Publications

Max Troell, Noureddine Benkeblia, Catriona Hurd, Thierry Chopin, Barry A. Costa-Pierce, Mark J. Costello. 2024. Seaweeds for carbon dioxide removal (CDR)–Getting the science right. PLOS Climate. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000377

To keep global warming < 2˚C, Almaraz et al. [1] highlight the need to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food production and remove atmospheric carbon dioxide by 2050. They provided an expert analysis of the potential of terrestrial based biological methods of carbon dioxide removal (CDR), including technologies that “demonstrated high impact potential supported by peer-reviewed literature”. However, scientific...

Per Olsson, Michele-Lee Moore. 2024. A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101392

Moving from a state of war or violent conflict will require a transformation, but there are no guarantees that transformations automatically lead to peace, sustainability, and justice. This review focuses on the temporary phase when a system is in limbo between the existing, dominant state and a new alternative state. We combine insights from a resilience approach to transformations with peacebuilding and transformative justic...

Bunge, A.C., Mazac, R., Clark, M. et al. Sustainability benefits of transitioning from current diets to plant-based alternatives or whole-food diets in Sweden. Nat Commun 15, 951 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45328-6

Plant-based alternatives (PBAs) are increasingly becoming part of diets. Here, we investigate the environmental, nutritional, and economic implications of replacing animal-source foods (ASFs) with PBAs or whole foods (WFs) in the Swedish diet. Utilising two functional units (mass and energy), we model vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian scenarios, each based on PBAs or WFs. Our results demonstrate that PBA-rich diets substan...

Baraibar Norberg, M., & Deutsch, L. (2023). The Soybean Through World History: Lessons for Sustainable Agrofood Systems (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367822866

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization. The book uses a historical lens to analyze the processes and features that brought us to the current global configuration of the soybean commodity chain. From its origins as a peasant food in ancient China, today the protein-rich soybean is by far the most...

Österblom, H. (Ed.). (2023). The sounds of science: orchestrating stewardship in the seafood industry. Elsevier.

The Sounds of Science provides a comprehensive account of a large-scale scientific experiment with globally operating seafood corporations headquartered in North America, Europe, and Asia. It describes how scientists worked to identify these, world’s largest seafood companies, and how their disproportionate powers were mobilized in a coalition of companies called SeaBOS (Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship), aiming to pro...

Henrik Österblom, Francisco Gazitúa, Angela Leible, Henrik Osterblom. 2023. To split a stone. Ecology and Society. https://doi.org/10.5751/es-14270-280311

Science and art are often disconnected but, if combined, can help stimulate learning and novelty and guide societal change. How then to bridge the divide between scientists and artists in a way that extends beyond superficial, short-term interactions? We describe an ongoing coproduction practice between a Swedish sustainability scientist and two Chilean artists—a sculptor and painter—striving to find ways to work together. Our...

John Ingram, William Bellotti, Mike Brklacich, Thom Achterbosch, Bálint Balázs, Martin Banse, Simon Fielke, Line Gordon, Saher Hasnain, Lieve Herman, Rebecca Kanter, William Kaye-Blake, Jerome Mounsey, Anne Pihlanto, Allyson Quinlan, Johan Six, Rike Stotten, Thomas Tomich, Attila Tóth, Carolina Yacamán, Monika Zurek. 2023. Further concepts and approaches for enhancing food system resilience. Nature Food. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00762-5

The cornerstones to enhance food system resilience can be considered as three fundamental concepts, the ‘3Rs’ 1 : robustness, based on the capacity of the food system actors to adapt their activities to resist disruptions to desired food system outcomes; recovery, based on the ability of food system actors to adapt their activities so as to be able to return to pre-existing food system outcomes following disruption; and reori...

Jonsson, A., Haider, J., Pereira, L., Fremier, A., Folke, C., Tengö, M., Gordon, L.J.. 2023. Gastronomic Landscapes and Biosphere Stewardship: Can Landscapes Be Revitalized Through the Daily Art of Choosing, Cooking, and Eating Food?. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4543275

Food system transformation is an important entry point for global sustainability. As a result of years of increased rationalization and consolidation of food systems, the knowledge, and skills of many actors in food value chains, especially those linked to smaller-scale traditional and artisanal production, processing, and cooking, have rapidly been eroded, despite the resilience that such knowledge and skills could offer. In ...

Biesbroek, S., Kok, F.J., Tufford, A.R., Bloem, M.W., Darmon, N., Drewnowski, A., Fan, S., Fanzo, J., Gordon, L.J., Hu, F.B., Lähteenmäki, L., Nnam, N., Ridoutt, B.G., Rivera, J., Swinburn, B., Van'T Veer, P.. 2023. Toward healthy and sustainable diets for the 21st century: Importance of sociocultural and economic considerations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2219272120

Four years after the EAT-Lancet landmark report, worldwide movements call for action to reorient food systems to healthy diets that respect planetary boundaries. Since dietary habits are inherently local and personal, any shift toward healthy and sustainable diets going against this identity will have an uphill road. Therefore, research should address the tension between the local and global nature of the biophysical (health, ...

Andreas Wieland, Mark Stevenson, Steven A. Melnyk, Simin Davoudi, Lisen Schultz. 2023. Thinking differently about supply chain resilience: what we can learn from social-ecological systems thinking. International Journal of Operations & Production Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-10-2022-0645

Purpose This article seeks to broaden how researchers in supply chain management view supply chain resilience by drawing on and integrating insights from other disciplines – in particular, the literature on the resilience of social-ecological systems. Design/methodology/approach Before the authors import new notions of resilience from outside the discipline, the current state of the art in supply chain resilience research i...