
Jens Christiansen
Postdoctoral fellow

Jens Christiansen joined Lund Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) in 2024 as a postdoctoral researcher in ecological economics and is part of the Mistra Biopath research project. As part of Mistra Biopath, Jens conducts research on the intersections between finance and the natural environment in an age of mass extinction. How, in other words, do financial institutions respond to extinction risk and which financial innovations emerge in an attempt to mitigate ecosystem degradation? In researching these questions, Jens has covered several empirical issues and financial instruments, including ecosystem-based insurance and adaptation, thematic bond issuances, development finance and the role of the state. Jens holds a PhD in Economic Geography from Lancaster Environment Centre, which focused on environmental finance in ocean economies.
Publications
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The war on ‘woke’: anti-ESG investing and research directions in financial geography
Jens Christiansen, Dan Cohen, Melissa García-Lamarca, Emily Rosenman, Bregje van Veelen
(2025) Finance and Space, 2 p.474-482
Journal articleDeveloping methods for future-gazing economic geographies
Guy Crawford, Jens Christiansen, Fernanda Rojas-Marchini
(2025) Environment and Planning A
Journal articleOff the charts? : Reasons to be skeptical of the growth in biodiversity finance
Jens Christiansen, Audrey Irvine-Broque, Jessica Dempsey, Sara Nelson, Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza, et al.
(2025) Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 75
Journal articleValue capture amidst crisis? A geographical political economy perspective on value chain resilience
Jens Christiansen
(2025) Progress in Human Geography
Journal articleState capacity and the ‘value’ of sustainable finance : Understanding the state-mediated rent and value production through the Seychelles Blue Bonds
Jens Christiansen
(2024) Environment and Planning A, 56
Journal articleBiodiversity targets will not be met without debt and tax justice
Jessica Dempsey, Audrey Irvine-Broque, Patrick Bigger, Jens Christiansen, Bhumika Muchhala, et al.
(2022) Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6 p.237-239
Journal articleFixing fictions through blended finance : The entrepreneurial ensemble and risk interpretation in the Blue Economy
Jens Christiansen
(2021) Geoforum, 120 p.93-102
Journal articleSecuring the sea : ecosystem-based adaptation and the biopolitics of insuring nature’s rents
Jens Christiansen
(2021) Journal of Political Ecology, 28 p.337-357
Journal articleBeyond the gap : placing biodiversity finance in the global economy
Patrick Bigger, Jessica Dempsey, Fernanda Rojas-Marchini, Jens Christiansen, Audrey Irvine-Broque, et al.
(2021)
ReportThin and shallow : Financial instruments for biodiversity conservation and their outlook
Jessica Dempsey, Audrey Irvine-Broque, Jens Christiansen, Patrick Bigger
(2021)
ReportNordic fisheries in transition : Future challenges to management and recruitment
Jeppe Høst, Jens Christiansen
(2019)
ReportRiding the Waves of the Blue Economy : Implications for Impact Investors
Jens Christiansen, Marleen Schutter
(2019) The Journal of Environmental Investing, 9
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