Måns Nilsson

Biographic Data

ID3704083
NAMEMåns Nilsson
GIVEN NAMESMåns
FAMILY NAMENilsson
SIGNATURENILSSON M
AFFILIATIONSStockholm Environment Institute
ORCID0000-0003-2157-1083
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS579
WORKS AS AUTHOR42
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX13

  • Returning to core principles to advance the 2030 Agenda

    Open AccessNina Weitz, Henrik Carlsen et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023Cited by: 4References: 5

  • The application of soft systems thinking in SDG interaction studies

    Open AccessEfraim Hernández-Orozco, Ivonne Lobos-Alva et al.ARTICLEEnvironment Development and…2022

    Since the approval of the Agenda 2030, researchers and policy makers have pointed out the need to understand interactions among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—suggesting that progress or the lack of progress toward one goal will affect other goals through systemic interactions, producing synergies and trade-offs. However, most of the methods used to account for these interactions rely on hard systems thinking approaches, which are limit…

  • Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals

    Open AccessFelix Biermann, Thomas Hickmann et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Cited by: 30References: 20

    In 2015, the United Nations agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals as the central normative framework for sustainable development worldwide. The effectiveness of governing by such broad global goals, however, remains uncertain, and we lack comprehensive meta-studies that assess the political impact of the goals across countries and globally. We present here condensed evidence from an analysis of over 3,000 scientific studies on the Sustainabl…

  • Beyond technology

    Open AccessSeweryn Krupnik, Aleksandra Wagner et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2022Cited by: 24References: 4

    This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…

  • Aligning integrated assessment modelling with socio-technical transition insights

    Open AccessMariësse A E van Sluisveld, Andries F Hof et al.ARTICLETechnological Forecasting and…2020

  • A bridging framework for studying transition pathways – From systems models to local action in the Swedish heating domain

    Open AccessMåns Nilsson, Adis Dzebo et al.ARTICLETechnological Forecasting and…2020

  • Biodiversity’s contributions to sustainable development

    Open AccessMałgorzata Blicharska, R Smithers et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 8References: 18

  • Governing Trade-Offs and Building Coherence in Policy-Making for the 2030 Agenda

    Open AccessMåns Nilsson, Nina WeitzARTICLEPolitics and Governance2019Cited by: 7References: 11

    This article introduces a suggested comprehensive framework for identifying, assessing and governing trade-offs and enhancing coherence in public policy decision-making. The framework is based on a simple three-stage model of policy-making: understanding policy interactions (input), integrating policy-making (process), and assessing ex ante policy decisions (output). The first stage is tackled with an interactions assessment framework, identifyin…

  • Connecting the sustainable development goals by their energy inter-linkages

    Open AccessDavid Mccollum, David L McCollum et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide guide-posts to society as it attempts to respond to an array of pressing challenges. One of these challenges is energy; thus, the SDGs have become paramount for energy policy-making. Yet, while governments throughout the world have already declared the SDGs to be 'integrated and indivisible', there are still knowledge gaps surrounding how the interactions between the energy SDG targ…

  • Mapping interactions between the sustainable development goals

    Open AccessMåns Nilsson, Elinor Chisholm et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2018Cited by: 50References: 7

    Pursuing integrated research and decision-making to advance action on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) fundamentally depends on understanding interactions between the SDGs, both negative ones ("trade-offs") and positive ones ("co-benefits"). This quest, triggered by the 2030 Agenda, has however pointed to a gap in current research and policy analysis regarding how to think systematically about interactions across the SDGs. This paper synt…

  • Towards systemic and contextual priority setting for implementing the 2030 Agenda

    Open AccessNina Weitz, Henrik Carlsen et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2017Cited by: 36References: 7

    How the sustainable development goals (SDGs) interact with each other has emerged as a key question in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, as it has potentially strong implications for prioritization of actions and their effectiveness. So far, analysis of interactions has been very basic, typically starting from one SDG, counting the number of interactions, and discussing synergies and trade-offs from the perspective of that issue area. This p…

  • Policy note

    Open AccessMåns Nilsson, Åsa PerssonARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2017Cited by: 11References: 3

  • Closing the governance gaps in the water-energy-food nexus

    Open AccessNina Weitz, Claudia Strambo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2017Cited by: 59References: 8

    The water-energy-food nexus has become a popular concept in environmental change research and policy debates. Proponents suggest that a nexus approach promotes policy coherence through identifying optimal policy mixes and governance arrangements across the water, energy and food sectors. Although the nexus literature identifies some barriers to achieving coherence it does not clearly explain why the barriers are present, what influences them, and…

  • Policy

    Open AccessMåns Nilsson, David Grigg et al.ARTICLENature2016

  • Transmission transitions

    Open AccessSandra Tenggren, Josefin Wangel et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2016Cited by: 4References: 10

  • Beyond Cockpit-ism

    Open AccessMaarten A Hajer, Maarten Hajer et al.ARTICLESustainability2015

    The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) have the potential to become a powerful political vision that can support the urgently needed global transition to a shared and lasting prosperity. In December 2014, the United Nations (UN) Secretary General published his report on the SDGs. However, the final goals and targets that will be adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015 risk falling short of expectations because of what we call “cockp…

  • Coherent or inconsistent? Assessing energy security and climate policy interaction within the European Union

    Open AccessClaudia Strambo, Måns Nilsson et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2015Cited by: 4References: 11

  • The EV paradox – A multilevel study of why Stockholm is not a leader in electric vehicles

    Open AccessBjörn Nykvist, Måns NilssonARTICLEEnvironmental Innovation and…2015Cited by: 13References: 31

  • Understanding Policy Coherence

    Open AccessMåns Nilsson, Tony Zamparutti et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Policy and Governance2012

    This paper presents a framework for analysing policy coherence in a European Union setting through the perspective of policy interaction. Building on a simple policy‐analytical approach and theories of institutional interaction, the framework develops a three‐step analytical approach, consisting of the inventory of policy objectives, the screening matrix and a more in‐depth analysis of key interactions. Central to the analytical framework is the …

  • Reprint of “Can Earth system interactions be governed? Governance functions for linking climate change mitigation with land use, freshwater and biodiversity protection”

    Open AccessMåns Nilsson, Åsa PerssonARTICLEEcological Economics2012

  • Global environmental governance and planetary boundaries

    Open AccessVictor Galaz, Felix Biermann et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2012

  • Can Earth system interactions be governed? Governance functions for linking climate change mitigation with land use, freshwater and biodiversity protection

    Open AccessMåns Nilsson, Åsa PerssonARTICLEEcological Economics2012

  • Planetary boundaries’ — exploring the challenges for global environmental governance

    Open AccessVictor Galaz, Felix Biermann et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2012Cited by: 13References: 24

  • An energy vision

    Open AccessDetlef P Van Vuuren, Nebojsa Nakicenovic et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2012Cited by: 5References: 10

  • EU Climate and Energy Policy

    Jørgen Wettestad, Per Ove Eikeland et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Politics2012Cited by: 8References: 14

    This article examines the recent changes of three central EU climate and energy policies: the revised Emissions Trading Directive (ETS); the Renewables Directive (RES); and internal energy market (IEM) policy. An increasing transference of competence to EU level institutions, and hence “vertical integration,” has taken place, most clearly in the case of the ETS. The main reasons for the differing increase in vertical integration are, first, that …