Stockholm Resilience Centre

Annual report 2015

“Transformative researchfor biosphere stewardship”
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Stockholm Resilience Centre Annual Report 2015
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Stockholm Resilience Centre Annual Report 2015
Chair’s preface ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 4
Directors’ view ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 5
Madame Evergreen ______________________________________________________________________________________ 6
Research overview _______________________________________________________________________________________ 8
Reflections on PECS _____________________________________________________________________________________ 9
Publications _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10
Research highlights ___________________________________________________________________________________ 12
Scientific achievements and awards ____________________________________________________ 17
Selected scientific publications _____________________________________________________________ 18
Books _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 29
Policy, practice and outreach __________________________________________________________________ 30
Seminars and events ________________________________________________________________________________ 36
Education _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 42
Appendix ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 47

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CHAIR’S PREFACE

Chair’s preface

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“Stockholm Resilience Centre has developed a unique, team based culture
and a student and research group that is ever more agile and skilled atconnecting methodologies and epistemologies,” says Frances Westley
THE ACADEMIC SYSTEM must be responsive toa changing world. Whereas in the past thetraditional disciplines have made huge
strides in understanding the earth and its
social and biophysical systems, we now
urgently require new approaches consistent with the complexity of the challenges
facing us as a species. Humans have had aprofound impact on the biophysical systemsof the planet, and these are in turn driving new
Frances Westley, patterns of social and political behaviour. Rates
Chair of the Board of environmental crises are increasing as are
instances of environmental violence and worldwide migration of refugees. If the academy is toplay an important role in understanding theseemerging dynamics and contributing to a sustainable future, new integrations of disciplinary
knowledge are constantly required.
Since its launch nearly ten years ago, theStockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) has taken
this challenge to heart, seeking to approach
problems in an interdisciplinary way. It has succeeded in the goal set by the Mistra foundation
for a “large-scale, interdisciplinary and internationally competitive academic research centre
addressing sustainable governance and management of linked ecological and social systems.”
The effort and dedication that this has involved
should not be minimised. Interdisciplinary work
is not the norm, even in sustainability science,and has demanded patience and creativity.
The SRC of today has both. Under the able
leadership of Carl Folke and Johan Rockström,a vibrant and highly productive interdisciplinary

research group has formed and has become a
global leader in producing scientific breakthroughs in sustainability science. Beginningwith a core of system ecologists, SRC now
boasts social scientists, from economists topolitical scientists to sociologists and anthropologists.
The Resilience Research School is an everevolving experiment in attracting and training
a new generation of deeply interdisciplinary
researchers. Most importantly, SRC has developed
a unique, team based culture and a student andresearch group that is ever more agile andskilled at connecting methodologies and epistemologies. That is one reason why SRC is abeacon, attracting visiting researchers from allover the world interested in transformations
toward sustainability, not only in theory but inpractice.
This year SRC has taken on a bold new
Sida funded project, GRAID (Guidance for
Resilience in the Anthropocene: Investments forDevelopment), which will bring the challengesof development into the heart of resiliencestudies. This is a logical next step for an interdisciplinary organization committed to solving
global sustainability problems. I am both
optimistic and confident in this new initiative,
founded as it is on the ever growing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary competenceof SRC. I look forward to more exciting breakthroughs in resilience science, associated with
GRAID, in the year ahead.

Vision & Mission
The vision of the Stockholm Resilience Centre is a world
where social-ecological systems are understood, governedand managed, to enhance human well-being and the capacity
to deal with complexity and change, for the sustainableco-evolution of human civilizations with the biosphere.

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The mission of Stockholm Resilience Centre is to advanceresearch for governance and management of social-ecologicalsystems to secure ecosystem services for human well-being andresilience for long-term sustainability. We apply and further
develop the scientific advancements of this research within
practice, policy and academic training.

DIRECTORS’ VIEW

Directors’ view
A major strength of the centre is the collaborative mode of pursuing
our research agenda for deep understanding, and complementing itwith strategic science, policy and practice activities
SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS are embedded in thebiosphere. Since the beginning, our research on humandevelopment and poverty alleviation has been based on thebiosphere as the biophysical foundation for human wellbeing, through critically important ecosystem services. The
wellbeing of individuals, communities, and societies is tightly
coupled to the capacity of the biosphere to sustain it. This isan obvious fact in a situation when the scale, connectivity,and speed of human actions shape the dynamics of thebiosphere and the earth system as a whole.
Resilience is about cultivating the capacity to sustain
development in the face of unexpected and surprising changes.
It is about how periods of gradual change interact withabrupt changes, and the capacity of people, communities,
societies, and cultures to adapt or even transform into new
development pathways in the face of dynamic change. It is
about the capacity to secure favourable outcomes (material,
symbolic and emotional) under new circumstances, andwhen necessary, by new means, even when this entails significant modifications to behaviour or the social frameworks
that structure and give meaning to behaviour. Sustainable
development requires the management and governance ofsocial-ecological systems. This translates to stewardship ofsocial systems and ecosystems, landscapes and seascapes, intune with the living planet as a whole.
To achieve development on a planet where humans andthe environment are truly intertwined – whether for poverty
alleviation, reduced inequality, or economic progress – thisdevelopment has to be embedded in the biosphere if sustainability is to be taken seriously. There is great interest in theinterplay between resilience, development and global change,
and major actors like development agencies are now engaging

Johan Rockström,
Executive Director

Carl Folke,
Science Director

deeply in resilience and development. The development agenda
is confronted with the new situation of the Anthropocene,
involving new interactions of people and planet, reshaping
and expanding the development challenge. Addressing
resilience, from local communities to the Earth system as awhole, as well as interactions and feedbacks between them,is now a core for attaining the Sustainable Development Goals
on global development. Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC)
has with great excitement become deeply engaged in thischallenge, and the new GRAID programme (Guidance for
Resilience in the Anthropocene: Investments for Development)
has been set in motion, supported by Sida and connected to
the Global Resilience Partnership spearheaded by theRockefeller Foundation, USAID and Sida. GRAID will
be a collaborative platform for using resilience both as alens and as a process in development. New recruitments andtransdisciplinary collaborations are emerging for advancing
this significant challenge towards sustainability. GRAID is
nicely in tune with the vision and mission of the SRC, andsynergies of GRAID with our research agenda and science,practice, policy, and communication are plentiful.
A major strength of the SRC is the collaborative mode ofpursuing our research agenda for deep understanding, andcomplementing it with strategic science, policy and practiceactivities for magnifying this understanding for action. Moreexplicitly, complementing it with the hope of transforming
human actions to become in tune with biosphere dynamics
for wellbeing and sustainability. We are deeply appreciative to
our colleagues and collaborators for a never ending curiosityand for contributing with such high quality work in such a
professional, cooperative and collective manner, and to ourfunders and supporters for making the work we do possible.

Line Gordon,
Deputy Director &Deputy Science Director

Olof Olsson,
Managing Director
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MADAME EVERGREEN

Madame Evergreen
The making of a water hero

Mrs Water. The Trailblazer. An icon. We attribute many names
to the ones we admire and Malin Falkenmark is no exception.
At the age of 90 few researchers have gained as much respect
and admiration as her
THROUGH A CAREER that spans over 60 years she has contributed to more than 400 publications and some 20 books.
But she will not stop working. Not yet, there is still too muchto do. Her dream, she says, is to see a more genuine acknowledgement of water’s essential roles in the life support system“before age seriously kicks in”. Such a statement is a testamentof her formidable energy and determination.

Green, blue and Johan Rockström
Falkenmark remains frustrated over what she calls “water
blindness” or narrow-minded views on the role of water for
all life on earth. Somehow many fundamental roles of water
still tend to escape attention. Good thing then she is blessedwith the gift of turning complex concepts into easily understandable ones. Her description of water being “the bloodstream of the entire biosphere” is well-known and the terms“green” and “blue” water to differentiate between the
below-surface water, which makes food and plants grow(green), and the water we see flowing in rivers (blue), areequally impressive. These terms reduce complex hydrology
science to the elementary school level without compromising
the intellectual work behind them. How fitting then that they
were developed together with another master of scientificclarity, centre director Johan Rockström.
Over the last 25 years Falkenmark and Rockström havesought to explain to the world why green and blue watermust be better managed. Interestingly enough, their collaboration is down to a spur-of-the-moment decision by JohanRockström. As a young agronomy student in 1989, he decided
at the last minute to attend a lecture by Falkenmark. Afterwards he was so fascinated by her work he asked her to be
his supervisor for his Master’s study. The rest is history, as
they say: Johan Rockström is today one of the world’s mostprominent researchers on water management and global
sustainability issues in general. For Falkenmark, it remains
her most worthwhile professional achievement to haveinspired Rockström to pursue his scientific career.

An inspiration for women
In the the male-dominated world that is science academia,
Falkenmark also remains an inspiration for numerous
women. Our own deputy science director Line Gordon
describes her as “a great source of inspiration” who hastaught Gordon everything she knows about water. “She isa fabulous systems thinker and a great listener with atremendous capacity to synthesize information in newways,” Gordon says.
When the participants of the 1977 UN Water Conferencein Mar del Plata discovered that the selected Rapporteur
General was a woman, they welcomed Falkenmark to the
podium with never-ending applause. “I will never forgetthat moment. It was an applause of astonishment,” says
Falkenmark, who herself has never been particularly concerned
about working in a male dominated environment. “That’s
not a problem,” she says, “In my early career just being tall
was quite helpful.” Malin Falkenmark is 184 centimetres tall.
But for her own academic development, Falkenmark owes
some credit to her first boyfriend, the late Mats Olsson.
They spent much time together during the period 1941-45,
a period Falkenmark describes as her "formative years".
Her parents had her embarked on a career within linguistics
but her boyfriend’s interest in science appealed to her. “I got
an A in math and the question arose whether subjects likestatistics or physics would suit me better. My relationshipwith Mats, with his books and perspectives, helped shape mydecision to ultimately pursue studies within science,” she says.
Falkenmark took the scientific world by storm, establishingherself as a reference point within ice physics, water exchange,
and international hydrology. Her career has taken her to avariety of places but her cabin in Trosa outside Stockholm
remains her favourite place. That is where she finds peaceand quiet, spending time with her family but also reflecting
on the future and how we can manage precious water
resources in an increasingly populated world. Planet Earthhas put its best woman on the job.

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RESEARCH OVERVIEW

Research overview
The Stockholm Resilience Centre research framework

SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE is a broad interdisciplinary andtransdisciplinary field defined by the problems it addresses
rather than by the disciplines it employs. The research focusof the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) is sustainability
science for biosphere stewardship in the Anthropocene,
underlining that sustainability cannot just concern the social,economic and cultural spheres, but that human development
and progress rests on a resilient biosphere. Hence, theenvironment is not viewed as a mere input among manyothers for human wellbeing but serves as a foundation forsocial and economic development. The research frameworkof the SRC emphasizes that people are embedded parts of thebiosphere, shaping it from local to global scales, and at thesame time fundamentallydependent on the collective workof the Earth’s ecosystems, thebiosphere.
Development issues in ourwork are approached from within this framework. The framework makes clear the challenges
and opportunities that emerge
for humans to become stewardsof the biosphere and sustain
development for current and future generations; environmental
issues are about our own future
on Earth. We use the socialecological approach that aims
at understanding intertwinedsocial-ecological systems andthe cross-scale dynamics of the
Anthropocene.
We use resilience thinking as
one lens to ask new questions

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and analyze complex systems and particularly complex
adaptive social-ecological systems. Capturing the interplay
between periods of slow and rapid change, and how to adapt
and persist and even transform new development pathways
in the face of dynamic change, is a research frontier – which
includes our interactions with policy, practice, and the arts.
Within the SRC framework, centre researchers are using a diversity of theories, approaches, methods and perspectives, including co-production of knowledge together withpractitioners and other stakeholders. The research of thecentre requires in-depth collaboration, not only among the
researchers in Stockholm, but also with our international
networks of collaborators and stakeholders.

REFLECTIONS ON PECS

Reflections on PECS
In 2005 The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) called for a better
understanding of how social-ecological systems evolve over time. The
result was the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS),
which is hosted by the Stockholm Resilience Centre
ALBERT NORSTRÖM, executive director of PECS, gives an
overview of the importance of PECS and what it will deliver.

First of all, what is PECS and why is it
important?
PECS is an international research programme that focuses on
how we can transform systemic linkages between humans
and nature into more sustainable ones. PECS is importantbecause it boosts research in areas where progress is urgently
needed.

How can it make a difference?
I think our work can make a difference in many ways. For
example, our projects and case studies all have high levelsof engagement and collaboration with people from outsideacademia. We also put a strong emphasis on transformationand how desired futures might be reached. Finally, rather
than downscaling from a global scope, projects within PECS
build up from the local and place-based perspectives.

How do you work and who do you work with?
PECS’s research follows two broad approaches. The first
approach concerns comparisons of place-based case studies
from around the world. To date we have endorsed 21 projects
that together encompass 42 really interesting case studies.
By comparing these case studies we hope to reveal generalbehaviours and dynamics of these systems.
Furthermore, these case studies use different methods
because of specific contexts and histories. One ambition is
to build a central database of the many methods employedin the case studies to create a basis for offering training
workshops on making different methods meet.
Our second approach is the development of a set of“fast-track” research activities that often build on, but are
not limited to, the endorsed PECS place-based case studies.
One example is the “Seeds of a Good Anthropocene” project,which focuses on collecting visions of futures that are sociallyand ecologically desirable, just, and sustainable.

Looking back, what is PECS’s mostsignificant achievement so far?
I would say the first PECS conference, which was heldin South Africa in 2015. That was a great milestone.

We gathered 250 researchers and stakeholders from within
and beyond the PECS network to share cutting-edge research.
We are really proud of that event.

What can we expect from PECS
in the near future?
The near future will also see the continuous growth of PECS
with more projects being endorsed and new working groups
established. We will continue to play an important part ofglobal research platforms such as Future Earth. What is
exciting about Future Earth is that it is, in essence, a networkof networks that wants to intensify the impact of research
and accelerate sustainable development on all levels. Finally,
I also have to mention, as a small teaser, that the next PECS
conference will be held in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2017. I lookforward to another two years of fascinating PECS activities,
which will culminate in that event.

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PUBLICATIONS

Publications
Centre research continues to be attractive to top ranked scientificjournals. In 2015 alone fifteen articles were published in Nature,
Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS)ALL IN ALL OVER 150 SCIENTIFIC articles were published bycentre researchers in 2015. Some 40 of them appeared injournals with an impact factor at or above 4 such as The
Lancet, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Nature Climate
Change, Nature Communication, Global Change Biology,
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, PhilosophicalTransactions of the Royal Society B, Proceedings of theRoyal Society B and Global Environmental Change.
Some 50 articles were published in the interdisciplinary
journals Ambio, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Ecological Economics, Ecology and Society, Global
Environmental Change, Marine Policy, Plos One, andSustainability. About a third of the 2015 publications(48 articles) appeared in journals that were new to the
publication list of Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC)
researchers. These included Advances in Ecological Research,
Ecosystem Services, Science of the Total Environment, Climateof the Past, the Anthropocene Review, Agricultural Systems,
Urban Studies, Aquaculture Research, Water Resources andRural Development, Frontiers in Environmental Science,
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Journalof Environmental Practice, and Conservation and Society.
Several of these new journals have their roots in the social
sciences and humanities like Annual Review of Anthropology,
Environmental Humanities, Nature and Culture, Frontiers in
Psychology, Geoforum, International Review of Environmental
and Resource Economics, Review of International Organiza-

tions, The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, European Union
Politics, Policy Sciences, and the International Journal of theCommons. There are also publications among the new journals
with explicit focus on sustainability like Environment
Development and Sustainability, Ecosystem Health andSustainability, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems,
International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable
Development, and International Journal of Sustainability inHigher Education.
Centre researchers have also been engaged with editing
several special issues.
A framework for analyzing, comparing, and diagnosingsocial-ecological systems edited by Pieter Bots, Maja Schlüter,Jan Sendzimir. Ecology and Society. December 2015 (fourSRC papers).
Advancing the frontier of urban ecosystem services research:
Lessons and future challenges edited by Erik Andersson,
Thomas Elmqvist, Peleg Kremer, Timon McPhearson.
Ecosystem Services. April 2015 (five SRC papers).
Advancing the understanding of behavior in social-ecologicalsystems: Results from lab and field experiments edited by
Marco Janssen, Therese Lindahl, Jim Murphy. 2015. Ecology
and Society December 2015 (two SRC papers).

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Publications per discipline &publications in high impact journals

Baltic Sea ecosystem-based management under climatechange edited by Erik Bonsdorff, Agneta Andersson,
Ragnar Elmgren, Terry Bidleman, Thorsten Blenckner,
Elena Gorokhova, Catherine Legrand, Johan Wikner.
Ambio 44(3). June 2015 (three SRC paper).
Cooperation, local communities, and marine social-ecologicalsystems: New findings from Latin America edited by Sebastian
Villasante, Henrik Österblom. Ecology and Society. March
2015 (one SRC paper).
Governing for urban resilience edited by Cathy Wilkinson,
Sue Parnell, Ruth Beilin. Urban Studies 52(7). May 2015
(three SRC papers).
Marine regime shifts around the globe: Theory, drivers, andimpacts edited by Alessandra Conversi, Christian Möllmann,
Carl Folke, Martin Edwards. Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society London, Biological Sciences 270, issue1659, 2015. January 2015 (six SRC papers).

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Centre researchers also contributed papers to the 100th
Anniversary Special Feature of PNAS on Nature as Capitalas part of a collaboration with Stanford, as well as the Ambio
special issues Climate and land-use change effects onlandscape processes, biodiversity, ecosystem services andgovernance as part of the Ekoklim project at Stockholm
University. In addition, 28 journal articles with official
publication dates in 2016 appeared online in 2015. Twoscience books, one with Cambridge University Press andone with LM Publishers were released in 2015. Also 20
book chapters and some 50 science, policy, practice andoutreach publications and reports were published. Among
those is the widely spread popular science book Big World– Small Planet (Rockström and Klum).
Citations of SRC publications continue to increase, from
3 444 last year to 4 710 in 2015, and are approaching 15 000
in total in the ISI web of Science. It is exciting to note thatseveral of the publications are acknowledged as highly cited
papers by Essential Science Indicators – six papers among
those published during 2015 and 8 % (>50 publications)of all SRC papers. Highly cited papers are those that havereceived enough citations to place them in the top 1 % of
their academic field.
The Steffen et al. 2015 science paper on planetary
boundaries is number 50 in the ALTMETRIC top 100 research
papers of all fields in 2015. ALTMETRIC is based on publicattention in terms of news stories, blog posts, tweets, Facebook posts, Google Plus posts, Wikipedia references andresearch highlight platforms.

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Applied research for enhancing human well-being andenvironmental stewardship: using complexity thinking inSouthern Africa edited by Carolyn Palmer, Oonsie Biggs,
Graeme Cumming. Ecology and Society. March 2015 (fourSRC papers).

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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Research highlights
ESA: Centre publications among most inﬂuential
To celebrate its 100th anniversary, theEcological Society of America (ESA)
highlighted 100 of the journal’s mostinfluential papers. Among them werearticles by centre researchers, including“Response diversity, ecosystem change,
and resilience” co-authored by Thomas

Elmqvist, Carl Folke, Magnus Nyström,
Garry Peterson, Brian Walker and Jon
Norberg. Another influential article withcentre involvement was “Rediscovery of
traditional ecological knowledge asadaptive management” co-authored by
Johan Colding and Carl Folke.

Highlighting local initiatives in regional development
The ARTS project (Accelerating andRescaling Transitions to Sustainability)
is an EU-funded project that seeks tounderstand the role and potential impactof local sustainability initiatives in fivecity-regions across Europe: Brighton,
Budapest, Dresden, Flanders and Stockholm. The work in Stockholm is led bycentre researcher Sara Borgström. ARTS
Stockholm has applied an interactive

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research process which includes a numberof dialogues between local initiatives,
regional and municipal oﬃcials andpoliticians, policy makers, researchers andartists. Together they are working towards
a roadmap that will identify and formulate
strategies for how to better integrate theinnovative power of local initiatives in
the Stockholm region. ARTS Stockholm
was during 2015 an active partner inExperiment Stockholm at Färgfabriken, a
project and exhibition that experimented
with new strategies for dealing with arapidly urbanizing Stockholm region.
The ARTS project has been acknowledgedby the European Union as a Policy
Excellence Project used as a role model
for international research exchange.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Funding boost for researchers
MAJA SCHLÜTER received a consolidator
grant from the European Research Council forthe project MuSES – Towards middle-range
theories of the co-evolutionary dynamics ofmulti-level social-ecological systems (fiveyears, 18.5 MSEK). The project will develop amechanism-based understanding of change
in social-ecological systems by developing dynamic models of SES
at an intermediate level of complexity across a set of empiricalcases of marine and terrestrial food production systems.
The ambitious project will advance sustainability science bydeveloping approaches to identify critical social-ecological interactions across local to global scales and integrate human adaptive
responses into models of SES.
ALBERT NORSTRÖM received nearly 3
million SEK from Formas to carry out anambitious, empirical assessment of global
coral reef regimes, relying on an extensive
global dataset across gradients of natural andanthropogenic conditions. The results fromthe project will aid practitioners to move toward practical implementation of ecosystem-based management.

SARA BORGSTRÖMAND ERIK ANDERSSON
received nearly 3 million
SEK from Formas toinvestigate the potentialof nature protectedareas to support biodiversity and ecosystem services benefits on a landscape scale.
Part of the project includes formulating guidelines for how tobetter connect protected areas to their surroundings by interventions in the transition zones and wider landscape.

MARIA TENGÖ received 3.6 million SEK fromthe Swedish Research Council (VR) to implement
and analyze the Multiple Evidence Base, aninnovative approach for connecting local,
indigenous and scientific knowledge systems.
Together with a team of researchers and expertsof local and indigenous knowledge she will study how such an
approach can transform the way knowledge is generated andused. The project grows out of on-going science-policy practicedialogues at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, in collaboration
with the centre hosted practice and policy interface Swedbio.

The important support from the
Ebba and Sven Schwartz Foundation
The Ebba and Sven Schwartz Foundation has since 2011 helped
the researchers Ann-Sophie Crépin, Line Gordon and Lisen
Schultz to excel academically and build their careers in a resilient
fashion. The overall focus of the Schwartz grant is to find ways
to allow people to account for biosphere support and ecosystemservices in decision making. Everything from the climate
resilience of Arctic ecosystems to the value of tropical mangrove
forests for storm protection has been investigated by the three
Schwartz-funded researchers, not to mention the management
and governance of cultural landscapes in Kristianstad, Sweden,
and water and poverty in the Sahel. The five years of the
Schwartz-funded research have now been summarised in areport, which can be downloaded from the centre’s website.

Line
GordonAnn-Sophie
Crépin

Lisen
Schultz

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STOCKHOLM RESILIENCE CENTRE

Revealing the good and bad sides of Stockholm
What is experienced as “good” or “bad”
among ordinary people often goes
unarticulated in urban planning. Instead,solutions are often based on temporary
aesthetic trends, economic beliefs andthe priorities of planners, politicians orarchitects. Centre researchers Stephan
Barthel and Matteo Giusti have designed
the website www.varardittstockholm.se tovisualise the daily experiences of people
living in Stockholm. On “Var är dittStockholm?” (Where is your Stockholm?)
inhabitants of Stockholm can map placesin the city that are associated with both

positive and negative experiences. By theend of 2015, the site had received morethan 2100 locations and the project hascaught the interest of City of Stockholm
and may expand to suburban municipalities
such as Huddinge, Haninge and Botkyrka.
Just like the ARTS Stockholm project (seeseparate text), “Var är ditt Stockholm?” wasin 2015 an active partner of Experiment
Stockholm at Färgfabriken, a project andexhibition that experimented with new
strategies for dealing with a rapidly
urbanizing Stockholm region.

Collecting seeds of sustainable futures
seldom receive the sameattention. To counter this,centre researchers GarryPeterson, Oonsie Biggs andAlbert Norström, together
with an international team ofresearchers, have launched
Seeds
of a good Anthropocene,
OonsieGarry
AlbertBiggs
Petersonaprojectthat will gather
Norström
examples of a thriving sustainable
While there is no shortage of stories thatsocial-ecological future. The examples are
document human inequality and thecollected and presented on the website
unsustainable stewardship of our planet,www.goodanthropocenes.net.
efforts to envision a more positive future

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MatteoGiustiStephanBarthelResearch focus
in Latin America
In 2015, the centre's Latin America contact
group was established. It aims to strengthen
the Latin America-focused research at SRC
as well as work in the science, law andpolicy interface. The group has also madeexternal connections with other institutionsin Sweden and in Latin America, andhas been instrumental in setting up a
Memorandum of Understanding with
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana,Mexico, and Universidade Federal do
Ceará, Brazil. The group has also hosted
two visiting researchers from Mexico.

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Towards a low carbon society– the role of Sweden
The EU Project COMPLEX is designed tosupport the transition to a low carbon society by 2050. The project has 17 European
partners, and Stockholm Resilience Centre
is part of the Swedish contingent that will
look at the Stockholm-Mälar region of
Sweden and its possible paths towards asignificantly less carbon-intense region.
With support from centre researchers
Uno Svedin, Sara Borgström and Stephan
Barthel, the aim is to analyze strategicsocietal choices and their consequences.
The project runs between October 2012
and September 2016.

Contributing to Lancet commission
on health and climate change
The Lancet Commission on Health and Climate
Change maps out the impacts of climate change,
and the necessary policy responses, to ensure thehighest attainable standards of health for populations worldwide. Centre researchers Victor Galaz andMy Svensdotter were members of the commission.
One interesting way forward is so-called ecosystembased adaptation, says Victor Galaz: “Ecosystems
Victorand their services contribute to human healthGalazin multiple ways and they can act as buffers,
increasing the resilience of social-ecological system
to climate-induced hazards and disasters.”

My
Svensdotter

The World in 2050:
Pathways towards
a sustainable future
The International Institute forApplied Systems Analysis (IIASA), theStockholm Resilience Centre, theEarth Institute at Columbia University,
the Sustainable Development
Solutions Network (SDSN), and the
Alpbach-Laxenburg Group havelaunched a new initiative to help
achieve sustainable development andattain the Sustainable Development
Goals. “The World in 2050” project
brings together leading modellingteams to perform an integrated
assessment that addresses the full
spectrum of sustainable development
challenges. The project is jointly led
by IIASA Director General & CEO
Professor Dr Pavel Kabat, Stockholm
Resilience Centre Director Professor
Johan Rockström, and Professor
Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Earth
Institute at Columbia University.

New management tool to assess the health of the Baltic Sea

Thorsten
Blenckner

Amid a range of initiatives and programmes
to improve the state of
the Baltic Sea, few
have been successful
in incorporating thesocial, ecological andfinancial factors into a

new tool for decision-makers in the region.
This new tool, called the Baltic Health Index,
will focus on the ability to continue to
produce the ecosystem services andproducts that humans depend on. The
index is a regional study under the global
Ocean Health Index framework, the firstcomprehensive ocean assessment that

also includes humans as a part of themarine ecosystems. Led by centre
researcher Thorsten Blenckner, the projectis a joint initiative between Stockholm
Resilience Centre and Baltic Eye at theBaltic Sea Centre, both at Stockholm
University, together with the Ocean HealthIndex team.

in a SESYNC project on alternative models
of human behaviour in SES models andcollaborated with Therese Lindahl and
Caroline Schill from the Beijer intsitutefor ecological economics to explore
mechanisms of sustainable cooperativeuse of natural resources. The SES-LINK

project is funded by a starting grant fromthe European Research Council (ERC) tocentre researcher Maja Schlüter underthe 7th European Union Framework
Programme, and a core grant to the
Stockholm Resilience Centre by Mistra.

Analyzing interactions
and change in socialecological systems
The SES-LINK team continued modelling
and analyzing the co-evolutionary
dynamics of social-ecological systems
to identify key interactions for change.
Projects include the role of social processes
in the cod collapse of the Baltic Sea, therobustness of collective action in relation
to resource variability, the evolution ofself-governance in small-scale fisheries andsyntheses of poverty traps and frameworksof policy change.
The group also engaged in developing
new methods for SES modelling. PhD
students Jamila Haider and Kirill Orachdefended their licentiate and extended
research proposal, respectively. Several
members of SES-LINK were also involved

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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere programme
The Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere programme(GEDB) was established as a five-year research programme at theRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2013. It is funded by the
Family Erling-Persson Foundation to address the economic
dynamics of global change and its implications for a sustainable
future. The programme consists of a number of SRC staff

including science director Carl Folke, deputy science director
Victor Galaz and researchers Beatrice Crona, Jean-Baptiste
Jouffray and Max Troell. Since its inception, the programme has
spearheaded several exciting research projects on the effects
of globalised trade within, for instance, seafood:

PHOTO: H. ERIKSSONPHOTO: E.WISNIEWSKA/AZOTE

A contagious tendency
Global marine resource exploitation can spread in similar
patterns to disease epidemics.
Eriksson H., Österblom H., Crona B., Troell M., Andrew N., Wilen J.,
Folke C. 2015. Contagious exploitation of marine resources.
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13: 435–440

PHOTO: A. MASLENNIKOV/AZOTE

The invisible collapse
Global seafood trade leave consumers unaware of over-exploited
marine ecosystems.
Crona, B., T. Daw, W. Swartz, A. Norström, M. Nyström, M. Thyresson,
C. Folke, J. Sundberg H. Österblom, L. Deutsch, and M. Troell. DOI:
10.1111/faf.12109. Masked, diluted, drowned out: Global seafood
trade weakens signals from marine ecosystems. Fish and Fisheries

13 corporations control up to 40 per centof world’s most valuable fisheries.
Österblom H., Jouffray J.-B., Folke C., Crona B., Troell M., Merrie A.,
Rockström, J. 2015. Transnational corporations as ‘keystone actors’in marine ecosystems. PLOS ONE 10(5): e0127533e

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Hidden ecological effects of algorithmic trade and new
financial instruments described in new study.
Galaz V., Gars J., Moberg F., Nykvist B., Repinski C. 2015.
Why ecologists should care about financial markets.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30: 571–580

PHOTO: A. MASLENNIKOV/AZOTE

Keystone actors shape marine ecosystems

Banking for ecologists

SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS

Scientific achievements and awards
PHOTO: R. STEVENS/KU LEUVEN

Science director CARL FOLKE was recognised by Belgian university KU Leuven for“adding a new dimension” to sustainability
thinking. The university describes Carl
Folke’s research as exceptional and novel.
His research on the resilience of ecosystems
is considered particularly pertinent forpolicy frameworks aimed at addressing
climate change. Carl Folke was also

recognized 2015 as a Highly Cited
Researcher by Thompson Reuters. He islisted in two areas, environment/ecology
and social sciences general. Folke has
been cited in well over 25 000 journal
articles (Web of Science) with citations
exceeding 75 000 in Google Scholar
Citations.

Centre director JOHAN ROCKSTRÖM
was awarded the prestigious German
Environmental Award 2015 and theJapanese International Cosmos Prize forhis research and outreach on sustainable
development. The German Environmental
Award described Rockström as ”one of thegreat thinkers and communicators in thefield of sustainable development”. The
International Cosmos Prize is an annual
award presented by the Expo’90
Foundation to acknowledge researchthat has contributed to a “significant
understanding of the relationships
among living organisms, the interdependence of life and the global environment.”

Centre researcher REINETTE (OONSIE)BIGGS was awarded a Research Chair in“Social-Ecological Systems and Resilience”
as part of the South African Research
Chair Initiative (SARChI). The initiative
aims to attract and retain excellent andinnovative researchers at South African
public universities.

PHOTO: JEXPO ’90 FOUNDATION

Centre researcher INGO FETZER received
an F1000Prime recommendation for hisarticle in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences (PNAS) entitled“The extent of functional redundancychanges as species’ roles shift in different
environments”. The article was written
together with colleagues from theHelmholtz Centre for Environmental
Research (UFZ) in Germany. The F1000Prime
identifies and recommends important
articles in biology and medical research
publications, which are selected by someof the world’s leading scientists andclinicians.

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SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

Selected scientific publications
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Every species counts

A new landscape of global crises

The value of biodiversity particularly high in poor environmental
conditions

Recent crises are increasingly global and follow new kindsof patterns

Fetzer I., Johst K., Schäwe R., Banitz T., Harms H.,
Chatzinotas H. 2015. The extent of functional redundancychanges as species’ roles shift in different env ironments.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 112:
14888 – 14893

Homer-Dixon T., Walker B., Biggs R., Crépin A.-S., Folke
C., Lambin E.F., Peterson G.D., Rockström J., Scheffer
M., Steffen W., Troell M. 2015. Synchronous failure:
The emerging causal architecture of global crisis. Ecology
and Society 20(3): 6

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Don’t fence me inManaging ecosystems for predictableoutcomes may backfire

Carpenter S.R., Brock W.A., Folke C.,
van Nes E.H., Scheffer, M. 2015.
Allowing variance may enlarge the safe
operating space for exploited ecosystems.
Proceedings of the National Academyof Sciences, USA 112:14384 – 14389

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Connecting the seas of Norden
Nordic marine researchers push for increased collaboration across disciplines

Paasche Ø., Österblom H., Neuenfeldt S., Bonsdorff E., Brander K., Conley D.J.,
Duran J.M., Eikeset A.M., Goksøyr A., Jónsson S., Kjesbu S.O., Kuparinen A., Stenseth
N.C. 2015. Connecting the Seas of Norden. Nature Climate Change 5: 89 – 92

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Living in a loop

Don’t stop talking

Use of ecosystem services more determined by income, genderand land tenure than physical accessCommunication between resource users reduces
over-exploitation, but significantly only in early periods

Hamann M., Biggs R., Reyers B. 2015. Mapping socialecological systems: Identifying ‘green-loop’ and ‘red-loop’
dynamics based on characteristic bundles of ecosystemservice use. Global Environmental Change 34: 218 – 226

Lindahl T., Bodin Ö., Tengö M. 2015. Governing complex
commons: The role of communication for experimental
learning and coordinated management. Ecological Economics
111: 111 – 120

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Quite a lot of thathuman touch
How humans matter for
ecological regime shifts

Lade S.J., Niiranen S., Hentati-Sundberg J., Blenckner T., Boonstra W.J.,
Orach K., Quaas M.F., Österblom H.,
Schlüter M. 2015. An empirical modelof the Baltic Sea reveals the importanceof social dynamics for ecological regime
shifts. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, USA 112: 11120 –11125

A social-ecological lens for the future
How research can catch up with rapid environmental change

Fischer J., Gardner T., Bennett E.M., Balvanera P, Biggs R., Carpenter S.R., Daw
T., Folke C., Hill R., Hughes T.P., Luthe T., Maass M., Meacham, M., Norström A.,
Peterson G.D., Queiroz C., Seppelt R., Spierenburg M., Tenhunen J. 2015.
Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems
perspective. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 14: 144 – 149

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Build, but build withnatureIncreased green infrastructure is likely toprovide substantial further benefits fromecosystem services

Uncomfortable truths
Ecosystem management that ignores “taboo tradeoffs” is likely to fail

Daw T., Coulthard S., Cheung W.W.L., Brown K., Abunge C., Galafassi D.,
Peterson G.D., McClanahan T.R., Omukoto J.O., Munyi L. 2015. Evaluating
taboo trade-offs in ecosystems services and human well-being. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences USA 112: 6949 – 6954

Queiroz C., Meacham M., Richter K.,
Norström A.V., Andersson E., Norberg
J., Peterson G. 2015. Mapping bundlesof ecosystem services reveals distinct
types of multifunctionality within a
Swedish landscape. Ambio 44:
S89 – S101

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Learning for resilience in the
court room
Practices of the European Court of Human Rights
support adaptive governanceWest S.P., Schultz L. 2015. Learning for resilience inthe European Court of Human Rights: Adjudication
as an adaptive governance practice. Ecology andSociety 20(1): 31

PHOTO: L. WIKLUNDPHOTO: M. ALMQVIST/AZOTE

Command-but-too-much-in-control

Learning to apply resilience

Rigid regulations, not market dynamics or fish stocks,
leave fishers more specialised and inflexible

First in-depth analysis of a resilience assessment put into practiceHentati-Sundberg J., Hjelm J., Boonstra W.J., Österblom H.
2015. Management forcing increased specialization in a
fishery system. Ecosystems 18: 45 – 61

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Sellberg M.M., Wilkinson C., Peterson G.D. 2015. Resilienceassessment: A useful approach to navigate urban sustainability
challenges. Ecology and Society 20(1): 43

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Global icons, local threats
Think global, act local or risk losing the world’s iconic natural
treasures

Scheffer M., Barrett S., Carpenter S.R., Folke C., Green A.J.,
Holmgren M., Hughes T.P., Kosten S., van de Leemput I.A.,

Nepstad D.C., van Nes E. H., Peeters E.T.H.M., Walker B.
2015. Creating a safe operating space for the world’s iconic
ecosystems. Science 347: 1317 – 1319

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Look beyond the cod
Changes in Baltic Sea ecosystems willcause financial losses up to 120 million
euros per year

Blenckner T., Llope M, Möllmann C,
Voss R, Quaas MF, Casini M, Lindegren M, Folke C, Stenseth N.C. 2015
Climate and fishing steer ecosystemregeneration to uncertain economic
futures. Proceedings of the Royal
Society B. 282: 20142809.

Missing a great opportunity
Meeting global food needs requires increased rainwater
harvesting in Africa

Rockström J., Falkenmark M. 2015. Increase water
harvesting in Africa. Nature 519: 283 – 285

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SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONSManagement of fragmented urban landscapes ischallenging; network analysis can help improve it

Bergsten A., Galafassi D., Bodin Ö. 2014. The problem of
spatial fit in social-ecological systems: Detecting mismatches
between ecological connectivity and land management in an
urban region. Ecology and Society 19(4): 6.

ILLUSTRATION: F. PHARAND-DESCHÊNES /GLOBAÏA

PHOTO: J. LOKRANTZ/AZOTE

Fit to work

Planetary Boundaries 2.0– new and improved
Science publishes the updated research, four of nine
planetary boundaries have been crossed

Steffen W., Richardson, R., Rockström, J., Cornell, S.E et al.
2015. Planetary Boundaries: Guiding human development
on a changing planet. Science 347: 736, 1259855 1 – 10
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How to make China’s
aquaculture moresustainable
New planetary dashboard showsincreasing human impact
Centre researchers have updated classic “Great Acceleration” graphs

Steffen W., Broadgate W., Deutsch L., Gaffney O., Ludwig C. 2015. The trajectoryof the Anthropocene: the Great Acceleration. The Anthropocene Review 2: 81 – 98

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Centre researchers in Science: “China’s
aquaculture can tip the balance in world
fish supplies”

Ling Cao L., Naylor R., Henriksson
P., Leadbitter D., Metian M., Troell M.,
Zhang W. 2015. China’s aquaculture
and the world’s wild fisheries. Science
347: 133 – 135

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Urban sustainability – a child’s play?
Children who spend more time in nature show a better
understanding of both natural resources and environmental
degradation

PHOTO: R. KAUTSKY/AZOTEPHOTO: J. LOKRANTZ/AZOTE

Giusti M., Barthel S., Marcus L. 2015. Nature routinesand affinity with the biosphere: A case study of preschool
children in Stockholm. Children, Youth and Environments
24: 16 – 42

Untangling ecological collapse

Syndromes of changeFirst Regime Shift Database helps researchers assess main
global-level drivers of unwanted ecological transitions

How international seafood trade impacts small-scale fisheries

Rocha J.-C., Peterson G.D., Biggs R. 2015. Regime shifts in
the Anthropocene: Drivers, risks, and resilience. PLOS ONE
10(8): e0134639.

Crona B.I., Van Holt T., Petersson M., Daw T.M., Buchary
E. 2015. Using social–ecological syndromes to understand
impacts of international seafood trade on small-scale
fisheries. Global Environmental Change 35: 162 – 175.

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Some like it hot
Some species may have a greater tolerance
to warming oceans. This can lead to aredistribution of species across the globe

Stuart-Smith R.D., Edgar G.J., Barrett N.S.,
Kininmonth S.J., Bates A.E. 2015. Thermal
biases and vulnerability to warming in theworld’s marine fauna. Nature 528: 88 – 92

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The young, the migrants
and the left behind
New study identifies the most vulnerable segments
among Kenyan fishing communities when it
comes to preparing for and adapting to change

Cinner J.E., Huchery C., Hicks C.C., Daw
T.M., Marshall N., Wamukota A., Allison E.H.
2015. Changes in adaptive capacity of Kenyan
fishing communities. Nature Climate Change
5: 872 – 876

PHOTO: A. MASLENNIKOV/AZOTE

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No regrets
Lancet commission on health and climate change presents
opportunities and solutions amid serious climate change

Watts N., Adger W.N., Agnolucci P., Blackstock A., Byass P.,
Cai W.J., Chaytor S., Colbourn T., Collins M., Cooper A.,
Cox P.M., Depledge J., Drummond P., Ekins P., Galaz V.,
et al. 2015. Health and climate change: Policy responses toprotect public health. The Lancet 386: 1861 – 1914

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Getting rid of the misfits
Study maps cross-country institutional linkages in the Indo-West
Pacific. The results can improve marine management

Treml E.A., Fidelman P.I.J., Kininmonth S., Ekstrom J.A.,
Bodin Ö. 2015. Analyzing the (mis)fit between the institutional and ecological networks of the Indo-West Pacific.
Global Environmental Change 31: 263 – 271

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Just the right balance
Adaptive governance of the Baltic Sea– lessons from elsewhere
How the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission could improve its
prospects for working with the ecosystem approach

Valman M., Österblom H., Olsson P. 2015. Adaptive governance of the Baltic
Sea: Lessons from elsewhere. International Journal of the Commons 9: 440 – 465

Public network governance is a careful
negotiation between central goals andlocal solutions

Sandström A., Bodin Ö., Crona B.
2015. Network governance from thetop: The case of ecosystem-based coastal
and marine management. Marine Policy
55: 57 – 63

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Unlocking Romania’s poverty traps

Finding Earth’s sore spots

Barriers to rural development are multiple and interacting, thatis why one-sided interventions on poverty traps will failNew method identifies regions acting as sources for global
perturbations

Mikulcak F., Haider J.L., Abson D.J., Newig J., Fischer J.
2015. Applying a capitals approach to understand ruraldevelopment traps: A case study from post-socialist Romania.
2015. Land Use Policy 43: 248 – 258

Runge J., Petoukhov V., Donges J.F., Hlinka J., Jajcay N.,
Vejmelka M., Hartman D., Marwan N., Palus M., Kurths J.
2015. Identifying causal gateways and mediators in complex
spatio-temporal systems. Nature Communications 6: 8502

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Hawaiian reefs throughthe resilience lensAlgae-eating fish key to avoiding regime
shifts among Hawaiian coral reefs

Jouffray J.-B., Nyström M., Norström A.V.,
Williams I.D., Wedding L.M., Kittinger
J.N., Williams G.J. 2015. Identifying
multiple coral reef regimes and theirdrivers across the Hawaiian archipelago.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society London B 370: 20130268.
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Urban gardens key in times of crisis

Joining forces before it’s too late

The role played by urban gardens during historicalcollapses in urban food supply lines

The higher the risk for a regime shift, the higher
the probability for collaboration to avoid it

Barthel S., Parker J., Ernstsson H. 2015. Food and green
space in cities: A resilience lens on gardens and urban
environmental movements. Urban Studies 52: 1321 – 1338

Schill C., Lindahl T., Crépin A.-S. 2015. Collective action
and the risk of ecosystem regime shifts: Insights from alaboratory experiment. Ecology and Society 20(1): 48

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Banking for ecologists
Hidden ecological effects of algorithmic trade and new financial
instruments described in new study

Galaz V., Gars J., Moberg F., Nykvist B., Repinski C. 2015.
Why ecologists should care about financial markets. Trends
in Ecology & Evolution 30: 571 – 580

PHOTO: A. MASLENNIKOV/AZOTE

Keystone actors shapemarine ecosystems
13 corporations control up to 40 per cent of world’s mostvaluable fisheriesÖsterblom H., Jouffray J.-B., Folke C., Crona B., Troell M.,
Merrie A., Rockström, J. 2015. Transnational corporations as‘keystone actors’ in marine ecosystems. PLOS ONE 10(5):e0127533e

Green streets of gold
Amid climate change, restoring ecosystem services in urban
areas is not only environmentally sound and good for healthbut may also be financially smart

Elmqvist T., Setälä H., Handel S.N., van der Ploeg S.,
Aronson J., Blignaut J.N., Gomez-Baggethun E., Nowak
D.J., Kronenberg J., de Groot R. 2015. Benefits of restoring
ecosystem services in urban areas. Current Opinion in
Environmental Sustainability, 14:101 – 108

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Damned if they do,damned if they don’t
Adaptation to environmental change is not straightforward,
struggling fishing communities in Vietnam show why

Boonstra W.J., Tong Thi Hai Hanh. 2015. Adaptation toclimate change as social-ecological trap: A case study of fishing
and aquaculture in the Tam Giang Lagoon, Vietnam.
Environment, Development and Sustainability 17: 1527 – 1544

PHOTO: H. ERIKSSON

A contagious tendency
Global marine resource exploitation can spread in similar
patterns to disease epidemics

Eriksson H., Österblom H., Crona B., Troell M., Andrew N.,
Wilen J., Folke C. 2015. Contagious exploitation of marine
resources. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13:
435 – 440

PHOTO: АРКАДИЙ ЗАРУБИН CC BY-SA 3.0

PHOTO: E. WISNIEWSKA/AZOTE

Fruits of the urban jungle

An empire of fisheries

The social importance of ecosystem services in urban areas

How the rise and fall of the Soviet Union contributed
to marine regime shifts and a transition in governance

McPhearson T., Andersson E., Elmqvist T., Frantzeskaki N.
2015. Resilience of and through urban ecosystem services.
Ecosystem Services 12: 15228Österblom H., Folke C. 2015. Globalization, marine regime
shifts and the Soviet Union. Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society London B. 370: 20130278

BOOKS

Books“Principles for Building Resilience:
Sustaining Ecosystem Services
in Social-Ecological Systems”
TEN CENTRE RESEARCHERS contributed
to a new Cambridge University Press
book about resilience and ecosystemservices. The book presents sevenprinciples that are considered crucial
for building and applying resilience insocial-ecological systems. The sevenprinciples are 1) maintain diversity andredundancy, 2) manage connectivity,
3) manage slow variables and feedbacks,
4) foster complex adaptive systems
thinking, 5) encourage learning,6) broaden participation, and 7) promote
polycentric governance systems.
The book is edited by centre researchers
Maja Schlüter and Oonsie Biggs together
with Michael Schoon of Arizona State
University.

“With ourown hands:
A celebrationof food and lifein the Pamir
Mountains of
Afghanistan
and Tajikistan”“Big World Small Planet: Abundance
within Planetary Boundaries”
CENTRE DIRECTOR JOHAN
Rockström and National Geographic
photographer Mattias Klum havelaunched a sequel to their 2012 book
“The Human Quest: Prospering Within
Planetary Boundaries”.
In this new book, the authors
describe a world full of possibilities– provided a new narrative is created:“By describing boundaries for resources,
ecosystems, and the climate, we cantrigger a new wave of sustainable
technological inventions thanks to anabundance of ideas and solutions forhuman prosperity and planetary stability,”
they say.

IN THIS BOOK, centre PhD student
Jamila Haider and Frederik van
Oudenhoven blend beautiful pictureswith essays on food and life in the
Pamir mountains of Afghanistan andTajikistan. The book began as a simple
recipe book, to fulfil a promise to a
grandmother and to document the richunwritten knowledge about the uniqueagricultural biodiversity in the Pamirs.
Over the course of five years, nearly
700 pages describe and visualize thelives, struggles and celebrations of thepeople in the Pamirs.

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Policy, practice and outreachIntroducing GRAID
New extensive funding from Sida will strengthen connections
between resilience thinking and development
THERE IS A RISING recognition of the need to integrate
resilience as a core strategy for meeting development needs in
an increasingly globalised world of social and environmental
turbulence.
In recognition of this need, the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) granted Stockholm
Resilience Centre (SRC) 107 million SEK to strengthen thecentre’s efforts to integrate resilience into international
development practice and policy. The money will beallocated under “GRAID – Guidance for Resilience in
the Anthropocene: Investments for development” for an
initial four-year period.
Belinda Reyers, a long-time affiliate of the Stockholm
Resilience Centre (SRC) and an extraordinary Professor at

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Stellenbosch University, South Africa, has taken on the role
as director of the GRAID programme. She believes the
programme will take resilience science in a new direction.
“GRAID provides us with the opportunity to connect,
innovate and synthesise scientific insights on development
challenges such as inequality, migration, biodiversity loss
and emerging diseases.”

Part of the Global Resilience Partnership
GRAID is based on place-based research around the world,
building on the SRC-hosted Programme on Ecosystem
Change and Society (PECS). It uses competencies at the SRC
including models, data, resilience methods, and synthesis toconduct cross-case and cross-scale comparisons. Sida sees

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GRAID as a knowledge partner for the newly inaugurated
Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) established by Sida, theRockefeller Foundation and USAID.
GRAID is a collaboration between the SRC and Stellenbosch University and the Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research in South Africa, and will build on the SRC’s existing
networks, including the Resilience Alliance.
The GRP and GRAID will focus on priority regions in the
Sahel, Horn of Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. Reyers
believes we are witnessing a reframing of development froma narrow focus on developing countries to a global focus
on prosperity, equity and sustainability. This new perspective
on development is clearly signalled by the Sustainable
Development Goals, which set out a universal agenda

for a more equitable and sustainable
development for people and planet. But
this new perspective needs a new kind of
science – able to develop understanding,evidence and tools for implementing
development in this light. “This is where
resilience research has a key role to play,”
Belindashe says. “Areas such as social-ecological
Reyerssystems and feedbacks, cross-scale
dynamics and linkages, non-linear change, and transformations
can all contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics andpatterns of the Anthropocene and how to transform towards
sustainability.”

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SwedBio
As an acknowledgement of its work, Sida will continue to fund SwedBio forthe period 2016 – 2019. This will deepen and broaden its work on biodiversity
and ecosystems and its relation to poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods. Below are some of their main contributions in 2015
SWEDBIO AND PARTNERS organised a Dialogue Workshop
on Assessment of Collective Action in Biodiversity
Conservation in Panajachel, Lake Atitlán, Guatemala in June
2015. The Conveners were the Government of Guatemala,through CONAP, and the Secretariat to the Convention on
Biological Diversity (CBD). The dialogue gathered Indigenous
peoples and local communities, academics and government
representatives from more than 30 countries. A main topic
was how the value of collective action and its contribution toconservation, and the sustainable use of biological diversity,
can be visualised and accounted for in reports like the CBD
Financial Reporting Framework and National Biodiversity
Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAPs). Participants suggested
that collective action’s contribution to biodiversity
conservation should be addressed and visualized under all
Aichi Biodiversity targets adopted under the CBD, including
under Target 20 for resource mobilization.

practitioners, scientists, communities and farmers. The
dialogue offered an opportunity to analyze various
approaches to addressing, assessing, measuring and mainstreaming resilience by focusing on how resilience isunderstood and managed in a variety of contexts. It wasemphasized that these opportunities should continue withrepresentation from developing countries, organizations
and institutions from village level to national and international scale.

Contributions to the
Sustainable Development Goals
SwedBio has actively informed and contributed to the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were signedby all UN member states in September 2015. SwedBio
worked behind the scenes and in the corridors of the UN
headquarters in New York since the announcement of theSDGs at Rio+20 in 2012. They also influenced the processindirectly through supporting collaborating partner organizations’ work by following and informing the negotiations.
One of the most important channels in influencing the final
outcome has been the Sustainable Development Solutions
Network (SDSN). SwedBio has contributed to SDSN’s
proposals and together with researchers at the Stockholm
Resilience Centre analyzed and formally commented on various
drafts produced by the UN Open Working Group on SDGs.
SwedBio has also organised several dialogues with partnerorganisations and countries to discuss the 2030 Agenda.

Urban Natural Assets for Africa

Resilience Dialogue in Addis AbabaWith resilience being increasingly used in development
policies and capacity building, SwedBio, UNDP and MELCAEthiopia in Addis Ababa organised in November 2015 a
Multi-actor Resilience Dialogue (pictured). Taking place in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the dialogue gathered some 50
participants from 17 different countries, representing
governments, international development organizations,32

With Africa becoming rapidly urbanized, SwedBio collaborates with ICLEI’s Cities Biodiversity Center in the SwedBio
funded programme Urban Natural Assets for Africa (UNA
Africa) to improve urban human well-being, strengthen local
sustainability and improve climate resilience. This is done bymainstreaming biodiversity and ecosystem services into
land-use planning and city decision-making processes. The
programme targets the urban poor as the main beneficiaries,
taking into consideration gender and equality, and provides
tangible solutions to contribute to poverty alleviation. Four
Sub-Saharan cities participated in the programme during
2015: Dar es Salaam in Tanzania; Lilongwe in Malawi;
Addis Ababa in Ethiopia; and Cape Town in South Africa.
SwedBio will fund the UNA Africa programme for anotherfour years enabling concrete projects on different levels to
be launched.

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COP21: How science was heard
The Paris climate summit was not only historic from a global
perspective, it was also a meeting where Stockholm ResilienceCentre had considerable impact
LEADING UP TO the summit, centre director Johan Rockström led the work on writing The Earth Statement, a list ofeight essential elements the international climate agreement
should include. Over 100 political, faith and business leaders
such as Paul Polman, Richard Branson, Winnie Byanyima,
Mary Robinson, Arianna Huffington, Desmond Tutu andRussell Brand signed the statement. The centre also launcheda global social media campaign to sign the statement thatwas featured in two almost-full-page adverts and a wraparound cover for the International New York Times.

At the summit, on 5 December, the major climate event“Action Day” opened with a keynote speech by Rockström
to 1200 delegates, including France’s minister for Ecology,
Sustainable Development and Energy, Ségolène Royal, and
Al Gore. The speech contextualized climate change within
planetary boundaries.

However, the most significant impact during the summit was
down to a spontaneous press conference on 11 December,the final scheduled day of the summit. The draft COP21
agreement presented on the previous day was such a signifi-

cant departure from the science and commitments made inprevious drafts that the SRC and Future Earth proposed
holding a press conference for scientists to express theirconcern. The press conference was co-organised by the
Earth League (which includes SRC), Future Earth and theInternational Council for Science (ICSU) with the Tyndall
Centre and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
Speakers at the press conference were Kevin Anderson(Tyndall Centre for Climate Research), Steffen Kallbekken(CICERO), Johan Rockström, Joeri Rogelj (IIASA), Hans
Joachim Schellnhuber (Potsdam Institute PIK) and Denise
Young (Moderator) (ICSU).
The press conference had a big impact and contributed
to shaping the media narrative of the summit, making headlines in, for example, the Washington Post, Reuters, NewYork Times, New Scientist, the Wall Street Journal and BBC.
The final agreement, published on Saturday 12 December,
improved somewhat on the penultimate draft.

The centre was also involved in a series of side events and had abooth at the main summit site Le Bourget where it showcased
resilience research. Research was also presented at the Swedish
Institute in central Paris.

Centre staff also helped run a virtual reality hackathon with ICSU
and Future Earth on 5 December. It brought together scientists,
journalists, filmmakers and developers to brainstorm ways
virtual reality could be used to explore concepts such as the
Anthropocene, and global issues like climate and biodiversity loss.

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PHOTO M. BUCHOLZER/WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Centre invitedback to theWorld Economic
Forum
For the World Economic Forum’s annual
meeting in Davos centre director JohanRockström was invited to present thelatest findings on planetary boundaries.
He also introduced his new book “BigWorld, Small Planet” together withco-author Mattias Klum. This was thesecond year in a row the Stockholm
Resilience Centre was prominent at theWorld Economic Forum.

PHOTO STURLE H. SIMONSEN

Policy dialogue: Creating a good
Anthropocene in southern Africa
In conjunction with the first international
conference by the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) (seepage 9), a science-policy-practicedialogue took place in Cape Town 1 – 2November 2015. Entitled “Opportunities
for creating a Good Anthropocene insouthern Africa”, the dialogue stimulated
thinking and action around positive
futures for the region. It engaged 60
participants from science, policy, businessand civil society. Dr Reinette (Oonsie)
Biggs (Stockholm Resilience Centre)

In 2015 centre researchers Lisen Schultz and Thomas Elmqvist
together with Head of External Relations Henrik Pompeius
collaborated with The High Level Group on Innovation Policy
Management (HLGI). The HLGI is a unique public-private partnership, comprising top-level representatives from EU Member
States, the European Commission, the European Council,
Business and Academia. Together with HLGI, Lisen Schultz
and her colleagues organized three round-table meetings inBrussels and Stockholm to promote new visions for innovationand sustainable development within the EU. The aim of thecollaboration is to come up with new models of achieving
sustainability, based on resilience thinking and management.

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PHOTO H. POMPEIUS

New visions for theEuropean Union

Prof Bob Scholes (University of the
Witwatersrand), Dr Desta Mebratu(United Nations Environment Program(UNEP) and Prof Lorenzo Fioramonti(Centre for Governance Innovation,
University of Pretoria) provided a set ofprovocative perspectives on the challenges
and opportunities for change in thesouthern African region. The event was
co-hosted by the Southern African
Program on Ecosystem Change andSociety (SAPECS) with sponsorship from
SwedBio.

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PHOTO F. MOBERG

Crown Princess Victoria receives
update on sustainability science
As part of her active engagement in environmental issues, H.R.H Crown Princess
Victoria of Sweden joined centre researcher
Sara Borgström and Fredrik Moberg ona field trip to the Royal National City Parkin Stockholm.
During the trip, the Crown Princess
learned more about the importance ofurban green spaces for human wellbeing. The Crown Princess took a special

interest in the relation between children’swell-being and the design of urban
environments.
As part of the day, the Crown Princess
was also given an update on researchconcerning the Baltic Sea, with centre
researcher Thorsten Blenckner presenting
the Baltic Health Index, a new tool thatwill help decision-makers make better
decisions about the Baltic Sea region. This

PHOTO H. POMPEIUS

An informal dialogue on
Sweden and sustainability

is the second time the Crown Princess
spent an entire day at the centre to learn
more about sustainability.
In 2013 she was given an introduction
to research on water management, therole of ecosystem services, network theory
and the biosphere. In 2011 she also
opened the Nobel Laureate Symposium on
Global Sustainability, which took place at
the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In August 2015 the centre invited top-level representatives frombusiness and politics to an informal dialogue about Sweden’srole in global sustainable development. Participants were Foreign
Minister Margot Wallström and Helene Hellmark-Knutsson,
Minister for Research and Higher Education, as well as businessleaders Leif Johansson (Chair AstraZeneca and Ericsson), Hans
Enocson (CEO GE Nordic) and Johan Eliasch (CEO HEAD). Anki
Bystedt, head of external relations and communications at
Stockholm University was also present. Centre director JohanRockström, science director Carl Folke and deputy science director
Line Gordon represented the centre.

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SEMINARS AND EVENTS

Seminars and events

PECS 2015 – Social-ecologicaldynamics in the Anthropocene
Between 3 and 5 November 2015, the first international conference
hosted by the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS)
took place in Stellenbosch, South Africa
The conference, which gathered some 230 scientists from various
disciplines within and beyond the PECS network, became an
excellent arena for cutting-edge insights on sustainable
development. It highlighted PECS's achievements and ambitions
so far (see page 9 for an introduction to PECS) and provided abasis for new initiatives. Key note speakers were Steve Carpenter,director of the Center for Limnology at the University of WisconsinMadison; Eduardo S. Brondizio, co-director of the AnthropologicalCenter for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change(ACT) Garry Peterson, researcher at the Stockholm ResilienceCentre; Debra Roberts, head of the Environmental Planning andClimate Protection Department of eThekwini Municipality

36(Durban, South Africa); Belinda Reyers, Director of the GRAID
programme at the Stockholm Resilience Centre; and Cheikh
Mbow, Senior Scientist on climate change and development
at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). At the PECS 2015
conference, scholars from the South African branch of PECS,SAPECS, also convened a session with early career scholars toreflect on their identity as social-ecological researchers andhow they work. The discussions also focused on challenges ofworking across different disciplines, and ethical dilemmas ofdoing place-based, participatory research.
The next international PECS conference will take place inOaxaca, Mexico, in 2017.

SEMINARS AND EVENTSTransformations2015 – people andthe planet in the Anthropocene
The Transformations2015 conference, held in Stockholm
5 – 7 October 2015, focused on how to create good living
conditions while strengthening the Earth’s life support system
PHOTO M. AXELSSON/AZOTE

The conference, which followed up from the first Transformations conference in Oslo in 2013, gathered some 250
participants from various disciplines around the world toshare cutting-edge research on transformations to global
sustainability. Participants were invited to criticallyexamine whether current technological and social
innovations and sustainability initiatives contribute to
the large-scale transformations that humanity needs, orwhether they reinforce current unsustainable pathways.
Key note speakers included Frances Westley, head of theWaterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience;

Victor Galaz, deputy science director at the Stockholm
Resilience Centre; Marcella D’Souza, executive directorof the Watershed Organisation Trust; Elin Enfors Kautsky,
theme leader for the Landscapes theme at Stockholm
Resilience Centre; David Christian, director of Macquarie
University’s Big History Institute; J. Stephen Lansing,director of the Complexity Institute at Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore; and Johan Rockström,
executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
The next conference will take place in Dundee, Scotland,
30 August – 1 September 2017.

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SEMINARS AND EVENTSPHOTO J. LYGRELL/EAT 2015

EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2015
For the second consecutive year, the EAT Initiative, in collaboration
with Stockholm Resilience Centre, hosted the EAT Stockholm Food
Forum on how to provide a growing global population a healthy
and nutritious diet within safe environmental boundaries.
Speakers included Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven,

Stefan Löfven

Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Lee Howell, Managing
Director of the World Economic Forum. The forum was hosted by
the international journalist Femi Oke (pictured).
The next forum will take place in Stockholm 13 – 14 June 2016.

Lee Howell

Erna Solberg

Stockholm Summit on Natural Capital
As part of a five-year research exchangewith Stanford University, the centre andits partners at the Beijer Institute and the
Global Economic Dynamics and the
Biosphere programme had the privilegeof hosting Professor Gretchen Daily from
Stanford University. One of her firstefforts was to establish a Stockholm
Summit on Natural Capital as a platform
for long-term collaboration. During twodays in May 2015, some 50 businessexecutives and scientists convened under

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Chatham House rules to discuss ways tobetter acknowledge the importance of
natural resources in modern economies.
At the summit, successful examples were
presented by such diverse institutions as
the InterAmerican Development Bank,
the Council on Ethics for the Norwegian
Government Pension Fund, IUCN,
Unilever and the Government of China.
A joint action plan was agreed to scale up
efforts and pave the way for new projects.

SEMINARS AND EVENTSPHOTO ANNA EMMELIN

PHOTO A. EMMELIN

Nordic Centre for Research on Marine Ecosystems
and Resources under Climate Change (NorMER)
Several Centre researchers took part in
the fifth NorMer conference in Stockholm
2015. NorMER is a Nordforsk-sponsoredCentre of Excellence that brings together
research groups from all Nordic countries
and several North American institutions.

The purpose is to implement a newresearch strategy to explore the management consequences of global climatechange on fisheries resources. The
conclusion from the conference was clear:scientists need to get better at working

across scientific disciplines and together
with stakeholders. One significant step
forward has been the funding of 18 interdisciplinary trained PhD students.

Financial systems and the BiosphereAs part of a collaboration with the Changing
Planet initiative, and with funding from the
Global Economic Dynamics and Biosphere
programme (GEDB) at the Royal Academy,
the Stockholm Resilience Centre supported aseries of talks and seminars about financial
systems and their role in shaping the biosphere. While much of current discussion
about the financial sector and sustainability
centre on the role of fossil fuels, “stranded
assets” and divestment, this series exploreda wider set of issues linking additional
dimensions that are associated with
commodities, new financial technologies,
and possible wider ecosystem impacts.

11 FEBRUARY, 2015. Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences. Bitcoins, financial“hacking” and the new digital economy –should we really care? Brett Scott(journalist), Robin Teigland, Associate
Professor, Stockholm School of Economics.

23 APRIL, 2015, Stockholm School of
Economics. Price volatility and financial
markets – current debates and implications.
Christopher Gilbert, Adjunct Professor,
SAIS Bologna Center, Italy, Naomi Hossain,
Research Fellow, Institute for Development
Studies, UK.

11 MARCH, 2015. Stockholm ResilienceCentre, Sustainable Investment andDivestment: Trends, Surprises and the
Future. John Howchin, Secretary General,
the Ethical Council, Sweden, Sara
Nordbrand, Head of Corporate Engagement, Church of Sweden

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SEMINARS AND EVENTSNew collaboration with
the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre
PHOTO ROGER STENBERG

The centre once again collaborated with
the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre toblend science with the performing arts.
The project ”Människans Scen” brought
together researchers from the centre,
Stockholm Environment Institute andStockholm University with directors andplaywrites to express the challenges andsolutions of the Anthropocene. Threeshort plays were produced, one modern
Greek drama about run-away climatechange, one comedy about human short-comings in being the dominant specieson the planet, and one philosophicalreflection on water in the Anthropocene.
Miriam Huitric, Emily Boyd, Fredrik
Moberg and Johan Rockström participatedfrom the centre.

Stockholm Seminars 2015
The Stockholm Seminars feature prominent
experts on global sustainability
The seminars are hosted by Albaeco,
Stockholm Resilience Centre, the Beijer
Institute of Ecological Economics, theInternational Biosphere-Geosphere
Programme, Stockholm Environment
Institute and the Swedish Secretariat forEnvironmental Earth System Sciences.

13 JANUARY
Stuart Scott

Rethinking economics in the age ofabrupt climate change
30 JANUARY
Terry Hartig

Urban densification, contact withnature, and psychological restoration:
Issues of conflict and compensation

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21 MAY

15 SEPTEMBER

Jianguo Liu

Steve Carpenter

Promises and perils of telecouplings
for global sustainability

Regional scenarios: emergence offragility in safe operating spaces

4 JUNE

5 OCTOBER

Kazuhiko Takeuchi

David Christian

Science and innovation for asustainable future

Big History: an origin story for the
Anthropocene

17 JUNE

17 DECEMBER

Katherine Richardson& Jorgen Randers

Trevor A. Branch

Are we likely to hit planetary
boundaries before 2050?

Fishing impacts on food webs:
Multiple working hypotheses

SEMINARS AND EVENTSPHOTO SVENSK TENN

Welcome to the banquet
by Stina Wirsén

Patterns of
the Biosphere:

Exhibition onresilience research
The exhibition “Patterns of the Biosphere” was a joint
production by centre partner the Beijer Institute of
Ecological Economics and the classical Swedish interior
design company Svenskt Tenn. The exhibition featured
the artwork of four Swedish illustrators, Eric Ericson,
Liselotte Watkins, Stina Wirsén and Jesper Waldersten.
They interpreted key concepts and insights from thetransdisciplinary research done at the Beijer Instituteoften together with the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
The exhibition took place between April and June 2015
in Svenskt Tenn’s store on Strandvägen 5 in Stockholm.
Jointly with the “Patterns of the Biosphere” exhibition,an outdoor exhibition called “Reflections on People andthe Biosphere” was opened at the Raoul Wallenberg
Square by Nybroplan, Stockholm. It displayed pictures andquotes from the book by the same name authored by
Stockholm Resilience Centre science director Carl Folke andLars Hall, one of Sweden’s most prominent art directors.

PHOTO ULF JACOBSSONPHOTO SVENSK TENNPHOTO CARL FOLKE

Anders Wall, head of the Beijer Foundation and
SRC Science director Carl Folke opened the exhibition

The exhibition Reflections on People
and the Biosphere shown in central
Stockholm

A classic cabinet by Svenskt Tenn’s head designer
Josef Frank (1885 – 1967) was transformed intoa spectacular interpretation of resilience

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EDUCATION

Education2015 has been a successful year, albeit marked by world events;
it saw the successful defence of six PhDs, four licentiate andsixteen Master’s theses

IN 2015 WE SAW further progress in the development of thecentre’s PhD programme in Sustainability Science, both indeveloping the framework to nest students’ research in thecentre’s work and in developing their research skills throughthe two PhD courses “A primer in quantitative methods forstudying, complex social-ecological systems” and “Advanced
systems analysis”.
Almost 3000 students enrolled in the centre’s MOOC
“Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities”, which
ran again in 2015, and 500 completed the course. This year
more women enrolled (52%), there were students from 91
countries (mostly Sweden, USA, UK, Brazil, Canada, Mexico,and India) and 60% were under the age of 40.
The popular first-level course Världens eko (Sustainable
Perspectives on Development) continues to attract students
from all backgrounds to our impressive line-up of lecturers
including Carl Folke, Johan Rockström, Hans Rosling andMattias Klum. This year we focused on the process andsignificance of global commitments such as the Sustainable
Development Goals and the COP21 summit in Paris.

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We successfully launched our first Stockholm University
online course “Introduction to Sustainability Science”. The
course aims to provide students insight into emerging sustainability challenges as well as inspire solutions that can beapplied in work and life.
The independent Master’s course Urban Social-Ecological
Systems continued to develop in exciting ways by partneringwith the Swedish art gallery Färgfabriken. Students contributed
to the exhibit “Experiment Stockholm” as a part of theirclasswork.
While the Master’s programme continued to run smoothly,
2015’s world events impacted our students’ work. These
events included the coup d’état in Burkina Faso and terrorist
activity in Kenya (see separate student stories). World events
also brought opportunities. For example, as a result of her
work in Ecuador with indigenous communities, our student
Carmen Séco Perez was asked to take part in organizing andparticipating in the COP 21 side-event “International Rights
of Nature Tribunal”.

EDUCATIONPHOTO: D. DONALDSON/FLIRKSTORIES FROMOUR STUDENTS

PHOTO D. DONALDSON/FLIRK

Fieldwork amid a political coup
When Master’s students Katja Malmborg and Elinor Holénwent on a two-month field trip to the Ouahigouya area in
Burkina Faso in October 2014, they ended up being witnesses
to a political coup. Attempts by the long-time president Blaise
Compaoré to extend his 27-year presidency caused anger andled to military interventions and closed borders. The students
were ordered to stay indoors. Eventually Compaoré resigned.
After four days of waiting, Malmborg and Holén were allowedback in the field, finishing their studies successfully. In
November 2015, Roch Marc Kabore, the former prime
minister of Burkina Faso, was named the winner of the first
democratic election in three decades.

PHOTO: NEW ZEALAND CONSULATE

Master’s student awarded
Global Swede 2015
Master’s student Kate Williman (pictured) received theprestigious 2015 Global Swede award. The award goes toforeign students who have excelled in studies related toinnovation. It was handed over by the Swedish Minister forEnterprise and Innovation, Mikael Damberg (pictured) andAnnika Rembe, Director-General of the Swedish Institute.

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EDUCATION

From the EcuadorianAmazon to mock ecocide
tribunals in Paris
It has been an exciting year for master’s student
Carmen Seco Pérez. Her active involvement andsubsequent field work among indigenous peoples
in the Ecuadorian Amazon led her to become aresearch associate at Universidad Andina Simón
Bolívar in Ecuador. There she became part of a
project that aims to understand Sumak Kawsay,
or harmony with nature, a new notion for welfare
that was informed by indigenous wisdom andwas included in the Ecuadorian Constitution in2008. Carmen’s work was to analyze Sumak
Kawsay from the Amazonian Indigenous peoples’
perspective. This project and her collaboration
with a local NGO in the Northern Amazon in
September 2014 led her to be part of the Earth
Rights Tribunal, a side-event during COP21 Paris
2015.
The Tribunal heard cases of environmental andhuman rights violations behaving as if the Rights ofMother Earth and the crime of Ecocide existed inInternational Law. Pérez was part of the tribunal’sorganization, and mostly prepared the Ecocide
cases from the Ecuadorian Amazon that were
presented to the Tribunal as well as help construct
the statements for the cases. She also helpedby acting as an “improvised” translator for the
Indigenous peoples that were participating in the
Tribunal as witnesses of the cases.

Carmen Seco Pérez

From terrorist attacks in Kenya
to earthquakes in the Philippines
Crammed shoulder to shoulder with seven others in ahabal-habal, a Filipino motorcycle taxi built for four,
was not what Master’s student Ashley Perl had in mind
for her field project. In fact, ending up with Bohol,
Philippines as a field site was a complete surprise. She
was originally scheduled to go to Kenya and work with
the NGO Wildlife Conservation Society, but attacks frommilitant terrorist group Al-Shabab were happening
close to the coastal villages where she had beenplanning to compare the effectiveness of different
community-based Marine Protected Areas’ (MPA)
management strategies. Going there was too risky
and alternative project arrangements had to be made.
Ashley Perl instead ended up in the Philippines where
she successfully worked for the Philippine branch of
the Zoological Society of London to study how a 7.2magnitude earthquake affected MPA management.
While the road to Bohol was winding and required
patience and sacrifices, it turned out to be a welcomed
surprise.

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Ashley Perl

EDUCATION

In his recently published doctoral thesis,
PhD student Joshua Lewis presented oneof the first social-ecological studies ofurban vegetation dynamics following amajor flood disturbance. Examining theeffects of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, thethesis shows that neighborhoods in New
Orleans experience highly differentiatedoutcomes both in terms of human population and vegetative conditions. Poor andworking class African-American areas
have been particularly affected, not only by
the hurricane, but also from inconsistent
recovery and rebuilding. “The communities
most exposed to the devastating effectsof Hurricane Katrina are the samecommunities still struggling to regain
residents and control emergent, often
invasive, vegetation,” Lewis says.

PHOTO: P. BATTY/FLICKR

Hurricane Katrina
revealed deep social
differences in
New Orleans

Joshua Lewis

PHOTO NEW A. MASLENNIKOV/AZOTE

Nudging consumer
behaviour
Linda Lindström, asecond year Master’s
student, is specializingin “nudging”, a way to
influence consumer
behaviour. In her study
Lindström works withLinda
a chain of grocery
Lindström
stores in Sweden on
how to nudge customers to make moresustainable choices such as buying lessmeat. “Most of us want to live sustainably,
but we often make choices that counteract
this desire simply because they seemeasier to do. Facilitating more sustainablechoices without infringing on people’s
free choice has great potential in making
a difference,” she says.

Watching the Baltic Sea change

Jonas HentatiSundberg

In December 2015 Jonas Hentati-Sundberg defended
his PhD-thesis, entitled Sea Change. Hentati-Sundberg
has looked at long-term changes in the Baltic Sea
with regard to ecological dynamics, fishers’ behaviourand fisheries policy. Together with colleague Wijnand
Boonstra, he was interested in combining quantitative
data on fish catches with more qualitative data
concerning what motivates and drives fishers to fish
what, where and the way they do. Hentati-Sundberg's

work reveals a trend towards increased specializationin the fishery, which is an unintended and previously
disregarded effect of fisheries management. At thesame time, there are big uncertainties around what
is being fished and how much fish there is in the sea.
“Bigger flexibility in the fishery is a way to build
resilience for unexpected changes in the ecosystemand the economy,” Hentati-Sundberg concludes.

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EDUCATION

Master theses 2015
Social-ecological Resilience
for Sustainable Development
programme (SERSD)
Hanna Ahlström, Institutional structures and actor collaborations for thegovernance of global nitrogen andphosphorous cycles: investigating
polycentric order

Matilda Lenell, Decrease in traditional
ecological knowledge through modernisation: Perspectives on culturally
protected village fengshui forests inSoutheast China

Lara D. Mateos, Aquatic food production and resource management: Freshwater use in Chinese aquaculture

Linda Lindström, Nudging towards
sustainable meat consumption: anatural field experiment

Katja Malmborg, Identifying ecotopes
on a regional scale in Burkina Faso

Ashley Perl, Post-disaster recovery
trajectories and community-based
management: A case of communitybased marine protected areas and theirrecovery from an earthquake in Bohol,
Philippines

Viveca Mellegård, Making craftsmanship visible as a source of social-ecological resilience: From the Swedish Arctic
to the Stockholm Archipelago: Sami
duodji and Baltic small scale fishing
Roweena Patel, Identifying Spatial
Distribution of Fishing Effort ofArtisanal Fishers in Coastal Kenya
Fernando Remolina, Role of local
stakeholders in reaching, developing
and sustaining collaborative management: case study of urban wetlands ofBogotá, Colombia
Philipp Siegel, Structural and Functional
Changes in a Lake Bacterial Community
Exposed to Multiple Stress Regimes
Jessica Spijkers, Exploring Misfit: A casestudy of the northeast Atlantic mackerel
Kate Williman, Soybean trade telecouplings and land use change in
Uruguay: connecting the provincial
to the global
Elinor Holén, Using soil properties toindicate regulating ecosystem services
in a Sudano-Sahelian agro-ecologicallandscape46

Hanna Griffiths, Learning to Adapt:
A Swedish case study on adaptationof biodiversity management within
Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA)

Carmen Seco Perez, Sumak Kawsay:
Listening to the voices of the Living
Forest -Resilience and Identity for
Indigenous peoples in the EcuadorianAmazonEcosystems, Resilience andGovernance programme (ERG)
Ulrika Lyckman Alnered, Whatfacilitates or hinders the introductionof Adaptive Governance approaches
into water quality management on
a local level?: A case of Swedishmunicipalities
Independent MSc thesis
Laura Elsler, Venice Ventures:
Modeling social-ecological co-evolution
for resilience

PhD theses
Marnie Graham: Postcolonial Nature
Conservation and Collaboration in
Urban Protected Areas: Everyday
relations at Macassar Dunes/Wolfgat
reserves, Cape Town, South Africa

Jonas Hentati-Sundberg: Sea Change:
Social-ecological co-evolution in Baltic
Sea fisheries
Johannes Langemeyer: Urban
Ecosystem Services: The Value of GreenSpaces in Cities
Joshua Lewis: Deltaic Dilemmas:
Ecologies of Infrastructure in New
OrleansAndrés Marín: Adaptive capacity forsocial and environmental change: The
role of networks in Chile’s small-scale
fisheries
Juan Carlos Rocha: Regime Shifts in
the Anthropocene

Licentiate theses
Johan Enqvist: Urban environmental
stewardship: Roles and reasons for civic
engagements in governance of socialecological systems
Jamila Haider: Understanding poverty
traps in biocultural landscapes
Patrick Keys: Probing the Precipitationshed: A quantification of the biophysical dimensions of terrestrial moisture
recycling
Caroline Schill: Making complex
commons work: Identifying socialecological factors and mechanisms forsustainable ecosystem management
Simon West: Negotiating socialecological fit through knowledge
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Appendix:
Finances2015 Total

117,4

MSEK

Stockholm University
Allocated fund from Stockholm University
Allocated External Formas funding via faculty

27,1
18,9
8,2

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MSEK
MSEK

MISTRA core grant*

17,9

MSEK

External grant total

72,4
5,4
9,8
3,1
4,4
21,4
1,7
1,4
1,2
1,2
5,0
1,0
4,7
2,3
9,8

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The Swedish Research Council
FormasSwedish Environmental Protection Agency
SIDA (GRAID)SIDA (Swedbio)
FuturaSchwartz
Nippon Foundation
Global Challenges FoundationEU
Stordalen Foundation
NERC
NordForsk
Other*Allocated grant from Mistra 17,5 MSEK plus accumulated surplus 0,4 MSEK47

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Centre publications
Books
Biggs, R., M. Schlüter, M.L. Schoon (Eds.). 2015.
Principles for building resilience: Sustaining
ecosystem services in social-ecological systems.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Ban, N.C., E. Boyd, M. Cox, C.L. Meek,
M. Schoon, S. Villamayor-Tomas. 2015. Linking
classroom learning and research to advance ideas
about social-ecological resilience. Ecology andSociety 20(3): 35.

van Oudenhoven, F., J. Haider. 2015. With ourown hands: A celebration of food and life in the
Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
LM Publishers, Arnhem, Netherlands.

Barthel, S., J. Parker, H. Ernstson. 2015. Food andgreen space in cities: A resilience lens on gardens
and urban environmental movements. Urban
Studies 52: 1321 – 1338.

Journal articles
Abernethy, K.E., Ö. Bodin, P. Olsson, Z. Hilly,
Agné, H., L.M. Dellmuth, J. Tallberg. 2015. Does
stakeholder involvement foster democratic legitimacy in international organizations? An empiricalassessment of a normative theory. Review ofInternational Organizations 10: 465– 488.

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Centre staff
Centre Management
Johan Rockström, Executive director
Carl Folke, Science director
Olof Olsson, Managing director
Victor Galaz, Deputy science director
Line Gordon, Deputy director and Deputy
science director
Henrik Österblom, Deputy science director
Administration
Astrid Auraldsson, Coordinator to executive
director
Bengt Hall, IT-support
Gunnar Jacobsson, IT-support
Therese La Monde, Office & financial
administrator
Christina Leijonhuvud, Affiliated administrator
Cecilia Linder, Human resources
Tanja Litvinova, Financial & HR officer
Emina Muratspahic, Head of administration
Henrik Pompeius, Fundraiser
Maria Schewenius, Project coordinator
Wenche Starck-Wistrand, Project controller
Agneta Sundin, Affiliated administrator
Practice, Policy and Communication
Anna Emmelin, Communication strategist
Owen Gaffney, Director international media andstrategy
Marika Haeggman, Communication officer
Sturle Hauge Simonsen, Head of communication
Louise Hård af Segerstad, Communication
strategist
Helene Karlsson, Communication officer
Mattias Klum, Affiliated senior advisor
Fredrik Moberg, Senior strategic advisor
Erik van Berlekom, Project assistant
Modeling and Visualisation lab
Emma Sundström, System developerÖrjan Bodin, Senior lecturer
Resilience and Development programme(Swedbio)
Pamela Cordero, Financial controller &administrator
Staffan Danielsson, Senior advisor
Sara Elfstrand, Programme coordinator
Ellika Hermansson Török, Senior advisor
Claudia Ituarte Lima, Advisor
Pernilla Malmer, Senior advisor
Luiz Merico, Senior advisor
Maria Schultz, Director
Hanna Wetterstrand, Advisor
BalticSTERN Secretatiat
Kerstin Blyh, Officer
Siv Ericsdotter, Head of secretariat
Education
Lisa Deutsch, Senior lecturer, Director of Studies(theme Landscapes and theme Urban)
Miriam Huitric, Programme director
Cornelia Ludwig, Education coordinator

RESEARCH THEMES
Landscapes
Elin Enfors, Researcher
Malin Falkenmark, Affiliated senior researcher
Line Gordon, Senior researcher (Deputy science
director)
Anna Helgeson, PhD student
Louise Karlberg, Affiliated researcher
Patrick Keys, PhD student
Steven Lade, Postdoc
Emelie Lindqvist, PhD student
Rebecka Malinga, PhD student
Katja Malmborg, Research assistant
Megan Meacham, (PECS), PhD student
Kirill Orach, Project assistant
Cibele Queiroz, Postdoc
Belinda Reyers, Researcher (GRAID)Angelina Sanderson Bellamy, Researcher
Maja Schlüter, Researcher
My Sellberg (PECS), PhD student
Hanna Sinare, PhD student
Lan Wang, Research assistantNanda Wijermans, Postdoc
Urban
Erik Andersson, Researcher
Stephan Barthel, Affiliated researcher
Sara Borgström, Postdoc
Johan Colding, Affiliated senior researcher
Thomas Elmqvist, Professor
Gustav Engström, Researcher
Matteo Giusti, PhD student
Julie Goodness, PhD student
Marnie Graham, PhD studentÅsa Green, Affiliated researcher
Joshua Lewis, PhD student
Nikolina Orescovic, Research assistantJeff Ranara, PhD student
Magnus Tuvendal, Research assistantMarineEmma Björkvik, PhD student
Thorsten Blenckner, Senior researcher
Wijnand Boonstra, Researcher
Beatrice Crona, Senior researcher
Tim Daw, Researcher
Lisa Dellmuth, Researcher
Elizabeth Drury O'Neill, PhD student
Jonas Hentati Sundberg, PhD student
Patrik Henriksson, Postdoc
Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, PhD student
Martina Kadin, Postdoc
Andres Marin, PhD student
Andrew Merrie, PhD student
Susa Niiranen, Postdoc
Albert Norström (PECS), Researcher
Magnus Nyström, Senior lecturer
Matilda Petersson, Project assistantBjörn Schulte-Herbrüggen, Postdoc
Matilda Thyresson, Postdoc
Max Troell, Affiliated senior researcher
Johanna Yletyinen, PhD student
Rebecka Young, Field assistant

Matilda Valman, PhD student
James Watson, Researcher
Henrik Österblom, Senior lecturer (Deputy
science director)
Regime shifts
Oonsie Reinette Biggs, Researcher
Jamila Haider, PhD student
Maike Hamann, PhD student
Daniel Ospina, PhD student
Garry Peterson, Professor
Juan Carlos Rocha Gordo, PhD student
Global dynamics
Victoria Bignet (EAT), Project coordinator
Robert Constanza, Affiliated senior researcher
Sarah Cornell, Researcher
Ann-Sophie Crepin, Affiliated senior researcher
Stephan Daume, Project assistantAndrea Downing, Researcher
Ingo Fetzer, Researcher
Tiina Häyhä, Postdoc
Therese Lindahl, Affiliated researcher
Will Steffen, Affiliated senior researcher
Uno Svedin, Senior researcher
My Svensdotter, Project assistant
Sverker Sörlin, Affiliated senior researcher
Brian Walker, Affiliated senior researcher
Claudia Ituarte Lima, Researcher
StewardshipÖrjan Bodin, Associate senior lecturer
Johan Enqvist, PhD student
Diego Galafassi, PhD student
Thomas Hahn, Researcher
Stuart Kininmonth, Postdoc
Cecilia Lundholm, Affiliated senior researcher
Maria Mancilla, Postdoc
Vanessa Masterson, PhD student
Helen Moor, PhD student
Björn Nyqvist, Postdoc
Jon Norberg, Professor
Per Olsson, Researcher
Matthew Osborne, Postdoc
Ryan Plummer, Senior research fellow
Angelina Sanderson Bellamy, Researcher
Annica Sandström, Postdoc
Lisen Schultz (PECS), Researcher
Maria Tengö, Researcher
Simon West, PhD student
Affiliated researchers
Anna-Lena Bercht
Robert Costanza
Elisabeth Lindgren
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Åsa Gerger SwartlingTracy van Holt

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Resilience Research School members
Rivolala Andriamparany, PhD student
Supervisor: Thomas Elmqvist

Jonas Hentati Sundberg, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Henrik Österblom

Andrew Merrie, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Henrik Österblom

Emma Björkvik, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Wijnand Boonstra

Malin Jonell, PhD (Dept Ecology, Environment
and Plants Sciences)Supervisor: Max Troell

Helene Moor, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Jon Norberg

Linus Dagerskog, PhD student (SEI staff)
Supervisor: Johan Rockström
Elizabeth Drury O'Neill, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Beatrice Crona
Johan Enqvist, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Maria Tengö
Diego Galafassi, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Victor Galaz
Matteo Giusti, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Stephan Barthel
Julie Goodness, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Thomas Elmqvist
Marnie Graham, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Henrik Ernstson (KTH)
Jamila Haider, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Maja Schlüter
Maike Hamann, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Reinette Oonsie Biggs
Anna Helgeson, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Elin Enfors

Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, PhD student (Beijer staff)
Supervisor: Magnus Nyström
Patrick Keys, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Line Gordon
Johannes Langemeyer, PhD student (cotutelle)
Supervisor: Thomas Elmqvist
Joshua Lewis, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisors: Henrik Ernstsson (KTH), Thomas
Elmqvist (SRC)
Emilie Lindqvist, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Maja Schlüter
Rebecka Malinga, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Line Gordon
Andres Marin, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Beatrice Crona
Vanessa Masterson, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Maria Tengö
Megan Meacham, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Garry Peterson

Kirill Orach, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Maja Schlüter
Daniel Ospina, PhD student (Beijer staff)
Supervisor: Garry Peterson
Jeff Ranara, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor Thomas Elmqvist
Juan Carlos Rocha, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Garry Peterson
Caroline Schill, PhD student (Beijer staff)
Supervisor: Therese Lindahl
My Sellberg, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Garry Peterson
Hanna Sinare, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Elin Enfors
Lan Wang, Research assistant (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Line Gordon
Simon West, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Lisen Schultz
Johanna Yletyinen, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Thorsten Blenckner

PhD profile: Juan Carlos Rocha
CENTRE PHD STUDENT JUAN CARLOS ROCHA looks at themain drivers of regime shifts, or abrupt and persistent reconfiguration of ecosystem’s structure and function. While scientist believe that such phenomena could become more common and severe in the near future, little is known about thepatterns of regime shifts’ causes and consequences for humanwell-being. Juan’s work aims to assess global patterns of such
regime shifts. A framework for comparing regime shifts has
been developed as well as a public forum for discussing
knowledge about regime shifts, namely the regime shift database. Juan hopes his results offer useful guidance for managers and policy makers on how to prioritize drivers or impactsof regime shifts. That means bringing back multi-causality to
the scientific debate:“One take home message is that well-understood variables are not necessary the ones where most managerial efforts need to be taken. When doing theoretical or empiricalwork, our methods tend to ignore the multi-causal nature of
regime shifts,” he says.

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Visiting reseachers
Amelie Dupraz-Ardiot

Jonathan F. Donges

Cristina Quintas Soriano

Scientific Officer, Swiss Federal Officefor the Environment, Switzerland

Joint Post-Doc, Stordalen Scholar andEarthDoc, Potsdam-Institute for Climate
Impact Research (PIK) Germany andStockholm Resilience Centre.

PhD student, University of Almería,
Andalusian Center for the Assessment
and Monitoring of Global Change,
Spain

November 2014 – February 2015

Joung Hun Lee

10 May – 13 June

Assistant professor, Kyushu University,Japan
16 – 23 January

Catrin Ciemer

15 August – 15 November

Monica Suskevics

Angela Cristina Lomba
Post- Doc Research Center In Biodiversity
and Genetic Resources (CIBIO.), Portugal

Post-Doc, Stockholm Resilience Centre,
funded by the Swedish Institute.
1 September – 31 August 201617 May – 21 May

PhD student, Potsdam Institue for
Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany
29 Jan – 6 February

Delphine Zemp

Antoine Libert Amico

Ralf Seppelt
Professor, Helmholtz-Centre forEnvironmental Research. Germany
27 May – 31 May

PhD fellowship, Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany& Brazilian National Institute for Space
Research (INPE) and the University ofSão Paulo (USP), Brazil
29 Jan – 6 February

Laura Elsler
Master’s student, University of Graz,
Austria

Pascal Thoya
Researcher, Kenya Marine and Fisheries
Research Institute, Kenya
15 June – 14 July

2 March – 31 October

Christopher Ives

Joshua Stoll
PhD student, School of Marine Sciencesat the University of Maine, UnitedStates2 October – 22 October

Voluntary researcher, Centre forEnvironmental and Energy Law, Ghent
University, Belgium
6 July – 29 August

Kensuke Fukushi

Founder, Integrated Conservation

15 September – 15 December

Jesse Lambrecht

1 February – 5 March

Brent Loken

PhD student, Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana (UAM) Xochimilco,
MexicoProfessor, Integrated Research System
for Sustainability Science (IR3S), The
University of Tokyo, Japan

Luis-Bernardo Varquez
Researcher, Colegio de la Frontera Sur(ECOSUR), Mexico
15 November – 26 November

Ancia Cornelius
Master’s student. North-West University,
South Africa
11 November – 31 December

8 August – 24 August

Postdoc, Leuphana University, Germany.
20 April – 9 October

Deborah Goffner
Research director, French National Centre
for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
2013 – 2016

Reinforcements to SRC leadership
Victor Galaz

IN 2015, VICTOR GALAZ, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in politicalscience, joined Line Gordon and Henrik Österblom as deputy science
directors. Galaz will help with strategic leadership and support for
researchers and the communications team. This new position is part of abigger re-organisation of the centre leadership group. The three deputy
science directors will from 2016 take on a more extensive responsibility forthe research staff of the organisation. They will become the focal point for
all researchers and help create a more dynamic and closer connection
between the centre leadership, researchers, the administration team andthe communications team. The new deputy science directors will also lookat ways to improve the current research theme organization and internal
communication.

Line Gordon

Henrik Österblom

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