Geneviève S Metson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3507922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geneviève S Metson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geneviève S |
| FAMILY NAME | Metson |
| SIGNATURE | METSON G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8081-2126 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making Soil Count
This paper critically examines the EU’s “Soil Deal for Europe” through a feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS) lens through the exploration of how digital tools such as the EU soil dashboard and Living Labs shape our understanding of soil health. We argue that current soil governance relies on technocratic, data-driven frameworks that obscure ecological complexity and marginalize embodied, local knowledge. By analyzing the sociotechnical …
Phosphorus geopolitical scarcity
Global commodity price spikes, as has been the case for phosphorus between 2020 and 2023, depict how interconnected local realities are in the Anthropocene. Although all farmers require access to phosphorus to grow food, not all have equal access. How issues are portrayed in the media influences how the public and policymakers come to understand what matters. Although scholars have a phosphorus scarcity vulnerability framework to analyze interact…
Ambitious food system interventions required to mitigate the risk of exceeding Earth’s environmental limits
Enhancing nutrient recycling through expansion of biogas production - fact or fiction
Efficient recycling of digestate as fertilizers is crucial to achieve a rapid expansion of biogas production in Sweden and Europe. This study investigated if and to what extent the biogas and biofertilizer markets are connected and interdependent using the lens of sustainable market-shaping in a case study of the island Gotland, Sweden. We used interviews and document analyses to identify processes and connections that have impacted on how the bi…
Use of recycled phosphorus products in organic farming in EU member states
Potential for high contribution of urban gardens to nutrient export in urban watersheds
Urban gardens and farms typically use compost as a source of nutrients, often at levels that exceed crop nutrient demands. Although land dedicated to agriculture is a small fraction of urban land use, high input rates coupled with low nutrient use efficiencies suggest that export of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) from this land could be potentially important contributors to urban nutrient budgets. We used the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Se…
Ambitious food system interventions required to mitigate the risk of exceeding Earth’s environmental limits
Transforming the global food system is essential to avoid exceeding Earth’s environmental limits. A robust evidence base is crucial to assess the scale and combination of interventions required for a sustainable transformation. We developed a risk assessment framework, underpinned by an evidence synthesis of global food system modeling studies, to quantify the potential of individual and combined interventions to mitigate the risk of exceeding gl…
Nitrogen and the food system
The U.S. consumer phosphorus footprint
Phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) are essential nutrients for food production but their excess use in agriculture can have major social costs, particularly related to water quality degradation. Nutrient footprint approaches estimate N and P release to the environment through food production and waste management and enable linking these emissions to particular consumption patterns. Following an established method for quantifying a consumer-oriented …
Plant-based diets add to the wastewater phosphorus burden
Global food production and current reliance on meat-based diets requires a large share of natural resource use and causes widespread environmental pollution including phosphorus (P). Transitions to less animal-intensive diets address a suite of sustainability goals, but their impact on society’s wastewater P burden is unclear. Using the UK as our example, we explored historical diet changes between 1942 and 2016, and how shifting towards plant-ba…
Urban Ecological Infrastructure
It is likely that half of the urban areas that will exist in 2050 have not yet been designed and built. This provides tremendous opportunities for enhancing urban sustainability, and using “nature in cities” is critical to more resilient solutions to urban challenges. Terms for “urban nature” include Green Infrastructure (GI), Green-Blue Infrastructure (GBI), Urban Green Space (UGS), and Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). These terms, and the concepts…
Modeling phosphorus in rivers at the global scale
Global phosphorus flows through agricultural trade
The surprisingly small but increasing role of international agricultural trade on the European Union’s dependence on mineral phosphorus fertiliser
Phosphorus (P) is subject to global management challenges due to its importance to both food security and water quality. The European Union (EU) has promoted policies to limit fertiliser over-application and protect water quality for more than 20 years, helping to reduce European P use. Over this time period, the EU has, however, become more reliant on imported agricultural products. These imported products require fertiliser to be used in distan…
P-Futures
Facilitators & barriers to organic waste and phosphorus re-use in Montreal
Cities have the capacity to play a key role in resource and pollution management through their decisions about organic waste. Often overlooked, but nevertheless essential, is the role that cities can play in increasing phosphorus (P) recycling because cities are consumers of large amounts of P-dense food and producers of vast amounts of P-rich waste. Most cities do not take advantage of this potential, seeing P as simply another part of organic w…
Urban phosphorus sustainability
Efficiency Through Proximity
In tightly coupled socioecological systems, such as cities, the interactions between socio‐economic and biophysical characteristics of an area strongly influence ecosystem function. Very often the effects of socioeconomic activities on ecosystem function are unintended, but can impact the sustainability of a city and can have irreversible effects. The food system in its entirety, from production to treatment of human waste, is one of the most imp…
The role of diet in phosphorus demand
Over the past 50 years, there have been major changes in human diets, including a global average increase in meat consumption and total calorie intake. We quantified how changes in annual per capita national average diets affected requirements for mined P between 1961 and 2007, starting with the per capita availability of a food crop or animal product and then determining the P needed to grow the product. The global per capita P footprint increas…
Efficiency Through Proximity
In tightly coupled socioecological systems, such as cities, the interactions between socio‐economic and biophysical characteristics of an area strongly influence ecosystem function. Very often the effects of socioeconomic activities on ecosystem function are unintended, but can impact the sustainability of a city and can have irreversible effects. The food system in its entirety, from production to treatment of human waste, is one of the most imp…
The role of diet in phosphorus demand
Over the past 50 years, there have been major changes in human diets, including a global average increase in meat consumption and total calorie intake. We quantified how changes in annual per capita national average diets affected requirements for mined P between 1961 and 2007, starting with the per capita availability of a food crop or animal product and then determining the P needed to grow the product. The global per capita P footprint increas…
Urban phosphorus sustainability
Facilitators & barriers to organic waste and phosphorus re-use in Montreal
Cities have the capacity to play a key role in resource and pollution management through their decisions about organic waste. Often overlooked, but nevertheless essential, is the role that cities can play in increasing phosphorus (P) recycling because cities are consumers of large amounts of P-dense food and producers of vast amounts of P-rich waste. Most cities do not take advantage of this potential, seeing P as simply another part of organic w…
The surprisingly small but increasing role of international agricultural trade on the European Union’s dependence on mineral phosphorus fertiliser
Phosphorus (P) is subject to global management challenges due to its importance to both food security and water quality. The European Union (EU) has promoted policies to limit fertiliser over-application and protect water quality for more than 20 years, helping to reduce European P use. Over this time period, the EU has, however, become more reliant on imported agricultural products. These imported products require fertiliser to be used in distan…
P-Futures
Modeling phosphorus in rivers at the global scale
Global phosphorus flows through agricultural trade
Urban Ecological Infrastructure
It is likely that half of the urban areas that will exist in 2050 have not yet been designed and built. This provides tremendous opportunities for enhancing urban sustainability, and using “nature in cities” is critical to more resilient solutions to urban challenges. Terms for “urban nature” include Green Infrastructure (GI), Green-Blue Infrastructure (GBI), Urban Green Space (UGS), and Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). These terms, and the concepts…
The U.S. consumer phosphorus footprint
Phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) are essential nutrients for food production but their excess use in agriculture can have major social costs, particularly related to water quality degradation. Nutrient footprint approaches estimate N and P release to the environment through food production and waste management and enable linking these emissions to particular consumption patterns. Following an established method for quantifying a consumer-oriented …
Plant-based diets add to the wastewater phosphorus burden
Global food production and current reliance on meat-based diets requires a large share of natural resource use and causes widespread environmental pollution including phosphorus (P). Transitions to less animal-intensive diets address a suite of sustainability goals, but their impact on society’s wastewater P burden is unclear. Using the UK as our example, we explored historical diet changes between 1942 and 2016, and how shifting towards plant-ba…
Nitrogen and the food system
Potential for high contribution of urban gardens to nutrient export in urban watersheds
Urban gardens and farms typically use compost as a source of nutrients, often at levels that exceed crop nutrient demands. Although land dedicated to agriculture is a small fraction of urban land use, high input rates coupled with low nutrient use efficiencies suggest that export of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) from this land could be potentially important contributors to urban nutrient budgets. We used the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Se…
Ambitious food system interventions required to mitigate the risk of exceeding Earth’s environmental limits
Transforming the global food system is essential to avoid exceeding Earth’s environmental limits. A robust evidence base is crucial to assess the scale and combination of interventions required for a sustainable transformation. We developed a risk assessment framework, underpinned by an evidence synthesis of global food system modeling studies, to quantify the potential of individual and combined interventions to mitigate the risk of exceeding gl…
Ambitious food system interventions required to mitigate the risk of exceeding Earth’s environmental limits
Enhancing nutrient recycling through expansion of biogas production - fact or fiction
Efficient recycling of digestate as fertilizers is crucial to achieve a rapid expansion of biogas production in Sweden and Europe. This study investigated if and to what extent the biogas and biofertilizer markets are connected and interdependent using the lens of sustainable market-shaping in a case study of the island Gotland, Sweden. We used interviews and document analyses to identify processes and connections that have impacted on how the bi…
Use of recycled phosphorus products in organic farming in EU member states
Making Soil Count
This paper critically examines the EU’s “Soil Deal for Europe” through a feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS) lens through the exploration of how digital tools such as the EU soil dashboard and Living Labs shape our understanding of soil health. We argue that current soil governance relies on technocratic, data-driven frameworks that obscure ecological complexity and marginalize embodied, local knowledge. By analyzing the sociotechnical …
Phosphorus geopolitical scarcity
Global commodity price spikes, as has been the case for phosphorus between 2020 and 2023, depict how interconnected local realities are in the Anthropocene. Although all farmers require access to phosphorus to grow food, not all have equal access. How issues are portrayed in the media influences how the public and policymakers come to understand what matters. Although scholars have a phosphorus scarcity vulnerability framework to analyze interact…
Environmental Science (14 works) · Phosphorus and nutrient management (13 works) · Business (11 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Agriculture (9 works) · Biology (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Phosphorus (8 works) · Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (7 works)