Sean Goodwin
Former Lab Member
Dr Sean Goodwin is a multidisciplinary researcher with a present research focus on urban climate change adaptation, nature-based solutions, and monitoring and evaluation. His research addresses pressing questions facing communities of research and practice at the intersection of climate change, biodiversity conservation, urban planning and social justice, such as, what does it mean to adapt to climate change “with nature” in cities and how will we know when we are adapting? His work with IMAGINE Adaptation focuses on answering these questions in relation to urban climate change adaptation, where the project has an explicit transdisciplinary focus in working with local actors in cities to improve the way they monitor, evaluate, and learn from their adaptation efforts to advance successful adaptation.
Publications
Transdisciplinarity in climate change adaptation: An agenda for evidence generation
2025 – PLOS Climate
A relational turn in climate change adaptation: Evidence from urban nature-based solutions
2024 – Ambio
Measuring the contribution of nature-based solutions beyond climate adaptation in cities
2024 – Global Environmental Change
Banking on strong rural livelihoods and the sustainable use of natural capital in post-conflict Colombia
2023 – Environment, Development and Sustainability
Global mapping of urban nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation
2023 – Nature Sustainability
The science-policy interface on ecosystems and people: challenges and opportunities
2020 – Ecosystems and People
Values held by Swedish primary school students towards forest ecosystems and the relevance for a nature’s contributions to people approach
2019 – Ecosystems and People