Collaboration is considered essential for addressing social and environmental crises. This article revisits Judith Innes and David Booher’s engagement with complexity science to advance a systemic strand of communicative planning theory and assess its relevance for understanding collaboration during crises. Drawing on practitioners’ experiences in five Swedish municipalities during the Syrian and Ukrainian refugee mass migrations, we show how the systemic strand helps explain how collaboration unfolds across multiple interrelated formal and informal initiatives rather than a single planning process. We also identify a key limitation of the strand: its inability to capture the inevitable exercise of exclusion and authority during crisis situations. Calderon, C., Butler, A., & Westin, M. in Planning Theory & Practice.

This study explores the thoughts of forestry students at upper secondary school about future working life, as well as their hopes and concerns related to the phase-out of intensive forest management practices. How students relate to forest is seen as central to understanding the emotions that shape their view of the future. Ann Grubbström, Stina Powell, and Sara Holmgren in Forest Policy and Economics.

Weather applications constitute mundane data infrastructures that people use on a daily basis. However, little attention is afforded to how these everyday technologies and their data potentially shape users’ understanding of weather. One group to which weather conditions are particularly salient is farmers. The field of agriculture is increasingly data-driven, encompassing different commercial and non-commercial digital weather products. However, the potential performativity of said data on farmers’ understandings of weather remains little explored. Taking inspiration from mundane data studies, and by interviewing Swedish farmers, we find that weather app data intensify farmers’ attention to unfolding weather conditions, and affect farmers’ relations to their environment and understanding of weather. Moreover, their experiences of using weather apps are characterised by ambivalence – the co-existence of conflicting feelings, practices and attitudes. This ambivalence emerges at the intersection of farmers’ data use, habits, routines, discourses and embodiment. We propose to call this phenomenon ‘digital betweenness’. ‘Digital betweenness’ directs and sensitises farmers to opposing and concurrent practices, forces, ideas and desires that are entangled in weather data encounters. Carin Graminius, Björn Ekström, Ola Lundin and René van der Wal in Big Data & Society

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.

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.

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.

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.

Max Whitman, Neil Powell, Sara Holmgren & Thao Do write in Ecosystems and People. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2025.2574866

Authors: Anke Fischer, Josefina Marklund, Nora Förell, Sofie Joosse, Annabel Pinker, Wiebren J. Boonstra. In Environmental Policy and Governance.

Authors: Sofie Joosse, Kornelia Johansson, Nora Förell and Anke Fischer. In Environmental Policy and Governance.

Martin Westin,Robert Österbergh, Henrietta Forsman & Alexander Hellquist write in Reflective Practice.

Graminius, C., & Halberg, S. (2025). in Ethnologia Europaea.

Malte Rödl and Jutta Haider write in the journal Information, Communication & Society.