L Schultz

Biographic Data

ID32959
NAMEL Schultz
GIVEN NAMESL
FAMILY NAMESchultz
SIGNATURESCHULTZ L
AFFILIATIONSStockholm Resilience Centre
ORCID0000-0003-4763-8872
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS365
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1952
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX8

  • Narratives of ‘home landscapes’ guide stewardship practices among Swedish forest owners

    Open AccessKatja Malmborg, Johan Enqvist et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2026

    Production forests play an important role in addressing many of our current sustainability challenges. Therefore, how these forests are managed and what motivates the people who are managing them are important for sustainability. 47 per cent of forests in Europe are privately owned. Private landowners are known to be motivated by diverse values and interests. The Swedish notion of hembygdskänsla , or sense of home landscape, is likely to play a r…

  • The future of Global Environmental Assessments

    Open AccessElena Michele Bennett, Walter V Reid et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2026References: 12

  • Participatory governance for people and nature in multifunctional landscapes — insights from Biosphere Reserves

    Open AccessHanna Sinare, Kaera Coetzer et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2025References: 10

    Participatory approaches are put forward to ensure that governance for the well-being of humans and nature is legitimate and effective, particularly responding to global challenges of ecosystem degradation and climate change. As model areas for sustainable development with explicit goals of participation, the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves can provide insights on participatory governance arrangements, outcomes of participation, and ob…

  • Welcome home! Introducing SocSES

    Open AccessA De Vos, Allyson Quinlan et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2025

    Underpinned by systemic thinking, social-ecological systems (SES) research has emerged as a critical field for addressing the challenges of the Anthropocene, marked by a cross-scale focus, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches, and a strong emphasis on place-based work. Thanks to the efforts of many networks and institutes, the field has advanced new theoretical and methodological approaches, fostered dedicated journals, and spurred educational…

  • Global knowledge–action networks at the frontlines of sustainability

    Open AccessAlicia Donnellan Barraclough, Maureen G Reed et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2023

    Generating actionable knowledge to meet current sustainability challenges requires unprecedented collaboration across scales, geographies, cultures and knowledges. Intergovernmental programmes and place‐based knowledge–action networks have much potential to mobilize sustainability transformation. Although many research fields have benefited from research networks and comparative sites, the potential of site‐based research networks for generating …

  • Embracing complexity in landscape management

    Open AccessKatja Malmborg, Elin Enfors-Kautsky et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2022

    Landscapes and their management are at the center of many of the sustainability challenges that we face. Landscapes can be described as social-ecological systems shaped by a myriad of human activities and biophysical processes, interacting across space and time. Managing them sustainably requires considering this complexity. Resilience thinking offers ways to address complexity in decision-making. In this paper, we analyse the learning and impact…

  • The programme on ecosystem change and society (Pecs) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus

    Open AccessAlbert V Norström, Bina Agarwal et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2022

    The Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) was established in 2011, and is now one of the major international social-ecological systems (SES) research networks. During this time, SES research has undergone a phase of rapid growth and has grown into an influential branch of sustainability science. In this Perspective, we argue that SES research has also deepened over the past decade, and helped to shed light on key dimensions of SES dyna…

  • Voices of young biosphere stewards on the strengths, weaknesses, and ways forward for 74 Unesco Biosphere Reserves across 83 countries

    Open AccessAlicia Donnellan Barraclough, L Schultz et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2021Cited by: 9References: 10

    Young stakeholders are key actors in social-ecological systems, who have the capacity to be agents of sustainability transformation but are also at high risk of exclusion in the unfolding of global change challenges. Despite the focus of sustainability on future generations, there has been little research effort aimed at understanding young actors’ roles as biosphere stewards. In this work we investigate how young stakeholders perceive and partic…

  • Operationalizing ecosystem service bundles for strategic sustainability planning

    Open AccessKatja Malmborg, Elin Enfors-Kautsky et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2021Cited by: 1References: 53

    The ecosystem service concept is recognized as a useful tool to support sustainability in decision-making. In this study, we collaborated with actors in the Helge å catchment, southern Sweden, in an iterative participatory ecosystem service assessment. Through workshops and interviews, we jointly decided which ecosystem services to assess and indicators to use in order to achieve a sense of ownership and a higher legitimacy of the assessment. Sub…

  • The impacts of trust, cost and risk on collaboration in environmental governance

    Open AccessÖrjan Bodin, Julia Baird et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2020

    Collaborative approaches to environmental governance are drawing increased interest in research and practice. In this article we investigate the structure and functioning of actor networks engaged in collaboration. We specifically seek to advance understanding of how and why collaborative networks are formed as actors engage in addressing two broad classes of collective action problems: coordination and cooperation. It has been proposed that more…

  • Understanding the context of multifaceted collaborations for social-ecological sustainability

    Open AccessJessica Cockburn, M Schoon et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2020Cited by: 2

    Cockburn, J., M. Schoon, G. Cundill, C. Robinson, J. A. Aburto, S. M. Alexander, J. A. Baggio, C. Barnaud, M. Chapman, M. Garcia Llorente, G. A. García-López, R. Hill, C. Ifejika Speranza, J. Lee, C. L. Meek, E. Rosenberg, L. Schultz, and G. Thondhlana. 2020. Understanding the context of multifaceted collaborations for social-ecological sustainability: a methodology for cross-case analysis. Ecology and Society 25(3):7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-…

  • Gobernanza adaptativa en construcción

    Open AccessL Schultz, West et al.ARTICLERevista de geografía Norte Grande2019Cited by: 2

    La gobernanza adaptativa (GA) ha surgido como un enfoque prominente para comprender y mejorar las respuestas de la gobernanza a los complejos desafos de la sustentabilidad. Los elementos clave incluyen el aprendizaje y la colaboracin entre sectores y escalas hacia una visin compartida, a travs del monitoreo, el intercambio de informacin, la construccin de redes y la resolucin de conflictos. Presentamos brevemente la GA a un pblico amplio e identi…

  • Integrating Conservation and Sustainable Development Through Adaptive Co-management in Unesco Biosphere Reserves

    Open AccessJulia Baird, Ryan Plummer et al.ARTICLEConservation and Society2018

    Integrating conservation and sustainable development is difficult, but organisations charged with this mandate must move forward with implementation. Adaptive Co-Management (ACM), an approach that brings together the learning function of adaptation with the linking function of collaboration, has been identified as a promising way to enhance the effectiveness of sustainable development without compromising conservation efforts. We examine four UNE…

  • Learning to live with social-ecological complexity

    Open AccessL Schultz, West et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2018Cited by: 7References: 8

  • Is Adaptive Co-management Delivering? Examining Relationships Between Collaboration, Learning and Outcomes in Unesco Biosphere Reserves

    Open AccessRyan Plummer, Julia Baird et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2017Cited by: 21References: 10

    This paper examines relationships among perceived processes and outcomes in four UNESCO biosphere reserves (BRs). BRs offer a unique opportunity to examine these relationships because they aim to foster more adaptive and collaborative forms of management, i.e. adaptive co-management (ACM). Accounting for the outcomes of ACM is a difficult task and little progress has been made to this end. However, we show here that ACM efforts in all four BRs ha…

  • Diagnosing adaptive comanagement across multiple cases

    Open AccessRyan Plummer, Julia Baird et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2017Cited by: 2

    Adaptive comanagement is at an important cross-road: different research paths forward are possible, and a diagnostic approach has been identified as a promising one. Accordingly, we operationalize a diagnostic approach, using a framework, to set a new direction for adaptive comanagement research. We set out three main first-tier variables: antecedents, process, and outcomes, and these main variables are situated within a fourth: the setting. With…

  • Adaptive governance, ecosystem management, and natural capital

    Open AccessL Schultz, Carl Folke et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2015

    Significance Adaptive governance (AG) has been suggested as a suitable approach for ecosystem management in changing environments. It rests on the assumption that landscapes and seascapes need to be understood and governed as complex social–ecological systems rather than as ecosystems alone. We compared three AG initiatives and their effects on natural capital and ecosystem services. In comparison with other efforts aimed at conservation and sust…

  • Learning for resilience in the European Court of Human Rights

    Open AccessWest, Simon P West et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2015

    West, S. P., and L. Schultz. 2015. Learning for resilience in the European Court of Human Rights: adjudication as an adaptive governance practice. Ecology and Society 20(1): 31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07190-200131

  • Three necessary conditions for establishing effective Sustainable Development Goals in the Anthropocene

    Open AccessAlbert V Norström, Astrid Dannenberg et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2014Cited by: 3

    Norström, A. V., A. Dannenberg, G. McCarney, M. Milkoreit, F. Diekert, G. Engström, R. Fishman, J. Gars, E. Kyriakopoolou, V. Manoussi, K. Meng, M. Metian, M. Sanctuary, M. Schlüter, M. Schoon, L. Schultz, and M. Sjöstedt. 2014. Three necessary conditions for establishing effective Sustainable Development Goals in the Anthropocene. Ecology and Society 19(3): 8. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06602-190308

  • A Theory of Transformative Agency in Linked Social-Ecological Systems

    Open AccessFrances Westley, Frances R Westley et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2013Cited by: 159References: 14

    Westley, F. R., O. Tjornbo, L. Schultz, P. Olsson, C. Folke, B. Crona and Ö. Bodin. 2013. A theory of transformative agency in linked social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 18(3): 27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05072-180327

  • Toward Principles for Enhancing the Resilience of Ecosystem Services

    Open AccessReinette Biggs, Maja Schlüter et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Environment and…2012

    Enhancing the resilience of ecosystem services (ES) that underpin human well-being is critical for meeting current and future societal needs, and requires specific governance and management policies. Using the literature, we identify seven generic policy-relevant principles for enhancing the resilience of desired ES in the face of disturbance and ongoing change in social-ecological systems (SES). These principles are (P1) maintain diversity and r…

  • Program on ecosystem change and society

    Open AccessR Carpenter, Carl Folke et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2012Cited by: 4References: 2

  • Learning for resilience? Exploring learning opportunities in biosphere reserves

    L Schultz, Cecilia LundholmARTICLEEnvironmental Education Research2010Cited by: 16References: 11

    The interdependence of society and nature, the inherent complexity of social–ecological systems, and the global deterioration of ecosystem services provide the rationale for a growing body of literature focusing on social–ecological resilience – the capacity to cope with, adapt to and shape change – for sustainable development. Processes of learning‐by‐doing and multiple‐loop social learning across knowledge systems and different levels of decisi…

  • Participation, Adaptive Co-management, and Management Performance in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves

    Open AccessL Schultz, Andreas Duit et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2010Cited by: 34References: 8

  • Powerless Spectators, Coping Actors, and Adaptive Co-managers

    Open AccessChristo Fabricius, Carl Folke et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2007Cited by: 9

    Fabricius, C., C. Folke, G. Cundill, and L. Schultz. 2007. Powerless spectators, coping actors, and adaptive co-managers: a synthesis of the role of communities in ecosystem management. Ecology and Society 12(1): 29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02072-120129