Marie Stenseke
Biographic Data
| ID | 4462460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marie Stenseke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Stenseke |
| SIGNATURE | STENSEKE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1111-5175 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 274 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Making global environmental assessments fit for future challenges
Global environmental assessments (GEAs) provide authoritative expert knowledge on environmental issues for an international audience. Demand for GEAs is growing rapidly: their number is increasing, and their thematic scope continually expands. At the same time, the environmental, social, and political context in which GEAs operate has changed dramatically over their 50-year history. Anthropogenic environmental problems have worsened significantly…
Defining and operationalizing ‘nature-positive’ — a question of power
This paper examines how the concept ‘nature-positive’ as a means to enhance biodiversity is defined and used, viewed through the lens of power. Building on a three-dimensional conceptualization of power, we elaborate on i) how ‘nature-positive’ enters and remains on business and policy agendas, ii) different interpretations from both ecological and business perspectives, and iii) the governance of its implementation. Our findings reveal divergent…
Transformative science–policy interfacing
Science–policy interfaces (SPI), such as IPCC and IPBES, are key mechanisms by which scientists can contribute to policy making to tackle socio-environmental problems. To capture recent and ongoing developments, we examine the evolution of global and European SPI landscapes in the biodiversity domain grounding a novel concept of “transformative science–policy interfacing”, which is a collective effort to enable fundamental societal change by enha…
Diorama —An Opening for Addressing the Global Challenges
Throughout his academic life, Hägerstrand showed a genuine concern for global environmental challenges. In order to come to grips with detrimental environmental trends, he was seeking ways to better understand humanity's role in changing the face of the earth. The article Diorama, Path and Project marks the intensification of Hägerstrand's ambitions to draw a holistic framework for the integrated relations between humans, human society and the ph…
A network to enhance the contributions from the social sciences and humanities to Ipbes
IPBES requires enhanced contributions from the social sciences and humanities in order to meet its mandate and influence policy. However, achieving this has so far proved challenging, notably in the form of a shortage in nominations of experts from these fields. The Social Sciences and Humanities Network (the SSH Network) has been established in an effort to improve this situation. In this short communication, we present challenges identified by …
Valuation of nature and nature’s contributions to people
Nature's contributions to people
All-ecology – Hägerstrand’s thinking about human-environment interactions
In the urgent search for pathways towards more sustainable futures, one major conceptual issue is how to reframe the relationship between humans and their environment. To this end, this article explores Torsten Hägerstrand’s thinking about human–environment interactions and reflects on how it is related to more recent approaches, given their potential contributions to understanding and managing sustainability challenges. Several of Hägerstrand’s …
Valuation of nature and nature’s contributions to people
Understanding nature's contributions to people (NCP) canimprove people's ability to manage earth systems effectively,equitably, and sustainably (Chaplin-Kramer et al. 2019;Brauman et al., 2020). NCP can be perceived as a benefitor detriment depending on the cultural, temporal, or spatialcontext (Diaz et al. 2018). According to IPBES (2019),beneficial contributions from nature include food provision,water purification, flood control, and artistic …
Assessing nature's contributions to people
Recognizing culture, and diverse sources of knowledge, can improve assessments
Connecting ‘relational values’ and relational landscape approaches
Valuing nature’s contributions to people
Nature is perceived and valued in starkly different and oftenconflicting ways. This paper presents the rationale for theinclusive valuation of nature's contributions to people (NCP) indecision making, as well as broad methodological steps fordoing so. While developed within the context of theIntergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), this approach is more widely applicable toinitiatives at the knowledge?policy inte…
The role, importance and challenges of social sciences and humanities in the work of the intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (Ipbes)
Qualified competences in social science and humanities are required across the various deliverables of the intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBES) in order to fully address the objectives of IPBES. Building integrative approaches has long been acknowledged as a scientific challenge. Hence, new paths have to be forged, including revisiting basic ontological and epistemological considerations, such a…
Fostering incidental experiences of nature through green infrastructure planning
Concern for a diminished human experience of nature and subsequent decreased human well-being is addressed via a consideration of green infrastructure's potential to facilitate unplanned or incidental nature experience. Incidental nature experience is conceptualized and illustrated in order to consider this seldom addressed aspect of human interaction with nature in green infrastructure planning. Special attention has been paid to the ability of …
Nature, Temporality and Environmental Management
Peer-reviewed
Integrated landscape management and the complicating issue of temporality
Landscape has become widely accepted as a concept for embracing the natural sphere as well as human society. There are, however, challenges in implementing the somewhat overarching rhetoric. This article takes a conceptual and deconstructive approach and elucidates complications in integrated landscape management, with a certain focus on landscape and time. Cases from some European areas, where integrative planning instruments are applied, serve …
Rural-Urban Blurring and the Subjectivity Within
Realizing that a changing society is in constant need of redefinition, the rural-urban distinction is especially important to look systematically into. One reason is that although the outdatedness of the rural-urban dichotomy is widely acknowledged, it is still largely sustained, not least in ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ development endeavors, which are often conducted separately. Such practice may seem questionable in the face of the progressive blurring…
Analysing how drivers of agricultural land abandonment affect biodiversity and cultural landscapes using case studies from Scandinavia, Iberia and Oceania
Do cows belong in nature? The cultural basis of agriculture in Sweden and Australia
Local participation in cultural landscape maintenance
Biodiversity and the local context
Valuing nature’s contributions to people
Nature is perceived and valued in starkly different and oftenconflicting ways. This paper presents the rationale for theinclusive valuation of nature's contributions to people (NCP) indecision making, as well as broad methodological steps fordoing so. While developed within the context of theIntergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), this approach is more widely applicable toinitiatives at the knowledge?policy inte…
Analysing how drivers of agricultural land abandonment affect biodiversity and cultural landscapes using case studies from Scandinavia, Iberia and Oceania
Local participation in cultural landscape maintenance
Do cows belong in nature? The cultural basis of agriculture in Sweden and Australia
Rural-Urban Blurring and the Subjectivity Within
Realizing that a changing society is in constant need of redefinition, the rural-urban distinction is especially important to look systematically into. One reason is that although the outdatedness of the rural-urban dichotomy is widely acknowledged, it is still largely sustained, not least in ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ development endeavors, which are often conducted separately. Such practice may seem questionable in the face of the progressive blurring…
The role, importance and challenges of social sciences and humanities in the work of the intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (Ipbes)
Qualified competences in social science and humanities are required across the various deliverables of the intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBES) in order to fully address the objectives of IPBES. Building integrative approaches has long been acknowledged as a scientific challenge. Hence, new paths have to be forged, including revisiting basic ontological and epistemological considerations, such a…
Connecting ‘relational values’ and relational landscape approaches
Biodiversity and the local context
Integrated landscape management and the complicating issue of temporality
Landscape has become widely accepted as a concept for embracing the natural sphere as well as human society. There are, however, challenges in implementing the somewhat overarching rhetoric. This article takes a conceptual and deconstructive approach and elucidates complications in integrated landscape management, with a certain focus on landscape and time. Cases from some European areas, where integrative planning instruments are applied, serve …
Fostering incidental experiences of nature through green infrastructure planning
Concern for a diminished human experience of nature and subsequent decreased human well-being is addressed via a consideration of green infrastructure's potential to facilitate unplanned or incidental nature experience. Incidental nature experience is conceptualized and illustrated in order to consider this seldom addressed aspect of human interaction with nature in green infrastructure planning. Special attention has been paid to the ability of …
All-ecology – Hägerstrand’s thinking about human-environment interactions
In the urgent search for pathways towards more sustainable futures, one major conceptual issue is how to reframe the relationship between humans and their environment. To this end, this article explores Torsten Hägerstrand’s thinking about human–environment interactions and reflects on how it is related to more recent approaches, given their potential contributions to understanding and managing sustainability challenges. Several of Hägerstrand’s …
Transformative science–policy interfacing
Science–policy interfaces (SPI), such as IPCC and IPBES, are key mechanisms by which scientists can contribute to policy making to tackle socio-environmental problems. To capture recent and ongoing developments, we examine the evolution of global and European SPI landscapes in the biodiversity domain grounding a novel concept of “transformative science–policy interfacing”, which is a collective effort to enable fundamental societal change by enha…
Diorama —An Opening for Addressing the Global Challenges
Throughout his academic life, Hägerstrand showed a genuine concern for global environmental challenges. In order to come to grips with detrimental environmental trends, he was seeking ways to better understand humanity's role in changing the face of the earth. The article Diorama, Path and Project marks the intensification of Hägerstrand's ambitions to draw a holistic framework for the integrated relations between humans, human society and the ph…
Valuation of nature and nature’s contributions to people
Biodiversity and the local context
Local participation in cultural landscape maintenance
Do cows belong in nature? The cultural basis of agriculture in Sweden and Australia
Analysing how drivers of agricultural land abandonment affect biodiversity and cultural landscapes using case studies from Scandinavia, Iberia and Oceania
Nature, Temporality and Environmental Management
Peer-reviewed
Integrated landscape management and the complicating issue of temporality
Landscape has become widely accepted as a concept for embracing the natural sphere as well as human society. There are, however, challenges in implementing the somewhat overarching rhetoric. This article takes a conceptual and deconstructive approach and elucidates complications in integrated landscape management, with a certain focus on landscape and time. Cases from some European areas, where integrative planning instruments are applied, serve …
Rural-Urban Blurring and the Subjectivity Within
Realizing that a changing society is in constant need of redefinition, the rural-urban distinction is especially important to look systematically into. One reason is that although the outdatedness of the rural-urban dichotomy is widely acknowledged, it is still largely sustained, not least in ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ development endeavors, which are often conducted separately. Such practice may seem questionable in the face of the progressive blurring…
Valuing nature’s contributions to people
Nature is perceived and valued in starkly different and oftenconflicting ways. This paper presents the rationale for theinclusive valuation of nature's contributions to people (NCP) indecision making, as well as broad methodological steps fordoing so. While developed within the context of theIntergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), this approach is more widely applicable toinitiatives at the knowledge?policy inte…
The role, importance and challenges of social sciences and humanities in the work of the intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (Ipbes)
Qualified competences in social science and humanities are required across the various deliverables of the intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBES) in order to fully address the objectives of IPBES. Building integrative approaches has long been acknowledged as a scientific challenge. Hence, new paths have to be forged, including revisiting basic ontological and epistemological considerations, such a…
Fostering incidental experiences of nature through green infrastructure planning
Concern for a diminished human experience of nature and subsequent decreased human well-being is addressed via a consideration of green infrastructure's potential to facilitate unplanned or incidental nature experience. Incidental nature experience is conceptualized and illustrated in order to consider this seldom addressed aspect of human interaction with nature in green infrastructure planning. Special attention has been paid to the ability of …
Assessing nature's contributions to people
Recognizing culture, and diverse sources of knowledge, can improve assessments
Connecting ‘relational values’ and relational landscape approaches
Valuation of nature and nature’s contributions to people
Understanding nature's contributions to people (NCP) canimprove people's ability to manage earth systems effectively,equitably, and sustainably (Chaplin-Kramer et al. 2019;Brauman et al., 2020). NCP can be perceived as a benefitor detriment depending on the cultural, temporal, or spatialcontext (Diaz et al. 2018). According to IPBES (2019),beneficial contributions from nature include food provision,water purification, flood control, and artistic …
All-ecology – Hägerstrand’s thinking about human-environment interactions
In the urgent search for pathways towards more sustainable futures, one major conceptual issue is how to reframe the relationship between humans and their environment. To this end, this article explores Torsten Hägerstrand’s thinking about human–environment interactions and reflects on how it is related to more recent approaches, given their potential contributions to understanding and managing sustainability challenges. Several of Hägerstrand’s …
Nature's contributions to people
A network to enhance the contributions from the social sciences and humanities to Ipbes
IPBES requires enhanced contributions from the social sciences and humanities in order to meet its mandate and influence policy. However, achieving this has so far proved challenging, notably in the form of a shortage in nominations of experts from these fields. The Social Sciences and Humanities Network (the SSH Network) has been established in an effort to improve this situation. In this short communication, we present challenges identified by …
Valuation of nature and nature’s contributions to people
Diorama —An Opening for Addressing the Global Challenges
Throughout his academic life, Hägerstrand showed a genuine concern for global environmental challenges. In order to come to grips with detrimental environmental trends, he was seeking ways to better understand humanity's role in changing the face of the earth. The article Diorama, Path and Project marks the intensification of Hägerstrand's ambitions to draw a holistic framework for the integrated relations between humans, human society and the ph…
Transformative science–policy interfacing
Science–policy interfaces (SPI), such as IPCC and IPBES, are key mechanisms by which scientists can contribute to policy making to tackle socio-environmental problems. To capture recent and ongoing developments, we examine the evolution of global and European SPI landscapes in the biodiversity domain grounding a novel concept of “transformative science–policy interfacing”, which is a collective effort to enable fundamental societal change by enha…
Defining and operationalizing ‘nature-positive’ — a question of power
This paper examines how the concept ‘nature-positive’ as a means to enhance biodiversity is defined and used, viewed through the lens of power. Building on a three-dimensional conceptualization of power, we elaborate on i) how ‘nature-positive’ enters and remains on business and policy agendas, ii) different interpretations from both ecological and business perspectives, and iii) the governance of its implementation. Our findings reveal divergent…
Making global environmental assessments fit for future challenges
Global environmental assessments (GEAs) provide authoritative expert knowledge on environmental issues for an international audience. Demand for GEAs is growing rapidly: their number is increasing, and their thematic scope continually expands. At the same time, the environmental, social, and political context in which GEAs operate has changed dramatically over their 50-year history. Anthropogenic environmental problems have worsened significantly…
Land Use and Ecosystem Services (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Environmental ethics (9 works) · Environmental resource management (9 works) · Biology (8 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works)