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Niki Frantzeskaki

Niki Frantzeskaki

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
73
Citations
23781
World Ranking
1175
National Ranking
38

Overview

Niki Frantzeskaki is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands, focusing on interdisciplinary research that intersects environmental science and social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, sociology and political science, management of technology and innovation, and transportation.

Their research covers several main topics such as land use and ecosystem services, urban green space and health, sustainability and climate change governance, innovative approaches in technology and social development, urban transport and accessibility, urban agriculture and sustainability, as well as smart cities and technologies.

Frantzeskaki has published extensively in various academic venues, with frequent contributions in:

  • AMBIO
  • Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
  • Environmental Science & Policy
  • Urban Transformations
  • Nature-Based Solutions

Recent publications by Frantzeskaki include the following papers:

  • Transformative innovation and translocal diffusion, 2020, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
  • A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services, 2022, One Earth
  • Scaling the impact of sustainability initiatives: a typology of amplification processes, 2020, Urban Transformations
  • Regenerative tourism: a conceptual framework leveraging theory and practice, 2022, Tourism Geographies
  • Principles for urban nature-based solutions, 2022, AMBIO

Frantzeskaki has worked on several book publications, mainly released through the European Organization for Nuclear Research and Springer International Publishing. Notable titles include guides on co-production and reflexive monitoring for nature-based solutions as well as the book Transformative Climate Governance published in 2020.

Frequent collaborators of Frantzeskaki include Katharina Hölscher, Timon McPhearson, Marcus Collier, Melissa Pineda-Pinto, and Alessandro Ossola, reflecting a collaborative approach across sustainability and urban ecological research.

Best Publications

  • Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas: perspectives on indicators, knowledge gaps, barriers, and opportunities for action

    Nadja Kabisch;Niki Frantzeskaki;Stephan Pauleit;Sandra Naumann

  • Sustainability Transitions Research: Transforming Science and Practice for Societal Change

    Derk Loorbach;Niki Frantzeskaki;Flor Avelino

  • A framework for assessing and implementing the co-benefits of nature-based solutions in urban areas

    Christopher M. Raymond;Niki Frantzeskaki;Nadja Kabisch;Pam Berry

  • Environmental impacts from the solar energy technologies

    Theocharis Tsoutsos;Niki Frantzeskaki;Vassilis Gekas

  • Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban century

    Thomas Elmqvist;Erik Andersson;Erik Andersson;Niki Frantzeskaki;Timon McPhearson;Timon McPhearson;Timon McPhearson

  • Urban Transition Labs: co-creating transformative action for sustainable cities

    Frank Nevens;Niki Frantzeskaki;Leen Gorissen;Derk Loorbach

  • Seven lessons for planning nature-based solutions in cities

    Niki Frantzeskaki

  • Resilience of and through urban ecosystem services

    Timon McPhearson;Erik Andersson;Thomas Elmqvist;Niki Frantzeskaki

  • Greening cities – To be socially inclusive?: About the alleged paradox of society and ecology in cities

    Dagmar Haase;Dagmar Haase;Sigrun Kabisch;Annegret Haase;Erik Andersson

  • Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making

    Niki Frantzeskaki;Timon McPhearson;Marcus J. Collier;Dave Kendal

  • Urban living labs: Governing urban sustainability transitions

    Harriet Bulkeley;Lars Coenen;Niki Frantzeskaki;Christian Hartmann

  • Learning through evaluation: A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments

    Christopher Luederitz;Niko Schapke;Arnim Wiek;Arnim Wiek;Daniel J. Lang

  • Governing societal transitions to sustainability

    Niki Frantzeskaki;Derk Loorbach;James Meadowcroft

  • Impacts of urban living labs on sustainability transitions: mechanisms and strategies for systemic change through experimentation

    Timo von Wirth;Lea Fuenfschilling;Niki Frantzeskaki;Lars Coenen

  • Establishing sustainability science in higher education institutions: Towards an integration of academic development, institutionalization, and stakeholder collaborations

    Masaru Yarime;Gregory Trencher;Takashi Mino;Roland Scholz

  • Mismatches between ecosystem services supply and demand in urban areas: A quantitative assessment in five European cities

    Francesc Baró;Dagmar Haase;Dagmar Haase;Erik Gómez-Baggethun;Niki Frantzeskaki

  • A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services

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  • The uptake of the ecosystem services concept in planning discourses of European and American cities

    Rieke Hansen;Niki Frantzeskaki;Timon McPhearson;Emiliy Rall

  • Key insights for the future of urban ecosystem services research

    Peleg Kremer;Zoé Hamstead;Dagmar Haase;Timon McPhearson

  • Designing a knowledge co-production operating space for urban environmental governance lessons from Rotterdam, Netherlands and Berlin, Germany

    Niki Frantzeskaki;Nadja Kabisch

  • Transformative innovation and translocal diffusion

    Derk Loorbach;Julia Wittmayer;Flor Avelino;Timo von Wirth

  • Towards governing infrasystem transitions: Reinforcing lock-in or facilitating change?

    Niki Frantzeskaki;Niki Frantzeskaki;Derk Loorbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Derk Loorbach
Derk Loorbach Erasmus University Rotterdam
Dagmar Haase
Dagmar Haase Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Nadja Kabisch
Nadja Kabisch Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Thomas Elmqvist
Thomas Elmqvist Stockholm Resilience Centre
Rebekah Ruth Brown
Rebekah Ruth Brown Monash University
Lars Coenen
Lars Coenen University of Melbourne
Erik Andersson
Erik Andersson Karolinska Institute
Stephan Pauleit
Stephan Pauleit Technical University of Munich
Pam Berry
Pam Berry University of Oxford

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