Dr.
Stefan Partelow

2018

Ph.D., Political Science, Jacobs University           

2014

Master of Science, Environmental Studies & Sustainability Science, Lund University

2009

Bachelor of Arts, Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA

Since 2023

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Life Ethics, University of Bonn        

2020 - 2022

Research fellow, Bosch Postdoctoral Academy for Transformational Leadership

Since 2019

Co-founder/ co-host, In Common Podcast

2018 - 2022

Postdoctoral researcher, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)

2015 - 2018

Ph.D. researcher, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZM7)

2014

Researcher, Greenpeace International

2011 - 2012

Research assistant, Heal the Bay, Los Angeles, USA

• 2023 OA Partelow, S., Hornidge, A-K., Hadjimichael, M. (Eds.) Ocean Governance: Knowledge systems, policy foundations and thematic analyses. Springer, MARE Series. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031207396

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• Partelow S, Villamayor-Tomas S, Eisenack K, Epstein G, Kellner E, Roggero M,  Tschopp M. A meta-analysis of SES framework case studies: identifying dyad and triad archetypes. People and Nature. 2004. doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10630.
   
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  2023 OA Cox, M. Harrison, H. Partelow, S. Curtis, S. et al. How can academic podcasting change academia and its relationship with society? A conversation and guide. Frontiers in Communication. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1090112
• 2023 OA Partelow, S. What is a framework? Reflections on their purpose, challenges, development and use. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-023-00833-w
• 2023 OA Eufemia, L. Wawrzynowicz, I. Bonatti, M. Partelow, S. Fischer, J. Sieber, S. Governing Landscapes: An Agenda for the Assessment of Grasslands and Savannahs. Frontiers in Sustainable Resource Management. 10.3389/fsrma.2023.1134393
• 2023 OA Partelow, S; Nagel, B; Paramita, A.O. Buhari, N. Seafood consumption changes and COVID-19 impact index in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Plos One. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0280134
• 2022 OA Stäbler, M; Letschert, J; Fujitani, M; Partelow, S. Fish grabbing: weak governance and productive waters are targets for distant water fishing. Plos One. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278481
• 2023 OA Manlosa, A. Partelow, S. Reichers, M. Jiren, T. Paramita, AO. The role of institutions in food system transformations: lessons learned from transdisciplinary engagements in Ethiopia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Ecosystems and People. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2022.2146753
• 2022 OA Nagel, B; Partelow, S. A methodological guide for applying the SES framework: a review of quantitative approaches. Ecology and Society. https://ecologyandsociety.org/vol27/iss4/art39/
• 2022 OA Partelow, S; Fujitani, M; Robbe, D; Williams, S; Saputra, RA. Disaster impacts, resilience, and sustainability opportunities for Gili Trawangan, Indonesia: transdisciplinary reflections following COVID-19. Disasters. doi:10.1111/disa.12554
• 2022 OA Partelow, S; Manlosa, AO. Commoning the governance: a review of literature and the integration of power. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01191-2
• 2021 OA Eider, D; Partelow, S; Albrecht, S; Adrianto, L; Kluger, L. SCUBA tourism and coral reefs: a social-ecological network analysis of governance challenges in Indonesia. Current Issues in Tourism. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2021.2006612
• 2021 OA Partelow, S. Schlüter, A; Manlosa, A; Nagel, B; Paramita, A.O. Governing aquaculture commons. Reviews in Aquaculture. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/raq.12622
• 2021 OA Partelow, S; Jäger, A; Schlüter, A. The role of perceptions in environmental governance: Linking the social-ecological systems framework with perception categories in a Costa Rican fishery. Human Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-021-00228-x
• 2021 OA Nelson, K; Partelow, S; Stäbler, M; Graci, S; Fujitani, M. Tourist acceptance of price premiums for local green hotel certification. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0245953
• 2021 Murunga, M; Partelow, S; Breckwoldt, A. Drivers of collective action and role of conflict in Kenyan fisheries co-management. World Development. 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105413
• 2021 OA Nelson, K; Bauer, M; Partelow, S. Informational nudges to encourage pro-environmental behavior: examining differences in message framing and human interaction. Frontiers in Communication. 10.3389/fcomm.2020.610186
• 2020 OA Partelow, S; Schlüter, A; Sousa, L; Le Tessier, M; Vaidianu, N; Pittman, J; Armitage, D; Carlisle, K; Gruby, R; Song, A; van Assche, K; Hornidge, A-K; Bavinck, M. Environmental governance theories: a review and application to coastal systems. Ecology & Society https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss4/art19/
• 2020 OA Partelow, S. Social capital and community disaster resilience: Post-earthquake tourism recovery on Gili Trawangan, Indonesia. Sustainability Science.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00854-2
• 2020 OA Schlüter, A; Bavinck, M; Hadjimichael, M; Partelow, S; Ertör, I; Hornidge, A-K; Maas, F; Said, A; Unger, S. Broadening the perspective on ocean privatization. Ecology & Society. https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss3/art20/
• 2020 Villamayor-Tomás, S; Cox, M; Epstein, G; Kellner, E; Oberlack, C; Partelow, S; Rogerro, M; Tschopp, M. Using case study data to understand SES interactions: a model-centered meta-analysis of SES Framework applications. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2020.05.002
• 2020 OA Barnett, A.J., Partelow, S, Frey, U, García-Lozano, A., Mancha-Cisneros, M.d.M., Oberlack, C., Ratajczyk, E., Smith, H., Villamayor-Tomás, S., Whitney, C.K. Defining success in the commons: addressing problem orientations, multidimensionality, norms, and tradeoffs. International Journal of the Commons. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.994
• 2020 OA Partelow, S; Winkler, KJ; Thaler, G. Environmental non-governmental organizations and global environmental discourse. PLoS ONE 15 (5): e0232945. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0232945
• 2020 Partelow, S; Seara, T; Pollnac, R; Ruiz, V. Job satisfaction in small-scale fisheries: Comparing differences between Costa Rica, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Marine Policy. 117(103949) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.103949
• 2020 OA Partelow, S; Hornidge, A-K; Senff, P; Stäbler, M; Schlüter, A. Tropical marine sciences: Knowledge production in a web of path dependencies. PLOS One. 15(2): e0228613. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228613
• 2019 OA Partelow, S; Abson, D; Schlüter, A; von Wehrden, H; Fernandez-Gimenez, M; Collier, N. Privatizing the commons: New approaches need broader evaluative criteria for sustainability. Intl Journal of the Commons. 13: 706–747. http://doi:10.18352/ijc.777
•  2019 OA Chavez, I; Partelow, S; Schlüter, A. Do responsible fishing areas work? Comparing collective action challenges in three small-scale fisheries in Costa Rica. Intl Journal of the Commons 13: 748–777. http://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.923
• 2019 Nelson, K; Partelow, S; Schlüter, A; Vance, C.  Nudging tourists to donate for conservation: Experimental evidence on soliciting voluntary contributions for coastal management. Journal of Environmental Management. 237: 30-43.
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• 2019 OA Partelow, S; Fujitani, M; Soundararajan, V; Schlüter, S. Transforming a social-ecological systems framework into a participatory management and stakeholder deliberation tool. Ecology and Society 24(1):15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10724-240115
• 2018 OA Partelow, S. A review of the social-ecological systems (SES) framework: Applications, methods, modifications and challenges. Ecology & Society 23(4):36. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10594-230436
• 2018 OA Partelow, S; Solano, S; Glaser, M; Schlüter, A. Mangroves, fishers and the struggle for adaptive co-management: Applying the social-ecological systems framework to a Marine Extractive Reserve (RESEX) in Brazil. Ecology & Society.
• https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10269-230319
• 2018 Partelow, S; Nelson, K. Social networks, collective action and the evolution of governance for sustainable tourism on the Gili Islands, Indonesia. Marine Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.08.004
• 2018 Senff, P; Partelow, S; Indriana, L; Buhari, N; Kunzmann, A.  Improving Pond Aquaculture Production on Lombok, Indonesia. Aquaculture. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2018.07.027 
• 2018 OA Partelow, S; Senff, P; Schlüter, A; Buhari, N. Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework to pond aquaculture. International Journal of the Commons (12) 1. 485-518. https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.18352/ijc.834/
• 2017 OA Partelow, S; Schlüter, A; von Wehrden, H; Janig, M; Senff, S. A sustainability agenda for tropical marine science. Conservation Letters. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/conl.12351
• 2016 OA Partelow, S; Winkler, K.J. Interlinking ecosystem services and Ostrom’s framework through orientation in sustainability research. Ecology & Society (21). http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08524-210327
• 2016 Partelow, S. Coevolving Ostrom’s social–ecological systems (SES) framework and sustainability science: four key co-benefits. Sustainability Science(11),399–410. doi:10.1007/s11625-015-0351-3
• 2015 Partelow, S; Boda, C. A modified diagnostic social-ecological system framework for lobster fisheries: Case implementation and sustainability assessment in Southern California. Ocean & Coastal Management. 114, 204–217. doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2015.06.022
• 2015 Partelow, S; von Wehrden, H; Horn, O. Pollution exposure on marine protected areas: A global assessment. Marine Pollution Bulletin. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.08.026
• 2015 Partelow, S. Key steps for operationalizing social–ecological system framework research in small-scale fisheries: A heuristic conceptual approach. Marine Policy (51) 507–511. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2014.09.005
• 2015 Partelow, S., Luederitz, C., Brink, E., Gralla, F., Hermelingermeier, V., Meyer, M., Niven, L., Panzer, L., Rau, A.-L., Sasaki, R., Abson, D.J., Lang, D.J., Wamsler, C., von Wehrden, H. A review of urban ecosystem services: six key challenges for future research. Ecosystem Services (14) 98–112. doi:10.1016/S0921-8009(99)00013-0

• In-press Partelow, S. Social capital in governance and sustainable development. Encyclopedia of Planning & Design. E. Elgar. Editor: van Assche, K.
• 2023 OA Hornidge, A-K. Partelow, S. Knopf, K. Knowing the Ocean: Epistemic Inequalities in Patterns of Science Collaboration. In: Ocean Governance: Knowledge systems, Policy foundations and Thematic analyses. (eds Partelow, Hadjimichael, Hornidge). Springer MARE.
• 2023 OA Partelow, S. Hadjimichael, M. Hornidge, A-K. Ocean Governance for Sustainability Transformation. In: Ocean Governance: Knowledge systems, Policy foundations and Thematic analyses. (eds Partelow, Hadjimichael, Hornidge). Springer MARE.
• 2020 Partelow, S. Analyzing natural resource governance with the social-ecological systems framework. (Chapter 4 in Governing renewable natural resources: Theories and frameworks, Routledge, Editor: Fiona Nunan)
• 2019 Schlüter, A. Partelow, S. Torres, LE. Jennerjahn, T. Coastal commons as social-ecological systems. (Chapter 14 in The Commons Handbook, Routledge, Editors: Hudson, B; Cole, D; Rosenbloom, J.)

• 2018 Schlüter, A. Partelow, S. Fujitani, M. Coastal Systems in Transition: From a “natural” to an “anthropogenically-modified” state. Ocean and Coastal Management (Editorial to special issue). 162. 1-5. 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.05.001

• 2020 Book review of Private Oceans: The Enclosure and Marketisation of the Seas, By Fiona McCormack, London, Pluto Press, 2017, 184 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7453-9910-2. Published in Journal of Maritime Research.

• 2018 Partelow, S. Finding sustainability: Advancing multiple methods to apply the social-ecological systems framework. Jacobs University. Bremen, Germany. https://opus.jacobs-university.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/811