Wiebren Boonstra
Affiliated Researcher at Uppsala University Conflicting Objectives Research Nexus (UUniCORN)
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 Uppsala
Professor in Natural resources and Sustainable development at Department of Earth Sciences; Natural Resources and Sustainable Development
- E-mail:
- wijnand.boonstra@geo.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Villavägen 16
75236 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Villavägen 16
75236 Uppsala
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-1191-0574
Keywords
- qualitative methods
- sociological theory
- global change
- sustainability studies
- agriculture
- moral responsibility
- sociology of emotion
- fisheries
- small-scale fisheries
- sociology
- power
- rural development
- rural studies
- sustainability transition
- smallholders
- alternative technologies

Publications
Recent publications
Revisiting the sustainability science research agenda
Part of Sustainability Science, p. 1-19, 2025
How justice shapes transition governance - a discourse analysis of Swedish policy debates
Part of Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, p. 1998-2016, 2024
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Part of Energy Research & Social Science, 2024
- DOI for Theorising resistance in times of fossil fuels: Ecological grief, righteous anger and interaction rituals in Sweden's energy regime shift
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Making meat moral: A comparison of rearing and killing practices in Swedish cattle farming
Part of Sociologia Ruralis, p. 254-279, 2024
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History matters: societal acceptance of deep-sea mining and incipient conflicts in Papua New Guinea
Part of Maritime Studies, 2023
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All publications
Articles in journal
Revisiting the sustainability science research agenda
Part of Sustainability Science, p. 1-19, 2025
How justice shapes transition governance - a discourse analysis of Swedish policy debates
Part of Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, p. 1998-2016, 2024
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Part of Energy Research & Social Science, 2024
- DOI for Theorising resistance in times of fossil fuels: Ecological grief, righteous anger and interaction rituals in Sweden's energy regime shift
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Making meat moral: A comparison of rearing and killing practices in Swedish cattle farming
Part of Sociologia Ruralis, p. 254-279, 2024
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History matters: societal acceptance of deep-sea mining and incipient conflicts in Papua New Guinea
Part of Maritime Studies, 2023
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Part of Maritime Studies, 2023
- DOI for Analysis across case-based global sustainability projects: an emerging challenge for ocean conflict research in the Anthropocene
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Earth steward: Will Steffen's contributions to Earth System Science, governance and law
Part of Ambio, p. 995-1003, 2023
Part of Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, p. 1841-1860, 2023
- DOI for Knowing through fishing: exploring the connection between fishers' ecological knowledge and fishing styles
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More than ponds amid skyscrapers: Urban fisheries as multiscalar human-natural systems
Part of Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, p. 49-58, 2022
Part of Ambio, p. 1091-1093, 2022
Urban fishing reveals underrepresented diversity
Part of Nature Food, p. 295-295, 2022
Transformation archetypes in global food systems
Part of Sustainability Science, p. 1827-1840, 2022
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Why are geographical indications unevenly distributed over Europe?
Part of British Food Journal, p. 490-510, 2021
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Part of Ocean and Coastal Management, 2021
Fishing in the city for food: a paradigmatic case of sustainability in urban blue space
Part of npj Urban Sustainability, 2021
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Part of ICES Journal of Marine Science, p. 463-479, 2021
Closing the gap between knowing and causing the Anthropocene
Part of Ambio, p. 1767-1773, 2021
More than a single footnote: Connecting Alexis de Tocqueville and Norbert Elias
Part of Human Figurations, p. 1-24, 2021
Towards a bridging concept for undesirable resilience in social-ecological systems
Part of Global Sustainability, 2020
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Behavioural diversity in fishing: Towards a next generation of fishery models
Part of Fish and Fisheries, p. 872-890, 2020
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Part of Ocean and Coastal Management, 2019
Part of Ecology and Society, 2018
- DOI for Can income diversification resolve social-ecological traps in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture in the global south?: A case study of response diversity in the Tam Giang lagoon, central Vietnam
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