Johanna Coenen is a PhD fellow in the COUPLED project and member of the research group Governance, Participation, and Sustainability at Leuphana University since September 2018. She received a Bachelor degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences with a focus on International Relations and Sustainable Development from University College Maastricht and a Master degree in Political Science with a specialisation in Global Environmental Governance from VU University Amsterdam.

Her research focuses on governance institutions for sustainability in globally telecoupled systems, using the case of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

For details see https://sustainability-governance.net/projects/coupled/

Visit Johanna’s profile at leuphana.de | coupled-itn.eu | ResearchGate | LinkedIn | Google Scholar

Publications 

2022

Busck-Lumholt, L.M., Coenen, J., Persson, J., Frohn Pedersen, A., Mertz, O. & Corbera, E. (2022). Telecoupling as a framework to support a more nuanced understanding of causality in land system science. Journal of Land Use Science. 17(1). 386-406. https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2022.2086640

Cotta, B., Coenen, J., Challies, E., Newig J., Lenschow, A. & Schilling-Vacaflor, A. (2022 – in press). Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems: Mapping the terrain towards an integrated research agenda. Earth System Governance. 13, 100142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2022.100142

Coenen, J., Newig, J., & Meyfroidt, P. (2022 – in press). Environmental governance of a Belt and Road project in Montenegro – National agency and external influences. Land Use Policy. 119, 106136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106136.  

Coenen, J., Glass, L.M., Sanderink, L. (2022). Two degrees and the SDGs: a network analysis of the interlinkages between transnational climate actions and the Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability Science. 17(4). 1489-1510. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01007-9 

2021

Bager, S., Coenen, J., Nielsen, J.Ø., Trommler, K., & Haberl, H. (2021). Governing Land Use Beyond Borders. COUPLED White Paper. Berlin, Germany: COUPLED [non-peer-reviewed]. 

Coenen, J., Bager, S., Meyfroidt, P., Newig, J., & Challies, E. (2021). Environmental Governance of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Environmental Policy and Governance, 31(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1901

Blog posts

Five challenges of leading a co-authored paper and how to overcome them (August, 2022)

The Journal of Cleaner Production tolerates plagiarism (March 2022)

Online visualization tools to communicate research results (April 2021)

Building a green Belt and Road Initiative? First steps on a long road ahead. (August 2020)

Responsible travel in sustainability science: How to overcome our dilemma of studying global connections and the urge to travel less (March 2020)

10 tips for future PhD students: What I have learned in my first year (October 2019)