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Stockholm Resilience Centre Annual Report 2013
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Chair’s preface
In institutional terms, 2013 was probably the most critical year for the
Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC). The Centre reached several importantjunctures in its evolution, which it navigated successfully, placing it on a
resilient pathway to the future

Professor Arild
Underdal,Chair of the Board

One of the most important junctures
was the first full-scale international evaluation
by Mistra, SRC’s core funding agency. As 2013
constituted the end of this first ordinary phase(2009-2013), Mistra organised an international
panel of researchers to scrutinize SRC’s achievements since the start in 2007. The Centre prepareda Progress Report for the period 2007-2012, and an
Action Plan for 2014-2018. The Progress Report,
which can be downloaded at www.stockholmresilience.su.se/progress, provides detailed documentation of the Centre’s performances within science,education, communication and administration. It
is an impressive and all-encompassing report on
the SRC’s achievements during its first six years.
It demonstrates how SRC researchers publish
in both natural and social science journals andadvance novel thinking on approaches to sustainability science. A bibliometric analysis shows that
SRC’s publications have high citation rates and thatinterdisciplinary approaches and methodologies,
in addition to empirical research, are advocated.
The report also demonstrates the Centre’s ambitionof linking science, business and practice throughdialogue, and experimentation with the arts. Overthe years, this approach has generated a significant
impact within policy and practice, from the local
to the global level.
Great progress has also been made in theCentre’s education programme. The Resilience
Research School attracts an increasing numberof young scholars, as do SRC’s MSc programme
and PhD programme. Overall, the Centre is now awell-functioning organization.

Since its inception in 2007 theStockholm Resilience Centre has
become a world leading research
centre advancing interdisciplinary
research on the dynamics of interconnected social ecological systems.
SRC’s research focus is tremendously relevant for understandingsocial-ecological relationships andinteractions from the local to theglobal-level, issues critical for the
future of both the earth’s ecosystems and human wellbeing.
Conclusion from the 2013 Mistra External
review panel

A second strategic development during 2013 was
the firm establishment of the Centre as a permanent institution at Stockholm University. The
Centre is now placed within the Natural Science
Faculty, while still operating across all faculties,
and running its own PhD programme in sustainability science (now with almost 40 PhD students).
As the chairman of the SRC board, I am impressed and proud of the Centre’s achievements. The
positive outcome of the Mistra evaluation panel
comes as no surprise and is indeed very encouraging. We are all very grateful to Mistra for pledging continued support for the coming five years.

Vision & Mission
The vision of the Stockholm Resilience Centre is a world where
socialecological 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 humancivilizations with the biosphere.
The mission of Stockholm Resilience Centre is to advance researchfor governance and management of social-ecological systems tosecure ecosystem services for human well-being and resilience forlong-term sustainability. We apply and further develop the scientificadvancements of this research within practice, policy and academic
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Directors’ view
In addition to continuous reflections on our advancements within science, education and outreach, 2013
offered an important opportunity to look ahead. What will
the SRC accomplish in the coming five years? Through astrategic planning process, the Centre prepared an Action
plan for 2014-2018, which was scrutinized by the Mistrainternational evaluation team, and will form a guiding framework for the years to come. The leadership of the Centre isvery excited about the opportunity to continue refining andamplifying our contributions to science and our insights onsocial-ecological systems. We will continue to study interactions
from local to global scales, advance approaches to sustainablebiosphere stewardship, and explore transformative pathways
and sustainable innovations contributing to global sustainability and a resilient future for people and planet.
Key strategies for the future include an increased emphasis
on our place-based research, investing further in our crossscale dynamics research, and the exploration of emerging
areas, such as social-ecological innovation and the interface
between resilience, behaviour and belief systems. All ofthese are placed in the context of a human shaped biosphere

Johan Rockström,
Executive director

and the global challenges ahead. As a complement to these
efforts, we will place an even stronger emphasis on forward
looking scientific syntheses, where our research connects
even better to the larger world of sustainability science.
Some broad areas of research that may be relevant forsuch integrated syntheses are:•  Social-ecological resilience perspective on ecosystemservices•  The role of cognition and belief systems in reconnecting

to the biosphere•  Behaviour, economics and nature networks•  The role of global dynamics and cross-scale interactions•  Transformations and social-ecological innovation

Such areas of emerging integrated knowledge will also form
the basis for future research at the Centre. We will continue
to engage with researchers around the world in our joint
effort of advancing sustainability science, and contributewith insights that support sustainable and resilient pathways
to human well-being and prosperity.

Carl Folke,
Science director

Centre receives continued
funding from
Based on an independent, international evaluation of the centre, Mistra, the Swedish
Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research has decided to continue its corefunding of the centre. This means a further 93 million SEK between 2014-2018.
”The centre has exceeded our expectations and established itself as a world
leading institution on resilience research”, says Mistra director Lars-Erik Liljelund.

Olof Olsson,
Deputy director

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First to the finish
Introducing Cibele Queiroz, our first PhD student to graduate
in sustainability science
The sense of pride and relief was obvious when Cibele
Queiroz finally nailed her PHD dissertation to the wall in
the Centre’s lobby 8 May 2013: pride because her study
constituted a landmark in the Centre’s research history, andrelief because the work was exhausting. Not that anyone
doubted she would get there eventually. Her supervisor, Regina
Lindborg, describes her as a “brilliant and enthusiastic” researcher who always comes up with new and interesting ideas.
That said, Cibele’s interest in natural resources management is not a particularly new one. Not to say she was bornto do research on managing landscapes undergoing farmland
abandonment, but her field work was conducted not too far
off Vieira do Minho, a small village in the northern part ofPortugal where she spent the first six years of her life.

Maintain or abandon?
In her research, Cibele combined her own work with similar
studies on a global scale and found that the perceptions ofabandonment impacts differ across world regions. Europeanand Asian studies report mainly negative impacts, while inmany North and South American studies, abandonment
trends are described as positive. So what to do? Keep the
agricultural practices or promote forest regeneration after
abandonment? There is no black and white answer, says
Cibele. “In some areas maintaining a moderate level ofagricultural disturbance can maximize species richness with
benefits for biodiversity. But in other cases, when the social
structure of farming communities has been eroded andlow-intensity farming is no longer socially or economically
viable, abandonment followed by re-wilding can be the best
option.”The same dilemma applies to whether or not keep small,rural communities alive, something she has been forced toreflect upon on several occasions during her research. “On
the one hand we want to maintain a strong connection
to these countryside landscapes, where the direct relation
between people and ecosystems is still visible. They carry
the history of our childhood or our parents’ and grandparents’ childhood. On the other hand, cities are strong
attractors for young people who strive for a different andmore convenient life.”
As for ending up in Stockholm, she has mainly science
director Carl Folke to “blame”. While working on the subglobal assessments of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment,
she got in contact with Folke, who encouraged her to pursue aPh.D at the Centre. “It was wonderful when Cibele decided
to do her PhD with us. Her work on land abandonment,
biodiversity and ecosystem services is path-breaking in how itshows the dynamics of social-ecological systems,” says Carl
Folke. With a scholarship secured, Cibele started her studies
in 2007, the same year the Centre was launched.

A luxurySome six years of hard work, and a four year old son later,
Cibele wants to stay in the world of sustainability research.
She will now embark on the adventures of being a postdoc at the Centre, working on projects more connected toecosystem services assessments in Sweden. “Now that I am
working here it is difficult to think of another place where I
could learn so much and constantly renew myself,” she says.
As for the future, she hopes to build her own small researchgroup. “I am genuinely interested and curious about the systems I study. I want to understand how they work and deal
with the many questions they raise about our society. It is aluxury to actually be able to study the things you burn for.”Her work on land
abandonment, biodiversity
and ecosystem services
is path-breaking in how
it shows the dynamics ofsocial-ecological systems.
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Our research framework
The research framework developed at the Stockholm ResilienceCentre has been highlighted by MISTRA as one of the corefundaments for the success of the Centre
This framework emphasizes that all
people are dependent on the collective
work of the Earth’s ecosystems, thebiosphere, and its generation of criticalecosystem services.
Centre research is regarded as part ofthe larger research area of Sustainability
Science, a broad interdisciplinary fielddefined by the problems it addresses
rather than by the disciplines it employs.
In particular, the field seeks to facilitatea transition toward sustainability by
improving society’s capacity to use theearth in ways that simultaneously meetthe needs of a much larger but stabilizing
human population, sustain the life support systems of the planet, and substantially reduce hunger and poverty.
SRC’s focus is on social-ecologicalresearch, resilience thinking and biosphere stewardship, which recognizethat human actions are embedded inand shaping the biosphere and its resilience from local to global levels. Efforts

aimed at understanding interrelatedsocial-ecological systems and the crossscale dynamics of the Anthropocene,by using a complex systems perspective,
are at the core of SRC research and ininteractions with practice and policy.
Currently, research is divided into
six themes (see illustration) with ample
collaboration across them. There areseveral emerging research initiatives thatcross these areas. Some have been up
and running for a while, but others are
more recent. These initiatives include:
Transformations and Social-Ecological
System Innovation; A Social-Ecological Systems Perspective on Ecosystem
Services with PECS (Programme on
Ecosystem Change and Society) as central; Cross-scale Interactions and Global
Dynamics, having strong interactions
with the Planetary Boundaries Lab, The
Beijer Institute’s global programme,
The Global Economic Dynamics andthe Biosphere Programme of the Royal

Swedish Academy of Sciences; Behaviour,
Economics, and Nature Networks with
the Beijer Institute; and Sources andSinks of Psychological and Cultural
Resilience, this being the most recent.
SRC research is problem oriented
as well as inter- and transdisciplinary.
Within the SRC framework, Centre
researchers are using a diversity oftheories, approaches, methods and perspectives, including the co-production ofknowledge together with practitioners
and other stakeholders. The ambitious
research level at the Centre requires indepth collaboration, not only among the
researchers in Stockholm, but also with
our international networks of collaborators and diverse stakeholders. Without
such collaboration, the complexity ofa wide range of issues would be too
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Publications
It has been a productive year with as many as 107 articles published,plus another 17 reported online in 2013 (officially published in 2014)
There were publications in 56 different
scientific journals in 2013 from diverse
disciplines and several interdisciplinary
journals. Centre researchers have also
been successful this year in publishing
their scientific work in journals like
Nature, along with sister journals Nature
Climate Change and Nature Communications, Frontiers in Ecology and theEnvironment, Trends in Ecology &Evolution, BioScience, PhilosophicalTransactions of the Royal Society,
Global Environmental Change, Ecological Applications, Ecological Economics,
Environment and Development Economics, Ecology and Society, Sustainability, Current Opinion in Environmental
Sustainability, Ambio, PLoS ONE,Climatic Change, Conservation Biology,
Global Change Biology, Hydrological
Processes, Marine Ecology Progress
Series, Marine Policy, Environmental
Science & Policy, and others. For the
first time in the history of SRC publications, articles have appeared in 29“new journals” , which include Landscape and Urban Planning, Agriculture,
Ecosystems & Environment, Reviewsin Fisheries Science, Review of Policy
Research, Global and Planetary Change,
Theoretical Ecology, Environmental
Values, Food Systems, and the Journalof Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. A major book on urbanization,
biodiversity, and ecosystem services,
edited by Thomas Elmqvist and colleagues, has been published with Springer.
Moreover, 18 book chapters, plus some
35 policy reports, as well as popularscience and media publications, havebeen produced.
There have been many workshops
organized during the year, both in-house
workshops and international ones, andall themes have been actively engaged.
SRC researchers have given keynotes
and presentations at conferences andmeetings worldwide. Many have been
engaged in science, practice, and policy
processes in Sweden and internationally.

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Introducing a new research
management structure
As a response to the rapidly growing organization, researchersLine Gordon and Henrik Österblom were in 2013 appointed“Deputy Science Directors” at the Centre“These shared activities have great potential for stimulating
collaboration and create in-depth insights on the dynamics
of social-ecological systems,” says Henrik Österblom.

New research syntheses

Their prime tasks will be to ensure that Centre researchfits within the overall research framework, help provide
comprehensive overview and strategic direction, and facilitate
collaboration across the research themes.
“Developing research syntheses that cut across individual
research projects is one of the core mechanisms in which we
can ensure that research fits within the research frameworkof the Centre while it also contributes to advancing thescience in our research field,” says Line Gordon.

Speed lunches
However, being able to effectively work with syntheses,
together with other researchers, requires an in-depth understanding of what the other colleagues are working on. One
popular method of ensuring this are the weekly, one-hourlong Monday “Speed Lunches” that started in August 2013
(pictured above). Here, researchers present their most recent
papers, their new research ideas, or new insights they havedrawn recently. Each presentation is restricted to four minutes,
which gives room for approximately ten presentations every
time and allows each person to present several times during
a semester. The speed lunches have been extremely wellattended (around 60-70 people per week), and have alreadysubstantially increased the in-house knowledge about ongoing
research and events. In the spring 2013, the Centre also ran a“Marathon Day”, where all research themes presented theirmost “cutting edge” work for the rest of the Centre.

Several research syntheses have also been published during
2013, in line with the research direction outlined in the
Action Plan developed for Mistra in early 2013. Two examples
of such syntheses published during 2013 address the usefulnessof a social-ecological perspective on both ecosystem services
and regime shifts. The first one, written by Centre colleagues
Belinda Reyers, Oonsie Biggs and Thomas Elmqvist, waspublished in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. It
investigates how to use a more social-ecological approachin the measurement and analysis of ecosystem services. The
second paper by Steve Lade, Maja Schlüter and others was
published in Theoretical Ecology and advances the theories
around social-ecological regime shifts.
The Urban research theme has been very productive
when it comes to synthesis papers. Stephan Barthel, Johan
Colding and colleagues highlighted the role of “urban
green commons” in city development, and Barthel, together
with Uno Svedin and Carol Crumley, illustrated the roleof bio-cultural refugia for food security and biodiversity
in papers in Ecological Economics, Global Environmental
Change, Ecology and Society, and Landscape and Urban
Planning. Other papers that combine and provide new
findings include the SRC multi-authored paper on modelingof social–ecological scenarios in marine systems publishedin BioScience, an effort led by Henrik Österblom. Anotheris the paper on transformative agency in linked social-ecological systems published in Ecology and Society with Frances
Westley as lead and five SRC colleagues as co-authors.
During 2013, research theme leaders at the Centre also
engaged in continued collaboration to develop research
insights and started to work on making research synthesisa priority, as identified in the Action plan. Several research
theme and cross theme workshops were carried out, including topic specific workshops on Cross-Scale interactions,with participation by more than 20 Centre researchers, and a
two-day theme leader retreat at Ekskäret outside Stockholm.

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New Deputy Science Directors Line Gordon and Henrik Österblom.

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Research highlights
Scientific assessment behind Cities and Biodiversity
Outlook launched on World Habitat Day
Increasing urbanization over the next decades presents
not only unprecedented challenges for humanity, butalso opportunities to curb climate change, reduce water scarcity and improve food security. That is the main
message from the Cities and Biodiversity Outlook (CBO),
the world’s first global assessment on the relationshipbetween urbanization and biodiversity loss.
An action and policy summary was officially launchedduring the UN CBD COP11 meeting in October 2012, but ayear later, the more detailed scientific foundation behind
the CBO was launched in New York as part of the World
Habitat Day. The book Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities — A Global
Assessment draws on contributions from more than 120
scientists worldwide and is scientifically edited by Centre
researcher Thomas Elmqvist.
A video narrated by Hollywood actor Edward Norton
was produced in relation to the launch in New York andprovides a spectacular insight into the challenges andopportunities that come with an increasingly urbanisingplanet.
To watch the video and to read more about the Cities andBiodiversity Outlook, go to www.cbobook.org

Global Economic Dynamics
and the Biosphere – The
Erling-Persson Family
Academy Programme

Beatrice Crona

A new five-year research
programme was establishedin 2013 with the vision to bea platform for collaborationand enable synergies between
the Royal Swedish Academyof Sciences, the Stockholm
Resilience Centre (SRC), theBeijer Institute and other partners. The programme, entitled
Global Economic Dynamics
and the Biosphere (GEDB), is
funded by the Erling-Persson
Family Foundation and is led
by Centre researcher Beatrice
Crona (pictured) with Carl Folke,
Anne-Sophie Crépin and Victor
Galaz in the steering group.
The programme will be a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration on the challenges ofglobal change and sustainability. Early-career economists

will be able to collaborate withresearchers from both naturaland social sciences.
Current core areas of research are the effects on marinesocial-ecological systems bymarine resources trade andconsumption, interactions
between financial markets andthe biosphere, and macroeconomic modeling based on thepremise that the economic
system is embedded in thebiosphere.
Economists Johan Gars andMark Sanctuary, recruited fromthe Beijer Institute, and fisheries
ecologist Eny Buchary fromthe SRC form a core researchgroup with James Watson from
Princeton University and
the Nereus Program joining
in 2015. Tracy van Holt, aninterdisciplinary ecologist
from East Carolina University,
will spend six months within
GEDB starting January 2014.

Gretchen Daily, an SRC board
member and a highly respected
professor in Environmental
Science at Stanford University,
will spend two years in
Stockholm partly funded
by GEDB. Deeply engaged inresearch around the value of
ecosystem services, she will be
instrumental in the planningof a high-level research policy
event in Stockholm in 2015
where actors in the GEDB
network will join forces. Jim
Wilen, renowned environmental and natural researcheconomist from University ofCalifornia Davis, is affiliatedas guest professor. He will visit
regularly and mentor juniorscientists in addition to participating in research activities andproviding scientific guidance
to the development of theresearch themes.

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Centre-led project aimed at
empowering local communities in Mozambique, wins
UN award

Emily Boyd

Centre researcher Emily Boyd
has co-led a project aimed at
helping people in Mozambique“green” their urban neighbourhood and make it more resilient
to climate change.
On 6 November 2013 theproject, which is based in
Maputo, Mozambique, wasannounced to be among 17 inspiring projects selected as 2013
Lighthouse Activities under the
Momentum for Change initiative of the United Nations.
The project’s aim was to help
the community have more of aCentre contributes to newRockefeller programme onsocial innovation

Per Olsson

The Rockefeller Foundation
Global Fellowship Programon Social Innovation brings
together a diverse group of 18
leaders committed to integrating social innovation into
their work and interested inaddressing the root causesof problems affecting pooror vulnerable populations bytransforming the systems welive in – political, economic,
legal, educational, environmental, and social.
The programme was designed

Centre awarded £1.9 million
for new project on ecosystems and human well-being

Tim Daw

A new project led jointly by the
Stockholm Resilience Centre
and the University of Exeter has
been awarded £1.9 million by
Ecosystem Services for Poverty
Alleviation (ESPA).
The project, entitled Sustainable Poverty Alleviation from
Coastal Ecosystem Services(SPACES), will investigate thesay in government and businessplans for urban development.
Since being implemented, local
people have started a newcommunity recycling centre,
cutting down on litter; helped
clean and maintain drainage
channels to prevent potential
flooding problems; and now
have a stronger voice in urban
planning and development
decisions.
”An exciting finding fromthis work is the evidence that
local residents, including thosewith relatively low education,
want and are capable of handling information about theclimate, when it relates to theirown experiences of problems

such as flooding,” says Boyd.
The project was jointly
undertaken with involvementfrom Stockholm ResilienceCentre, the University ofReading, University College
London, University of York,FUNAB and Aalto University.
Lighthouse Activities and theMomentum for Change initiative are led by the UN Climate
Change Secretariat, to bringattention to activities acrossthe globe working towards a
low-carbon, resource-efficientworld.

by the Stockholm ResilienceCentre and the Waterloo
Institute for Social Innovation
and Resilience at the Universityof Waterloo in Canada.
Beginning in May 2013, thefellows will participate in four
intensive workshops, each held
in a different international location over the next year.
Through a series of presentations, small group exercises,site visits, and guidance frommentors, fellows will gain new
perspectives and skills to apply
in real time to the challenges
facing their own organizations
and networks.

Per Olsson, researcher at
Stockholm Resilience Centre,
helped design the programme.
”We want to contribute withinsights from our research andparticularly the importance oflinking humans and the environment when dealing with
innovation. We need innovations
that take social as well as
environmental aspects into
account, and that are able toscale up without negative
impacts”, says Olsson.

relationships between ecosystems and human well-being
with the goal of alleviating
poverty and improving sustainable resource use in thepoor coastal communities ofMozambique and Kenya.
”There is an assumed link
between ecosystem services
and poverty alleviation, butwhat we know from previous
research is that the actual impact of ecosystems on people’s

lives varies depending on theirneeds and their ability to accessthe benefits. This project willallow us to really explore thatlink for a number of ecosystemservices in a range of settings,”
says Centre researcher Tim
Daw, who will lead the project.

Read more about the project online,
at www.stockholmresilience.su.se
search word “Lighthouse”

Read more about the programme
on www.stockholmresilience.su.se:search term “Rockefeller”

Read more about the project onwww.stockholmresilience.su.se:search term “SPACES project”

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Scientific publications
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Making it in Makanya

Shelter from the storm
Mangroves provide important protection from wind damage during storms.
Das, S., Crépin, A.-S. 2013. Mangroves can provide protection against winddamage during storms. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 134, 98–107

Holistic approaches to sub-Saharanfarming can unlock poverty traps.
Enfors, E., 2013. Social–ecologicaltraps and transformations in drylandagro-ecosystems: Using water systeminnovations to change the trajectory ofdevelopment. Global Environmental
Change, 23, 51–60

How biodiversity conservation can greatly improvesustainable development.
Elmqvist, T., Fragkias, M., Goodness, J., Güneralp, B.,
Marcotullio, P.J., McDonald, R.I., Parnell, S., Schewenius,
M., Sendstad, M., Seto, K.C., Wilkinson, C. (eds.) 2013.
Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges
and Opportunities: A Global Assessment. Springer, New York.
755 p

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Rich biodiversity CAN exist in
and around cities

Rethinking biodiversity
Specific species with specific functions more important thansheer number of species.
Stuart-Smith, R.D., Bates, A.E., Lefcheck, J.S., Duffy, J.E.,
Baker, S.C., Thomson, R.J., Stuart-Smith, J.F., Hill, N.A.,
Kininmonth, S.J., Airoldi, L., Becerro, M.A., Campbell, S.J.,
Dawson, T.P., Navarrete, S.A., Soler, G.A., Strain, E.M.A.,
Willis, T.J., Edgar, G.J. 2013. Integrating abundance andfunctional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish
diversity. Nature, 501, 539-542

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Among agents and transformers
New theory on the roles of individuals fortransformative change.
Westley, F. R., O. Tjornbo, L. Schultz, P. Olsson,
C. Folke, B. Crona and Ö. Bodin. 2013. A theoryof transformative agency in linked social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society18(3): 27.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05072-180327

There’s a reason why they are called experts
Scenario planning yielding no different results than those of expert opinions.
Malinga, R., Gordon, L.J., Lindborg, R., Jewitt, G. 2013. Using Participatory
Scenario Planning to Identify Ecosystem Services in Changing Landscapes.
Ecology and Society, 18(4):10

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Avoid tipping overIt takes more than an action plan

Human activity could give rise to planetary-scale ecological regime shifts.
Hughes, T.P., Carpenter, S., Rockström, J., Scheffer, M., Walker, B. 2013.
Multiscale regime shifts and planetary boundaries. Trends in Ecology &Evolution, 28, 389-395

Institutions are slow in adopting new management
approaches.
Valman, M. 2013. Institutional stability andchange in the Baltic Sea: 30 years of issues, crises
and solutions. Marine Policy, 38, 54-64

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Get the management
right
Regardless of climate change, quality ofmanagement likely to determine Baltic
Sea future.
Niiranen, S., Yletyinen, J., Tomczak, M.T.,
Blenckner, T., Hjerne, O., MacKenzie,
B.R., Müller-Karulis, B., Neumann, T.,
Meier H.E.M. 2013. Combined effects
of global climate change and regional
ecosystem drivers on an exploited marine
food web. Global Change Biology, 19,3327–3342

Dealing with deadlocks and dichotomies
How resilience thinking can be useful in urban planning.
Erixon, H., Borgström, S., Andersson, E. 2013. Challenging dichotomies: Exploring
resilience as an integrative and operative conceptual framework for large-scale urban
green structures. Planning Theory and Practice, 14, 349-372

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Caring is protecting
Farmers’ interest in nature contributes to higher levels of biodiversity.
Ahnström, J., Bengtsson, J., Berg, Å., Hallgren, L., Boonstra, W.J., Björklund, J. 2013.
Farmers’ interest in nature and its relation to biodiversity in arable fields. International
Journal of Ecology, 617352, 1-9

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Back from the brink
Shocks and natural variability can help restore coral cover on degraded reefs.
Graham, N.A.J., Bellwood, D.R, Cinner, J.E., Hughes, T.P., Norström, A.V., Nyström,
M. 2013. Managing resilience to reverse phase shifts in coral reefs. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 11, 541–548

Insights from the Shirefor the future Earth
Social memory of agricultural practices
important for biodiversity and foodsecurity.
Barthel, S. Crumley, C., Svedin, U.
2013. Biocultural refugia: Safeguarding
diversity of practices for food security
and biodiversity. Global Environmental
Change, 23, 1142-1152

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Beefed up

Human nature

Smarter water management crucial for
Uruguay’s growing livestock production.
Ran, Y., Deutsch, L., Lannerstad, M.,
Heinke, J. 2013. Rapidly intensified
beef production in Uruguay: Impacts
on water-related ecosystem services.
Aquatic Procedia, 1, 77-87

Better understanding of the coupling between human behavior and ecologicaldynamics key to predicting ecological regime shifts.
Lade, S.J., Tavoni, A., Levin, S.A., Schlüter, M. 2013. Regime shifts in a socialecological system. Theoretical Ecology, 6, 359-372

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Photo J.George/The Bottom Road Sanctuary

Measuring theimmeasurable
New approach can make target onprotecting crucial ecosystem services
easier to assess.
Reyers, B., Biggs, R., Cumming, G.S.,
Elmqvist, T., Hejnowicz, A.P. 2013.
Getting the measure of ecosystemservices: A social-ecological approach.
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 11, 268–273

This land is your land...
Urban green areas managed by citizens can reduce ecosystem management
costs and help people reconnect to nature.
Colding, J., Barthel, S. 2013. The potential of ‘Urban Green Commons’ inthe resilience building of cities. Ecological Economics, 86, 156–166

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Look beyond the rare plant

Eliminating complex confusion
How sustainability, resilience, and robustness together can clarify, not confuse
complex challenges.
Anderies, J., Folke, C., Ostrom, E., Walker, B.H. 2013. Aligning key concepts
for global change policy: Robustness, Resilience, and Sustainability. Ecology andSociety, 18(2), 8

Establishment of protected areas should
be based on strategic plans for sustenancerather than protection of threatened single
species.
Borgström, S., Lindborg, R., Elmqvist, T.
2013. Nature conservation for what? Analyses of urban and rural nature reserves insouthern Sweden 1909–2006. Landscapeand Urban Planning, 117, 66-80

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Don’t blame the fishers
Market agents wield great influence over fishers’ activities.
Thyresson, M., Crona, B., Nyström, M., de la Torre-Castro,M., Jiddawi, N. 2013. Tracing value chains to understandeffects of trade on coral reef fish in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Marine Policy, 38, 246–256

Fall seven times, stand up eight

Photo M. Troell

Applying principles of resilience in face of recurring environmental crises in African Sahel.
Boyd, E., Cornforth, R. J., Lamb, P. J., Tarhule, A., Lélé, M.I.,
Brouder, A. 2013. Building resilience in the face of recurring
environmental crisis in African Sahel. Nature Climate Change,
3, 631-637.

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Get it right in the right place
Eco-certification of aquaculture products has potential, butshould focus more on a growing Asian market rather than
Europe and the US.
Jonell, M., Phillips, M., Rönnbäck, P., Troell, M. 2013.
Ecocertification of framed seafood. Will it make a difference.
Ambio, 42, 659-647

Photo Australian Customs andBorder Protection Service

Peekaboo

A southern comfort

Ecosystem services have historically appeared and disappearedin strategic spatial plans for Melbourne and Stockholm.
Wilkinson, C., Saarne, T., Peterson, G.D., Colding, J. 2013.
Strategic spatial planning and the ecosystem services concept:
A historical exploration. Ecology and Society, 18(1), 37

How adaptive governance helped pull back illegal fishing in theSouthern Ocean.
Österblom, H., Folke, C. 2013. Emergence of global adaptive
governance for stewardship of regional marine resources. Ecology
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Then came the flood

Time to tap it
A step closer to defining a moreaccurate boundary for freshwater
consumption.
Gerten, D., Hoff, H., Rockström, J.,
Jägermeyr, J., Kummu M., Pastor A.V.
2013. Towards a revised planetary
boundary for consumptive freshwater
use: Role of environmental flow requirements. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 5, 551–558

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Improved learning strategy and a more active national coordination can help
flood-prone municipalities in Sweden.
Johannesson, Å., Hahn, T. 2013. Social learning towards a more adaptive
paradigm? Reducing flood risk in Kristianstad municipality, Sweden. Global
Environmental Change, 23, 372–381

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Why water harvesting remains a promising
option for sustainable agricultural intensificationin the water scarce tropics.
Dile, Y.T., Karlberg, L., Temesgen, T., Rockström,
J. 2013. The role of water harvesting to achievesustainable agricultural intensification and resilience against water related shocks in sub-SaharanAfrica. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment,
181, 69-79

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Not dried up

The future-looking man
and the sea

That human behaviour
Enhancing role of natural capital and ecosystem services is important, butsocial change is equally vital to sustainability goals.
Norström, A.V., Metian, M., Schlüter, M., Schultz, L., Dannenberg, A.,
McCarney, G., Milkoreit, M., Diekert, F., Engström, G., Gars, J., Sanctuary,M., Fishman, R., Kyriakopoulou, E., Sjöstedt, M., Manoussi, V., Meng, K.,
Schoon, M. 2013. Policy: Social change vital to sustainability goals. Nature,
498, 299

Policy-relevant scenarios based on insightsfrom both the natural and the social sciences
can support a more adaptive stewardship ofmarine social–ecological systems.
Österblom, H., Merrie, A., Metian, M.,
Boonstra, W.J., Blenckner, T., Watson, J.R.,
Rykaczewski, R.R., Ota, Y., Sarmiento, J.L.,
Christensen, V., Schlüter, M., Birnbaum, S.,
Gustafsson, B.G., Humborg, C., Mörth, C.-M.,
Müller-Karulis, B., Tomczak, M.T., Troell, M.,
Folke, C. 2013. Modeling Social–Ecological
Scenarios in Marine Systems. BioScience, 63,
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The degrowth paradox
Degrowth diverges from capitalist economies, but is also dependent on them.
Boonstra, W.J., Joose, S. 2013. The social dynamics of degrowth. Environmental
Values, 22, 171-189

Delta blues
Photo Archer10/Flickr

Re-discovering the Maya way
How Maya civilization can inspire contemporary urban food security.
Barthel, S., Isendahl, C. 2013. Urban gardens, agricultures and waters: Sources ofresilience for long-term food security in cities. Ecological Economics, 86, 224-234

Amid vulnerability to climate change
impacts, the potential and implicationsof incorporating environmental flows
into management of the Amudarya Riverdelta must be considered.
Schlüter, M., Khasankhanova, G.,
Talskikh, V., Taryannikova,R., Agaltseva,
N., Joldasova, I., Ibragimov,R., Abdullaev,
U. 2013. Enhancing resilience to waterflow uncertainty by integrating environmental flows into water managementin the Amudarya River, Central Asia.
Global and Planetary Change, 110,
114–129

Photo Sustainable Development Goals for people and planet,
Nature, Griggs et al (2013)

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Feeling good with freedom and choice
More participatory governance processes
can enhance well-being and strengthen
fisheries management in Kenya.
Abunge, C., Coulthard, S., Daw, T.
2013. Connecting marine ecosystemservices to human well-being: Insightsfrom participatory well-being assessment in Kenya. AMBIO, 42, 1010-1021

Redefining sustainable development
Ending poverty and safeguarding Earth’s life support system must be twinpriorities.
Griggs, D., Stafford-Smith, M., Gaffney, O., Rockström, J., Öhman, M.C.,
Shyamsundar, P., Steffen, W., Glaser, G., Kanie, N., Noble, I. 2013. Sustainable
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It’s complicatedSeeing the forest for more trees
Forestry and nature conservation can benefit from higher tree species diversity.
Gamfeldt, L., Snäll, T., Bagchi, R., Jonsson, M., Gustafsson, L., Kjellander, P,.
Ruiz-Jaen, M.C., Fröberg, M., Stendahl, J., Philipson, M.C. Mikusinski, G., Andersson, E., Westerlund, B., Andrén, H., Moberg, F., Moen, J., Bengtsson, J. 2013.
Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree
species. Nature Communications, 4, 1340

A review of adaptive comanagement literature revelas both specificcontributions to key environmental
governance concerns and confusion
about how they relate.
Plummer, R., Armitage, D.R., de Loë,R.C. 2013. Adaptive comanagement
and its relationship to environmental
governance. Ecology and Society,18(1), 21

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Joined by a common cause
Towards a sustainable water futureTime to implement a reality-based, multi-perspective, and multi-scale
knowledge-to-action water agenda.
Pahl-Wostl, C., Vörösmarty, C., Bhaduri, A., Bogardi, J., Rockström J., Alcamo J.
2013. Towards a sustainable water future: Shaping the next decade of global water
research. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 5, 708–714

The success story of how a network of
influential organizations helped curb
illegal fishing in the Southern Ocean.
Bodin, Ö., Österblom, H. 2013. International fisheries regime effectiveness:
Activities and resources of key actors in
the Southern Ocean. Global Environmental Change, 23, 948-956

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Making informed choices
Some useful methods when conducting multi-scale and cross-scale assessments.
Scholes, R.J., Reyers, B., Biggs, R., Spierenburg, M.J., Duriappah, A. 2013. Multi-scaleand cross-scale assessments of social-ecologicalsystems and their ecosystem services. Current
Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 5,
16–25

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A unique man in a unique area
Sven-Erik Magnusson, the visionary behind Sweden’s first biospherereserve and central to Centre research on social-ecological stewardship,
retires after 25 years
Magnusson is the man behind Kristianstads Vattenrike
Biosphere Reserve, a cultural landscape in the southern partof Sweden hailed by the United Nations as an outstanding
example of how biodiversity conservation and sustainable development can go hand in hand. The Kristianstads Vattenrike
Biosphere Reserve, stretching some 105,000 hectares, lies withina densely populated area of Skåne and represents a uniqueaspect of Swedish nature conservation. It is considered to bea wetland area of such value that Sweden has taken special
international steps to preserve it through the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. In 2005, the UN, through UNESCO’s“Man and Biosphere Programme”, recognized it as one of theworld’s best examples of how relationships between people
and nature can work.
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area as an outstanding example of how informal governancenetworks can be effective.
“Kristianstads Vattenrike is a result of a bottom-up initiativethat since the start in 1989 has revolutionised ecosystem management not only in Kristianstad but in Sweden overall. The
area was formerly a ‘waterlogged swamp’ but is now considered a prime example of how countryside and natural resources
are used in a sustainable manner. Conflicts have been turned
into an adaptive co-management where farmers collaborate
with bird-watchers and eco-tourism has become a part of thelocal economy and identity. That is, to a large extent, thanks
to the strategic thinking and relentless work by Sven-Erik,”says Centre researcher Thomas Hahn.

Centre colleague Lisen Schultz used the reserve as a casestudy in 2009 in her doctoral thesis on bridging organisations
and how ecosystem managers who are strong on networking
skills (but short on resources) can make a difference.
“Sven-Erik Magnusson has managed to combine a firm
vision with a flexible and learning-oriented approach to build
something unique in Sweden. He is a fantastic example ofpassionate but humble individuals who have a strong drive toimprove conditions for both people and nature,” says Schultz.

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Where in the world?
Examples of where centre research is conducted around the world.
See more examples via our online research map, www.stockholmresilience.su.se/map

canadau.s.a.

portugalsouth afr ica

kenya

madagascar

Studies from theGreat Bear Rainforest reveal theroles of individuals
for transformativechangeStudy shows thatperspectives on
climate change
are consistentacross nations
and cultures

Experiences from
northern Portugal
shed light on thecontroversial outcomes of farmland
abandonment

Scenario planningyielding no different results thanthose of expert
opinions

Fishermen keep
fishing despite
dwindling catches

New management approaches
help change ideas
about human—
environment
interactions

How community
gardens help increase awarenessabout urban
ecology

How resilience
thinking can be
useful in urban
planning

Benefits of saving
the Baltic Sea
exceed costs by1500 million Eurosannually

Changes in the
Arctic region willaffect ecosystems,
communities andindustrial infrastructure

Scrutinizing
China’s distantwater fisheries in
the 21st century

Food production
strategies reveal
conflicts between
international aid
and local tradition

germany

swedenbaltic r egion

russiach i na

afghan istan

eth iopia

tu r keyi n dia

australia

papa n ew
gu i n ea

Foreign investments in Ethiopian agriculture has enormous potential, butwater grabbing issues loom

Ancient Constantinople can inspire
visions for modern
green urbanism

How civic initiatives help restore
degraded lakes in
Bangalore

Assessing foodsecurity and selfprovisioning in
Canberra

How ecosystembased management emerged in
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Practice and policy
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Pushed to the limits
The Arctic Resilience Report demonstrates how changes in the Arctic
will affect ecosystems, communities and industrial infrastructure
increase the capacity to adapt and to grapple with conflicting
priorities.”
Launched in 2011 as a priority of the Swedish Chairmanshipof the Arctic Council, the ARR is a collaboration between
experts in the Nordic countries, Russia, Canada, and the
U.S., representing a range of knowledge traditions, including
indigenous perspectives.
The 120-page report lays
Arctic Resilience
Interim Report 2013
out the ARR’s initial findings,
including a preliminary assessment of critical thresholds in the
Arctic, an analysis of societies’
adaptive capacity, and four pilot
case studies.
The ARR final report will be
released in May 2015.
Arctic Resilience Interim Report 2013

The Arctic Resilience Report demonstrates how changes in
the Arctic will affect ecosystems, communities and industrial infrastructure.
The Arctic is in the spotlight like never before. Scientists
and environmentalists watch it as a bellwether of global climatechange, while nations and corporations seek to exploit theregion’s oil, gas and mineral reserves and new shipping
routes. Yet most discussions of the Arctic fail to consider
how changes in climate, ecosystems, economics, and society
interact.
The Arctic Resilience Report (ARR), led by the Stockholm
Environment Institute (SEI) and the Stockholm ResilienceCentre (SRC), set out to fill that gap. What it found is thatthe combination of multiple, dramatic changes is pushingsocial-ecological systems to their limits.
”The Arctic is changing so fast and in so many interacting
ways that it affects the very fabric of ecosystems and societies,”says Annika E. Nilsson, senior research fellow at SEI andscientific coordinator of the first phase of the ARR.
”We have to be prepared for surprises, and we need toRead more about the project onwww.stockholmresilience.su.se:search term “arctic resilience report”

illustration Arctic temperature rise in the lastcentury (relative to the 1951-1980 average)

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Benefits of saving the Baltic
Sea exceed costs by 1500
million Euros annually
The final BalticSTERN report entitled ”The Baltic Sea - Our
Common Treasure: Economics of Saving the Sea” shows thatsaving the Baltic Sea would lead to large welfare gains andthat people in countries around the Sea are willing to pay
3800 million Euros per year to improve it. This exceeds thecosts by 1000 — 1500 million Euros annually.
The findings are the result of three years of research by
BalticSTERN, the first large-scale study to include all nine
Baltic Sea countries, which estimated the benefits and costsof reducing eutrophication according to the HELCOM Baltic
Sea Action Plan.
”The Baltic Sea is one of the most polluted seas in theworld, surrounded by some of the richest countries. We now
have the scientific results, wide public support and policies
in place. There are no longer any excuses for failing to takestrong measures and save the Baltic Sea,” says Johan Rockström, Chairman of the BalticSTERN’s Steering Group.

Resilient days in Davos
Much can be said about the World Economic Forum, buteverybody fights for a place in Davos. The theme for 2013was ”Resilient dynamism” and how we can stabilise a shaky
world economy but do so in a sustainable manner.
As for sustainability, at centre stage this year was theplanetary boundaries concept and how to avoid critical tipping
points. Research from the Stockholm Resilience Centre wasprominently highlighted.
”After 10,000 years of supporting human development,
our destabilized planet needs a break,” Centre director JohanRockstrom pointed out.
He presented findings and insights in three different
sessions on Arctic development, global tipping points andpioneering sustainable growth.
See video interviews from Davos 2012 on
www.stockholmresilience.su.se: search term ”Davos 2013”

Centre contributes to latest State of the World reporta single species to become this dominant,but it has to a large extent been enabled by
the human ability to draw on the functioning of the biosphere,” he argued.
”We need a shift from perceiving people
and nature as separate actors and rather
consider them as interdependent socialecological systems. Such thinking will
create exciting opportunities for humans tothrive in generations to come.”

Photo Cover design by M. Gately,
courtesy of Island Press

Science director Carl Folke contributedwith a chapter in Worldwatch Institute’sannual flagship “State of the World”
reportThe 2013 report asked the fundamental andsomewhat uncomfortable question: What is
the future of sustainability? Folke provided
perspectives on the need to respect planetary
boundaries and reconnect to the biosphere.
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Centre director Johan Rockström (centre left), Brigitte Baptiste, head of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute (left), Marie
Andersson de Frutos, Sweden’s ambassador in Colombia (centre right) and Alejandra Torres from the Ministry of Environment
and Sustainable Development of Colombia (far right) set the stage for the dialogue in Colombia.

Earth’s biodiversity key toachieving all sustainability goals
In early December 2013 some 60 stakeholders from 18 countries –representing government organisations, UN organisations, science andcivil society met in Medellín, Colombia, to discuss how social-ecologicalresilience might be integrated into the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) and the Post-2015 Agenda
This multi-stakeholder dialogue was a collaboration between
the Centre, the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Research
on Biological Resources and the Ministry of Environment andSustainable Development of Colombia. The governments ofColombia and Sweden fully supported the process, which was
also carried out in consultation with the UN CBD Secretariat.
The aim of the dialogue was to explore different ways of
how to integrate social-ecological resilience, underpinned bybiodiversity and ecosystem services, into future development
goals and monitoring frameworks.
“By gathering different perspectives and experiences froma variety of actors we wanted to broaden and enhance theunderstanding of biodiversity not as a problem to solve, as it isoften perceived, but as an important opportunity and solution
for sustainable development, including poverty eradication andsocial-ecological resilience,” says Ellika Hermansson Török,dialogue project leader at the Programme for Resilience andDevelopment (SwedBio) at the Centre.
The multi-stakeholder dialogue followed the Chatham House
Rule, producing a co-chairs’ report.
“The report will emphasise the most important message
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Photo C. Tapia
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Engaged participants during one of the dialogue sessions.

processes are the key to achieving all of the sustainability goals“,says Sarah Cornell, senior researcher and co-author of the cochairs’ report.
The report will be presented at a side event hosted by theEnvironment Ministries of Colombia and Sweden during theEighth Session of the General Assembly Open Working Groupon Sustainable Development Goals in February 2014. The
report will also be widely disseminated to other fora.
Read more about the dialogue here:
http://medellin-dialogue.com

Planetary city limits
Co-organised centre conference in Eskilstuna demonstrates
how cities can flourish within planetary boundaries
Eskilstuna has been hailed as one of the best municipalities
in Sweden environmentally. During a two-day conferencein March, Eskilstuna municipality, together with Stockholm
Resilience Centre, looked at how a municipality can stay andflourish within planetary boundaries.
Johan Rockström, Centre director, introduced the planetary
boundaries concept as the safe operating space for humanity.
Centre researcher Björn Nykvist (pictured above) then discussed
whether or not the official Swedish environmental goals create
conditions for global sustainability. Nykvist is co-author ofa report that the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
ordered on the connection between environmental goals andplanetary boundaries.
Louise Hård af Segerstad from Centre partner Albaeco
presented the concept of resilience and how resilience theory
can be applied at the municipal level. She also presented theresults of the resilience assessment and what has come outof it for Eskilstuna. Centre researcher Stephan Barthel alsopresented principles for social-ecological city planning. The
conference hosted a number of seminars on topics ranging
from ecological footprints and consumption to ”green rehabilitation” as a way of recovering from illness, in addition to
study visits to sites with solar cells and waste management.

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The Human Quest Initiative
Centre-led initiative merged science, arts, business and policy topromote a new perspective on sustainability in Sweden and beyond

Based on the insights from The Human Quest, a book written
by Centre director Johan Rockström and photographer
Mattias Klum, who received a Stockholm University honorary doctorate in 2013, The Human Quest Initiative aimed
to facilitate a closer dialogue between leaders from science,business, policy and arts.
By marrying the latest science on the anthropocene,
resilience, planetary boundaries and global sustainability
with photography and storytelling, the initative provided
a platform for cross-sector knowledge-sharing and new
perspectives on global sustainability. The initiative was run
by Nina Ekelund and Marika Hjälsten with funding fromthe Swedish Postcode Lottery.

Key activities:“ Prosperity within Planetary Boundaries”, a full-day
seminar during the political forum Almedalsveckan in Visbyin collaboration with The Ministry of Environment and The
County Administrative Board of Gotland, including speakers
such as EU Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, Minister for theEnvironment Lena Ek, and GE CEO Hans Enocson.
“The latest climate science: what does it say and what
does it mean for business?”, a science-business dialogue

with 35 Nordic CEOs in Stockholm discussing findings fromthe latest IPCC report, together with Professor Thomas Stocker
and Volvo AB CEO Olof Persson.
“Doing Business in the Anthropocene”, a science-business dialogue in Stockholm with 25 Swedish CEOs alongwith presentations by Johan Rockström, Thomas Elmqvist,
Fredrik Moberg, Lisen Shultz, Mattias Klum, Hans Enocson,
Karolina Klüft.
”Human Prosperity within Planetary Boundaries”, ahigh-level decision-maker dialogue in Washington D.C.,
in collaboration with the World Resources Institute and theEmbassy of Sweden.
“The Quest for Sustainable Growth”, a keynote presentation with Johan Rockström at the World Economic Forum’s
Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, China.
”Building within Boundaries”, a high-level decision-

maker workshop on Resilience and Planetary Boundaries with
Johan Rockström at the World Economic Forum’s Annual
Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, China.
The production of a free indoor version of the Human Quest
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Move beyond monetary valuations

Making the value of ecosystemservices visible
Proposals to enhance well-being through biodiversity and ecosystem services

Summary of SOU 2013:68
Stockholm 2013

Centre report on the value of ecosystem services handed overto Swedish government
A commission led by Maria Schultz from the Reslience and Development
Programme together with Centre researcher Thomas Hahn, Louise Hård af
Segerstad from Albaeco and Lars Berg from the Ministry of Environment handed
over its final report to the Swedish Minister for the Environment, Lena Ek in
October 2013.
The report presented 25 ways to raise awareness and promote the integration of thevalue of ecosystem services and biodiversity into decision-making processes. The reportpresented valuation scenarios beyond monetary valuations. This means looking at thecontexts in which valuations are relevant, who should do the valuations, and what typesof valuations are most appropriate.
A central theme of many of the proposed measures was to make the value of ecosystemservices visible through so-called ecosystem service assessments, a method that identifies
important ecosystem services and estimates their state and benefits as well as factors
affecting their maintenance.
The report was a collaboration between the Centre, the Swedish Cross-Party
Committee on Environmental Objectives and the Environmental Advisory Council. It
also had a reference group with representatives from state agencies and local and regional
government, business representatives and organizations of civil society, as well as scientists
who have worked with and shaped the discussions on ecosystem services and valuation.
Read more about the report on www.stockholmresilience.su.se: search term”monetary valuations

Switched on Nature - digital solutions for urban resilience
Two-day hackathon explored the role and importance ofinnovation and technology for urban development
In early December 2013, some 50 programmers, designers
and developers gathered at the Stockholm Resilience Centre
for Switched on Nature - a two-day hackathon focusing on
digital solutions for resilient futures in cities. The hackathon
was a collaboration between the centre, Google and Shift,
the latter an initiative led by Maja Brisvall and part of thetransformation research initiative at the centre. Shift willfunction as a platform to explore resilience, social-ecologicalinnovation and technology.
The two-day hackathon began with a half-day intelligence
briefing on global sustainability issues. The briefing, which
gathered 120 people, was opened by centre director JohanRockström, who provided an introduction to the newchallenges humanity is faced with in the Anthropocene.
Other talks included perspectives from MIT media lab,
Singularity University, NASA and Spotify, representing theleading expertise in science, tech, gaming and policy.
Inspired by the briefing, the participants spent two
intensive days developing solutions to resource management
challenges that big cities face. They were organised intotransdisciplinary teams of around 4-5 people where alldifferent skills were represented. Researchers from the centre
provided feedback and advice to the teams as they weredeveloping their projects.

At the end of the second day eight projects were
presented. They included ways to share food and decrease
waste, an app to plot and share unused land in the city for
urban gardening, a network solution for sharing seeds and agame to educate children about sustainable choices.
For more information on SHIFT, go to www.weshift.se

What is a hackathon?
A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers and sometimes people withother expertise meet to develop and prototype
solutions to meet a defined challenge. Hackathons can focus on everything from developing
commercial smart phone applications to sustainable solutions in urban areas.

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Marine Spatial
Planning Workshop
Together with the Swedish Marine
Agency, the Centre organized a two-day
workshop on Marine Spatial Planning(MSP) in April 2013. International experts from within the Centre’s network
shared their knowledge about the design
and implementation of Marine Spatial
Planing in different parts of the world
with the Swedish officials preparing for
Sweden’s implementation of MSP.
The workshop was appreciated by theparticipants for the opportunity to havediscussions with international practitioners
and experts, on the dilemmas of putting
in place an ecosystem-based planningsystem. The invited guests and participants
exchanged experiences on the challenges
encountered during the MSP process
and compared different strategies for
effectively handling these challenges andovercoming obstacles to implementation.

Contributing to the UN
Sustainable Development Solutions Network
The Centre continues to be heavily involved in
the UN’s global network
Launched in August 2012, the United Nations Sustainable
Development Solutions Network (SDSN) brings together
expertise from academia, business, administrations and civil society to discuss strategies for sustainable development
at a global scale all the way down to a local level.
The network takes an integrated approach to sustainable development. This means it considers social, economicand environmental challenges combined. Stockholm Resilience Centre is involved in all aspects of SDSN. Executive
director Johan Rockström is part of both the LeadershipCouncil as well as the Executive Committee, where the firstacts as the board of the network and the latter being themore operational body of SDSN. Beyond meetings with
the Leadership Council and the Executive Committee, staff
from the Centre took part in a range of thematic meetings
on various sustainability related topics. There are twelve
thematic groups within SDSN, all of which are solutions
oriented and provide high quality information to decision
makers and the public. The thematic groups have beenplaying an important role in providing support to the HighLevel Panel on the Post 2015 Development Agenda (HLP).
Staff also participated in events connected with the World
Economic Forum in Davos and Sida in Stockholm. The
Centre is also active in assembling a regional SDSN node
for the Arctic, as well as assisting SDSN in organizing a
Swedish SDSN national network.
In collaboration with SDSN Director Jeffrey Sachs andExecutive Director Guido Schmidt-Traub, the Centre
produced the report “Sustainable development andplanetary boundaries”. The report was used as a background document for HLP. The Centre also contributed
to the content of the final HLP-document “A new global
partnership: eradicate poverty and transform economies
through sustainable development”. Another publication
on “Economic Growth within Planetary Boundaries”, withthe same authors, is in preparation. For 2014, the Centre iscontinuing its collaboration with SDSN, including seeking
funds for new projects that relate to planetary boundaries
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Photo Steven zeff/Azote

Boosting knowledge on ecosystemservices in the Stockholm Region
Report first to explain benefits of ecosystem services in urban development
The concept of ecosystem services is rapidly being embraced
by city planners. To meet this demand joint Centre and Beijer
Instittue researcher Johan Colding and Lars Marcus from theKTH Swedish School of Architecture were lead authors on
a report on ecosystem services in the Stockholm region. The
report, which was produced with support from centre researchers Stephan Barthel, Erik Andersson, Åsa Gren (also the Beijer
Institute) and Sara Borgström together with the County boardof Stockholm and Regional Growth, Environment and Planning(TMR) at Stockholm County Council, constitutes a new knowledge base on ecosystem services, how ecological, economic andsocial dimensions can interact in the Stockholm region. “Theconnection between the topics is increasingly important for
long-term and robust urban planning,” says Johan Colding.
Though the report was launched in June 2013, it was ingreat demand long before it was printed. The report focuses on

the role of regulating and cultural ecosystem services, the longterm resilience of a city, and how social-ecological city planningcan create conditions for ecosystem services.
”Ecosystem services can both decrease our impact on climate
and build resilience for urban environments to handle negative
effects of climate change. By promoting biodiversity in urban
areas, managing green areas and water and providing habitats
for pollinators, for example, resilience in urban systems can beincreased,” Colding explains.
Read more about the report and download it on
www.stockholmresilience.su.se: search term ”connecting
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Seminars and events

Transformation in achanging climate
Centre-hosted conference on human capacity and willingness
to transform amid climate change”Climate change is primarily a social problem, not anenvironmental one. Its primary causes and consequences aresocial. And so must be the solutions.” This was one of the key
messages coming out of a conference hosted by the Centre incollaboration with the University of Oslo and Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO).
The conference, which took place in Oslo in March 2013,
established an arena for researchers, artists, entrepreneurs andengaged individuals to meet and talk about transformational
issues. The conference attracted some of the best people acrossdisciplines and theoretical areas to come share their perspectives
and help generate new knowledge on transformation.
”The challenges that we are facing now, of staying within
planetary boundaries, stabilizing the climate and solving
issues of equity and conflict, are what can be called ’hypercomplex’: they have aspects of social complexity, dynamic

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All photos: M. Haeggman

Left: Karina Mullen from ConverSketch.com interpreting the conference dialogue through art. Right: Reflections on ideas from the audience.
Lower left: Centre researcher Per Olsson giving the framing talk for day 2 of the conference. Lower right: Centre Science director Carl Folke.

complexity and emerging complexity”, explained KarenO’Brien from the University of Oslo and one of the initiatorsof the conference.
Centre Science Director, Carl Folke, gave a plenary talkon his perspectives on transformation and reminded us of theimportance of ecological literacy:”I’m embarrassed as a human that we have in two generations
created a mindset that we are independent of the biosphere.”
Cecilie Mauritzen, the director of CICERO and a physicaloceanographer expressed her concern about how we communicate climate change.
”My answer to what is transformation is a simple andperhaps a bit nerdy equation: Transformation = imagination.”
Another central topic was communication and how we

get people engaged in the necessary transformation to a
low-carbon society. Idar Kreutzer, Finance Norway, described
the problem as follows:”Hell doesn’t sell; you have to try to motivate people tolook for solutions and have a vision.”
Cathrine Moestue, a psychologist, agreed and added that
according to research within social psychology, social norms
are key to making people change their behaviour:”Knowing that your neighbours have changed behaviour isthe strongest incentive for changing your own.”
Read more and watch videos from the conference onwww.stockholmresilience.su.se: search term “Oslo transformation”

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H.R.H Crown Princess Victoria visits the Centre
to learn more about sustainability
As part of her active engagement in environmental issues,
H.R.H Swedish Crown Princess Victoria spent an entire
day at the Centre to learn more about social-ecologicalsystems and the challenges and opportunities associatedwith living in an increasingly anthropogenic world.
The Crown Princess received an introduction to thelatest scientific insights on water management, the roleof ecosystem services, network theory and the biosphere
by Centre researchers Johan Rockström, Carl Folke,
Line Gordon, Henrik Österblom, Will Steffen, Lisen
Schultz, Oonsie Biggs and Garry Peterson.

The final part of the day focused on discussions on how Sweden
can step up and take a leading role internationally on sustainability
issues.
This is not the first time the Crown Princess has engaged with
the Centre’s research. In 2011 she opened the Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability, which took place at the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
“I see this engagement as a good sign, a sign of hope and how
people, if we put our minds and efforts together, can accomplish greatthings. Our generation has the knowledge and ability to create asustainable world for future generations,” she said during her speech.

“A big world on a small planet”
PhotO: J.D Davidson

Centre director Johan Rockström returns to TED talk for asecond time in three years, this time on how elegant small
solutions can solve grand challenges
Taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland, under the heading “Think
Again”, TEDGlobal brought together individuals who “venture
to change our perspective, who ask different questions.”
In his presentation, Johan Rockström highlighted the factthat “we might be facing huge challenges but we have theknowledge and thinking required to design a safe and good
Anthropocene.”
Highlighting the recent work on redefining sustainable development, Rockström called for a new unified framework that
includes all nations.
”We have moved from a small world on a big planet to a big
world on a small planet,” Rockström said.
”We must be the stewards of a harmonious transformation
toward a new development paradigm within Earth’s limits.”

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Stockholm seminars 2013
PhotO: J. Lokrantz

15 January
Thorsten Kiefer
A region-by-region temperature historyof the Common Era
29 January
Shelley Clarke
China’s conduct in fishing, seafood
production and consumption
9 MarchBenjamin Planque
Ecosystems modelled from the outside
7 May
Jinhua Zhao
Economics of adaptation to global
climate change: past lessons and future
strategies

20 MayRichard Stedman and Keith Tidball
Positive resource dependency in urban
systems: applying urgent biophilia andrestorative topophilia
30 MayJoern Fischer
Local development risks and opportunities: insights from Southern Transylvania, Romania
23 September
Michael Raupach
Resilience and vulnerability in the coupledcarbon-climate-human system

The Stockholm Seminars
feature some of the mostprominent experts on global
sustainability. The seminars
are hosted by Albaeco,
Stockholm Resilience Centre,
the Beijer Institute of
Ecological Economics, theInternational BiosphereGeosphere Programme (IGBP)
and the Swedish Secretariat
for Environmental Earth
System Sciences (SSEESS).

27 September
Bina Agarwal
Gender and forest governance: Does
women’s presence make a difference?
3 October
Mike Elliot
Bottlenecks, showstoppers and trainwrecks - How can we manage theseas and estuaries?
11 OctoberPaul Holthus
Science-industry collaboration forsolutions to sustainable seas

See videos from the seminars at
www.stockholmresilience.su.se/stockholmseminars

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Internal seminars
The internal seminars play an important role in the development of theCentre’s transdiciplinary culture. These seminars have gradually beendeveloped and adapted to cover a variety of needs
A leadership programme has been running over the last two
years in order to increase staff capacity to design and facilitate
different seminar formats. The well-established Brown Bag
lunch seminars, and the Resilience Dialogues, continued inTransformation Talks
Transformation talks discuss how toreverse negative global trends whilestaying within the planet’s limits. Great
thinkers and doers from academia,
policy-making, business and the arts
are invited to share and develop ideas
and innovations on how to initiate andnavigate profound change in an ethical,
just and sustainable manner.

2013, and three new seminar formats were tested, namely theTransformation Talks, Global Future Panels and SRC Monday
speed talk lunches.

7 March”Improve life by restoring nature”
John Liu, an award winning documentary film maker, presented stories fromaround the world of people improving their lives by restoring damaged
ecosystems.
27 May”How can innovations and transfor-

mations have impact at scales thatmatch the global challenges?”Frances Westley (Social Innovation
Generation, University of Waterloo) andNiki Frantzeskaki (DRIFT, Erasmus
University in Rotterdam) discussed theimpact innovations and transformations
have on current global challenges andthe role of agency, including social andinstitutional entrepreneurship.

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23 September
Building capacity for transformation– getting the right skills in the change
networks
Eugenio Molini, who has designed andrun the Centre’s leadership training,presented insights on change management and skills necessary to facilitatetransformation.

Moderator: Victor Galaz (Stockholm
Resilience Centre)

Global Future Panels
These seminars aim to advance theCentre’s thinking on critical but poorly
understood future challenges. They
explore a range of topics and bring tolight novel issues that are explored froma resilience perspective.

Moderator: Fredrik Moberg (Albaeco/
Stockholm Resilience Centre)

17 January
Resilience in a +4C World?
Magnus Nyström, Beatrice Crona, Jon
Norberg, Gustav Engström. Moderator:
Louise Hård af Segerstad (Albaeco)
21 February
Mental models of the future – do theymatter and how?
Andrew Merrie, Stephan Barthel,Lisen Schultz, Therese Lindahl
Moderator: Per Olsson (Stockholm
Resilience Centre)
26 March
Demographic and geopolitical futures- should we even bother?
Lisa Deutsch, Karl Hallding (Headof Stockholm Environment Institute’s
China Cluster), Gunilla Reischl(Swedish Institute of International
Affairs) and Åsa Gren (Beijer Instituteof Ecological Economics)
Moderator: Ann-Sophie Crépin (Beijer
Institute of Ecological Economics)
26 April
The Next Big Thing: Innovation
futures in the Anthropocene
Per Olsson, Will Steffen (Australian
National University), Robin Teigland(Stockholm School of Economics) andMaja Brisvall (SHIFT)

24 MayCreating a ”Good” Anthropocene what would it take?
Garry Peterson, Oonsie Biggs, HenrikÖsterblom and Gustaf Rosell (multi-entrepreneur and senior advisor SHIFT)

Resilience Dialogues
The Resilience Dialogies are internalseminars designed to create a spacefor reflection and exploration of new
research questions.
13 March
Planetary Boundaries: from critique
to conceptual advances
Sarah Cornell, Ingo Fetzer, Jonas
Torrens
29 April
Resilience & Power: What are theopportunities for combining political
ecology and resilience
Garry Peterson

22 MayCan the Star Wars saga and otherarchetype narratives influence science?
Henrik Österblom and cartoonist
Esbjörn Jorsäter
30 MayInsights from measuring SRC’s impact– how should we work in the future?
Carl Folke and Beatrice Crona
6 November
Meet the economists of the Beijer
Institute of Ecological Economics
Therese Lindahl, Anne-Sophie Crepin,
Gustav Engstrom
Monday Speed talk lunches
The Monday lunches started in August
2013 and immediately became one of
the most attended internal events at theCentre. The purpose is to provide an
opportunity to learn more about novel
Centre ideas and inspire new collaborations between staff. Each lunch session
consists of ten four-minute speed talks.
Brown Bag Lunch Seminars
These informal lunch seminars continue
to provide Centre staff and external
partners with a platform to present theirwork and discuss issues on the wider
sustainability research agenda.

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Art and Science
Collaboration with music and arts is an integral part of the Centre’sscientific practice and communication, both externally and internally.
Our focus on sustainability gives a special angle to the ArtScience work
New global challenges require new thinking, and the meeting
between artists and scientists gives opportunities for new
perspectives and research pathways. Over the years, the Centre has experimented with ways to bring together different
perspectives in order to foster innovation, creativity, andinsights on the specific challenges of transdiciplinary learningon complex systems.
In 2013, the ArtScience work displayed a great variety
of formats and topics, involving music, poetry, film, photography, cooking, theatre, painting, etc. For example, methods

from theatre were used to explore ways to better formulate
insights about the dynamics of change.
The Centre worked closely with artists and photographers
to communicate the challenges and opportunities of humanprosperity within the biosphere. Worldwide, leading sustainability scientists and centres are increasingly nurturing theircreativity and innovation by combining arts and science.
Stockholm Resilience Centre is linking up with these to exchange experience, improve methods, and continue to explore
sustainability questions in spaces where art and science can meet.

PhotO: V.Henriksson ©Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien

PhotO: S.H. Simonsen

Japanese flower show at
a seminar with the Volvo
Environment Prize Laureate
2013
The Human Quest Initiative
In 2013, the Human Quest Initiative, a spin-off project of the book The Human
Quest, blended insights from science, business and arts to promote dialogues about
the possibilities and the desired effects of global sustainability.

Ikebana master Judit Katkis has createdJapanese flower installations for different Centre events. She interprets thethemes of the events using local andseasonal flowers mixed with reusable
material.

PhotO: D. Galafassi

Art-science workshop
in Uruguay
The South American Institute for Resilienceand Sustainability Studies (SARA(S)2 organised in December a workshop with SouthAmerican artists and scientists on ways todevelop art-science interactions. Staff fromthe Centre contributed with insights andexperiences from their work in Stockholm.

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PhotO: M. WalinPhotO: A. LIEBLE

Coral Guardians Saloon
Coral reef scientists and musicians jammed together and explored possibilities
to take the Coral Guardian Initiative to
Zanzibar. The Coral Guardians Initiative
includes Centre researchers Per Olsson
and Fredrik Moberg and combines music
and science to support the stewardship ofcoral reefs.

Angela Lieble
One of the artists the Centre had the pleasure to work with during the workshop
in Uruguay. Lieble is a Chilean artist with a focus on the indigenous American
culture and history, and the relation between human and nature.

PhotO: A. EMMELIN

PhotO: A. Emmelin

Centre Marathon day
The Stockholm Resilience Centre Marathon Day, a full-day team-building andplanning session, included a range of artistic and musical additions.

As part of the Cities and Biodiversity
project, a photo exhibition was organized with pictures taken by inhabitants of the Indian city Bangalore.

Through dance, theaterand storytelling, Swedish
theatre group Långsjö
theatre helped Centre
researchers explore narratives about the Baltic Sea.

As part of the celebration of H.M.
King Carl XVI Gustaf’s 40 years on thethrone, the Royal Dramatic Theatre
highlighted some important moments
within the development of environmental questions. SRC was one of theorganisers behind the event.

Conference art
The Centre co-hosted the “Transformation in a changing climate” conference,
which took place in June in Oslo andwas much appreciated for the many
carefully integrated art elements.

An urbanizing planet
PhotO: S.H. Simonsen

Baltic Sea
workshop

PhotO: M. HAEGGMAN

PhotO: A. Gupte

Biodiversity in Bangalore

Swedish King 40 years
on the throne

Hollywood actor Edward Norton provided the voice for a spectacular videoon the challenges and opportunities thatcome with an increasingly urbanizing
planet. The video was produced for the
Cities and Biodiversity Outlook project,
the world’s first assessment of how
global urbanization and urban growth
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Education

Current students in the Social-ecological Resilience for Sustainable Development (SERSD) Master’s programme.

World class2013 represented a year of exciting developments and rewards
The Centre’s first-level course Världens Eko (Sustainable
Perspectives on Development) - known for its impressiveline-up of speakers, including Will Steffen, Johan Rockströmand Hans Rosling - recorded its largest class ever with 130 students. The Master’s programme in Social-ecological Resilience
for Sustainable Development (SERSD) continued to attract students from the whole world, with over 100 applicants for the
15 places available in autumn 2013. In addition, two PhDs,
four licentiate and 16 Master’s students successfully defended
their theses 2013. These students also contributed significantly
to the Centre’s publications portfolio with four Master’s theses
published as peer-reviewed articles and one as a book chapter.
The Phds published 20 articles and one book chapter.

Firmly established PhD platform
With the Centre’s inclusion in the Natural Sciences faculty at
Stockholm University, it was granted examination rights for
its own PhD degree programme in Sustainability Science. Cibele
Queiroz became the first PhD student to defend her thesisin the new programme (see feature article, page 7) and four
new doctoral students were recruited to the programme. The
Resilience Research School will continue to serve as a platform
for interdisciplinary cooperation among PhD students fromother faculties and universities. “It is of great value that we
not only host a collaborative interdisciplinary PhD school but
also our own PhD education in sustainability science. This isextremely important for the research and vision of the Centre.
It guarantees further knowledge generation and international

collaboration in an otherwise fast emerging area,” says scientificdirector Carl Folke.

Highest marks for Master’s programme
At the same time that the first cohort of SERSD students completed the new MSc programme in June, the Swedish Higher
Education Authority awarded the programme with its highest
possible marks on all assessed criteria. “The evaluation is
not only a welcoming recognition of the outstanding effort
put into developing the new Master’s programme, but also aboost to produce equally high standards for our new doctoral
programme in Sustainability Science,” says Director of Studies
Lisa Deutsch.
The growing educational offerings have been competently
staffed with an increased involvement of researchers in teachingand supervising. Furthermore, the growth warranted two new
appointments in 2013: Cornelia Ludwig was appointed Education Coordinator and Garry Peterson became Head of Subject.
The Education team also successfully launched a new advanced-level course entitled “Urban social-ecological systems”.
Supervised by SRC and other researchers and public partners,
it divided time between classroom activities and applied group
work in on-going research projects in the Stockholm area. In
2013, 12 PhD courses were given including “What creates a
network and why does it look like it does?” and Social-ecological transformation in China, both considered a great successas they brought in external experts and attracted many applicants from both inside and outside the Centre.

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Master’s Theses 2013
Social-ecological Resilience for
Sustainable Development programme (SERSD)
Maja Berggren, Is Growing Larger
the Same as Becoming Resilient? A
case study of the Gothenburg Pelagic
Offshore Fishery
Emma Björkvik, Explaining the decline in Swedish Baltic Sea small-scale
fisheries: A historical analysis of fishers intheir social and ecological context
Laia d’Armengol i Catà, Social diversity
for ecosystem management in La Palma
Biosphere Reserve, Canary Islands: Perspectives, knowledge and management
practices among local stewards in thenear-shore marine ecosystem
Irene Håkansson, Berlin’s Intercultural
Gardens: Urban Landscapes of Social-Ecological Memory
Sofia Käll, Exploring opportunities forsocial learning in community response to natural hazards: A case study of
Morpeth Flood Action Group, northwestof England
Grazzia Matamoros, Uno para todos y
todos para uno: Emergence and longterm endurance of collective action
for governance of marine resources in
Roatán, Honduras
Matilda Petersson, The Changing Landscape of Global Governance: A case studyof the role of non-state actors in tuna
RFMOs
My Sellberg, Resilience in Practice forStrategic Planning at a Local Government
Susanne Skyllerstedt, Can NGOs makea difference? - The role of NGOs inagricultural water development policy
processes in Tanzaniaof power relations for social-ecologicalsystems transformation in MACEMP
ZanzibarHanna Sinare, Linking Landscapes andLivelihoods: Ecosystem services as a lensin Sudano-Sahelian West Africa

Ecosystems, Resilience andGovernance programme (ERG)
Petter Nordqvist, System order andfunction in urban sanitation governance:
Exploring the concept of polycentric
systems in the city of Kampala, Uganda

Publications from
MSc theses

Nikolina Oreskovic, Influence of local
social factors on green area sustenance:
Assessment of the protective capacity of
Skärholmen
Sustainable Enterprisingprogramme (SE)Alicia Berg, Empowering the Steel
Industry as a Stakeholder: Environmental Management and Communication
through a Social-Ecological Approach
Andreas Mårtensson, Finding the rightconditions for wind power: A businessenvironment perspective on Sweden

Independent MSc thesis
Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Human and natural drivers of multiple coral reef regimes
across the Hawaiian archipelago

PhD theses 2013
Cibele Queiroz, Managing for biodiversity and ecosystem services in a context offarmland abandonment
Susa Niiranen, Multiple forces drive theBaltic Sea food web dynamics and its
response to environmental change

Licentiate Theses 2013
Jonas Hentati-Sundberg, Only regulated
fisheries system - Sources of resilienceand limits to command and-control
management

Anneli Sundin, The role of agriculturalinterventions for the Sahelian re-greening

Malin Jonell, Eco-certification of farmed
seafood: Environmental effects on a local
and global scale (Department of Ecology,
Environment and Plant Sciences)

Stephen Woroniecki, Challenging andDefending the Status Quo - The role

Juan Carlos Rocha, Regime Shifts in the
Anthropocene

Journal articles
Colding, J., Barthel, S., Bendt, P., Snep,R., van der Knaap, W., Ernstson, H.
2013. Urban green commons: Insights
on urban common property systems.
Global Environmental Change, 23,1039–1051
Modeling Social–Ecological Scenarios in
Marine Systems. Österblom, H., Merrie,
A., Metian, M., Boonstra, W.J., Blenckner, T., Watson, J.R., Rykaczewski, R.R.,
Ota, Y., Sarmiento, J.L., Christensen, V.,
Schlüter, M., Birnbaum, S., Gustafsson,
B., Humborg, C., Mörth, C-M., Müller-Karulis, B., Tomczak, M.T., Troell, M.,
and Folke, C.vBioScience , Vol. 63, No.
9 (September 2013), pp. 735-744 dx.doi.
org/10.1525/bio.2013.63.9.9
Ran, Y., L. Deutsch, M. Lannerstad, J.
Heinke. 2013. Rapidly intensified beef
production in Uruguay: Impacts onwater-related ecosystem services. Aquatic
Procedia 1: 77-87.
Book chapter
Wilkinson, C., Sendstad, M., Parnell, S.,
Schewenius, M. Urban governance of
biodiversity and ecosystem services. In
Elmqvist, T, Fragkias, M, Goodness, J,
Güneralp, B, Marcotullio, PJ, McDonald,
RI Parnell, S, Schewenius, M, Sendstad,M, Seto, KC, Wilkinson, C. (Eds.) 2013.
Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities. Springer, Dordrecht.

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Appendix:

Finances2013 Total

106,6	MSEK

Stockholm University
Allocated subsidy from Stockholm University
Allocated External Formas funding via faculty
Accumulated surplus External Formas funding via faculty

28,9	MSEK
20,8
MSEK
6,2
MSEK
1,9
MSEK

MISTRA core grant*

15,9	MSEK

External grant total

61,8	MSEK
3,9
MSEK
17
MSEK
3,5
MSEK
20,5
MSEK
1,7
MSEK
1,4
MSEK
1,4
MSEK
5,4
MSEK
7
MSEK

The Swedish Research Council
FormasSIDA
SIDA (Swedbio)
FuturaSchwartz
Nippon FoundationEU
other*Allocated grant from Mistra 15,8 MSEK plus accumulated surplus 0,1 MSEK

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60	
  
50	
  
40	
  

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  University	
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Centre publications
Books
Elmqvist, T., Fragkias, M., Goodness, J., Güneralp, B., Marcotullio, P.J., McDonald, R.I.,
Parnell, S., Schewenius, M., Sendstad, M., Seto,
K.C., Wilkinson, C. (eds.) 2013. Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services:
Challenges
and Opportunities: A Global Assessment.
Springer, New York. 755 p
ArticlesAbunge, C., Coulthard, S., Daw, T. 2013.
Connecting marine ecosystem services tohuman well-being: Insights from participatorywell-being assessment in Kenya. AMBIO, 42,
1010-1021

protection levels with competition–colonization tradeoffs. Biological Conservation, 160,
279-288
Bergsten, A., Zetterberg, A. 2013. To model
the landscape as a network: A practitioner’s
perspective. Landscape and Urban Planning,
119, 35-43
Berkström, C., Lindborg, R., Thyresson, M.,
Gullström, M., 2013. Assessing connectivity
in a tropical embayment: Fish migrations andseascape ecology. Biological Conservation, 166,
43–53

Ahnström, J., Bengtsson, J., Berg, Å., Hallgren,
L., Boonstra, W.J., Björklund, J. 2013. Farmers’interest in nature and its relation to biodiversity in arable fields. International Journal of
Ecology, 617352, 1-9

Beveridge, M.C.M., Thilsted, S.H., Phillips,
M.J., Metian, M., Troell, M., Hall, S.J., 2013.
Meeting the food and nutrition needs of thepoor: The role of fish and the opportunities
and challenges emerging from the rise of
aquaculture a. Journal of Fish Biology, 83,
1067–1084

Anderies, J., Folke, C., Ostrom, E., Walker, B.H.
2013. Aligning key concepts for global change
policy: Robustness, Resilience, and Sustainability. Ecology and Society, 18(2), 8

Bodin, Ö., Österblom, H. 2013. International
fisheries regime effectiveness: Activities andresources of key actors in the Southern Ocean.
Global Environmental Change, 23, 948-956

Baird, J., Carter, B., Cave, K., Dupont, D.,
Plummer, R. 2013. Local perspectives on water
quality and governance: The value of surveys
to First Nation communities. Indigenous Policy
Journal, 23, 1-18

Boonstra, W.J., Joosse, S. 2013. The social
dynamics of degrowth. Environmental Values,
22, 171-189

Baird, J.M., Summers, R., Plummer, R. 2013.
Cisterns and safe drinking water in Canada.
Canadian Water Resources Journal, 38, 121134
Barthel, S. Crumley, C., Svedin, U. 2013.
Biocultural refugia: Safeguarding diversity ofpractices for food security and biodiversity.
Global Environmental Change, 23, 1142-1152
Barthel, S., Crumley, C., Svedin, U. 2013.
Biocultural refugia: Combating the erosion ofdiversity in landscapes of food production.
Ecology and Society, 18(4), 71
Barthel, S., Isendahl, C. 2013. Urban gardens,
agricultures and waters: Sources of resilience
for long-term food security in cities. Ecological
Economics, 86, 224-234
Bendt, P., Barthel, S., Colding, J. 2013. Civic
greening and environmental learning in publicaccess community gardens in Berlin. Landscapeand Urban Planning, 109, 18-30
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DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2013.09.001
Sandström, A., Crona, B., Bodin, Ö. Legitimacy
in co-management: The impact of preexisting
structures, social networks and governancestrategies. Environmental Policy and Governance, DOI: 10.1002/eet.1633
Saura, S., Bodin, Ö., Fortin, M.-J. Steppingstones are crucial for species’ long-distancedispersal and range expansion through habitat
networks. Journal of Applied Ecology DOI:
10.1111/1365-2664.12179

Gerst, M., Raskin, P., Rockström J. Contours ofa resilient global future. Sustainability, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su6010123

Sutherland, W.J., Gardner, T.A., Haider, J.L.,
Dicks, L.V. 2013. How can local and traditional knowledge be effectively incorporated into
international assessments?. Oryx DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0030605313001543

Krasny, M.E., Russ, A., Tidball, K.G., Elmqvist,
T. Civic ecology practices: Participatory approaches to generating and measuring ecosystemservices in cities. Ecosystem Services, DOI:
10.1016/j.ecoser.2013.11.002i

von Heland, J., Folke, C. A social contract
with the ancestors: Culture and ecosystemservices in Southern Madagascar. Global
Environmental Change, DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.11.003

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Book chapters
Barthel, S. Parker, J. Folke, C, Colding J. 2013.
Urban gardens: Pockets of social-ecological memory. In: Greening in the Red Zone: Disaster,
Resilience, and Urgent Biophilia. Tidball, K.G.,
Krasny, M.E. (eds.). Springer, pp. 145-158
Blenckner, T., Niiranen, S. 2013. Biodiversity:
Aquatic food web structure and stability. In:
Climate Vulnerability: Understanding andAddressing Threats to Essential Resources. Pielke, R (ed). Elsevier, pp. 930-956
Boyd, E., Cornforth, R.J. 2013. Building climate resilience: Lessons of early warning in Africa.
In: Successful Adaptation to Climate Change:
Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World. Moser, S.C., Boykoff, M.T. (eds.).
Routledge, pp. 201-219.
Boyd, E. 2013. Exploring principles of adaptive
governance for managing tipping points. In:
Addressing Tipping Points for a Precarious
Future. Lenton, T., O’Riordan, T. (eds.). Oxford
University Press, Oxford.
Colding, J. 2013. Revisiting the Stockholm Urban Assessment. In: Urbanization, Biodiversity,and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities. Elmqvist, T., et al. (eds.) Springer,
New York, pp. 313-336
Cornell, S.E., Jackson, M. 2013. Social science
perspectives on natural hazards risk and uncertainty. In: Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for
Natural Hazards. Rougier, J., Sparks, S., Hill, L.
(eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Cornell, S.E. 2013. How do we turn the world
into data? Reflections on ”An Investigation of
the Currents of the Atlantic Ocean (1832)”.
In: The Future of Nature. Robin, L., Sörlin, S.,
Warde, P. (eds.). Yale University Press, New
Haven, pp. 437-444
Cornell, S.E., Parker, J. 2013. Rising to thesynthesis challenge in big-program interdisciplinary science: the QUEST experience. In:
Enhancing Communication and Collaborationin Interdisciplinary Research. O’Rourke, M.,
Crowley, S., Eigenbrode, S.D., Wulfhorst, J.D.
(eds.). Sage, London, pp. 121-147
Crepin, A.S., Biggs, R., Polasky, S., Troell, M.,
de Zeeuw, A. 2013. Regime shifts and management. In: Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural
Resource and Environmental Economics. Shogren, J. (ed.) Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 339-348
Deutsch, L., Dyball, R, Steffen, W. 2013. Feeding cities: Food security and ecosystem support in an urbanizing world. In: Urbanization,
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities, Elmqvist, T., Fragkias,M., Goodness, J., Güneralp, B., Marcotullio,
P.J., McDonald, R.I., Parnell, S., Schewenius,
M., Sendstad, M., Seto, K.C., Wilkinson, C.
(eds.) Springer, New York, pp. 505-537

Elmqvist, T., Fragkias, M., Goodness, J.,
Güneralp, B., Marcotullio, P.J., McDonald,
R.I., Parnell, S., Schewenius, M., Sendstad, M.,
Seto, K.C., Wilkinson, C., Alberti, M., Folke,
C., Frantzeskaki, N., Haase, D., Katti, M.,
Nagendra, H., Niemelä, J., Pickett, S.T.A., Redman, C.L., Tidball, K. 2013. Stewardship of the
Biosphere in the urban era. In: Urbanization,
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities. Elmqvist, T., Fragkias,M., Goodness, J., Güneralp, B., Marcotullio,
P.J., McDonald, R.I., Parnell, S., Schewenius,
M., Sendstad, M., Seto, K.C., Wilkinson, C.
(eds.). Springer, New York, pp. 710-746
Elmqvist, T., Redman, C.L., Barthel, S., Costanza, R. 2013. History of urbanization and themissing ecology. In: Urbanization, Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities, Elmqvist, T. et al. (eds.). Springer,
New York, pp. 13-30
Falkenmark, M. 2013. The multiform water
scarcity dimension. Ch 5 in: Lankford et al(Eds),Water Security. Principles, Perspectives
and Practices. Earthscan.
Gómez-Baggethun, E., Gren, Å., Barton, D.N.,
Langemeyer, J., McPhearson, T., O’Farrell, P.,
Andersson, E., Hamstead, Z., Kremer, P. 2013.
Urban ecosystem services. In: Urbanization,
Biodiversity, and Ecosystems: Challenges andOpportunities. Elmqvist, T., et.al. (eds.) Springer, New York, pp. 175-251
Lundholm, C., Hopwood, N., Rickinson, M.
2013. Environmental learning: Insights fromresearch into the student experience. In: International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education. Brody, Dillon, Stevenson &Wals (eds.). Routledge, London, pp. 243-252
Kronenberg, J., Tezer, A., Haase, D., Colding,
J. 2013. Regional assessment of Europe. In:
Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services: Challenges and Opportunities. Elmqvist, T., et al. (eds.) Springer, New York, pp.
275-278
Seto, K.C., Parnell, S., Elmqvist, T. 2013. A
global outlook on urbanization. In: Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services:
Challenges and Opportunities. Elmqvist, T.,et.al. (eds.) Springer, New York, pp. 1-12
Tengö, M., von Heland, J. 2013. Trees andtree-Planting in Southern Madagascar: Sacredness and remembrance. In: Greening in the
Red Zone: Disaster, Resilience, and Urgent
Biophilia. Tidball, K.G., Krasny, M.E. (eds.).
Springer, pp. 333-337
West, P.C., Biggs, R., McKenney, B.A., Monfreda,
C. 2013. Feeding the world and protecting
biodiversity. In: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
2nd Edition. Levin. S. (ed.) Academic Press,
Waltham, MA, pp. 426-434

Policy reports and other scientificpublications
BalticSTERN (2013) The Baltic Sea - Our
Common Treasure. Economics of Saving the
Sea. Report 2013:4. The Swedish Agency for
Marine and Water Management. ISBN: 97891-87025-28-0. Online: http://www.stockholmresilience.org/21/research/research-programmes/balticstern/publications.html
Barthel, S., Colding, J., Erixon, H., Grahn, S.,
Kärsten, C., Marcus, L., Torsvall, J. 2013. Principles of Social-Ecological Urbanism - Case
Study: Albano Campus, Stockholm. Trita-ARK
Forskningspublikationer 2013:3. ISBN 978-917501-878-2.
Blenckner, T., Sundberg, J.H., Öhman, M.C,Österblom, H. 2013. Fisheries Management.
Havs- och vattenmyndighetens rapport 2013:4
Blyh, K., Ericsdotter, S., Nekoro, M., Scharin,
H., Hasselström, L. Söderqvist, T., 2012.
Värdet av en friskare Östersjö. (The Value of ahealthy Baltic Sea). Havet 2012. ISSN: 16546741, ISBN 978-91-980646-1-2. Available at:
http://www.havsmiljoinstitutet.se/publikationer/havet/2012/
Cinner, J., McClanahan, T., Wamukota, A.,
Darling, E., Humphries, A., Hicks, C., Huchery,
C., Marshall, N., Hempson, T., Graham, N.,
Bodin, Ö., Daw, T., Allison, E. 2013. Socialecological vulnerability of coral reef fisheries toclimatic shocks. Project report. FAO Fisheries
and Aquaculture Circular, 1082, 1-63
Colding, J., Marcus, L., Barthel, S., Andersson,
E., Jansson Å., Borgström, S. 2013. Ekosystemtjänster i Stockholmsregionen: Ett underlag
för diskussion och planering. Rapport 5:2012.
Stockholms Läns Landsting. Tillväxt, miljöoch regionplanering, Stockholm Sweden.
Cornell, S.E., Forbes, B. C., McLennan, D.,
Molau, U., Nuttall, M., Overduin, P., Wassman.
P., Carmack, E., Crépin, A-S., Heleniak, T.,
Jeppesen, E., Johansson, M., Jorgenson, T.,
Koivurova, T., Nilsson, A.E., Rasmussen, R.O.,
Young, O. 2013. Thresholds in the Arctic.
In: Arctic Resilience - Interim Report 2013,
Nilsson, A., Axelsson, K., Carson, M., Cornell,
S.E., Molau, U. Wilkinson, C. (eds.) Stockholm
Environment Institute/Stockholm ResilienceCentre/Arctic Council, 36-70
Cornell, S.E., Torrens, J., Rockström, J. 2013.
Action 2020: Executive Briefs for the World
Business Council for Sustainable Development,
Geneva.
Elmqvist, T., Cornell, S. Öhman, M.C., Daw,
T., Moberg, F. Norström, A., Persson, Å.,Peterson, G., Rockström, J., Schultz, M. Török,E.H. 2013. Global sustainability and Humanprosperity – contribution to the Post-2015
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velopment Goals. Nordic Council of Minister’sreport – a TemaNord report.
Ericsdotter, S., Nekoro, M., Scharin, H. 2013.
The Baltic Sea - Our Common Treasure. Economics of Saving the Sea. Executive Summary.
Online: http:// www.stockholmresilience.org/
balticstern
Folke, C. 2013. Respecting planetary boundaries and reconnecting to the Biosphere.
In: State of the World 2013. Prugh, T. (ed.)
WorldWatch Institute, Washington DC.
Gerger Swartling, Å., 2013. Adaptation
efforts in the Swedish forestry sector could
be strengthened. Mistra-SWECIA Annual report 2012, pp. 20-22. March 2013.
http://www.mistra-swecia.se/polopoly_
fs/1.32312.1377521441!/Mistra_Swecia_annual%20report%202012.pdf
Ituarte-Lima, C., Schultz, M., Hahn, T.,
Cornell, S. 2012, Rev 2013. Safeguards inscaling-up biodiversity financing and possible
guiding principles, Stockholm ResilienceCentre at the Stockholm University, Information document for the CBD-Conference of theParties 11, (UNEP/CBD/COP/11/INF/7). http://
www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2013/ntf-2013025-financial-en.pdf.
Malmer, P., Tengö, M., Elmqvist, T. 2013. The
Multiple Evidence Base as a Framework forConnecting Diverse Knowledge Systems in the
IPBES. Discussion paper, IPBES Tokyo expert
workshop June 2013
Marshall, F., Millstone, E., Karpouzoglou, T.,
Brooks, S. 2013. Rethinking Environmental
Monitoring and Assessment in Agricultural
Research and Development. ALINe Working
Paper Series, 11, 1-23
Nilsson, A.E., Axelsson, K., Carson, M.,
Cornell, S.E., Molau, U., Wilkinson, C. 2013.
Arctic Resilience - Interim Report. Stockholm
Environment Institute/Stockholm ResilienceCentre/Arctic Council.
Nykvist, B., Persson, Å., Moberg, F., Persson,
L., Cornell, S., Rockström, J. 2013. National
Environmental Performance on Planetary
Boundaries. The Swedish Environmental Protection AgencyÖhman, M.C., Ahtiainen, H. 2013. The Baltic
Sea and the valuation of marine and coastal
ecosystem services. Background paper toRegional Workshop on the valuation of marine
and coastal ecosystem services in the Baltic Sea,
Stockholm
Rockström, J., Sachs, J.D., Öhman, M.C., Schmidt-Traub, G. 2013. Sustainable Development
and Planetary Boundaries. Paper for the UN
High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the
Post-2015 Development Agenda, p 45

Rockström, J. 2013. Contribution to: Framtidskommissionens första delutredning: Påvägen till en grönare framtid - utmaningar ochmöjligheter Ds 2013:1. P. Hojem (Ed.) Swedish
Government, Framtidskommissionen, 24
januari 2013
Rockström, J. 2013. Contribution to: Framtidskommissionens slutrapport: Svenska framtidsutmaningar 2013:19. Swedish Government,
Framtidskommissionen, 26 March 2013
Schultz, M., Ek, G. 2013. Sweden’s Fifth National Report to the Convention of Biological
Diversity, SIDA, 25 November 2013.
Schultz, M., Berg, L., Hahn, T., Hård af
Segerstad, L. 2013. Synliggöra värdet av ekosystem-tjänster - Åtgärder för välfärd genom
biologisk mångfald och ekosystemtjänster.
SOU 2013:68. (Commissioned by the Swedish
Government) http://www.regeringen.se/
sb/d/16982/a/226192
Schultz, M., Berg, L., Hahn, T., Hård af
Segerstad, L. 2013. Sammanfattning av SOU
2013:68. Synliggöra värdet av ekosystem-tjänster - Åtgärder för välfärd genom biologiskmångfald och ekosystemtjänster. (Commissioned by the Swedish Government) http://www.
regeringen.se/content/1/c6/22/61/92/819dd8b7.
pdf
Schultz, M., Berg, L., Hahn, T., Hård af Segerstad, L. Stockholm 2013. Summary of SOU
2013:68. Making the value of ecosystem services visible - Proposals to enhance well-being
through biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Swedish Government Inquiries. http://www.
regeringen.se/content/1/c6/22/61/92/7987db30.
pdf
Schultz, M., Rockström, J., Öhman, M.C., Cornell, S., Persson, Å., Norström, A. 2013. Human prosperity requires global sustainability– a contribution to the Post-2015 agenda andthe development of Sustainable Development
Goals. A Stockholm Resilience Centre report to
the Swedish Government Office, p 21
Tengö, M., Malmer, P., Brondizio, E., Elmqvist
T., Spierenburg,M. 2013. The Multiple Evidence Base as a framework for connecting diverse
knowledge systems in the IPBES, Discussion
paper 2013-06-04. Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden
van Oudenhoven, F.J.W., Haider, L.J. 2013.
Imagining alternative futures through thelens of food in the Afghan and Tajik Pamirmountains. Revue d’ethnoécologie, 2, http://ethnoecologie.revues.org/970 ; DOI : 10.4000/
ethnoecologie.970
Vulturius, G., Gerger Swartling, Å. Transformative Learning and Engagement with Climate
Change Adaptation: Experiences with Sweden’s
Forestry Sector. SEI Working Paper 2013-12.

Pp. 23., http://www.sei-international.org/publications?pid=2461
Outreach publications
Holmberg, J., Schultz, M., 2013. Värdesättvår natur och låt den inspirera. Expressen
GT. http://www.expressen.se/gt/ledare/vardesatt-var-natur-och-lat-den-inspirera/
Green, T. 2013. Hållbar utveckling inget för
ekonomer? Landets Fria, online 27 November.
http://www.landetsfria.se/artikel/112745
Hahn, T. 2013. Kan man sätta en prislapp
på naturen? Article in Formas popular press.
http://www.extrakt.se/nyttjande-av-naturresurser/kan-man-satta-en-prislapp-pa-naturen/
Hahn, T., Schultz, M. 2013. Ekosystemtjänster
har potential i jordbruket. Chronicle in ATL,
Swedish farmers’ quality newspaper. http://
www.atl.nu/synpunkten/utredning-med-intressanta-f-rslag
Olsson, P. Med örat mot marken. Good News
Magazine, April 2013.
Olsson, P. Bouncing Forward: Becoming a Positive Force in Nature. MISC Magazine, Toronto.
May 2013
Schultz, M., Berg, L., Hahn, T., Hård av Segerstad, L., 2013, Vi måste värdera ekosystemtjänsterna, Uppsala Nya tidning, http://www.
unt.se/debatt/vi-maste-vardera-ekosystemtjansterna-2640378.aspx
Öhman, M.C., Rockström, J. 2013. En hållbar
värld kräver ett helhetsgrepp. Miljöaktuellt 4:7

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Centre staff 2013
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
Bengt Hall IT-support
Gunnar Jacobsson IT-support
Denise Kreppenhofer Human resources
Karolina Krzyzanowska Financial 		
controller
Thérèse La Monde Office & financial
administrator
Christina Leijonhufvud Affiliatedadministrator
Cecilia Linder Human resources
Emina Muratspahic Head of
administration
Stina Nieminen Project controller
Henrik Pompeius Fundraiser
Maria Schewenius Project coordinator
Practice, Policy and Communication
Nina Ekelund Project leader –Human Quest
Anna Emmelin Communication
strategist
Marika Haeggman Communication 		
officer
Sturle Hauge Simonsen Head of 		
communications
Marika Hjälsten Project assistant – 		
Human Quest
Mattias Klum Affiliated senior advisor
Fredrik Moberg Senior strategic advisor
Agneta Sundin Affiliated communications officer
Modeling and Visualisation lab
Emma Sundstöm System developerÖrjan Bodin Associate senior lecture
Resilience and Development
programme (Swedbio)Håkan Berg Senior researcher & advisor

Pamela Cordero Financial controller &administrator
Sara Elfstrand Programme coordinator
Ellika Hermansson Török
Senior advisor
Claudia Ituarte Lima Advisor
Pernilla Malmer Senior advisor
Mauricio Portilla Ospina Project
assistant
Maria Schultz Director
Hanna Wetterstrand Advisor
Marcus Öhman Senior advisor
BalticSTERN Secretariat
Kerstin Blyh Officer
Siv Ericsdotter Head of secretariat
Marmar Nekoro Communication
officerHenrik Scharin Officer
Education
Theodor Adolfsson Course assistantLisa Deutsch Senior. Lecturer,
Director of Studies
Eleonora Horn Course assistantMiriam Huitric Programme director
Cornelia Ludwig Education coordinator
Elin Sperber Ossiansson Course
assistant

Research staff with main
theme/programme association
Theme Landscapes
Jennie Barron Affiliated researcher
Lisa Deutsch Senior Lecturer,
Director of Studies
Elin Enfors Researcher
Malin Falkenmark Affiliated seniorresearcher
Line Gordon Senior researcher(Deputy science director)
Tilman Hertz Visiting researcher
Louise Karlberg Affiliated researcher
Timothy Karpouzoglou Postdoc
Patrick Keys PhD student
Steven Lade Postdoc
Mats Lannerstad Affiliated researcher
Emelie Lindqvist PhD student

Rebecka Malinga PhD student
Megan Meacham (PECS) PhD student
Olivia Murzabekov PhD student
Kirill Orach Project assistantDaniel Ospina Research assistantIssa Oudraogo Postdoc
Claudia Pahl-Wostl Affiliated seniorresearcher
Cibele Queiroz Postdoc
Angelina Sanderson Bellamy Researcher
Maja Schlüter Researcher
My Sellberg (PECS) PhD student
Hanna Sinare PhD student
Lan Wang Research assistantNanda Wijermans Postdoc
Urban theme
Erik Andersson Researcher
Stephan Barthel Affiliated researcher
Sara Borgström Postdoc
Johan Colding Affiliated seniorresearcher
Lisa Deutsch Senior. Lecturer,
Director of Studies
Thomas Elmqvist Professor
Henrik Ernstson Researcher
Matteo Giusti PhD student
Julie Goodness PhD student
Marnie Graham PhD student
Tom Green Postdoc
Åsa Green Affiliated researcher
Joshua Lewis PhD student
Jeff Ranara PhD student
Magnus Tuvendal Research assistantCathy Wilkinson Researcher
Costal and marine theme
Simon Birnbaum Researcher
Thorsten Blenckner Senior researcher
Wijnand Boonstra Researcher
Eny Buchary Postdoc
Beatrice Crona Senior researcher
Tim Daw Researcher
Jonas Hentati Sundberg PhD student
Martina Kadin PhD student
Andres Marin PhD student
Andrew Merrie PhD student
Marc Metian Postdoc
Susa Niiranen PhD student

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Albert Norström (PECS) Researcher
Magnus Nyström Senior lecturer
Saskia Otto Postdoc
Matilda Petersson Project assistantBjörn Schulte-Herbrüggen Postdoc
Max Troell Affiliated senior researcher
Johanna Yletyinen PhD student
Matilda Valman PhD student
James Watson Researcher
Henrik Österblom Associate seniorlecturer (Deputy science director)

Vanessa Masterson PhD student
Helen Moor PhD student
Björn Nyqvist Postdoc
Jon Norberg Professor
Per Olsson Researcher
John Parker Affiliated senior researcher
Ryan Plummer Senior research fellow
Remberto Salazar Project assistantAngelina Sanderson Bellamy Researcher

Annica Sandström Postdoc
Lisen Schultz (PECS) Researcher
Åsa Swartling Affiliated researcher
Maria Tengö Researcher
Franciska von Heland PhD student
Jacob von Heland Project leader
Simon West PhD student
Frances Westley Affiliated seniorresearcher

Regime shifts theme
Oonsie Biggs Researcher
Thorsten Blenckner Senior researcher
Jamila Haider PhD student
Maike Hamann PhD student
Garry Peterson Professor
Juan Carlos Rocha Gordo PhD student
Global dynamics theme
Victoria Bignet Project assistant
Jonas Colen Torrens Project assistantRobert Constanza Affiliated seniorresearcher
Sarah Cornell Project coordinator
Ann-Sophie Crépin Affiliated seniorresearcher
Ingo Fetzer Researcher
Victor Galaz Senior lecturer
Mark Owe Heuer Project assistant
Therese Lindahl Affiliated researcher
Will Steffen Affiliated senior researcher
Uno Svedin Senior researcher
Sverker Sörlin Affiliated senior researcher
Brian Walker Affiliated senior researcher
Stewardship themeÖrjan Bodin Associate senior lecturer
Arvid Bergsten PhD student
Anderas Duit Affiliated senior lecturer
Johan Enqvist PhD student
Diego Galafassi PhD student
Thomas Hahn Researcher
Malena Heinrup Project assistantIrene Håkansson Project assistantStuart Kininmonth Postdoc
Cecilia Lundholm Affiliated seniorresearcher

Leadership training
In order to better manage the challenges of leading multidisciplinary research and complex collaborations with different stakeholders, a leadership training course, specially designed for Centre
staff, has been running over the last two years. As of the end of
2013, approximately half the organisation had taken the training,which consists of three workshops:
Workshop 1 Leadership in complex systems through Genuine
Participation
Workshop 2 Change management and conflict resolution
Workshop 3 Leading and designing high-performing, task-oriented
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Resilience Research School members 2013
Rivolala Andriamparany,
PhD Stockholm Resilience Centre,
Stockholm University
Supervisor: Thomas Elmqvist

Malin Jonell, PhD Dept Ecology,
Environment and Plant Sciences,
Stockholm University
Supervisor: Patrick Rönnbäck

Arvid Bergsten, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Örjan Bodin

Martina Kadin, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Thorsten Blenckner

Brita Boman, PhD Dept of Law,
Stockholm University
Supervisor: Jonas Ebbeson

Patrick Keys, PhD Stockholm ResilienceCentre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Line Gordon

Linus Dagerskog, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Johan Rockström

Joshua Lewis, PhD Stockholm ResilienceCentre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Henrik Ernstson

Stefan Daume, PhD Faculty of Forest
Sciences and Forest Ecology,
University of Göttingen
Supervisor: Victor Galaz

Emilie Lindkvist, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Jon Norberg

Yihun Dile Taddele, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Johan Rockström
Johan Enqvist, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Maria Tengö
Diego Galafassi, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Örjan Bodin
Matteo Giusti, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Stephan Barthel
Julie Goodness, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Thomas Elmqvist
Marnie Graham, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Henrik Ernstson
Jamila Haider, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Garry Peterson
Maike Hamann, PhD Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Oonsie Reinette Biggs
Jonas Hentati Sundberg, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Henrik Österblom

Rebecka Malinga, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Line Gordon
Andres Marin, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Beatrice Crona
Vanessa Masterson, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Maria Tengö
Megan Meacham, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Garry Peterson
Andrew Merrie, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Henrik Österblom
Helen Moor, PhD Stockholm ResilienceCentre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Jon Norberg
Olivia Murzabekov, PhD Dept. Human
Geography, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Line Gordon
Susa Niiranen, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Thorsten Blenckner
Cibele Queiroz, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Jon Norberg

Jeff Ranara, PhD Stockholm ResilienceCentre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Thomas Elmqvist
Juan Carlos Rocha Gordo,
PhD Stockholm Resilience Centre,
Stockholm University
Supervisor: Garry Peterson
Caroline Schill, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre (Beijer),
Stockholm University
Supevisor: Therese Lindahl
Lisa Segnastam, PhD Dept Economic
History, Stckholm University
Supervisor: Ronny Peterson
My Sellberg, PhD Stockholm ResilienceCentre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Garry Peterson
Hanna Sinare, PhD Stockholm ResilienceCentre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Line Gordon
Matilda Valman, PhD Dept. Political
Science, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Henrik Österblom
Franciska von Heland, PhD Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Per Olsson
Simon West, PhD Stockholm ResilienceCentre, Stockholm University
Supervisor: Lisen Schultz
Johanna Yletyinen, PhD Stockholm
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