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Johan Colding is affiliated with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Sweden and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research spans several specific subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Building and Construction, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their recent scholarly output includes multiple papers covering urban sustainability, green spaces, and climate resilience. Notable publications are:

  • Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene, 2021, npj Urban Sustainability
  • Contribution of prioritized urban nature-based solutions allocation to carbon neutrality, 2023, Nature Climate Change
  • The Incremental Demise of Urban Green Spaces, 2020, Land
  • Enabling Relationships with Nature in Cities, 2020, Sustainability
  • Urban climate resilience through hybrid infrastructure, 2022, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Colding's research topics focus heavily on urban environments and sustainability-related themes. Their main areas of work include:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
  • Smart Cities and Technologies
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Urban Agriculture and Sustainability

Their collaborations extend to a group of frequent co-authors among whom are Stephan Barthel, Lars Marcus, Åsa Gren, Stefan Sjöberg, and Marita Wallhagen.

In terms of publishing venues, Johan Colding commonly contributes to the following journals:

  • Land
  • Smart Cities
  • Sustainability
  • One Earth
  • Sustainable Development

In addition to journal articles, Colding has contributed to book literature, notably publishing "Urban Transition - Perspectives on Urban Systems and Environments" in 2021 through IntechOpen.

Best Publications

  • Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience

    Fikret Berkes;Carl Folke;Johan Colding

  • REDISCOVERY OF TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AS ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT

    Fikret Berkes;Johan Colding;Carl Folke

  • Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change

    Fikret Berkes;Johan Colding;Carl Folke

  • Navigating Social–Ecological Systems: Synthesis: building resilience and adaptive capacity in social–ecological systems

    Carl Folke;Johan Colding;Fikret Berkes

  • The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions: Ten Years Later

    Carl Folke;Lowell Pritchard;Fikret Berkes;Johan Colding

  • SOCIAL TABOOS: “INVISIBLE” SYSTEMS OF LOCAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

    Johan Colding;Johan Colding;Carl Folke;Carl Folke

  • Reconnecting Cities to the Biosphere : Stewardship of Green Infrastructure and Urban Ecosystem Services

    Erik Andersson;Stephan Barthel;Sara Borgström;Johan Colding

  • Social-ecological memory in urban gardens-Retaining the capacity for management of ecosystem services

    Stephan Barthel;Stephan Barthel;Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Johan Colding;Johan Colding

  • Navigating social-ecological systems

    F. Berkes;J. Colding;C. Folke

  • The potential of ‘Urban Green Commons’ in the resilience building of cities

    Johan Colding;Johan Colding;Stephan Barthel;Stephan Barthel;Stephan Barthel

  • 'ecological land-use complementation' for building resilience in urban ecosystems

    Johan Colding

  • Civic greening and environmental learning in public-access community gardens in Berlin

    Pim Bendt;Stephan Barthel;Johan Colding;Johan Colding

  • Exploring the social-ecological systems discourse 20 years later

    Johan Colding;Stephan Barthel

  • Ecological practices and social mechanisms for building resilience and sustainability

    Carl Folke;Fikret Berkes;Johan Colding

  • Incorporating green-area user groups in urban ecosystem management.

    Johan Colding;Jakob Lundberg;Carl Folke

  • The Relations Among Threatened Species, Their Protection, and Taboos

    Johan Colding;Carl Folke

  • Urban nature as a source of resilience during social distancing amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

    Karl Samuelsson;Stephan Barthel;Johan Colding;Gloria Macassa

  • An urban ecology critique on the "Smart City" model

    Johan Colding;Johan Colding;Stephan Barthel

  • History and local management of a biodiversity-rich, urban cultural landscape

    Stephan Barthel;Johan Colding;Thomas Elmqvist;Carl Folke

  • Urban green commons: Insights on urban common property systems

    Johan Colding;Johan Colding;Stephan Barthel;Stephan Barthel;Stephan Barthel;Pim Bendt;Robbert Snep

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Barthel
Stephan Barthel Stockholm Resilience Centre
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Fikret Berkes
Fikret Berkes University of Manitoba
Erik Andersson
Erik Andersson Karolinska Institute
Thomas Elmqvist
Thomas Elmqvist Stockholm Resilience Centre
Patrik Sörqvist
Patrik Sörqvist University of Gaevle
Per Olsson
Per Olsson Stockholm Resilience Centre
Dagmar Haase
Dagmar Haase Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily Stanford University

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