Stockholm Resilience Centre
Annual Report 2012

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Stockholm Resilience Centre Annual Report 2012
printed by Universitetsservice AB, 2013edited by Sturle Hauge Simonsen
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addess Stockholm Resilience Centre,
Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Stockholm Resiliance Centre Annual Report 2012
Chair’s preface_______________________________________4
Directors’ view_______________________________________5
Elinor Ostrom: a true pioneer_________________________7
Research framework and highlights___________________8
Scientific publications______________________________ 12
Highlights of projects and collaborations_____________ 18
Policy and practice_________________________________ 22
Seminars and events_______________________________ 30
Education__________________________________________ 34
Appendices________________________________________ 36

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Chair’s preface

Professor Arild
Underdal,Chair of the Board

The Stockholm Resilience Centre (src)
not only advances sustainability science and solutions, it also stands as a significant experimentin how universities can pursue interdisciplinary
research across disciplines and faculties, whilestill attracting young scholars, providing goodcareer pathways and generating good academic
results in science and education. Similar efforts atuniversities around the world of setting up “sustainability centres” are often virtual institutions,with a small coordinating unit surrounded by awide network of scientists based at the disciplinary “home” departments.
The Stockholm Resilience Centre is anattempt of applying a different strategy. Here theidea of Mistra, the core funder of the centre, wasto invest in a critical mass of scientists from thenatural and social sciences who would operate
under one roof in a common organization withthe aim of creating a new research environment
for the advancement of integrated sustainability
science. To mark the cross-faculty character ofthe centre and to stimulate a truly interdisciplinary evolution, the centre was placed outside of
the faculty structure.
This placement has had its pros-and-cons,and in 2012 a decision was taken to move the
SRC inside the Stockholm University structure.
With the support of the university leadership andthe university board, this move has now been
made in a way that provides excellent opportunities for SRC to continue, just as before, topursue cross-faculty research and education in
the pursuit of integrated sustainability research.
From 1 January 2013 the SRC is part of the Faculty of Science at the university. It will maintainall its organizational structures, from an international governing board to the ability to recruit

This organizationaltransition has
occurred during a year
when the centre has
also been preparing
for its large external
evaluation.
Arild Underdal

scientific staff and students from all disciplines.
At the same time SRC can now contribute more
actively to the development of interdisciplinary
research and education at the university.
This organizational transition has occurred
during a year when the centre has also been preparing for its large external evaluation. The original Mistra decision to support the SRC consistedof a start-up phase (2007–2009), after which thecentre was evaluated by Professor William C.
Clark at Harvard University. After this followed
the first ordinary phase of support (2010–2013).
To secure a 2nd phase in line with the originaldecision, the SRC will now go through an international evaluation to qualify for core support
from Mistra for the period 2014–2018. Some ofthe highlights from the SRC’s achievements from2007–2012, which will form a basis for thisevaluation, are presented in this annual report.
The full progress report for 2007–2012 will beavailable on the SRC’s website.
Professor Arild Underdal,
Chair of the Board

Vision & Mission
The vision of the Stockholm Resilience Centre is a world where social-ecological systems
are understood, governed and managed, to enhance human well-being and the capacity
to deal with complexity and change, for the sustainable co-evolution of human civilizations with the biosphere.
The mission of Stockholm Resilience Centre is to advance research for governanceand management of social-ecological systems to secure ecosystem services for humanwell-being and resilience for long-term sustainability. We apply and further develop thescientific advancements of this research within practice, policy and academic training.

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Directors’ view
We apply a social-ecological systems approach and resilience thinking in our research. A
diversity of theories and methods from different
disciplines are applied to solve complex problems
and advance new insights. This requires inter-disciplinary learning from natural sciences, social
sciences and the humanities, and transdisciplinary
approaches through co-production of knowledge
with practitioners and other stakeholders.
Over the years we have gradually refined
this framework. We depart from the strategicrole of advancing new knowledge on biospherestewardship and innovation in the Anthropocene,with a strong emphasis on ecosystem services
and human well-being. We see nature and society
as truly interdependent, complex and adaptivesocial-ecological systems, subject to cross-scaleand dynamic interactions. Three challenges are ofparticular interest in our work:(i) the existence ofpotential thresholds and regime shifts and what
they imply for societies, (ii) the adaptive capacity
to deal with rising uncertainty and surprise, (iii)the capacity, in situations of crisis, to ensure thatsocial-ecological systems can sustain and enhance
ecosystem services and human well-being.
Our scientific approach has, we believe, served
us well. The results of our scientific achievementsfrom 2007-2012 reveals, encouragingly, relevanceand impact, with 525 publications in scientificjournals and books.
We also place a strong emphasis on creating aseamless continuum between research, teaching
and training, dialogues and communication,
administration and working environment.
In 2012, we applied some resilience thinking
to our own organization as we went through theimportant process of clarifying our placement
within Stockholm University (see Chair’s View).
We also started preparing our long-term action
plan with regards to funding and strategic directions. Our group of senior research and teaching
staff continues to grow, with five full professors
and eight docents (associate professors) as of early
2013. The middle of 2012 also marked the point
when Johan Rockström stepped down as head of
SEI to engage full-time as Director of the centre.
Our integration into the Science Faculty from
1 January 2013 also included two importantdevelopments in our institutional set-up. The firstis that the Natural Resource Management (NRM)
group at the Department of Systems Ecology,
which has been collaborating closely with us over
the years, has formally become a part of the centre
from 1 January 2013. This will not only boost our
staff but also complete our research school with
our own PhD education in Sustainability Science.
We are very proud and excited to welcome all our
NRM colleagues to the SRC!
Furthermore, after six years together, a largepart of the Baltic Nest modeling team (BNI)
moved out from SRC to help form the new Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre. This centre is
an important integration of scientific strength at
the university, and we wish our colleagues the bestof luck in this new endeavour!
Overall, 2012 was about building our own
institutional resilience and defining our researchchallenges and priorities for the coming years.
Given the continued recognition of resilience
thinking, we look forward to continue being aprovider of knowledge for change at the frontierof sustainability thinking.

Our funders
Since the launch of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the support from our funders has been a determining factor
for our success. We would like to express our gratitude to the following funders that have supported the centre:

In edition to Stiftelsen Futura and Ebba och Sven Schwartz stiftelse

Johan Rockström,
Centre director

Carl Folke,
Science director

Olof Olsson,
Deputy director

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A true pioneer
In 2012, the world lost one of the most inspirational and important
individuals for the development of social-ecological research. Elinor
Ostrom died 12 June from pancreatic cancer at the age of 78 years
Ostrom taught the world that the commons is not sucha tragic place after all. She countered the conventional wisdom that only private ownership or top-down regulation
could prevent ”the tragedy of the commons,” a scenario
where users would inevitably destroy the resources thatthey held in common.
Through an interdisciplinary approach that combined
theory, field studies and laboratory experiments, “Lin”, as
she was called among friends and colleagues, showed thatpeople are capable of creating rules and institutions thatallow for the sustainable and equitable management ofshared resources.
“Pioneers always have a hard time with the conventional. Lin struggled without losing vision or focus, tirelessly
and with deep commitment. She was incredibly impressivein breaking through many barriers on her way to a remarkable set of life achievements,” said centre scientific director
Carl Folke.

Curious till the end
Ostrom was always open for new findings and new thinking. She was deeply engaged in research on social-ecological systems and resilience thinking. She was excitedabout learning and rethinking earlier views, and expand
frameworks and understanding across the sciences. It wasnever about defending turf but all about collaboration.
At Indiana University, she was senior research directorof the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political
Theory and Policy Analysis, Distinguished Professor andArthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science in theCollege of Arts and Sciences, and professor in the School of
Public and Environmental Affairs.
Ostrom provided groundbreaking insights on sustainable collective action, ranging from the institutional dimensions of sustainability to the effectiveness of urban police­departments. She was instrumental in the development of
the International Association for the Study of the Commons, and her work on common pool resource management has been truly influential with the well-known 1990
book Governing the Commons: the Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action.
As the first woman ever, Professor Elinor Ostrom
received the 2009 Prize in Economic Sciences in memoryof Alfred Nobel ”for her analysis of economic governance,
especially the commons” and groundbreaking research on
how people organize themselves to manage resources.

An intellectual sharpness
In April 2012, she was among Time magazine’s annual listof the 100 most influential people in the world. She wasa member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
the US National Academy of Sciences and the American
Philosophical Society.
“Lin’s cooperative spirit and enthusiasm, and her intellectual sharpness combined with curiosity and excitement
about new ideas was simply unique. She inspired, interacted
and collaborated with numerous colleagues throughout theworld and her true interest and engagement with young
people supporting their pathways was exemplary,” Carl
Folke said.
She received numerous international awards, including
honorary doctorates from universities in India, France,
Germany, Sweden, Canada, the Netherlands, Switzerland,
Norway and the United States. She served on the editorial
boards of more than two dozen academic journals and is
the author of hundreds of articles and chapters and morethan two dozen books.
Her imprint will continue to inspire, influence and guideresearchers and decision-makers worldwide.

Lin’s cooperative spirit
and enthusiasm, and her
intellectual sharpness
combined with curiosity andexcitement about new ideas
was simply unique.
Carl FolkE centre scientific director

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Our research framework
The core focus of the Stockholm Resilience Centre is to advanceresearch on the frontier of sustainability science, applying asocial-ecological approach and resilience thinking

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The SRC’s research efforts are thematically organized (see figure). The six themes, Regime shifts and their implications
in social-ecological systems, Multilevel
and adaptive governance, learning andtransformation (“Stewardship” in the
figure), Global dynamics and cross-level
dynamics in the Anthropocene, Urbansocial-ecological systems, Water, foodand ecosystem services in social-ecological landscapes (“Landscapes”), andCoastal and marine social-ecologicalsystems (“Marine”) are broadly reflectiveof the diverse skill sets contained within
the SRC and the complexity of current
social-ecological challenges. The themes
operate as collaborative learning platforms wherein researchers with a variety
of skills and backgrounds can discuss,compare and amalgamate findings anddevelop new research ideas. Significant
time, energy, and resources have been
devoted to encouraging cross-theme interaction to stimulate sharing of ideas in
the frontier of sustainability science andresilience thinking and the emergence ofmeta-synthetic insights across themes.

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All SRC research rests on the worldview
that the biosphere forms the criticallife-support system underpinning humanand social development. Humanity is
an integral part of thisbiosphere, dependent forhuman well-being uponecosystem services that itprovides, but also transforming its structure andfunction at unprecedented
speed and scale. The SRC’sorganizational design is to‘frame creativity’ throughthis articulated worldview,
guiding and defining aproblem space in which
creativity and innovation
are allowed to flourish.
The SRC’s overarching
mission has, from its inception, been to mobilize andintegrate diverse expertisein pursuit of researchcapable of addressing
this challenge. Achieving
such a mission requires
developing and implementing research strategies,
organizational structures,and team-building processes that enable,
support and stimulate creativity, innova-

tion, and cutting-edge research, ranging
from disciplinary to interdisciplinary totransdisciplinary.

System insight themes

The social-ecological approachemphasizes humanity as an embedded
part of the biosphere, depending on thegeneration of ecosystem services forhuman well-being, while simultaneously
shaping it from local to global scales.
Resilience thinking is about complex dynamics, how periods of gradual changes
interact with abrupt changes, and thecapacity to adapt or even transform into
new development pathways in the face ofdynamic change.

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Research highlights
Since its launch in 2007, morethan 525 centre publications haveappeared in scientific journals andbooks
The focus of these publications ranges from theoreticalcontributions to findings from field work and case studies andreflect a wide spectrum of inductive and deductive work, practice and theory. SRC researchers have published in 150 different
journals, particularly Agricultural Water Management, Ambio,
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Ecological
Economics, Ecology and Society, Environmental Education
Research, Global Environmental Change, Journal of Marine
Systems, Marine Policy, Proceedings of the National Academyof Sciences, USA (PNAS), Science, and Trends in Ecology and
Evolution (TREE).
This year alone produced 99 journal publications plus 12reported online in 2012 (officially published in 2013), two newbooks and 15 book chapters (see Appendix for further details).
The centre has published in high-ranked journals such as theAnnual Review of the Environment and Resources, Frontiers in
Ecology and the Environment, Global Environmental Change,
PNAS, Science and also the new Nature-associated journals
Nature Climate Change and Nature Communication.

There were two special journal issues edited by members of thecentre in 2012. Victor Galaz led a special issue in Ecological
Economics, “Global environmental governance and planetary boundaries”. This issue explored a range of theoretical
approaches as diverse as international regime theory, network
approaches, institutional and policy analysis, theories on
polycentric governance, and resilience thinking, with governance associated with ‘planetary boundaries’ ranging from ocean
acidification, to climate change, biodiversity loss, freshwater
availability, and land use. The other issue, “Urban ecologicaland social-ecological research in the City of Cape Town”,
which appeared in Ecology and Society, was edited by Thomas
Elmqvist.

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Centre researcher Maja Schlüter
receives 1,3 million Euro starting
grant to study social-ecological linkages and their implication for dynamics and governance of SES

Photo: A. Löf/AZOTE

The project, entitled SES-LINK, will develop simulation models to explore theco-evolution of social-ecological systems
in a range of different environments
such as river basins, land use and marine
systems. The project will further look at
how dynamic interactions between actors,
institutions and ecosystems influence
adaptation and change and ultimately thegovernance of such coupled systems.

Building the Southern African Programme on Ecosystem Change andSociety (SAPECS)

Photo : J. Hansen/Azote

In collaboration with leading South Africanand international scientists, Stockholm
Resilience Centre plans to establish a
Southern African Programme on Ecosystem
Change and Society (SAPECS). The programme aims to strengthen and build a collaborative regional research community that
focuses on social-ecological systems andecosystem services research in southern
Africa, and will involve both regional andinternational researchers and practitioners
working in the southern African region.
SAPECS forms one of several case studies around the world linked to the international Program on Ecosystem Change
and Society (PECS), a 10-year research
initiative within the ICSU global change
programmes.

Gretchen Daily awarded 2012
Volvo Environment Prize

Photo : “Gretchen-daily”

Centre board member and long-time
partner, Professor Gretchen Daily, wasawarded the 2012 Volvo Environment
Prize for her pioneering work on quantifying and valuing natural capital.
Professor Daily of Stanford University is
one of the world’s foremost experts on
the valuation of natural capital. She isconvinced that the only way to create
longterm welfare is to quantify the valueof ecosystems. A seminar was organised
21 November 2012 in honour of Daily’swork, exploring key challenges and research frontiers when moving from theory
to real-world application in achieving
more sustainable land management
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Planet under Pressure
Over the course of three days in March, some 3000 delegates,
including a large contingent from the Stockholm ResilienceCentre, gathered in London to discuss the state of the Earth
The conference ended with a State of the Planet Declaration
which was welcomed by UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon. Based on the insights generated from the conference,the declaration contained several far-reaching recommendations on how to generate a large-scale political mind shift
on global sustainability:– Global sustainability must be part of the bedrock ofnation states and the fabric of societies.
– Our increasingly interconnected and interdependent
economic, social, cultural and political systems is both the
problem and the solution to the challenges we are facing.
– Existing international arrangements are not dealing
quickly enough with current global challenges such as
climate change and biodiversity loss.
– The international scientific community calls for a framework for regular global sustainability analyses that link
existing assessments that build on the foundations of theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
and other ongoing efforts.

Centre director Johan Rockström
presented the progress on the new
Future Earth programme, a 10-year
initiative by ICSU, ISSC, the Belmont
Forum, various funders of global
environmental change research, together with UNEP, UNU and UNESCO,
and WMO.

– A greater commitment to fund and support capacity-building in science and education globally, and particularly in developing countries.
– Current understanding supports the creation of a
Sustainable Development Council within the UN system tointegrate social, economic and environmental policy at the
global level.
– Non-monetary values of public goods such as ecosystem services, education, health and global common
resources such as the oceans and the atmosphere must be
properly factored into management and decision-making
frameworks.

The centre contributed withfive papers to the special
conference issue publishedin Current Opinion in
Environmental Sustainability.

The Stockholm Resilience Centre
exhibition stand was one of themost popular at the conference.

Among the many centre-organised
sessions, centre researcher Henrik Österblom co-convened a session on how
to translate the Planetary Boundaries
framework into policy and governance.

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Scientific publications
Photo : O. Henriksson/Azote

Photo Coral Triangle Initiative

Triangle cooperation
A matter of principle
Seven policy-relevant principles for resilient ecosystem services.
Biggs, R., Schlüter, M., Biggs, D., Bohensky, E.L., Burn Silver, S., Cundill,G., Dakos, V., Daw, T.M., Evans, L.S., Kotschy, K., Leitch, A.M., Meek, C.,­Quinlan, A., Raudsepp-Hearne, C., Robards, M.D., Schoon, M.L., Schultz,
L., West, P.C. 2012. Toward principles for enhancing the resilience of eco­system services. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 37, 421-448

How ecosystem-based management
emerged in the Coral Triangle.
Rosen, F., Olsson, P. 2012. Institutional
entrepreneurs, global networks, and theemergence of international ­institutions
for ecosystem-based management: The
Coral Triangle Initiative. Marine Policy,
38, 195-204

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Photo D. Karlsson / Azote

Don’t forget Darwin
Anthropogenic climate change willaffect biodiversity, but not without­evolution playing its part.
Norberg, J., Urban, M.C., Vellend,
M., Klausmeier, C.A., Loeuille N.
2012. Eco-evolutionary responses ofbio­diversity to climate change. Nature
Climate Change, 2, 747-751

We need to talk
Improved collaboration between d­ ifferent management groups can boost the
governance of shared watersheds.
Rathwell, K.J., Peterson, G.D. 2012. Connecting Social Networks with Ecosystem Services for Watershed Governance: a Social-Ecological Network Perspective
Highlights the Critical Role of Bridging Organizations. Ecology and Society, 17, 24

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Single-track sustainability ’solutions’threaten people and planet
Fostering grassroots innovations and empowering the creativity of marginalizedgroups can boost sustainability.
Leach, M., Rockström, J., Raskin, P., Scoones, I., Stirling, A.C., Smith, A., Thompson,J., Millstone, E., Ely, A., Arond, E., Folke, C., Olsson, P. 2012. Transforming innovation for sustainability. Ecology and Society, 17, 11

Avoiding the tragedy ofoverfishing
Photo Australian Customs andMany interests, one enemy
Different stakeholders join forces to curb illegal fishing in the Southern Ocean.
Österblom, H., Bodin, Ö. 2012. Global cooperation among diverse organizations to
reduce illegal fishing in the Southern Ocean. Conservation Biology, 26, 638-648

Why management at community levelcan dramatically curb overfishing andbenefit local resource users.
Cinner, J.E, McClanahan, T.R., MacNeil, M.A., Graham, N.A.J., Daw,
T.M., Mukminin, A., Feary, D.A.,
Rabearisoa, A.L., Wamukota, A., Jiddawi, N., Campbell, S.J., Baird, A.H.,
Januchowski-Hartley, F.A., Hamed,
S., Lahari, R., Morove, T., Kuange, J.
2012. Co-management of coral reefsocial-ecological systems. Proceedingsof the National Academy of Sciences,
USA (PNAS), 109, 5219-5222

New model disentangles interdependencies between social and ecologicalsystems. Bodin, Ö., Tengö, M. 2012.
Disentangling intangible social-­
ecological systems. Global Environ­mental Change, 22, 430-439

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Photo Ö. Bodin

Cracking the socialecological code

Lock, stock and too many feedbacks
New research looks at how to unlock feedbacks that keep marine ecosystems inundesired states.
Nyström, M., Norström, A.V., Blenckner, T., Torre-Castro, M., Eklöf, J.S., Folke,C., Österblom, H., Steneck, R.S., Thyresson, M., Troell, M. 2012. Confronting Feedbacks of Degraded Marine Ecosystems. Ecosystems 15, 695-710

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Keep an eye on the cod
Cod plays a key role as regulator of
Baltic Sea ecosystems
Casini, M., Blenckner, T., Mollmann, C.,
Gardmark, A., Lindegren, M., Llope,M., Kornilovs, G., Plikshs, M., Stenseth,N. C. 2012. Predator transitory spillover induces trophic cascades in ecological sinks. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS),109, 8185-8189

Governing within the planetary boundaries
Developing the scientific concept is one thing, coming up with appropriate
governance strategies is quite another.
Galaz, V., Biermann, F., Crona, B., Loorbach, D., Folke, C., Olsson, P.,
Nilsson, M., Allouche, J., Persson, Å., Reischl, G. 2012. ‘Planetary boundaries’-exploring the challenges for global environmental governance. Current
Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 4, 80-87

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Photo R. Kautsky/Azote

Getting the whole
historic picture

A roadmap for the Anthropocene
Time to bolster global sustainability governance and give UNEP more
influence, scientists say.
Biermann, F., Abbott, K., Andresen, S., Backstrand, K., Bernstein, S., Betsill, M.
M., Bulkeley, H., Cashore, B., Clapp, J., Folke, C., Gupta, A., Gupta, J., Haas,
P. M., Jordan, A., Kanie, N., Kluvankova-Oravska, T., Lebel, L., Liverman, D.,
Meadowcroft, J., Mitchell, R.B., Newell, P., Oberthur, S., Olsson, L., Pattberg,
P., Sanchez-Rodriguez, R., Schroeder, H., Underdal, A., Camargo Vieira, S., Vogel, C., Young, O.R., Brock, A., Zondervan, R. 2012. Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance. Science, 335, 1306-1307

IHOPE project maps records of biophysical and human system changes over the
past millennia
Costanza, R., van der Leeuw, S., Hibbard,
K., Aulenbach, S., Brewer, S., Burek, M.,
Cornell, S., Crumley, C., Dearing, J.,
Folke, C., Graumlich, L., Hegmon, M.,
Heckbert, S., Jackson, S.T., Kubiszewski,
I., Scarborough, V., Sinclair, P., Sörlin, S.,
Steffen, W. 2012. Developing an Integrated
History and future of People on Earth(IHOPE). Current Opinion in Environ­mental Sustainability, 4, 106-114

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Photo H. Eriksson

The more the merrier?
Polycentric governance can boost governance of planetary
boundaries, but beware of pitfalls.
Galaz, V., Crona, B., Osterblom, H. et al. Polycentric
systems and interacting planetary boundaries – Emerging
governance of climate change-ocean acidification-marine
biodiversity. 2012. Ecological Economics, 81, 21-32

Scuba-diving bandits

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Sea cucumber harvesting in the Western Indian Ocean needs
better management.
Eriksson, H., de la Torre-Castro, M., Olsson. P. 2012. Mobility,
expansion and management of a multi-species scuba diving
fishery in East Africa. PLoS ONE, 7, e35504

Photo P. Turander/Azote

What goes up must come down
New method tracks path of water, from where it starts asevaporation to where it falls as rain
Keys, P. W., van der Ent, R. J. , Gordon, L. J. , Hoff, H. , Nikoli, R., Savenije, H. H. G. 2012. Analyzing precipitationsheds
to understand the vulnerability of rainfall dependent regions.
Biogeosciences, 9, 14

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Like a bridge over troubled governance
Assessing current concepts and methods on how bridging
organizations can contribute to improved resource governance
Crona, B.I., Parker, J.N. 2012. Learning in support of gover­nance: theories, methods and a framework to assess how
bridging organizations contribute to adaptive resource governance. Ecology and Society, 17(1), 32

Shift happens
Reflections on managing social–ecological systems in light ofpotential regime shifts
Crépin, A-S., Biggs, R., Polasky, S., Troell, M., de Zeeuw, A.
2012. Regime shifts and management. Ecological Economics,
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Including model uncertainties is necessary to alleviate ecological surprises inmarine ecosystem management
Niiranen, S., Blenckner, T. Hjerne, O.
et al. 2012. Uncertainties in a Baltic
sea food-web model reveal challenges
for future projections. AMBIO, 41, 6,
613-625.

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Necessary uncertainties

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Spilt nitrogen

Look beyond city limits
Sustainable cities must also account for imported goods and services
Seitzinger, S.P., Svedin, U., Crumley, C.L., Steffen, W., Abdullah, S.A., Alfsen,C., Broadgate, W.J., Biermann, F., Bondre, N.R., Dearing, J.A., Deutsch,L., Dhakal, S., Elmqvist, T., Farahbakhshazad, N., Gaffney, O., Haberl, H.,
Lavorel, S., Mbow, C., McMichael, A.J., deMorais, J.M. F., Olsson, P., Pinho,
P.F., Seto, K.C, Sinclair, P., Stafford Smith, M., Sugar, L. 2012. Planetary
Stewardship in an urbanizing world: Beyond city limits. Ambio, 41, 787-794

Researchers identify possible threshold for net anthropogenic nitrogen
input from watersheds to rivers
Howarth, R., Swaney, D., Billen, G.,
Garnier, J., Hong, B., Humborg, C.,
Johnes, P., Morth, C-M., Marino, R.
2012. Nitrogen fluxes from the landscape are controlled by net anthropogenic nitrogen inputs and by climate.
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 10, 37-43

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Bouncing back?

Clarifying confusion
With adaptive comanagement becoming an emergent governance approach,­researchers deals with confusion and imprecision about the concept
Plummer, R., Crona, B., Armitage, D.R., et. Al. 2012. Adaptive Comanagement: a
Systematic Review and Analysis. Ecology and Society, 17, 3:11.

Researchers discover first sign of recovery from eutrophication in Kattegat
Lindegren, M., Blenckner, T., Stenseth, N.C. 2012. Nutrient r­ eduction
and climate change cause a ­potential
shift from pelagic to benthic
pathways in a eutrophic marine­ecosystem. Global Change Biology
18, 3491-3503

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Trading with coral reef resilience
Difficult trade-off between parrotfish trade and protecting crucial ecological
functionsThyresson, M., Crona, B., Nyström, M., de la Torre-Castro, M., Jiddawi, N.
2012. Tracing value chains to understand effects of trade on coral reef fish in
Zanzibar, Tanzania. Marine Policy, 38, 246-256

Clearing up some confusing termson the dynamics of ecosystems and­social–ecological systems
Walker, B.H., Carpenter, S.R., Rockstrom, J., Crépin, A-S., Peterson, G.D.
2012. Drivers, ”slow” variables,”fast” variables, shocks, and ­resilience.
­Ecology and Society 17(3), 30

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What it means tothink resilient
A practitioners’ perspective in urban
planning
Wilkinson, C. 2012. Urban resilience:
What does it mean in planning practice? Planning Theory and Practice 13,319-324.

Parting water
The potential water conflict between using it for carbon sequestration and­increasing food production
Rockström, J., M. Falkenmark, M. Lannerstad, L. Karlberg. 2012. The planetary water drama: Dual task of feeding humanity and curbing climate change.
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A centre with an impact
The SRC not only scores high on producing interdisciplinary environmental
research, its publications are also among the most cited
If the mission of Stockholm Resilience Center is to advanceinterdisciplinary research on social-ecological systems, it is on
the right track. According to an analysis done by Universityof Sussex and University of Leiden, the centre has an exciting
record when it comes to bibliometric indicators for 2007–2012.
The report analysed Web of Science (WoS) covered publications of the centre with the aim to investigate the citation
impact of interdisciplinary contributions. The publication andcitation patterns were then compared to those of the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at Oxford University and theEarth Institute at Columbia University (EI).
The report had three main findings: first, the Stockholm
Resilience Centre had the highest degree of interdisciplinarity,
in particular forging links between environmental (natural)sciences and the social sciences.
Second, the publications of the centre had an outstanding
impact, above 2.5 times the average impact in the fields they
publish. About 30% of the centre’s publications were among
the top 10% most cited in their fields compared to about 15%
in the aggregate of leading universities such as Oxford. Third,
the publication practices of the centre were considered to bevery collaborative, demonstrated in 82% of all publications

If the mission of Stockholm
Resilience Center is toadvance interdisciplinary
research on social-ecologicalsystems, it has certainly
succeeded doing so during
its first five years.
compared to 75% for ECI and EI. The majority of these collaborations were international (63%).
Science director Carl Folke is naturally pleased with theresults.
“The analysis suggests that we are fulfilling our mission as
an international and interdisciplinary centre that makes wellreceived contributions in sustainability science and social-ecological research, engaging both natural and social sciences.”

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Planetary boundaries (PB) – addressing somekey misconceptions
The planetary boundaries concept has, since its inception,
appeared prominently in discussions on global sustainability.
It has also triggered some criticism, which we welcome, butsome of this have been based on key misconceptions.
The framework has been criticised for not being well
adapted to policy. It is important to stress that the planetary
boundaries research is first and foremost designed to advance
Earth System science. We welcome policy related discussions, but only beyond the biophysical boundaries we aretrying to identify. We sought to identify boundary positions
beyond which we cannot exclude non-linear changes in one
or several sub-systems on Earth. We have always stressed thefact that many of the PB definitions are tentative, but they all
depart from an approach of identifying non-linear change/
tipping points that can have dramatic impacts for humans.
It is up to societies to choose where the boundary position isplaced.
We chose to place it at the lower end of the uncertainty
range in science as a measure of applying a precautionary
principle (e.g., for climate change at 350 ppm (CO2)). One
could also take a more risk prone approach, opting for thehigher end of our analysis of uncertainty, in this case at 550
ppm (CO2). This is a social choice, but the range is based on
an Earth System analysis. The PB research concludes, basedon paleo-climatic evidence, that the environmental conditions during the Holocene is the only state that we know
for certain can support the modern world we live in. It may
be perceived as a normative statement, but it is above all arobust and evidence-based conclusion: human civilizations
only started to develop after the onset of the long and relatively stable Holocene. Before the beginning of the Holocene,
human numbers were much lower and we existed in hunter-gatherer societies only. Despite the criticisms, there seems
to be a shared view that biophysical thresholds do exist andthat resource constraints are a challenge for prosperity in theworld.
The governance implications of the planetary boundaries
concept is a research challenge in its own right. This is why
the original framework cannot simply be taken off the shelfand translated directly to operational policy. However, it canbe used as a framework to guide sustainable development
goals in the Anthropocene.
Read the full reply to the PB criticism at
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Research projects andcollaborations
Stockholm Resilience Centre continues to expand
its collaboration with a global network of partners.
Below is a selected list.
Social-ecological dynamics of ecosystem services in
the Norrström basin (SEEN)
This project will explore the dynamics that contribute to thereliable production of ecosystem services in social-ecologicalsystems. It will be carried out in the Norrström drainage basin in Sweden, the most densely populated drainage basin in
the country. It spans urban, agricultural, forest and wetland
landscapes and includes two of Sweden’s largest lakes. The
project will assess the patterns of trade-offs and synergies
among 6-12 key ecosystem services and will generate novel
knowledge on ecosystem service governance in the region.
The project is funded by Formas. Current partners include Eskilstuna municipality and Programme on Ecosystem Change
and Society (PECS), but partnership will hopefully increaseduring the project. The project runs from 2013 to 2016.

URBES Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
URBES is a three-year research project funded by BiodivERsA that aims to bridge the knowledge gap on the links
between urbanization, ecosystem services and biodiversity.
URBES builds on case studies of four European cities: Berlin,
Rotterdam, Salzburg and Stockholm. Some studies are alsodone on the cities of Barcelona, Helsinki and New York. The
research consortium consists of 11 world-leading research
institutes for social-ecological studies of urban areas, ten
based in Europe and one in the USA (New York). Helsinki
University and The New School (New York) participate as
self-funded partners. URBES runs from 2012 to 2014.

Stockholm Resilience Centre’s
key collaborators

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Geographic location of SRC collaborators, including 18 MoUs,
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Does moisture recycling matter forsocial-ecological resilience?
An analysis of land use change
impact on evaporation and precipitation at regional to global scalesThis project will globally map changes
in moisture recycling (the amount of
evaporation from terrestrial systems
that return as precipitation on thecontinents) that stem from past, present
and future land-use changes. The aim
is to understand where these changes
have important effects on precipitationand social-ecological resilience. The
project is funded by the the National
Science Foundation (Vetenskapsrådet)and is a collaboration with the Delft
University of Technology and the
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
Research (PIK). The project runs from2012 to 2015.

specified resilience, general resilience, and transformability) in various
contexts. Methods include surveys,
interviews, concept mapping, network
analysis and participatory resilienceassessments. The project is the first stepin building a more robust theory andconceptual basis for comparison of empirical findings from real-world casesof adaptive co-management. Is fundedby the National Science Foundation(Vetenskapsrådet) and will run from2013 to 2016.
Water Resources and Resiliencein the agricultural landscape: A
social-ecological systems analysis
in the Upper Blue Nile
This project uses numerical models
to investigate the impacts of different

agricultural water interventions, with a
special focus on water harvesting systems. The potential for enhancing resilience to drought in small scale farming
systems by implementing water harvesting is assessed, as well as potential
down-stream impacts. The project will
study the difference between one large
or many small-scale dams, as well ascompare different locations of dams in
the landscape. Moreover, it is anticipated that the project will shed light into
how the rainfall runoff relationships
can be represented in numerical toolin a way that provides accurate resultsof the hydrological cycle in tropicalenvironments. The project is financedby the Swedish Research Council FORMAS and will run from 2012 to 2015.

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GLEAN: A Global Survey of Learning, Participation and Ecosystem
Management in Biosphere Reserves
The aim of this project is to analyse theeffect of stakeholder participation in
biodiversity conservation. The projectwill examine 146 UNESCO biospherereserves in 55 countries and analyse
long term interaction patterns betweensocial and ecological systems, as wellas generate new research questions that
go beyond current theories of environmental management. The GLEAN project is funded by the National Science
Foundation (Vetenskapsrådet) and will
be carried out during 2012–2016.
Diagnosing processes and outcomes in social-ecological systems:
A systematic, cross-case comparison of adaptive co-management
initiatives
This project focuses on diagnosing
processes and outcomes of adaptive co-management (ACM), throughcomparative studies in four UNESCO
biosphere reserves (two in Sweden
and two in Canada). We will follow
governance processes and their resultsin these biosphere reserves during three
years, investigating the relationships
between learning, social networks, andsocial-ecological resilience (including

URBES case study: The Tempelhof Airport in Berlin has since its close-down three years ago
become the home to one of Europe's largest urban gardens, managed by around 300 people
growing fruits, vegetables and flowers. The airport covers an area nearly as big as the Central
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Policy and practice

Welcome to the Anthropocene
One of the most significant communication impacts thecentre had in 2012 was the screening of the ”Welcome to
the Anthropocene” video during UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon’s official opening of the Rio+20 conference.
It was produced as part of the launch of the website
bearing the same name, Welcome to the Anthropocene. The
website is designed to improve our collective understandingof the Earth system and to inspire, educate and engage
people about humanity’s impact on Earth. Its unique combination of high-level scientific data and powerful imagery
will help people visualize and better understand humanity’sgeographic imprint in recent time.
For more information, go to www.anthropocene.info.

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Rich biodiversity
can exist in cities
Centre launches world’s first assessment of
biodiversity and ecosystem services in cities
Global urbanization will have significant implications forbiodiversity and ecosystems if current trends continue,
with knock-on effects for human health and development,
according to a new assessment produced by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in partnership with
the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Local Governments
for Sustainability (ICLEI). The assessment was officiallylaunched during the UN CBD COP11 which took place in
October in Hyderabad, India.

Much more to be built
The Cities and Biodiversity Outlook is the world’s firstglobal analysis of how projected patterns of urban land
expansion will impact biodiversity and crucial ecosystems.
The assessment is scientifically edited by centre researcher
Thomas Elmqvist and draws on contributions from morethan 120 scientists worldwide. It states that over 60 percentof the land projected to become urban by 2030 has yet to
be built.
“This presents a major opportunity to greatly improveglobal sustainability by promoting low-carbon, resource-efficient urban development that can reduce adverse
effects on biodiversity and improve quality of life,” Thomas
Elmqvist says.

A world’s first assessment of urban biodiversity edited bycentre researcher Thomas Elmqvist (left) demonstrates theenormous potential cities have in global sustainability.

A strong argument for better urban planning

Important health benefits

The assessment states that urban expansion is occurring fastin areas close to biodiversity ’hotspots’ and coastal zones.
In rapidly urbanizing regions, such as large and mid-size
settlements in sub-Saharan Africa, India and China,
resources to implement sustainable urban planning areoften lacking.
”More than half the global population already resides incities. This number is projected to increase, with 60 percentof the population living in urban areas by 2030,” says
Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive
Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
”This report makes a strong argument for greater attention to be paid by urban planners and managers to thenature-based assets within city boundaries, and shows how
urbanizing areas represent major opportunities for reducing carbon emissions and creating a more sustainable andresource-efficient world,” he added.

Urban green spaces perform important ecosystem services,such as filtering dust, absorbing carbon dioxide from theair and improving air quality. Data from the United Kingdom show that a ten percent increase in tree canopy coverin cities may result in a 3-4°C decrease in ambient temperature, thus reducing energy used in air conditioning.
Urban biodiversity also delivers important health benefits. Studies have shown that proximity to trees can reduce
the prevalence of childhood asthma and allergies. Sustainable urban planning, which addresses biodiversity issues
along with other priorities such as poverty alleviation,
employment, and housing, can bring positive effects forhealth and the environment.
”The Outlook provides an overview and response toknowledge gaps in how we understand processes behindurban social-ecological systems and how urbanization isshaping land use,” says Professor Thomas Elmqvist.

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Picking up where
Rio left off
With Rio+20 ending in disappointment, centre is asked tocontribute to developing new global sustainability goals
Ten points for trying, but it was never going to be easy. In a series of Nobel Laureates symposia held in Potsdam, London andStockholm, the world’s most renowned experts on global sustainability have strived to convey to world leaders the unequivocal
scientific evidence that we are heading in the wrong direction.
The UN summit on sustainable development in Rio was theperfect arena to get the message across once and for all.

The build-up
Organised simultaneously with the historic summit in Rio deJaneiro, a fourth symposium took place, this time joining forces
with the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global
Sustainability.

In a series of events building up to the official roundtable discussions, the scientific support for policy action was
discussed. A closed high-level meeting on 17 June with Nobel
Laureates, global policy makers and world leading sustainability profiles was followed up with an open, high-level dialogue
the day after. Inaugurated by His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf,
King of Sweden, panelists and audience discussed the need todevelop Sustainable Development Goals that could succeed theMillennium Development Goals in 2015.
Many of the discussions focused on narrowing the gap
between what is required at policy level and what is being done,
largely at the grass roots level. On 21 June, leading economists
such as Jeffery Sachs (Earth Institute), Armenio Farga (former
president of the Central Bank of Brazil) and Pavan Sukhdev(TEEB) discussed how to reform the economy to support sustainable development.

The message
Supporting all these events, and confirming the significanceand influence of the Symposia series, a statement was presented
to the world’s heads of states and governments at the formal
discussions of the Rio summit. Nobel Laureates Yuan-Tseh
Lee, Rajendra Pachauri, Muhammad Yunus and Carlo Rubbia
delivered a clear message:”We are concerned’, it said. ” We are on the threshold of afuture with unprecedented environmental risks.”
The Laureates called upon world leaders to ”move beyond
aspirational statements and exercise a collective responsibility.”

The aftermath

Centre Senior Research Fellow Will Steffen spoke during the closed
high-level meeting on 17 June with Noble Laureates, global policy
makers and world leading sustainability profiles.

Despite all efforts, the outcome of the Rio summit was criticisedfor lacking detail and ambition. However, one of the most significant outcomes from Rio 2012 was indeed the agreement todevelop Sustainable Development Goals, a new set of goals to
succeed the Millennium Development Goals. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was given the mandate to initiate appropriate work to support this process. He announced a high-level
panel on the post-2015 agenda, led by Indonesia, Liberia, theUK and Sweden.
Furthermore, and important for the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Ban Ki-moon announced a parallel Sustainable
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Centre signs partnership with World BusinessCouncil on Sustainable Development
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre haveannounced an innovative collaboration to ensure futurebusiness solutions are based on the best scientific analysis.
The WBCSD/SRC collaboration will connect resilience andsustainability science with business strategies. It will focus
on aligning the Planetary Boundaries framework with the
WBCSD’s Vision 2050 framework.
As well as working with the WBCSD across its projects,
the Stockholm Resilience Centre will carry out applied research on how the Planetary Boundaries framework can beadapted in order to make the information actionable at both
corporate and sector levels.

Jeffrey Sachs

support the writing of the new Sustainable Development Goals
and how to implement them on all levels including regional andlocal scales.
Taking part in the new network follows from the significant
influence the centre had on the report by the Secretary-General’sHigh-level Panel on Global Sustainability, entitled ”Resilient
People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing”.
”The fact that the centre has been asked to join the networkshows how important our research is in pushing for a mind
shift in global sustainability thinking,” says centre director
Johan Rockström.

From Rio to Stockholm
Following up from Rio and the launch of the Sustainable
Development Solutions Network, its newly appointed leader,
Professor Jeffrey Sachs from Columbia University, came to
Stockholm to discuss the outcomes of Rio+20, particularly theformulation of the sustainable development goals.
The presentation by Sachs (pictured above) was followed
by a panel debate including Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish Swedish
Minister for International Development Cooperation.
The seminar was hosted by the Stockholm Environment
Institute (SEI), together with the Stockholm Resilience Centre
and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, with support
from the Swedish Postcode Lottery.

UNEP visit to the centre
In April 2012, UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner
visited the centre to discuss issues related to the Rio+20 UN
Conference on Sustainable Development, the role of UNEP
and how the world must move forward.
Steiner argued that there is a need to ”shorten the distance between science and policy”. He also called for embedding the ”green economy” into the sustainable-development
dialogue. The visit was organized in collaboration with
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Madagascar, music and sustainability
Malagasy music icon Hanitra Rasoanaivo visited the centre to
discuss science, art and sustainability issues in Madagascar
At a seminar-cum-bar taking place at the centre in M
­ arch,Hanitra Rasoanaivo, charismatic lead singer of Tarika
Bé and an internationally renowned cultural personality,
presented her work and discussed the integration of science,music, and practice with researchers from the Stockholm
Resilience Centre.
Rasoanaivo is deeply engaged in using music and art
to inform and influence environmental issues. In her work
she combines the styles and instruments of many tribes
with forceful, often political songwriting. She is also thefounder of the Antshow Cultural Center, established topromote Malagasy arts and artists. The Stockholm Resilience Centre centre has a long history of transdisciplinary
research on Madagascar, ranging from livelihoods andculture among agropastoralists and fishermen to the roleof sacred rites protecting ”taboo” forests.

Research has also looked at unofficial land ownershipagreements for regenerating large areas of tropical forest
previously in decline.
The centre has previously been involved in projects working to integrate art, music, science and practice. This includes the art exhibition and jam session during the Resilience
2008 conference and the 2011 Coral Guardian concert andseminar on the world’s coral reefs.

Research has looked at­unofficial land ownershipagreements for regeneratinglarge areas of tropical forest
previously in decline.

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Photo M. Kvarnström

Photo N. Hallström

Participants engaged in discussions
during the Quito seminar 6-9 March 2012.

It’s good to talk
Reaching targets for biodiversity requires formal negotiations, but informal gatherings for knowledge exchange andtrust building are equally important
To prepare for challenging discussions about biodiversity
financing mechanisms ahead of the COP11 negotiations inIndia October 2012, the centre’s Resilience and Development
Programme took the initiative to organise a dialogue seminar
6–9 March in Quito, Equador.
The intention of the seminar was not to draft formal
recommendations, but to enhance understanding among
participants to pave the way for the upcoming negotiationsin India.
Some 80 participants from a range of governmental,
non-governmental, scientific and private organisations shared their perspectives on financial resources mobilization forbiodiversity. The dialogue seminar not only contributed tobetter understanding of differing viewpoints but also created
new alliances. Several negotiators also referred to the Quito
dialogue during the COP11 in India.
“This seminar shows that informal but carefully prepared dialogues can help understanding among a very diverse
group of actors,” says Maria Schultz, co-chair of the seminarand head of the Resilience and Development programme.
For more information, go to dialogueseminars.net.

Added values,
crucial knowledge
Indigenous peoples and local communities recognised in
new platform to curb biodiversity loss
After several years of negotiations, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services(IPBES) was finally established in April 2012. The platform
aims to bridge the distance between science and policy andhopefully improve the understanding of biodiversity loss
and how it affects human well-being.
Prior to the launch, in an attempt to bridge the gaps
between various knowledge systems, the Resilience and Development programme convened a workshop 10-13 Aprilin the Panamanian indigenous autonomous region Comarca Guna Yala (pictured).
The workshop, entitled ”Knowledge for the 21stCentury: Indigenous Knowledge, Traditional Knowledge,
Science and connecting diverse knowledge systems”, wasconsidered highly successful as it bolstered openness andsupport for indigenous knowledge and diverse knowledge
systems in the work of IPBES.

A study from the international
research network BalticSTERN showsthat people in the nine countries aroundthe Baltic Sea are willing to pay in totalsome 3,800 million Euros per year fora healthier sea. With 10,500 people
participating in the survey, the study
captured large interest from both the
public and the media. The results fromthe willingness to pay study will be
included in a cost-benefit analysis to be
published by the BalticSTERN research
network early 2013.

BalticSTERN, which is coordinated by a secretariat based at the
Stockholm Resilience Centre, combines socioeconomic and ecologicalmodels to make cost-benefit analyses
and to identify cost-effective measures needed to meet the targets of
HELCOM’s Baltic Sea Action Plan,
an ambitious programme to restore
the good ecological status of the Baltic marine environment by 2021 andagreed upon by the nine countries
around the sea.

Photo J. Lokrantz/Azote

People are willing to pay for a healthier Baltic Sea

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A royal cup of tea
At the request of HRH The Prince of Wales, the centre, together
with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), hosted a visit
23 March 2012
Together with HM Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, The Princeof Wales was given an introduction to central aspects of the­research conducted at the centre.
Research from SEI was also presented, including Fiona
Lambe’s research on the use of ethanol-fuelled cooking
stoves (pictured) to reduce environmentally harmful fuelwood consumption and indoor smoke.
Lambe’s presentation was followed by a round table discussion on energy and food security. Three short presentations set
the scene and seeded further discussions: Sarah Cornell from thecentre presented the Planetary Boundaries concept; Henrik Österblom presented research on the Baltic Sea and Louise Karlberg(SEI) presented issues related to water, energy and food security.
The participants in the round table discussion included
centre director Johan Rockström, science director Carl Folke,
Ben Moxham (the UK prime minister’s advisor on climate andenergy), Jan Agri (DeLaval), Erik Brandsma (Vattenfall), MånsNilsson (SEI) and Justin Mundy (HRH Prince of Wales’ advisor
on sustainability).

A key message from the discussion was the importance oflinking science with the private sector and to tap into the enormous innovative capacity and resources these two sectors have.
HRH The Prince of Wales emphasized the importance of building environmental capital and social capital, and connecting
the highest levels of the private sector with local communities.

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Development goals for all
At a seminar hosted by SEI and the Stockholm ResilienceCentre in November 2012, leading lights of Colombianpolitics and research discussed why a new set of develop
goals is needed, how Colombia is developing the Sustainable
Development Goals concept at a national level and the roleof biodiversity and ecosystem services in SDGs.
One of the speakers, Alejandra Torres, Director of International Affairs, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable
Development (pictured left) argued that SDGs should apply
to all, not just to some. Thus the focus of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDG) on poverty reduction would
remain central to SDGs, but would be complemented by targets that could incentivize action on sustainable consumption and production.

Photo Stockholm Environment Institute

Where science meant businessLeading up to Rio+20, the centre, together with the Stockholm Environment Institute, the Stockholm School of Economics and the Stichting af Jochnick Foundation hosted in May
2012 a forum for Swedish business leaders.
The forum, entitled Sustainable Business in a Sustainable
World, was a high-level science/business forum that brought
together CEOs, corporate executive teams, leading scientists
and policy-makers to explore how to implement and manage
the transformation to sustainability.
A meeting place for leading thinkers from business, scienceand politics, the forum placed the latest science and megatrends
in the context of today’s corporate challenges.
”The transition to sustainability is an exciting but challenging journey. To develop relevant know-how and useful references is crucial. I hope and believe that this forum, due to its
interesting combination of perspectives, will assist in that challenge,” said Magnus Brännström, CEO of Oriflame Cosmetics,
one of the core sponsors of the event.
Read more at www.sustainablebusinessworld.com.

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Seminar and events

Tipping point – an exhibition
Centre contributes to artistic exhibition on theclose links between humans and nature
In an exhibition at Kulturhuset in Stockholm, science andart met to demonstrate the close interdependencies between
humans and nature. With a range of curiously crafted installations, the exhibition “Tipping Point” provided visitorswith the opportunity to feel, listen, play and discover what
resilience, planetary boundaries, ecosystem services and biomimicry is all about.

Receiving more than 17,000 visitors, the exhibition took
place from 17 March to 3 June 2012 and was a collaboration between the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the Stockholm
Environment Institute, Munktell Science Park, the Swedish
Weather & Climate Centre (SWC), Albaeco, Energimyndigheten, Länsstyrelsen i Stockholms län, SLL/Miljöbidraget,andAntonia Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse för Miljö och Utveckling.

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Stockholm Seminars
The Stockholm Seminars cover a broad range of perspectives onsustainability issues. The seminars are organized by Albaeco, Stockholm
Resilience Centre, the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, theInternational Biosphere-Geosphere Programme (IGBP), Stockholm
Environment Institute and the Swedish Secretariat for Environmental
Earth System Sciences (SSEESS).
3 February
Tim Lynam
Making sense of climate change andadaptation
9 February
Karine Nyborg
The ethics and politics of environmental
cost-benefit analysis

23 MayJohn Tanzer
Institutional entrepreneurs and theemergence of international institutions
for ecosystem stewardship
29 MayRobert Costanza
Solutions for a sustainable and desirable
future21 February
Henrik Österblom
Tipping points and why seabirds
depend on access to one third of theworld’s fish

31 MaySteve Lansing
Did a butterfly effect change the historyof the Pacific?

7 MarchOran Young
The effectiveness of international
regimes: research opportunities

7 JuneMarianne Krasny
Civic ecology: social-ecological innovtions
in human-nature connections in cities

18 AprilJohn Ingram
Food security and planetary boundaries

12 JuneFrançois Bouquet
Collective action and conservation ofidentities

26 April
Jean-Marc Jancovici
Going carbon-free, a mere joke?
11 MayMark Swilling
Is a just transition possible?
– a southern perspective on the global
polycrisis and what happens next
21 MayRolph Payet
Climate change and sea level rise:
can we adapt?

2 OctoberAnantha Duraiappah
Inclusive Wealth Report: Transition
to sustainability
8 November
Charles Hall
Improving real productivity:from labour productivity to multidimensional measure of productivity
12 November
Lance Gunderson
The nature of change and the changeof nature: obstacles and opportunities for building adaptive capacity
20 November
Brigitte Baptiste
Questions and challenges for thegovernance of biodiversity and­ecosystem services in Colombia

10 September
Scott Barrett
Climate negotiations and approachingcatastrophes
14 September
Villy Christensen
Ecological networks — from who did it to
future food webs
28 September
Cindi Katz
Resilience in a social field – response totransition
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Resilience dialogues
The Resilience dialogues are weekly internal seminars for staff andstudents. The purpose of the seminars is to create a space for reflectionand exploration of frontier resilience research questions.
18 January
Johan Rockström
What should be our role in science-policy
processes?

7 MarchSarah Cornell
Planetary Boundaries and Planetary
Responsibilities

13 JunePer Olsson
Research on innovations & transformation in SES: Insights and ways forward

25 January
Maria Schultz”Scaling up Biodiversity Finance”
Ecuador 6-9th of March 2012

14 March
Carl Folke, Johan Rockström,
Lisa Deutch
The SRC take on education: (Part 1)
What is the vision and basic principles
for our education?

12 September
Oonsie Biggs, Tim Daw,
Elin Enfors et. al.
Links between ecosystem servcies andhuman wellbeing

1 February
Sarah Cornell
How Resilience Science can underpin
Sustainable Development Goals
8 February
Richard Klein, Stockholm Environment
Institute, Terry Cannon and Chris Béné,
UK Institute of Development Studies
How does one integrate disaster risk reduction, adoption to climate change andpowerty reduction to improve resilience?
29 February
Cibele Queiroz”Tell me where you are from, I will tell
you about your research”: Regional patterns found for scientific perspectives on
agriculture and biodiversity worldwide

21 March
Lisa Deutch, Carl Folke
The SRC Take on resilience and the future of Education (Part Two) Orienteering
our way to excellence in transdisciplinary
education
11 April
Victor Galaz
Geoengineering in the Anthropocene
18 AprilCarl Folke, Oonsie Biggs,
Thorsten Blenckner
SRC Surprising Insights: A journey into
unexpected research findings, crystal
clear ideas and resilience one-liners...

14 NovemberÖrjan Bodin, Maja Schlüter
Resilience dialogue: strengthening thelinkages between the conceptual andempirical basis of resilience
28 November
Fredrik Moberg, Anna Emmelin
Cooking the SRC narratives:
How do we write and tell compellingplace-based stories about our researchand its implications?

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Theme leader retreat
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Education2012 saw a continued increase in
the role that education plays in not
only bridging groups and activities
at the centre but also contributing
to research and capacity building
We enjoyed the company of Prof. Lance Gunderson from
Emory University during his sabbatical in the autumn.
Lance not only gave a course for the Resilience Research
School (RRS) in adaptive management, he also made time
to join the PhD book club in their discussion of his classic
work Panarchy and lectured for the Master’s students on
the challenges of dealing with scale in ecosystem management - to everyone’s delight!
In the spring, the course Conducting Resilience Assessments in Social-Ecological Systems brought together an exciting group of experts on resilience: Paul Ryan, a practitioner with international experience in resilience assessments,
Brian Walker, one of resilience thinking’s founders andAllison Quinlan, a Senior Research Fellow at the Resilience
Alliance who helped develop the first Resilience Assessment
Workbook together with centre researchers Lisen Schultz
and Cathy Wilkinson. Together they provided a unique andhands-on course for researchers, practitioners, PhDs andMaster students alike.

USA

Honduras

Student fieldworkfor thesis 2012
Resilience Research School (RRS)
Social-Ecological Resilience for
Sustainable Development (SERSD)
Ecosystems, Resilienceand Governance (ERG)
Sustainable Enterprising (SE)

Världens Eko
Our Swedish undergraduate course on
sustainable development, Världens eko,remains immensely popular. Initiatedand driven by students, the course features some of Sweden’s most qualified
researchers and debaters on sustainable development.

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NorwayFinlandDenmark
SwedenEngland
PolandNetherlands
Germany
FrancePortugal
Spain

Japan
ThailandBurkina Faso
UgandaUruguay

Ethiopia
Kenya
Tanzania

India

VietnamIndonesia
Bali

South Africa

The Resilience Research School (RSS)The RRS provides a structure that allows a focus on resilience in sustainability science and also maintains the flexibility
required to work with a diversity of departments from thenatural and social sciences. Members receive an introduction
to resilience research through courses and forge strong collaborations with PhD students based within other departments
at SU and other Swedish universities.
In 2012, we started a seminar series exclusively for our
PhDs called “How to be a SRC Scientist”. These seminars
helped strengthen academic and practical skills, including
how to run effective meetings and write successful grant
proposals. The topics of the seminars were chosen by thestudents themselves and given by SRC supervisors.

Our Master’s Programme
The first year of our new Master’s programme Social-Ecological Resilience for Sustainable Development (SERSD) wasa great success according to both student and SRC facultyevaluations. In 2012, all programme students were fully
integrated into SRC research for their thesis work, and twoformer programme students were recruited to pursue PhDs.

Furthermore, six scientific publications and a bookchapter stemmed from our students’ theses, and students also contributed to SRC research in coursework
activities such as the Bali and urban sprawl cases in
the Regime Shift Database (see www.regimeshifts.org).

More courses
In 2013 the centre will merge with
the Department of Natural Resources
Management at Stockholm University.
We will have our own PhD programme, expand our selection of courses
and continue to develop the Resilience
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Appendix:

Finance and funding
Funding	  of	
  SRCs	  activities/costs	
  for	  2012:	  Funding of SRC’s activities and costs 2012:2012	
  Total	
  
	
  	
  

	
  	
  

	
  	
  

Stockholm	
  University	
  21	
   MSEK	  Allocated	
  subsidy	
  from	  Stockholm	
  University	
  

12,2	
   MSEK	  External	
  Formas	
  funding	
  via	
  faculty	
  5	
   MSEK	  Accumulated	
  subsidy	
  surplus	
  3,8	
   MSEK	
  

	
  	
  

	
  	
  

	
  	
  

MISTRA	
  core	  grant*	
  17,2	
   MSEK	
  

	
  	
  

	
  

	
  

103,7	
   MSEK	
  

	
  	
  

	
  	
  

External	
  grant	  total	  65,5	
   MSEK	  SwaM:	  the	
  Swedish	
  Agency	
  for	
  Marine	
  &	
  Water	
  Management	
  

12,2	
   MSEK	  Formas	  16,2	
   MSEK	
  

SIDA	
  

5,3	
   MSEK	  SIDA	
  (Swedbio)	
  

18,8	
   MSEK	  Futura	  1,5	
   MSEK	  Schwartz	
  1,5	
   MSEK	  Nippon	
  Foundation	
  1,5	
   MSEK	  The	
  Royal	
  Academy	
  of	
  Sciences	
  1,2	
   MSEK	
  

EU	
  

3	
   MSEK	
  other	  4,3	
   MSEK	  *Allocated	
  grant	
  from	  Mistra	
  16,8	
  MSEK	
  plus	
  accumulated	
  surplus	
  0,4	
  MSEK	
  

	
  

	
  

	
  

	
  

70	
  	
  
60	
  	
  
50	
  	
  
40	
  	
  

Stockholm	
  University	
  Mistra	
  

30	
  	
  

External	
  

20	
  	
  
10	
  	
  
0	
  	
  

2007	
  

2008	
  

2009	
  

2010	
  

2011	
  

2012	
  

	
  

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Centre publications
2012 books
Birnbaum, S. 2012. Basic Income ReconsideredSocial Justice, Liberalism, and the Demands ofEquality. Palgrave Macmillan, 258pp
Dile, Y. 2012. Hydrological Response to Climate
Change. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken,
Germany, 112pp
2012 SRC chapters
Biggs, R., Blenckner, T., Folke, C., Gordon, L.,
Norström, A.V., Nyström, M., Peterson, G. 2012.
Regime Shifts. In: Hastings, A., Gross, L. (eds.)
The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology, University of California Press
Blenckner, T. 2012. Climate change effects onlakes. In: Bengtsson L., Herschy, R.W., Fairbridge,
R.W. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Lakes and Reservoirs, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 165-167
Bouma, J., Critchley, W., Barron, J. 2012. A
review of the recent literature on water harvestingin Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Critchley, W., Gowing,
J. (eds.) Water Harvesting in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Routledge, London.
Ernstson, H. 2012. Re-translating nature in
post-apartheid Cape Town: The material semiotics of people and plants at Bottom Road. In:
Richard Heeks (ed.) Actor-Network Theory for
Development: Working Paper Series, Institutefor Development Policy and Management, SED,
University of Manchester, Chapter 3
Ernstson, H. 2012. Social Network Analysis(SNA). In: Fogel, D., Fredericks, S., Harrington,
L., Spellerberg, I. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Sustainability: Vol. 6. Measurements, Indicators, andResearch Methods for Sustainability, Berkshire
Pub Group, Great Barrington, MA, 322-325
Henriksson, P., Pelletier, N.,Troell, M., Tyedmers,
P. 2012. Life cycle assessment and its application
to aquaculture production systems. In: Meyers,
R. A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sustainability Scienceand Technology, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg
Lewis, J., Meffert, D. 2012. Metropolitan Planning Challenges in New Orleans: Sea Level Rise,
Flooding, and Hurricanes. In: Blakely, E.J., Carbonell, A. (eds.) Resilient Coastal City Regions,
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
O’Brien, K., Patwardhan, A., Pelling, M., Hallegatte, S., Maskrey, A., Oki, T., Oswald-Spring,U., Wilbanks, T., Yanda, P.Z. with contributing
authors Berkhaut, F., Biggs, R., Brauch, H.G.,
Brown, K., Folke, C., Harrington, L., Kunreuther,
H., Lacambra, C., Leichenko, R., Mechler, R.,
Pahl-Wostl, C., Przyluski, V., Satterthwaite, D.,
Sperling, F., Sygna, L., Tanner, T., Tschakert, P.,

Ulsrud, K., Viguié, V. 2012. Toward a Sustainable
and Resilient Future. In: Field, C.B., Barros, V.,
Stocker, T.F., Qin, D., Dokken, D.J., Ebi, K.L.,
Mastrandrea, M.D., Mach, K.J., Plattner, G.-K.,
Allen, S.K., Tignor, M., Migley, P.M. (eds.) Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to
Advance Climate Change Adaptation. A Special
Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, andNew York, NY, USA, 437-486

2012 Articles in scientific journals
André, K., Simonsson, L., Gerger Swartling,
Å., Linnér, B.-O. 2012. Method Development
for Identifying and Analysing Stakeholders in
Climate Change Adaptation Processes. Journal ofEnvironmental Policy and Planning, 14, 243-261

Olsson, P., Galaz, V. 2012. Social-ecologicalinnovation and transformation. In: Nicholls, A.,
Murdoch, A. (eds.) Social Innovation: Blurring
Boundaries to Reconfigure Markets, Palgrave
MacMillan, Basingstoke, UK, 223-247

Berg, H., Berg, C., Nguyen, T.T. 2012. Integrated
Rice-Fish Farming: Safeguarding Biodiversity andEcosystem Services for Sustainable Food Production in the Mekong Delta. Journal of Sustainable
Agriculture, 36, 859-872

Ouedraogo, I., Ouattara, K., Kaboré/Sawadogo,
S., Paré, S., Barron, J. 2012. Permanent internalmigration as response to food shortage: implication to ecosystem services in southern Burkina
Faso. In: Aladjadjyan, A. (ed.) Food Production:
Approaches, Challenges and Tasks, InTech, 41-55

Berg, H., Tam, N.T. 2012. Use of pesticides andattitude to pest management strategies among
rice and rice-fish farmers in the Mekong Delta,
Vietnam. International Journal of Pest Management, 58, 153-164

Plummer, R., Stone-Jovicich, S., Bohensky, E.
2012. Adaptive co-management: A new frontier
for nature-based tourism. In: Holden, A. Fennell,
D. A. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Tourism
and the Environment, Routledge, New York,USA, 541-555
Rocha, J.C., Biggs, R., Peterson, G. 2012. Regime
Shifts. In: Braig, R., Nagle, J., Pardy, B., Schmitz,
O., Smith, W. (eds.) Berkshire Encyclopedia of
Sustainability 5: Ecosystem Management andSustainability,
Berkshire Publishing, 512
Svedin, U. 2012. Global conditions for the futureof agriculture in the Anthropocene. In: Jacquet,
P., Pachauri, P.J.R, Tubiana L. (eds.) Towards
Agricultural Change? The Energy and Resources
Institute, India, 107-116
Troell, M., Kautsky, N., Beveridge, M., Henriksson, P., Primavera, J., Rönnbäck, P., Folke,
C. 2012. Aquaculture. In: Levin, S., Daily, G.,
Colwell, R., Lubchenco, J., Mooney, H., Schultze,
E-D., Tilman, D. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Five-Volume Set, Academic Press, Waltham,
Massachusetts, USA
Tuvendal, M., Elmqvist, T. 2012. Response strategy assessment: a tool for evaluating resilience
for the management of social-ecological systems.
In: Plieninger, T., Bieling, C. (eds.) Resilience andthe Cultural Landscape, Cambridge University
Press, 224-241

Armitage, D., de Loe, R., Plummer, R. 2012.
Environmental governance and its implications
for conservation practice. Conservation Letters,
5, 245-255

Berkström, C., Gullström, M., Lindborg, R.,
Mwandya, A.W., Yahya, S.A.S., Kautsky, N.,
Nyström, M. 2012. Exploring ‘knowns’ and‘unknowns’ in tropical seascape connectivity withinsights from East African coral reefs. Estuarine,
Coastal and Shelf Science, 107, 1-21
Biermann, F., Abbott, K., Andresen, S., Bäckstrand, K., Bernstein, S., Betsill, M.M., Bulkeley,
H., Cashore, B., Clapp, J., Folke, C., Gupta, A.,
Gupta, J., Haas, P. M., Jordan, A., Kanie, N.,
Kluvankova-Oravska, T., Lebel, L., Liverman,
D., Meadowcroft, J., Mitchell, R.B., Newell, P.,
Oberthur, S., Olsson, L., Pattberg, P., Sanchez-Rodriguez, R., Schroeder, H., Underdal,A., Camargo Vieira, S., Vogel, C., Young, O.R.,
Brock, A., Zondervan, R. 2012. Transforming
governance and institutions for global sustainability: key insights from the Earth System Governance Project. Current Opinion in Environmental
Sustainability, 4, 51-60
Biermann, F., Abbott, K., Andresen, S.,
Bäckstrand, K., Bernstein, S., Betsill, M. M.,
Bulkeley, H., Cashore, B., Clapp, J., Folke, C.,
Gupta, A., Gupta, J., Haas, P. M., Jordan, A.,
Kanie, N., Kluvankova-Oravska, T., Lebel, L.,
Liverman, D., Meadowcroft, J., Mitchell, R.B.,
Newell, P., Oberthur, S., Olsson, L., Pattberg, P.,
Sanchez-Rodriguez, R., Schroeder, H., Underdal,A., Camargo Vieira, S., Vogel, C., Young, O.R.,
Brock, A., Zondervan, R. 2012. Navigating the
Anthropocene: improving Earth System governance. Science, 335, 1306-1307
Biggs, R., Schlüter, M., Biggs, D., Bohensky, E.L.,
Burn Silver, S., Cundill, G., Dakos, V., Daw, T.M.,

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Evans, L.S., Kotschy, K., Leitch, A.M., Meek, C.,
Quinlan, A., Raudsepp-Hearne, C., Robards,
M.D., Schoon, M.L., Schultz, L., West, P.C. 2012.
Toward principles for enhancing the resilience of
ecosystem services. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 37, 421-448

Cinner, J.E., McClanahan, T.R., Graham, N.A.J.,
Daw, T.M., Maina, J., Stead, S.M., Wamukota,
A., Brown, K., Bodin, Ö. 2012. Vulnerability ofcoastal communities to key impacts of climatechange on coral reef fisheries. Global Environmental Change, 22, 12-20

Bjorklund, J., Araya, H., Edwards, S., Goncalves,A., Hook, K., Lundberg, J., Medina, C. 2012.
Ecosystem-based agriculture combining production and conservation - a viable way to feed theworld in the long term? Journal of Sustainable
Agriculture, 36, 824-855

Cinner, J.E, McClanahan, T.R., MacNeil, M.A.,
Graham, N.A.J., Daw, T.M., Mukminin, A.,
Feary, D.A., Rabearisoa, A.L., Wamukota, A., Jiddawi, N., Campbell, S.J., Baird, A.H., Januchowski-Hartley, F.A., Hamed, S., Lahari, R., Morove,T., Kuange, J. 2012. Co-management of coral
reef social-ecological systems. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS),109, 5219-5222

Bodin, Ö., Tengö, M. 2012. Disentangling intangible social-ecological systems. Global Environmental Change, 22, 430-439
Boonstra, W. J., Nhung, P.T.H. 2012. The ghostsof fisheries management. Journal of Natural
Resources Policy Research, 4, 1-25
Borgström, S., Cousins, S. A. O., Lindborg, R.
2012. Outside the boundary - Land use changes
in the surroundings of urban nature reserves.
Applied Geography, 32, 350-359
Bossio, D., Erkossa, T., Dile, Y., McCartney, M.,
Killiches, F., Hoff, H. 2012. Water implications offoreign direct investment in Ethiopia’s agricultural sector. Water Alternatives, 5, 223-242

Cornell, S. 2012. On the system properties ofthe planetary boundaries. Ecology and Society,17(1): r2
Costanza, R., van der Leeuw, S., Hibbard, K.,
Aulenbach, S., Brewer, S., Burek, M., Cornell,
S., Crumley, C., Dearing, J., Folke, C., Graumlich, L., Hegmon, M., Heckbert, S., Jackson,
S.T., Kubiszewski, I., Scarborough, V., Sinclair,P., Sörlin, S., Steffen, W. 2012. Developing an
Integrated History and future of People on Earth(IHOPE). Current Opinion in Environmental
Sustainability, 4, 106-114

Ellegard, K., Svedin, U. 2012. Torsten Hagerstrand’s time-geography as the cradle of the activity approach in transport geography. Journal ofTransport Geography, 23, 17-25
Eriksson, H., Byrne, M., de la Torre-Castro, M.
2012. Sea cucumber (Aspidochirotida) community, distribution and habitat utilization on thereefs of Mayotte, Western Indian Ocean. Marine
Ecology Progress Series, 452, 159-170
Eriksson, H., de la Torre-Castro, M., Olsson, P.
2012. Mobility, expansion and management of amulti-species scuba diving fishery in East Africa.
PLoS ONE, 7, e35504
Eriksson, H., Robinson, G., Slater, M.J., Troell,M. 2012. Sea cucumber aquaculture in theWestern Indian Ocean: challenges for sustainable
livelihood and stock improvement. Ambio, 41,
109-121.
Fidelman, P., Evans, L., Fabinyi, M., Foale, S.,
Cinner, J., Rosen, F. 2012. Governing large-scalemarine commons: Contextual challenges in the
Coral Triangle. Marine Policy, 36, 42-53
Folke, C., Anderies, J.M., Gunderson, L., Janssen,
M.A. 2012. An uncommon scholar of the commons. Ecology and Society 17(2): 31​Crépin, A-S., Biggs, R., Polasky, S., Troell, M., de
Zeeuw, A. 2012. Regime shifts and management.
Ecological Economics, 84, 15-22

Folke, C., Gunderson, L. 2012. Reconnecting to
the biosphere: a social-ecological renaissance.
Ecology and Society 17(4): 55

Crona, B.I., Parker, J.N. 2012. Learning in
support of governance: theories, methods and aframework to assess how bridging organizations
contribute to adaptive resource governance.
Ecology and Society, 17(1), 32

Frocklin, S., de la Torre-Castro, M., Lindstrom,L., Jiddawi, N.S., Msuya, F.S. 2012. Seaweed
mariculture as a development project in Zanzibar,
East Africa: A price too high to pay? Aquaculture, 356, 30-39

Carpenter, S.R., Arrow, K.J., Barrett, S., Biggs,
R., Brock, W.A., Crépin, A-S., Engström, V.,
Folke, C., Hughes, T.P., Nautsky, N., Li, C.Z.,
McCarney, G., Meng, K., Mäler, K-G., Polasky,S., Scheffer, M., Shogren, J., Sterner, T ., Vincent,JR., Walker, BH., Xepapadeas, A ., de Zeeuw, A.
2012. General resilience to cope with extreme
events. Sustainability, 4, 3248-3259

Daniel, T.C., Muhar, A., Arnberger, A., Aznar,O., Boyd, J.W., Chan, K. M. A., Costanza,R., Elmqvist, T., Flint, C.G., Gobster, P.H.,
Gret-Regamey, A., Lave, R., Muhar, S., Penker,
M., Ribe, R.G., Schauppenlehner, T., Sikor, T.,
Soloviy, I., Spierenburg, M., Taczanowska, K.,
Tam, J., von der Dunk, A. 2012. Contributions ofcultural services to the ecosystem services agenda.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
USA (PNAS), 109, 8812-8819

Galaz, V. 2012. Geo-engineering, governance, andsocial-ecological systems: critical issues and joint
research needs. Ecology and Society, 17(1), 24

Casini, M., Blenckner, T., Mollmann, C., Gardmark, A., Lindegren, M., Llope, M., Kornilovs,
G., Plikshs, M., Stenseth, N. C. 2012. Predator
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Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS), 109, 81858189

Davies, P., Lundholm, C. 2012. Students’
understanding of socio-economic phenomena:
Conceptions about the free provision of goods
and services. Journal of Economic Psychology,
33, 79-89

Galaz, V., Biermann, F., Folke, C., Nilsson, M.,
Olsson, P. 2012. Global environmental governance and planetary boundaries: An introduction.
Ecological Economics, 81, 1-3

Carpenter, S.R., Folke, C., Norström, A., Olsson,
O., Schultz, L., Agarwal, B., Balvanera, P., Campbell, B., Castilla, J.C., Cramer, W., DeFries, R.,
Eyzaguirre, P., Hughes, T.P, Polasky, S., Sanusi, Z.,
Scholes, R., Spierenburg, M. 2012. Program on
ecosystem change and society: an international
research strategy for integrated social–ecologicalsystems. Current Opinion in Environmental
Sustainability, 4, 134-138

Cinner, J.E., Daw, T.M., McClanahan, T.R.,
Muthiga, N., Abunge, C., Hamed, S., Mwaka, B.,
Rabearisoa, A., Wamukota, A., Fisher, E., Jiddawi,
N. 2012. Transitions toward co-management:
The process of marine resource management
devolution in three east African countries. Global
Environmental Change, 22, 651-658

Daw, T.M., Cinner, J.E., McClanahan, T.R.,
Brown, K., Stead, S.M., Graham, N. A. J., Maina,
J. 2012. To fish or not to fish: factors at multiple
scales affecting artisanal fishers’ readiness to exita declining fishery. PLOS ONE, 7, e31460
de la Torre-Castro, M. 2012. Governance forsustainability: insights from marine resource use
in a tropical setting in the Western Indian Ocean.
Coastal Management, 40, 612-633

Galaz, V., Biermann, F., Crona, B., Loorbach,D., Folke, C., Olsson, P., Nilsson, M., Allouche,J., Persson, Å., Reischl, G. 2012. ‘Planetary
boundaries’-exploring the challenges for global
environmental governance. Current Opinion in
Environmental Sustainability, 4, 80-87

Galaz, V., Cornell, S., Rockström, J., Persson,
Å. 2012. Environment: Planetary boundaries
concept is valuable. Nature, 486, 191-191
Galaz, V., Crona, B., Österblom, H., Olsson, P.,
Folke, C. 2012. Polycentric systems and interacting planetary boundaries - Emerging governanceof climate change-ocean acidification-marine
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Garg, K.K., Karlberg, L., Barron, J., Wani,
S.P., Rockström, J. 2012. Assessing impacts ofagricultural water interventions in the Kothapallywatershed, Southern India. Hydrological Processes, 26, 387-404
Gómez-Baggethun, E., Reyes-García, V., Olsson,
P., Montes, C. 2012. Traditional ecologicalknowledge and community resilience to environmental extremes: A case study in Doñana,SW Spain. Global Environmental Change, 22,
640-650
Gotzenberger, L., de Bello, F., Brathen, K.A.,
Davison, J., Dubuis, A., Guisan, A., Leps, J.,
Lindborg, R., Moora, M., Partel, M., Pellissier, L.,
Pottier, J., Vittoz, P., Zobel, K., Zobel, M. 2012.
Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects. Biological Reviews, 87, 111-127
Graham, M., Ernstson, H. 2012. Co-management
at the fringes: Examining stakeholder perspectives at Macassar Dunes, Cape Town, South
Africa - at the intersection of high biodiversity,urban poverty, and inequality. Ecology andSociety 17 (2), 34
Gustafsson, B.G., Schenk, F., Blenckner, T.,
Eilola, K., Meier, H. E. M., Müller-Karulis, B.,
Neumann, T., Ruoho-Airola, T., Savchuk, O.P.,
Zorita, E. 2012. Reconstructing the developmentof Baltic Sea eutrophication 1850-2006. Ambio,
41, 534-548
Haider, J.L., Quinlan, A., Peterson, G.D. 2012. Interacting traps: resilience assessment of a pasturemanagement system in Northern Afghanistan.
Planning Theory and Practice, 13, 312-319
Haider, J., van Oudenhoven, F. 2012. Hopeful
harvest: food and agriculture as a foundation
for peace in northern Afghanistan. Solutions, 3,
18-23
Hentati-Sundberg, J., Österblom, H., Kadin, M.,
Jansson, Å., Olsson, O. 2012. The Karlsö murrelab methodology can stimulate innovative seabird
research. Marine Ornithology, 40, 11-16
Hong, B., Swaney, D.P., Morth, C-M., Smedberg,
E., Eriksson Hagg, H., Humborg, C., Howarth,
R.W., Bouraoui, F. 2012. Evaluating regionalvariation of net anthropogenic nitrogen andphosphorus inputs (NANI/NAPI), major drivers,
nutrient retention pattern and management implications in the multinational areas of Baltic Sea
basin. Ecological Modelling, 227, 117-135
Howarth, R., Swaney, D.P., Billen, G., Garnier,J., Hong, B., Humborg, C., Johnes, P., Morth,
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Kadin, M., Österblom, H., Hentati-Sundberg,J., Olsson, O. 2012. Contrasting effects of foodquality and quantity on a marine top predator.
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MacKenzie, B.R., Meier, H. E. M., Lindegren, M.,
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Keys, P. W., van der Ent, R. J. , Gordon, L. J. ,Hoff, H. , Nikoli, R., Savenije, H. H. G. 2012.
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Larsson, M. 2012. Environmental entrepreneurship in organic agriculture in Järna, Sweden.
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Marin, A., Gelcich, S., Castilla, J.C, Berkes, F.
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Nyström, M., Norström, A.V., Blenckner, T.,
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Deutsch, L., Dhakal, S., Elmqvist, T., Farahbakhshazad, N., Gaffney, O., Haberl, H., Lavorel,
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Ernstson, H., Sörlin, S. Ecosystem services astechnology of globalization: On articulating
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Beijerinstitutet för Ekologisk Ekonomi (KVA),
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Gårdmark, A., Lindegren, M., Neuenfeldt, S.,
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Garg, K.K., Wani, S.P., Barron, J., Karlberg, L.,
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Malmer, P., 2012. Bringing Knowledge Diversity
to Landscape Governance. Ecoagriculture Partners. Landscape for People, Food and Nature
Blog, http://wle. cgiar. org/blogs/2012/09/13/
bringing-knowledge-diversity-to-landscape-governance/
Moberg, F. , Haeggman, M. , Olsson, P. , Brisvall,M., 2012. SHIFT – Innovations for a resilient
future. Shift is a new concept handcrafted toaccelerate a new generation of businesses
toward sustainability. Shift connects entrepreneurs with experienced mentors, leading scientists
and investors. Albaeco, Stockholm.
Nekoro, M., Ericsdotter, S., Havet viktigt förÖstersjöbor, BalticSTERN Secretariat, HavsUtsikt
1/2012. ISSN: 1104-0513
Norström, A., 2012. Main contributor to Sustainable Development Update blog,
www. sdupdate. org
Norström, A. , Malmer, P., 2012. Building
resilience through customary sustainable use of
biodiversity. Sudstainable Development Update,www. sdupdate.org
Norström, A. , Malmer, P., 2012. Bringing different knowledge systems to the IPBES. Sustainable
Development Update Blog. http://www.
sdupdate.org/component/content/article/5-feature/180-bringing-different-knowledge-systems-to-the-ipbes
Olsson, P., Grankvist, P., På jakt efter pengar
och paradigmskiften. Malmö, Veckans Affärer,Veckans Affärer, 2012-05-15

Most cited centre publications 2007-2013
1. A safe operating space for humanity
Rockström, J., Steffen, W., Noone, K., Persson, Å.,Chapin, III, F.S., Lambin, E., Lenton, T.M., Scheffer,
M., Folke, C., Schellnhuber, H., Nykvist, B., De
Wit, C.A., Hughes, T., van der Leeuw, S., Rodhe,
H., Sörlin, S., Snyder, P.K., Costanza, R., Svedin,U., Falkenmark, M., Karlberg, L., Corell, R.W.,
Fabry, V.J., Hansen, J., Walker, B.H., Liverman, D.,
Richardson, K., Crutzen, C., Foley. J. 2009. A safe
operating space for humanity. Nature 461: 472-475
DOI 10.1038/461472a
2. Complexity of coupled humanand natural systems
Liu, J., T. Dietz, S.R. Carpenter, M. Alberti, C.
Folke, E. Moran, A.C. Pell, P. Deadman, T. Kratz, J.
Lubchenco, E. Ostrom, Z. Ouyang, W. Provencher,
C.L. Redman, S.H. Schneider, W.W. Taylor. 2007.
Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems. Science 317:1513-1516.
3. Scenarios for Global Biodiversity
in the 21st Century
Pereira H. M., P. W. Leadley, V. Proença, R. Alkemade, J. P. W. Scharlemann, J. F. Fernandez-Manjarrés,M. B. Araújo, P. Balvanera, R. Biggs, W. W. L. Cheung, L. Chini, H. D. Cooper, E. L. Gilman, S. Guénette, G. C. Hurtt, H. P. Huntington, G. M. Mace, T.
Oberdorff, C. Revenga, P. Rodrigues, R. J. Scholes,
U. R. Sumaila, and M. Walpole. 2010. Scenarios
for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century. Science
330:1496-1501. DOI: 10.1126/science.1196624.
4. Solutions for a cultivated planet
Jonathan A. Foley, Navin Ramankutty, Kate
A. Brauman, Emily S. Cassidy, James S. Gerber,
Matt Johnston, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Christine
O’Connell, Deepak K. Ray, Paul C. West, ChristianBalzer, Elena M. Bennett, Stephen R. Carpenter,
Jason Hill, Chad Monfreda, Stephen Polasky, JohanRockström, John Sheehan, Stefan Siebert, David
Tilman & David P. M. Zaks. 2011. Solutions for acultivated planet. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature10452
5. Coupled human and natural systems
Liu, J., T. Dietz, S.R. Carpenter, C. Folke, M. Alberti,
C.L. Redman, S.H. Schneider, E. Ostrom, A.N. Pell,
J. Lubchenco, W.W. Taylor, Z. Ouyang, P. Deadman,
T. Kratz and W. Provencher. 2007. Coupled Humanand Natural Systems. Ambio 36:639-649.
6. Turning back from the brink: Detecting an
impending regime shift in time to avert it
Biggs, R., Carpenter, S.R., and Brock, W.A. 2008.
Turning back from the brink: Detecting an impending regime shift in time to avert it. In PNAS
January 20, 2009 vol. 106 no. 3 826-831.
7. Agricultural modifications of hydrological flows
create ecological surprises
Gordon, L.J., Peterson, G.D., Bennett, E. 2008.
Agricultural Modifications of Hydrological Flows
Create Ecological Surprises. Trends in Ecology and
Evolution. 23: 211-219.

8. Human-induced trophic cascades andecological regime shifts in the Baltic seaÖsterblom, H., S. Hansson, U. Larsson, O. Hjerne, F.
Wulff, R. Elmgren and C. Folke. 2007. Human-induced Trophic Cascades and Ecological Regime
Shifts in the Baltic Sea . Ecosystems 10:877-889.
9. Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe
Operating Space for Humanity
Rockström, J., W. Steffen, K. Noone, Å. Persson, F.
S. Chapin, III, E. Lambin, T. M. Lenton, M. Scheffer,
C. Folke, H. Schellnhuber, B. Nykvist, C. A. De Wit,
T. Hughes, S. van der Leeuw, H. Rodhe, S. Sörlin, P.
K. Snyder, R. Costanza, U. Svedin, M. Falkenmark,L. Karlberg, R. W. Corell, V. J. Fabry, J. Hansen, B.
Walker, D. Liverman, K. Richardson, P. Crutzen,
and J. Foley. 2009. Planetary boundaries:exploring
the safe operating space for humanity. Ecology andSociety 14(2): 32. online
10. Navigating the transition to ecosystem-based
management of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Olsson, P., Folke, C., Hughes, T.P., 2008, Navigating
the Transition to Ecosystem-Based Management of
the Great Barrier Reef ,Australia. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences, USA 105:9489-9494.
11. Capturing the cornerstones of coral reef
resilience: linking theory to practiceNyström, M., Graham, N., Lokrantz, J., Norström,
A. 2008. Capturing the Cornerstones of Coral Reef
Resilience - Linking Theory to Practice. Coral Reefs.
October 1st, DOI: 10.1007/s00338-008-0426-z.
12. Understanding relationships among multiple
ecosystem services
Bennett, E.M., Peterson, G.D., Gordon, L.J. (2009).
Understanding relationships among multiple ecosystem services. Ecology Letters 12: 13941404
13. The role of social networks in natural resource
governance: What relational patterns make adifference?
Bodin, Ö., Crona, B.I. 2009. The role of social
networks in natural resource governance: Whatrelational patterns make a difference? Global Environmental Change 19: 366–374.
14. Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies
for a rapidly changing planet
Chapin, F.S., III, S.R. Carpenter, G.P. Kofinas, C.
Folke, N. Abel, W.C. Clark, P. Olsson, D.M. Stafford
Smith, B.H. Walker, O.R. Young, F. Berkes, R. Biggs,
J.M. Grove, R.L. Naylor, E. Pinkerton, W. Steffenand F.J. Swanson. 2010. Ecosystem Stewardship:
Sustainability Strategies for a Rapidly Changing Planet. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25:241-249.
15. Ecosystem service bundles for analyzing
tradeoffs in diverse landscapes
C. Raudsepp-Hearnea, G. D. Peterson, E. M. Bennettc. 2010. Ecosystem service bundles for analyzing
tradeoffs in diverse landscapes. In Proceedingsof the National Academy of Science. Published
online before print March 1, 2010, doi: 10.1073/
pnas.0907284107

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Centre Staff 2012
Centre Management
Carl Folke Science director
Olof Olsson Deputy director
Johan Rockström Executive director
Administration
Johan Ahlenius Financial & education
administrator
Astrid Auraldsson Coordinator to
executive director
Julie Goodness Project coordinator
Bengt Hall IT-support
Gunnar Jacobsson IT-support
Denise Kreppenhofer Human resources
administrator
Karolina Krzyzanowska Financial 		
controller
Therese La Monde Office & financial
administrator
Christina Leijonhuvud Affiliatedadministrator
Cecilia Linder Human resources
Cornelia Ludwig Project assistant
Emina Muratspahic Head of
administration
Stina Nieminen Project controller
Henrik Pompeius Fundraiser
Maria Schewenius Project coordinator
Agneta Sundin Affiliated administrator
Practice, Policy and Communication
Anna Emmelin Communication
strategist
Marika Haeggman Communication 		
officer
Sturle Hauge Simonsen Deputy head ofcommunications
Ellika Hermansson Török Project leader
Cajsa Martinsson Communication 		
officer
Fredrik Moberg Senior strategic advisor
Maria Schultz Head of communcations
and Swedbio
Arvid Bergsten Department service
Fredrik Hannerz Senior strategic advisor
Mattias Klum Affiliated senior advisor
Marmar Nekoro Communication andpolicy officer (BalticStern and BNI)
Jeff Ranara Department service

Modeling and Visualisation lab
Emma Sundstöm System developer
Resilience and Development
programme (Swedbio)Håkan Berg Senior researcher & advisor
Pamela Cordero Financial controller &administrator
Sara Elfstrand Project officer
Pernilla Malmer Senior advisor
Mauricio Portilla Ospina Project
assistantMarcus Öhman Senior advisor
BalticSTERN Secretariat
Kerstin Blyh Officer
Siv Ericsdotter Head of secretariat
Henrik Scharin Officer
Education
Theodor Adolfsson Course assistantLisa Deutsch Director of studies (Seniorlecturer)
Eleonora Horn Course assistantMiriam Huitric Programme director
Elin Sperber Ossiansson Course
assistant

Research staff with main
theme/programme association
Theme 1 Freshwater, food andecosystem services
Jennie Barron Affiliated researcher
Elin Enfors Postdoc
Malin Falkenmark Affiliated seniorresearcher
Line Gordon Senior researcher
Tilman Hertz Visiting researcher
Louise Karlberg Affiliated researcher
Timothy Karpozoglou Postdoc
Patrick Keys PhD student
Steven Lade Postdoc
Mats Lannerstad Affiliated researcher
Olivia Murzabekov PhD student
Issa Oudraogo Postdoc
Claudia Pahl-Wostl Affiliated senior 		
researcher
Angelina Sanderson Bellamy Researcher
Hanna Sinare PhD student

Theme 2 Urbansocial-ecological systems
Erik Andersson Researcher
Stephan Barthel Affiliated researcher
Sara Borgström Postdoc
Johan Colding Affiliated seniorresearcher
Thomas Elmqvist Professor
Henrik Ernstson Researcher
Marnie Graham PhD studentÅsa Green Affiliated researcher
Joshua Lewis PhD student
Cathy Wilkinson Researcher
Theme 3 Governance ofcoastal and marine systems
Simon Birnbaum Researcher
Wijnand Boonstra Researcher
Eny Buchary Postdoc
Beatrice Crona Senior researcher
Tim Daw Researcher
Jonas Hentati Sundberg PhD student
Martina Kadin PhD student
Andrew Merrie PhD student
Marc Metian Postdoc
Magnus Nyström Senior lecturer
Max Troell Affiliated senior researcher
Matilda Valman PhD student
Henrik Österblom Associate senior 		
lecturer
Theme 4 Regime shifts
Oonsie Biggs Researcher
Thorsten Blenckner Senior researcher 		(also theme 3 and BNI)
Jamila Haider PhD student
Maike Hamann PhD student
Garry Peterson Professor
Juan Carlos Rocha Gordo PhD student
Theme 5 Global andcross-scale dynamics
Victoria Bignet Project assistantRobert Constanza Affiliated senior 		
researcher
Sarah Cornell Researcher
Ann-Sophie Crepin Affiliated senior 		
researcher
Gustav Engström PhD student
Ingo Fetzer Researcher

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Victor Galaz Senior lecturer
Johan Gars, Affiliated researcher
Therese Lindahl Affiliated researcher
Karl-Göran Mäler Affiliated senior 		
researcher
Will Steffen Affiliated senior researcher
Brian Walker Affiliated senior researcher
Theme 6 Adaptive governance,
networking and learning
Jenny Beckman ResearcherÖrjan Bodin Associate senior lecturer
Andreas Duit Affiliated Senior Lecturer
Johan Enqvist PhD student
Diego Galafassi PhD student
Divya Gopal PhD student
Thomas Hahn Researcher
Stephen Lansing Affiliated seniorresearcher
Cecilia Lundholm Affiliated senior 		
researcher
Vanessa Masterson PhD student
Björn Nyqvist, Affiliated Postdoc
Per Olsson Researcher

Ryan Plummer Affiliated seniorresearcher
Remberto Salazar Project assistantAngelina Sanderson Bellamy Postdoc
Annica Sandström Postdoc
Åsa Swartling Affiliated researcher
Maria Tengö Researcher
Franciska von Heland PhD student
Jacob von Heland PhD student
Simon West PhD student
Frances Westley Affiliated seniorresearcher
Programme on Ecosystem
Change and Society (PECS)
Ulf Molau Visiting professor
Albert Norström Researcher
Lisen Schultz Researcher
IHOPE
Carole Crumley Senior researcher
Uno Svedin Affiliated senior researcher(also theme 5)
Sverker Sörlin Affiliated senior researcher

Baltic Nest Institute (BNI)
Barbara Deutsch Postdoc
Hanna Eriksson Hägg Researcher
Bo Gustafsson Managing director
Erik Gustafsson Researcher
Bongghi Hong Consultant
Christoph Humborg Director of BNI
Bärbel Müller-Karulis Researcher
Carl-Magnus Mörth Professor
Susa Niiranen PhD Student
Saskia Otto Postdoc
Miguel Rodrigues Medina Research 		engineer
Oleg Savchuck Researcher
Erik Smedberg Researcher
Alexander Sokolov Researcher
Dennis Swaney Consultant
Maciej Tomczak Researcher
Johanna Yletuinen PhD Student
Fredrik Wulff Affiliated senior researcher

Centre researcher Beatrice
Crona, an expert on marine
resource governance, wasin 2012 elected to theYoung Academy of Sweden.
The Academy was founded in May 2011 by theRoyal Swedish Academy of
Science.

In-house environmental action plan
Stockholm Resilience Centre is actively involved in the current
Stockholm University process of becoming ISO 14001 certified. The
environmental action plan was updated late 2012 and an internal
university revision was carried out at the start of 2013. An external
revision is planned for the autumn of 2013. The action plan willfurther be extended to include aspects related to good psychosocial
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For the second year running, centre staff went on a three-day
team building trip to Stora Karlsö, the world’s second oldest
nature reserve, known for its abundant bird life.

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