Publications

Killian Chary, Anne‐Jo van Riel, Abigail Muscat, Aurélie Wilfart, Souhil Harchaoui, Marc Verdegem, Ramón Filgueira, Max Troell, Patrik J. G. Henriksson, Imke J. M. de Boer, Geert F. Wiegertjes. 2023. Transforming sustainable aquaculture by applying circularity principles. Reviews in Aquaculture. https://doi.org/10.1111/raq.12860

A circular economy is considered one way to reduce environmental impacts of human activities, by more efficient use of resources and recovery, resulting in less waste and emissions compared to linear take-make-dispose systems. Muscat et al. developed five ecological principles to guide biomass use towards a circular economy. A few studies have demonstrated environmental benefits of applying these principles to land-based food ...

Ling Cao, Benjamin S. Halpern, Max Troell, Rebecca Short, Cong Zeng, Ziyu Jiang, Yue Liu, Chengxuan Zou, Chunyu Liu, Shurong Liu, Xiangwei Liu, William W. L. Cheung, Richard S. Cottrell, Fabrice DeClerck, Stefan Gelcich, Jessica A. Gephart, Dakoury Godo-Solo, Jessie Ihilani Kaull, Fiorenza Micheli, Rosamond L. Naylor, Hanna J. Payne, Elizabeth R. Selig, U. Rashid Sumaila, Michelle Tigchelaar. 2023. Vulnerability of blue foods to human-induced environmental change. Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01156-y

Global aquatic or ‘blue’ foods, essential to over 3.2 billion people, face challenges of maintaining supply in a changing environment while adhering to safety and sustainability standards. Despite the growing concerns over their environmental impacts, limited attention has been paid to how blue food production is influenced by anthropogenic environmental changes. Here we assess the vulnerability of global blue food systems to ...

Oskar Lindgren, Thomas Hahn, Mikael Karlsson, Mikael Malmaeus. 2023. Exploring sufficiency in energy policy: insights from Sweden. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2023.2212501

Energy efficiency and renewable energy strategies have been insufficient in achieving rapid and profound reductions of energy-related greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Consequently, energy sufficiency has gained attention as a complementary strategy over the past two decades. Yet, most research on energy sufficiency has been theoretical and its implementation in policy limited. This study draws on the growing sufficiency literat...

Angela M. Guerrero, Örjan Bodin, Daniel Nohrstedt, Ryan Plummer, Julia Baird, Robert Summers. 2023. Collaboration and individual performance during disaster response. Global Environmental Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102729

Disasters occurring in the wake of extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity due to climate and anthropogenic changes and require urgent responses under uncertain and dynamic conditions. In these situations, multi-agency collaboration becomes integral to an effective response due to the need to coordinate actions across geographical scales, levels of authority and sectors of society. Consequently there is...

Nisansala Abeysinghe, Christopher J. O'Bryan, Angela M. Guerrero, Jonathan Rhodes, Eve McDonald-Madden. 2023. Unravelling how collaboration impacts success of invasive species management. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10544

Invasive species cause severe threats to biodiversity and the economy, but often across multi-actor landscapes. Therefore, collaboration among multiple actors across landscapes is often essential for managing invasive species. Deciding whether to collaborate depends on available resources and potential benefits. As such, it is vital to identify how different factors can influence the outcomes of collaborations. We developed...

Victor Galaz. 2022. Global environmental governance in times of turbulence. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.05.018

Silvana Juri, Matilda Baraibar, Laurie Beth Clark, Mauricio Cheguhem, Esteban Jobbagy, Jorge Marcone, Néstor Mazzeo, Mariana Meerhoff, Micaela Trimble, Cristina Zurbriggen, Lisa Deutsch. 2022. Food systems transformations in South America: Insights from a transdisciplinary process rooted in Uruguay. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.887034

The wicked nature of sustainability challenges facing food systems demands intentional and synergistic actions at multiple scales and sectors. The Southern Cone of Latin America, with its historical legacy of “feeding the world,” presents interesting opportunities for generating insights into potential trajectories and processes for food system transformation. To foster such changes would require the development of col...

Österblom, H., Blasiak, R.. 2022. Credibility at stake in Sweden. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf4127

Swedens legacy as a global leader in the push to put climate and the environment at the heart of government decision-making may have come to an end on 18 October 2022. The first casualty of the countrys new right-wing government was the Ministry of the Environment, eliminated on Day 1. A key question is the extent to which this change derails progress made toward building a sustainable nation and world. Sweden has long been a...

Matthews, N., Dalton, J., Matthews, J., Barclay, H., Barron, J., Garrick, D., Gordon, L., Huq, S., Isman, T., McCornick, P., Meghji, A., Mirumachi, N., Moosa, S., Mulligan, M., Noble, A., Petryniak, O., Pittock, J., Queiroz, C., Ringler, C., Smith, M., Turner, C., Vora, S., Whiting, L.. 2022. Elevating the role of water resilience in food system dialogues. Water Security. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2022.100126

Ensuring resilient food systems and sustainable healthy diets for all requires much higher water use, however, water resources are finite, geographically dispersed, volatile under climate change, and required for other vital functions including ecosystems and the services they provide. Good governance for resilient water resources is a necessary precursor to deciding on solutions, sourcing finance, and delivering infrastructur...

Dalia D'Amato, Brent Davis Matthies, Thomas Hahn, Anne Toppinen. 2022. Private Governance of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Findings From Nordic Forest Companies. Frontiers in Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2022.945374

This study examines the role of business organizations in co-governing biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) using a phenomenon-based approach and bridging business management literature, ecosystem services literature and environmental governance literature. The empirical analysis includes twelve Nordic forest corporations considered market leaders in Finland, Sweden and Norway. Using content analysis of corporate ...