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Prof. Niki Frantzeskaki

Professor 
Geosciences
Human Geography and Spatial Planning
Spatial Planning
Spatial Planning

Prof. Niki Frantzeskaki

Professor
Spatial Planning
n.frantzeskaki@uu.nl
Profile Publications Activities Prizes In the media Research Teaching Ancillary activities Contact
Profile Publications Activities Prizes In the media Research Teaching Ancillary activities Contact
Research areas

Selected publications on nature-based solutions in cities: 

  1. Bush, J., Frantzeskaki, N., Ossola, A., Pineda, M., (2023), Priorities for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions in Australian cities, Nature-based solutions, Volume 3, 100065, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2023.100065
  2. Adams, C., Frantzeskaki, N., Moglia, M., (2023), Mainstreaming nature-based solutions in cities: A systematic literature review and a proposal for facilitating urban transitions, Land Use Policy, 130, 106661, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106661
  3. Collier, M., Frantzeskaki, N., et al, (2023), An integrated process for planning, delivery, and stewardship of urban nature-based solutions: the Connecting Nature Framework, Nature-Based Solutions, 3, 100060, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2023.100060
  4. Raymond, C., Stedman, R., and Frantzeskaki, N., (2023), The role of nature-based solutions and senses of place in enabling just city transitions, Environmental Science and Policy, 144, 10-19, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.02.021
  5. Tsatsou, A., Frantzeskaki, N., and Malamis, S., (2023), Nature-based solutions for circular urban water systems: A scoping literature review and a proposal for urban design and planning, Journal of Cleaner Production, 394, 1363325, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.136325
  6. Pineda Pinto, M., Frantzeskaki, N., Chandrabose, M., Herreros-Cantis, P., McPhearson, T., Nygaard, C.A., Raymond, C., (2022), Planning Ecologically Just Cities: A framework to assess ecological injustice hotspots for targeted urban design and planning of nature-based solutions, Urban Policy and Research, DOI: 10.1080/08111146.2022.2093184
  7. Kabisch, N., Frantzeskaki, N., and Hansen, R. (2022), Principles for Urban Nature-Based Solutions, AMBIO, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01685-w
  8. Frantzeskaki., N., Oke, C., Barnett, G., Bekessy, S., Bush, J., Fitzsimons, J., Ignatieva, M., Kendal, D., Kingsley, J., Mumaw, L., and Ossola, A., (2022), A transformative mission for prioritising nature in Australian cities, AMBIO, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-022-01725-z
  9. Frantzeskaki, N., and McPhearson, T., (2021), Mainstream nature-based solutions for urban climate resilience, Bioscience, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab105
  10. Frantzeskaki, N., and Bush, J., (2021), Governance of nature-based solutions through intermediaries for urban transitions –A case study from Melbourne, Australia, Urban Forestry and Urban Planning, 64, 127262, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127262
  11. Pineda Pinto, M., Frantzeskaki, N., and Nygaard, C.A., (2021). The potential of nature-based solutions to deliver ecologically just cities: Lessons for research and urban planning from a systematic literature review. Ambio, 16. doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01553-7
  12. Dumitru, A., Frantzeskaki, N., Collier, M., (2020), Identifying principles for the design of robust impact evaluation frameworks for nature-based solutions in cities, Environmental Science and Policy, 111, 107-116, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.05.024
  13. Frantzeskaki, N., Vandergert, P., Connop, S., Schipper, K., Zwierzchowska, I., Collier, M., and Lodder, M., (2020), Examining the policy needs for implementing nature-based solutions: Findings for city-wide transdisciplinary experiences in Glasgow, Genk and Poznan, Land Use Policy, 96, 104688, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104688
  14. Frantzeskaki, N., McPhearson, T., Collier, M., Kendal, D., Bulkeley, H., Dumitru, A., Walsh, C., Noble, K., van Wyk, E., Pinter, L., Ordonez, C., Oke, C., Elmqvist, T., (2019), Nature-based solutions for urban climate change adaptation: linking the science, policy and practice communities for evidence-based decision-making, Bioscience, 69, 455-566, doi:10.1093/biosci/biz042
  15. Frantzeskaki, N., (2019), Seven lessons for planning nature-based solutions in cities, Environmental Science and Policy, 93, 101-111, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2018.12.033
  16. Kabisch, N., Frantzeskaki, N., Artmann, M., Davis, M., Haase, D., Knapp, S. Korn, H., Naumann, S., Pauleit, S., Stadler, J., Zaunberger, K.,  Bonn, A. et al. (2016), Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas –perspectives on indicators, knowledge gaps, opportunities and barriers for action, Ecology and Society, 21 (2):39. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss2/art39/
  17. Raymond, C.M., Frantzeskaki, N., Kabisch, N., Berry, P., Breil, M., Nita, M.R., Geneletti, D., and Calfapietra, C., (2017), A framework for assessing and implementing the co-benefits of nature-based solutions in urban areas, Environmental Science and Policy, 77, 15-24, doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2017.07.008

Selected publications on urban transitions and their governance: 

  1. Holscher, K., Frantzeskaki, N., Jäger, J., Holman, I., Pedde, S., (2022) Co-producing transformative visions for Europe in 2100: a multi-scale approach to orientate transformations under climate change, Futures, 143, 103025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.103025
  2. Frantzeskaki, N., (2022), Bringing transition management to cities: building skills for transformative urban governance, Sustainability, 14, 650. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14020650
  3. Shahani, F., Pineda-Pinto, M., and Frantzeskaki, N., (2021), Transformative low-carbon urban innovations: operationalizing transformative capacity for urban planning, AMBIO, 10.1007/s13280-021-01653-4 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01653-4)
  4. Lin, B.B., Ossola, A., Ripple, W.J., Alberti, M., Andersson, E., Bai, X., Dobbs, C., Elmqvist, T., Evans, K.L., Frantzeskaki, N., Fuller, R.A., Gaston, K.J., Haase, D., Jim, CY, Konijnendijk, C., Nagendra, H., Niemela, J., McPHearson, T., Moomaw, W.R., Parnell, S., Pataki, D.E., and Tan, P.Y., (2021), Integrating solutions to transform cities for climate change, The Lancet Planetary Health, 5, e479-486. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00135-2
  5. Egerer, M., Haase, D., McPhearson, T., Frantzeskaki, N., Andersson, E., and Nagendra, H., Ossola, A., (2021), Urban change as an untapped opportunity for climate adaptation, Urban Sustainability, 1, 22 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00024-y
  6. Hölscher, K., and Frantzeskaki, N., (2021), Perspectives on urban transformation research: transformations in, of, and by cities. Urban Transformations, 3, 2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-021-00019-z
  7. Elmqvist, T., Andersson, E., Frantzeskaki, N., McPhearson, T., Folke, C., Olsson, P., Gaffney, O., and Takeuchi, K., (2019), Sustainability, resilience and transformation in the urban century, Nature Sustainability, Nature Sustainability, 2, 267–273, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0250-1
  8. Bulkeley, H., Coenen, L., Frantzeskaki, N., Hartmann, C., Kronsell, A., Mai, L., Marvin, S., McCormick, K., van Steenbergen, F., and Palgan Voytenko, Y., (2016), Urban Living Labs: Governing urban sustainability transitions, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22:13-17.
  9. Holscher, K., Frantzeskaki, N., McPhearson, T., Loorbach, D., (2019), Tales of transforming cities: Transformative climate governance capacities in New York City, U.S., and Rotterdam, Netherlands, Journal of Environmental Management, 231, 843-857, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.10.043
  10. Frantzeskaki, N., van Steenbergen, F., and Stedman, R., (2018), Sense of place and experimentation in urban sustainability transitions, the Resilience Lab in Carnisse, Rotterdam, Sustainability Science, 13(4), 1045-1059, doi: 10.1007/s11625-018-0562-5
  11. Frantzeskaki, N., and Kabisch, N., (2016), Designing a knowledge co-production operating space for urban environmental governance – Lessons from Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Berlin, Germany, Environmental Science and Policy, 62, 90-98.


COMPLETE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

  1. Adams, C., Frantzeskaki, N., and Moglia, M., (2023), Space for mainstreaming? Learning from the implementation of urban forest strategies in metropolitan Melbourne, Australian Planner, https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2023.2268222
  2. Tsatsou, A, Pergar, P., Frantzeskaki, N., Malamis, S., and Atanasova, N., (2023), Nature-based solutions planning in Ljubjana, Slovenia: Examining how urban practitioners navigate barriers and shape water management institutions to implement nature-based solutions, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 89, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128090
  3. Pineda, M., Frantzeskaki, N., Raymond, C., (2023), Senses of injustices-in-place: Nature’s voice through Melbourne’s environmental stewards, Sustainability Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01355-8
  4. Sarabi, S., Frantzeskaki, N., Waldenberger, J., Alvarado, O., Raaimakers, D., Runhaar, H., Stijnen, C., Toxopeus, H., Vrinceanu, E., (2023), Renaturing cities: from utopias to contested realities and futures, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 86, 127999, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.127999
  5. Loretta Bellato, Niki Frantzeskaki, tebrakunna country and, Emma Lee, Joseph M. Cheer & Andrew Peters, (2023), Transformative epistemologies for regenerative tourism: towards a decolonial paradigm in science and practice?, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2023.2208310
  6. Bush, J., Frantzeskaki, N., Ossola, A., Pineda, M., (2023), Priorities for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions in Australian cities, Nature-based solutions, Volume 3, 100065, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2023.100065
  7. Adams, C., Frantzeskaki, N., Moglia, M., (2023), Mainstreaming nature-based solutions in cities: A systematic literature review and a proposal for facilitating urban transitions, Land Use Policy, 130, 106661, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106661
  8. Collier, M., Frantzeskaki, N., et al, (2023), An integrated process for planning, delivery, and stewardship of urban nature-based solutions: the Connecting Nature Framework, Nature-Based Solutions, 3, 100060, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2023.100060
  9. Raymond, C., Stedman, R., and Frantzeskaki, N., (2023), The role of nature-based solutions and senses of place in enabling just city transitions, Environmental Science and Policy, 144, 10-19, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.02.021
  10. Tsatsou, A., Frantzeskaki, N., and Malamis, S., (2023), Nature-based solutions for circular urban water systems: A scoping literature review and a proposal for urban design and planning, Journal of Cleaner Production, 394, 1363325, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.136325
  11. Pineda Pinto, M., Frantzeskaki, N., Chandrabose, M., Herreros-Cantis, P., McPhearson, T., Nygaard, C.A., Raymond, C., (2022), Planning Ecologically Just Cities: A framework to assess ecological injustice hotspots for targeted urban design and planning of nature-based solutions, Urban Policy and Research, DOI: 10.1080/08111146.2022.2093184
  12. Holscher, K., Frantzeskaki, N., Jäger, J., Holman, I., Pedde, S., (2022) Co-producing transformative visions for Europe in 2100: a multi-scale approach to orientate transformations under climate change, Futures, 143, 103025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.103025
  13. Bellato, L., Frantzeskaki, N., Briceño Fiebig, C., Pollock, A., Dens, E. and Reed, B. (2022), Transformative roles in tourism: adopting living systems' thinking for regenerative futures, Journal of Tourism Futures, https://doi.org/10.1108/JTF-11-2021-0256
  14. McPhearson, T., E. Cook, M. Berbés-Blázquez, C. Cheng, N.B. Grimm, E. Andersson, O. Barbosa, D.G. Chandler, H. Chang, M. Chester, D. Childers, S. Elser, N. Frantzeskaki, Z. Grabowski, P. Groffman R.L. Hale, D.M. Iwaniec, N. Kabisch, C. Kennedy, S.A. Markolf, A.M. Matsler, L.E. McPhillips, T.R. Miller, T.A. Muñoz-Erickson, E. Rosi, T.G. Troxler. (2022). A social-ecological-technological systems approach to urban ecosystem services. One Earth, DOI 10.1016/j.oneear.2022.04.007
  15. Frantzeskaki., N., Oke, C., Barnett, G., Bekessy, S., Bush, J., Fitzsimons, J., Ignatieva, M., Kendal, D., Kingsley, J., Mumaw, L., and Ossola, A., (2022), A transformative mission for prioritising nature in Australian cities, AMBIO, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-022-01725-z
  16. Bellato, N., Frantzeskaki, N., and Nygaard, A., (2022), Regenerative Tourism: conforming or transformative paradigm? Insights from a scoping review, Tourism Geographies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2022.204437
  17. Kabisch, N., Frantzeskaki, N., and Hansen, R. (2022), Principles for Urban Nature-Based Solutions, AMBIO, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01685-w
  18. Frantzeskaki, N., (2022), Bringing transition management to cities: building skills for transformative urban governance, Sustainability, 14, 650. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14020650
  19. Frantzeskaki, N., and McPhearson, T., (2021), Mainstream nature-based solutions for urban climate resilience, Bioscience, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab105
  20. Frantzeskaki, N., and Bush, J., (2021), Governance of nature-based solutions through intermediaries for urban transitions –A case study from Melbourne, Australia, Urban Forestry and Urban Planning, 64, 127262, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127262
  21. Shahani, F., Pineda-Pinto, M., and Frantzeskaki, N., (2021), Transformative low-carbon urban innovations: operationalizing transformative capacity for urban planning, AMBIO, 10.1007/s13280-021-01653-4 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01653-4)
  22. Frantzeskaki, N., McPhearson, T., and Kabisch, N., (2021), Urban Sustainability Science: prospects for innovations through a system’s perspective, relational and transformations’ approaches, AMBIO, 1-9, doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01521-1
  23. Jonas Torrens, Linda Westman, Marc Wolfram, Vanessa Castán Broto, Jake Barnes, Marcus Egermann, Franziska Ehnert, Niki Frantzeskaki, Chiara Farné Fratini, Irene Håkansson, Katharina Hölscher, Ping Huang, Rob Raven, Antonia Sattlegger, Kaisa Schmidt-Thomé, Emilia Smeds, Nina Vogel, Josefin Wangel, Timo von Wirth, (2021), Four avenues ahead of urban transitions and transformations research, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 41, 102-105, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.10.026
  24. Wendling, L., Garcia, J., Descoteaux, D., Sowinska-Swierkosz, B., McPhearson, T., Frantzeskaki, N., La Rosa, D., Yiwen, Z., Lin, T., Fidelis, T., Dumitru, A., Mitsch, W.J., Lavrnoc, S., Maucieri, C., Wang, Y., McCarton, L., O’Hogan, S., Schmidt, S., Vidal, G., Crespo, C.H., (2021), Editorial: Introduction to Nature-based solutions journal, Nature-Based Solutions 1, 100003, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2021.100003
  25. Pineda-Pinto, M., Herreros-Cantis, P., McPhearson, T., Frantzeskaki, N., Wang, J., and Zhou, W., (2021), Examining ecological justice within the social-ecological-technological system of New York City, USA, Landscape and Urban Planning, 215, 104228, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104228
  26. Lin, B.B., Ossola, A., Ripple, W.J., Alberti, M., Andersson, E., Bai, X., Dobbs, C., Elmqvist, T., Evans, K.L., Frantzeskaki, N., Fuller, R.A., Gaston, K.J., Haase, D., Jim, CY, Konijnendijk, C., Nagendra, H., Niemela, J., McPhearson, T., Moomaw, W.R., Parnell, S., Pataki, D.E., and Tan, P.Y., (2021), Integrating solutions to transform cities for climate change, The Lancet Planetary Health, 5, e479-486. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00135-https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2542-5196(21)00135-2
  27. Moglia, M., Frantzeskaki, N., Newton, P., Pineda Pinto, M., Witheridge, J., Cook, S., and Glackin, S., (2021), Accelerating a green recovery of cities: Lessons from a scoping review and a proposal for mission-oriented recovery towards post-pandemic urban resilience, Developments in the Built Environment, 7, 100052, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dibe.2021.100052
  28. Stone, W.M., Goodall, Z., Veeroja, P., Shahani, F., Reynolds, M., and Frantzeskaki, N., (2021), Australian housing opportunities during and post-pandemic: Transitioning to better housing futures, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, https://www.ijurr.org/the-urban-now/australian-housing-opportunities-during-and-after-the-pandemic-transitioning-to-better-housing-futures/
  29. Hadgraft, N., Chandrabose, M., Bok, B., Owen, N., Woodcock, I., Newton, P., Frantzeskaki, N., and Sugiyama, T., (2021), Low-carbon built environments and cardiometabolic health: a systematic review of Australian studies, Cities & Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2021.1903787
  30. Pineda Pinto, M., Frantzeskaki, N., and Nygaard, C.A., (2021). The potential of nature-based solutions to deliver ecologically just cities: Lessons for research and urban planning from a systematic literature review. Ambio, 16. doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01553-7
  31. Egerer, M., Haase, D., McPhearson, T., Frantzeskaki, N., Andersson, E., and Nagendra, H., Ossola, A., (2021), Urban change as an untapped opportunity for climate adaptation, Urban Sustainability, 1, 22 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00024-y
  32. Pineda Pinto, M.P., Nygaard, C.A., Chandrabose, M., Frantzeskaki, N., (2021), Mapping socio-ecological injustice in cities: An innovative systematic methodology for planning just cities, Land Use Policy, 104 (2021) 105361, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105361
  33. Kingsley, J., Egerer, M., Nuttman, S., Keniger, L., Pettitt, P., Frantzeskaki, N., Gray, T., Ossola, A., Lin, B., Bailey, A., Tracey, D., Barron, S., Marsh, P. (2021). Urban agriculture as a Nature-Based Solution to address socio-ecological challenges in Australian cities, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 60: 127059. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127059
  34. Oke, C., Bekessy, S., Frantzeskaki, N., Bush, J., Harrison, L., Grenfell, M., Hartigan, M., Gawler, S., Callow, D., Elmqvist, T., Garrard, G., Fitzsimons, J., Cotter, B., (2021), Cities should respond to the extinction crisis, Urban Sustainability 1, 11 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-020-00010-w
  35. Hölscher, K., and Frantzeskaki, N., (2021), Perspectives on urban transformation research: transformations in, of, and by cities. Urban Transformations, 3, 2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-021-00019-z
  36. Newton, P. and Frantzeskaki, N., (2021), Creating a National Urban Research and Development Platform for Advancing Urban Experimentation, Sustainability, 13, 530. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020530
  37. Dumitru, A., Frantzeskaki, N., Collier, M., (2020), Identifying principles for the design of robust impact evaluation frameworks for nature-based solutions in cities, Environmental Science and Policy, 111, 107-116, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.05.024
  38. Frantzeskaki, N., Vandergert, P., Connop, S., Schipper, K., Zwierzchowska, I., Collier, M., and Lodder, M., (2020), Examining the policy needs for implementing nature-based solutions: Findings for city-wide transdisciplinary experiences in Glasgow, Genk and Poznan, Land Use Policy, 96, 104688, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104688
  39. Lam., D.P.M., Martin-Lopez, B., Bennett, E.M., Frantzeskaki, N., Milcu-Horcea, A.I., Wiek, A., and Lang, D.J., (2020), Scaling the impact of local initiatives in sustainability transformations: an amplifying typology, Urban Transformations, 2:3, https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-020-00007-9.
  40. Loorbach, D., Wittmayer, J., Avelino, F., von Wirth, T., Frantzeskaki, N., (2020), Tranformational innovation and translocal diffusion, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 35, 251-260, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2020.01.009
  41. Hoffmann, S., Feldmann, U., Bach, P., Binz, C., Farrelly, M., Frantzeskaki, N., Hiessl, H., Inauen, J., Larsen, T., Lienert, J., Londong, J., Lüthi, C., Maurer, M., Mitchell, C., Morgenroth, E., Nelson, K., Scholten, L., Truffer, B., and Udert, K., (2020), A research agenda for the future of urban water management: Exploring the potential of alternative - non-grid, small-grid and hybrid – solutions, Environmental Science and Technology, https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b05222
  42. Coenen, L., Davidson, K., Frantzeskaki, N., Grenfell, M., Hakansson, I., and Hartigan, M., (2020), Metropolitan governance in action? Learning from metropolitan Melbourne’s Urban Forest Strategy, Australian Planner, DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2020.1740286
  43. Malekpour, S., Walker, W., de Haan, F., Frantzeskaki, N., Marchau, V., (2020), Bridging Decision making under uncertainty (DMDU) and transition management (TM) to improve strategic planning for sustainable development, Environmental Science and Policy, 107, 158-167, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.03.002
  44. Frantzeskaki, N., (2019), How city-networks are shaping and failing innovations in urban institutions for sustainability and resilience, Global Policy, DOI:10.1111/1758-5899.12758
  45. Pereira, L., Frantzeskaki, N., Hebinck, A., Charli-Joseph, L., Drimiel, S., Dyer, M., Eakin, H., Galafassi, D., Karpouzoglou, T., Marshall,·F., Moore, M.L., Olsson, P., Siqueiros-Garcia, J.M., van Zwanenberg, P., and Vervoort, J.M., (2019), Transformative spaces in the making: key lessons from eight cases in the Global South, Sustainability Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00749-x
  46. Frantzeskaki, N., Buchel, S., Spork, C., Ludwig, K., and Kok, M.T.J., (2019), The multiple roles of ICLEI: Intermediating to innovate urban biodiversity governance, Ecological Economics, 164, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.06.005
  47. Frantzeskaki, N., McPhearson, T., Collier, M., Kendal, D., Bulkeley, H., Dumitru, A., Walsh, C., Noble, K., van Wyk, E., Pinter, L., Ordonez, C., Oke, C., Elmqvist, T., (2019), Nature-based solutions for urban climate change adaptation: linking the science, policy and practice communities for evidence-based decision-making, Bioscience, 69, 455-566, doi:10.1093/biosci/biz042
  48. Hölscher K, Frantzeskaki N, McPhearson T, Loorbach D (2019) Capacities for urban transformations governance and the case of New York City. Cities, 94: 186-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.05.037
  49. Pedde, S., Kok, K., Holscher, K., Frantzeskaki, N., Holman, I., Dunford, R., Smith, A., and Jaeger, J., (2019), Advancing the use of scenarios to understand the society’s capacity to act towards achieving the 1.5oC target, Global Environmental Change, 56, 75-85, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.03.010
  50. Elmqvist, T., Andersson, E., Frantzeskaki, N., McPhearson, T., Folke, C., Olsson, P., Gaffney, O., and Takeuchi, K., (2019), Sustainability, resilience and transformation in the urban century, Nature Sustainability, Nature Sustainability, 2, 267–273, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0250-1
  51. Harrison, P.A., Jaeger, J., Frantzeskaki, N., and Berry, P., (2019), Understanding high-end climate change: From impacts to co-creating integrated and transformative solutions, Regional Environmental Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-019-01477-9
  52. Frantzeskaki, N., Holscher, K., Holman, I., Pedde, S.Jaeger, J., Kok, K.,and Harrison, P., (2019), Transition pathways to sustainability in greater than 2oC climate futures of Europe, Regional Environmental Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-019-01475-x
  53. Frantzeskaki, N., (2019), Seven lessons for planning nature-based solutions in cities, Environmental Science and Policy, 93, 101-111, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2018.12.033
  54. Holscher, K., Frantzeskaki, N., McPhearson, T., Loorbach, D., (2019), Tales of transforming cities: Transformative climate governance capacities in New York City, U.S., and Rotterdam, Netherlands, Journal of Environmental Management, 231, 843-857, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.10.043
  55. Bulkeley, H., Marvin, S.J., Voytenko Palgan, Y., McCormick, K., Breitfuss-Loidl, M., Mai, Q.L., von Wirth, T., and; Frantzeskaki, N., (2019), Urban Living Laboratories: conducting the experimental city?, European Urban and Rural Studies, 26(4), pp.317-335, DOI: 10.1177/0969776418787222
  56. Fuenfschilling, L., Frantzeskaki, N., and Coenen, L., (2018), Urban experimentation and sustainability transitions, European Planning Studies, DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2018.1532977
  57. Pereira, L., Karpouzoglou, T., Frantzeskaki, N., and Olsson, P, (2018), Designing transformative spaces for sustainability in social-ecological systems, Ecology and Society, 23(4):32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10607-230432
  58. Frantzeskaki, N., and Wittmayer, J., (2018), The next wave of sustainability transitions: elucidating and invigorating transformations in the welfare state, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Article in Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.09.023
  59. Frantzeskaki, N., and Rok, A. (2018), Co-producing urban sustainability transitions knowledge with community, policy and science, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 29, 47-51, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2018.08.001
  60. Von Wirth, T., Fuenfschilling, L., Frantzeskaki, N., and Coenen, L., (2018), Impacts of urban living labs on sustainability transitions: mechanisms and strategies for systemic change through experimentation, European Planning Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2018.1504895
  61. Frantzeskaki, N., van Steenbergen, F., and Stedman, R., (2018), Sense of place and experimentation in urban sustainability transitions, the Resilience Lab in Carnisse, Rotterdam, Sustainability Science, 13(4), 1045-1059, doi: 10.1007/s11625-018-0562-5
  62. Tabara, F., Frantzeskaki, N., Holscher, K., Pedde, S., Lamperti, F., Christensen, J.H., Jaeger, J., and Berry, P., (2018), Positive tipping points in a rapidly warming world, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 31:120–129, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.01.012
  63. Holscher, K., Frantzeskaki, N. and Loorbach, D. (2018), Steering transformations under climate change: capacities for transformative climate governance and the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Regional Environmental Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-018-1329-3
  64. Ehnert, F., Frantzeskaki, N., Barnes, J., Borgstrom, S., Gorissen, L., Kern, F., Strenchock, L., and Egermann, M., (2018), The acceleration of urban sustainability transitions: a comparison of Brighton, Budapest, Dresden, Genk and Stockholm, Sustainability, 2018.
  65. Tábara, J.D., Cots, F., Pedde, S., Hölscher, K., Kok, K., Lobanova, A., Lourenco T.C., Frantzeskaki, N., Ehterington, J. (2018). Exploring Institutional Transformations to Address High-End Climate Change in Iberia. Sustainability, 10, 161. doi:10.3390/su10010161.
  66. Gorissen, L., Spira, F., Meyers, E., Velkering, P., and Frantzeskaki, N., (2018), Moving towards systemic change? Investigating acceleration dynamics of urban sustainability transitions in the Belgian City of Genk, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Cleaner Production, 173, 171-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.12.052
  67. Raymond, C.M., Frantzeskaki, N., Kabisch, N., Berry, P., Breil, M., Nita, M.R., Geneletti, D., and Calfapietra, C., (2017), A framework for assessing and implementing the co-benefits of nature-based solutions in urban areas, Environmental Science and Policy, 77, 15-24, doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2017.07.008
  68. Valkering, P., Yucel, G., Gebetsroither-Geringer, E., Markvica, K., Meynaerts, E., and Frantzeskaki, N., (2017), Accelerating transition dynamics in city-regions: a qualitative modeling perspective, Sustainability, 9, 1254; doi:10.3390/su9071254
  69. Frantzeskaki, N., Dumitru, A., Anguelovski, I., Avelino, F., Bach, M., Best, B., Binder, C., Barnes, J., Carrus, J., Egermann, M., Haxeltine, A., Moore, M.L., Mira, R.G., Loorbach, D., Uzzell, D., Omman, I., Olsson, P., Silvestri, G., Stedman, R., Wittmayer, J., Durrant, R., and Rauschmeyer, F., (2016), Elucidating the changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22, 41-50.
  70. Frantzeskaki, N., Haase, D., Fragkias, M., and Elmqvist, T., (2016), Urban transitions to sustainability and resilience, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22, iv-viii.
  71. Wolfram, M., Frantzeskaki, N., and Maschmeyer, S., (2016), Cities, Systems and sustainability: status and perspective of research on urban transformations, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22, 18-25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.01.014.
  72. Burch, S., Andrachuk, M., Carey, D., Frantzeskaki, N., Schroeder, H., Mischkowski, N., and Loorbach, D., (2016), Governing and accelerating transformative entrepreneurship: exploring the potential for small business innovation on sustainability for urban transitions, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22, 26-32
  73. Bulkeley, H., Coenen, L., Frantzeskaki, N., Hartmann, C., Kronsell, A., Mai, L., Marvin, S., McCormick, K., van Steenbergen, F., and Palgan Voytenko, Y., (2016), Urban Living Labs: Governing urban sustainability transitions, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22:13-17.
    Christopher Luederitz, Niko Schäpke, Arnim Wiek, Daniel J Lang, Matthias Bergmann, Joannette J Bos, Sarah
  74. Burch, Anna Davies, James Evans, Ariane König, Megan A Farrelly, Nigel Forrest, Niki Frantzeskaki, Robert B Gibson, Braden Kay, Derk Loorbach, Kes McCormick, Oliver Parodi, Felix Rauschmayer, Uwe Schneidewind, Michael Stauffacher, Franziska Stelzer, Gregory Trencher, Johannes Venjakob, Philip J Vergragt, Henrik von Wehrden, Frances R Westley, (2017), Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluation scheme for sustainability transition experiments, Journal of Cleaner Production, 169, 61-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.005
  75. Loorbach, D., Frantzeskaki, N., and Avelino, F., (2017), Sustainability Transitions Research: Transforming Science and Practice for Societal Change, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 42, 599-626, doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-102014-021340.
  76. Haase, D., Kabisch, S., Haase, A., Andersson, E., Banzhaf, E., Baro, F., Brenck, M., Fischer, L.K., Frantzeskaki, N., Kabisch, N., Krellenberg, K., Kremer, P., Kronenberg, J., Larondelle, N., Mathey, J., Pauleit, S., Ring, I., Rink, D., Schwarz, N., and Wolf, M., (2017), Greening cities - To be socially inclusive? About the alleged paradox of society and ecology in cities, Habitat International, 64, 41-48,  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2017.04.005
  77. Larondelle, N., Frantzeskaki, N., and Haase, D., (2016), Mapping transition potential with stakeholder and policy-driven scenarios in Rotterdam City, Ecological Indicators, 70, 630-643, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.02.028
  78. Díaz, P., Stanek, P., Frantzeskaki, N., Yeh, D.H., (2016), Shifting paradigms, changing waters: A Case for Transitioning to Integrated Urban Water Management in the Coastal City of Dunedin, USA, Sustainable Cities and Societies, 26, 555-567  http://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2016.03.016
  79. Tidball, K., Frantzeskaki, N., and Elmqvist, T., (2016), Traps! An introduction to expanding thinking on persistent maladaptive states in pursuit of resilience, Sustainability Science, 11(6), 861-866, DOI 10.1007/s11625-016-0398-9
  80. Frantzeskaki, N., Kabisch, N., and McPhearson, T., (2016), Advancing urban environmental governance: Understanding theories, practices and processes shaping urban sustainability and resilience, Environmental Science and Policy, 62, 1-6.
  81. Frantzeskaki, N., and Kabisch, N., (2016), Designing a knowledge co-production operating space for urban environmental governance – Lessons from Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Berlin, Germany, Environmental Science and Policy, 62, 90-98.
  82. Frantzeskaki, N., Jhagroe, S., and Howlett, M., (2016), Greening the state? The framing of sustainability in Dutch infrastructure governance, Environmental Science and Policy, 58, 123-130.
  83. Frantzeskaki, N., Grin, J., and Thissen, W., (2016), Drifting between transitions, The case of the Greek environmental transition in relation to the river Acheloos Diversion project, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 275-286, DOI information: 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.09.007
  84. Poustie, M., Frantzeskaki, N., and Brown, R., (2016) A transition scenario for leapfrogging to a sustainable urban water future in Port Vila, Vanuatu, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 105, 129–139 doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2015.12.008.
  85. Kabisch, N., Frantzeskaki, N., Artmann, M., Davis, M., Haase, D., Knapp, S. Korn, H., Naumann, S., Pauleit, S., Stadler, J., Zaunberger, K.,  Bonn, A. et al. (2016), Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas –perspectives on indicators, knowledge gaps, opportunities and barriers for action, Ecology and Society, 21 (2):39. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss2/art39/
  86. Wolfram, M., and Frantzeskaki, N, (2016), Cities and Systemic Change for Sustainability: Prevailing Epistemologies and an Emerging Research Agenda, Sustainability, 8, DOI: 10.3390.
  87. Kremer, P., Z. Hamstead, D. Haase, T. McPhearson, N. Frantzeskaki, E. Andersson, N. Kabisch, N. Larondelle, E. L. Rall, A. Voigt, F. Baró, C. Bertram, E. Gómez-Baggethun, R. Hansen, A. Kaczorowska, J.-H. Kain, J. Kronenberg, J. Langemeyer, S. Pauleit, K. Rehdanz, M. Schewenius, C. Van Ham, D. Wurster and T. Elmqvist. (2016), Key insights for the future of urban ecosystem services research. Ecology and Society 21 (2):29. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss2/art29/
  88. Jhagroe, S., and Frantzeskaki, N., (2015), Politics of crisis: Exceptional democracy in Dutch infrastructure governance, Critical Policy Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2015.1066690.
  89. Loorbach, D., Frantzeskaki, N., and Huffenreuter, L R (2015), Transition management: Taking stock from governance experimentation, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 58, 48-66(19)
  90. Pereira, L., Karpouzoglou, T., Doshi, S., and Frantzeskaki, N. (2015), Organising a Safe Space for Navigating Social-Ecological Transformations to Sustainability, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2015, 12, 6027-6044; doi:10.3390/ijerph12060602
  91. Hansen, R., Frantzeskaki, N., et al, (2015), The uptake of the ecosystem services concept in the planning discourse of European and American cities, Ecosystem Services, 12, 228-246 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.11.013)
  92. Buchel, S., and Frantzeskaki, N., (2015), Citizens’ voice: A case study about perceived ecosystem services by urban park users in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Ecosystem Services, 12, 169-177 (doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.11.014).
  93. Baro, F., Frantzeskaki, N., Gomez-Baggethum, E., Haase, D., (2015), Assessing the (mis)match between local supply and demand of urban ecosystem services in five European cities, Ecological Indicators, 46, 146-158
  94. McPhearson, T., Andersson, E., Elmqvist, T., and Frantzeskaki, N., (2015), Resilience of and through ecosystem services, Ecosystem Services, 12, 152-156 (doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.07.012)
  95. De Haan, J.F., Rogers, B., Frantzeskaki, N., and Brown, R., (2015), Transitions through the lens of urban water, Environmental Innovations and Sustainability Transitions, 15, 1-10
  96. Bosman, R., Loorbach, D., Frantzeskaki, N., Pretorius, T., (2014), Discursive regime dynamics in the Dutch energy transition, Environmental Innovations and Sustainability Transitions, 13, 49-59.
  97. Frantzeskaki, N., and Tilie, N., (2014), The dynamics of urban ecosystem governance in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, AMBIO, 43:542–555, DOI 10.1007/s13280-014-0512-0
  98. Haase, D., Frantzeskaki, N., and Elmqvist, T., (2014), Ecosystem Services in Urban Landscapes: Practical Applications and Governance Implications, AMBIO, 43:407–412, DOI 10.1007/s13280-014-0503-1
  99. Frantzeskaki, N., Wittmayer, J., and Loorbach, D., (2014), The role of partnerships in 'realizing' urban sustainability in Rotterdam's City Ports Area, the Netherlands, Journal of Cleaner Production, 65, 406-417. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.09.023)
  100. Ferguson, B., Brown, R., Frantzeskaki, N., de Haan, F.J., Deletic, A., (2014), The enabling institutional context for integrated water management: Lessons from Melbourne, Water Research, 47, 7300-7314
  101. Ferguson, B., Frantzeskaki, N., and Brown, R., (2013), A strategic program for transitioning to a water sensitive city, Landscape and Urban Planning, 117, 32-45.
  102. Nevens, F., Frantzeskaki, N., Loorbach, D., Gorissen, L., (2013), Urban Transition Labs: co-creating transformative action for sustainable cities, Journal of Cleaner Production, 50, 111-122.
  103. Michalena, E., and Frantzeskaki, N., (2013), Moving forward or slowing-down? Exploring what impedes the Hellenic energy transition to a sustainable future, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 80(4), 977-991. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2012.10.013)
  104. Simanjuntak, I., Frantzeskaki, N., Enserink, B., and Ravesteijn, W., (2012), Evaluating Jakarta's Flood Defense Governance: the impact of political and institutional reforms, Water Policy, 14, 561-580.
  105. Yarime, M., Trencher, G, Mino, T., Scholz, R.W., Olsson, L., Ness, B., Frantzeskaki, N., and Rotmans, J., (2012), Establishing sustainability science in higher education institutions: towards an integration of academic development, institutionalization, and collaborations with stakeholders, Sustainability Science, 7(1), 101-113
  106. Frantzeskaki, N., Loorbach, D., and Meadowcroft, J., (2012), Governing transitions to sustainability: Transition management as a governance approach towards pursuing sustainability, International Journal of Sustainable Development, 15(1-2), 19-36.
  107. Frantzeskaki, N., Koppenjan, J, Loorbach, D., Ryan, N., Charles, M., (2012), Theoretical and empirical contributions to an understanding of the governability of system transitions to sustainability – Lessons and next-step challenges, International Journal of Sustainable Development, 15(1-2),173-186.
  108. Koppenjan, J., Frantzeskaki, N., Ryan, N., Loorbach, D., Charles, M., (2012), Governing System Transitions towards Sustainable Development: Theoretical and empirical explorations, International Journal of Sustainable Development, 15(1-2), 1-18.
  109. Loorbach, D., Frantzeskaki, N., and Thissen, W., (2010), Introduction to the special issue: Infrastructures and transitions, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 77(8), 1195-1202.
  110. Frantzeskaki, N., and Loorbach, D., (2010), Towards governing infrasystem transitions, Reinforcing lock-in or facilitating change? Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 77(8), 1292-1301.
  111. Frantzeskaki, N., Slinger, J.H., Vreugdenhil, H., and van Daalen, E., (2010), Social-ecological systems governance: from paradigm to management approach, Nature and Culture, 5(1), 84–98
  112. Frantzeskaki, N., and H. de Haan, (2009), Transitions: Two steps from theory to policy, Futures, 41, 593-606.
  113. Tsoutsos, T., Drandaki, M., Frantzeskaki, N., Iosifidis, E., and I. Kiosses, (2009), Sustainable energy planning by using multicriteria analysis application in the island of Crete, Greece, Energy Policy, 37, 1587-1600.
  114. G. Kolfschoten, N.Frantzeskaki, A. de Haan, A. Verbraeck, (2008), Collaborative modelling lab to increase learning engagement, Journal of the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Center, 3(2), 21-27.
  115. Tsoutsos, T., N.Frantzeskaki and V.Gekas, (2005), Environmental Impacts from the Use of Solar Energy Technologies and Technologies to alleviate them in a sustainable perspective, Energy Policy, 33, 289-296.
  116. T. Manios, K. Maniadakis, N. Frantzeskaki, E.I. Stentiford, V. Manios, I. Kritsotakis, N. Sakkas, and G. Dialynas (2003), Pilot scale sewage sludge composting in the Island of Crete, Greece, Biocycle, 44(6), 53-55.
  117. E. Lagoudianaki, T. Manios, M. Geniatakis, N. Frantzeskaki, and V. Manios, (2003), Odour control in evaporation ponds treating olive mill wastewater through the use of Ca(OH)2, Journal of Environmental, Science and Health - Part A, 38(11), 2537-2547.

BOOKS / EDITED VOLUMES

1      Hölscher, K., Frantzeskaki, N. (eds.) (2020) Transformative climate governance. A capacities perspective to systematize, evaluate and guide climate action. Palgrave Macmillan, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49040-9 Link: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030490393

2      Frantzeskaki, N., Holscher, K., Bach, M., and Avelino, F., (2018), Co-creating sustainable urban futures- A primer on Transition Management in Cities, Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-69271-5. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319692715 - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69273-9

3      Elmqvist, T., Bai. X., Frantzeskaki, N., Griffith, C., Maddox, D., McPhearson, T., Parnell, S., Romero-Lankao, P., Simon, D., Watkins, M (Eds). 2018. Urban Planet. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781107196933. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316647554

4      Frantzeskaki, N., Castan-Broto, V., Coenen, L., and Loorbach, D., (Eds) (2017), Urban sustainability transitions, Routledge: New York, ISBN 978-0-415-78418-4 DOI: 0.1007/978-3-319-69273-9

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