This page contains automatically translated content.

  • (Transformative) Sustainability science

  • Transdisciplinary knowledge co-creation in sustainability science

  • Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation

  • Interior dimensions of sustainability transformation: values and cultures

  • 2022-2023: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (Potsdam) fellow

  • 2020-2022: Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship hosted by Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

  • 2019-2020: Postdoctoral research at Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS)

  • 2015-2019: Postdoctoral research at Leuphana University of Lueneburg

  • 2011-2015: PhD, Leuphana University of Lueneburg

  • 2008-2010: MA, Université Libre de Bruxelles

  • 2004-2008: License diploma, University of Bucharest

  • Editor for the journal Sustainability Science

  • Lead author in three assessments of the interdisciplinary Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES): IPBES Global Assessment (2016-2019), IPBES Values Assessment (2018-2022), IPBES Transformative Change Assessment (2022-)

  • Introduction to sustainability science (SoSe 2023)

Publications

Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Dorresteijn, I., Leventon, J., Stojanovic, M., Lam, D.P.M., Lang, D.J., Moriggi, A., Raymond, C.M., Stålhammar, S., Weiser, A., Zimmermann, S., 2024. Transformative research for sustainability: characteristics, tensions, and moving forward. Global Sustainability 7, TBD. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2024.12
Augenstein, K., Lam, D.P.M., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Bernert, P., Charli-Joseph, L., Cockburn, J., Kampfmann, T., Pereira, L.M., Sellberg, M.M., 2024. Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 68, 101438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101438
López-Rodríguez, M., Oteros-Rozas, E., Ruiz-Mallén, I., March, H., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Heras, M., Cebrián-Piqueras, M.A., Andrade, R., Lo, V.B.P.G., Piñeiro, C., 2023. Visualizing stakeholders’ willingness for collective action in participatory scenario planning. Ecology and Society 28, TBD. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14101-280205
Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Koessler, A.-K., Martin, A., Rode, J., Moreno Soares, T., 2023. Modes of mobilizing values for sustainability transformation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 64, 101357.
Mäkinen-Rostedt, K., Hakkarainen, V., Eriksson, M., Andrade, R., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Andrade, R., Anderson, B.D.O., Riper, van J.C., Raymond, M.C., 2023. Engaging diverse experts in the global science-policy interface: Learning experiences from the process of the IPBES Values Assessment. Environmental Science & Policy 147, 215–227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.06.010
Pascual, U., Balvanera, P., Anderson, C.B., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Christie, M., González-Jiménez, D., Martin, A., Raymond, C.M., Termansen, M., Vatn, A., Athayde, S., Baptiste, B., Barton, D.N., Jacobs, S., Kelemen, E., Kumar, R., Lazos, E., Mwampamba, T.H., Nakangu, B., O’Farrell, P., Subramanian, S.M., van Noordwijk, M., Ahn, S., Amaruzaman, S., Amin, A.M., Arias-Arévalo, P., Arroyo-Robles, G., Cantú-Fernández, M., Castro, A.J., Contreras, V., Vos, A. de, Dendoncker, N., Engel, S., Eser, U., Faith, D.P., Filyushkina, A., Ghazi, H., Gómez-Baggethun, E., Gould, R.K., Guibrunet, L., Gundimeda, H., Hahn, T., Harmáčková, Z.V., Hernández-Blanco, M., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Huambachano, M., Wicher, N.L.H., Aydın, C.İ., Islar, M., Koessler, A.-K., Kenter, J.O., Kosmus, M., Lee, H., Leimona, B., Lele, S., Lenzi, D., Lliso, B., Mannetti, L.M., Merçon, J., Monroy-Sais, A.S., Mukherjee, N., Muraca, B., Muradian, R., Murali, R., Nelson, S.H., Nemogá-Soto, G.R., Ngouhouo-Poufoun, J., Niamir, A., Nuesiri, E., Nyumba, T.O., Özkaynak, B., Palomo, I., Pandit, R., Pawłowska-Mainville, A., Porter-Bolland, L., Quaas, M., Rode, J., Rozzi, R., Sachdeva, S., Samakov, A., Schaafsma, M., Sitas, N., Ungar, P., Yiu, E., Yoshida, Y., Zent, E., 2023. Diverse values of nature for sustainability. Nature 813–823. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06406-9
Andrade, R., van Riper, C.J., Goodson, D.J., Johnson, D.N., Stewart, W., López-Rodríguez, M., Cebrián-Piqueras, M.A., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Lo, V., Raymond, C.M., 2023. Values shift in response to social learning through deliberation about protected areas. Global Environmental Change 78, 102630. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102630
Soininen, N., Raymond, C.M., Tuomisto, H., Ruotsalainen, L., Thorén, H., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Stojanovic, M., Lehtinen, S., Mazac, R., Lamuela, C., Korpelainen, N., Vainio, A., Toivanen, R., McPhearson, T., Nagatsu, M., 2022. Bridge over troubled water: managing compatibility and conflict among thought collectives in sustainability science. Sustainability Science 17, 27–44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01068-w
Chambers, J.M., Wyborn, C., Klenk, N.L., Ryan, M.E., Serban, A., Bennett, N.J., Brennan, R., Charli-Joseph, L., Fernández-Giménez, M.E., Galvin, K.A., Goldstein, B.E., Haller, T., Hill, R., Munera, C., Nel, J.L., Österblom, H., Reid, R.S., Riechers, M., Spierenburg, M., Tengö, M., Bennett, E.M., Brandeis, A., Chatterton, P., Cockburn, J.J., Cvitanovic, C., Dumrongrojwatthana, P., Paz Durán, A., Gerber, J.-D., Green, J.M.H., Gruby, R., Guerrero, A.M., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Montana, J., Steyaert, P., Zaehringer, J.G., Bednarek, A.T., Curran, K., Fada, S., Hutton, J., Leimona, B., Pickering, T., Rondeau, R., 2022. Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations. Global Environmental Change 72, 102422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102422
D’Amato, D., Korhonen-Kurki, K., Lyytikainen, V., Matthies, B.D., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., 2022. Circular bioeconomy: Actors and dynamics of knowledge co-production in Finland. Forest Policy and Economics 144, 102820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102820
Hakkarainen, V., Mäkinen-Rostedt, K., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., D’Amato, D., Jämsä, J., Soini, K., 2022. Transdisciplinary research in natural resources management: Towards an integrative and transformative use of co-concepts. Sustainable Development 30, 309–325. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2276
Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., 2022. Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 57, 101205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101205
Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Leventon, J., Lang, D.J., 2022. Making transdisciplinarity happen: Phase 0, or before the beginning. Environmental Science & Policy 136, 187–197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.05.019
Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Zaman, S., Filyushkina, A., López-Rodríguez, M.D., Cebrián-Piqueras, M.A., Raymond, C.M., 2022. The relationship between values and knowledge in visioning for landscape management: relevance for a collaborative approach. Ecosystems and People 18, 498–513. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2022.2108498
Raymond, C.M., Cebrián-Piqueras, M.A., Andersson, E., Andrade, R., Schnell, A.A., Battioni Romanelli, B., Filyushkina, A., Goodson, D.J., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Johnson, D.N., Keller, R., Kuiper, J., Lo, V., López-Rodríguez, M.D., March, H., Metzger, M., Oteros-Rozas, E., Salcido, E., Sellberg, M., Stewart, W., Ruiz-Mallén, I., Plieninger, T., van Riper, C.J., Verburg, P.H., Wiedermann, M.M., 2022. Inclusive conservation and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Tensions and prospects. One Earth 5, 252–264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.02.008
Zaman, S., Korpilo, S., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Raymond, C.M., 2022. Associations between landscape values, self-reported knowledge, and land-use: a public participation GIS assessment. Ecosystems and People 18, 212–225. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2022.2052749
Martin, A., O’Farrell, P., Kumar, R., Eser, U., Faith, D.P., Nicolas Gomez-Baggethun, E., Harmackova, Z., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Merçcon, J., Quaas, M., Rode, J., Rozzi, R., Sitas, N., Yoshida, Y., Ochieng, T.N., Koessler, A.-K., Lutti, N., Mannetti, L., Arroyo-Robles, G., 2022. The role of diverse values of nature in visioning and transforming towards just and sustainable futures, in: Christie, M., Balvanera, P., Pascual, U., Baptiste, B., González-Jiménez, D. (Hrsg.), Methodological assessment of the diverse values and valuation of nature of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. ipbes, Bonn, S. TBD. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7701885
Lam, D.P.M., Martín-López, B., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Lang, D.J., 2021. A leverage points perspective on social networks to understand sustainability transformations: evidence from Southern Transylvania. Sustainability Science 16, 809–826. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00881-z
Chambers, J.M., Wyborn, C., Ryan, M.E., Reid, R.S., Riechers, M., Serban, A., Bennett, N.J., Cvitanovic, C., Fernández-Giménez, M.E., Galvin, K.A., Goldstein, B.E., Klenk, N.L., Tengö, M., Brennan, R., Cockburn, J.J., Hill, R., Munera, C., Nel, J.L., Österblom, H., Bednarek, A.T., Bennett, E.M., Brandeis, A., Charli-Joseph, L., Chatterton, P., Curran, K., Dumrongrojwatthana, P., Durán, A.P., Fada, S.J., Gerber, J.-D., Green, J.M.H., Guerrero, A.M., Haller, T., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Leimona, B., Montana, J., Rondeau, R., Spierenburg, M., Steyaert, P., Zaehringer, J.G., Gruby, R., Hutton, J., Pickering, T., 2021. Six modes of co-production for sustainability. Nature Sustainability 4, 983–996. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00755-x
Leventon, J., Duçse, I.A., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., 2021. Leveraging Biodiversity Action From Plural Values: Transformations of Governance Systems. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9, 609853. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.609853
Hakkarainen, V., Anderson, C.B., Eriksson, M., van Riper, C.J., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Raymond, C.M., 2020. Grounding IPBES experts’ views on the multiple values of nature in epistemology, knowledge and collaborative science. Environmental Science & Policy 105, 11–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.12.003
Fam, D., Clarke, E., Freeth, R., Derwort, P., Klaniecki, K., Kater-Wettstädt, L., Juarez-Bourke, S., Hilser, S., Peukert, D., Meyer, E., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., 2020. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and practice: Balancing expectations of the „old“ academy with the future model of universities as „problem solvers“. Higher Education Quarterly 74, 19–34. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12225
Fazey, I., Schäpke, N., Caniglia, G., Hodgson, A., Kendrick, I., Lyon, C., Page, G., Patterson, J., Riedy, C., Strasser, T., Verveen, S., Adams, D., Goldstein, B., Goldstein, B.E., Klaes, M., Leicester, G., Linyard, A., McCurdy, A., Ryan, P., Sharpe, B., Silvestri, G., Abdurrahim, A.Y., Abson, D.J., Adetunji, O.S., Aldunce, P., Alvarez-Pereira, C., Amparo, J.M., Amundsen, H., Anderson, L., Andersson, L., Asquith, M., Augenstein, K., Barrie, J., Bent, D., Bentz, J., Bergsten, A., Berzonsky, C., Bina, O., Blackstock, K., Boehnert, J., Bradbury, H., Brand, C., Böhme, J., Bøjer, M.M., Carmen, E., Charli-Joseph, L., Choudhury, S., Chunhachoti-ananta, S., Cockburn, J.J., Colvin, J., Connon, I.L.C., Cornforth, R., Cox, R.S., Cradock-Henry, N., Cramer, L., Cremaschi, A., Dannevig, H., Day, C.T., Lima Hutchison, C., Vrieze, A., Desai, V., Dolley, J., Duckett, D., Durrant, R.A., Egermann, M., Elsner, E., Fremantle, C., Fullwood-Thomas, J., Galafassi, D., Gobby, J., Golland, A., González-Padrón, S.K., Gram-Hanssen, I., Grandin, J., Grenni, S., Lauren Gunnell, J., Gusmao, F., Hamann, M., Harding, B., Harper, G., Hesselgren, M., Hestad, D., Heykoop, C.A., Holmén, J., Holstead, K., Hoolohan, C., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Horlings, L.G., Howden, S.M., Howell, R.A., Huque, S., Inturias Canedo, M.L., Iro, C.Y., Ives, C.D., John, B., Joshi, R., Juarez-Bourke, S., Juma, D.W., Karlsen, B.C., Kliem, L., Kläy, A., Kuenkel, P., Kunze, I., Lam, D.P.M., Lang, D.J., Larkin, A., Light, A., Luederitz, C., Luthe, T., Maguire, C., Mahecha-Groot, A.-M., Malcolm, J., Marshall, F., Maru, Y., McLachlan, C., Mmbando, P., Mohapatra, S., Moore, M.-L., Moriggi, A., Morley-Fletcher, M., Moser, S., Mueller, K.M., Mukute, M., Mühlemeier, S., Naess, L.O., Nieto-Romero, M., Novo, P., O’Brien, K., O’Connell, D.A., O’Donnell, K., Olsson, P., Pearson, K.R., Pereira, L., Petridis, P., Peukert, D., Phear, N., Pisters, S.R., Polsky, M., Pound, D., Preiser, R., Rahman, M.S., Reed, M.S., Revell, P., Rodriguez, I., Rogers, B.C., Rohr, J., Nordbø Rosenberg, M., Ross, H., Russell, S., Ryan, M.E., Saha, P., Schleicher, K., Schneider, F., Scoville-Simonds, M., Searle, B., Sebhatu, S.P., Sesana, E., Silverman, H., Singh, C., Sterling, E., Stewart, S.-J., Tàbara, J.D., Taylor, D., Thornton, P., Tribaldos, T.M., Tschakert, P., Uribe-Calvo, N., Waddell, S., Waddock, S., van der Merwe, L., van Mierlo, B., van Uden, P., van Zwanenberg, P., Velarde, S.J., Washbourne, C.-L., Waylen, K.A., Weiser, A., Wight, I., Williams, S., Woods, M., Wolstenholme, R., Wright, N., Wunder, S., Wyllie, A., Young, H.R., 2020. Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there. Energy Research & Social Science 70, 101724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101724
Lam, D.P.M., Martín-López, B., Wiek, A., Bennett, E., Frantzeskaki, N., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Lang, D.J., 2020. Scaling the impact of sustainability initiatives: a typology of amplification processes. Urban Transformations 2, 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-020-00007-9
Lam, D.P.M., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Fischer, J., Peukert, D., Lang, D.J., 2020. Three principles for co-designing sustainability intervention strategies: Experiences from Southern Transylvania. Ambio 49, 1451–1465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01302-x
Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Martín-López, B., Lam, D.P.M., Lang, D.J., 2020. Research pathways to foster transformation: linking sustainability science and social-ecological systems research. Ecology and Society 25, 13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11332-250113
Hartel, T., Scheele, B.C., Rozylowicz, L., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Cogălniceanu, D., 2020. The social context for conservation: Amphibians in human shaped landscapes with high nature values. Journal for Nature Conservation 53, 125762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2019.125762
Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Abson, D.J., Apetrei, C., Duse, I.A., Freeth, R., Riechers, M., Lam, D.P.M., Dorninger, C., Lang, D.J., 2019. Values in transformational sustainability science: four perspectives for change. Sustainability Science 14, 1425–1437. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00656-1
Fischer, J., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Lang, D.J., Thale-Bombien, L., Abson, D.J., Apetrei, C., Clarke, E., Derwort, P., Dorninger, C., Duse, I.A., Freeth, R., Jagersma, N., Klaniecki, K., Lam, D.P.M., Leventon, J., Newig, J., Peukert, D., Riechers, M., Schaal, T., 2019. Balance Brings Beauty: Strategies for a Sustainable Southern Transylvania . Pensoft, Sofia, Bulgarien.
Shin, Y.-J., Arneth, A., Chowdhury, R.R., Midgley, G.F., Bukvareva, E., Heinimann, A., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Kolb, M., Leadley, P., Oberdorff, T., Madruga, R.P., Rondinini, C., Saito, O., Sathyapalan, J., Boafo, Y.A., Kindlmann, P., Yue, T.X., Krenova, Z., Osano, P., Palomo, I., Basher, Z., Pliscoff, P., 2019. Plausible futures of nature, its contributions to people and their good quality of life. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3832074
Kenter, J.O., Raymond, C.M., van Riper, C.J., Azzopardi, E., Brear, M.R., Calcagni, F., Christie, I., Christie, M., Fordham, A., Gould, R.K., Ives, C.D., Hejnowicz, A.P., Gunton, R., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Kendal, D., Kronenberg, J., Massenberg, J.R., O’Connor, S., Ravenscroft, N., Rawluk, A., Raymond, I.J., Rodríguez-Morales, J., Thankappan, S., 2019. Loving the mess: navigating diversity and conflict in social values for sustainability. Sustainability Science 14, 1439–1461. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00726-4
Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Abson, D.J., Dorresteijn, I., Loos, J., Hanspach, J., Fischer, J., 2018. The role of co-evolutionary development and value change debt in navigating transitioning cultural landscapes: the case of Southern Transylvania. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 61, 800–817. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2017.1332985
Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Leventon, J., Hanspach, J., Fischer, J., 2016. Disaggregated contributions of ecosystem services to human well-being: a case study from Eastern Europe. Regional Environmental Change 16, 1779–1791. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-016-0926-2
Dorresteijn, I., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Leventon, J., Hanspach, J., Fischer, J., 2016. Social factors mediating human-carnivore coexistence: Understanding thematic strands influencing coexistence in Central Romania. Ambio 45, 490–500. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-015-0760-7
Nieto-Romero, M., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Leventon, J., Mikulcak, F., Fischer, J., 2016. The role of scenarios in fostering collective action for sustainable development: Lessons from central Romania. Land Use Policy 50, 156–168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.09.013
Fischer, J., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Hartel, T., Hanspach, J., Mikulcak, F., 2015. The future of people and nature in Southern Transylvania. Pensoft Publishers Ltd., Sofia, Bulgarien. https://doi.org/10.17170/kobra-2024072410580
Loos, J., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Kirkland, P., Hartel, T., Osváth-Ferencz, M., Fischer, J., 2015. Challenges for biodiversity monitoring using citizen science in transitioning social-ecological systems. Journal for Nature Conservation 26, 45–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2015.05.001
Hartel, T., Fischer, J., Campeanu, C., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Hanspach, J., Fazey, I., 2014. The importance of ecosystem services for rural inhabitants in a changing cultural landscape in Romania. Ecology and Society 19, 42. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06333-190242
Hanspach, J., Hartel, T., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Mikulcak, F., Mikulcak, F., Dorresteijn, I., Loos, J., von Wehrden, H., Kuemmerle, T., Abson, D.J., Kovács-Hostyánszki, A., Báldi, A., Fischer, J., 2014. A holistic approach to studying social-ecological systems and its application to southern Transylvania. Ecology and Society 19, 32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06915-190432
Fischer, J., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Hartel, T., Hanspach, J., Mikulcak, F., 2014. Viitorul oamenilor şi al naturii în sudul Transilvaniei - Az emberek és a természet jövője Dél-Erdélyben. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia.
Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Sherren, K., Hanspach, J., Abson, D.J., Fischer, J., 2014. Navigating conflicting landscape aspirations: Application of a photo-based Q-method in Transylvania (Central Romania). Land Use Policy 41, 408–422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.06.019
Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Hanspach, J., Abson, D.J., Fischer, J., 2013. Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Literature Review and Prospects for Future Research. Ecology and Society 18, 44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05790-180344
Mikulcak, F., Newig, J., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Hartel, T., Fischer, J., 2013. Integrating rural development and biodiversity conservation in Central Romania. Environmental Conservation 40, 129–137. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892912000392
Back to list