Publication list since the creation of SONYA (2021)

2026

Fransolet, A.,Hudon, M.,Adriano, L.G.,Meyer, S. (2026) Mapping visions of a just transition: A Q survey of Belgian stakeholders. Ecological Economics, 239, 108775. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108775

Jacob, A.E., Dénos, C., Boone, L., Cooreman, Algoed, M., Dewulf, J., Jakobsen, M.U., Vandevijvere, S., Pires, S.M., Jakobsen, L.S. (2026). Bridging epidemiological evidence and dietary health impact models: a structured approach for selecting risk-outcome pairs. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. Doi: 10.1080/10408398.2025.2610408

2025

Knops, L. (2025) Protest and the Ambiguous Politics of Indignation – An empirical and conceptual study of mobilizing emotions. Mobilization Series, Routledge. ISBN 9781032404851

Reniers, J., De Gruyter, J., Adriaens, T., Vanderhoeven, S., Verreycken, H., & Jacobs, A. (2025). Understanding practices and awareness of recreational anglers regarding invasive alien species to support the development of biosecurity campaigns. Management of Biological Invasions, 16(3), 677-698. doi:10.3391/mbi.2025.16.3.06

Vannini,  V., & Achten,  W. (2025). Comparative life cycle assessment of industrial and artisanal spirulina production systems. Science of the total environment, 997, 180184. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180184

Gutierrez-Ortiz, C., Guariguata, L., Dénos, C., Peñalvo, J.L., Vandevijvere, S. (2025). Impact of ultra-processed foods consumption on the burden of obesity and type 2 diabetes in Belgium: a comparative risk assessment. BMC Public Health, 25(1), 1097. Doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-22304-3.

Towa Kouokam,  E., Osei-Owusu, A.K., Cabernard, L. (2025) Tracking Africa's trajectory toward sustainability: An assessment of environmental and socioeconomic impacts. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 55, pp. 157–169. Doi: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.02.008

Burgaz, C., Van Dam, I., Diouf, A., Kouakou, K.P., Mama, O.M., Amouzou, S.K., Yoa, R.R.A., Atwine, B., Guloba, M.M., Lamboni, L., Nakitende, P., Manga, K., Metonnou, C., N’dri, C.K., Santos, R., Sossa, C. Sylla, P.M.D.D., Souho, T., Vandevijvere, S. (2026) Barriers and Facilitators to the Development and Implementation of Public Policies Addressing Food Systems in Five Sub-Saharan African Countries and Five of Their Cities. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 14(1), 8592. Doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.8592

Aguiar, A.P.D., Collste, D., Cortés-Calderón, S., Sonetti-González, T., Alves-Martins, M., Castro, A.J., Diallo, A., Eriksson, K.M., Goffner, D., Harmácková, Z.V., Jiménez-Aceituno, A., López-Rodríguez, M.D., Mancilla-García, M., Olofsson, V., Pérez Marin, A.M., Silva-Bezerra, F.,G., Sinare, H., Stragier, C. (2025). Unraveling deep roots in drylands: A systems thinking participatory approach to SDGs. Global Sustainability, 8, e13. Doi: 10.1017/sus.2025.6.

Sonetti-González, T., Mancilla-García, M., Hertz, T., Aguiar, A.P.D. (2025) Reimagining the liminal Cerrado: the virtual ancestral future. Ecology and Society, 30(3), 7. Doi: 10.5751/ES-16155-300307

Mancilla-García, M., Bertemes Lalia, L., Mubai, M, Hertz, T., Drury O’Neill, E.M., Abunge, C., Bandeira, S.O., Bousquet, F., Cheupe, C, Combane, D.J., Daw, T., Muthiga, N., Shauri, H., Sonetti González, T. (2025) A meaningful performative experience: using Forum Theatre as an ethical method in sustainability science. Sustainability Science, 20(5), pp. 1775–1789 Doi: 10.1007/s11625-025-01699-3

Ribeiro, Y.G.G., Saito, E.N., Catapani, M.L., de Morais, R.B., Yogui, D.R., Sonetti-González, T., Mancilla Garcia, M., Desbiez, A.L.J. (2025) Uncovering barriers and paths for ensuring road mitigation to reduce wildlife collisions: Establishing grounds for action. Conservation Science and Practice, 7(9), e70124 Doi: 10.1111/csp2.70124.

Mancilla Garcia, M., Bodin, Ö. (2025) The Imperative of New and Shiny Clothes: A Discussion on Novelty and Its Effects in Water Governance Research. Environmental Policy and Governance 35(4) 723-728. doi: 10.1002/eet.2167.

Acevedo-De-los-Ríos, A., Dyson, A., Claeys, D., Cardenas,-Mamani, U. (2025) Environmental performance of urban agriculture in the global south: A comprehensive literature review and life cycle analysis approach. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 115, 108040. Doi: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108040

Olofsson, V., Mancilla Garcia, M., Castro, A.J., Calderón, S.C., Diallo, A.H., López-Rodríguez, M., Sonetti-González, T., Silvino, A.S., Aguiar, A.P. (2025) The multifaceted spectra of power − A participatory network analysis on power structures in diverse dryland regions. Global Environmental Change, 92,102984. Doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.102984

Vandenhole, K., Garic, K. Leifeld, P. (2025) When does discursive change happen? Detecting phase transitions in discourse networks of sustainability transitions. Energy Research and Social Science 122, 104020 . doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104020

Vandenhole, K. (2025) From environmental policy consensus to socio-environmental policy controversy: Discursive network dynamics of the Ghentian Low Emission Zone. Environmental Science and Policy 164,104013. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104013

Vandenhole, K., Block, T., Bauler, T. The cultural politics of eco-shaming. Sustainability Science Practice and Policy, 21(1), 2440951. Doi: 10.1080/15487733.2024.2440951

2024

Dénos,  C., Vandevijvere,  S., Boone,  L., Cooreman-Algoed,  M., De Bauw,  M., Achten,  W., & Dewulf,  J. (2024). Contribution of ultra-processed food and animal-plant protein intake ratio to the environmental impact of Belgian diets. Sustainable production and consumption, 51, 584-598. doi:10.1016/j.spc.2024.10.008

Bocquet, N., Del Fa, S., Hayes, G., Knops, L., Vrydagh, F. (2025) Role Reversal: When activists are treated like criminals. Conversations on the criminalization of environmental activism in Belgium, France and the UK. Surveillance & Society 23(4): 466-484. Doi: 10.24908/ss.v23i4.19966

Knops, L. Une recension de l’ouvrage de Edwin Zaccai: “Contradiction ordinaires – Un regard décalé sur le climat et la société” (2025). Natures Science Sociétés 33(3): 352-370. Doi: 10.1051/nss/2026001

Burgaz, C., Van-Dam, I., Garton, K., Swinburn, B.A., Sacks, G., Asiki, G., Claro, R., Diouf, A., Bartiletto Martins, A.P., Vandevijvere, S. (2023). Which government policies to create sustainable food systems have the potential to simultaneously address undernutrition, obesity and environmental sustainability? Globalization and Health, 20(1), 56 Doi:10.1186/s12992-024-01060-w

Mancilla García, M., Abunge, C., Bandeira, S.O., Cheupe, C., Combane, D.J., Daw, T., Drury O’Neil, E.M., Hertz, T., Mubai, M. Muthinga, N., Sonetti González, T., Shauri, H. (2024) Exploring a process-relational approach to qualitative research methods for sustainability science . People and Nature, 6(4), pp. 1512–1523. Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10667.

Martins, M.A., Collste, D., Bezerra, F.G.S., Miranda, M.A.C.N., Gonçalves, A.R., Barros, J.D., Cardoso, M.F., Silvino, A.S., Sonetti-Gonzáles, T., Ometto, J.P.H.B., von Randow, C., Tomasella, J., de Aguiar, A.P.D. (2024). Long-term sustainability of the water-agriculture-energy nexus in Brazil’s MATOPIBA region: A case study using system dynamics. Ambio, 53(12), pp. 1722–1736. Doi: 10.1007/s13280-024-02058-9.

Lajarthe, F., Laigle, L. (2024) Bringing the future back to the present: The role of prefiguration in European climate justice activism. Futures, 160, 103384. Doi: 10.1016/j.futures.2024.103384.

Burgos-Ayala, A., Jiménez-Aceituno, A., Meacham, M., Rozas-Vásquez, D., Mancilla García, M., Rocha, J., Rincón-Ruíz, A. (2024) Mapping ecosystem services in Colombia: Analysis of synergies, trade-offs and bundles in environmental management. Ecosystem Services, 66, 101608. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101608

Vandenhole, K., Bauler, T., Block, T. “How dare you!”: a conceptualization of the eco-shaming discourse in Belgium. Critical Policy Studies, 18(1), 111-130. doi: 10.1080/19460171.2023.2200016

Lietaer, S., Dieng, D.M., Van Praag, L. (2024) Examining the role of the diaspora in addressing the interconnections between human health and environmental change: The case of northern Senegalese communities. Health and Place, 85, 103172. Doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103172.

Pel, B. (2024) Is ‘digital transition’ a syntax error? Purpose, emergence and directionality in a contemporary governance discourse. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11(1), 2390707. Doi: 10.1080/23299460.2024.2390707

2023

Ding,  T., & Achten,  W. (2023). Coupling agent-based modeling with territorial LCA to support agricultural land-use planning. Journal of cleaner production, 380, 134914. Doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134914

Decroly,  G., Ben Hassen,  R., Achten,  W., Grimaldi,  D., Gaspard,  N., Devière,  J., Delchambre,  A., & Nonclercq,  A. (2023). Strong Sustainability of Medical Technologies: A Medical Taboo? The Case of Disposable Endoscopes. Proceedings of the 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (24-27 July 2023: Sydney, Australia) doi:10.1109/EMBC40787.2023.10341135

Burgaz, C., Gorasso, V., Achten, W., Batis, C., Castronuovo, L., Diouf, Adama, Asiki, G., Swinburn, B.A., Unar-Munguía, M., Devleesschauwer, B., Sacks, G., Vandevijvere, S. (2023). The effectiveness of food system policies to improve nutrition, nutrition-related inequalities and environmental sustainability: a scoping review. Food Security, 15(5), 1313–1344 DOI: 10.1007/s125

Sonetti-González, T., Mancilla García, M., Tengö, M., Tourne, D.C.M, de Castro, F., Futemma, C.R.T. (2023) Foregrounding Amazonian women through decolonial and process-relational perspectives for transdisciplinary transformation. Ecosystems and People, 19(1), 2260503. Doi: 10.1080/26395916.2023.2260503.

Pel, B., Wittmayer, J.M., Avelino, F., Loorbach, D., de Geus, T. (2023) How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 49, 100775. Doi: 10.1016/j.eist.2023.100775

Kemp, R., Pel, B. (2023) Social innovation and the remaking of structures, systems and regimes. Encyclopedia of Social Innovation 23-30. Link

Pel, B. (2023) The institutionalization of social innovations.  Encyclopedia of Social Innovation 134-130. Link

2022

Mansuy,  J., Verga,  G.  C., Pel,  B., Khan,  A.  Z., Achten,  W., Callorda Fossati,  E., Bauler,  T., Lebeau,  P., & Macharis,  C. (2022). Transitioning to a circular economy: Changing Business Models and Business Ecosystems. doi:10.46944/9789461173942

Callorda Fossati,  E., Pel,  B., Sureau,  S., Bauler,  T., & Achten,  W. (2022). Implementing exnovation?: Ambitions and governance complexity in the case of the Brussels Low Emission Zone. In  Technologies in Decline: Socio-Technical Approaches to Discontinuation and Destabilisation (1 ed., p. 294). Link

Pel,  B., & Achten,  W. (2022). Transitioning into Circular Economy: appreciating the little steps of system innovation. In  Transitioning to a Circular Economy: Changing Business Models and Business Ecosystems (pp. 49-73). Brussels: ASP. doi:10.46944/9789461173942

Callorda Fossati,  E., Sureau,  S., Pel,  B., Bauler,  T., & Achten,  W. (2022). Exnovation : imaginer autrement les transitions durables à Bruxelles. Brussels Studies. Link

Ding,  T., Steubing,  B., & Achten,  W. (2022). Coupling optimization with territorial LCA to support agricultural land-use planning. Journal of environmental management, 328, 116946. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116946

Ding,  T., & Achten,  W. (2022). Coupling agent-based modeling with territorial LCA to support agricultural land-use planning. Journal of cleaner production, 380, 134914. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134914

Towa Kouokam,  E.  B., Zeller,  V., Merciai,  S., Schmidt,  J., & Achten,  W. (2022). Toward the development of subnational hybrid input–output tables in a multiregional framework. Journal of industrial ecology, 1-19. doi:10.1111/jiec.13085

Osei-Owusu, A.K., Towa Kouokam,  E. , Thomsen, M. (2022) Exploring the pathways towards the mitigation of the environmental impacts of food consumption. Science of the Total Environment, 806, 150528. Doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150528

Kemp, R., Pel, B., Scholl, C. Boons, F. (2022) Diversifying deep transitions: Accounting for socio-economic directionality. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 44, 110-124 Doi: 10.1016/j.eist.2022.06.002

Dahdouh-Guebas, F., Mafaziya Nijamdeen T.W.G.F., Hugé, J., Dahdouh-Guebas, Y., Di Nitto, D., Hamza, A.J., Kodikara Arachchilage, S., Koedam, N., Mancilla García, M., Mohamed, M.O.S., Mostert, L., Munga, C.N., Poti, M., Satyanarayana, B, Stiers, I.P., Van Puyvelde, K., Vanhove, M.P.M., Vande Velde, K., Ratsimbazafy, H. (2022) The Mangal Play: A serious game to experience multi-stakeholder decision-making in complex mangrove social-ecological systems. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 909793. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.909793.

2021

Towa Kouokam,  E.  B., Zeller,  V., & Achten,  W. (2021). Assessing the circularity of regions: Stakes of trade of waste for treatment. Journal of industrial ecology, 25(4), 834-847. Doi: 10.1111/jiec.13106

Towa Kouokam,  E.  B., Zeller,  V., Merciai,  S., & Achten,  W. (2021). Regional waste footprint and waste treatments analysis. Waste management, 124, 172-184. Doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2021.02.011

Papangelou,  A., Towa Kouokam,  E.  B., Achten,  W., & Mathijs,  E. (2021). A resource-based phosphorus footprint for urban diets. Environmental Research Letters, 16(7), 075002. Doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac07d6

Ding,  T., Bourrelly,  S., & Achten,  W. (2021). Application of territorial emission factors with open-access data—a territorial LCA case study of land use for livestock production in Wallonia. The international journal of life cycle assessment. doi:10.1007/s11367-021-01949-3

Lietaer, S., Durand-Delacre, D. (2021) Situating ‘migration as adaptation’ discourse and appraising its relevance to Senegal's development sector. Environmental Science and Policy, 126, 11-21. Doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2021.09.008

Ahlström, H., Hileman, J., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Mancilla García, M., Moore, M-L., Jonas, K., Pranindita, A., Kuiper, J.J., Fetzer, I., Jaramillo, F., Svedin, U. (2021) An Earth system law perspective on governing social-hydrological systems in the Anthropocene. Earth System Governance, 10, 100120. Doi: 10.1016/j.esg.2021.100120

Hertz, T., Mancilla García, M. (2021) The cod and the cut: Intra)active intuitions. Frontiers in Sociology, 6, 724751. Doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.724751.

Jericó-Daminello C., Schröter, B., Mancilla García M., Albert, C. (2021) Exploring perceptions of stakeholder roles in ecosystem services coproduction.  Ecosystem Services 51, 101353.  doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101353