Thomas

Hahn

PhD

Associate Professor

thomas.hahn@su.se

+46 8 674 70 71, +46 737 078 795

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Thomas’ research focuses on ecological and institutional economics in relation to ecosystem services, financial instruments, and adaptive governance of social-ecological systems

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  • Ecosystem services
  • Ecological economics
  • Sustainability transformation
  • Adaptive governance
  • Institutional economics
  • Green economy

Thomas publishes research on ecological and institutional economics focusing on ecosystem services, adaptive governance, social learning, sustainability transformations, and green economy. At present, he has four research project grants: 1) Institutional analysis of Ecological Compensation as an instrument for ensuring No Net Loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services (Formas); 2) Mistra Financial Systems: Putting financial systems to work for sustainability, where he is a leader and member of the program management group; 3) Effective and equitable institutional arrangements for financing and safeguarding biodiversity (Formas); and 4) BiodivERsA3: GreenFutureForest, where he is the leader on insurance value of ecosystems.

Thomas is also coordinating lead author for the European and Central Asian Regional Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

Thomas holds a PhD from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, where he studied property rights of the indigenous Sami people, ethics, and conflict resolution. With a background in agricultural economics, he has explored interdisciplinary science, from social sciences to ecology. Presently, his work is mostly transdisciplinary. Previously, Thomas was a full-time teacher and the director of studies at SRC, but now focuses more on research.

In 2013, Thomas worked half-time co-authoring a report, commissioned by the Swedish government, on the value of ecosystem services. He is currently engaged in dialogue seminars within the CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) and with IPBES.

Thomas serves as a board member of Sveaskog AB, the largest forest owner in Europe, and as a board member of the Swedish Nuclear Waste Fund. He also serves as expert in governmental investigations on climate economy and on ecological compensation. He is also a member of a think tank Global Utmaning (Global Challenge), and recently participated in a pre-study on green economy for Mistra, the Swedish foundation for strategic environmental research. This report was launched in 2015 and it was broadcasted by national television.

Thomas regularly gives presentations about his research to various Swedish parliamentary committees, the Swedish Environmental Protection Board, the Swedish Board of Agriculture, and decision-makers in the private sector, including NGOs.

Thomas collaborates with other departments at SU on teaching and research. He has helped catalyze the Faculty of Social Sciences to instigate a new topic for graduate studies: environmental social science, which will promote interdisciplinary research careers. In 2015 Thomas had some of his research featured by Stockholm University.

Awards and achievements:

  • Fellow of The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (KSLA).
  • Zayed International Prize for the Environment (awarded to authors of The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment)

Supervision:
David Collste, PhD candidate
Ami Golland, PhD candidate
Niak Koh, PhD candidate

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ORCID: 0000-0002-6649-5232

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Publications by Hahn, Thomas

Deliberative multi-actor dialogues as opportunities for transformative social learning and conflict resolution in international environmental negotiations

Schultz, M., Hahn, T., Ituarte Lima, C., Hallstrom, N.

2018 - Journal / article

The format for formal international negotiations on environment and development sometimes prevents negotiators from truly listening to each other and adapt pre-existing positions to realize constructive conflict resolution. In this paper we present and analyse “Multi-Actor Dialogue Seminars” (MADS) as an approach to contribute to transformative social learning and conflict resolution, and the contribution to tangible and intan...

Learning for social-ecological change: a qualitative review of outcomes across empirical literature in natural resource management

Suškevičs, M., Hahn, T., Rodela, R., Macura B., and Pahl-Wostl, C.

2017 - Journal / article

Learning is considered as a promising mechanism to cope with rapid environmental change. The implications of learning for natural resource management (NRM) have not been explored in-depth and the evidence on the topic is scattered across multiple sources. We provide a qualitative review of types of learning outcomes and consider their manifestations in NRM across selected empirical literature. We conducted a systematic search ...

Landscape heterogeneity correlates with recreational values: a case study from Swedish agricultural landscapes and implications for policy

Hahn, T., Heinrup, M., Lindborg, R.

2017 - Journal / article

Agri-environmental schemes are often targeted at heterogenic landscapes to support several ecosystem services besides food production. The question is whether heterogenic landscapes also support recreation values. Previous studies suggest this but statistical analysis of the relation between heterogeneity and recreation is lacking. To assess this, we used a quantitative Landscape Heterogeneity Index (LHI), developed for biodiv...

Safeguards for enhancing ecological compensation in Sweden

Koh, N. S., Hahn, T., Ituarte-Lima, C.

2017 - Journal / article

Ecological compensation (EC) is being explored as a policy instrument for the European Union’s ‘No Net Loss of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services’ initiative. EC is commonly associated with the Polluter-Pays Principle, but we propose the Developer-Pays Principle as a more comprehensive principle. Safeguards that are relevant to local and national contexts are needed when addressing social-ecological resilience in the face of ...

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