Publications

Blanca González-Mon, Örjan Bodin, Xavier Basurto, Carla Lanyon-Garrido, Adrián Munguia-Vega, Mateja Nenadovic, Amy Hudson Weaver. 2025. Diversification in small-scale fisheries beyond harvesting: the role of regional trade networks. Handbook of Social Networks and the Environment. Pages 55–85. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035318759.00015

Small-scale fisheries (SSF) are comprised of multiple types of actors organized in regional trade networks that are involved in activities from harvesting to exporting fisheries’ resources. Diversification, defined as how fishers and traders along these networks harvest, buy, and/or trade different fish resources (or species), is a prevalent strategy in SSF contexts to deal with an increasingly changing environment. In this ch...

Parinaz Rashidi, Sopan D. Patil, Jan J. Kuiper, Thora Tenbrink, Jacques-Aristide Perrin, Joël Robin, Sandra Brucet, Pieter Lemmens, Mariana Meerhoff, Thomas Mehner, Lluís Benejam, Beat Oertli, Meryem Beklioğlu, Thomas A. Davidson, Aurélie Boissezon, Jeremy Biggs, Pascale Nicolet, Penny Williams, Robby Wijns, Isabel Rosa. 2025. Stakeholder perspectives on pondscapes: a multinational analysis using storylines and the Nature Futures Framework. Ecosystems and People. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2025.2570728

Ponds and pondscapes are crucial habitats for biodiversity and provide significant ecosystem services and socio-cultural benefits. However, effective management of these habitats requires an in-depth evaluation of how stakeholders perceive them and interact with them. This study aims to explore stakeholder relationships with their local ponds and pondscapes to better understand their interactions, expectations, concerns, and p...

Violeta Cabello, Alejandro Merlo, María Mancilla, Jesús M. Siqueiros, Xabier E. Barandiaran. 2025. Autonomy and Its Limits in Social-Ecological Systems. Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual. Pages 121–130. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05501-9_12

Traditionally, autonomy has been perceived through the lens of individualism and internalism, a view increasingly challenged by contemporary philosophical approaches, as well as by the context of global sustainability. Environmental challenges underline the need to shift from Earth-imposed limits to social-ecological limitations to achieve autonomy, democracy, and sustainability. In the realm of sustainability sciences, the co...

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...

J.-B. Jouffray, J. Virdin, J. Bebbington, R. Blasiak, A. Dunchus, M. Lo Presti, J. Pare, D. Prosi, J. P. Quintero, R. Rosenthal, P. Tortora, D. Vermeer. 2025. Identifying and closing gaps in corporate reporting of ocean impacts. Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01631-8

As ocean industrialization accelerates, corporate transparency is increasingly seen as critical to improve governance, yet little is known about how firms disclose their impacts on marine ecosystems. This study addresses that gap through a content analysis of sustainability and annual reports from 75 of the largest companies across 8 sectors of the ocean economy. We examine which impacts are reported, how they are measured and...

Elizabeth R. Selig, Colette C. C. Wabnitz, Shinnosuke Nakayama, Jaeyoon Park, Richard Barnes, Robert Blasiak, Dawn Borg-Costanzi, Bronwen Golder, Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Jim Leape, Jessica L. Decker Sparks. 2025. Leveraging port state measures to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads1592

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing threatens the sustainability of fisheries and communities dependent on them. The Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) is a key tool for combatting IUU fishing by foreign fleets, requiring standardized inspections, information sharing, and port denial. Using satellite data, we characterized how PSMA has affected high seas vessel behavior and identify opportunities to strengthen...

Torres, A., Jouffray, J.-B., Van Lancker, V., Velpen, A.V., Liu, J.. 2025. Reducing sand mining's growing toll on marine biodiversity. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101202

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

Nanda Wijermans, Caroline Schill, Therese Lindahl, Maja Schlüter. 2025. Towards Understanding Collective Resource Use: The Role of Individual Attribution of Ecological Change. Advances in Social Simulation. Pages 565–575. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91782-0_41

Common pool resources, like fish, timber, water, are essential in providing food, income and raw material. However, maintaining sustainable practices for common pool resources is a collective challenge due to the social and ecological uncertainties. Climate impacts only further complicates the collective governance of these resources, as resource availability will substantially change and reduce. To understand how do resource ...

Xingxing Zhang, Hua Wu, Lan Wang Erlandsson, Zhaofei Liu, Hou Jiang, Zhaocai Wang, Liguang Jiang, Yizhu Zhu, Yaozhi Jiang, Zhijun Yao, Zhaoliang Li. 2025. Significant Shifts in Continental Precipitation Sources in the 21st Century. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025WR040157

Continental precipitation patterns have undergone profound changes in the 21st century, characterized by an increasing dominance of oceanic moisture sources over terrestrial ones. Using the WAM-2layers (Water Accounting Model-2 layers) moisture tracking model and ERA5 reanalysis data (1941–2023), we identified a significant upward trend in ocean-derived moisture, particularly from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, with an incre...