto sobre el uso de la tierra, la biodiversidad y los ecosistemas en la India, Interdisciplina 2:169–178

La India, país predominantemente rural, está atravesando por una transición lenta, pero constante y a gran escala hacia la urbanización. La cantidad de ciudades o mega ciudades ha aumentado de 5,161 a 7,935 (2011). La onu pronostica que para el 2031 el 15 % de la población urbana del mundo, alrededor de 600 millones de personas estarán viviendo en ciudades de este país. Este incremento de la población urbana tendrá implicaci...

Elmqvist, T., Fragkias, M., Goodness, J., GuUneralp,B., Marcotullio, P.J, McDonald, R.I., Parnell, S., Schewenius, M., Sendstad, M., Seto, K.C., Wilkinson, C., Alberti, M., Folke, C., Frantzeskaki, N., Haase, D., Katti, M., Nagendra, H., Niemelä, J., Pickett, S.T.A., Redman, C.L., Tidball, K. 2013. Stewardship of the Biosphere in the Urban Era, in: Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities. A Global Assessment (Thomas Elmqvist, T., Fragkias, M., Goodness, J., Guneralp, B., Marcotullio, P.J., McDonald, R.I., Parnell, S., Schewenius, M., Sendstad, M., Seto, K.C., Wilkinson, C. (Eds.), SpringerOpen, pp. 710-746, ISBN: 978-94-007-7088-1

We are entering a new urban era in which the ecology of the planet as a whole is increasingly influenced by human activities (Ellis 2011; Steffen et al. 2011a, b; Folke et al. 2011). Cities have become a central nexus of the relationship between people and nature, both as crucial centres of demand of ecosystem services, and as sources of environmental impacts. Approximately 60 % of the urban land present in 2030 is forecast ...

Wilkinson, C., Sendstad, M., Parnell, S., Schewenius, M. (2013) Urban governance of biodiversity and ecosystem services. In Elmqvist, T, Fragkias, M, Goodness, J, Güneralp, B, Marcotullio, PJ, McDonald, RI Parnell, S, Schewenius, M, Sendstad, M, Seto, KC, Wilkinson, C. (Eds.) Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities. Springer, Dordrecht.

In an increasingly urban world the battle for biodiversity hinges on how effectively cities are governed, and how responsive those who run cities are to transforming the urban system to embrace ecosystem integrity and restoration. This chapter sets out the nascent field of urban biodiversity governance, and is the first scientific publication to provide a synthesis review of the urban biodiversity and ecosystem services gove...