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Sara T. Borgström
Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

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Journal article
Published: 01 January 2021 in Ecology and Society
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Erik Andersson; Sara Borgström; Dagmar Haase; Johannes Langemeyer; André Mascarenhas; Timon McPhearson; Manuel Wolff; Edyta Łaszkiewicz; Jakub Kronenberg; David N. Barton; Pablo Herreros-Cantis. A context-sensitive systems approach for understanding and enabling ecosystem service realization in cities. Ecology and Society 2021, 26, 1 .

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Erik Andersson, Sara Borgström, Dagmar Haase, Johannes Langemeyer, André Mascarenhas, Timon McPhearson, Manuel Wolff, Edyta Łaszkiewicz, Jakub Kronenberg, David N. Barton, Pablo Herreros-Cantis. A context-sensitive systems approach for understanding and enabling ecosystem service realization in cities. Ecology and Society. 2021; 26 (2):1.

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Erik Andersson; Sara Borgström; Dagmar Haase; Johannes Langemeyer; André Mascarenhas; Timon McPhearson; Manuel Wolff; Edyta Łaszkiewicz; Jakub Kronenberg; David N. Barton; Pablo Herreros-Cantis. 2021. "A context-sensitive systems approach for understanding and enabling ecosystem service realization in cities." Ecology and Society 26, no. 2: 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2021 in Ecology and Society
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Jakub Kronenberg; Erik Andersson; David N. Barton; Sara T. Borgström; Johannes Langemeyer; Tove Björklund; Dagmar Haase; Christopher Kennedy; Karolina Koprowska; Edyta Łaszkiewicz; Timon McPhearson; Erik E. Stange; Manuel Wolff. The thorny path toward greening: unintended consequences, trade-offs, and constraints in green and blue infrastructure planning, implementation, and management. Ecology and Society 2021, 26, 1 .

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Jakub Kronenberg, Erik Andersson, David N. Barton, Sara T. Borgström, Johannes Langemeyer, Tove Björklund, Dagmar Haase, Christopher Kennedy, Karolina Koprowska, Edyta Łaszkiewicz, Timon McPhearson, Erik E. Stange, Manuel Wolff. The thorny path toward greening: unintended consequences, trade-offs, and constraints in green and blue infrastructure planning, implementation, and management. Ecology and Society. 2021; 26 (2):1.

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Jakub Kronenberg; Erik Andersson; David N. Barton; Sara T. Borgström; Johannes Langemeyer; Tove Björklund; Dagmar Haase; Christopher Kennedy; Karolina Koprowska; Edyta Łaszkiewicz; Timon McPhearson; Erik E. Stange; Manuel Wolff. 2021. "The thorny path toward greening: unintended consequences, trade-offs, and constraints in green and blue infrastructure planning, implementation, and management." Ecology and Society 26, no. 2: 1.

Journal article
Published: 26 August 2020 in Land
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This case study from Stockholm County, Sweden, explores practitioners’ experiences of barriers and bridges in municipal planning practices to support actions for ecosystem services. This qualitative study is based on information gathered from a focus group, workshops, and semi-structured interviews, which aided in identifying key factors for integrating ecosystem services in municipal planning. We identified 10 key factors divided into three themes: i) regulatory framework and political support, ii) local organizational capacity, and iii) local adaptation of tools and practices. In particular, the practitioners pointed to the need for the development of legal support and regulations for ecosystem services on the national and EU policy levels. Furthermore, the need for local capacity building and understanding of ecosystem services as well as increased regional support to enhance local knowledge exchange and learning was emphasized. Also, in a decentralized local governance system such as in Sweden, to fully implement ecosystem services in urban planning for sustainable development, locally adapted practical tools and monitoring procedures were considered important.

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Sara Khoshkar; Monica Hammer; Sara Borgström; Berit Balfors. Ways Forward for Advancing Ecosystem Services in Municipal Planning—Experiences from Stockholm County. Land 2020, 9, 296 .

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Sara Khoshkar, Monica Hammer, Sara Borgström, Berit Balfors. Ways Forward for Advancing Ecosystem Services in Municipal Planning—Experiences from Stockholm County. Land. 2020; 9 (9):296.

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Sara Khoshkar; Monica Hammer; Sara Borgström; Berit Balfors. 2020. "Ways Forward for Advancing Ecosystem Services in Municipal Planning—Experiences from Stockholm County." Land 9, no. 9: 296.

Forum
Published: 26 June 2019 in BioScience
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The circumstances under which different ecosystem service benefits can be realized differ. The benefits tend to be coproduced and to be enabled by multiple interacting social, ecological, and technological factors, which is particularly evident in cities. As many cities are undergoing rapid change, these factors need to be better understood and accounted for, especially for those most in need of benefits. We propose a framework of three systemic filters that affect the flow of ecosystem service benefits: the interactions among green, blue, and built infrastructures; the regulatory power and governance of institutions; and people's individual and shared perceptions and values. We argue that more fully connecting green and blue infrastructure to its urban systems context and highlighting dynamic interactions among the three filters are key to understanding how and why ecosystem services have variable distribution, continuing inequities in who benefits, and the long-term resilience of the flows of benefits.

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Erik Andersson; Johannes Langemeyer; Sara Borgström; Timon McPhearson; Dagmar Haase; Jakub Kronenberg; David N Barton; McKenna Davis; Sandra Naumann; Lina Röschel; Francesc Baró. Enabling Green and Blue Infrastructure to Improve Contributions to Human Well-Being and Equity in Urban Systems. BioScience 2019, 69, 566 -574.

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Erik Andersson, Johannes Langemeyer, Sara Borgström, Timon McPhearson, Dagmar Haase, Jakub Kronenberg, David N Barton, McKenna Davis, Sandra Naumann, Lina Röschel, Francesc Baró. Enabling Green and Blue Infrastructure to Improve Contributions to Human Well-Being and Equity in Urban Systems. BioScience. 2019; 69 (7):566-574.

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Erik Andersson; Johannes Langemeyer; Sara Borgström; Timon McPhearson; Dagmar Haase; Jakub Kronenberg; David N Barton; McKenna Davis; Sandra Naumann; Lina Röschel; Francesc Baró. 2019. "Enabling Green and Blue Infrastructure to Improve Contributions to Human Well-Being and Equity in Urban Systems." BioScience 69, no. 7: 566-574.

Urban transformative capacity
Published: 22 March 2019 in Ambio
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Urban transformations form a central challenge for enabling global pathways towards sustainability and resilience. However, it remains unclear what kind of capacity is needed to deliver urban change that is actually transformative. Against a backdrop of current claims and efforts to achieve urban transformations, this special issue reviews the relational concept of urban transformative capacity and how it can inform novel approaches in research, policy, and practice. Drawing on seven papers analyzing diverse empirical contexts, we identify four requirements that should guide future action: (1) foster inclusion and empowerment as prerequisites, (2) close the intermediation gap and strengthen the role of local academia, (3) challenge and reinvent urban planning as a key arena, and (4) enhance reflexivity through novel self-assessment techniques. Overall, current levels of urban transformative capacity are assessed as very low, making its development a high-priority objective for all stakeholders, but for planning and research policy in particular.

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Marc Wolfram; Sara Borgström; Megan Farrelly. Urban transformative capacity: From concept to practice. Ambio 2019, 48, 437 -448.

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Marc Wolfram, Sara Borgström, Megan Farrelly. Urban transformative capacity: From concept to practice. Ambio. 2019; 48 (5):437-448.

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Marc Wolfram; Sara Borgström; Megan Farrelly. 2019. "Urban transformative capacity: From concept to practice." Ambio 48, no. 5: 437-448.

Urban transformative capacity
Published: 15 February 2019 in Ambio
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Transformation towards sustainable development is about findings new ways of thinking, organising and doing to navigate wicked challenges such as climate change and urbanisation. Such challenges call for new governance modes that match the complexity of the systems to be handled, where multi-level governance and collaborative approaches have been suggested to contribute to such transformative capacity building. This in-depth, trans-disciplinary study investigates how the multi-level governance context in Stockholm, Sweden, influences the transformative capacity from the perspective of local sustainability initiatives. It was found that even though the decentralized governance of the Stockholm region hosts a great potential in supporting city wide transformation, it is hampered by disconnect between actors, levels and sectors and the short-term funding structure. The suggested interventions highlight the tension between enabling collaborations, while safeguarding a high local diversity of initiatives and flexibility to ensure sustained space for innovation and learning.

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Sara Borgström. Balancing diversity and connectivity in multi-level governance settings for urban transformative capacity. Ambio 2019, 48, 463 -477.

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Sara Borgström. Balancing diversity and connectivity in multi-level governance settings for urban transformative capacity. Ambio. 2019; 48 (5):463-477.

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Sara Borgström. 2019. "Balancing diversity and connectivity in multi-level governance settings for urban transformative capacity." Ambio 48, no. 5: 463-477.

Journal article
Published: 27 February 2018 in Sustainability
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City-regions as sites of sustainability transitions have remained under-explored so far. With our comparative analysis of five diverse European city-regions, we offer new insights on contemporary sustainability transitions at the urban level. In a similar vein, the pre-development and the take-off phase of sustainability transitions have been studied in depth while the acceleration phase remains a research gap. We address this research gap by exploring how transitions can move beyond the seeding of alternative experiments and the activation of civil society initiatives. This raises the question of what commonalities and differences can be found between urban sustainability transitions. In our explorative study, we employ a newly developed framework of the acceleration mechanisms of sustainability transitions. We offer new insights on the multi-phase model of sustainability transitions. Our findings illustrate that there are no clear demarcations between the phases of transitions. From the perspective of city-regions, we rather found dynamics of acceleration, deceleration, and stagnation to unfold in parallel. We observed several transitions—transitions towards both sustainability and un-sustainability—to co-evolve. This suggests that the politics of persistence—the inertia and path dependencies of un-sustainability—should be considered in the study of urban sustainability transitions.

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Franziska Ehnert; Niki Frantzeskaki; Jake Barnes; Sara Borgström; Leen Gorissen; Florian Kern; Logan Strenchock; Markus Egermann. The Acceleration of Urban Sustainability Transitions: A Comparison of Brighton, Budapest, Dresden, Genk, and Stockholm. Sustainability 2018, 10, 612 .

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Franziska Ehnert, Niki Frantzeskaki, Jake Barnes, Sara Borgström, Leen Gorissen, Florian Kern, Logan Strenchock, Markus Egermann. The Acceleration of Urban Sustainability Transitions: A Comparison of Brighton, Budapest, Dresden, Genk, and Stockholm. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (3):612.

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Franziska Ehnert; Niki Frantzeskaki; Jake Barnes; Sara Borgström; Leen Gorissen; Florian Kern; Logan Strenchock; Markus Egermann. 2018. "The Acceleration of Urban Sustainability Transitions: A Comparison of Brighton, Budapest, Dresden, Genk, and Stockholm." Sustainability 10, no. 3: 612.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2017 in Ecology and Society
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Sellberg, M. M., S. T. Borgström, A. V. Norström, and G. D. Peterson. 2017. Improving participatory resilience assessment by cross-fertilizing the Resilience Alliance and Transition Movement approaches. Ecology and Society 22(1):28. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09051-220128

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My Sellberg; Borgstr; Norstr; Garry Peterson. Improving participatory resilience assessment by cross-fertilizing the Resilience Alliance and Transition Movement approaches. Ecology and Society 2017, 22, 1 .

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My Sellberg, Borgstr, Norstr, Garry Peterson. Improving participatory resilience assessment by cross-fertilizing the Resilience Alliance and Transition Movement approaches. Ecology and Society. 2017; 22 (1):1.

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My Sellberg; Borgstr; Norstr; Garry Peterson. 2017. "Improving participatory resilience assessment by cross-fertilizing the Resilience Alliance and Transition Movement approaches." Ecology and Society 22, no. 1: 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2016 in Land Use Policy
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With continuous degradation of ecosystems combined with the recognition of human dependence on functioning ecosystems, global interest in ecological restoration (ER) has intensified. From being merely a nature conservation measure, it is today advanced as a way to improve ecosystem functions, mitigate biodiversity loss and climate change, as well as renew human–nature relationships. However, ER is a contested and diversified term used in research, policy and practice. Substantive public funding is allocated towards this end worldwide, but little is known about its concrete purpose and coverage, as well as what decides its allocation. With inspiration from environmental funding literature we analyze the case of Sweden to provide the first national overview of public ER funding. The understudied political context of ER is thus addressed but also regional variation in funding allocation. A database of all national government funding programs between 1995 and 2011 that included projects and sub-programs aiming at practical ER measures was created. Results show that ER activities counted for 11% (130 million USD) of the total government nature conservation funding. Water environments were highly prioritized, which can be explained by economic and recreational motives behind ER. The ER funding was unevenly distributed geographically, not related to either environmental need or population size, but rather to regional administrative capacity. It was also found to be small scale and short term, and hence part of a general trend of “project proliferation’’ of public administration which runs contrary to ecosystem based management. As ER is not yet a long-term investment in Sweden, commonly seen as an environmental lead state, we expect even less and more short-term ER funding in other countries.

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Sara Borgström; Anna Zachrisson; Katarina Eckerberg. Funding ecological restoration policy in practice—patterns of short-termism and regional biases. Land Use Policy 2016, 52, 439 -453.

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Sara Borgström, Anna Zachrisson, Katarina Eckerberg. Funding ecological restoration policy in practice—patterns of short-termism and regional biases. Land Use Policy. 2016; 52 ():439-453.

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Sara Borgström; Anna Zachrisson; Katarina Eckerberg. 2016. "Funding ecological restoration policy in practice—patterns of short-termism and regional biases." Land Use Policy 52, no. : 439-453.

Journal article
Published: 28 May 2015 in Ambio
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Ecosystem-based management (EBM) has become a key instrument of contemporary environmental policy and practice. Given the increasingly important role of EBM, there is an urgent need for improved analytical approaches to assess if and to what extent EBM has been accomplished in any given case. Drawing on the vast literature on EBM, we identify five key ecosystem aspects for assessment. By linking these aspects to four phases of management, we develop an interdisciplinary, analytical framework that enables a high-resolution and systematic assessment of the degree of specificity and integration of ecosystem aspects in an EBM. We then apply the framework to evaluate five coastal EBM initiatives in Sweden, four on the Baltic coast and one on the west coast. Our results demonstrate our framework’s usefulness for in-depth and continuous assessments of processes aiming for EBM, and also provide an empirical basis for inferences about the key challenges for successful EBM.

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Sara Borgström; Örjan Bodin; Annica Sandström; Beatrice Crona. Developing an analytical framework for assessing progress toward ecosystem-based management. Ambio 2015, 44, 357 -369.

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Sara Borgström, Örjan Bodin, Annica Sandström, Beatrice Crona. Developing an analytical framework for assessing progress toward ecosystem-based management. Ambio. 2015; 44 (3):357-369.

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Sara Borgström; Örjan Bodin; Annica Sandström; Beatrice Crona. 2015. "Developing an analytical framework for assessing progress toward ecosystem-based management." Ambio 44, no. 3: 357-369.

Article
Published: 09 January 2015 in AMBIO
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Anticipation is increasingly central to urgent contemporary debates, from climate change to the global economic crisis. Anticipatory practices are coming to the forefront of political, organizational, and citizens’ society. Research into anticipation, however, has not kept pace with public demand for insights into anticipatory practices, their risks and uses. Where research exists, it is deeply fragmented. This paper seeks to identify how anticipation is defined and understood in the literature and to explore the role of anticipatory practice to address individual, social, and global challenges. We use a resilience lens to examine these questions. We illustrate how varying forms of anticipatory governance are enhanced by multi-scale regional networks and technologies and by the agency of individuals, drawing from an empirical case study on regional water governance of Mälaren, Sweden. Finally, we discuss how an anticipatory approach can inform adaptive institutions, decision making, strategy formation, and societal resilience.

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Emily Boyd; Björn Nykvist; Sara Borgström; Izabela A. Stacewicz. Anticipatory governance for social-ecological resilience. AMBIO 2015, 44, 149 -161.

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Emily Boyd, Björn Nykvist, Sara Borgström, Izabela A. Stacewicz. Anticipatory governance for social-ecological resilience. AMBIO. 2015; 44 (1):149-161.

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Emily Boyd; Björn Nykvist; Sara Borgström; Izabela A. Stacewicz. 2015. "Anticipatory governance for social-ecological resilience." AMBIO 44, no. 1: 149-161.