Publications

Peer reviewed publications

• Flurina Schneider, Theresa Tribaldos, Carolina Adler, Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, Ariane de Bremond, Tobias Buser, Cornelia Krug, Marie-France Loutre, Sarah Moore, Albert V Norström, Katsia Paulavets, Davnah Urbach, Eva Spehn, Gabriela Wülser, Ruben Zondervan. 2021. Co-production of knowledge and sustainability transformations: a strategic compass for global research networks. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 49: 127-142
• Burch, Sarah, Aarti Gupta, Cristina Y.A. Inoue, Agni Kalfagianni, Åsa Persson, Andrea K. Gerlak, Atsushi Ishii, James Patterson, Jonathan Pickering, Michelle Scobie, Jeroen Van der Heijden, Joost Vervoort, Carolina Adler, Michael Bloomfield, Riyante Djalante, John Dryzek, Victor Galaz, Christopher Gordon, Renée Harmon, Sikina Jinnah, Rakhyun E. Kim, Lennart Olsson, Judith Van Leeuwen, Vasna Ramasar, Paul Wapner, Ruben Zondervan. 2019. New directions in earth system governance research. Earth System Governance Journal
• Zondervan, Ruben. 2017. The Scientific & Technological Community in the SDG Process. Environmental Scientist 26 (3): 34-37
• Gerhardinger, Leopoldo, Philipp Gorris, Leandra Goncalves, Dannieli Firme Herbst, Daniele Vila-Nova, Fabiano Grecco de Carvalho, Marion Glaser, Ruben Zondervan, Bruce Glavovic. 2017. Healing the Blue Amazon: The role of knowledge networks in nurturing cross-scale transformations at the frontlines of ocean sustainability. Frontiers in Marine Science, Vol. 4: 395
• Ness, Barry, and Ruben Zondervan. 2017. The Taskforce on Conceptual Foundations of Earth System Governance: Sustainability Science. Challenges in Sustainability, 5 (1): 1
• Senay Habtezion, Ibidun Adelekan, Emmanuel Aiyede, Frank Biermann, Margaret Fubara, Christopher Gordon, Kwabena Gyekye, Emmanuel Kasimbazi, Robert Kibugi, Elaine Lawson, Adelina Mensah, Chipo Mubaya, Felix Olorunfemi, Alexander Paterson, Debay Tadesse, Raheem Usman, and Ruben Zondervan. 2015. Earth System Governance in Africa: knowledge and capacity needs. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 14: 198–205
• Gupta, Joyeeta, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, and Ruben Zondervan. 2013. ‘Glocal’ Water Governance: a Multi-Level Challenge in the Anthropocene. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 5 (6): 573–580
• Koshy, Kanayathu, Linda Anne Stevenson, Jariya Boonjawat, John R. Campbell, Kristie L. Ebi, Hina Lotia, and Ruben Zondervan. 2014. Climate and Society. In: Climate in Asia and the Pacific. Security, Society and Sustainability, edited by Michael Manton and Linda Anne Stevenson, 56:199–252. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands
• Poul Holm, Michael Evan Goodsite, Sierd Cloetingh, Mauro Agnoletti, Bedrich Moldan, Daniel J. Lang, Rik Leemans, Joergen Oerstroem Moeller, Mercedes Pardo Buendía, Walter Pohl, Roland W. Scholz, Andrew Sors, Bernard Vanheusden, Kathryn Yusoff, Ruben Zondervan. 2013. Collaboration between the natural, social and human sciences in Global Change Research. Environmental Science & Policy, 28 (Special Issue: Responding to the Challenges of our Unstable Earth (RESCUE)): 25-35
• Kanie, Norichika, Michele M. Betsill, Ruben Zondervan, Frank Biermann, and Oran R. Young. 2012. A Charter Moment: Restructuring Governance for Sustainability. Public Administration and Development, 32 (3): 292–304
• Biermann, Frank, Kenneth Abbott, Steinar Andresen, Karin Bäckstrand, Steven Bernstein, Michele M. Betsill, Harriet Bulkeley, Benjamin Cashore, Jennifer Clapp, Carl Folke, Aarti Gupta, Joyeeta Gupta, Peter M. Haas, Andrew Jordan, Norichika Kanie, Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská, Louis Lebel, Diana Liverman, James Meadowcroft, Ronald B. Mitchell, Peter Newell, Sebastian Oberthür, Lennart Olsson, Philipp Pattberg, Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez, Heike Schroeder, Arild Underdal, Susana Camargo Vieira, Coleen Vogel, Oran R. Young, Andrea Brock, and Ruben Zondervan. Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance. Science, Vol. 335 No. 6074, 1306-1307, 16 March 2012
• Biermann, Frank, Kenneth Abbott, Steinar Andresen, Karin Bäckstrand, Steven Bernstein, Michele M. Betsill, Harriet Bulkeley, Benjamin Cashore, Jennifer Clapp, Carl Folke, Aarti Gupta, Joyeeta Gupta, Peter M. Haas, Andrew Jordan, Norichika Kanie, Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská, Louis Lebel, Diana Liverman, James Meadowcroft, Ronald B. Mitchell, Peter Newell, Sebastian Oberthür, Lennart Olsson, Philipp Pattberg, Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez, Heike Schroeder, Arild Underdal, Susana Camargo Vieira, Coleen Vogel, Oran R. Young, Andrea Brock, and Ruben Zondervan. 2012. Transforming Governance and Institutions for Global Sustainability: Key Insights from the Earth System Governance Project. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 4(1): 51-60
• Biermann, Frank, Michele M. Betsill, Joyeeta Gupta, Norichika Kanie, Louis Lebel, Diana Liverman, Heike Schroeder, Bernd Siebenhüner, and Ruben Zondervan. 2010. Earth System Governance. Outline of a Research Programme. INEA Special Issue, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law, and Economics, 10 (4): 277-298
• Biermann, Frank, and Ruben Zondervan (editors). 2010. Earth System Governance. INEA Special Issue, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law, and Economics, 10 (4): 273-276
• Biermann, Frank, Michele M. Betsill, Susana Camargo Vieira, Joyeeta Gupta, Norichika Kanie, Louis Lebel, Diana Liverman, Heike Schroeder, Bernd Siebenhüner, Pius Z. Yanda, and Ruben Zondervan. 2010. The Earth System Governance Project: Research on Navigating the Anthropocene. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2 (3): 202-208
• Biermann, Frank, Michele M. Betsill, Joyeeta Gupta, Norichika Kanie, Louis Lebel, Diana Liverman, Heike Schroeder, and Bernd Siebenhüner, with contributions from Ken Conca, Leila da Costa Ferreira, Bharat Desai, Simon Tay, and Ruben Zondervan. 2009. Earth System Governance: People, Places and the Planet. Science and Implementation Plan of the Earth System Governance Project. ESG Report 1, IHDP Report 20, Bonn, IHDP: The Earth System Governance Project
• Zondervan, Ruben. 2004. Environmental Security. In: Sprinz, Detlef F. (ed): International Environmental Policy. PolitikON – online curriculum. Trier: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research / University of Trier

Selection of other publications

(excluding publications listed in the blog list)

• Niestroy, Ingeborg, Elisabeth Hege, Elizabeth Dirth, and Ruben Zondervan. 2019. Europe's approach to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: good practices and the way forward. European Parliament, Policy Department, Directorate-General for External Policies EP/EXPO/B/DEVE/2018/01
• Zondervan, Ruben. 2018 (in press). Toward more sustainable governance. Impact Magazine
• Rijnhout, Leida, and Ruben Zondervan. 2018. Advancing Sustainable Development Goals within Europe and Globally: The Role of the EU. Think2030 Policy Paper. Brussels: IEEP and Globe EU
• Zondervan, Ruben. 2017. In Defense of the Social Sciences in Global Environmental Assessments. LinkedIn/Pulse
• Zondervan, Ruben and Jonathan Volt. 2018. Why does the Secretary-General insist on placing Partnerships at the Heart of the Post-2015 Development Agenda? Global Goals Yearbook. Münster: Macondo Publishing / United Nations Publications. 18-22
• Zondervan, Ruben. Leaving No One Behind (a Paywall). LinkedIn/Pulse. July 2018
• Shkaruba, Anton, Vladislav Donchenko, and Ruben Zondervan. 2018. Global and European Environmental Policy — Milestones and Concepts. In: Principles of Environmental Policy: Local, European and Global Perspectives. Chapter 1.1 (16-43). Pskov: Publishing house of Pskov State University
• Zondervan, Ruben. 2018. Science – Policy. In: Principles of Environmental Policy: Local, European and Global Perspectives. Chapter 1.1 (44-59). Pskov: Publishing house of Pskov State University
• Lindner, Robert, Norichika Kanie, Mari Kosaka, Maki Koga, Yui Nakagawa, Steven Bernstein, Pam Chasek, and Ruben Zondervan (editors). 2016. Building Blocks for the Institutional Architecture of the SDGs Science-Policy Interface: POST2015/UNU-IAS Conference Report. Tokyo: United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability
• Zondervan, Ruben. 2015. Fine tuning the Science and Technology Major Group. SciDevNet, 15 November 2015
• Zondervan, Ruben. 2015. How much science is in the Sustainable Development Goals zero-draft? Future Earth Blog, 8 June 2015
• Kanie, Norichika, Ruben Zondervan, and Casey Stevens (editors). 2014. Ideas on Governance ‘of’ and ‘for’ Sustainable Development Goals: UNU-IAS/POST2015 Policy report. Tokyo: United Nations University Institute for the Advance Study of Sustainability
• Zondervan, Ruben, Leopoldo Cavaleri Gerhardinger, Isabel Torres de Noronha, Mark Joseph Spalding and Oran R. Young. 2013. Ocean Governance in the Anthropocene. IGBP Global Change Magazine, 81: 24-27. October 2013
• Lebel, Louis, and Ruben Zondervan. 2013. Uncertainty and Governance of Transboundary River Basins. APN Science Bulletin, 3 (March 2013): 146-147
• Asia-Europe Foundation. 2012. Asia-Europe Strategies for the Earth Summit 2012: Global Architectures for Sustainable Development Delivery. [co-author]
• European Science Foundation (ESF). 2012. Responses to Environmental and Societal Challenges for our Unstable Earth (RESCUE) Working Group Report on "Collaboration between the natural, social and human sciences in global change studies". [contributing author]
• Zondervan, Ruben, with contributions from Ilan Chabay. 2012. Governance and Knowledge in the Anthropocene. IHDP Annual Report 2011, 32-35
• Zondervan, Ruben. 2012. Rio+20: Take science seriously and change the process. The Conversation, 21.06.2012
• Zondervan, Ruben. 2012. Governance for Sustainability towards Rio+20. Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, 18 (2), May 2012
• Zondervan, Ruben. 2012. Governance Research for Rio+20. VN Forum 2012 (1), 2-8
• Earth System Governance Project (editor). 2011. Towards a Charter Moment. Hakone Vision on Governance for Sustainability in the 21st Century. Tokyo: International Environmental Governance Architecture Research Group [chief editor]
• Biermann, Frank, Kenneth Abbott, Steinar Andresen, Karin Bäckstrand, Steven Bernstein, Michele M. Betsill, Harriet Bulkeley, Benjamin Cashore, Jennifer Clapp, Carl Folke, Aarti Gupta, Joyeeta Gupta, Peter M. Haas, Andrew Jordan, Norichika Kanie, Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská, Louis Lebel, Diana Liverman, James Meadowcroft, Ronald B. Mitchell, Peter Newell, Sebastian Oberthür, Lennart Olsson, Philipp Pattberg, Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez, Heike Schroeder, Arild Underdal, Susana Camargo Vieira, Coleen Vogel, Oran R. Young, Andrea Brock, and Ruben Zondervan, 2011. Transforming Governance and Institutions for Global Sustainability: Key Insights from the Earth System Governance Project. Earth System Governance Working Paper No. 17. Lund and Amsterdam: Earth System Governance Project
• Biermann, Frank, Kenneth Abbott, Steinar Andresen, Karin Bäckstrand, Steven Bernstein, Michele M. Betsill, Harriet Bulkeley, Benjamin Cashore, Jennifer Clapp, Carl Folke, Aarti Gupta, Joyeeta Gupta, Peter M. Haas, Andrew Jordan, Norichika Kanie, Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská, Louis Lebel, Diana Liverman, James Meadowcroft, Ronald B. Mitchell, Peter Newell, Sebastian Oberthür, Lennart Olsson, Philipp Pattberg, Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez, Heike Schroeder, Arild Underdal, Susana Camargo Vieira, Coleen Vogel, Oran R. Young, Andrea Brock, and Ruben Zondervan. 2011. Transforming governance and institutions for a planet under pressure. Revitalizing the institutional framework for global sustainability: Key Insights from social science research. Planet Under Pressure Policy Brief, 3