Achievements

Sustainable Bio-Loop Program 丨 サステイナブルビオループ寄付講座  丨 The University of Tokyo

Research at a Glance

28

Research Outputs

14

Journal Articles

4

Reports & Policy Briefs

5

Book Chapters & Edited Volume Contributions

Research Outputs

Ramadani L., Boeckmann M., Klüsener C., Sioen G. B. (2025) Gaps in Climate Health Literacy: An Analysis of Kosovo’s Pre-University Curricula and Textbooks. Front. Clim. – Climate and Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2025.1531555

2025

Sioen G. B. Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, UN-Habitat & University of Melbourne (2024) Accelerating Next-Generation City Climate Action: Findings from the 2024 Innovate4Cities Conference and Update to the Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science. https://doi.org/10.26188/27147612

2024

Sioen G. B. Future Earth, The Earth League, WCRP (2024) 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2024/2025. Potsdam. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13950098

2024

Hara, Keishiro and Onuki, Motoharu and Uwasu, Michinori and Tamura, Makoto and Kotera, Akihiko and Pu, Jian and Jarzebski, M.P. and Kameyama, Y., Sustainability Education Incorporating Intergenerational Issues: A Case Study of an Online-Based Program in Inter-University Curricula Adopting the Future Design Method (May 09, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5248379 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5248379

2025

Jarzebski M.P. et al. (2025). Promoting Water Valuation for Urban Sustainable Development in Asia. UNU-IAS Policy Brief.

https://doi.org/10.53326/SFTJ860

2025

Schaeffer R., Schipper E. L. F., Ospina D, Mirazo P., Alencar A., Anvari M., Artaxo P., Biresselioglu M. E., Blome T., Boeckmann M., Brink E., Broadgate W., Bustamante M., Cai W., Canadell J. G., Cardinale R. Chidichimo M. P., Ditlevsen P., Eicker U., Feron S., Fikru M. G., Fuss S., Gaye A.; Gustafsson O., Harring N., He C., Hebden S., Heilemann A., Hirota M., Janardhanan N., Juhola S., Jung T. Y., Kehun J., Kilkiș S., Kumarasinghe N., Lapola D., Lee J. Y., Levis C., Lusambili A., Maasakkers J. D., MacIntosh C., Mahmood J., Mankin J. S., Marchegiani P., Martin M., Mukherji A., Muñoz-Erickson T. A., Niazi Z., Nyangon J., Pandipati S., Perera A. T. D., Persad G., Persson A., Redman A., Riipinen I., Rockström J., Roffe S., Roy J., Sakschewski B. Samset B. H., Schlosser P., Sharifi A., Shih W. Y., Sioen G. B., Sokona Y., Stammer D., Suk S., Thiam D., Thompson V., Tullos E., van Westen R. M., Falla A. M. V., Vecellio D. J., Worden J., Wu H. C., Xu C., Yang Y., Zachariah M., Zhang Z., Ziervogel G. (2025) Ten New Insights in Climate Science 2024. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101285

2025

Karthe, D., Babel, M.S., Pu, J., Jarzebski, M. P. (2025) Sustainability nexus perspectives on water security and climate resilience. SNF 33, 17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00550-025-00577-x

2025

Awolorinke, A. C., Jarzebski, M. P., Ofori, A. D., & Setiawati, M. D. (2025). Between tradition and transformation: Negotiating land and water resources in Ghana’s Pra River Basin. Environmental Science & Policy, 173, 104245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104245

2025

Sioen G. B. Future Earth, The Earth League, WCRP (2025). 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2025/2026. Stockholm. doi:10.5281/zenodo.17328963

2025

Pendleton L., Krug C., Sioen G. B., Ungvári J., Valiyaveetil S.S., Niazi Z. 2025 Adapting Science to New Realities: The Need to Diversify Funding, Future Earth blog, https://futureearth.org/2025/03/11/adapting-science-to-new-realities-the-need-to-diversify-funding/

2025

Sioen G. B., McGreevy S., Ungvari J., Attig-Bahar F., Juhola S. (2024) Charting the course for the next decade of Sustainability Research and Innovation. Global Sustainability, 7, 1 – 6. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2024.41

2024

Bohn, F. J., Sioen, G. B., Bastos, A., Ernst, Y., Jarzebski, M. P., Koh, N. S., Martin, R., Rammig, A., Godoy-Faúndez, A., Gasparatos, A., Gutiérrez, A. G., Aceituno, A. J., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Marais-Potgieter, A., Sharifi, A., Howe, C., Krug, C. B., Acosta, E. E., Nzunda, E. F., Andersson, E., Pörtner, H.-O., Sooväli-Sepping, H., Hiroe, I., Palmegiani, I., Coetzer, K., Thonike, K., Tanalgo, K., Biber-Freudenberger, L., Oguge, N. O., Park, M. S., Gross, M., De La Cruz, P., Prist, P. R., Bi, P., Diego, R., Isaac, R., McFarlane, R., Paulus, S. J., Burkhart, S., Lee, S.-C., Müller, S., Terhile, U. D., Shih, W.-Y., Smith, W. K., Hakkarainen, V., Murray, V., Yoshida, Y., Damtew, Y. T., and Niazi, Z.: Reviews and syntheses: Current perspectives on biosphere research 2025: from poly-crisis to poly-solutions, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3619, 2025.

2025

Bai, X., Sioen, G. B., Kılkış, Ş., McPhearson T., Niazi Z., Dodson J., Atmaja T., Fukushi K., Frantzeskaki N., Nagendra H., Wan-Yu S., Elmqvist T., Muñoz-Erickson T. A., Deng X., Güneralp B., Lwasa S., Zama N. (2025) Reimagining urban science for global sustainability: Five strategic research areas. Global Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2025.10025

2025

Yoshida Y., Sioen G. B., Metuisela, G., Crichton R., Masutomi Y. (2025) Perspectives on climate change and adaptation in Fijian villages contemplating relocation. Frontiers in Climate, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2025.1579299

2025

Pendleton L., Sioen G. B., Niazi Z., Semeena V. S., Krug C. (2025) The Future of Sustainability Science in a Deglobalising World. Global Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2025.10037

2025

Droz, L., 2025, “Resonating with Bees’ Emotions: Sounds as Empathic Bridges For Interspecies Understanding”, Environmental Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.5840/envirophil2025115154

2025

Droz, L. “The Worlds of Plants: Living Through Multispecies Flows”, Invited book chapter for the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna.

2025

Droz, L., “Dialogue between Watsuji’s philosophy and the relational turn in sustainability sciences”, Chapter in Springer book edited by Hans-Peter Liederbach

2025

Droz, L., Kai-Yuan Cheng “The Centipede and the Snakes: Zhuangzi, Perspectival Anthropocentrism and Multispecies Thinking”, Paper contribution for the Bloomsbury Edited Volume on “Non-Western Philosophies and the Environment”, edited by Kristien Hens and Franlu Vulliermet.

2025

Thiri, M., Droz, L. “Women as Pillars of Disaster Resilience: The Case of Women Savings Groups in Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar”, Chapter in “Gender, Climate Change and Disaster Resilience – An Asia-Pacific Perspective”, Springer.

2025

Droz, L., “Living and Breathing Through Nature”. Book chapter for the Handbook of Critical Respiratory Studies: Breath and Air in Humanities and Social Sciences (General editors: Magdalena Górska and Lenart Škof, section edited by Lorenzo Marinucci, Springer)

2025

Manuela Rosso-Brugnach and L. Droz, (2025), “Lost in Translation? Language as a Gateway to Environmental Connection”, Multilingual Magazine. https://multilingual.com/magazine/october-2025/lost-in-translation-language-as-a-gateway-to-environmental-connection/

2025

Hanada E., Sioen G. B., Honda R. (2025) When Growth Impedes Resort Renewal: A Path Dependence Perspective on the Impact of Scarce Resources on Product Innovation in Atami, Japan. Tourism and Hospitality, 7(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/tourhosp7010003

2025

Ospina, D., Mirazo, P., Allan, R. P., Basnett, S., Bastos, A., Bhattarai, N., Broadgate, W., Broekhoff, D. J., Bustamante, M., Chen, D., Choi, Y., Cox, P., Domeignoz-Horta, L. A., Ebi, K. L., Friedlingstein, P., Frölicher, T. L., Fuss, S., Goessling, H. F., Gruber, N., He, Q., Hebden, S., Hedrich, N., Heilemann, A., Hirota, M., Hodnebrog, Ø., Hugelius, G., Izquierdo-Tort, S., Juhola, S., Kasuga, F., Ke, P., Kelley, D. I., Kilkiş, Ş., Kotz, M., Kumarasinghe, N., Lamb, W. F., Lee, S.-Y., Liu, J., Maesano, C. N., Martin, M. A., Mazzochini, G. G., Merchant, C. J., Mori, A. S., Morris, J., Persson, Å., Pörtner, H.-O., Probst, B. S., Ramage, J., Razanatsoa, E., Redman, A., Rockström, J., Rodrigues, R. R., Ruehr, S., Ryan, S. J., Sanchez-Rodriguez, R., Schleussner, C.-F., Schlosser, P., Scott, W. A., Semenza, J. C., Seybold, H., Shindell, D. T., Sioen, G. B., Smith, K. E., Sokona, Y., Stechemesser, A. H., Stocker, T. F., Su, S. H. L., Thiam, D., Trencher, G. P., Virkkala, A.-M., Warszawski, L., Weiskopf, S. R., Wu, H., & Zhu, S. Ten New Insights in Climate Science 2025 (2026). Global Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2025.10043

2026

Setiawati, M.D., Pu, J., Wadumestrige Dona, C.G., Fukushi, K., Dwinandha, D., Katsuma, Y., & Jarzebski, M.P. (2026). Long-term quantitative evaluation of river water quality in Tokyo (1966–2023) based on the NSFWQI index. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 198, 536. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-026-15379-x

2026

Jarzebski, M.P. (2026). Tenure reform and Indigenous forest governance: Comparative policy insights from the Philippines. Trees, Forests and People 26, 101378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2026.101378.

2026

Govindarajan, U.H.; Li, J; Jarzebski, M.P.; Narang, G.; Galdelli, A.(2026). Policy Innovation Alignment Analysis for Cross-Referencing China’s Barrier-Free Mobility. Proceedings of the 2026 29th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 3323-3328.

2026

Prist P. R., Bailey A., Bukvareva E., Maire E., Seppelt R., Hayman D. T. S., Biber-Freudenberger L., Chaudhary S., Dube, P. K., Estoque R. C., Estrada Y., Földvári G., Harrison P. A., Hussain A., van Huysen T., Lorilla R. S., Materu S. F., McElwee P., Molua E. L., Obura D., Sioen G. B., Howe C. (accepted) Beyond the silos: a global evidence synthesis of biodiversity, water, food, health and climate interactions, iScience.

2026

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