The Schumacher Institute

Recent papers from The Schumacher Institute

1. Evaluating the Quality of Impact Indicators for Community Energy InitiativesSocial and Environmental Accountability Journal · 2026
2. Contemporary and Future Challenges for Structured Democratic DialogueSystems Research and Behavioral Science · 2026
3. Emergent Innovation in Systemic Programme Design: Retrospective Reflections on the Development of a Student‐Centred Masters in Systems ThinkingSystems Research and Behavioral Science · 2026
4. Community energy initiatives as drivers for degrowth? An empirical investigation of their alignment with five imperatives of degrowthJournal of Cleaner Production · 2025
5. Defining marine rewilding can help guide theory and practice in marine conservationCommunications Earth & Environment · 2025
6. Festschrift for Mike JacksonSystems Research and Behavioral Science · 2025
7. A Comparison of Four New Automated Tests for Telephone TelepathyJournal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition · 2024
8. Mitigating Contaminant-Driven Risks for the Safe Expansion of the Agricultural─Sanitation Circular Economy in an Urbanizing WorldACS ES&T Water · 2024
9. Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: A viable system model board gameEuropean Journal of Operational Research · 2023
10. Challenging the food waste hierarchyJournal of Environmental Management · 2023
11. Testing Food Waste Reduction Targets: Integrating Transition Scenarios with Macro-Valuation in an Urban Living LabSustainability · 2023
12. Comparing Societal Impact Planning and Evaluation Approaches across Four Urban Living Labs (in Food-Energy-Water Systems)Sustainability · 2023
13. The Systemic Intervention ApproachJournal of Systems Thinking · 2023
14. The Four Waves of Systems ThinkingJournal of Systems Thinking · 2023
15. Business models of energy cooperatives active in the PV sector—A statistical analysis for GermanyPLOS Sustainability and Transformation · 2022
16. The Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh: an analysis of the involvement of local humanitarian actorsThird World Quarterly · 2022
17. The Development of Citizen-Installed Renewable Energy Capacities in Former Eastern Bloc Countries—The Case of PolandEnergies · 2022
18. FAIR Metadata Standards for Low Carbon Energy Research—A Review of Practices and How to AdvanceEnergies · 2021
19. Evaluating process-based integrated assessment models of climate change mitigationClimatic Change · 2021
20. The Contribution of Energy Communities to the Upscaling of Photovoltaics in Germany and ItalyEnergies · 2021