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2021

Apetrei, C. I., Caniglia, G., von Wehrden, H., & Lang, D. J. (2021). Just another buzzword? A systematic literature review of knowledge-related concepts in sustainability science. Global Environmental Change, 68, 102222.

Derwort, P., Jager, N., & Newig, J. (2021). How to Explain Major Policy Change Towards Sustainability? Bringing Together the Multiple Streams Framework and the Multilevel Perspective on Socio‐Technical Transitions to Explore the German “Energiewende”. Policy Studies Journal.

Dorninger, C., von Wehrden, H., Krausmann, F., Bruckner, M., Feng, K., Hubacek, K., … & Abson, D. J. (2021). The effect of industrialization and globalization on domestic land-use: A global resource footprint perspective. Global Environmental Change, 69, 102311.

Klaniecki, K., Duse, I. A., Engler, J. O., Leventon, J., & Abson, D. J. (2021). Energy conservation attitudes and intentions: investigating place attachment in Eastern Transylvania, Romania (Actitudes e intenciones respecto al ahorro de energía: investigando el apego al lugar en Transilvania Oriental, Rumanía). PsyEcology, 12(2), 177-201.

Lam, D. P., Martin-Lopez, B., Horcea-Milcu, A. I., & Lang, D. J. (2021). A leverage points perspective on social networks to understand sustainability transformations: evidence from Southern Transylvania. Sustainability Science, 16(3), 809-826.

Leventon, J., Abson, D. J., & Lang, D. J. (2021). Leverage points for sustainability transformations: nine guiding questions for sustainability science and practice. Sustainability Science, 16(3), 721-726.

Leventon, J., Duşe, I. A., & Horcea-Milcu, A. I. (2021). Leveraging Biodiversity Action From Plural Values: Transformations of Governance Systems. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 326.

Peukert, D., Vilsmaier, U. (2021). Collaborative Design Prototyping in Transdisciplinary Research: An Approach to Heterogeneity and Unknowns. Futures [in press]. 

Riechers, M., Loos, J., Balázsi, Á., García-Llorente, M., Bieling, C., Burgos-Ayala, A., … & West, S. (2021). Key advantages of the leverage points perspective to shape human-nature relations. Ecosystems and people, 17(1), 205-214.

Riechers, M., Martín-López, B., & Fischer, J. (2021). Human–nature connectedness and other relational values are negatively affected by landscape simplification: insights from Lower Saxony, Germany. Sustainability Science, 1-13.

2020

Dorninger, C., Abson, D. J., Apetrei, C. I., Derwort, P., Ives, C. D., Klaniecki, K., … & von Wehrden, H. (2020). Leverage points for sustainability transformation: a review on interventions in food and energy systems. Ecological Economics, 171, 106570. 

Dorninger, C., Hornborg, A., Abson, D. J., Von Wehrden, H., Schaffartzik, A., Giljum, S., … & Wieland, H. (2021). Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange: Implications for sustainability in the 21st century. Ecological economics, 179, 106824.

Freeth, R., & Vilsmaier, U. (2020). Researching Collaborative Interdisciplinary Teams. Science & Technology Studies, 33(3), 57-72. 

Horcea-Milcu, A. I., Martín-López, B., Lam, D. P., & Lang, D. J. (2020). Research pathways to foster transformation: linking sustainability science and social-ecological systems research. Ecology and Society. 

Ives, C. D., Freeth, R., & Fischer, J. (2020). Inside-out sustainability: The neglect of inner worlds. Ambio, 49(1), 208-217. 

Klaniecki, K., Duse, I. A., Lutz, L. M., Leventon, J., & Abson, D. J. (2020). Applying the energy cultures framework to understand energy systems in the context of rural sustainability transformation. Energy Policy, 137, 111092. 

Lam, D. P., Hinz, E., Lang, D., Tengö, M., Wehrden, H., & Martín-López, B. (2020). Indigenous and local knowledge in sustainability transformations research: a literature review. Ecology and Society, 25(1). 

Lam, D. P., Martín-López, B., Wiek, A., Bennett, E. M., Frantzeskaki, N., Horcea-Milcu, A. I., & Lang, D. J. (2020). Scaling the impact of sustainability initiatives: a typology of amplification processes. Urban Transformations, 2, 1-24. 

Riechers, M., Balázsi, Á., Abson, D., & Fischer, J. (2020). The influence of landscape change on multiple dimensions of human–nature connectedness. Ecology and Society, 25(3). 

2019

Balázsi, Á., Riechers, M., Hartel, T., Leventon, J., & Fischer, J. (2019). The impacts of social-ecological system change on human-nature connectedness: a case study from Transylvania, Romania. Land use policy, 89, 104232. 

Derwort, P., Jager, N., & Newig, J. (2019). Towards productive functions? A systematic review of institutional failure, its causes and consequences. Policy Sciences, 52(2), 281-298. 

Fischer, J., & Riechers, M. (2019). A leverage points perspective on sustainability. People and Nature, 1(1), 115-120.

Horcea-Milcu, A. I., Abson, D. J., Apetrei, C. I., Duse, I. A., Freeth, R., Riechers, M., … & Lang, D. J. (2019). Values in transformational sustainability science: four perspectives for change. Sustainability Science, 14(5), 1425-1437. 

Lam, D. P., Horcea-Milcu, A. I., Fischer, J., Peukert, D., & Lang, D. J. (2019). Three principles for co-designing sustainability intervention strategies: Experiences from Southern Transylvania. Ambio, 1-15. 

Newig, J., Derwort, P., & Jager, N. W. (2019). Sustainability through institutional failure and decline? Archetypes of productive pathways. Ecology and Society, 24(1). 

Peukert D., Vilsmaier U. (2019) Entwurfsbasierte Interventionen in der transdisziplinären Forschung. [Design-based Interventions in Transdisciplinary Research]. In: Ukowitz M., Hübner R. (eds) Interventionsforschung. Springer, Wiesbaden 

Riechers, M., Henkel, W., Engbers, M., & Fischer, J. (2019). Stories of favourite places in public spaces: emotional responses to landscape change. Sustainability, 11(14), 3851. 

2018

Ives, C. D., Abson, D. J., von Wehrden, H., Dorninger, C., Klaniecki, K., & Fischer, J. (2018). Reconnecting with nature for sustainability. Sustainability science, 13(5), 1389-1397. 

Klaniecki, K., Leventon, J., & Abson, D. J. (2018). Human–nature connectedness as a ‘treatment’ for pro-environmental behavior: making the case for spatial considerations. Sustainability Science, 13(5), 1375-1388. 

2017

Dorninger, C., Abson, D.J., Fischer, J. and von Wehrden, H. (2017). Assessing sustainable biophysical human–nature connectedness at regional scales. Environmental Research Letters, 12(5). 

Ives, C. D., Giusti, M., Fischer, J., Abson, D. J., Klaniecki, K., Dorninger, C., … & Von Wehrden, H. (2017). Human–nature connection: a multidisciplinary review. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 26, 106-113. 

2016

Abson, D.J., Fischer, J., Leventon, J., Newig, J., Schomerus, T., Vilsmaier, U., von Wehrden, H., Abernethy, P., Ives, C.D., Jager, N.W. and Lang, D.J. (2016). Leverage Points For Sustainability. Ambio, 1-10.

Luederitz, C., Abson, D.J., Audet, R. and Lang, D.J. (2016) Many pathways toward sustainability: not conflict but co-learning between transition narratives, Sustainability Science.