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Stephan Barthel is affiliated with the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden. Their research encompasses environmental science and social sciences, with a focus on various subfields including global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, sociology and political science, management, monitoring, policy and law, and building and construction.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, highlighted by extensive publications in urban green space and health as well as land use and ecosystem services. Additional areas of research include environmental education and sustainability, sustainability and climate change governance, climate change communication and perception, urban transport and accessibility, and urban design and spatial analysis.

Stephan Barthel has contributed to multiple publication venues, frequently appearing in:

  • AMBIO
  • Land
  • Sustainability
  • Urban Planning
  • Nature Climate Change

Among recent papers featuring their contributions are the following:

  • Pro-environmental habits: An underexplored research agenda in sustainability science, 2021, AMBIO
  • Contribution of prioritized urban nature-based solutions allocation to carbon neutrality, 2023, Nature Climate Change
  • The Incremental Demise of Urban Green Spaces, 2020, Land
  • How ecosystems services drive urban growth: Integrating nature-based solutions, 2021, Anthropocene
  • Enabling Relationships with Nature in Cities, 2020, Sustainability

Stephan Barthel has a record of collaboration with several co-authors, notably including Johan Colding (17 collaborations), Karl Samuelsson (9 collaborations), Matteo Giusti (6 collaborations), Patrik Sörqvist (6 collaborations), and Noah Linder (5 collaborations).

In addition to journal articles, Stephan Barthel has contributed to book publications. One example is a book published by IntechOpen titled Urban Transition - Perspectives on Urban Systems and Environments, released in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands.

    Christopher Bren d’Amour;Femke Reitsma;Giovanni Baiocchi;Stephan Barthel

  • 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

  • Urban gardens, agriculture, and water management: Sources of resilience for long-term food security in cities

    Stephan Barthel;Stephan Barthel;Christian Isendahl

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

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

  • Scale-Crossing Brokers and Network Governance of Urban Ecosystem Services : The Case of Stockholm

    Henrik Ernstson;Stephan Barthel;Erik Andersson;Sara T. Borgström

  • Measuring social-ecological dynamics behind the generation of ecosystem services.

    Erik Andersson;Stephan Barthel;Karin Ahrné

  • Human–nature connection : a multidisciplinary review

    Christopher D Ives;Christopher D Ives;Matteo Giusti;Jörn Fischer;David James Abson

  • Food and Green Space in Cities : A Resilience Lens on Gardens and Urban Environmental Movements

    Stephan Barthel;John Parker;Henrik Ernstson

  • 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

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

    Karl Samuelsson;Stephan Barthel;Johan Colding;Gloria Macassa

  • Bio-cultural refugia—Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity

    Stephan Barthel;Carole Crumley;Carole Crumley;Uno Svedin

  • 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

  • Rewiring food systems to enhance human health and biosphere stewardship.

    Line J Gordon;Victoria Bignet;Beatrice Crona;Beatrice Crona;Patrik J G Henriksson;Patrik J G Henriksson

  • Stewardship of urban ecosystem services : understanding the value(s) of urban gardens in Barcelona

    Johannes Langemeyer;Marta Camps-Calvet;Laura Calvet-Mir;Laura Calvet-Mir;Stephan Barthel

  • An embodied perspective on the co-production of cultural ecosystem services: toward embodied ecosystems

    Christopher M. Raymond;Matteo Giusti;Stephan Barthel

  • Biocultural Refugia: Combating the Erosion of Diversity in Landscapes of Food Production

    Stephan Barthel;Carole L. Crumley;Uno Svedin

  • The dynamics of social-ecological systems in urban landscapes: Stockholm and the National Urban Park, Sweden

    Thomas Elmqvist;Johan Colding;Stephan Barthel;Sara Borgström

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan Colding
Johan Colding Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Erik Andersson
Erik Andersson Karolinska Institute
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Patrik Sörqvist
Patrik Sörqvist University of Gaevle
Christopher M. Raymond
Christopher M. Raymond University of Helsinki
Thomas Elmqvist
Thomas Elmqvist Stockholm Resilience Centre
Zahra Kalantari
Zahra Kalantari Royal Institute of Technology
Max Troell
Max Troell Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Beatrice Crona
Beatrice Crona Stockholm University
Terry Hartig
Terry Hartig Uppsala University

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