Publications

Henriette Wathne Gelink, Erica von Essen. 2025. Wild boar management in Norway – a system of selective prioritization and conflicting inter-governmental opinions. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2025.2524839

Invasive species cause global challenges with massive long-term impacts, and reduction of impacts relies on both international and local interventions. At national level, mismatches between how AIS are classified and managed, and how different governmental bodies deal with these species, produce a messy reality of changeable standards for the species and the people who are expected to manage them. We explore such mismatches th...

Erica von Essen, Emily Wanderer, Gabriel Lennon, Karin Ahlberg. 2025. The wild workforce: Enlisting non-human labor in invasive species management. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486241300941

An all-hands-on-deck rationality appears to characterize invasive alien species (IAS) eradication. Not only are citizens enrolled in their monitoring and management to extend authorities’ capabilities, but a recent trend in so-called nature-based solutions also outsources labor to non-human species. Within the realm of biocontrol initiatives, these non-human actors are strategically enlisted to counter invasive species through...

Erica von Essen, Manisha Bhardwaj. 2025. Fence and Fencibility: Using Technology to Direct Wildlife. Fences and Biosecurity: The Politics of Governing Unruly Nature. https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-30-8

We examine the virtual fence in terms of how it communicates with wildlife about interspecies boundaries. This is done using a biosemiotic point of departure, which regards interventions as communicative devices tailored to be ‘read’ by wild animal sensory perceptions ( Umwelten ). Having synthesised some current uses of such technologies in wildlife management, our chapter shows how wires cross in miscommunication across spe...

Noah Linder, Magnus Bergquist, Pär Bjälkebring, Malin Jonell. 2025. (Un)acceptable protein shift: Consumer attitudes toward retail-led interventions promoting sustainable diets. Food Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102971

Transforming global and local food systems is essential for achieving current sustainability goals. A significant lever for the food sector is promoting a dietary shift away from animal-based proteins towards more plant-based options. Food retailers, positioned at the centre of the value chain, hold a uniquely influential role, as they have the capacity to shape the behaviours of both producers and consumers. However, consumer...

Rachel Mazac, Hanna Karlsson Potter, U. Martin Persson, Rasmus Einarsson, Hanna Rut Carlsson, Janne Bengtsson, Johan Karlsson, Garry Peterson, Line J. Gordon, Elin Röös. 2025. Diet changes in food futures improve Swedish environmental and health outcomes. Communications Earth & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02679-2

Aligning national food systems with global goals is required for sustainable transitions. We examine if realistic, context-specific dietary changes, mindful of Swedish food culture and in line with future scenarios, are sufficient to meet ambitious environmental goals. Here, we quantified diets based on the four Swedish Food Futures scenarios, which reflect prospects of technological development, behavioral change, import tren...

Melissa Barton, Dheaya Alrousan, Luis Fernando Perez-Mercado, Sahar Dalahmeh, Anastasija Vasiljev, Jan-Olof Drangert, Prithvi Simha, Melissa A. Barton, Melissa A. Barton, Melissa A. Barton. 2025. Attitudes toward urine-derived water and dry fertilizer: Data from a university survey in Jordan. Mendeley Data. https://doi.org/10.17632/3N752W8G6X.1

This file accompanies the Mendeley Data deposit “Attitudes toward urine-derived water and dry fertilizer: Data from a university survey in Jordan” and contains an index to all data and supplemental files. Analysis and study context are described further in “Clean enough? Public acceptance of urine-derived water and dry fertilizer shaped by religious and social norms in a water-scarce Islamic context” (Barton et al., submitted ...

Carolin Seiferth, Erik Andersson, Maria Tengö. 2025. The role of relational learning in knowledge co-production. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70116

1. Learning, and how we learn, is integral for the governance of complex social-ecological systems. With the growing interest in knowledge co-production comes a need to further study how to better enable learning between different actors engaged in dialogue-based processes. 2. We use an empirical case of a workshop series centred on collaborative water and landscape governance on Sweden, to explore how a process partly design...

Malin Jonell, Abigayil Blandon, Julia Maria Charlotte Feine, Sofia Käll. 2025. Broadening the sustainable seafood movement — systemic and enabling approaches to transform blue food. Environmental Research: Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.1088/2976-601x/adfd62

The global appetite for environmentally sustainable and just seafood is expected to grow in coming decades. However, the sustainable seafood movement, including private governance tools like certifications and recommendation lists has yet to transform fisheries and aquaculture on a large scale. At the same time, alternative voluntary governance approaches have taken shape, each aiming to guide production and consumption toward...

Abigayil Blandon, Malin Jonell, Hiroe Ishihara, Aiora Zabala. 2025. What does “sustainable seafood” mean to seafood system actors in Japan and Sweden? Ambio. Pages 1010–1025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02122-4

“Sustainability” can mean different prioritisations of society, environment and economy to different people. As one of the largest globally traded food commodities, for seafood, these differences could have large implications. The study captures different understandings of “sustainable seafood” among 29 key actors along the seafood supply chain—government, NGOs, industry bodies, retailers and producers—using a novel cross-coun...

Hana Matsubara, Abigayil Blandon, Mary Tomita, Sonia Batten, Sanae Chiba, Tetsuo Fujii, Daisuke Hasegawa, Marloes Kraan, Doug Lipton, L Richard Little, Alondra Sofia Rodriguez Buelna, Mitsutaku Makino. 2025. Shaping the future of marine socio-ecological systems science: combining interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches and knowledge co-creation with diverse stakeholders. ICES Journal of Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaf059

Following the first symposium held in Brest, France, in 2016, the second Marine Socio-Ecological Systems Symposium (MSEAS) was held in Yokohama, Japan, in 2024, after 4 years of postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2016, interdisciplinary efforts to inform ocean governance using the Social-Ecological System (SES) approach was highlighted as highly necessary. MSEAS 2024 emphasized the combination of interdisciplinary a...