Publications

Xuemei Bai, Giles B. Sioen, Şiir Kilkiş, Timon McPhearson, Zeenat Niazi, Jago Dodson, Tri Atmaja, Kensuke Fukushi, Niki Frantzeskaki, Harini Nagendra, Wanyu Shih, Thomas Elmqvist, Tischa Muñoz-Erickson, Xiangzheng Deng, Burak Güneralp, Shuaib Lwasa, Noboru Zama. 2025. Reimagining urban science for global sustainability: Five strategic research areas. Global Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2025.10025

Cities, as complex systems, are faced with increasingly diverse and connected challenges across social, economic, environmental, and health domains. To help cities address these challenges, the Future Earth Urban Knowledge-Action Network developed a cross-disciplinary urban research agenda through expert elicitations and extensive consultation. Five research themes to guide urban sustainability research were identified includi...

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...

Enrique Antonio Mejía. 2025. Productivity and plunder: Soybean frontier expansion and soil nutrient loss in the Argentine countryside. Doctoral Thesis in Economic History at Stockholm University. Department of Economic History and International Relations.

This compilation thesis investigates how Argentina’s rapid soybean expansion since the 1970s has fueled economic growth while causing significant environmental and social consequences, particularly soil nutrient loss. Existing research has overlooked critical gaps, including the under-representation of historical analyses connecting past agricultural expansion (primarily led by wheat) to current soybean dynamics, limited integ...

Sebastian Luckeneder. 2025. Spatial data approaches for assessing the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of mining activities. Doctoral thesis. Institute for Ecological Economics. WU Research.

The growing human population, economic expansion, urbanisation, and rising affluence have driven global resource consumption to unprecedented levels. Metals and minerals have experienced particularly rapid growth, and mining activities are projected to intensify due to higher demand in emerging economies, the global energy transition, and declining ore grades. While mining increasingly encroaches on vulnerable ecosystems, syst...

Piotr Krajewski, Marek Furmankiewicz, Marta Sylla, Iga Kołodyńska, Monika Lebiedzińska. 2025. Landscape Services from the Perspective of Experts and Their Use by the Local Community: A Comparative Study of Selected Landscape Types in a Region in Central Europe. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17156998

This study investigates the concept of landscape services (LS), which integrate environmental and sociocultural dimensions of sustainable development. Recognizing landscapes as essential to daily life and well-being, the research aims to support sustainable spatial planning by analyzing both their potential and their actual use. The study has three main objectives: (1) to assess the potential of 16 selected landscape types to ...

Andreas Plach, Lucie Bakels, Andreas Stohl. 2025. Reduction of residence time of air in the Arctic since the 1980s. ESS Open Archive. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.175318972.29624962/v1

The Arctic has seen dramatic changes in temperature, snow cover, and sea ice in recent decades. Here we use a simple metric, the Arctic residence time of air, that is, the time air spends uninterruptedly north of 70°N, to evaluate how these changes have affected the high-latitude atmospheric circulation in the last 40 years. We find that, on average, near-surface air resides between 7 (summer) and 12 (winter) days in the Arcti...

Angela Guerrero, Daniel Cruz Lopez. 2025. Social dimensions of agricultural practice adoption for Great Barrier Reef water quality. QUT ePrints. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/259841/

Hannah Zoller, Steven J. Lade, C. Kendra Gotangco Gonzales, Ingo Fetzer, Nitin Chaudhary, Juan C. Rocha. 2025. Supplementary material to "A global map of Earth system interactions". https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3341

The intricate interplay of the biophysical processes of the Earth system provides the basis for Earth resilience and human well-being. With local anthropogenic pressures increasing in most regions, there has been a growing need for a systemic understanding of this interplay on a sub-global scale. However, due to inconsistency in the temporal and spatial scales in the corresponding studies, a holistic assessment of the environm...

Hannah Zoller, Steven J. Lade, C. Kendra Gotangco Gonzales, Ingo Fetzer, Nitin Chaudhary, Juan C. Rocha. 2025. A global map of Earth system interactions. EGUsphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3341

The intricate interplay of the biophysical processes of the Earth system provides the basis for Earth resilience and human well-being. With local anthropogenic pressures increasing in most regions, there has been a growing need for a systemic understanding of this interplay on a sub-global scale. However, due to inconsistency in the temporal and spatial scales in the corresponding studies, a holistic assessment of the environm...

Danielle S. Spence, Kristin J. Painter, Ali Nazemi, Jason J. Venkiteswaran, Helen M. Baulch. 2025. Climate variability is an important driver of water treatability in a shallow reservoir. Science of The Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180786

Drinking water treatability is defined by multiple parameters that are strongly impacted by climatic and anthropogenic drivers. Working in a shallow reservoir in the Canadian Prairies, generalized additive models (GAMs) were applied to a 33-year dataset to identify drivers of interannual variability in multiple indicators of drinking water treatability. Interannual variability in treatability indicators was substantial. In the...