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Sustainability and Climate Change Governance

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Josephine M. Chambers
Barwon Health
2
Mark Lynas
International Office for Water
3
Ziyao Wang
Fudan University
4
Nick Fitzpatrick
Aarhus University
5
Lukas Fesenfeld
ETH Zurich
6
Diana Vela Almeida
Utrecht University
7
Maria Luisa Lode
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
8
Joachim Peter Tilsted
Lund University
9
Erkinai Derkenbaeva
Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions
10
Noémi Nemes
University of Vienna

Rising Stars Papers

1
‘Risk on steroids’: Investing in the hydrogen economy
Environment and Planning A Economy and Space|2024
34 cit.
2
One requirement, multiple insights: The impact of innovation job requirement on employee radical and incremental creativity
Journal of Business Research|2025
23 cit.
3
Synthetic transitions: the political economy of fossil fuel as feedstock
Review of International Political Economy|2025
22 cit.
4
The future of fossil fuels, chemicals, and feedstocks: Outlining a research agenda on the role of China in the global petrochemical industry
Energy Research & Social Science|2024
19 cit.
5
Spatiotemporal assessment of ecological quality and driving mechanisms in the Beijing metropolitan area
Scientific Reports|2025
14 cit.
6
Connected we stand: Lead firm ownership ties in the global petrochemical industry
Ecological Economics|2024
12 cit.
7
Systematic mapping of climate and environmental framing experiments and re-analysis with computational methods points to omitted interaction bias
PLOS Climate|2024
11 cit.
8
Foundations of Social Ecological Economics: The Fight for Revolutionary Change in Economic Thought
Capitalism Nature Socialism|2024
11 cit.
9
Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever
Nature|2025
9 cit.
10
Tasting and labeling meat substitute products can affect consumers’ product evaluations and preferences
Food Quality and Preference|2024
8 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Guido Schmidt‐Traub
Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development
2
Flor Avelino
Utrecht University
3
Steven J. Lade
Australian National University
4
Aliyu Salisu Barau
University of Technology Malaysia
5
Vijay Ramprasad
Williams College
6
Christopher H. Trisos
University of Cape Town
7
David Matyas
University of New Brunswick
8
Lichao Yang
Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences
9
Hannah M. Teicher
Quincy College
10
Thelma Zulfawu Abu
University of Connecticut

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake
iScience|2023
111 cit.
2
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally
Nature Ecology & Evolution|2023
97 cit.
3
Just Sustainability Transitions: Politics, Power, and Prefiguration in Transformative Change Toward Justice and Sustainability
Annual Review of Environment and Resources|2024
78 cit.
4
Global risk of heat stress to cattle from climate change
Environmental Research Letters|2023
59 cit.
5
Risks to biodiversity from temperature overshoot pathways
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences|2022
58 cit.
6
Decolonizing climate change–heritage research
Nature Climate Change|2022
50 cit.
7
Recognizing the equity implications of restoration priority maps
Environmental Research Letters|2022
45 cit.
8
Global analysis of reef ecosystem services reveals synergies, trade-offs and bundles
Ecosystem Services|2023
43 cit.
9
Power to, over and with: Exploring power dynamics in social innovations in energy transitions across Europe
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions|2023
42 cit.
10
Solar geoengineering could redistribute malaria risk in developing countries
Nature Communications|2022
40 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Sverker Sörlin
Stockholm Resilience Centre
2
Bernhard Truffer
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
3
Johan Rockström
University of Potsdam
4
Massimo Tavoni
RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment
5
Jon Norberg
Stockholm Resilience Centre
6
Frank W. Geels
University of Manchester
7
Adrian Smith
University of Sussex
8
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Utrecht University
9
Rob Raven
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
10
Emma L. Tompkins
University of Southampton

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
A safe operating space for humanity
Nature|2009
12.9k cit.
2
Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
Science|2015
12.2k cit.
3
The representative concentration pathways: an overview
Climatic Change|2011
8k cit.
4
Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity
Ecology and Society|2009
7k cit.
5
Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes: a multi-level perspective and a case-study
Research Policy|2002
6.7k cit.
6
The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview
Global Environmental Change|2016
6.5k cit.
7
ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE OF SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Annual Review of Environment and Resources|2005
5.5k cit.
8
Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways
Research Policy|2007
5k cit.
9
Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability
Ecology and Society|2010
4.5k cit.
10
From sectoral systems of innovation to socio-technical systems
Research Policy|2004
3.8k cit.

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