Elke Kellner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3708076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elke Kellner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elke |
| FAMILY NAME | Kellner |
| SIGNATURE | KELLNER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2474-0938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mineral extraction on Indigenous land: Employing a relational approach to navigate the convergence of Indigenous and other ontologies and practices
The transition to low-carbon technologies, essential for energy transition, significantly increases the demand for minerals, with projections indicating a sixfold rise by 2040. A substantial portion of these minerals is located on Indigenous lands, placing policymakers in (1) a governance paradox between rapid mineral extraction and the protection of Indigenous rights and (2) a justice paradox between respecting Indigenous self-determination—incl…
The Empirical Realities of Polycentric Climate Governance: Introduction to the Special Issue
Scholars have undertaken much conceptual development of “polycentric” climate governance (PCG). Yet, there has been limited empirical examination of whether this descriptive, analytical, and normative concept can aid climate change mitigation; it may even undermine our efforts in certain contexts. Thus this special issue examines the empirical realities of PCG. Building from a shared definition of the concept, the constitutive articles analyze an…
Polycentric Climate Governance: The State, Local Action, Democratic Preferences, and Power—Emerging Insights and a Research Agenda
In recent years, climate governance has shifted from the global, multilateral regime to voluntary initiatives from multiple directions. Scholars frequently use a polycentric governance lens to study the complex and multijurisdictional reality. The polycentric perspective helps to grasp the new reality at a general level, but it is lacking in specificity. To fill this research gap, this article attempts to enhance the analytical power of the polyc…
Empirical research on polycentric governance: Critical gaps and a framework for studying long‐term change
Polycentric governance (PG) describes governance systems characterized by multiple, interdependent centers of decision‐making, offering an alternative to centralized governance models. PG is often assumed to be effective at helping policy actors address complex collective action problems, but burgeoning empirical literature on PG shows that it is not a panacea – PG is associated with both positive and negative governance outcomes. In this article…
A meta‐analysis of SES framework case studies: Identifying dyad and triad archetypes
There is a need to synthesize the vast amount of empirical case study research on social‐ecological systems (SES) to advance theory. Innovative methods are needed to identify patterns of system interactions and outcomes at different levels of abstraction. Many identifiable patterns may only be relevant to small sets of cases, a sector or regional context, and some more broadly. Theory needs to match these levels while still retaining enough detai…
Convergence research as transdisciplinary knowledge coproduction within cases of effective collaborative governance of social-ecological systems
Successful collaborative governance (CG) of social-ecological systems (SES) involves multiple stakeholders convening iteratively over the long term to reach a commonly held vision. This often involves building knowledge for social learning processes induced to come to collective decisions about managing complex systems in flux. Because of the complexity of any SES in the Anthropocene, this coproduced knowledge is frequently transdisciplinary, usi…
Networks of action situations: A systematic review of empirical research
“Action situations”—events, venues, or physically interdependent instances of decision-making—have become a central unit of analysis in the social–environmental sciences, particularly among scholars interested in bridging the social with the biophysical or ecological side of interdependent decisions. A growing body of empirical studies in social–ecological systems research has recently used case and comparative studies to analyse multiple interde…
Learning from past coevolutionary processes to envision sustainable futures: Extending an action situations approach to the Water-Energy-Food nexus
Despite near-global consensus on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement, unresolved and politically contentious trade-offs have undermined implementation. One exemplary case facing difficult trade-offs are Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus cases. Here, we extend the nascent ‘Social-Ecological Action Situations’ framework to analyse past coevolution of WEF nexus cases (or other social-ecological systems) to envision possible…
Networks of action situations in social–ecological systems: Current approaches and potential futures
Identifying leverage points for shifting Water-Energy-Food nexus cases towards sustainability through the Networks of Action Situations approach combined with systems thinking
In the twenty-first century, the world ́s demand for natural resources is more pressing and deeply interconnected than ever before. The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus has gained growing interest as a promising concept for complex resource management challenges. However, knowledge about the root causes of cross-sectoral coordination problems and how they can be shifted towards sustainability is still lacking. This paper fills this gap by conceptual…
Using case study data to understand SES interactions: A model-centered meta-analysis of SES framework applications
Networks of action situations in social-ecological systems research: Upcoming Special Feature in Sustainability Science
Identifying leverage points for shifting Water-Energy-Food nexus cases towards sustainability through the Networks of Action Situations approach combined with systems thinking
In the twenty-first century, the world ́s demand for natural resources is more pressing and deeply interconnected than ever before. The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus has gained growing interest as a promising concept for complex resource management challenges. However, knowledge about the root causes of cross-sectoral coordination problems and how they can be shifted towards sustainability is still lacking. This paper fills this gap by conceptual…
Networks of action situations in social–ecological systems: Current approaches and potential futures
Using case study data to understand SES interactions: A model-centered meta-analysis of SES framework applications
Mineral extraction on Indigenous land: Employing a relational approach to navigate the convergence of Indigenous and other ontologies and practices
The transition to low-carbon technologies, essential for energy transition, significantly increases the demand for minerals, with projections indicating a sixfold rise by 2040. A substantial portion of these minerals is located on Indigenous lands, placing policymakers in (1) a governance paradox between rapid mineral extraction and the protection of Indigenous rights and (2) a justice paradox between respecting Indigenous self-determination—incl…
Networks of action situations in social-ecological systems research: Upcoming Special Feature in Sustainability Science
Using case study data to understand SES interactions: A model-centered meta-analysis of SES framework applications
Networks of action situations in social-ecological systems research: Upcoming Special Feature in Sustainability Science
Identifying leverage points for shifting Water-Energy-Food nexus cases towards sustainability through the Networks of Action Situations approach combined with systems thinking
In the twenty-first century, the world ́s demand for natural resources is more pressing and deeply interconnected than ever before. The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus has gained growing interest as a promising concept for complex resource management challenges. However, knowledge about the root causes of cross-sectoral coordination problems and how they can be shifted towards sustainability is still lacking. This paper fills this gap by conceptual…
Networks of action situations: A systematic review of empirical research
“Action situations”—events, venues, or physically interdependent instances of decision-making—have become a central unit of analysis in the social–environmental sciences, particularly among scholars interested in bridging the social with the biophysical or ecological side of interdependent decisions. A growing body of empirical studies in social–ecological systems research has recently used case and comparative studies to analyse multiple interde…
Learning from past coevolutionary processes to envision sustainable futures: Extending an action situations approach to the Water-Energy-Food nexus
Despite near-global consensus on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement, unresolved and politically contentious trade-offs have undermined implementation. One exemplary case facing difficult trade-offs are Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus cases. Here, we extend the nascent ‘Social-Ecological Action Situations’ framework to analyse past coevolution of WEF nexus cases (or other social-ecological systems) to envision possible…
Networks of action situations in social–ecological systems: Current approaches and potential futures
The Empirical Realities of Polycentric Climate Governance: Introduction to the Special Issue
Scholars have undertaken much conceptual development of “polycentric” climate governance (PCG). Yet, there has been limited empirical examination of whether this descriptive, analytical, and normative concept can aid climate change mitigation; it may even undermine our efforts in certain contexts. Thus this special issue examines the empirical realities of PCG. Building from a shared definition of the concept, the constitutive articles analyze an…
Polycentric Climate Governance: The State, Local Action, Democratic Preferences, and Power—Emerging Insights and a Research Agenda
In recent years, climate governance has shifted from the global, multilateral regime to voluntary initiatives from multiple directions. Scholars frequently use a polycentric governance lens to study the complex and multijurisdictional reality. The polycentric perspective helps to grasp the new reality at a general level, but it is lacking in specificity. To fill this research gap, this article attempts to enhance the analytical power of the polyc…
Empirical research on polycentric governance: Critical gaps and a framework for studying long‐term change
Polycentric governance (PG) describes governance systems characterized by multiple, interdependent centers of decision‐making, offering an alternative to centralized governance models. PG is often assumed to be effective at helping policy actors address complex collective action problems, but burgeoning empirical literature on PG shows that it is not a panacea – PG is associated with both positive and negative governance outcomes. In this article…
A meta‐analysis of SES framework case studies: Identifying dyad and triad archetypes
There is a need to synthesize the vast amount of empirical case study research on social‐ecological systems (SES) to advance theory. Innovative methods are needed to identify patterns of system interactions and outcomes at different levels of abstraction. Many identifiable patterns may only be relevant to small sets of cases, a sector or regional context, and some more broadly. Theory needs to match these levels while still retaining enough detai…
Convergence research as transdisciplinary knowledge coproduction within cases of effective collaborative governance of social-ecological systems
Successful collaborative governance (CG) of social-ecological systems (SES) involves multiple stakeholders convening iteratively over the long term to reach a commonly held vision. This often involves building knowledge for social learning processes induced to come to collective decisions about managing complex systems in flux. Because of the complexity of any SES in the Anthropocene, this coproduced knowledge is frequently transdisciplinary, usi…
Mineral extraction on Indigenous land: Employing a relational approach to navigate the convergence of Indigenous and other ontologies and practices
The transition to low-carbon technologies, essential for energy transition, significantly increases the demand for minerals, with projections indicating a sixfold rise by 2040. A substantial portion of these minerals is located on Indigenous lands, placing policymakers in (1) a governance paradox between rapid mineral extraction and the protection of Indigenous rights and (2) a justice paradox between respecting Indigenous self-determination—incl…
Economics (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Corporate governance (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Action (physics (3 works)