Publications

Erica von Essen, Minh-Xuan A. Truong. 2025. Multitasking Moose Migration: Examining media multimodality in slow-TV nature programming. Telematics and Informatics Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teler.2025.100186

Media multitasking has become an integrated part of much media consumption. While some celebrate the practice for activating the viewer and connecting them to virtual others, perhaps discussing the show in real-time, critics point to cognitive costs and reduced productivity. A perhaps more scathing critique has been added to those multitasking while watching nature documentaries: you are already consuming nature through a scre...

Mads Ejsing, Lars Tønder, Ingrid Helene Brandt Jensen, Janus Hansen. 2025. Do we have time for democracy? Climate action and the problem of time in the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196241279564

The urgency of climate change has brought democracy to a critical juncture. Existing democratic systems struggle to address the pressing time frames required for effective climate action. This article explores a fundamental shift in temporal orientation caused by climate change. Democracy’s linear and progressive image of time clashes with the expanding scales of temporality, encompassing both planetary and microscopic process...

Max Mailund, Dorte Nita Simonsen, Mads Ejsing. 2025. Toxic displacements: An environmental justice perspective on a chemical waste site in Denmark. Political Geography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103255

In this article we examine the problem of toxic waste and its entanglements with environmental justice in the Anthropocene from the perspective of Harboøre Tange – the waste site of one of the greatest chemical pollution scandals in Danish environmental history. Drawing on qualitative interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, we show how environmental harms and inequalities are sustained over time through a series of ‘toxic displ...

Hanna L. Pettersson, Erica Von Essen. 2025. Now What? The Conundrum of Successful Recovery of Wolves and Other Species for European Conservation. Conservation Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13143

The recent decision to downlist the wolf from a “strictly protected” to “protected” status in the Bern Convention and Habitats Directive marks a turning point for European conservation. While reflecting wolves' recovery, the shift has illuminated a conundrum within existing conservation frameworks: No species has ever been downlisted before, despite a remarkable wildlife comeback over recent decades. Moreover, the downlisting ...

Yafei Wang, Yao He, Hao Zhou, Jan J. Kuiper, Murray Scown, Liam R. Carpenter‐Urquhart, Stefan Olin, Lennart Olsson, Yuxuan Ye, Shuwei Shen, Jie Fan, Garry D. Peterson. 2025. Integrating Multi‐Level Sustainability and Ecosystem Integrity for Adaptive Scenario Planning in China. Earth's Future. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EF006853

Climate change calls for adaptive strategies to manage land system across governance levels, as differing multi-level policies distinctly shape land system and long-term ecosystem resilience. This study proposes an iterative approach for optimizing land-use pathways that balance competing policy objectives across national, provincial, and local levels without compromising ecosystem integrity in a changing climate. This approac...

Pereira, K., Wabnitz, C.C.C., Schildt, L., Kuiper, J.J., Schmitt, R.J.P., Barbour, F., Jouffray, J.-B.. 2025. Rethinking sand circularity through sufficiency. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101207

Jakub Kronenberg, Erik Andersson, Erik Andersson, Chris Sandbrook. 2025. If a swift could fight for their existence with words: nonhuman interests and politics. npj Urban Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-025-00263-3

Multispecies sustainability and justice can serve as narratives to support and transform nature conservation. Using discourse analysis, we study whether and how three major stakeholders engaged with such narratives to address the representation and agency of swifts. We focus on a debate on mandating ‘swift bricks’ to mitigate the loss of their nesting sites in the UK. Representation refers to acknowledging and articulating the...

Johan Rockström. 2025. Diagnosing earth's tipping points: where we stand in the Anthropocene. Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1653860

Human and planetary health are inextricably linked through complex adaptive systems. This perspective, adapted from the 2024 Virchow Lecture, highlights how accelerating anthropogenic pressures are destabilizing the Earth system. Scientific evidence shows that six of nine planetary boundaries have already been transgressed, increasing the risk of irreversible tipping points. The Holocene epoch, a period of climate stability un...

Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Michele-Lee Moore, Line Gordon, Carl Folke, Malin Falkenmark. 2025. Fostering water resilience in the Anthropocene. Global Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2025.10035

Elizabeth M. Cook, Yeowon Kim, Nancy B. Grimm, Timon McPhearson, Pippin Anderson, Harriet Bulkeley, Marcus J. Collier, Loan Diep, Jordi Morató, Weiqi Zhou. 2025. Nature-based solutions for urban sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2315909122

The objective of this paper is to introduce a Special Feature: “Nature-based Solutions for Urban Sustainability”—a collection of four articles addressing the current state of global urban NbS science and conceptual framings. The special feature explores opportunities for research and practice to scale up NbS to address equity, justice, and inclusion while enabling transformation in urbanized areas. The special feature includes...