The following
Publications and products
have BEEN produced
as part of the
Seeds of Good
Anthropocenes project:

2026

de Koning, S., Kaufmann, M., Kuiper, J.J. and Boezeman, D., 2026. Amplifying the transformative impact of landscape-oriented partnerships: understanding conditions for and interactions of amplification processes. Ecology and Society. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-16897-310114

Jacobson, M., Gerstbrein, T., Aceituno, A.J., Sellberg, M. and Pereira, L.M., 2026. Investigating the development of transformative capacity of food initiatives in Cape Town and Stockholm.

Kabisa, M., Pereira, L., Karuri-Sebina, G., Marais-Potgieter, A., Nkgothoe, B., Imataa, E., Nyambe, S., Mushunga, J., Hazemba, W., Chumya, C. and Syatyoka, V., 2026. Transforming Biodiversity and Climate Governance in the Barotse Cultural Landscape of Zambia: Envisioning Futures Using the Nature Futures Framework. World Futures Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/19467567261433197

Kim, H., Peterson, G., Kim, H., Lee, H., Yeo, M., Cho, Y., Harrison, P.A., Jin, G., Kang, B., Kim, J. and Kim, S., 2026. Visioning ecologically diverse and harmonious futures of Korea in Good Anthropocene. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70296

van Velden, J.L., Magadzire, N., Malherbe, W., Ojino, J.A., Bour, H., Mayer, K.K., Karonga, S.R., Tcheton, S., Kabisa, M., Pereira, L.M. and Biggs, R., 2026. Seeding equity in African food systems: how can marginal, bottom-up initiatives promote transformations to more equitable and sustainable futures? Ecology and Society. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-16870-310102

2025

Jimenez-Aceituno, A., Burgos-Ayala, A., Cepeda-Rodriguez, E., Lam, D.P. and Martin-Lopez, B., 2025. Indigenous and Local Communities’ initiatives have transformative potential to guide shifts toward sustainability in South America. Communications Earth & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02433-8

Gianelli, I., Trimble, M., Juri, S., Pereira, L.M., González-Mon, B. and Villasante, S., 2025. The seeds’ substrate: a concept to understand how transformations toward Good Anthropocenes can be enabled. Ecology and Society. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-15792-300138

St-Laurent, O., Benessaiah, K. and Bennett, E.M., 2025. Pathways to transformation: Institutionalizing urban agriculture in a Montréal borough. Ecology and Society. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-15897-300228

ud Din, M., Ahmad, A., Samad, S., Lee, S. and Han, H., 2025. Sowing the seeds of sustainability: A sociological exploration of environmental sustainability within SME sector. Climate Services. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100533

Vervoort, J., Pereira, L., Moossdorff, C., Triyanti, A., Newsom, A., Osman, K., Tóth, Á., Sénit, C.A., Azib, H., Donato, V. and Vanstraelen, K., 2025. Teaching the “heads, hearts, and hands” of futures literacy in sustainability education using radical seeds of change. Ecology and Society. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-16717-300448

Zimmermann, S., Dermody, B.J., Wassen, M.J., Fried, R.L., Bennett, E., Galang, E.I.N.E., Divine, L.M., Padula, V.M. and Dorresteijn, I., 2025. Leveraging value-based pathways for Indigenous food security through participatory scenario planning: A case study from St. Paul Island, Alaska, USA. Futures. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2025.103610

2024

Preiser, R., Hichert, T., Biggs, R., van Velden, J., Magadzire, N., Peterson, G., Pereira, L., Mayer, K. and Benessaiah, K., 2024. Transformative foresight for diverse futures: the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative. Development Policy Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12791

Gianelli, I., Trimble, M., Juri, S., Beretta, N.A., Torena, D., Acosta, M., Acosta, R., Del Bó, M., Fuster, J.A., González, V. and Kurta, D., 2024. Envisioning desirable futures in small-scale fisheries: a transdisciplinary arts-based co-creation process. Ecology and Society. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14869-290120

Jorzik, P., Antonio, J.L., Kanbach, D.K., Kallmuenzer, A. and Kraus, S., 2024. Sowing the seeds for sustainability: A business model innovation perspective on artificial intelligence in green technology startups. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123653

Liodaki, D., 2024. Alternative futures “in the making”: Insights from three makerspaces in peripheral Greece. Futures. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2024.103481

Otero, I., Rigal, S., Pereira, L., Kim, H., Gamboa, G., Tello, E. and Grêt-Regamey, A., 2024. Degrowth scenarios for biodiversity? Key methodological steps and a call for collaboration. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01483-9

Rutting, L., Veeger, M., von Breymann, R., Garcia, U., Sancir, N., Calel, S., Canek, F., Suyuk, M. and Vervoort, J., 2024. Prosperous futures inspired by prosperous pasts: Fostering imagination of radical food system alternatives in Guatemala. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100270

Stempfle, S., Carlucci, D., Borrello, M., Cembalo, L., De Gennaro, B.C., Roselli, L. and Giannoccaro, G., 2024. Agri-food systems in transition: Potentialities and challenges of moving towards circular models. Journal of Cleaner Production. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144005

2023

Bachi, L., Corrêa, D., Fonseca, C. and Carvalho-Ribeiro, S., 2023. Are there bright spots in an agriculture frontier? Characterizing seeds of good Anthropocene in Matopiba, Brazil. Environmental Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2023.100856

Buendía, C., Garces, E. and Aceros, J.C., 2023. FiNCO farms for knowledge exchange: a Colombian seed for a good Anthropocene. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-022-01821-0

Lübker, H.M., Keys, P.W., Merrie, A., Pereira, L.M., Rocha, J.C. and Ortuño Crespo, G., 2023. Imagining sustainable futures for the high seas by combining the power of computation and narrative. npj Ocean Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-023-00012-y

Pereira, L.M., Crespo, G.O., Amon, D.J., Badhe, R., Bandeira, S., Bengtsson, F., Boettcher, M., Carmine, G., Cheung, W.W., Chibwe, B. and Dunn, D., 2023. The living infinite: Envisioning futures for transformed human-nature relationships on the high seas. Marine Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105644

Rutting, L., Vervoort, J., Mees, H., Pereira, L., Veeger, M., Muiderman, K., Mangnus, A., Winkler, K., Olsson, P., Hichert, T. and Lane, R., 2023. Disruptive seeds: a scenario approach to explore power shifts in sustainability transformations. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01251-7

Tuckey, A.J., Harmáčková, Z.V., Peterson, G.D., Norström, A.V., Moore, M.L., Olsson, P., Lam, D.P. and Jimenez-Aceituno, A., 2023. What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment, and networking. Ecology and Society. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14163-280227

van Velden, J.L., Biggs, R., Hichert, T., Booth, P., Büchner-Marais, C., Esler, K.J., Lewarne, M., Potgieter, L.J., Rahlao, S.J., Rebelo, A.J. and Robinson, T.B., 2023. Futures for invasive alien species management: using bottom-up innovations to envision positive systemic change. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01406-0

2022

Fitzpatrick, N., Vrettos, C., Ruz, A.M., Mendy, L., Tuckey, A. and Ishihara, S., 2022. Sowing the Seeds of Degrowth Futures:: Reporting back from Degrowth Vienna 2020. Journal of Futures Studies. https://doi.org/10.6531/JFS.202206_26(4).0009

Kuiper, J.J., Van Wijk, D., Mooij, W.M., Remme, R.P., Peterson, G.D., Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, S. and Pereira, L.M., 2022. Exploring desirable nature futures for Nationaal Park Hollandse Duinen. Ecosystems and People. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2022.2065360

Lam, D.P., Jimenez-Aceituno, A., Guerrero Lara, L., Sellberg, M.M., Norström, A.V., Moore, M.L., Peterson, G.D. and Olsson, P., 2022. Amplifying actions for food system transformation: insights from the Stockholm region. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01154-7

Mangnus, A.C., Rebel, K.T., Vervoort, J.M., Dotinga, R.A., Hoogendoorn, E., Driessen, P.P. and Hajer, M.A., 2022. Picture the future, play the present: Re-imagining sustainable cities through a large-scale location-based game. Futures. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102858

Maye, D., Swagemakers, P., Wiskerke, J.S., Moschitz, H., Kirwan, J. and Jahrl, I., 2022. Transformative potential from the ground up: Sustainable innovation journeys, soft change and alignment of interests in urban food initiatives. European Urban and Regional Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/09697764211028887

Medina, G., Pereira, C., Ferreira, J., Berenguer, E. and Barlow, J., 2022. Searching for novel sustainability initiatives in Amazonia. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610299

Muiderman, K., Zurek, M., Vervoort, J., Gupta, A., Hasnain, S. and Driessen, P., 2022. The anticipatory governance of sustainability transformations: Hybrid approaches and dominant perspectives. Global Environmental Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102452

Rutting, L., Vervoort, J., Mees, H. and Driessen, P., 2022. Strengthening foresight for governance of social-ecological systems: An interdisciplinary perspective. Futures. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.102988

Valencia, V., Bennett, E.M., Altieri, M., Nicholls, C., Pas Schrijver, A. and Schulte, R.P., 2022. Learning from the future: mainstreaming disruptive solutions for the transition to sustainable food systems. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6ad9

Vervoort, J.M., Milkoreit, M., van Beek, L., Mangnus, A.C., Farrell, D., McGreevy, S.R., Ota, K., Rupprecht, C.D., Reed, J.B. and Huber, M., 2022. Not just playing: The politics of designing games for impact on anticipatory climate governance. Geoforum. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.009

Wickenberg, B., Kiss, B., McCormick, K. and Palgan, Y.V., 2022. Seeds of transformative learning: Investigating past experiences from implementing nature-based solutions. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2022.835511

2021

Bennett, E.M., Biggs, R., Peterson, G.D. and Gordon, L.J., 2021. Patchwork Earth: Navigating pathways to just, thriving, and sustainable futures. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.01.004

Lin, B. B., Ossola, A., Alberti, M., Andersson, E., Bai, X., Dobbs, C., Elmqvist, T., Evans, K. L., Frantzeskaki, N., Fuller, R. A., Gaston, K. J., Haase, D., Jim, C. Y., Konijnendijk, C., Nagendra, H., Niemelä, J., McPhearson, T., Moomaw, W. R., Parnell, S., Pataki, D., Ripple, W.J., & Tan, P. Y. 2021. Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change. The Lancet Planetary Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00135-2

Özatağan, G. and Ayalp, E.K., 2021. Sustainable futures of agro-food? İzmir’s sustainable agro-food transitions in the making. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.08.003

Pelling, M., Chow, W. T. L., Chu, E., Dawson, R., Dodman, D., Fraser, A., Hayward, B., Khirfan, L., McPhearson, T., Prakash, A., & Ziervogel, G. 2021. A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience. Climate and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2021.1956411

Pereira, L., 2021. Imagining better futures using the Seeds approach. Social Innovations Journal. https://socialinnovationsjournal.com/index.php/sij/article/view/694

Pereira, L., Asrar, G.R., Bhargava, R., Fisher, L.H., Hsu, A., Jabbour, J., Nel, J., Selomane, O., Sitas, N., Trisos, C. and Ward, J., 2021. Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01013-x

Pereira, L.M., Morrow, D.R., Aquila, V., Beckage, B., Beckbesinger, S., Beukes, L., Buck, H.J., Carlson, C.J., Geden, O., Jones, A.P. and Keller, D.P., 2021. From fAIrplay to climate wars: making climate change scenarios more dynamic, creative, and integrative. Ecology and Society. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12856-260430

Villasante, S., Tubío, A., Gianelli, I., Pita, P. and García-Allut, A., 2021. Ever changing times: sustainability transformations of Galician small-scale fisheries. Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.712819

2020

Hamann, M, Biggs, R., Pereira, L., Preiser, R., Hichert, T., Blanchard, R., Warrington-Coetzee, H., King, N., Merrie, A., Nilsson, W., Odendaal, P., Poskitt, S., Sanchez Betancourt, D., & Ziervogel, G. 2020. Scenarios of Good Anthropocenes in southern Africa. Futures. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2020.102526.

Lam, D. P. M., A. I. Horcea-Milcu, J. Fischer, D. Peukert, & D. J. Lang. 2020. Three principles for co-designing sustainability intervention strategies: Experiences from Southern Transylvania. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01302-x

Lam, D. P. M., B. Martín-López, A. I. Horcea-Milcu, & D. J. Lang. 2020. A leverage points perspective on social networks to understand sustainability transformations: evidence from Southern Transylvania. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00881-z

Lam, D.P.M., B. Martín-López, A. Wiek, E.M. Bennett, N. Frantzeskaki, A.I. Horcea-Milcu, & D.J. Lang. 2020. Scaling the impact of sustainability initiatives: a typology of amplification processes. Urban Transformations. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-020-00007-9

Norström, A.V., Peterson, G.D., & Gordon L.J. 2020. Using local initiatives to envision sustainable and resilient food systems in the Stockholm city-region. Global Food Security. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2019.100334

Pereira, L.M., Davies, K.K., Belder, E., Ferrier, S., Karlsson‐Vinkhuyzen, S., Kim, H., Kuiper, J.J., Okayasu, S., Palomo, M.G., Pereira, H.M., Peterson, G., Sathyapalan, J., Schoolenberg, M., Alkemade, R., Carvalho Ribeiro, S., Greenaway, A., Hauck, J., King, N., Lazarova, T., Ravera, F., Chettri, N., Cheung, W.W.L., Hendriks, R.J.J., Kolomytsev, G., Leadley, P., Metzger, J., Ninan, K. N., Pichs, R., Popp, A., Rondinini, C., Rosa, I., Vuuren, D., and Lundquist, C.J. 2020. Developing multiscale and integrative nature–people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10146

Pereira, L., Frantzeskaki, N., Hebinck, A., Charli-Joseph, L., Drimie, S., Dyer, M., Eakin, H., Galafassi, D., Karpouzoglou, T., Marshall, F. and Moore, M.L., 2020. Transformative spaces in the making: key lessons from nine cases in the Global South. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00749-x

Rana, S., Ávila-García, D., Dib, V., Familia, L., Gerhardinger, L. C., Martin, E., Martins, P.I., Pompeu, J., Selomane, O., Tauli J.I., Tran, D.H.T, Valle, M., von Below, J. and Pereira, L. M. 2020. The voices of youth in envisioning positive futures for nature and people. Ecosystems and People. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2020.1821095

Raudsepp-Hearne, C., Peterson, G.D., Bennett, E.M., Biggs, R., Norström, A.V., Pereira, L., Vervoort, J., Iwaniec, D.M., McPhearson, T., Olsson, P. and Hichert, T., 2020. Seeds of good anthropocenes: developing sustainability scenarios for Northern Europe. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00714-8

Sellberg, M.M., Norström, A.V., Peterson, G.D. and Gordon, L.J., 2020. Using local initiatives to envision sustainable and resilient food systems in the Stockholm city-region. Global Food Security. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2019.100334

2019

Falardeau, M., Raudsepp-Hearne, C. & Bennett, E.M. 2019. A novel approach for co-producing positive scenarios that explore agency: case study from the Canadian Arctic. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0620-z

Guerrero Lara, L., Pereira, L. M., Ravera, F., & Jiménez-Aceituno, A. 2019. Flipping the Tortilla: Social-Ecological Innovations and Traditional Ecological Knowledge for More Sustainable Agri-Food Systems in Spain. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11051222

Jiménez-Aceituno, A., Peterson, G.D., Norström, A.V., Wong, G.Y., & Downing, A.S., 2019. Local lens for SDG implementation: lessons from bottom-up approaches in Africa. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00714-8

Mangnus, A. C., Vervoort, J.M., McGreevy, S. R., Ota, K., Rupprecht,C.D.D., Oga, M., & Kobayashi, M. 2019. New pathways for governing food system transformations: a pluralistic practice-based futures approach using visioning, back-casting, and serious gaming. Ecology and Society.
https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11014-240402

Pereira, L., Bennett, E., Biggs, R., Mangnus, A., Norstrom, A.V., Peterson, G., Raudsepp-Hearne, C., Sellberg, M., & Vervoort, J. 2019. Seeding Change by Visioning Good Anthropocenes. Solutions Journal. https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/22783/

Raudsepp-Hearne, C., Peterson, G.D., Bennett, E.M., Biggs, R., Norström, A.V., Pereira, L., Vervoort, J., Iwaniec, D.M., McPhearson, T., Olsson, P., Hichert, T., Falardeau, M., Jiménez Aceituno, A. 2019. Seeds of good anthropocenes: developing sustainability scenarios for Northern Europe. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00714-8

Vervoort, J.M. 2019. New frontiers in futures games: leveraging game sector developments. Futures. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2018.10.005

2018

Pereira, L. , Hichert, T., Hamann, M., Preiser, R., & Biggs, R. 2018. Using futures methods to create transformative spaces: visions of a good Anthropocene in southern Africa. Ecology and Society. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09907-230119

2017

Preiser, R., Pereira, L.M., & Biggs, R. 2017. Navigating alternative framings of human-environment interactions: Variations on the theme of ‘Finding Nemo’. Anthropocene. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2017.10.003

2016

Bennett, E.M., Solan, M., Biggs, R., MacPhearson, T., Norstrom, A., Olsson, P., Pereira, L., Peterson, G.D., Raudsepp-Hearne, C., Beirmann, F., Carpenter, S.R., Ellis, E., Hichert, T. Galaz, V., Lahsen, M., Martin-Lopez, B., Nicolas, K. A., Preisser, R., Vince, G., Vervoort, J., & Xu, J. 2016. Bright Spots: Seeds of a Good Anthropocene. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1309