1. Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals
Tobin, Paul; Huitema, Dave; Kellner, Elke (accepted): The empirical realities of Polycentric Climate Governance: Introduction to the Special Issue. In Global Environmental Politics.
Kellner, Elke; Petrovics, Daniel; Huitema, Dave (accepted): Polycentric climate governance: The state, local action, democratic preferences, and power – emerging insights and a research agenda. In Global Environmental Politics.
Partelow, Stefan; Villamayor‐Tomas, Sergio; Eisenack, Klaus; Epstein, Graham; Kellner, Elke; Roggero, Matteo; Tschopp, Maurice (2024): A meta‐analysis of SES framework case studies: Identifying dyad and triad archetypes. In People and Nature. DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10630.
Martin, Dominic A.; Pham-Truffert, Myriam; Gillham, Lara; Andriamihaja, Onintsoa Ravaka; Andriatsitohaina, R. Ntsiva N.; Diebold, Clara L.; Fulgence, Thio Rosin; Kellner, Elke; Llopis, Jorge C.; Messerli, Pete; Rakotomalala, Anjaharinony A. N. A.; Raveloaritiana, Estelle; Wurz, Annemarie; Zaehringer, Julie G.; Heinimann, Andreas (2024): Interactive visual syntheses for social-ecological systems understanding. Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, 6, 18637. DOI: 10.18174/sesmo.18637.
Baldwin, Elizabeth; Thiel, Andreas; McGinnis, Michael D.; Kellner, Elke (2023): Empirical research on polycentric governance: Critical gaps and a framework for studying long-term change. In Policy Studies Journal, Article psj.12518, pp. 1–30. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12518.
Kellner, Elke; Martin, Dominic A. (2023): Learning from past coevolutionary processes to envision sustainable futures: Extending an action situations approach to the Water-Energy-Food nexus. In Earth System Governance 15, p. 100168. DOI: 10.1016/j.esg.2023.100168.
Kimmich, Christian; Ehlers, Melf-Hinrich; Kellner, Elke; Oberlack, Christoph; Thiel, Andreas; Villamayor-Tomas, Sergio (2023): Networks of action situations in social–ecological systems: current approaches and promising futures. In Sustainability Science. DOI: 10.1007/s11625-022-01278-w.
Kellner, Elke (2023): Identifying leverage points for shifting Water-Energy-Food nexus cases towards sustainability through the Networks of Action Situations approach combined with systems thinking. In: Sustainability Science. 1170. DOI: 10.1007/s11625-022-01170-7.
Kimmich, Christian; Villamayor-Tomas, Sergio; Kellner, Elke; Baldwin, B. Elizabeth; Oberlack, Christoph (2023): Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research. Review. In: Sustainability Science. DOI: 10.1007/s11625-022-01121-2.
Hughes, Alice C.; Tougeron, Kévin; Martin, Dominic A.; Menga, Filippo; Rosado, Bruno H.P.; Villasante, Sebastian; Madgulkar, Shweta; Gonçalves, Fernando; Geneletti, Davide; Diele-Viegas, Luisa Maria; Berger, Sebastian; Colla, Sheila R.; Andrade Kamimura, Vitor de; Caggiano, Holly; Melo, Felipe; Oliveira Dias, Marcelo Guilherme de; Kellner, Elke; do Couto, Edivando Vitor (2023): Smaller human populations are still not a necessary condition for biodiversity conservation: A response to Cafaro et al. (2023). In Biological Conservation, p. 110053. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110053.
Hughes, Alice C.; Tougeron, Kévin; Martin, Dominic A.; Menga, Filippo; Rosado, Bruno H.P.; Villasante, Sebastian; Madgulkar, Shweta; Gonçalves, Fernando; Geneletti, Davide; Diele-Viegas, Luisa Maria; Berger, Sebastian; Colla, Sheila R.; Andrade Kamimura, Vitor de; Caggiano, Holly; Melo, Felipe; Oliveira Dias, Marcelo Guilherme de; Kellner, Elke; do Couto, Edivando Vitor (2023): Smaller human populations are neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for biodiversity conservation. In Biological Conservation 277, p. 109841. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109841.
Khan, Zarrar; XX; Kellner, Elke; XX (67 co-authors) (2022): Emerging themes and future directions of multi-sector nexus research and implementation”. Perspective. In: Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10, Article 918085. DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.918085.
Kellner, Elke (2021): The controversial debate on the role of water reservoirs in reducing water scarcity. In WIREs Water, e1514. DOI: 10.1002/WAT2.1514.
Kellner, Elke; Brunner, Manuela I. (2021): Reservoir governance in world’s water towers needs to anticipate multi-purpose use. In Earth’s Future 9, e2020EF001643. DOI: 10.1029/2020EF001643.
Villamayor-Tomas, Sergio; Oberlack, Christoph; Epstein, Graham; Roggero, Matteo; Partelow, Stefan; Kellner, Elke; Tschopp, Maurice; Cox, Michael (2020): Using case study data to understand SES interactions: a model-centered metaanalysis of SES Framework applications. In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 44, pp. 48–57. DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2020.05.002.
Kimmich, Christian; Ehlers, Melf-Hinrich; Kellner, Elke; Oberlack, Christoph; Thiel, Andreas; Villamayor-Tomas, Sergio (2020): Networks of action situations in social-ecological systems research. In: Sustainability Science. 90, p. 150. DOI: 10.1007/s11625-020-00814-w.
Kellner, Elke; Oberlack, Christoph; Gerber, Jean-David (2019): Polycentric governance compensates for incoherence of resource regimes: The case of water uses under climate change in Oberhasli, Switzerland. In: Environmental Science & Policy 100, pp. 126–135. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2019.06.008.
Kellner, Elke (2019): Social acceptance of a multi-purpose reservoir in a recently deglaciated landscape in the Swiss Alps. In: Sustainability 11 (14), p. 3819. DOI: 10.3390/su11143819.
Kellner, Elke (2019): Soziale Akzeptanz der Talsperre Trift in den Schweizer Alpen. In: Wasserwirtschaft 109 (5), pp. 26–29. DOI: 10.1007/s35147-019-0033-7.
Special Issue (editor)
Tobin, Paul; Kellner, Elke; Huitema, Dave (forthcoming): The complex empirical realities of polycentric climate governance. Special Issue in Global Environmental Politics.
Kimmich, Christian; Ehlers, Melf-Hinrich; Kellner, Elke; Oberlack, Christoph; Thiel, Andreas; Villamayor-Tomas, Sergio (2023): Networks of action situations in social-ecological systems research. Special Feature in Sustainability Science.
2. Contributions to books
Kellner, Elke (2020): Mehrzweckspeicher zur Minderung von Wasserknappheit im Sommer. In: Emmanuel Reynard ; Dubois, Alan ; Borgeat Theler, Muriel (Eds.): Le Rhône. Territoire, ressource et culture: Cahiers de Vallesia. Sion (33rd ed., 177-184).
3. Peer-reviewed conference proceedings
Kellner, Elke; Brunner, Manuela I.; Björnsen Gurung, Astrid; Stähli, Manfred (2019): Verhandelbar? Neue Ansprüche an Schweizer Wasserspeicher. pp. 37-40. In: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL (Hg.): Schweiz erneuerbar. Birmensdorf, Switzerland (WSL Berichte, 84).
Kellner, Elke (2019): Factsheet: Multipurpose use of water and related management implications under a changing climate in high-mountain regions. In Yvonne Schaub, Alain Foehn, Javier Fluixá Sanmartín, Lucía Guardamino Soto (Eds.): Multipurpose use of water and related management implications under a changing climate in high-mountain regions, pp. 72–73.
Björnsen Gurung, Astrid; Brunner, Manuela; Stähli, Manfred; Kellner, Elke; Clivaz, Melanie; Reynard, Emmanuel et al. (2018): Alpine multi-purpose reservoirs: Future potential and relevance. In Leopold Füreder, Rolf Weingartner, Kati Heinrich, Valerie Braun, Günter Köck, Klaus Lanz, Thomas Scheurer (Eds.): Alpine water – common good or source of conflicts? Proceedings of the ForumAlpinum 2018 and the 7th Water Conference. Breitenwand (Austria): Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, pp. 77–78.
Kellner, Elke; Oberlack, Christoph; Gerber, Jean-David (2018): Evolving polycentric climate governance: the Evolving polycentric climate governance: the case of multi-functional water use in Oberhasli, Switzerland. In Leopold Füreder, Rolf Weingartner, Kati Heinrich, Valerie Braun, Günter Köck, Klaus Lanz, Thomas Scheurer (Eds.): Alpine water – common good or source of conflicts? Proceedings of the ForumAlpinum 2018 and the 7th Water Conference. Breitenwand (Austria): Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, p. 79.
4. Publications in not peer-reviewed journals and reports
Newig, Jens; Rose, Michael; Aksoy, Zühre; Beaudoin, Simon; Bolognesi, Thomas; Fritsch, Oliver; Hegger, Dries L.T.; Hoffmann, Benjamin; Jager, Nicolas; Kellner, Elke; Leipold, Sina; Persson, Åsa; Runhaar, Hens A. C.; Webb, Bob (2022): To assess progress in the social sciences, we should study knowledge cumulation, not disruptiveness. In SSRN Journal. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4445549.
Steeb, Nicolas; Badoux, Alexandre; Bialek, Roland; Bogner, Konrad; Hug Peter, Dorothea; Kellner, Elke Lienert, Christophe; Willemse, Saskia; Zappa, Massimiliano; Stähli, Manfred (2022): Vorhersage und Warnung von Unwettern in der Schweiz: Das Zusammenwirken von Bund und Kantonen anhand von zwei Fallbeispielen im Jahr 2020. In Wasser Energie Luft 114 (2), pp. 98–104.
Steeb, Nicolas; Badoux, Alexandre; Kellner, Elke; Bogner, Konrad; Hug Peter, Dorothea; Zappa, Massimiliano; Stähli, Manfred (2021): Analyse der Vorhersage und Warnkette anhand von zwei Unwetterereignissen im Jahr 2020. Starkniederschlagsereignisse vom 28. – 31. August und 1.-3. Oktober 2020. Edited by Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee, und Landschaft WSL. Birmensdorf, Schweiz, pp 51.
Kellner, Elke; Stähli, Manfred; Unterberger, Christian; Olschewski, Roland; Thür, Angela; Björnsen Gurung, Astrid (2021): Herausforderungen der Governance sowie der ökologischen, landschaftlichen und ökonomischen Auswirkungen von Mehrzweckspeichern. Hydro-CH2018 Projekt. Im Auftrag des Bundesamts für Umwelt (BAFU), Bern, Schweiz, 82 S. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4680488.
Kellner, Elke; Weingartner, Rolf (2018): Chancen und Herausforderungen von Mehrzweckspeichern als Anpassung an den Klimawandel. In: Wasser Energie Luft 110 (2), pp. 101–107.
Kellner, Elke (2017): Evaluation der Sachplanung des Bundes. Bericht des Bundesrates in Erfüllung des Postulats 13.3461, Albert Vitali, vom 18.06.2013. Edited by Schweizerischer Bundesrat. Bundesamt für Raumentwicklung (ARE). Bern, Switzerland, pp 29.
Kellner, Elke; Dubas, Daniel (2016): Bericht zur Umsetzung der Strategie Nachhaltige Entwicklung 2012-2015. Edited by Bundesamt für Raumentwicklung (ARE). Bern, Switzerland, pp 19.
Kellner, Elke; Berger, Till; Dubas, Daniel (2015): Synthesebericht Stakeholder-Dialog. Im Rahmen der Erarbeitung der Strategie Nachhaltige Entwicklung 2016-2019. Edited by Bundesamt für Raumentwicklung (ARE). Bern, Switzerland, pp 81.
5. Theses
Kellner, Elke (2019): Multi-purpose reservoirs for alleviating water shortages: Opportunities and challenges in the governance processes to coordinate competing resource uses under climate change. PhD dissertation. Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research. University of Bern, CH.
Kellner, Elke (2015): Möglichkeiten der Beeinflussung des Entscheidungsverhaltens bei ethischem Konsum am Beispiel Kaffee. BSc thesis. Sustainable Development. University of Bern, CH.
Kellner, Elke (1997): Characterization of two essential yeast proteins, Mrs5p and Mrs11p, in the mitochondrial intermembrane space. MSc thesis. Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH.