Our publications are listed here when they are available. We aim to publish articles Open Access whenever possible.
Koloffon Rosas, M. (2025). Partnerships for sustainable development: measuring transformative potential through leverage points. Earth System Governance 25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2025.100265
Wanner, M.S.T., and Miljand, M. 2025. Unlocking the transformative potential of multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development: Assessing perceived effectiveness and contributions to systemic change. World Development 191, 107007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107007
Fast, C., and Widerberg, O. 2025. Governance through goals in action: How multi-stakeholder partnerships translate and connect the SDGs. Earth System Governance. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2025.100238
Koliev, F., and Bäckstrand, K. 2024. Citizen preferences for climate policy implementation: the role of multistakeholder partnerships. Int Environ Agreements.
https://doi-org.ezp.sub.su.se/10.1007/s10784-024-09658-6
De Donà, M., Jönsson, K., & Bexell, M. 2024. Multistakeholder Partnerships and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Sources and Audiences of Self-legitimation in the Fields of Health and Climate. Global Society, 1–22.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2024.2428803
Higham, I., K. Bäckstrand, F. Fritzsche, and F. Koliev. 2024. Multistakeholder Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Promises and Pitfalls. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 49, 475-500.
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-051823-115857
Koliev, F., and K. Bäckstrand. 2024. The Public Legitimacy of Multistakeholder Partnerships in Global Environmental Governance: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Global Environmental Politics 24, 146–169. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00746
Bexell, M. 2024. Indicator Accountability or Policy Shrinking? Multistakeholder Partnerships in Reviews of the Sustainable Development Goals. Global Policy. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13348
Pattberg, P., and K. Bäckstrand. 2023. Enhancing the achievement of the SDGs: lessons learned at the half-way point of the 2030 Agenda. Int Environ Agreements 23, 107–114. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-023-09615-9
Widerberg, O., Fast, C., Koloffon Rosas, M., and P. Pattberg. 2023. Multi-stakeholder partnerships for the SDGs: is the “next generation” fit for purpose?. Int Environ Agreements 23, 165–171. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-023-09606-w
Beisheim, M., and F. Fritzsche. 2022. The UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development: An orchestrator, more or less? Global Policy 13(5): 683-693. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-5899.13112
Beisheim, Marianne, Steven Bernstein, Frank Biermann, Pamela Chasek, Melanie van Driel, Felicitas Fritzche, Carole-Anne Sénit, and Silke Weinlich. 2022. "Global Governance." In The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming Governance through Global Goals?, eds. Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, and Carole-Anne Sénit. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 22–58. Available as open access here.
Bexell, Magdalena. 2022. "Global governance and democracy. Aligning procedural and substantive accounts?." In Routledge Handbook of Democracy and Sustainability, eds. Basil Bornemann, Henrike Knappe, and Patrizia Nanz. Abingdon: Routledge.
Bäckstrand, Karin, Faradj Koliev, and Aysem Mert. 2022. “Governing SDG Partnerships. The Role of Institutional Capacity, Transparency and Inclusion.” In Partnerships and the Sustainable Development Goals, eds. Enda Murphy, Aparajita Banerjee, and Patrick Paul Walsh. Springer Cham.
Fritzche, Felicitas, and Karin Bäckstrand. 2023. Global Diplomacy and Multi-stakeholderism: Does the Promise of the 2030 Agenda Hold? In The Palgrave Handbook of Diplomatic Reform and Innovation, eds. Paul Webster Hare, Juan Luis Manfredi-Sánchez, Kenneth Weisbrode. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 703-729.
Koliev, Faradj, and Karin Bäckstrand. 2022. ”When are SDG Partnerships Transparent? The Determinants of Progress Reporting.” In Partnerships and the Sustainable Development Goals, eds. Enda Murphy, Aparajita Banerjee, and Patrick Paul Walsh. Springer Cham.
Llanos, Andrea O., Rob Raven, Magdalena Bexell, Kristina Jönsson, et al. 2022. "Implementation at Multiple Levels." In The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals. Transforming Governance through Global Goals?, eds. Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, and Carole-Anne Sénit. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 59-91. Available as open access here.
Lead authors: Oscar Widerberg, Cornelia Fast, Montserrat Koloffon, Philipp Pattberg. Contributing authors: Faradj Koliev, Ian Higham, Karin Bäckstrand, Julia van Heese, Essraa Hussein. 2023. Nexus governance for transformative change: Technical report of the Transform 2030 data set. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2eb3i343f6srxp1/R23-03_markdown_technical_report_wp1.pdf?dl=0
https://owiderberg.github.io/T2030-technical-report-html/
Keynote by Prof. Philipp Pattberg
"Governing synergies and trade-offs through aspirational goals? Evidence from multi-stakeholder partnerships implementing SDG13 on Climate Action" by Cornelia Fast
"Roadblocks to effective multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable transformation" by Maximilian S.T. Wanner and M. Miljand
"What is ‘transformation’ for sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda? A systematic literature review" by Montserrat Koloffon Rosas, Maximilian S.T. Wanner, Cornelia Fast, and Matteo de Donà
"Legitimacy Challenges of Business-Led MSPs for the 2030 Agenda" by Matteo de Donà
"Legitimation Through Epistemic Authority: Exploring the Role of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition in the Global Climate Regime" and "Responsible Accountability in the Era of the SDGs? Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in the Field of Global Health" by Matteo de Donà
"Aspirational politics to solve the climate crisis? Empirical evidence on the effects of lofty goals and imaginaries" by Cornelia Fast
"Strategies and challenges to implement SDG13 and its connections: A comparative study of multi-stakeholder partnership responses to a governance-by goals approach" by Cornelia Fast
"Facilitating SDG Synergies through Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships: Does Design matter?" by Montserrat Koloffon Rosas, at
"International institutions and best practices on multi-stakeholder partnerships" by Felicitas Fritzsche, at
"Linking the Sustainable Development Goals: Examining the Alignment of Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Supply and Interaction Governance Demand" by Oscar Widerberg, Cornelia Fast, Montserrat Koloffon Rosas and Philipp Pattberg, at
"Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships’ Potential to Govern Nexuses: Mapping SDG 13 on Climate Change and Its Connections" by Cornelia Fast and Oscar Widerberg, at
"Legitimacy Challenges of Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships for the 2030 Agenda" by Matteo de Donà, Kristina Jönsson and Magdalena Bexell, at
"Transforming Our World through Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships: Factors, mechanisms, and pathways for sustainable development" by Maximilian S.T. Wanner and Matilda Miljand, at
“A Common Baseline for Effectiveness? How Multi-stakeholder Partnerships Address Synergies Between the Sustainable Development Goals” by Cornelia Fast, at
“Transformative Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Towards a Common Conceptual Understanding” by Cornelia Fast, Montserrat Koloffon, Oscar Widerberg, Philipp Pattberg and Eszter Szedlacsek, at
"UN meta-governance for MSPs – fit for transformation?" by Felicitas Fritzsche, at
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