J Colding
Biographic Data
| ID | 31315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Colding |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Colding |
| SIGNATURE | COLDING J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7644-7448 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 269 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Motives for collective climate action – Community work promoting community climate commons
Based on a systematic literature review, this article explores motives for participation in Community Climate Commons and how community work can promote their participation and mobilization. Four motives – social, ecological, economic, political – were identified and related to a community and ecosocial work framework. Motives were driven by community efforts to protect livelihoods, preserve social identity, strengthen democratic engagement, and …
Community climate commons for collective climate action
Mitigating and adapting to climate change is a vital challenge that cannot rely solely on technology or macro policies but need also be tailored to local social and ecological contexts. As theory suggests, institutional designs that increase collective climate action could potentially speed up climate action in society. In this article we explore the concept of ‘community climate commons’ (CCCs) to foster interconnected and holistic approaches in…
Navigating complexity with the four pillars of social sustainability
The concept of social sustainability has long been a subject of discussion within academic literature and practitioners. However, there remains a lack of clarity in its definition and scholars argue that this can impacting the legitimacy of addressing social sustainability challenges. Through a systematic literature review and a content analysis, we shed light on the multifaceted discourse surrounding the concept of social sustainability, elucida…
Contribution of prioritized urban nature-based solutions allocation to carbon neutrality
Nature-based solutions (NBS) are essential for carbon-neutral cities, yet how to effectively allocate them remains a question. Carbon neutrality requires city-led climate action plans that incorporate both indirect and direct contributions of NBS. Here we assessed the carbon emissions mitigation potential of NBS in European cities, focusing particularly on commonly overlooked indirect pathways, for example, human behavioural interventions and res…
Opportunities and barriers to net-zero cities
Urban climate resilience through hybrid infrastructure
Urban infrastructure will require transformative changes to adapt to changing disturbance patterns. We ask what new opportunities hybrid infrastructure—built environments coupled with landscape-scale biophysical structures and processes—offer for building different layers of resilience critical for dealing with increased variation in the frequency, magnitude and different phases of climate-related disturbances. With its more diverse components an…
Mapping Flood Risk Uncertainty Zones in Support of Urban Resilience Planning
River flooding and urbanization are processes of different character that take place worldwide. As the latter tends to make the consequences of the former worse, together with the uncertainties related to future climate change and flood-risk modeling, there is a need to both use existing tools and develop new ones that help the management and planning of urban environments. In this article a prototype tool, based on estimated maximum land cover r…
Urban Commons and Collective Action to Address Climate Change
Climate change and the coupled loss of ecosystem services pose major collective action problems in that all individuals would benefit from better cooperation to address these problems but conflicting interests and/or incomplete knowledge discourage joint action. Adopting an inductive and multi‐layered approach, drawing upon the authors’ previous research on urban commons, we here summarize key insights on environmentally oriented urban commons an…
Urban nature as a source of resilience during social distancing amidst the coronavirus pandemic
The 2020 coronavirus pandemic caused countries across the world to implement measures of social distancing to curb spreading of COVID-19. The large and sudden disruptions to everyday life that result from this are likely to impact well-being, particularly among urban populations that live in dense settings with limited public space. In this paper, we argue that during these extraordinary circumstances, urban nature offers resilience for maintaini…
The smart city model: A new panacea for urban sustainability or unmanageable complexity
Despite several calls in this journal of debating the rapid growth of the literature on “smart cities”, such a debate has in large been absent. Smart cities are often un-critically launched as a sustainable way of developing cities. When cities become increasingly complex as its features are wired into the Internet, theories for their understanding is lagging behind. As it is prospected that a greater number of people and things will become conne…
Supporting Bottom-Up Human Agency for Adapting to Climate Change
Psychological obstacles to the efficacy of environmental footprint tools
Applying seven resilience principles on the Vision of the Digital City
We use an ecological lens on physiognomies of the digital city-development. • Using resilience principles can reduce risks in digitalization of city functions. • Strategically design for both buffering instant shocks and slow erosion • Use autonomic self-organizing machine learning for whole digital network resilience • Keep a separated and redundant analogue technology for critical infrastructures
How smart is smart growth? Examining the environmental validation behind city compaction
Exploring the social-ecological systems discourse 20 years later
This paper explores the 20-year evolution of the social-ecological systems framework (SESs). Although a first definition of SES dates back to 1988, Berkes and Folke more thoroughly used the concept in 1998 to analyze resilience in local resource management systems. Since then studies of interlinked human and natural systems have emerged as a field on its own right, promoting interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration in a wide set of fields and…
Reconnecting Cities to the Biosphere: Stewardship of Green Infrastructure and Urban Ecosystem Services
Within-city green infrastructure can offer opportunities and new contexts for people to become stewards of ecosystem services. We analyze cities as social-ecological systems, synthesize the literature, and provide examples from more than 15 years of research in the Stockholm urban region, Sweden. The social-ecological approach spans from investigating ecosystem properties to the social frameworks and personal values that drive and shape human int…
Toward an integrated theory of spatial morphology and resilient urban systems
We take the first step in the development of a new field of research with the aim of merging spatial morphology and resilience science. This involves a revisiting and reunderstanding of the meaning of sustainable urban form. We briefly describe the fields of resilience science and spatial morphology. Drawing on a selected set of propositions in both fields, we put urban form in the context of the adaptive renewal cycle, a dynamic framework model …
Civic greening and environmental learning in public-access community gardens in Berlin
The potential of ‘Urban Green Commons’ in the resilience building of cities
Urban green commons: Insights on urban common property systems
Strategic Spatial Planning and the Ecosystem Services Concept - an Historical Exploration
Wilkinson, C., T. Saarne, G. D. Peterson, and J. Colding 2013. Strategic spatial planning and the ecosystem services concept – an historical exploration. Ecology and Society 18(1): 37. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05368-180137
Social–ecological memory in urban gardens—Retaining the capacity for management of ecosystem services
Tradeoffs between Environmental Goals and Urban Development: The Case of Nitrogen Load from the Stockholm County to the Baltic Sea
Urban dwellers depend on the generation of ecosystem services for their welfare. The city of Stockholm is growing, and a 25% increase in population is projected by 2030. The effects of urban development were estimated through the quantification of nitrogen (N) leakage to the Baltic Sea under two urban development scenarios. We found that total net N load will increase by 6% or 8%, depending on which growth scenario is applied, and population incr…
The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions: Ten Years Later
Folke, C., L. Pritchard, F. Berkes, J. Colding, and U. Svedin. 2007. The problem of fit between ecosystems and institutions: ten years later. Ecology and Society 12(1): 30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02064-120130
Economic valuation of a seed dispersal service in the Stockholm National Urban Park, Sweden
Social–ecological memory in urban gardens—Retaining the capacity for management of ecosystem services
Reconnecting Cities to the Biosphere: Stewardship of Green Infrastructure and Urban Ecosystem Services
Within-city green infrastructure can offer opportunities and new contexts for people to become stewards of ecosystem services. We analyze cities as social-ecological systems, synthesize the literature, and provide examples from more than 15 years of research in the Stockholm urban region, Sweden. The social-ecological approach spans from investigating ecosystem properties to the social frameworks and personal values that drive and shape human int…
The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions: Ten Years Later
Folke, C., L. Pritchard, F. Berkes, J. Colding, and U. Svedin. 2007. The problem of fit between ecosystems and institutions: ten years later. Ecology and Society 12(1): 30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02064-120130
Urban green commons: Insights on urban common property systems
Exploring the social-ecological systems discourse 20 years later
This paper explores the 20-year evolution of the social-ecological systems framework (SESs). Although a first definition of SES dates back to 1988, Berkes and Folke more thoroughly used the concept in 1998 to analyze resilience in local resource management systems. Since then studies of interlinked human and natural systems have emerged as a field on its own right, promoting interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration in a wide set of fields and…
Strategic Spatial Planning and the Ecosystem Services Concept - an Historical Exploration
Wilkinson, C., T. Saarne, G. D. Peterson, and J. Colding 2013. Strategic spatial planning and the ecosystem services concept – an historical exploration. Ecology and Society 18(1): 37. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05368-180137
Incorporating Green-area User Groups in Urban Ecosystem Management
We analyze the role of urban green areas managed by local user groups in their potential for supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services in growing city-regions, with focus on allotment areas, domestic gardens, and golf courses. Using Stockholm, Sweden, as an example cityregion, we compile GIS data of its spatial characteristics and relate these data to GIS data for protected areas and "green wedges" prioritized in biodiversity conservation. R…
History and Local Management of a Biodiversity-Rich, Urban Cultural Landscape
Barthel, S., J. Colding, T. Elmqvist, and C. Folke. 2005. History and local management of a biodiversity-rich, urban cultural landscape. Ecology and Society 10(2): 10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01568-100210
Toward an integrated theory of spatial morphology and resilient urban systems
We take the first step in the development of a new field of research with the aim of merging spatial morphology and resilience science. This involves a revisiting and reunderstanding of the meaning of sustainable urban form. We briefly describe the fields of resilience science and spatial morphology. Drawing on a selected set of propositions in both fields, we put urban form in the context of the adaptive renewal cycle, a dynamic framework model …
Urban climate resilience through hybrid infrastructure
Urban infrastructure will require transformative changes to adapt to changing disturbance patterns. We ask what new opportunities hybrid infrastructure—built environments coupled with landscape-scale biophysical structures and processes—offer for building different layers of resilience critical for dealing with increased variation in the frequency, magnitude and different phases of climate-related disturbances. With its more diverse components an…
How smart is smart growth? Examining the environmental validation behind city compaction
Navigating complexity with the four pillars of social sustainability
The concept of social sustainability has long been a subject of discussion within academic literature and practitioners. However, there remains a lack of clarity in its definition and scholars argue that this can impacting the legitimacy of addressing social sustainability challenges. Through a systematic literature review and a content analysis, we shed light on the multifaceted discourse surrounding the concept of social sustainability, elucida…
Community climate commons for collective climate action
Mitigating and adapting to climate change is a vital challenge that cannot rely solely on technology or macro policies but need also be tailored to local social and ecological contexts. As theory suggests, institutional designs that increase collective climate action could potentially speed up climate action in society. In this article we explore the concept of ‘community climate commons’ (CCCs) to foster interconnected and holistic approaches in…
The Relations Among Threatened Species, Their Protection, and Taboos
We analyzed the role of taboos for the protection of species listed as "threatened" by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), and also for species known to be endemic and keystone. The study was limited to taboos that totally avoid or prohibit any use of particular species and their populations. We call them specific-species taboos . Through a literature review, 70 currently existing examples of specific-species taboos were identified and analyzed.…
Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management
Indigenous groups offer alternative knowledge and perspectives based on their own locally developed practices of resource use. We surveyed the international literature to focus on the role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in monitoring, responding to, and managing ecosystem processes and functions, with special attention to ecological resilience. Case studies revealed that there exists a diversity of local or traditional practices for ecosyste…
Ecologists as the New Management Elite
"Can a set of articles published by some of the most prominent ecologists of our time be analyzed in a fashion that increases our confidence about the meaning of sustainable development? Yes, according to Emery Roe's (1998) Taking Complexity Seriously: Policy Analysis, Triangulation and Sustainable Development.\n\n "The objective of this book is to analyze the debate about sustainable development that took place in 1993 in the journal Ecological …
Social Taboos: “Invisible” Systems of Local Resource Management and Biological Conservation
Social taboos exist in most cultures, both Western and non-Western. They are good examples of informal institutions, where norms, rather than governmental juridical laws and rules, determine human behavior. In many traditional societies throughout the world, taboos frequently guide human conduct toward the natural environment. Based on a survey of recent literature, we synthesize information on such taboos. We refer to them as “resource and habit…
History and Local Management of a Biodiversity-Rich, Urban Cultural Landscape
Barthel, S., J. Colding, T. Elmqvist, and C. Folke. 2005. History and local management of a biodiversity-rich, urban cultural landscape. Ecology and Society 10(2): 10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01568-100210
Economic valuation of a seed dispersal service in the Stockholm National Urban Park, Sweden
Incorporating Green-area User Groups in Urban Ecosystem Management
We analyze the role of urban green areas managed by local user groups in their potential for supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services in growing city-regions, with focus on allotment areas, domestic gardens, and golf courses. Using Stockholm, Sweden, as an example cityregion, we compile GIS data of its spatial characteristics and relate these data to GIS data for protected areas and "green wedges" prioritized in biodiversity conservation. R…
Tradeoffs between Environmental Goals and Urban Development: The Case of Nitrogen Load from the Stockholm County to the Baltic Sea
Urban dwellers depend on the generation of ecosystem services for their welfare. The city of Stockholm is growing, and a 25% increase in population is projected by 2030. The effects of urban development were estimated through the quantification of nitrogen (N) leakage to the Baltic Sea under two urban development scenarios. We found that total net N load will increase by 6% or 8%, depending on which growth scenario is applied, and population incr…
The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions: Ten Years Later
Folke, C., L. Pritchard, F. Berkes, J. Colding, and U. Svedin. 2007. The problem of fit between ecosystems and institutions: ten years later. Ecology and Society 12(1): 30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02064-120130
Social–ecological memory in urban gardens—Retaining the capacity for management of ecosystem services
Civic greening and environmental learning in public-access community gardens in Berlin
The potential of ‘Urban Green Commons’ in the resilience building of cities
Urban green commons: Insights on urban common property systems
Strategic Spatial Planning and the Ecosystem Services Concept - an Historical Exploration
Wilkinson, C., T. Saarne, G. D. Peterson, and J. Colding 2013. Strategic spatial planning and the ecosystem services concept – an historical exploration. Ecology and Society 18(1): 37. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05368-180137
Reconnecting Cities to the Biosphere: Stewardship of Green Infrastructure and Urban Ecosystem Services
Within-city green infrastructure can offer opportunities and new contexts for people to become stewards of ecosystem services. We analyze cities as social-ecological systems, synthesize the literature, and provide examples from more than 15 years of research in the Stockholm urban region, Sweden. The social-ecological approach spans from investigating ecosystem properties to the social frameworks and personal values that drive and shape human int…
Toward an integrated theory of spatial morphology and resilient urban systems
We take the first step in the development of a new field of research with the aim of merging spatial morphology and resilience science. This involves a revisiting and reunderstanding of the meaning of sustainable urban form. We briefly describe the fields of resilience science and spatial morphology. Drawing on a selected set of propositions in both fields, we put urban form in the context of the adaptive renewal cycle, a dynamic framework model …
How smart is smart growth? Examining the environmental validation behind city compaction
Exploring the social-ecological systems discourse 20 years later
This paper explores the 20-year evolution of the social-ecological systems framework (SESs). Although a first definition of SES dates back to 1988, Berkes and Folke more thoroughly used the concept in 1998 to analyze resilience in local resource management systems. Since then studies of interlinked human and natural systems have emerged as a field on its own right, promoting interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration in a wide set of fields and…
Urban nature as a source of resilience during social distancing amidst the coronavirus pandemic
The 2020 coronavirus pandemic caused countries across the world to implement measures of social distancing to curb spreading of COVID-19. The large and sudden disruptions to everyday life that result from this are likely to impact well-being, particularly among urban populations that live in dense settings with limited public space. In this paper, we argue that during these extraordinary circumstances, urban nature offers resilience for maintaini…
The smart city model: A new panacea for urban sustainability or unmanageable complexity
Despite several calls in this journal of debating the rapid growth of the literature on “smart cities”, such a debate has in large been absent. Smart cities are often un-critically launched as a sustainable way of developing cities. When cities become increasingly complex as its features are wired into the Internet, theories for their understanding is lagging behind. As it is prospected that a greater number of people and things will become conne…
Supporting Bottom-Up Human Agency for Adapting to Climate Change
Psychological obstacles to the efficacy of environmental footprint tools
Applying seven resilience principles on the Vision of the Digital City
We use an ecological lens on physiognomies of the digital city-development. • Using resilience principles can reduce risks in digitalization of city functions. • Strategically design for both buffering instant shocks and slow erosion • Use autonomic self-organizing machine learning for whole digital network resilience • Keep a separated and redundant analogue technology for critical infrastructures
Mapping Flood Risk Uncertainty Zones in Support of Urban Resilience Planning
River flooding and urbanization are processes of different character that take place worldwide. As the latter tends to make the consequences of the former worse, together with the uncertainties related to future climate change and flood-risk modeling, there is a need to both use existing tools and develop new ones that help the management and planning of urban environments. In this article a prototype tool, based on estimated maximum land cover r…
Urban Commons and Collective Action to Address Climate Change
Climate change and the coupled loss of ecosystem services pose major collective action problems in that all individuals would benefit from better cooperation to address these problems but conflicting interests and/or incomplete knowledge discourage joint action. Adopting an inductive and multi‐layered approach, drawing upon the authors’ previous research on urban commons, we here summarize key insights on environmentally oriented urban commons an…
Environmental resource management (22 works) · Ecology (19 works) · Geography (18 works) · Environmental Science (15 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 works) · Business (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Environmental planning (12 works) · Biology (11 works) · Computer Science (11 works)