Publications

Sofia Maniatakou, Pero Olsson, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen. 2024. The role and capacities of large-scale actor coalitions in shaping sustainability transformations. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/mcp5j

Several transnational corporations, investors, international organizations and philanthropies have formed coalitions to respond to global social and environmental challenges. Do these coalitions, consisting of large-scale actors, have the capacities to contribute to the transformations that are needed, or do they perpetuate the same system dynamics that created the problem in the first place? We investigate this question by co...

Sofia Maniatakou, Beatrice Crona, Isabelle Jean-Charles, Moa Ohlsson, Kate Lillepold, Amar Causevic. 2024. A science-based heuristic to guide sector-level SDG investment strategy. Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment. https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2024.2320318

Aligning investments with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been a longstanding ambition for many private investors. The assessment of corporate impact on the SDGs is not a trivial task, and most present-day attempts often overlook SDG interactions, and lack scientific anchoring and transparency. We present an evidence-based review approach for investors to assess sector-level impacts on individual SDGs, and score these...

Therese Bennich, Giorgos Maneas, Sofia Maniatakou, Luigi Piemontese, Christina Schaffer, Marie Schellens, Carl Österlin. 2022. Transdisciplinary research for sustainability: scoping for project potential. International Social Science Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12245

In response to the interconnected character of societal challenges, there is a growing interest in transdisciplinary sustainability research. However, for transdisciplinary research to be able to support the generation of new knowledge in a participatory and reflexive manner, a number of challenges have been identified in each stage of the transdisciplinary research process. In this paper, we respond specifically to the challe...