Publications by Sara Borgström
Peer reviewed
Articles
[1]
N. Frantzeskaki et al., "Premises, practices and politics of co-creation for urban sustainability transitions," Urban Transformations, vol. 7, no. 1, 2025.
[2]
A. Rastandeh et al., "Priorities for peri-urban recreation ecology research, policy, and practice in a transforming world," Landscape Ecology, vol. 40, no. 12, 2025.
[3]
A. Rastandeh et al., "Understanding the recreation-conservation nexus in peri-urban landscapes : challenges, opportunities, and knowledge gaps," Nature-Based Solutions, vol. 7, 2025.
[4]
J. Otto et al., "Capturing residents’ perceptions of green spaces in densifying urban landscapes - The potentials of mental mapping," Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, vol. 94, pp. 128266, 2024.
[5]
D. Enarsson, J. B. Hinton and S. Borgström, "Grassroots initiatives transforming cities toward post-growth futures : Insights from the collaborative economy movement in Gothenburg, Sweden," Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 441, 2024.
[6]
M. Wolff et al., "Conceptualizing multidimensional barriers : a framework for assessing constraints in realizing recreational benefits of urban green spaces," Ecology and Society, vol. 27, no. 2, 2022.
[7]
C. Wrangsten, S. Ferlander and S. Borgström, "Feminist urban living labs and social sustainability : lessons from Sweden," Urban Transformations, vol. 4, no. 1, 2022.
[8]
A. Haase, K. Koprowska and S. Borgström, "Green regeneration for more justice? An analysis of the purpose, implementation, and impacts of greening policies from a justice perspective in Łódź Stare Polesie (Poland) and Leipzig’s inner east (Germany)," Environmental Science and Policy, vol. 136, pp. 726-737, 2022.
[9]
N. Bergame, S. Borgström and R. Milestad, "Preparing the grounds for emancipation. Explaining commoning as an emancipatory mechanism through dialectical social theory," Environment and Planning E : Nature and Space, pp. 1-20, 2022.
[10]
E. Andersson et al., "A context-sensitive systems approach for understanding and enabling ecosystem service realization in cities," Ecology and Society, vol. 26, no. 2, 2021.
[11]
A. Mascarenhas et al., "Assessing the learning process in transdisciplinary research through a novel analytical approach," Ecology and Society, vol. 26, no. 4, 2021.
[12]
S. Borgström, E. Andersson and T. Björklund, "Retaining multi-functionality in a rapidly changing urban landscape: insights from a participatory, resilience thinking process in Stockholm, Sweden," Ecology and Society, vol. 26, no. 4, 2021.
[13]
J. Kronenberg et al., "The thorny path toward greening: unintended consequences, trade-offs, andconstraints in green and blue infrastructure planning, implementation, andmanagement," Ecology and Society, vol. 2, 2021.
[14]
E. Andersson et al., "Urban resilience thinking in practice : ensuring flows of benefit from green and blue infrastructure," Ecology and Society, vol. 26, no. 4, 2021.
[15]
S. Khoshkar et al., "Moving from vision to action- integrating ecosystem services in the Swedish local planning context," Land use policy, vol. 97, 2020.
[16]
S. Khoshkar et al., "Ways Forward for Advancing Ecosystem Servicesin Municipal Planning—Experiences from Stockholm County," Land, vol. 9, no. 9, 2020.
[17]
S. Borgström, "Balancing diversity and connectivity in multi-level governance settings for urban transformative capacity," Ambio, 2019.
[18]
E. Andersson et al., "Enabling Green and Blue Infrastructure to Improve Contributions to Human Well-Being and Equity in Urban Systems," BioScience, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 566-574, 2019.
[19]
M. Wolfram, S. Borgström and M. Farrelly, "Urban transformative capacity : From concept to practice," Ambio, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 437-448, 2019.
[20]
M. Sellberg et al., "From resilience thinking to Resilience Planning: Lessons from practice," Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 217, pp. 906-918, 2018.
[21]
F. Ehnert et al., "The Acceleration of Urban Sustainability Transitions: a Comparison of Brighton, Budapest, Dresden, Genk, and Stockholm," Sustainability, vol. 10, no. 3, 2018.
[22]
F. Ehnert et al., "Urban sustainability transitions in a context of multi-level governance : A comparison of four European states," Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, vol. 26, pp. 101-116, 2018.
[23]
N. Linder, T. Lindahl and S. Borgström, "Using Behavioural Insights to Promote Food Waste Recycling in Urban Households - Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment," Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 9, 2018.
[24]
B. Nykvist, S. Borgström and E. Boyd, "Assessing the adaptive capacity of multi-level water governance : Ecosystem services under climate change in Mälardalen region, Sweden," Regional Environmental Change, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 2359-2371, 2017.
[25]
M. Hedblom, E. Andersson and S. Borgström, "Flexible land-use and undefined governance: From threats to potentials in peri-urban landscape planning," Land use policy, vol. 63, pp. 523-527, 2017.
[26]
S. Borgström et al., "Lokala initiativ - En outnyttjad potential i Stockholmsregionens arbete för hållbar utveckling," YMER, vol. 137, pp. 189-211, 2017.
[27]
M. Sellberg et al., "Operationalizing resilience : cross-fertilizing the Resilience Assessment and Transition Movement approaches," Ecology and Society, vol. 22, no. 1, 2017.
[28]
S. Borgström, A. Zachrisson and K. Eckerberg, "Funding ecological restoration policy in practice-patterns of short-termism and regional biases," Land use policy, vol. 52, pp. 439-453, 2016.
[29]
E. Boyd et al., "Anticipatory governance for social-ecological resilience," Ambio, vol. 44, pp. s149-S161, 2015.
[30]
S. Borgström et al., "Developing an analytical framework for assessing progress toward ecosystem-based management," Ambio, vol. 44, pp. 357-369, 2015.
[31]
B. Elmhagen et al., "Interacting effects of change in climate, human population, land use, and water use on biodiversity and ecosystem services," Ecology and Society, vol. 20, no. 1, 2015.
[32]
D. Haase et al., "A Quantitative Review of Urban Ecosystem Service Assessments:Concepts, Models, and Implementation," Ambio, vol. 43, pp. 413-433, 2014.
[33]
E. Andersson et al., "Reconnecting Cities to the Biosphere : Stewardship of Green Infrastructure and Urban Ecosystem Services," Ambio, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 445-453, 2014.
[34]
H. Erixon, S. Borgström and E. Andersson, "Challenging dichotomies : exploring resilience as an integrative and operative conceptual framework for large-scale urban green structures," Planning Theory & Practice, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 349-372, 2013.
[35]
S. Borgström, R. Lindborg and T. Elmqvist, "Nature conservation for what? : Analyses of urban and rural nature reserves in southern Sweden 1909-2006," Landscape and Urban Planning, vol. 117, pp. 66-80, 2013.
[36]
S. Borgström, S. Cousins and R. Lindborg, "Outside the boundary - land use changes in the surroundings of urban nature reserves," Applied Geography, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 350-359, 2012.
[37]
H. Ernstson et al., "Scale-Crossing Brokers and Network Governance of Urban Ecosystem Services : The Case of Stockholm," Ecology and Society, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 28, 2010.
[38]
S. Borgström, "Patterns and challenges of urban nature conservation - a study of southern Sweden," Environment and planning A, vol. 41, no. 11, pp. 2671-2685, 2009.
[39]
S. Borgström et al., "Scale mismatches in management of urban landscapes," Ecology and Society, vol. 11, no. 2, 2006.
[40]
T. Elmqvist et al., "The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Systems in Urban Landscapes," Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1023, pp. 308-322, 2004.
Conference papers
[41]
T. Malmqvist et al., "Reference values for embodied carbon of Swedish building construction," in Proceedings of the International Conference “Sustainable Built Environment and Urban Transition”, 2023.
[42]
J. Tholander et al., "But I Don’t Trust My Friends : Ecofriends - An Application for Reflective Grocery Shopping," in MobileHCI '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services, 2012, pp. 143-146.
Non-peer reviewed
Chapters in books
[43]
S. Borgström and K. Svärd Hertel, "Hållbara platser – en metod för att samsas i och med naturen i hållbara, mångfunktionella landskap," in Hållbar fritid : Att navigera mot ett hållbart idrotts- och friluftsliv, Ann Legeby Ed., Stockholm : Mistra Sport & Outdoors, 2024, pp. 27-30.
[44]
J. Otto and S. Borgström, "Mentala kartor – ett sättatt förstå upplevelser av stadsnaturen," in Hållbar fritid : Att navigera mot ett hållbart idrotts- och friluftsliv, Ann Legeby Ed., Stockholm : Mistra Sport & Outdoors, 2024, pp. 59-60.
[45]
L. Brandimarte and S. Borgström, "Potentialities and Challenges of Nature-Based Solutions for Sustainable Cities," in Springer Geography, : Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024, pp. 239-266.
[46]
S. Borgström, "Kommunens nya roll som långsiktig brobyggare," in Innovation och stadsutveckling : En forskningsantologi om organisationsutmaningar för stad och kommun, Algehed, J.,Eneqvist, E., Jensen, C.,Lööf, J. Ed., 1st ed. Göteborg : Mistra Urban Futures, RISE, Vinnova, 2019, pp. 27-40.
[47]
E. Andersson, S. Borgström and T. McPhearson, "Double Insurance in Dealing with Extremes:Ecological and Social Factors for MakingNature-Based Solutions Last," in Nature‐based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptationin Urban Areas : Theory and Practice of Urban Sustainability Transitions, Kabisch, N.,Korn, H., Stadler, J.,Bonn, A. Ed., Germany : Springer, 2017, pp. 51-64.
[48]
S. Borgström, "Governance perspectives on Urban Biodiversity," in Urban biodiversity from research to practice, Ossola, A and J. Niemelä Ed., : Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2017.
[49]
S. Borgström et al., "Lokala initiativ – en outnyttjad potential i Stockholmsregionens arbeteför hållbar utveckling," in Urban Utveckling och Interaktion, Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi Ed., Stockholm : SSAG, Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi, 2017, pp. 189-212.
[50]
N. Frantzeskaki et al., "Nature-Based Solutions Accelerating Urban Sustainability Transitions in Cities: Lessons from Dresden, Genk and Stockholm Cities," in Nature‐based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptationin Urban Areas : Linkages between Science, Policy and Practice, Kabisch, N,, Korn, H., Stadler, J., Bonn, A. Ed., Germany : Springer, 2017, pp. 65-88.
[51]
A. Dahlberg and S. Borgström, "Urbana gröna allmänningar för alla – eller inte? Tillgänglighet och mångfunktionalitet i en föränderlig stad," in Urban utveckling och interaktion, SSAG, Svenska sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi Ed., Stockholm : Svenska sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi, 2017, pp. 165-188.
[52]
S. Borgström, "Den nyttiga grönskan," in Stockholm : den gröna storstaden., Sörenson, Ulf Ed., Stockholm : Lind & Co, 2009.
[53]
Theses
[54]
S. Borgström, "Urban shades of green : Current patterns and future prospects of nature conservation in urban landscapes," Doctoral thesis Stockholm : Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University, 2011.
Reports
[55]
S. Borgström, "Hållbara platser : En receptbok för lokal samverkan i mångfunktionella landskap," Stockholm : Mistra Sport & Outdoors, 2024.
[56]
S. Pandis-Iveroth, S. Borgström and H. Ernstson, "Fossilfri och tillgänglig transport och mobilitet," Stockholm, Vetenskapligt råd mellan KTH och Stockholm stad, 2021.
Other
[57]
C. Adamson, R. Milestad and S. Borgström, "Building up the middle of municipal food systems : understanding challenges for public food procurement from local and regional farmers in practice," (Manuscript).
[58]
K. Malmcrona Friberg et al., "Sustainable outdoor recreation in rapidly urbanising landscapes. Practitioners’ perspectives in Stockholm, Sweden," (Manuscript).
[59]
K. Malmcrona Friberg, S. Borgström and M. Jansson, "Where will future stewards of nature come from? The role of Swedish civic outdoor organisations in connecting children with nature," (Manuscript).
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