Publications

Publications are one of PIKs most important outputs. On this page you will find our latest work and further information
de Vries, Wim, Schulte-Uebbing, Lena, Beusen, Arthur, te Wierik, Sofie: Revisiting safe and just planetary boundaries for nitrogen and phosphorus - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Göçoğlu, Volkan, Düzsöz, Elifnur, Pradhan, Prajal: Five Lessons From a Decade of Sustainable Development Goals Policy Traction - Sustainable Development
Harrison, Cheryl, Faulkner, William, Coupe, Joshua, Asante, E. Kesse, Bardeen, Charles, Garza, Victoria, Heneghan, Ryan, Jägermeyr, Jonas, Lovenduski, Nicole S., Robock, Alan, Rojas, Karen, Scherrer, Kim, Toon, O. Brian, Xia, Lili (2026): Accessible Climate and Impact Model Output for Studying the Human and Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Conflict - Geoscience Data Journal
Zhang, Peiran, Gao, Liang, Li, Yunfei, Zhang, Chaoyang, Chen, Xiqun (Michael), Fan, Jingfang, Li, Daqing, Jia, Bin, Gao, Ziyou, Kurths, Jürgen, Mendes, Jose F.F. (2026): Carbon footprint inequality: A scaling decomposition across 165 countries (1980–2019) - Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
Janssen, Carolin, Gorris, Philipp, Pahl-Wostl, Claudia, Schwarz, Luana (2026): The social-ecological learning framework: perception, action, and learning in a changing world - Global Environmental Change
Zhang, Jianxin, Liu, Kai, Sui, Yunhui, Li, Kaiwen, Qin, Lianjie, Liu, Junfei, Wang, Ming, Marwan, Norbert (2026): Oscillation-induced synchronization hubs in global hydrological extremes - Journal of Hydrology
Bullock, Liam A., Pokharel, Rasesh, Lewis, Amy, Laarhuis, Peter-Paul, van der Luyt, Robert, Mendez, Quirina Rodriguez, Fuss, Sabine, Benavente, David (2026): Assessing urban green roofs for CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering in Europe - Environmental Advances
Svintsov, Stepan, Pradhan, Prajal, Smith, Taylor, Rybski, Diego (2026): Integrating agriculture into European urban landscapes matters: A systematic assessment - Sustainable Cities and Society
Bruni, Elisa, Lehtonen, Aleksi, Hashimoto, Shoji, Ťupek, Boris, Bacha, Nasser, Bunker, Daniel, Brasselet-Darracq, Illian, Fages-Gouyou, Dalia, Hemeray, Yanis, Reyer, Christopher P. O., Sierra, Carlos A., Guenet, Bertrand: me4soc: a multi-model ensemble interface for soil organic carbon predictions - Ecological Modelling
Berger, Sebastian, Creutzig, Felix (2026): Malleable Preferences and the Normative Desirability of Demand‐Side Solutions to Climate Change - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs): Climate Change
Undorf, Sabine, Dimitrova, Asya, Harrington, Luke J., Hegerl, Gabriele C., Jézéquel, Aglaé , Kimutai, Joyce, Lo, Eunice , Mengel, Matthias, Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Sarah , Pietroiusti, Rosa , Pinto, Izidine, Schurer, Andrew , Scussolini, Paolo , Sippel, Sebastian , Stone, Dáithí , Stuart-Smith, Rupert , Gudmundsson, Lukas , Huber, Veronika , Colón-González, Felipe J., Dellicour, Simon , Erazo, Diana , Fischer, Erich , Frieler, Katja, Gornott, Christoph, Hawkins, Ed, Holden, Petra, Koren, Gerbrand, Lampe, Seppe, Mitchell, Dann, Murken, Lisa, Nkwasa, Albert, Seneviratne, Sonia I., Wehner, Thiery, Thiery, Wim (2026): Approaches and challenges in attributing climate change impacts - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Kim, Jinsoo, Kim, Jihyo, Sovacool, Benjamin K., Griffiths, Steve, Bazilian, Morgan, Creutzig, Felix, Furszyfer Del Rio, Dylan D., Agrawala, Matthew, Choi, Minki, Debnath, Ramit (2026): Reviewing the socio-technical dynamics of AI, data centers and digitalization on energy and the environment - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Fazio, Peppino, Mannone, Maria, Marwan, Norbert, Ribino, Patrizia, Mehic, Miralem, Swikir, Abdalla, Amendola, Danilo, Riello, Pietro, Voznak, Miroslav (2026): Telecommunication-inspired network models of healthy and diseased brains - Scientific Reports
Venegas-Pineda, Luis Guillermo, Jardón-Kojakhmetov, Hildeberto, Engel, Maximilian, Heitzig, Jobst, Cenk Eser, Muhittin, Cao, Ming: Strategic control for a Boltzmann-like decision-making model - Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
Borel, Patricia, Bliefernicht, Jan-Geert, Flinkerbusch, Eva, Gutsch, Martin, Höltermann, Anke, Matthes, Ulrich, Nieberg, Mats, Nowakowski, Tobias, Tölle, Max, Reyer, Christopher P. O. (2026): A standardised approach towards selecting forests for strict protection in Germany - Regional Environmental Change
Botta, Nicola, Jansson, Patrik (2026): Types, equations, dimensions and the Pi theorem - Journal of Functional Programming
Carballo, Ireri Hernandez, Verdolini, Elena, Steckel, Jan Christoph, Tavoni, Massimo, Vona, Francesco (2026): The Economics of a Just Transition - Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
Qiu, Huayan, Zhang, Tuantuan, Yang, Song, Cai, Fenying (2026): Complex networks reveal oceanic drivers and extended predictability of terrestrial heat extremes - Environmental Research Letters
Itaboraí, Paulo Vitor, Hamido, Omar Costa, Marwan, Norbert, Fazio, Peppino, Ribino, Patrizia, Mannone, Maria: Quantum seizures: sonifying quantum modelling of epileptic time series - European Physical Journal - Special Topics
Tanaka, Katsumasa, Xiong, Weiwei, Hauglustaine, Didier A., Johansson, Daniel J. A., Bauer, Nicolas, Bousquet, Philippe, Ciais, Philippe, de Richter, Renaud, Lund, Marianne T., Skeie, Ragnhild B., Zusman, Eric (2026): Atmospheric methane removal as a third climate intervention: termination risks and air pollutant effects - npj Climate Action
Heselschwerdt, Simon P., Wagener, Thorsten, Wang-Erlandsson, Lan, Ukkola, Anna M., Markonis, Yannis, Yang, Yuting, Greve, Peter (2026): Large impact of extreme precipitation on projected blue–green water partitioning - Earth System Dynamics
Rischer, Christian, Gonzatti, Ignacio Saldivia, Friess, Daniel A., Grasse, Patricia, Keller, David, Krause, Johannes R., Lück, Sarah, MacPherson, Carisa, McHenry, Jennifer, Merk, Christine, Troxler, Tiffany, Voss, Rudi, Rickels, Wilfried (2026): An ecosystem of carbon dioxide removal reviews – part 2: CO2 removal via blue carbon ecosystems - Energy & Environmental Science
Rockström, Johan, Denton, Fatima, Norström, Albert V., Abrams, Jesse F., Alam, Lubna, Armstrong McKay, David I., Bai, Xuemei, Bala, Govindasamy, Boulton, Chris, Broadgate, Wendy J., Bunn, Stuart E., Buxton, Joshua E., Camilo Cárdenas, Juan, Ylla-Català, Raimon C., DeClerck, Fabrice, Davis, Natalie, Dennis, Donovan, Diamond, Miriam L., Folke, Carl, Kendra Charlotte Gotangco Gonzales, Charlotte, Graells, Georgia, Gupta, Joyeeta, Hasan, Syezlin, Jacobson, Lisa, Lade, Steven J., Lenton, Timothy M., Loriani, Sina, Ludwig, Cornelia, Marquet, Pablo A., Moyo, Qondi, Mukherji, Aditi, Nakicenovic, Nebojsa, Obura, David, Taikan, Oki, Ospina, Daniel, Fernanda Peña, Maria, Pereira, Laura, Popp, Alexander, Riahi, Keywan, del Mar Rojas, Maria, Anindita, Sarkar, Shalin, Anna, Steward-Koster, Ben, Su, Bo, Sumaila, Rashid, Tharammal, Thejna, van Vliet, Luc, van Vuuren, Detlef, Verburg, Peter, Wang, Zhanyun, Winkelmann, Ricarda, Xiao, Cunde, Zimm, Caroline (2026): Charting a Transformational Course Toward a Safe and Just Future: The Earth Commission's Contribution [Commentary] - Earth's Future
Liu, Qianze, Wang, Jiayu, Cai, Chunhao, Xie, Xiaoqiang, He, Wenping, Sun, Hui, Boers, Niklas (2026): Performance comparison of early warning signals for critical transition based on power spectrum and distribution morphological characteristics - Climate Dynamics
Sadric, Martin, Pütz, Sebastian, Nauck, Christian, Hagenmeyer, Veit, Hellmann, Frank, Schäfer, Benjamin (2026): Assessing Explanations of Graph Neural Networks for Dynamic Stability Assessment of Power Grid - ACM Sustainability Week '26: Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Sustainability Week
Hattermann, Fred Fokko, Gädeke, Anne, Salinas, Andrea, Gleixner, Stephanie, Fernandez Palomino, Carlos Antonio, Saavedra, Carlos P., Liersch, Stefan, Nava, Genesis, Koch, Hagen (2026): Climate change in the upstream parts of the Amazon and Río de la Plata basins: Impacts and adaptation in Bolivia's Water-Energy-Food Nexus - Environmental Research: Water