2026 Maja Schlüter: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	53	4194	4015	79	78	128	12320

Overview

Maja Schlüter is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change. Their research contributions span various interrelated subfields including Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science, Ecology, and Economics and Econometrics.

The primary topics addressed in their work include Complex Systems and Decision Making, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Ecosystem dynamics and resilience, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and fisheries research, Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis, and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.

Recent publications by Maja Schlüter encompass a range of topics aligning with these themes. Notable papers include:

Sustainability transformations: socio-political shocks as opportunities for governance transitions (2020), published in Global Environmental Change
Advancing understanding of natural resource governance: a post-Ostrom research agenda (2020), published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
The contributions of resilience to reshaping sustainable development (2022), published in Nature Sustainability
From nouns to verbs: How process ontologies enhance our understanding of social-ecological systems understood as complex adaptive systems (2020), published in People and Nature
Cognition and behavior in context: a framework and theories to explain natural resource use decisions in social-ecological systems (2021), published in Sustainability Science

Their publication record includes frequent contributions to several scholarly venues, among which SSRN Electronic Journal, Ecology and Society, Sustainability Science, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, and Nature Sustainability are prominent.

Maja Schlüter frequently collaborates with a set of co-authors, including Emilie Lindkvist, Sonja Radosavljevic, Tilman Hertz, Thomas Banitz, and Lars-Göran Johansson.

In addition to journal articles, Maja Schlüter has contributed to the academic book literature. A recent book titled A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World was published by Springer Nature (Netherlands) in 2024.

Best Publications

Toward Principles for Enhancing the Resilience of Ecosystem Services

Reinette Biggs;Reinette Biggs;Maja Schlüter;Maja Schlüter;Duan Biggs;Duan Biggs;Duan Biggs;Erin L. Bohensky

1445
Citations
Social norms as solutions

Karine Nyborg;John M. Anderies;Astrid Dannenberg;Therese Lindahl

815
Citations
Principles for building resilience : sustaining ecosystem services in social-ecological systems

Reinette Biggs;Reinette Biggs;Maja Schlüter;Michael L. Schoon

804
Citations
Describing human decisions in agent-based models - ODD + D, an extension of the ODD protocol

Birgit Müller;Friedrich Bohn;Gunnar Dreíler;Jürgen Groeneveld

594
Citations
Middle-range theories of land system change

P. Meyfroidt;R. Roy Chowdhury;A. de Bremond;A. de Bremond;E.C. Ellis

555
Citations
A framework for mapping and comparing behavioural theories in models of social-ecological systems

Maja Schlüter;Andres Baeza;Gunnar Dressler;Karin Frank

497
Citations
New horizons for managing the environment: A review of coupled social-ecological systems modeling

M Schlüter;Rrj McAllister;R Arlinghaus;N Bunnefeld

434
Citations
The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems

Reinette Biggs;Alta de Vos;Rika Preiser;Hayley Clements

318
Citations
Environmental flows and water governance: managing sustainable water uses

Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Angela Arthington;Janos Bogardi;Stuart E. Bunn

292
Citations
Regime shifts in a social-ecological system

Steven J. Lade;Steven J. Lade;Alessandro Tavoni;Simon Asher Levin;Maja Schlüter

263
Citations
Mechanisms of Resilience in Common-pool Resource Management Systems: an Agent-based Model of Water Use in a River Basin

Maja Schlüter;Claudia Pahl-Wostl

247
Citations
Adaptive Water Management and Policy Learning in a Changing Climate: a Formal Comparative Analysis of Eight Water Management Regimes in Europe, Africa and Asia

Patrick Huntjens;Patrick Huntjens;Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Benoît Rihoux;Maja Schlüter

243
Citations
Traps and Sustainable Development in Rural Areas: A Review

L. Jamila Haider;Wiebren J. Boonstra;Garry D. Peterson;Maja Schlüter

242
Citations
A more dynamic understanding of human behaviour for the Anthropocene

Caroline Schill;Caroline Schill;John M. Anderies;Therese Lindahl;Therese Lindahl;Carl Folke;Carl Folke

233
Citations
Capturing emergent phenomena in social-ecological systems: an analytical framework

Maja Schlüter;L. Jamila Haider;Steven J. Lade;Emilie Lindkvist

232
Citations
Application of the SES Framework for Model-based Analysis of the Dynamics of Social-Ecological Systems

Maja Schlüter;Jochen Hinkel;Pieter W. G. Bots;Robert Arlinghaus

189
Citations
A diagnostic procedure for applying the social-ecological systems framework in diverse cases

Jochen Hinkel;Michael E. Cox;Maja Schlüter;Claudia R. Binder

181
Citations
Resilience offers escape from trapped thinking on poverty alleviation

Steven J. Lade;Steven J. Lade;L. Jamila Haider;Gustav Engström;Maja Schlüter

174
Citations
Sustainability transformations: socio-political shocks as opportunities for governance transitions

Elke Herrfahrdt-Pähle;Maja Schlüter;Per Olsson;Carl Folke;Carl Folke

168
Citations
Enhancing the Ostrom social-ecological system framework through formalization

Jochen Hinkel;Pieter W. G. Bots;Maja Schlüter

162
Citations
The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management.

Alessandro Tavoni;Maja Schlüter;Simon Asher Levin

158
Citations
Research, part of a Special Feature on New Methods for Adaptive Water Management Mechanisms of Resilience in Common-pool Resource Management Systems: an Agent-based Model of Water Use in a River Basin

Maja Schlüter;Claudia Pahl-Wostl

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon A. Levin Princeton University

Carl Folke Stockholm University

Reinette Biggs Stellenbosch University

Claudia Pahl-Wostl Osnabrück University

Xavier Basurto Duke University

Jochen Hinkel Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Örjan Bodin Stockholm University

Robert Arlinghaus Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Karin Frank Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

John M. Anderies Arizona State University

External Links

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