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Mistra Environmental Communication Annual report 2025
2026-03-31
Special Issue: Justice in Transition Governance
Scientific paper
2026-03-04
In this Special Issue, we trace how justice concerns are brought into European climate policy discourse and shape how transition governance is accomplished on international, national and local scales. We critically examine the systems of thought, rationalities and vocabularies that give justice in transition governance meaning, as well as the many techniques, mechanisms and procedures through which just transitions are implemented in practical terms – from the EU to the local level. In short, this Special Issue adopts a critical-constructivist perspective, asking how justice is imagined, enacted and ‘done’ in European transition governance.
7 av 10 unga oroar sig inte för klimatet: ”En överraskning”
Video
2026-02-26
Miljöpsykologen Marlis Wullenkord undersöker varför många svenska 16-åringar inte bryr sig om klimatet. Hör hennes teorier i klippet från SVT Nyheter.
A methodology for analysing informational textures: Skipping stones and noticing the ripples
Scientific paper
2026-02-24
In this article, Jutta Haider and Björn Ekström propose a novel methodological approach to understanding the informational texture of climate obstruction and related issues by weaving together scattered but entangled data fragments. Journal of Documentation, 82(7), 150–169.
Doing Justice in Transition Governance? Transient Assemblages of Actors, Discourses and Practices
Scientific paper
2026-02-17
Editorial for the special issue Justice in Transition Governance. Authors: Anke Fischer, Eva Lövbrand, Sofie Joosse, Josefina Marklund, Nora Förell. In Environmental Policy and Governance.
Caring in crises – Unsettling care in soil carbon sequestration
Scientific paper
2026-02-12
This article investigates the European policy context of soils and carbon farming where care for soils is promoted alongside climate neutrality and economic growth goals. Authors: Susanna Barrineau and Stina Powell. In Environmental Science & Policy.
Replik: AI vid granskning kan sätta stopp för nytänkande forskning
Debate article
2026-02-11
AI kommer inte kunna förbättra granskningsprocessen. Att använda den här tekniken vid bedömning av ansökningar innebär betydande risker. Det skriver Malte Rödl, SLU, i en replik i den pågående debatten om AI i samband med ansökningar.
Därför har vindkraften hamnat i motvind
News article
2025-12-17
Martin Westin skriver en essä i Svenska Dagbladet.
How ‘everyday AI’ encourages overconsumption
News article
2025-12-09
Jutta Hailder, Björn Ekström and James White write in The Conversation.
Radioinslag: Han vill återskapa Brasiliens bortglömda regnskog
Radio
2025-11-15
Att återställa regnskog innebär dilemman och svåra avvägningar. Hur gör man för att rädda djur, natur och klimat utan att människor kommer i kläm? Och finns det risk för att koloniala mönster upprepas?
Vetenskapsradion följer en biolog som tar saken i egna händer och börjar återställa ett skyddat rike i Brasiliens regnskog. I programmet medverkar Max Whitman och Neil Powell, forskare inom Mistra Environmental Communication, som fokuserar på den här typen av naturrestaurering. De bidrar med några nycklar till hur sådana insatser kan bli lyckade. Programment skildrar även Max och Neils arbete i Honduras – ett initiativ som handlar om att utmana normer för klimatkompensation och hitta en modell som möjliggör ett långsiktigt arbete med frågor bortom kolinlagring.
Media: Professorn som fått nog
Video
2025-11-09
Att återställa regnskog innebär dilemman och svåra avvägningar. Hur gör man för att rädda djur, natur och klimat utan att människor kommer i kläm? Och finns det risk för att koloniala mönster upprepas?
Vetenskapens värld följer en biolog som tar saken i egna händer och börjar återställa ett skyddat rike i Brasiliens regnskog. I programmet medverkar Max Whitman och Neil Powell, forskare inom Mistra Environmental Communication, som fokuserar på den här typen av naturrestaurering. De bidrar med några nycklar till hur sådana insatser kan bli lyckade. Programment skildrar även Max och Neils arbete i Honduras – ett initiativ som handlar om att utmana normer för klimatkompensation och hitta en modell som möjliggör ett långsiktigt arbete med frågor bortom kolinlagring.
Co-creating multifunctional landscapes – lessons from three case studies
Scientific paper
2025-11-04
Max Whitman, Neil Powell, Sara Holmgren & Thao Do write in Ecosystems and People. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2025.2574866
Will the Transition Ever Be Just? Three Sites of Discursive Struggle Over Justice in Transition Governance
Scientific paper
2025-10-25
Authors: Anke Fischer, Josefina Marklund, Nora Förell, Sofie Joosse, Annabel Pinker, Wiebren J. Boonstra. In Environmental Policy and Governance.
Doing Justice, Doing the Transition: Narratives of the Just Transition Fund and the Swedish Steel Industry
Scientific paper
2025-10-23
Authors: Sofie Joosse, Kornelia Johansson, Nora Förell and Anke Fischer. In Environmental Policy and Governance.
Foundation models’ acceptable use policies disregard the environment and nature
Scientific paper
2025-10-16
Björn Ekström, Lisa Engström & Jutta Haider write in Nature Machine Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-025-01134-3
Östgötsk bonde säljer klimatkompensation i Honduras
News article
2025-09-21
Repotage om Paskaia – ett företag som planterar skog och säljer klimatkompensation i Honduras. Företaget ingår i forskning inom Fokus område Transformation inom Mistra Environmental Communication.
Analys: ”Klimatmedborgarråd måste välja – öka förståelse mellan meningsmotståndare eller stötta en viss politik”
Debate article
2025-09-16
Dagens medborgarråd försöker kombinera två svårförenliga syften: att möjliggöra samtalsdemokrati och vässa klimatambitionerna. I stället bör råden renodlas så att de antingen stöttar genomförandet av klimatpolitiken eller dämpar polarisering mellan meningsmotståndare genom goda samtal. Det skriver Alexander Hellquist, Martin Westin, Camilo Calderon och René van der Wal, alla aktiva inom Mistra Environmental Communication.
”Så blev den gröna omställningen ett rött skynke i debatten”
Debate article
2025-09-16
“Industriella storsatsningar och gruvprojekt kritiseras från många håll och uttrycket ”den gröna omställningen” har fått en besk bismak. Men varför heter det ens så? Är det en omställning och är den verkligen grön? Genom att blicka tillbaka på hur begreppet använts tidigare kan vi få insikter om framtiden”, skriver fyra forskare inom Mistra Environmental Communication i en debattartikel i Dagens Nyheter. Anke Fischer, professor i miljökommunikation vid Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU), Sofie Joosse, docent vid SLU och programchef för Mistra Environmental Communication och Nora Förell och Kornelia Johansson, doktorander i miljökommunikation vid SLU.
From sustainability to competitive-ness: what shifting narratives means for EU agricultural policy
Policy brief| Research brief
2025-09-11
Understanding how narratives shape policy is crucial for ensuring that environmental and climate goals remain central to EU agricultural governance. This brief calls for more inclusive and balanced policy debates to avoid discursive closure and ensure long-term sustainability.
Nora Förell et.al
Post fellowship blog – Nora Förell
Blog post
2025-08-25
Arriving in Brussels can be a bit overwhelming. As I walked into the EU quarter for the first time, I couldn’t help but feel like I had been transported into another world with huge glass buildings and where everyone wears suits, speaks five different languages, and all have Very Important Jobs. This fast-paced and dynamic environment was quite different from my quiet desk at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. So how did I end up in this situation? Nora Förell reflects on her time in Brussels as a Mistra Fellow.
“Thinking with soils”: relational and care-full perspectives on carbon farming futures and deep transformations
Dissertation
2025-08-12
Susanna (Sanna) Barrineau’s PhD dissertation.
Transforming Human-Fire Relationships: Co-creating landscape changes from Honduras to Sweden
Dissertation
2025-08-12
PhD Dissertation by Max Whitman
Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design.
Scientific paper
2025-08-06
Haider, J., Rödl, M., & White, J. write in Big Data & Society. This commentary discusses the role of increasingly artificial intelligence-infused big tech platforms in facilitating and normalising high-emission lifestyles and consumption practices.
The power of reflection: making reflective practice power-sensitive
Scientific paper
2025-08-04
Martin Westin,Robert Österbergh, Henrietta Forsman & Alexander Hellquist write in Reflective Practice.
Anticipating airpocalypse: Air quality apps and implicit modes of anticipatory practices
Scientific paper
2025-07-09
Carin Graminius and Jutta Haider writes in the journal Futures.
This paper explores the anticipatory assemblages of air quality apps as well as users’ interactions with these apps and their implicit anticipatory practices. They argue that the assemblage of human and non-human actors that constitutes air quality apps presents air pollution as divorced from human action. Furthermore, proposed actions against air pollution accounted for in air quality apps may not be attuned to the diverse contexts of the users, such as less affluent actors. Moreover, apps have world-making powers, as users follow the advice and actions the apps provide, implicitly contributing to the vision of the future the apps present.
Blogpost. Rethinking Consumer-Focused Biotechnology Research
Blog post
2025-07-07
In a recent open-access publication, Klara Fischer and colleagues investigate how the narrow focus on citizens as consumers unfolds in research on agricultural biotechnologies and discusses what it means for public engagement in questions about the role of technology in society. In a blog post at “A bigger conversation”, Klara explains more about the research.
The Zombie Scientific Archive: How AI-generated content and misinformation are corrupting online academic resources, creating a “zombie” internet where errors and fake science perpetuate.
News article
2025-06-23
Jutta Haider is interviewed in the QS Insights Magazine, Issue 30, June 2025
Co-creating the design of equitable ecosystem restoration using the voluntary carbon market – six principles
Scientific paper
2025-06-01
Whitman, M., Powell, N., Bergström, M., & Rodriguez, M. writes in Nature-Based Solutions.
Grappling with post-truth politics – facilitation strategies for policy-making in troubled times
2025-05-28
Martin Westin, Sofie Joosse, Amelia Mutter & Miron Moraitopoulos Arljung writes in Critical Policy Studies.
Näshår som filtrerar bort luftföroreningar?
News article
2025-05-15
Ironi och humor kan vara effektiva verktyg för att skapa engagemang i miljöfrågor. Det visar en ny studie där forskare har analyserat en minst sagt udda miljökampanj från Kina. Hanna Bergeå och Carin Graminius skriver i Extrakt.
Ironi effektivt vid miljökommunikation – näshårskampanj fick spridning
News article
2025-05-15
En framgångsrik kinesisk miljökampanj har blivit analyserad av svenska forskare. I kampanjen beskrevs en framtid där invånarnas näshår växt sig långt och frodigt för att skydda mot luftföroreningar. Hanna Bergeå och Carin Graminius kommenterar deras forskning i Syre.
Joe Rogan & Other Top Podcasts Spread Climate Disinfo, Research Finds
News article
2025-05-09
Elisa Tattersall Wallin is interviewed by the newspaper Sentient.
Podcast channels that spread disinformation often use emotionally charged language in their titles and episode descriptions, unlike factual podcast channels that have the intention to inform or entertain. We are often not as good at thinking critically about sources when we feel strong emotions like anger or sadness, it’s therefore a clever trick as a way to spread disinformation and conspiracy theories. As a listener of podcasts or a consumer of social media in general, it might be worth thinking about how information is packaged by the sender, Elisa explains.
All talk and few facts: Reflecting on the role of podcasts in climate obstruction.
Scientific paper
2025-04-18
Tattersall Wallin, E. writes in Information Matters.
Blogpost: Commodified and Digital Airscapes: Reflections on sensing and breathing air in the 21st century.
Blog post
2025-04-12
Graminius, C. In: Arcadiana. A blog about literature, culture and the environment.
Video. How can we make the climate transformation possible? How can Europe secure energy and resources for food security and a fossil-free future?
Video
2025-04-09
Anke Fischer represents Mistra Environmental Communication in a panel talk at Mistra’s Brussels seminar.
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‘First forced displacements, then slaughter’: Discursive regulations of nature by the state and Sami in a Swedish TV documentary
Scientific paper
2022-06-03
Filimonov, K., Carpentier, N (2022) Journal of Language and Politics 21(6) 827-846. Publication from phase I, focus area media and arts.
‘How is he entitled to say this?’: Constructing the identities of experts, ordinary people, and presenters in Swedish television series on climate change
Scientific paper
2022-04-25
Filimonov, K., Carpentier, N (2022) Nordicom Review, 43: 111-128. Publication from phase I, focus area media and arts.
‘Google this!’ How performative links and search engines organise information disorders in a climate obstruction network
Scientific paper
2025-01-23
Malte Rödl and Jutta Haider write in the journal Information, Communication & Society.
“Let us be led by the residents”: Swedish dialogue experts’ stories about power, justification and ambivalence.
Scientific paper
2021-12-10
Westin M, Mutter A, Calderon C, et al. (2021) “Let us be led by the residents”: Swedish dialogue experts’ stories about power, justification and ambivalence. Nordic Journal of Urban Studies 1(2). Universitetsforlaget: 113–130.
“Thinking with soils”: relational and care-full perspectives on carbon farming futures and deep transformations
Dissertation
2025-08-12
Susanna (Sanna) Barrineau’s PhD dissertation.
”Så blev den gröna omställningen ett rött skynke i debatten”
Debate article
2025-09-16
“Industriella storsatsningar och gruvprojekt kritiseras från många håll och uttrycket ”den gröna omställningen” har fått en besk bismak. Men varför heter det ens så? Är det en omställning och är den verkligen grön? Genom att blicka tillbaka på hur begreppet använts tidigare kan vi få insikter om framtiden”, skriver fyra forskare inom Mistra Environmental Communication i en debattartikel i Dagens Nyheter. Anke Fischer, professor i miljökommunikation vid Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU), Sofie Joosse, docent vid SLU och programchef för Mistra Environmental Communication och Nora Förell och Kornelia Johansson, doktorander i miljökommunikation vid SLU.
#ugly selfie.
Video
2022-01-01
by Tessa Joosse, 2022
7 av 10 unga oroar sig inte för klimatet: ”En överraskning”
Video
2026-02-26
Miljöpsykologen Marlis Wullenkord undersöker varför många svenska 16-åringar inte bryr sig om klimatet. Hör hennes teorier i klippet från SVT Nyheter.
A Council of All Beings – communal rituals as transformative practice
Blog post
2021-04-13
Blog post written by Sanna Barrineau
A methodology for analysing informational textures: Skipping stones and noticing the ripples
Scientific paper
2026-02-24
In this article, Jutta Haider and Björn Ekström propose a novel methodological approach to understanding the informational texture of climate obstruction and related issues by weaving together scattered but entangled data fragments. Journal of Documentation, 82(7), 150–169.
A social mapping of Swedish environment-focussed Facebook groups in Sweden: The principles, methods and implementation of a mapping project.
Scientific paper
2023-09-01
Doudaki, V., Carpentier, N. (2023). Telematics and Informatics, 83, 102121. Publication from phase I, focus area media and arts.
AI-Generated Junk Science Is Flooding Google Scholar, Study Claims
News article
2024-09-09
Jutta Haider is interviewed in Newsweek about the article on GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar. September 09, 2024
AI-Powered Web Search Gives Climate Deniers and Conspiracy Theorists Free Rein
News article
2024-08-27
Jutta Haider writes about AI-Powered Web Search Gives Climate Deniers and Conspiracy Theorists Free Rein in Tech Policy Press, 2024-08-27.
Algorithmically embodied emissions: the environmental harm of everyday life information in digital culture
Scientific paper
2022-10-01
Haider, J;, Rödl, M.; & Joosse, S. (2022) Information Research 27.
All talk and few facts: Reflecting on the role of podcasts in climate obstruction.
Scientific paper
2025-04-18
Tattersall Wallin, E. writes in Information Matters.
Ambiguous environmental advertising: how brand advertising and consumers frame Rügenwalder Mühle’s products
Master’s thesis
2021-06-06
Master’s thesis by Klara Pietsch, 2021. Supervisor: Malte Rödl.
An emerging web of narratives from carbon farming in Sweden
Research brief
2021-06-22
Reflection piece by Sanna Barrineau
Analys: ”Klimatmedborgarråd måste välja – öka förståelse mellan meningsmotståndare eller stötta en viss politik”
Debate article
2025-09-16
Dagens medborgarråd försöker kombinera två svårförenliga syften: att möjliggöra samtalsdemokrati och vässa klimatambitionerna. I stället bör råden renodlas så att de antingen stöttar genomförandet av klimatpolitiken eller dämpar polarisering mellan meningsmotståndare genom goda samtal. Det skriver Alexander Hellquist, Martin Westin, Camilo Calderon och René van der Wal, alla aktiva inom Mistra Environmental Communication.
Anticipating airpocalypse: Air quality apps and implicit modes of anticipatory practices
Scientific paper
2025-07-09
Carin Graminius and Jutta Haider writes in the journal Futures.
This paper explores the anticipatory assemblages of air quality apps as well as users’ interactions with these apps and their implicit anticipatory practices. They argue that the assemblage of human and non-human actors that constitutes air quality apps presents air pollution as divorced from human action. Furthermore, proposed actions against air pollution accounted for in air quality apps may not be attuned to the diverse contexts of the users, such as less affluent actors. Moreover, apps have world-making powers, as users follow the advice and actions the apps provide, implicitly contributing to the vision of the future the apps present.
Anticipatory Imagination: Charting New Pathways to Environmental Communication
Blog post
2021-05-28
Blog post written by Dr Marcus Bussey
Att brinna för sin forskning
Blog post
2020-06-01
Blog post i tidningen Curie 1 juni 2020 av Stina Powell.
Att leda samverkan: en handbok för dig som vill hantera komplexa samhällsproblem
Book
Behind the narratives of climate change denial and rights of nature: Sustainability and the ideological struggle between anthropocentrism and ecocentrism in two radical Facebook groups in Sweden.
Scientific paper
2023-03-31
Doudaki, V., Carpentier, N. (2023). Journal for Political Ideologies, May 31. Publication from phase I, focus area media and arts.
Between authority and argumentation: facilitators’ use of power in collaborative governance
Scientific paper
2023-02-09
Westin, Martin; Hallgren, Lars; Montgomerie, Emily (2023) Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.
Bibliotekens roll i klimatomställningen: Från neutral mötesplats till aktiv förändringskraft?
News article
2025-02-24
Bibliotek möjliggör storskaligt återbruk av böcker, film och annan media. Men hur kan bibliotek engagera och verka för en samhällelig omställning? Och vilket ansvar har bibliotek för att främja ett hållbart samhälle? Om det går åsikterna isär. Elin Söndergaard och Victoria Wagner reflekterar kring ett panelsamtal med temat bibliotekens roll i den hållbara omställningen på plattformen Digiteket.
Bioeconomy imaginaries: A review of forest-related social science literature
Scientific paper
2020-10-09
Article by Sara Holmgren, Dalia D’Amato and Alexandru Giurca
Blogpost: Commodified and Digital Airscapes: Reflections on sensing and breathing air in the 21st century.
Blog post
2025-04-12
Graminius, C. In: Arcadiana. A blog about literature, culture and the environment.
Blogpost. Rethinking Consumer-Focused Biotechnology Research
Blog post
2025-07-07
In a recent open-access publication, Klara Fischer and colleagues investigate how the narrow focus on citizens as consumers unfolds in research on agricultural biotechnologies and discusses what it means for public engagement in questions about the role of technology in society. In a blog post at “A bigger conversation”, Klara explains more about the research.
Boråsprofessorn varnar: Källkritiken i kris – så undermineras demokratins fundament
News article
2024-08-05
Interview in Borås Tidning, 2024-08-05. Utbredd cynism och IT-jättars vinstjakt har rubbat det politiska samtalet i grunden. Boråsprofessorn Jutta Haider varnar för att ett av demokratins fundament – källkritiken – är hotad och uppmanar till politisk handlingskraft.
Broadening the Circle: Creativity, Regeneration and Redistribution in Value Loops.
Scientific paper
2023-03-31
Palakshappa, N., Venkateswar, S., Ganesh, S. (2023). Social Responsibility Journal, 19.
Can Conflict Be Planned Away? A Critical Assessment of Participatory Land Use Planning in Swedish Forest Governance
Scientific paper
2025-01-27
A widespread governance response to land use conflict is to seek improved communication through the employment of dialogue-based instruments. In this paper, we interrogate the guiding presupposition that conflict can be planned away through a case study on the Reindeer Husbandry Plan (Renbruksplan), a tool used to address land use conflicts between industrial forestry and Indigenous Sámi reindeer herding. Annette Löf, 2024.
Can the exposition of paradata lead to participant diversity in biodiversity citizen science?
Blog post
2025-01-07
Björn Ekström writes a blog post at the forum Information Matters.
Carbon Farming Project – Fostering Knowledge Co-production for Sustainability Transformations
Research brief
2021-09-01
Project brief of Carbon Farming Project: Fostering Knowledge Co-production for Sustainability Transformations
Caring in crises – Unsettling care in soil carbon sequestration
Scientific paper
2026-02-12
This article investigates the European policy context of soils and carbon farming where care for soils is promoted alongside climate neutrality and economic growth goals. Authors: Susanna Barrineau and Stina Powell. In Environmental Science & Policy.
Citizen Science as Democratic Innovation That Renews Environmental Monitoring and Assessment for the Sustainable Development Goals in Rural Areas
Scientific paper
2021-03-04
Alarcon Ferrari, C.; Jönsson, M.; Gebreyohannis Gebrehiwot; S., Chiwona-Karltun; L., Mark-Herbert, C.; Manuschevich, D.; Powell, N.; Do, T.; Bishop, K.; & Hilding-Rydevik, T. (2021) Sustainability, 13(5).