Stockholm Resilience Centre

Research for Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Annual Report 2008

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Stockholm Resilience Centre Annual Report 20083

Contents

Preface							

4Directors’ view						

5Centre developments 2008				

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Resilience 2008 conference				9Changing Matters – the Resilience Art Exhibition

12Core projects and collaborations			13

Research themes and highlights 			23

Science, practice and policy				31

Teaching and training					

34Communications					

36Resilience 2008 photo collage				38

Accounts in brief					

40Appendices						41			A) Publications					

41B) Partnerships					

46Stockholm Resilience Centre Annual Report 2008

C) Presentations					

46Printed by ARKET Officin AB, 2009

D) Staff 						

49Edited by Ellika Hermansson Török, Stockholm Resilience Centre
Proof reading: Felicity Rolf, Stockholm Resilience Centre
Graphic design: Christine Clifstock
Cover collage: C. Clifstock
Cover photos: C. Clifstock/J. Lundberg (New York/Lemur), T. Hermansson Snickars/Azote (snowy mountains/view of avalley), T. Holm/Azote (perch roe), R. Kautsky/Azote (Resilience 2008 conference pictures), Frutti di mare - installation
with floating sculptures of plastic waste washed up on the seashore, courtesy Tuula Närhinen, the artist.

Stockholm Resilience Centre
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Visiting address: Kräftriket 2B
Phone: +46 8 674 70 70
Fax: +46 8 674 70 20
E-mail: info@stockholmresilience.su.se
www.stockholmresilience.su.se

Preface

Directors’ view
Sciences, Social Sciences, the Humanities, andLaw. Building these partnerships will continue tobe an important priority, stimulated not least by arecent assessment by Mistra (the Foundation thatfunds the Stockholm Resilience Centre) of strong
environmental research institutions in Sweden,
where Swedish research colleagues ranked theCentre very highly. This is encouraging, andimportantly, a reminder of the well-motivatedexpectations and responsibilities placed on theCentre, to not only generate and communicate
top quality research, but also continue to develop
research collaborations among colleagues in
Sweden and beyond.

After only two years of existence, it is satisfying
to be able to communicate that the Stockholm
Resilience Centre is essentially in full operation,and has already established itself as aninternationally recognized node for inter- andtransdisciplinary science on social-ecologicalresilience. The international science conference on
resilience hosted by the Centre together with the
Resilience Alliance, the Royal Swedish Academyof Sciences, and The International Council for
Science in April 2008, which attracted almost
600 participants, was a strong manifestationof the scientific momentum in social-ecologicalresearch on transdisciplinary strands ofsustainability science, covering research on
resilience, adaptability and transformations.
The Stockholm Resilience Centre is not only
an international platform for the advancementof sustainability science, it is also a hub forcollaborative research among Swedish universities
and research institutions. A particular emphasis
is on the integration of the Centre across faculties
at its host university, the Stockholm University,
which includes research collaboration withacademic departments at all faculties, Natural

Arild Underdal,
Chair of the board

Stockholm Resilience Centre is located in Kräftriket. Photo: ORASIS foto4

priority on the follow-up of the UN Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment and the international
efforts to develop an equivalent to the IPCC on
biodiversity and ecosystem services. We host
two Master’s programs on the advancementof sustainability thinking and sustainable
entrepreneurship from a resilience perspective.
Based on these developments of our own
research and capacity building efforts, we started
in 2008 the important step of developing a
research school at the Centre on social-ecologicalsystems and resilience. This school will include
our Master’s programs and a PhD program,which will be carried out together with research
departments at Stockholm University includinginternational collaboration. The growing interestin resilience theory and practice was furthermore
manifested in 2008, through the well recognized
Volvo Environment Prize, which was awarded to
the father of resilience thinking, Professor Buzz
Holling. Buzz, who introduced the theory ofresilience in the 1970s based on empirical workon terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, has since
been a leading source of intellectual leadershipand inspiration to resilience research across theworld. He was a key source of inspiration in
the establishment of the Stockholm ResilienceCentre, and he remains a leading mentor to ourwork of advancing resilience thinking for a moresustainable world.

Resilience thinking is increasingly influencing
governance, management and practice.
Adaptation to climate change is more and more
often framed in terms of building resilience, notonly to prepare for and cope with unavoidable
impacts, but also in order to invest in new
development trajectories in a rapidly changing
environment. It will also require investments
in more profound transformative change.
Resilience, the capacity to persist in a desired
social-ecological state, to adapt and develop
within a desired state after a disturbance, andthe capacity to transform into a new development
trajectory after a crisis, provides a broader paletteof options when navigating turbulent times. For
turbulent times it is, both in the social and theecological domains. Food and energy turbulence
and the global financial crisis in the second halfof 2008 show strong similarities with resilience
dynamics described for both ecosystems and local
to regional social-ecological systems.
Understanding social-ecological challenges
is central to the development of sustainable
solutions regarding governance, management
and practice in relation to the ecosystem services
generated by the Biosphere. This is at the heartof our Centre research agenda. The year 2008
included the firm international rooting of ourCentre as a global science and policy bridging
node on resilience research; the strengthening of
our research collaborations; and the making of
our Centre operational in our four closely interrelated areas of work – science, policy bridging,communications and academic capacity building.
We are now approximately 80 colleagues at
the Centre carrying out research across our nineresearch themes, which cover transdisciplinary
research from ecosystem and economic dynamics,
regime shifts, knowledge systems, learning
platforms, networks, multilevel and adaptive
governance, to social-ecological resilience inthe context of freshwater, food and ecosystemservices, marine ecosystems, urban areas andglobal change. We have developed an innovative
and ambitious communications program, andwe are heavily engaged in policy processes at
the heart of our own research agenda, with a

Johan Rockström 		
Professor
		
Executive Director

5Carl Folke
Professor
Science Director

Centre developments 2008
were international. Carole Crumley, Professor
in anthropology at the University of North
Carolina, will join us in 2009 as a seniorsocial scientist at the Centre. Her experiencein social-ecological research cutting acrosshistorical ecology, complex system theory andglobal environmental change, is a tremendous
addition to our Centre. Carole will, amongst
others, lead our efforts in contributing to the
IGBP (International GeoBiosphere Programme)
initiative of launching IHOPE (a research
programme on the Integrated History and future
Of People and the Environment).
Two further international recruitments,
of very well recognized younger researchers,
were made to strengthen our research on the
dynamics of social-ecological systems, with aparticular focus on understanding the interplay
between slow and fast variables, periods ofslow and abrupt change, and the existence oftipping points and occurrence of regime shifts.
Dr Garry Peterson, with a long track recordon resilience science in human-dominatedecosystems, joined us from McGill University, toadvance our research on social-ecological system
dynamics and to lead our work in developing aninterdisciplinary modeling lab at the Centre. Dr
Oonsie Biggs, with a strong research interest in
identifying and managing thresholds in socialecological systems, joined us as a Post-Doc after
finishing her PhD research at the University of
Wisconsin. Oonsie, will lead the Centre’s workon developing a knowledge base on thresholds insocial-ecological systems.
We strengthened our research collaboration
within Stockholm University and withinternational partners by affiliating seniorscientists to the Centre, e.g., Professor Kevin
Noone from ITM (Department of Applied
Environmental Science) at Stockholm University,and Professor Will Steffen, from the Australian
National University.

By the end of 2008 we had essentially reached
the planned scale of the Resilience Centre for the
first three year start-up phase (2007-2009). We
have been able to attract excellent new staff to theCentre from different parts of the world including
researchers from both social and natural sciences.
With approximately 80 colleagues, including both
centre staff and guest researchers, corresponding
to some 55 full-time equivalents of staff all-inall, we were able to make significant progress inbuilding research teams and advance science acrossour nine interacting research themes, generate
fantastic achievements in our communications andscience-practice-policy work, and further develop
our academic capacity building efforts.

Hosting the Resilience 2008 conference
Hosting the first international scientificconference on resilience, “Resilience 2008”, inApril 2008, was a major event, our highlight of
the year, which firmly established the Stockholm
Resilience Centre on the international arena.
Some 600 participants from all corners of theworld gathered for a dense trans-impulsive
program including science, art-exhibitions,music, culture, social events, and a high-level
science-policy event. This was our largest activity
in 2008 which engaged some 20 staff in themassive preparations and all centre staff were
engaged in running the conference (see detailed
section on the conference on page 9).
“Resilience 2008” was a major achievement
both externally – advancing the transdisciplinary
research agenda on resilience and sustainability
science – and internally – building a strong centre
identity and opening doors for new partnerships
and research collaborations. We all got a goodpractical experience and loads of positive feedback.

New staff recruitments
Parallel to the major “Resilience 2008” event,the centre developments have evolved graduallywith an emphasis on continuing to build ourteams of staff for research, communications,policy dialogues, education, management andadministrative functions. Among the 10 new
scientific staff recruitments in 2008, several

Many guest researchers at the Centre
During 2008, we had the privilege to host 15
guest researchers for longer periods of time andsome 20 researchers for shorter periods. We
were particularly proud to host Susan Owens,

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Shrimp farms in Thailand Photo: N.Kautsky/azote.se
Photo: F. Wulff

Centre developments 2008

Bremer, it was stressed that this was not an end,
but an upgrading of CTM. There was also apanel debate on the potential effects on researchfrom the increased attention on environmental
problems as well as in the media as on thepolitical agenda. Participants: Ulf Jonsson, Line
Gordon, Henning Rodhe, Sverker Sörlin, Lisen
Schultz and Henrik Österblom. New researchcollaborations within Stockholm University
have been initiated with e.g., the Departmentsof Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology,
Political Sciences, Systems Ecology, Economic
History, History, Human Geography, Sociology,
Education, Law, and Applied Environmental
Sciences (ITM).

Professor in Environmental Policy at Cambridge
University, who was awarded the King Carl XVI
Gustaf Professorship in Environmental Studies.
The position is shared with the Royal Instituteof Technology (KTH). Professor Owens will bebased at the Resilience Centre until April 2009
and at KTH from then until September 2009.
Susan Owens, one of the world’s most recognizedresearchers on environmental governance andpolicy processes, contributes invaluable insights into
the Centre’s transdisciplinary research endeavors.

Baltic Nest Institute & SU
The Centre’s engagement in marine research
has continued to grow through the successful
research of the Baltic Nest Institute at the Centre.
BNI has received several new EU research
projects, and continued to use the NEST model
to communicate the latest science on pollution
abatement in the Baltic Sea to policymakers,
which was recognized when the HELCOM Baltic
Sea Action plan (which built its knowledge baseon NEST modeling results) won the European
Regions Champions Award (end of 2007).
The Stockholm Resilience Centre is placedoutside of the Faculty structure at Stockholm
University and thus falls directly under the ViceChancellor of the University. This is a strategic
placement, in order to enable a true cross-faculty
and cross-disciplinary research development.
It places a high degree of responsibility on
the Centre and the University to integrate andcollaborate in research and education.

Photo: R.Kautsky/azote.se

The Resilience Graduate School
A very high priority initiative in 2008 was tostart the development of a Research School on
Resilience at the Centre. This school will include
our Master’s programmes and will develop a
PhD program structure that integrates our own
PhD training courses with those from research
departments across Stockholm University. The aim
is to establish a collaborative Research School thattrains and provides a creative research environment
for the next generation of trans-disciplinary
thinkers. Already today, we host some 10-15 PhD
students, who all have double affiliations, with theCentre and with academic research departments
at universities around the world. We also host theinterdisciplinary PhD forum; currently 10 PhD
students from all faculties at Stockholm University
working 5-20 percent at SRC.

CTM transforms into RTM

The Centre expands into new buildings

From first of January 2008 the Centre for Transdisciplinary Environmental Research (CTM) was
closed down. The former staff became an
integrated part of the Resilience Centre and theformer CTM board became a council forinterdisciplinary studies, RTM, withrepresentatives from all four faculties at Stockholm University. Its main purpose is to strengthen
the links between the Centre and otherdepartments at Stockholm University. Throughthe RTM we have continued to build bridges withcolleagues, stimulate cross-faculty interactions
among PhD students, and further develop ourcollaborative MSc programmes across faculties
at Stockholm University. On March 6th the
Resilience Centre arranged a seminar to present
the CTM´s new role at Stockholm University. In
the introduction by the Vice Chancellor, KåreWe are gradually expanding from our current
office to new buildings on the Stockholm
University campus, which follows our originalplans of gradual growth during our first three
years. We have also started the planning for our
long-term physical location, where we are now
part of the planning process, led by the leadershipof Stockholm University and Akademiska Hus,for a move to the new Albano area (an expansionof the University campus that will link Stockholm
University with the Royal Institute of Technology(KTH). This important development, will give
the Stockholm Resilience Centre a permanent
location in offices adapted for trans-disciplinary
research collaboration that will correspond to ourplanned stable size at full operation (of around
100 persons). The move is planned for 2012.

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Resilience 2008 – successful first majorinternational conference on resilience!
The first international science and policy conference
ever on resilience took place on the Stockholm
University campus and at the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences, April 14-17, 2008. The
conference labelled “Resilience, adaptation andtransformation in turbulent times - preparing forchange in social-ecological systems” was a great
event. It brought together leading scientists from allover the world working with the complex dynamics
of interconnected social-ecological systems andattracted a lot of media attention. The Stockholm
Resilience Centre hosted this seminal event, which
was a joint effort with the Resilience Alliance,
the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and theInternational Council for Science, ICSU.
More than 600 participants answered thecall issued by the organizers and arrived in
Stockholm for a four-day event that aimed to bemuch more than a regular science conference.
On the agenda were plenaries, panels, working
groups and poster sessions, but also a policy
forum, a unique resilience inspired art exhibition
and a number of musical performances. Amongthe large number of exciting presentations there
were cutting-edge lectures by the father of resilience
theory Buzz Holling, political scientist Elinor
Ostrom and ecologist Steve Carpenter. Other key
speakers included Brian Walker, Marten Scheffer,
Frances Westley, Will Steffen as well as the Centre’s
own Carl Folke and Johan Rockström. A numberof the conference events were made available via
Web TV through an advanced web televisioninterface provided by the Web TV supplier Qbrickin liaison with IT Services Media production at
Stockholm University. Several special features ofjournals, books and articles are now in the pipeline,
presenting findings and syntheses of the conference.

Science fair and speed talks
Every afternoon during the conference a Science
Fair took place. It was made up of a ‘smörgåsbord’of different activities, including panels on
central topics, poster pubs, “speed talks”, andmusical performances. There were also plentyof opportunities for self-organised informal

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Resilience 2008

Photo: J.Lokrantz/azote.se

Photo: R.Kautsky/azote.se
Dr. Kasper Kok leading a speed talk during the Resilience 2008 conference.

also be talented musicians, e.g. the jam sessionthat took place at the House Warming Party at the
Stockholm Resilience Centre and the concert which
was held by Professor Marten Scheffer during theconference dinner at Hotel Rival (owned by former
ABBA-member Benny Andersson).
These musical events contributed to a niceatmosphere throughout the conference andserved the purpose to entertain as well as helping
participants to relax and get to know theircolleagues better.

meetings and workshops, and participants
had the opportunity to test the new videoconferencing technology supplied by the Centre
for Sustainable Communications at the RoyalInstitute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm.
The “speed talks” were very appreciatedas a new and more communicative format
for presenting research results. It proved that
it is actually possible to hold an academicpresentation in five minutes and still make sense.
After a presentation session, where five speakers
were given five minutes each to present their key
ideas and results, presenters station themselvesat separate tables. This second part of the speed
talks, enabled a more extended and informal
conversation with a group of colleagues who were
specifically interested in each presenter’s research.

House warming party at the
Stockholm Resilience Centre
During the Resilience 2008 conference the Centre
took the opportunity to invite all the participants
to our international house warming party. Several
hundreds of people joined us for a bite of food,mingling and music to celebrate our new Centre.
One of the most appreciated ingredients of thishouse warming exercise was the jam session
where participants where encouraged to bring
their own instruments and join the jam…

Musical performances
Resilience 2008 showed that music and resilience
actually have a lot to do with each other. A numberof events gave participants the opportunity to listen
to some of the resilience scientists that proved to“Music captures life. It grips our emotions in a waythat science or rationality never can.”Marten Scheffer, professor in Aquatic Ecology at
Wageningen University: key speaker who held a concert
with his band Scheffer, Bont & De Gans on the second
day of the conference.

Gunnar Öquist,Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (right), Thomas Rosswall, Director of
ICSU (centre) and Kåre Bremer, Vice Chancellor at Stockholm University held the opening speeches.

The policy day“The conference brought together leading scientists
from all over the world, people who work to integrate
the natural and social sciences to better understandthe global challenges and develop innovative solutions
to complex problems.”

The last day of the conference, experts froman array of countries and across a number ofdisciplinary fields of research and policy met to
discuss the policy implications of the scientificpart of the conference. It included a high-level
policy dialogue with representatives from theInternational Commission on Climate Change
and Development, Nordic governments, theEU Parliament, the Swedish Governments’Commission for Sustainable Development,
environmental NGOs and business. Parallelto this a number of thematic workshops and“simulated speed dating” sessions took place.
A concluding panel examined how scienceand policy can work together to meet thesustainability challenge. Learning platforms forscience and policy are needed including dialogues
with private and public actors. Society is currently
not organized to deal with the complex issues athand. This goes for all levels of society, from EU
institutions, to education and research. Current
economic approaches in use in policy fail toCarl Folke, head of the Steering Committee forthe conference and Science Director at
Stockholm Resilience Centre

capture our dependency on functional ecosystems.
New leaderships need to emerge. There is potential
for international political tipping points to develop
regarding many such issues.
Finally, the panel concluded that there isa growing need for new innovative policies
that can take society’s dependency on viable
ecosystems into account. One such innovation
would be an international panel on ecosystemservices, which could guide policy analogous to
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
IPCC. There is also a need for a stable agreement
following the UN’s Climate Change Conference in
Copenhagen 2009. The Nordic countries shouldplay a key role in both of these processes.

Acknowledgements
The Resilience 2008 conference was supported by the Stockholm Resilience Centre, through grants fromthe Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, Mistra, and the Swedish Research Council FORMAS,
by the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The Christensen Fund, International
Council for Science, Oscar och Maria Ekmans donationsfond, Qbrick and Stockholm University.

Photo: J.Lokrantz/azote.se10

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Reports from research themes A. Insight Cluster Themes

Participating artists: Gunilla Bandolin/
Sverker Sörlin (Swe), Jon Brunberg (Swe), Centerof Attention (Fra/Eng), Olle Cornèer, Christian
Hörgren and Martin Lübke (Swe), Todd Gilens(USA), Paul Matosic (Eng), Teemu Mäki (Fin),
Tuula Närhinen (Fin), Michael Rodemer (Ty/USA),
Etta Säfve (Swe), Angelo Vermeulen (Be) och
Christine Ödlund (Swe).
Photos 1-3: R.Kautsky/ 4: J. Lokrantz /azote.se

Photo: J.Lokrantz/azote.se

Changing Matters– the Resilience Art Exhibition

scientists about resilience as part of the conference
program, one of the works was exhibited in Aula
Magna, the main conference venue, and there
were guided tours of the exhibition.
It has been estimated by the Museum thatthe exhibition was visited by more than 45 000
people. The exhibition received substantial
attention in Swedish television and other media.
The art exhibition was set up as an integrated
part of the Resilience 2008 conference and a newexperiment in interpreting resilience for innovationand for communicating resilience thinking to help
spur new ideas towards sustainability of integratedsocial-ecological systems.

A central message of the Resilience 2008
Conference was that resilience is not just an
ecological issue – it involves ecological, economic,
cultural, ethical and other social dimensions andvalues. To explore this and to complement andenhance the scientific conference, artists wereinvited to submit proposals for an exhibition
Changing Matters, which took place between
April 12 and September 7, 2008, at The Swedish
Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska
Riksmuseet).
“Changing Matters – the Resilience Art
Exhibition” was a joint project of the Royal
Academy of Fine Arts, through Mejan Labs inStockholm and the Royal Swedish Academyof Sciences through the Beijer Institute andthe Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm
University, in collaboration with the Resilience
Alliance. A jury with respected representatives
from the art scene and science selected 12 artists/
artists groups among the in total 220 proposals.
Directly following morning plenary presentations
there were discussions between artists and“The unexpected is the truly creative. A thought thathasn’t been thought before, that leaps forward
and leads to a solution to a series of
unsolved problems. Perhaps it is art, really,that produces the new thoughts.”
Peter Hagdahl, artist and Professor of Fine Art at theRoyal University College ofFine Arts and director of MejanLabs.

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Core projects & collaborations
During the year the Centre has been engaged innumerous international project, workshops andresearch collaborations, through the activities of
the themes and other efforts. Below, we provide
examples of such projects.

The research framework developed under theFormel-Exc grant highlights three major features;••

Centre of excellence•

A central project is the Resilience andSustainability: Integrated Research on SocialEcological Systems, a five year Swedish Centreof-Excellence (Formel-Exc) project provided by
FORMAS – the Swedish Research Council for theEnvironment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial
Planning. This grant, of which two years remain,
has been instrumental in the start up phase of the
Resilience Centre and the focus of the research
serves as a core from which the Centre’s research
agenda has emerged. The project is a joint
effort between the Beijer Institute, Stockholm
University and the Stockholm Environment
Institute with a strong focus on complex systems,
regime shifts and resilience.

the existence of tipping points (thresholds) andregime shifts and the challenges that implies,
the adaptability of social-ecological systems
to deal with such changes, uncertainty andsurprise,
the ability to steer away from undesired
regimes and possibly even transform socialecological systems into new improved
trajectories that sustain and enhance
ecosystem services and human wellbeing.

Research under Formel-Exc is divided into two
major interacting parts:a) Advancing theories on social-ecologicalsystems with 1) a focus on regime shifts, or shifts
between multiple states and 2) Policy implications
and adaptive governance.
b) Place-based regional case studies forlearning and adaptation with 1) social-ecologicalresilience of coastal and marine systems, 2)freshwater, food, ecosystem services in productive
landscapes, 3) resilience and reserves in dynamic
landscapes and 4) urban social-ecological systems.

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The transdisciplinary platform has during 20062008 generated some 100 scientific publications
with a mean impact factor of the journal in which
the articles have been published of 4.51 (range
0.709-26.372).

producing a major book for PhD and Masterstudents. The purpose of the Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship textbook is to provide a
new framework for resource management – aframework based on the necessity of managing
ecosystem services in a world dominated byuncertainty and directional change. The booklinks recent advances in the theory of resilience,sustainability, and vulnerability with practicalissues of ecosystem management. It is edited by
Terry Chapin, Gary Kofinas and Carl Folke forSpringer-Verlag, with additional contributions
from SRC researchers Oonsie Biggs, Per Olsson,
Will Steffen, and Brian Walker. A workshop withthe authors generating the synthesis chapter washeld in April at SRC and an article ResilienceBased Stewardship: Sustainability Strategies ina Rapidly Changing World (Chapin, et al.) has
been submitted.

The first three years of the Centre-ofExcellence project have been subject toexternal evaluation and the concluding
statement of the evaluation committee
appointed by Formas reads as follows:“We have made a careful assessment of
the Progress Report in light of the 10 items
suggested in the evaluation guideline. We foundthat the Resilience and Sustainability researchgroup has not only fulfilled their promises as
outlined in the proposal, in most cases they
have surpassed their own goals. The volume andquality of research outputs and their resulting
outcomes in the form of further development ofresearch platforms have been exemplary. Also,
the magnitude of international and national
collaborations was extensive and very effective.
Overall, the program has already laid a strong
ground for creating a highly competitive,
strategically important research environment
concerning resilience and sustainability. We
recommend highly the continuation of thefunding for the remaining two year period. It isenvisioned that such funding will be worthwhile
in all respect of Formas’s goals and objectives.”

Integrated history and future ofpeople and the environment - IHOPEThis project has grown out of a concern thatthe long term sustainability issues need a deeper
confluence of new knowledge from both thegeosystem sciences and the human historicalsciences. A research prospectus for IHOPE
is available (www.aimes.ucar.edu/activities/
ihope.shtml) and, pending final approval by cosponsoring international programmes (the IHDP
and PAGES) in 2009, will be published later thatyear as an official IGBP document. A series of
IHOPE workshops at the National Center for
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) is
secured, thanks to SRC collaborating scientists
Bob Costanza and Kathy Hibbard, the first held
in November 2008. From that workshop, an
infrastructure for a research information system
was initiated through collaboration between thenew, US-based National Ecological Observatory
Network (NEON), the computing systems groupat the National Center for Atmospheric Research(NCAR) and the Earth Portal. There is also a first
synthesis paper, “Toward an Integrated History to
Guide the Future”, submitted to PNAS.
In addition, sub-regional and sub-thematic
initiatives have started to form, for example,
an e-corridor to investigate human settlement
patterns and ecological gradients in northern
Japan, a regional IHOPE Australia team working
on long term historical change of the entire
Australia-South Pacific region and a social
sciences/humanities team organizing a series of

The Resilience-vulnerability colloquiumThis colloquium was held in April, prior to the
Resilience 2008 conference. Leading scholars
from the vulnerability and resilience researchcommunities continued the dialogue on thesimilarities, differences and synergies of the two
approaches in relation to livelihoods, development
and environmental change. A multi-authoredarticle Resilience and Vulnerability:
Complementary or Conflicting Concepts?
has been submitted with Fiona Miller, Henny
Osbahr, Emily Boyd and Frank Thomalla as leadauthors.

Principles of ecosystem stewardship:
Resilience-based natural resource
management in a changing world
During the year researchers of the Stockholm
Resilience Centre have been engaged in a project

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Core projects & collaborations

a multi-authored manuscript Looming globalscale failures and missing institutions (Walker
et al.). SCR researchers included Brian Walker,
Victor Galaz, Gustav Engström, Carl Folke,
Karl-Göran Mäler, Stephen Polasky and Aartde Zeeuw. The project is part of the Economic
dynamics theme.

meetings during 2009 and 2010 under thetitle “History of Environmental Predictions”,
funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the Centerfor History and Economics, based jointly at
Cambridge and Harvard Universities. SRC
researchers are Sverker Sörlin, Carole Crumley,
Will Steffen and Carl Folke. The project is part of
the Regime shift theme at the Resilience Centre.

Mapping regime shifts

Planetary boundaries project

Building on existing work (Gordon et al. 2008)
SRC researchers classifies regime shifts into
different types. This classification, which identifies
how different types of fast and slow global
environmental change variables, alter the
resilience of these regimes, will be used to map
regime shifts in the Arctic. If this is successful theapproach will be extended to the Sahel. Anotherproject on Arctic tipping points and its economic
implications is in its initiation phase. SRC
researchers include Garry Peterson, Line Gordon,
Oonsie Biggs, Brian Walker, Anne-Sophie Crepin
and collaboration with Gia Destouni, Stockholm
University among others. Part of the work builds
on and extends the Resilience Alliance threshold
database, with the intention to develop a synthesisof the different types of regime shifts that havebeen documented in social-ecological systems thathave marked implications for human well-being.
The work is part of the Regime shift theme but
also cross-thematic.

The project attempts to identify planetary
boundaries within which humanity can operate.
Transgressing the critical zone surrounding
a planetary boundary puts humanity at riskof crossing thresholds that would result incatastrophic abrupt environmental change at
continental to planetary scales. Nine boundaries
are identified and assessed, including climatechange, ocean acidification, stratosphericozone, the nitrogen and phosphorous cycles,
global freshwater use, land use system change,
biodiversity, chemical pollution and atmosphericaerosol loading.
The project is part of the SRCs collaboration
with the Earth System Science Partnership andlinked to policy through the collaboration with
the Tällberg Foundation. Smaller workshops
were held at SRC and a science workshop wasorganized in conjunction with the Tällberg
Forum 2008. SRC researchers involved in
2008; Johan Rockström, Will Steffen, Malin
Falkenmark, Carl Folke, Kevin Noone, Åsa
Persson, Björn Nykvist, Louise Karlberg,
Uno Svedin and Sverker Sörlin. A scientificarticle Planetary Boundaries – Exploring the
Safe Operating Space of Humanity in the
Anthropocene has been submitted. The project ispart of the Global Change theme.

Accounting for ecosystem services andregime shifts
In two articles Mäler et al. 2008 (PNAS, ERE)
present how the concept of “inclusive wealth”(IW) can be used for creating accounts anddevelop tools for quantifying and valuing
regulating ecosystem services in a landscapecontext. Using the Goulburn-Broken Catchment
in south-eastern Australia Walker et al. (inreview) explored the consequences of changes
in a system’s resilience on the sustainability ofresource allocation decisions, and incorporated
an estimate of resilience in IW by taking accountof known or suspected thresholds that can leadto irreversible changes in the productivity andvalue of assets and hence social welfare. SRC
researchers have shown that the existence offlips and regime shifts has major implication forresource and environmental management, foreconomic policy and the political reform process.
For example, Anne-Sophie Crépin, Jon Norberg
and Karl-Göran Mäler have found that it isMultiple shocks and the challenges of
the global economy
While climate disruption is firmly on theinternational policy agenda a number ofother global challenges are neglected. All ofthem interact in terms of their effects on theenvironment and humanity and their synergies
must be taken into account. There is lack ofinstitutions to address the multiple, interacting
factors involved. A global-scale social contract
is needed that can build preparedness and help
navigate global change. A workshop as part ofthis new project held at Askö outside Stockholm
was organized by the Beijer Institute resulting in

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Core projects & collaborationstransformations of the political landscapeglobally (i.e. shift from “government” to“governance” and ii) abrupt and large-scalesocial-ecological crisis. One publication in
Governance (Duit and Galaz 2008), and aforthcoming special issue in Global
Environmental Change on Governance andResilience, a manuscript on global governance ofabrupt environmental change (Galaz, Biermann)elaborate on the international political system’sability to deal with abrupt biophysical change,and discuss the role of international cooperationand the UN system in the light of large scale andserious ecological surprises. SRC researchers
include Victor Galaz, Andreas Duit, Jonas
Ebbesson, Katarina Eckerberg.

developing and communicating visions for change.
A review paper drawing on literature in organizational theory and lessons to be learned for
management of ecosystem services addresses
leadership issues in social-ecological systems in
relation to crises, regime shifts, reorganization,and innovation.
SRC researchers involved: Örjan Bodin,
Frances Westley, Lisen Schultz, Per Olsson,
Beatrice Crona, Carl Folke, Christoffer Edling.
The project is part of the knowledge management,
leadership and social network theme.

Social networks in natural resource
governancePhoto: M. Ormestad /azote.semost difficult if not impossible to use standard
economic instruments like taxes in an efficient
way in systems with regime shifts.
Results from work with challenges of sharing
natural resources with complex dynamics showthat resource degradation could also be imputed
to threshold effects. To better understand theover-exploitation problem and design policy
instruments that overcome them, SRC researchersand collaborators combine relevant ecologicalcharacteristics with relevant institutional
structure. This work is part of the Economic
dynamics and also the Regime shift themes.

Line Gordon, Regina Lindborg in collaboration
with Elena Bennett (McGill University). This
project is part of the Understanding andmanaging ecosystem dynamics theme and theWater theme.

Learning platforms
Learning is a central process in resilience thinking.
Learning-by-doing and learning across sectors andscales allow for adapting management practices,institutions and mental models to the changing
nature of social-ecological systems. But what kindof learning processes that are needed to build
resilience in social-ecological systems and how suchlearning can be facilitated is not fully explored.
This gap will be addressed in a special issueof Environmental Education Research, editedby SRC researcher Cecilia Lundholm together
with Ryan Plummer (Brock University, Canada)
and Marianne Krasny (Cornell University). Lisen
Schultz is contributing with a study on Biosphere
Reserves as learning platforms and Emily Boydwith a study on UK Department for International
Development’s Climate Change Programme. The
project is part of the Knowledge management,
learning and social network theme.

Understanding ecosystem service
interactions
Ecosystem services are the benefits that people
receive from nature. This concept has beensuccessful but its application has often neglected
the interconnections that characterize ecology,
assessing individual ecosystem services inisolation, ignoring interactions in space and time.
SRC researchers are working to develop
practical theoretical tools to assess the resilienceof ecosystem services. Attempts are made toto empirically characterize the patterns ofinteractions of multiple ecosystems services acrossspace at multiple scales, to empirically determine
how important interaction among ecosystemservices in real landscapes. Preliminary research
indicates that clusters of ecosystem services
that strongly interact can be identified. The
researchers are currently working to develop
models of the dynamics of ecosystem services overtime. SRC researchers include Garry Peterson,

Organizational theory and leadershipprocesses in social-ecological systems
Leadership is critical in building trust, making
sense of complex situations, managing conflict,
linking actors, initiating partnerships amonggroups, compiling and generating knowledge,
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The existence of social networks has been
identified as a common and importantdenominator in cases where different stakeholders
have come together to effectively deal withnatural resource problems and dilemmas. It haseven been shown that social networks can be
more important than the existence of formal
institutions for effective enforcement andcompliance with environmental regulations.
However, all social networks are notcreated equal. On the contrary, the structural
pattern of relations (i.e. the topology) of asocial network can have significant impact on
how actors actually act. This project addressed
these critical issues by using methods fromthe transdisciplinary field of Social Network
Analysis. Together with collaborators at Sheffield
University, University of Leeds, Universityof Toronto, Leuphana University Lüneburg,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Luleå
University of Technology, and elsewhere, thisproject will host a special session on the IHDP
conference 2009, co-author and edit a special
issue of Ecology & Society, and are currently
developing an edited book proposal.
SRC researchers working on networks includeÖrjan Bodin, Beatrice Crona, Henrik Ernstson,
Jon Norberg, and in relation to bridging
organization and leadership also Thomas Hahn,
Per Olsson, Lisen Schultz. The project is part of
the Knowledge Management, Learning and Social
Networks theme.

Adaptive governance
Adaptive governance is an evolving researchframework for analyzing the social, institutional,
economical and ecological foundations ofmultilevel governance modes that are successful
in building resilience for the vast challenges posedby global change, and coupled complex adaptivesocial-ecological systems. Adaptive governanceincludes the following strategic directionsfor 2008/9. a) New challenges for Adaptive
governance, b) Innovations and transformations
in social-ecological systems, c) Abrupt change
and governance.
These directions include a set of issues,
projects, members and national and international
collaborative partners such as Universityof Waterloo (Canada), Santa Fe Institute/Arizona State University (USA), INRA-SAR(France), STEPS (UK), Öko institute (Germany),
DRIFT (Netherlands), Free University
Amsterdam (Netherlands), National Centerfor Crisis Management Research and Training(CRISMART), Swedish Institute of International
Affairs (UI). The Resilience Centre and the theme
Adaptive Governance, is also part of the IHDPEarth System Governance Project (ESP). This also
implies that we will co-host the 2009 Amsterdam
Conference, and especially the activities involving
issues related to governance of adaptation andresilience. The theme is coordinated by SRC researchers Per Olsson, Emily Boyd and Victor Galaz.

Multilevel institutions, governanceand resilience
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Shaping change: Understandingtransformations in social-ecologicalsystemssocial learning in Environmental Education. Thiscame out of a policy meeting hosted by the United
Nations in Vienna in 2007.
During the autumn, three master’s students
from the SRC course Ecosystems, Governanceand Globalization have used the transformation
framework for analyzing the establishment of a
Unesco World Heritage site in Bali, Indonesia.
A pilot phase of a research project was started
on transformations and resilient adaptation inIndia, focusing on the events of the 2005 floodsin Mumbai and the role of the media as a proxyfor change.
The Shaping Change project is part of theMulti-level institutions and adaptive governancetheme in collaboration with the Marine andthe Knowledge management, learning andsocial network theme. SRC researchers include
Per Olsson, Emily Boyd, Victor Galaz, Björn
Nyqvist and Oonsie Biggs.

This research aims to increase our understandingof social-ecological systems’ transformations to
avoid or escape from undesirable trajectories. The
main focus is on shifts to governance regimesthat support flexible, integrated, holistic forms ofmanagement of natural resources and ecosystems.
Researchers at the Stockholm Resilience Centre
have been involved in developing and applying
a framework for studying transformations insocial-ecological systems. This includes probingcase studies, comparative analysis, methods
development and theory development. Listed
below are some of the meetings and work done.
A meeting on innovation, transitions andgovernance was held in October at the SRC withspecial invites from Canada and Germany. A
joint session with German and British scientists
at the IHDP conference in Berlin in February
has resulted in a forthcoming special issue on“Transitions, resilience and governance: linking
technological, ecological and political systems”
for the journal Ecology and Society. A bookchapter on the implementation of the European
Water Framework Directive in Sweden (Olsson
and Galaz) has been prepared for a forthcoming
book edited by Dutch scientists on transitions toadaptive water management and governance.
Furher more, a paper on transitions toecosystem-based management of the Great
Barrier Reef, Australia, was published in PNAS(Olsson et al 2008), and two book chapters andan article manuscript has been prepared for the
project Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship. A
manuscript on the role of experimentation fortransformations has been submitted to TREE
(Cumming et al), and a manuscript on learningfrom the past for future transformations in the
Doñana watershed (Spain) has been submitted to
Ecology and Society (Gomez et al).
As a result of a series of discussions and aworkshop between SRC, Oxford University
and colleagues at Reading, Michigan andUniversity of Leeds an article on ”Resilience and’Climatizing’ Development: Examples and policy
implications” (Boyd et al. 2008) was publishedin the journal Development. A manuscript on
resilient livelihood transformations (Osbahr
and Boyd) has also been submitted to Global
Environmental Change and a manuscript on‘Resilience in Practice’ (Boyd and Osbahr) has
been prepared for a special issue on resilience andBiosphere reserves and resilience
Biosphere Reserves (BRs) are potential real-world
examples of resilience thinking and adaptive
governance put into practice. There are now
531 BRs in 105 nations, and they have all been
designated by UNESCO to be learning sites
for biodiversity conservation and sustainable
development. SRC researchers (Lisen Schultz,
Andreas Duit, Cecilia Lundholm, Emily Boyd,
Jacob von Heland, Per Olsson and Carl Folke)
are engaged in assessing what conclusions about
resilience thinking and adaptive governance canbe drawn from experiences in BRs and fromdecision-making processes in the Man andBiosphere (MAB) program.
Currently, we are in the process of analysing
a survey with 160 BR coordinators, assessing
to what extent the world network of Biosphere
Reserves and the MAB program actually is a realexample of multilevel and adaptive governance ornot, and what lessons can be learned from onthe-ground experiences in Biosphere Reserves.
Drawing on our work in Kristianstads
Vattenrike BR, southern Sweden, we haveduring 2008 initiated a study of Cape Winelands
Biosphere Reserve in South Africa (Thomas
Elmqvist, Åsa Jansson, Lisen Schultz, Stephan
Barthel, Magnus Tuvendal). The BR project ispart of the Multi-level institutions and adaptive
governance theme and also the Knowledge
management, learning and social network theme.

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Core projects & collaborations

Coral reefs, marine seascapes andsocial-ecological systems

Madagascar social-ecological systems
The Madagascar work is truly cross-thematic andcovers issues related to understanding ecosystem
dynamics behind the generation of services likepollination of staple-crops, freshwater feedbacks,
landscape dynamics and biodiversity, social
taboos, global change influences and the role ofdeep cultural values in shaping the landscapeand being shaped by it. This project is a close
collaboration with scholars of the Natural
Resource Management Group at the Department
of Systems Ecology.
Stockholm Resilience Centre and Universityof Antananarivo have agreed to build aninterdisciplinary research centre in Madagascar.
This was initiated during a meeting between
SRC and representatives of the Governmentof Madagascar in August in Stockholm,and concluded by the formal signing of a
Memorandum of Understanding by the presidentof the University in Antananarivo on November
29. The centre “Voahary Mirindra Maharitra– the Madagascar Resilience Centre” is now
formally established with statues and designatedoffices and staff and will have as its first objective
to contribute to an assessment of ecosystemservices in Madagascar.

Centre researchers have a long history of coral
reef work and perform analyses of the resilienceof marine seascapes reef and regime shifts, their
management and how to develop systems ofgovernance of reefs, seagrasses and mangroves
in dynamic seascapes. SRC researchers wereinvolved in the Coral Reef symposium in
Florida and the research process and results
have engaged with various stakeholders, fromlocal fishers in Africa, to reports for FAO, topresentations in the European Parliament (June,2008). Insights from the marine theme andchallenges and opportunities were presented to
the Nordic Council of Ministers (Ministers ofEnvironment) in August and at the ICES annual
science conference. An MOU for collaboration
with WorldFish has been developed. Our researchon the resilience of coral reefs and the governancetransition of the Great Barrier Reef has served asa bridge between experiences gained in Australia
and challenges for the Baltic Sea region. The
Baltic Nest Institute plays a central role here aspart of the SRC. The project is cross-thematic andconcerns all insight cluster themes and engage
SRC researchers and collaborators, for example,
Magnus Nyström, Henrik Österblom, Max
Troell, Christoph Humborg, Thorsten Blenckner,
Beatrice Crona, Per Olsson and Carl Folke.

The ecosystem approach and marinesocial-ecological resilience
The ICES Working group for Integrated
Assessments in the Baltic Sea (WGIAB) held aworkshop at Stockholm Resilience Centre in
October 2008, aimed at investigating the potential
for collaboration with the Marine Theme at
SRC. WGIAB is working with analyzing longterm ecosystem change and regime shifts and themeeting resulted in a draft plan for collaboration
as well as a time line for the production of a joint
scientific review manuscript on social-ecologicalsystems change in the Baltic Sea. Members of the
Marine theme are also working on a number of
additional manuscript describing regimes shifts,
methodology (e.g. models and statistical tools),
early warnings signals.
WGIAB will increasingly work withgovernance issues and it was agreed that further
co-operation with SRC has large potential to1) develop the biological understanding of theBaltic Sea, 2) understand governance structuresand dynamics and 3) contribute to constructive
policy advice. The theme is coordinated byHenrik Österblom and Max Troell.

Urban social-ecological systems andglobalization
The SRC has formed the ‘Urban Network’
consisting of twelve site-based research groups
in Bangalore and New Delhi (India), CapeTown, Johannesburg (South Africa), Canberra(Australia), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey),
Chicago, New Orleans, New York City andPhoenix (U.S.A.) and Stockholm (Sweden). The
first common deliverable of the urban network
research will be an ‘Urban Social-EcologicalAtlas’ presenting the perspective, focus andwork characteristic of each of the participatingurban sites and providing lessons learnt andmethodologies useful for scaling up andreplication of urban ecosystem services and how
different socio-economic groups are affectedby environmental changes in urban regions.
Throughout the project, the results will beavailable for the participating researchers via aninternet-based interactive urban map portal. The

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Core projects & collaborations

URBIS - Urban research-policy
interface.

Photo: J.Lokrantz/azote.se

we are evaluating case studies, analyzing models
of extreme nonlinear and stochastic events,and exploring new approaches for integratingknowledge. There have been three meetings so far
and two articles have been generated.

A joint collaboration between UNESCO andthe Stockholm Resilience Centre, URBIS (theUrban Biosphere network) was launched at thefirst Mayors Conference on Local Action for
Biodiversity, at the 9th Conference of the Parties
to the CBD in Bonn, 2008. URBIS aims to reestablish the connection between people and theirnatural environment through innovative forms ofknowledge networking and governance of the urban
landscape. Active sites in the network are Canberra,
Cape Town and Stellenbosch, New Orleans andIstanbul. Thomas Elmqvist and Christine Alfsen at
UNESCO are leading this effort.

Resilience Alliance
One of the most central partners is the Resilience
Alliance (RA), an international network ofleading research organizations who collaborate to
explore the dynamics of social-ecological systems(www.resalliance.org). The RA and the focus onsocial-ecological systems emerged out of research
programmes of the Beijer Institute in the 1990s
and during the year the Centre has received acentral role in the Resilience Alliance (RA) andorganized in 2008 the first major international
resilience conference.

Freshwater and ecosystem services

City of Stockholm

ESCAPE – Governance of urban
ecosystem services in Cape Town

project involves post-doctoral exchange between
Stockholm and Cape Town, Bangalore and Delhi.
Thomas Elmqvist is leading this effort.

As an integral part of the Urban Social-Ecological
Systems and Globalization Theme, the ESCAPE
project is a three-year collaborative researchand exchange project between SRC/SU andthe Environmental and Geographical Science
Department at University of Cape Town (UCT).
The work is organised around issues of scale, social
networks and urban wealth/inequality and draws
both on urban ecology, sociology and culturalgeography and is funded by the Swedish ResearchCouncil and the South African National Science
Foundation under Swedish Links (2008-2010).

The Greater Stockholm region
SRC researchers have shown that local steward
groups in urban areas, like Stockholm, contributein the generation and management of criticalregulating ecosystem services, including seeddispersal, pollination, and insect pest regulation.
Local steward groups also contribute to reversing
declining fauna (Colding and Folke 2008, Colding
et al. in press). Of key relevance is the recognition
that urban biodiversity to a large extent seems
contingent on socio-cultural rationales, thatbesides ecosystem management also contribute tosocial capital building and democratic governancepromotion (Colding in press, Ernstson et al. 2008,
Ernstson and Sörlin, in press). This intricate webof relationships has been entirely overlooked inprevious urban research. The project is part of the
Urban social-ecological theme and Johan Colding
serves as of the theme leaders.
Under the subtheme “Urban social-ecologicaldesign for management of ecosystem services”,
several research projects have started e.g. studies
of Ecological land-use complementation (ELC),
Institutional designs and ‘urban commons’,
Urban learning arenas, Social-ecologicalmemory for management of ecosystem services,
Integrating ecosystem services in urban spatialplanning, Green wedges as urban commons:
Applying a complex social-ecological systemapproach to sustainable urban planning.

Urban theme book project
Urban Ecosystem Services and Governance:
Building Resilience in Urban Landscapes.
The overall objective of this book is to explore
how capacity can be built to improve governanceof ecosystem services (ES) in urban areas.
Editors: Stephan Barthel, Johan Colding, Thomas
Elmqvist, Henrik Ernstson, Åsa Jansson, Cathy
Wilkinson.

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Our global research on water induced tipping
points is further supported by efforts of adding
spatial and temporal dynamics of freshwaterflow changes into scenarios of future water forfood challenges. Building on our global waterfor food assessments, we have integrated spatial
and temporal dynamics of freshwater flows by
downscaling freshwater availability to a higher
resolution (30X30 km) and internalized climatechange impacts on water resources (Rockström
et al., in press). The analysis reveals that many
water scarce regions, far from rivers, still have asignificant opportunity to build water resiliencein agriculture through improved management oflocal green water resources.
Work has also been conducted on how
investments in smallholder agricultural systems in
Tanzania can build resilience in dryland systems
related to poverty dynamics and ecosystemservices (Enfors and Gordon 2008), soil dynamics(Enfors et al. submitted), and future scenarios(Enfors et al. 2008). A project on the re-greeningof the Sahel was started and funded by Sida.

The Resilience Alliance Marine GroupHigh profile papers are generated by a small
group of international scholars focusing oncoastal and marine social-ecological systems. The
group is led by Terry Hughes and Carl Folke. A
meeting was held in Chile in 2008.

The Resilience Alliance Young Scholars(RAYS)RAYS is a loosely connected international
network of doctoral and post-doctoral scholars
interested in pushing the boundaries of resilience
thinking. The ambition is to focus collaborations
on innovative ideas and projects with an explicit
emphasis on transdisciplinary research and careerdevelopment. RAYS is coordinated to a great
extent by Resilience Centre researchers Victor
Galaz, Beatrice Crona and Oonsie Biggs.

Other selected research collaborations
Researchers from the Centre have been visiting
scientists or done post docs at Centre for
Institutional Diversity and School of Human
Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State
University; Australian Research Council Centreof Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Townsville;
McGill University, Montreal; The Fenner Schoolof Environment and Society, Australian National
University, Canberra; University of Cape Town,
University of Pretoria etc.

The Surprise Project
The Surprise Project is a collaborative project with
the Resilience Alliance and Frances Westley, Carl
Folke and Oonsie Biggs from SRC participate.
(1) What do we know about the probability
distributions of big important changes in socialecological systems? (2) What are the characteristics
of unpredictable changes in social-ecologicalsystems? (3) How can diverse forms of knowledge
be integrated to ask the questions that evoke
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International science programs
hosted by the Centre

Growth (IEG) in Delhi. The first year ofactivities include developing the ”Urban SocialEcological Atlas” project and developing a
post-doctoral exchange programme with Jagdish
Krishnaswamy from ATREE spending six
months at the centre, Preeti Kapuria from IEG,
two months and Jenny Grönwall from the centre
spending six months at ATREE in Bangalore. The
first publication as a result of this partnership is:
Krishnaswamy, et al., Quantifying and mapping
biodiversity and ecosystem services: Utility of amulti-season NDVI based Mahalanobis distancesurrogate, Remote Sensing of Environment (2009).

bioSustainability
The Centre is hosting bioSustainability acore scientific programme of Diversitas.
bioSustainability develops new knowledge to
guide policy and decision making that support
sustainable use of biodiversity; evaluating theeffectiveness of current conservation measures;studying the social, political and economic
drivers of biodiversity loss, as well as social
choice and decision making.

Centre facilities

Research priorities within the bioSustainability
programme are:
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Research themes and highlights 2008

Photo: A.Löf/azote.se

Landscape/Seascape Lab – SRC unit forgeospatial analyses

to address mismatches between biological,
economic and political boundaries
to incorporate ecosystem services into fullcost accounting of socio-economic decision
makingto improve decision making processes withmultiple stakeholder groups
to improve models of complex interactions
between human and ecological systems toservices to manage risks and uncertainties

The Landscape/Seascape Lab, a research-theme
independent unit, was established to meet theincreased demand of performing interdisciplinary
spatial analyzes integrating ecological and socioeconomic variables.
Of particular interest and importance is thepossibility of integrating the spatial analyticalcapabilities of Geographical Information
Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and image
processing, Global Positioning System (GPS) andSpatial Statistics.
The combination of different technologies
offers new possibilities to perform time series
analyses and build future scenarios in rapidlychanging environments, especially urban
environments. Special efforts will also be madeto develop new ways of visualizing spatial
information.
The Landscape/Seascape lab is together
with external developers setting up a project
specific web portal with an interactive Map
Portal to serve the Global Urban Atlas Project.
New attractive functionalities are developed andthis knowledge will later be forwarded to otherprojects at SRC.
Courses are given with regular intervals to
encourage and facilitate the use of GIS, RS andrelated technologies within Stockholm ResilienceCentre and among affiliates. Since 2007 two
3-week long introductory GIS/RS courses havebeen given at SRC. One course has been given instatistics based on the open source software R.
A two-day introduction in IDRISI Taiga will begiven during April 2009 followed by a GIS/RS in
September 2009.

Some of the projects in progress are; Urban Atlas
Project, African Partnership Project on Ecosystem
Services and Biodiversity, Natural Capital
Project, Research collaboration StockholmStellenbosch, and a bioSUSTAINABILITY
workshop organized by bioSUSTAINABILITY
of DIVERSITAS, Stockholm Resilience Centre,
Beijer Institute and Natural Capital. A second
DIVERSITATS Open Science Conference,“Biodiversity and Society: Understanding
Connections, Adapting to Change” will also beorganized in Cape Town, in October 2009.
Thomas Elmqvist (Stockholm University, Sweden)
and Stephen Polasky (University of Minnesota,
USA) are co-Chairs of the Science committeeof bioSUSTAINABILITY. Project Coordinator/
Office Assistant is Rebecka Henriksson(Stockholm University, Sweden).

Collaboration between SRC and India.
Through support from SIDA, SRC started in2008 build partnership with the Ashoka Trustfor Research in Ecology and the Environment(ATREE) in Bangalore and Institute of Economic

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Research themes and highlights 2008
The research framework of the Stockholm
Resilience Centre emphasizes that ecosystems
in all parts of Planet Earth are shaped bypeople and, at the same time that all people arefundamentally dependent on the collective workof the Earth’s ecosystems – the Biosphere and its
generation of critical ecosystem services.
Humanity is faced with the largest challenge
ever, to redefine our relationship with the
Biosphere, and translate this into operational
governance and management to enable sustainable
futures. In this sense, environmental issues havebecome issues of how to increase the likelihoodfor societal development pathways that cangenerate, sustain and improve human welfare andwellbeing in collaboration with the Biosphere.
Resilience is often interpreted simply as
recovery or buffer capacity to disturbance andchange. In the Stockholm Resilience Centre
we are particularly interested in the interplay
between periods of gradual change and periodsof abrupt change – how to turn crises into newopportunities. Therefore, we have a broader
interpretation of resilience and emphasize three
features of resilience thinking of significance foranalyzing social-ecological systems in relation tosustainability;•••

persistence —­ in the face of change, buffer
capacity, withstand shocks
adaptability — the capacity of people in asocial-ecological system to manage resiliencein order to deal with change, move on andcontinue to developtransformability — the capacity of people
in a social-ecological system to create newdevelopment pathways when ecological,
political, social or economic conditions makethe existing system untenable

The research collaboration of the Stockholm
Resilience Centre is organized around ninetransdisciplinary themes framed by our threeboundary conditions; society and nature
represent truly interdependent systems; they arecomplex adaptive systems; with cross scale anddynamic interactions representing new challenges
for governance and management of socialecological systems and ecosystem services.
The aim of the themes is to provide flexible

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collaborative arenas for sharing different
perspectives and bending knowledge fromdifferent disciplines and areas in a transdisciplinary learning process with multi-directionsof inquiry and diverse discoveries. The objective
is not to search for consensus but creative
disagreement within the context of the researchframework, mission and vision of the Stockholm
Resilience Centre. Each theme has two or moretheme leaders that facilitate the theme, its
research agenda and direction and develop
practices for sharing information and keeping
up to date with the research field and theinternational research arena. The current nine
themes are summarized in the figure below.
The themes have changed somewhat during
the year. Five of the themes advance theory
and methods, covering broad areas of research,from regime shifts and economic dynamics ofsocial-ecological systems to understanding andmanaging ecosystem dynamics, to knowledge
management, learning and social networks and tomultilevel institutions and adaptive governance ofsocial-ecological systems.
Among the four thematic, more applied andon the ground themes, we focus on water andfood, urban social-ecological systems, coastal
and marine social-ecological systems and a newtheme of this year namely global social-ecologicalsystems change. The themes feed into eachother through an ongoing dynamic process of
inductive-deductive science, practice and theory
with active involvement of scholars from thenatural and social sciences and the humanities,
within the centre, in Sweden and internationally.
There have been continuous meetings andtheme interactions. Tight collaborations havedeveloped between scientists across themes withjoint transdisciplinary workshops, projects,
applications and multi-authored research papers
and anthologies in press and progress. Themes
simultaneously interact with practice and policy.
Links with international collaborators have beenstrengthened and expanded. The activities of thethemes are presented in more detail at
www.stockholmresilience.su.se

Figure A. Stockholm Resilience Centre’s research themes

Research themes and highlights 2008

Photo: J. Lokrantz/azote.se

Publications

Future” together with Graeme Cumming fromthe University of Cape Town. The book, whichis the result of our Formas-funded Centre of
Excellence project and the Resilience Alliance,
deals with resilience and sustainability of socialecological systems. It focuses on different aspectsof complexity theory, and how it can be applied
to interactions between ecosystems and society.
— Our hope is that theoreticians, managers
and policymakers will find the book useful in its
attempt to turn complex adaptive systems theory
into practical approaches for solving problemsof natural resource management and climatechange, Jon Norberg says.
The book is a significant contributionthat reflects the transdisciplinary perspective
and cross-theme collaborations of the Centre
and the role of multiple adaptive processes insocial-ecological systems and its importance forresilience at different scales. The book features
scholars such as Buzz Holling, Steve Carpenter,and political scientist Elinor Ostrom. Other
Centre-associated contributors to the bookinclude Örjan Bodin, Carl Folke, Thomas Hahn,
Per Olsson, Garry Peterson, Lisen Schultz andBrian Walker.

More than 60 articles have been published inscientific journals and as book chapters. Twobooks have been released in 2008 and the book
Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building
Resilience for Complexity and Change (eds. Berkes,
Colding, Folke) became available in paper in 2008.
During the year papers have been publishedin e.g. Science, PNAS, Trends in Ecology
and Evolution, Environmental and Resource
Economics, Governance, Global Environmental
Change, Ecology and Society, EcologicalApplications, Ecology, Ecological Complexity,
Science of the Total Environment, Phil. Trans.
Royal Society, Development, Water Science andTechnology, Landscape Ecology, Limnology
and Oceanography, Marine Pollution Bulletin,
Journal of Marine Systems, Coral Reefs, Oikos,
Ecography, Scandinavian Studies in Law,
Ecosystems, Cambridge Journal of Education,
Agricultural Water Management, International
Environmental Agreements, Environmental
Sciences, Environment, World Development.
Many popular and outreach articles have been
produced, and there are several articles in press(see appendix publications). Among the researchhighlights of the Stockholm Resilience Centre’s
publications we can report on the following.

Norberg, J. and G. Cumming (eds.) 2008. Complexity
Theory for a Sustainable Future. Columbia University
Press, New York.

Centre contribution to book on
institutions and environmental change

Complexity theory for asustainable future

Centre researchers Victor Galaz, Per Olsson,
Thomas Hahn, Carl Folke and Uno Svedin
contribute with a chapter in the synthesis volume

Centre researcher Jon Norberg has co-edited the
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Photo 1&3: J.Lokrantz, 2: U.Manhammar /azote.sedevelopment decision making, particularly inturbulent regions, Elin Enfors says.
People farming in the world´s drylands
are some of the world´s poorest people, their
populations are growing, but they have to copewith a variable climate that causes frequentcrop failures. To develop better approaches
to investments in water management, Enfors,
Gordon, Peterson and Bossio worked with
farmers, local officials, and scientists in Tanzania
to identify alternative ways for change inlivelihoods, farming practices, and ecosystems
over the next 25 years. The scenarios developed
were all based on the present-day situation in
Tanzania, but examined the consequences ofdifferent future changes in local governance,
economy, climate, health, and values.

of the IHDP effort Institutional Dimensionsof Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) on
the policy implications of global environmental
change orchestrated by Oran Young andcolleagues. The five Stockholm ResilienceCentre researchers argue that the attributes of
institutions (rights, norms, rules and decisionmaking procedures) must be transformed tobetter match the dynamics of the planet’sbiophysical systems in order to secure ecosystemservices for human wellbeing.
­— Institutions and policy prescriptions mustacknowledge the strong interconnection betweensocial and ecological systems. If not, we all run
the risk of ending up with ill-founded advice thatfail to tackle such emerging global problems as
the loss of biological diversity, the degradationof forests and the overarching issue of climatechange, the researchers say.
The chapter is a transdisciplinary update andexpansion of a seminal article on “the problem offit” between ecosystems and institutions, written
ten years ago by Carl Folke, Lowell Pritchard Jr.,
Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding, and Uno Svedin.

Enfors, E.I., L.J. Gordon, G.D. Peterson, B. Bossio.
2008. Making Investments in Dryland Development
Work: Participatory Scenario Planning in the Makanya
catchment, Tanzania. Ecology and Society 13(2): 42.
[online] URL: www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/
art42/

Stronger social networks help improveurban green areas management

Galaz, V., P. Olsson, T. Hahn, C. Folke, and U. Svedin.
2008. The problem of fit among biophysical systems,
environmental and resource regimes, and broader
governance systems: Insights and emerging challenges.
Pages 147-182 in O. R. Young, L. A. King, and H.
Schröder, editors. Institutions and Environmental Change- Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers.
The MIT Press, Cambridge, USA.

Small community groups and social networks
often possess important knowledge about urban
green areas. But they are often ignored whenplanning decisions on these areas are taken.
In their paper, Ernstson, Sörlin and Elmqvist
argue that power relations and social networks
affect the decision-making process behind thedevelopment of urban green areas, and who gets
access to these areas.
— With an accelerating urbanization, it is
crucial to understand how urban ecosystems
provide important ecosystem services forurban dwellers. Local interest groups such as
allotment groups and outdoor associations, play
an extremely important role in sustaining andmanaging these urban green areas. They possess

Scenario-planning helps smallscale farming
Researchers Line Gordon, Garry Peterson, Elin
Enfors have together with Deborah Bossio fromInternational Water Management Institutestudied how scenario-planning can help smallscale farming in Tanzania landscapes.
— Scenario planning approaches havethe potential to improve the robustness of

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important knowledge for the generation of urban
ecosystem services that is often ignored, Henrik
Ernstson says.
Based on several case studies in Stockholm,
the researchers developed strategies for linking
managers and user groups of Stockholm urban
green areas, in order to improve the management
and sustainable use of these areas.

Overfishing and changes in climate risk puts
marine birds and mammals on a “junk food”
diet, is the conclusion of this article published in
Oikos. These findings came out of a study leadby Henrik Österblom, joint theme leader at the
Stockholm Resilience Centre and researcher at
the Baltic Nest institute. The research has alsocaught the interest of New Scientist and Science,
the latter describing it as “some of the best field
evidence for the junk-food hypothesis”.
As overfishing has led to the extensive
removal of predatory fish, energy rich forage
fish lower down the food chain has increasedin numbers. An expanded commercial fishingon forage fish, coupled with changes in climate,can influence the fish stocks dynamics, both interms of abundance and quality, in turn affecting
marine predators, reducing the resilience of
the whole marine foodweb. A switch fromhigh energy- to low energy fish has been calledswitching to a “junk food” diet.
— Under adverse environmental conditions,scarcity of food and reduced food quality,
can result in reduced breeding performance in
top predators impairing on marine functional
diversity and resilience, says Österblom.

Ernstson, H., S. Sörlin, T. Elmqvist 2008. Social
Movements and Ecosystem Services; the Role of Social
Network Structure in Protecting and Managing Urban
Green Areas in Stockholm. Ecology and Society 13 (2): 39.
[online] URL: www.ecologyandsocety.org/vol13/iss2/art39/

How to save coral reefs
This article is an important step towards applying
resilience theory as a tool to improve coral reefmanagement. Faced with various threats, reefs
seldom respond in a linear way but rather tend toundergo unexpected and dramatic (and sometimes
irreversible) changes in community compositionand ecological regime shifts. The implications ofthese are staggering, not only for biodiversity but
also for critical ecosystem services in relation totourism, fisheries and coastal protection.
— The rapid development of resilience
thinking has been paramount for theunderstanding of dynamic ecosystem behaviourin everything from coral reefs and lakes to oceans
and forests, but practical advancements of how
to operationalize resilience theory have lagged
behind, says lead author Magnus Nyström.
The article presents management features
like “functional group approaches”, “theratios of ‘good´ and ‘bad´ colonizers of space”,“measurements of spatial heterogeneity”, and“estimates of potential space availability against
grazing capacity” of fish and sea urchins.

Österblom, H., O. Olsson, T. Blenckner, R.W. Furness. 2008.
Junk Food in Marine Ecosystems. Oikos 117:1075-1085.

Warnings: Ecosystem “flips” imperil
poor regions
Centre researchers Line J. Gordon, GarryPeterson and Elena Bennett of McGill University
argue that global water management has been
too focused on the “blue water” side of thehydrological cycle, neglecting the largely invisible
changes humanity has had on “green water”,
the freshwater that supports production of all

Nyström, M., N. Graham, J. Lokrantz, A. Norström.
2008. Capturing the Cornerstones of Coral Reef Resilience - Linking Theory to Practice. Coral Reefs 27: 795-809   

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Putting the money where theecosystem is!

terrestrial marine ecosystem services.
In their paper, the researchers look at thelikelihood of loss of resilience caused byagriculture and land-use practices that may lead tocatastrophic changes in the blue water, green waterand atmospheric parts of the hydrological cycle.
— Our main point is that these effects aren´tnecessarily going to result in gradual change, they
can result in surprising, dramatic changes, what
we call ‘ecosystem flips’ or ‘ecosystem regimechanges,’ which can be very difficult or even
impossible to reverse, says Line Gordon.
Recent outbreaks of toxic algae blooms
in Quebec lakes and off Sweden´s Baltic Sea
coast are prime examples of ecosystem flips,
the consequence of nutrients from fertilizers
permeating the soil and running off into streams,
lakes and oceans.

In their paper, centre-affiliated researchers KarlGöran Mäler, Åsa Jansson and Sara Aniyar of the
Beijer Institute have shown how ecosystems canbe included in wealth measurements.
— The extensive development of valuation
techniques has now made it possible to include
ecosystem services into accounting systems andwe present how to do it, says Åsa Jansson.
One of the major challenges in accounting
for ecosystems is how to transform often
abstract calculation models into workable andquantifiable systems. In order to do this, thethree researchers have identified the necessary
parameters for tangible measurements.
— We need to define the size of the system,
including how many stocks are relevant to thesystem, as well as estimating the accounting prize
and growth functions for each stock, Jansson
continues.
One approach showed how forest-based
pollinators increased Costa Rican coffee
plantations by 20 percent or approximately USD
60 000 between 2000 and 2003. The researchersconclude that for now, it is impossible to design astandardised model for building a wealth-based
accounting system for ecosystems. However, thepotential is there.

Gordon, L.J., G.D. Peterson, E. Bennett. 2008.
Agricultural Modifications of Hydrological Flows Create
Ecological Surprises. Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
23:211-219.

Out of the dry
Centre researchers Falkenmark and Rockström
put the finger on the twin problems of “droughtand desertification” from a water perspective,emphasizing that coping with desertification
requires a new conceptual framework basedon green-blue water resources to identifyhydrological opportunities in a sea of constraints.
Their approach brings together freshwater,
ecosystem management and agriculturaldevelopment to build social-ecological resilienceto droughts and dry spells.

Mäler, K.-G., S. Aniyar, Å. Jansson. 2008. Accounting
for Ecosystem Services as a Way to Understand theRequirements for Sustainable Development. Proceedingsof the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105: 9501-9506

Redefining coral ecosystemmanagement

Falkenmark, M and J. Johan Rockström Building resilienceto drought in desertification-prone savannas in SubSaharan Africa: The water perspective. Natural Resources
Forum 32: 93-102

Centre researchers Per Olsson and Carl Folke andTerry Hughes of the ARC Centre of Excellence
for Coral Reef Studies in Australia have identified

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Photo: R. Kautsky 1&3, T. Holland 2 /azote.se— This is really alarming considering thata majority of the villagers depend on fishingfor their livelihood. More than 40 percent of
the households are directly involved in fisheryextraction, and many others benefit indirectly as
fishery-generated income tend to be spent mostly
in local stores, says Beatrice Crona.
Overall, the study concludes that it seems totake both high levels of social capital and good
leadership to make effective community-based
natural resource management happen.

the keys to successful marine ecosystem-based
management. The paper highlights the roleof leadership and associated strategies for
shifting the perspective and framing of resource
management, and credits the Great Barrier Reef
Marine Park Authority with having sought
and gained the support of the public, industry
and governments at all levels for putting themanagement of the world´s largest coral reef
system onto an ecological footing.
— Our study shows the importance ofleadership and strategies for responding to signalsof change before ecosystem collapse occurs, Per
Olsson says.
A critical step was to convince local
communities that the reef was facing many
threats, and to enlist public support for managing
it more flexibly. The article concludes that laws
alone cannot bring about the changes necessary
to protect the world´s ocean ecosystems - goodscience and public participation, understanding
and support are also vital. The GBR case provides
lessons for governance of other marine systems.

Bodin, Ö. and B. Crona B. 2008. Community-BasedManagement of Natural Resources: Exploring the Roleof Social Capital and Leadership in a Rural Fishing
Community. World Development 36: 2763–2779.

Development policy seen through aresilience lens
Resilience Centre collaborators Emily Boydand Fiona Miller with colleagues explore thepotentials and limitations of applying a resiliencelens to assist development policy towards more
successful livelihood transformations in the faceof climate change.
They conclude that applying a resilience lensto poverty traps raises an array of issues on socialand climate change in relation to sustainable
futures and development challenges.

Olsson, P., C. Folke, T.P. Hughes. 2008. Navigating theTransition to Ecosystem-Based Management of the Great
Barrier Reef, Australia. Proceedings National Academy of
Sciences, USA 105:9489-9494.

Social capital key to better fisheries
management?

Boyd, E., H. Osbahr, P.J. Ericksen, E.L. Tompkins,
M. Carmen Lemos and F. Miller. 2008. Resilienceand ‘Climatizing’ Development: Examples and Policy
Implications. Development 51:390-396.

Örjan Bodin and Beatrice Crona of theStockholm Resilience Centre have investigated
the role of social capital and leadership for better
fisheries management in eastern Africa.
The study was conducted in a rural fishingvillage 50 km south of Mombasa, the second
largest city in Kenya. The small village of1000 inhabitants is located in a coastal area
suffering from declining fish stocks, but display
surprisingly little unified response to deal withthe overexploitation.

Turning back from the brink
Centre-affiliated researcher Reinette “Oonsie”
Biggs, Stephen R. Carpenter and William A.
Brock investigated whether new early warning
indicators of regime shifts may provide sufficientwarning to take action to avert undesirable
regime shifts.

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New syntheses can reorganize
fragmentary knowledge

The researchers explored how close an ecosystem
can get to an ecological threshold and still avert
a regime shift by implementing managementchanges. The model was also used to find out
which indicators might give warning before a“point of no return”.

In this short think piece the authors argue
that there is a tendency to emphasize known
computable aspects of a problem while neglecting
aspects that are unknown and failing to ask
questions about them. This tendency can becountered by considering a wide range ofperspectives, encouraging transparency withregard to conflicting viewpoints, stimulating
a diversity of models, and managing for the
emergence of new syntheses that reorganize
fragmentary knowledge.

Biggs, R., Carpenter, S.R., and Brock, W.A. In press.
Turning back from the brink: Detecting an impending
regime shift in time to avert it. PNAS 106: 826-831.

Doing it online: Internet can detect
eco-crises
Centre researchers Victor Galaz, Beatrice Crona,Örjan Bodin, Magnus Nyström, Per Olsson
as well as Tim Daw from University of East
Anglia have made an initial exploration into thepossibilities of using information posted on theInternet to detect ecosystems on the verge oftilt. The article highlights the fact that analysis
and response might take place as the result of
collaborations between different state and nonstate stakeholders.

Carpenter, S.R., C. Folke, M. Scheffer and F. Westley. In
press. Resilience: Accounting for the Non-Computable.
Ecology and Society.

Galaz, V., B. Crona, T. Daw, M. Nyström, Ö. Bodin,
P. Olsson. In press. Can Webcrawlers Revolutionize
Ecological Monitoring? Frontiers in Ecology and theEnvironment

New research reveals alternative coral
reef states
Stockholm Resilience Centre researchers present
the existence of multiple alternative states inecosystems as a consequence of human actions.
They identify four unexplored alternative statesof coral reefs that differ from the archetypicalcoral–macroalgae regime shift, and discuss theirrelations to human actions and pressures oncoastal and marine environments.

Panel members during the Policy Dialogue Plenary conclusions (from left): Anders Wijkman, Maria Wetterstrand,
Johan Rockström, Siv Näslund and Bo Ekman. Photo: R.Kautsky/azote.se

Science, practice and policy
Global policy processes

The Stockholm Resilience Centre has been deeply
involved in science-policy dialogues during 2008,at global, European, national and local levels.
The resilience 2008 policy day represented a proactive exercise aimed at stimulating international
policy makers to engage in dialogue about the
global challenges, which has become increasingly
apparent and were well defined during theResilience 2008 conference.
Centre staff have also invested a substantial
amount of time to develop networks with
policy makers for future dialogue about these
global challenges, e.g. within the European
Commission, the European Parliament andwith the OECD secretariat. The value of these
networks will likely become apparent only inthe future, when ongoing policy processes canbe more closely linked to centre research. We
have also invested in participating in a large
range of processes more re-actively, where ourparticipation has contributed to shaping theoutcome of these processes.

The Millennium Ecosystem
Assessment follow-up process
The Centre has been identified as a key partner inthe MA follow-up and implementation strategies
and is a formal member in this process. This has
included support to the drafting of a follow-up
strategy (where we have been asked to be involvedin sub-global assessment research and leadresearch capacity building efforts). We wereinvolved in co-convening a session with theSwedish Minister for the Environment and
UNEP, at the UNEP Governing Council in
Monaco 2008, addressing the MA follow-up
and the need to start planning for a second global
assessment.

The process to establish an IPBESStockholm Resilience Centre has been deeply
involved in the ongoing discussions to establish
an International Platform for Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). This is an

Norström, A, M. Nyström, J. Lokrantz and C. Folke. In
press. Multiple States of Coral Reefs in Human Shaped
Environments. Marine Ecology Progress Series

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the Swedish government priorities during the
EU presidency in fall 2009. Activities include
planning for a high level ministerial conference,organizing a scientific meeting prior to thisministerial conference, as well as discussing
necessary background material for the meeting,aimed at discussing post 2010 targets forbiodiversity within the CBD process. The centre
is also involved in designing a European civil
servant meeting on marine ecosystem services,
organized by the Swedish Environmental
Protection Agency.

initiative that is being led by UNEP (United
Nations Environment Programme) and is acomplementary process to the Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment follow up andimplementation strategies. The aim of an IPBES
is to establish an international science-policy
platform analogous to the IPCC. SRC has been
engaged in dialogue with researchers at e.g.
WRI (World Resources Institute) resulting in astatement of “non-negotiable” scientific criteria
for setting up an IPBES, bearing in mind thepolitical influence hampering a constructive
dialogue within the Convention on Biological
Diversity (CBD). The statement was presented
at a first international stakeholder dialogue in
Malaysia, where SRC was represented as part of
the Swedish national delegation.

The European Parliament
Centre researchers have been presenting centre
research in the European Parliament at several
occasions. One such presentation (in June) was
related to the Baltic Sea ecosystem dynamics, andparliamentarians requested an analysis on “decision options” for the Baltic Sea cod (see below).

The International Commission on
Climate Change and development
The Commission will be presenting their final
report during spring 2009 and researchers at
SRC have been engaged in producing backgroundsyntheses to the Commission, e.g. on adaptation
strategies, the role of ecosystem services in
adaptation, and in giving presentations andparticipating at expert meetings.

The European Council
Researchers at Baltic Nest Institute and SRC
produced an analysis of the potential developmentof the Baltic Sea cod stock given a number ofdifferent scenarios of political decision-making,just prior to the annual Council decision on
fishing quotas. The study was widely publicizedand cited in the press release from the Swedish
Ministry. Potentially, the analysis contributed toa rather favourable decision in Council.

Mayors’ conference
Local governments stand for the well-being
and the will of half of the world´s populationand play therefore a key role in the successful
implementation of international framework
conventions such as the UN Convention of
Biological Diversity. Mayors and key decisionmakers from local governments around the globe
convened on the occasion of the 9th Conferenceof the Parties of the UN Convention of Biological
Diversity from 26-28 May in Bonn, Germany.
They demonstrated their commitment towards
cooperation and action and, at the same time,
request a multilevel cooperation for improving
biodiversity globally. Centre researchers wereinvited key speakers at the Mayors’ conference.

The Nordic Council of Ministers
Baltic Nest Institute and Stockholm ResilienceCentre were invited as keynote speakers in an
informal dialogue together with all Nordic
Ministers of Environment, who met at Askö,
during August 2008, to discuss marine
governance issues and how the Nordic Council
can assume a leading role in sustainable marine
governance. The Ministers expressed an ambition
to formalize this dialogue.

HELCOM and the Baltic Sea Action Planfollow-up

EU-level policy processes

Baltic Nest Institute has been working closely
together with Helcom to follow up the nutrient
reduction targets (as defined by BNI) with new
information from member states. This ongoinganalysis and decision support is becoming
increasingly formalized within the Helcom

The Swedish EU presidency
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framework. Researchers at Nest have also been
engaged in a number of Helcom meetings, e.g.
given presentations and participating in expert
consultations.

that have been discussed with the Ministry ofEnvironment include strategic priorities for thepresidency, government positions in relevant
processes (e.g. IPBES and UNEP governing council
meetings, Helcom meetings) and fisheries issues.

National policy processes

National agencies

The Swedish Parliament

Centre staff are continuously engaged in dialogue
with e.g. the Environmental Protection agency(including the National Council for Biodiversity),
the National Board of Fisheries regarding their
ongoing processes (e.g. contributing to national
reports).

Researchers at Baltic Nest Institute andStockholm Resilience Centre have given a numberof seminars and presentations to different groups
within the Swedish parliament, e.g. a seminarabout “The Economics of Ecosystem andBiodiversity” (TEEB), The environment and our
economy, Baltic cod fisheries, etc.

The Tällberg Foundation

The ”Reinfeldt Commission”

We have developed science-policy collaboration
with the Tällberg Foundation, which has resulted
in co-convening of several workshops at theannual Tällberg Forum. Our contributions haveinfluenced their thinking into taking on resilience
thinking, and particularly the need to address
tipping points from local to global scales ingovernance.
In 2008 we hosted a core workshop onplanetary boundaries that set the stage for the
Tällberg Forum, a work that will continue in2009. At the COP15 meeting in Poznan of the
UN climate negotiations, the Centre, together
with SEI and the Tällberg Foundation presented
a scientific synthesis and policy assessment of
global environmental change processes vis-àvis the climate change agenda. This summary
highlighted, amongst others, the growing
evidence that understanding of positive feedbacks
and threshold effects in sub-systems of the Earthsystem most likely will require an even sharper
climate stabilization target at the global level.

Stockholm Resilience Centre has been assigned
to revise and expand on the 2002 Report
on Resilience and Sustainable Development,
published by the Swedish Environmental
Advisory Council prior to the Johannesburg
Summit. The report is co-authored by a numberof centre colleagues and will be presented to
the Government’s Commission on Sustainable
Development.

The Ministries of Environment andAgriculture
Staff at the centre is continuously involved indialogue with the Ministries of Environment andthe Ministry of Agriculture. Dialogue includes
personal meetings with the Minister and politicalstaff, as well as with civil servants. Baltic Nest
researchers have been engaged in communicating
Baltic Sea action plan nutrient allocations to thePolish ministry of environment as a “knowledge
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Teaching and traning

Photo: C.Clifstock

Courses at the Stockholm Resilience Centre

Photo: S.Zeff/azote.se•

Världens Eko, 7,5 credits.

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Miljövetenskapliga seminarier, 7,5 credits.

An introductory course on sustainable development, initiated and driven by students.
An interdisciplinary course offered for students at the Environmental Science program at theInstitute for Applied Environmental Science (ITM).

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Sustainable development and resilience perspectives, 7,5 credits.

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Ecosystems, Governance and Globalisation (EGG), 120 credits.

Teaching and training

Transformability, Philosophy of science for interdisciplinary environmental research,
Ecosystem Management, and Adaptive governance of social-ecological systems.

The transdisciplinary PhD Group
The transdisciplinary PhD group is a cross faculty
forum for PhD students from all departments at
SU. Their academic backgrounds vary from law,human and physical geography, economic history,sociology, systems ecology and zoology.
The aim of the group is to create a forum
where researchers early in their careers cancommunicate with people from different
academic backgrounds. This is a precondition
for interdisciplinary research, and since the startin 2000 almost 30 former members have been
awarded a PhD, of whom several today belong to
the young generation of scientists at Stockholm
Resilience Centre.

An interdisciplinary Master’s Programme in cooperation with several departments at

Stockholm University. The programme includes courses such as Resilience, Adaptability,•

Stockholm Resilience Centre offers several interdisciplinary courses on the first level (Undergraduate), second level (Master) and third level(Postgraduate). The courses are part of the CTM
legacy, which until 2007 developed and promoted
interdisciplinary courses at Stockholm University(SU). Consequently, all courses are developed incollaboration with several departments at SU.
This also opens up for extended networking
opportunities and new research collaborations.
The teaching, or academic capacitybuilding, at SRC has several purposes. First, thenetworking opportunities with SU departments
mentioned above. Second, the research at SRC
is disseminated to students. Both our Master’s
programmes depart from the principles of theMillennium Ecosystem Assessment and thestudents usually write their master’s theses within
one of SRCs research themes. Third, some of thestudents are recruited as internships and PhD
students at SRC or at other universities, becoming
the next generation of researchers.

An introductory course for exchange students within the Swedish Program.

Sustainable Enterprising, 120 credits.

An interdisciplinary Master’s Programme in cooperation with several departments at

Stockholm University. The programme includes courses such as Resilience, Adaptability,

Transformability, Management tools and change management, Environmental law, andSocial Responsibility for Sustainable Enterprising.
•Geographical Information Systems (GIS), 4 credits

An introductory course in GIS, GPS and remote sensing for PhD students and researchers at
Stockholm Resilience Centre and affiliates.

•

And in collaboration with Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary: Hållbar

samhällsutveckling, 60 credits. An introductory programme at the Department of PhysicalGeography and Quaternary Geology. Eight departments at Stockholm University are involved
and Stockholm Resilience Centre is co-coordinating the programme.

Resilience Research School at the
Stockholm Resilience Centre

PhD training courses with PhD programmeswith research departments across Stockholm
University. The aim is to establish a collaborative
Research School that trains and provides acreative research environment for the next
generation of trans-disciplinary thinkers. This
will start in August 2009.

A very high priority initiative in 2008 was tostart the development of a Research School on
Resilience at the Centre. This school will include
our Master’s programmes and will develop a
PhD program structure that integrates own

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Communications

Collage: C.Clifstock Photo: NewYork C.Clifstock/Lemur J.Lundberg
Resilience 2008 Conference: Expect the unexpected!

Photo: J.Lokrantz/azote.se
Professor Buzz Holling was awarded the 2008 Volvo Environment Prize.

Communications
Other key activities 2008

Resilience 2008 conference and art
exhibition

Copenmind in Copenhagen aims to be theworlds biggest marketplace for partnerships
between universities and industry and Stockholm
University was one of the participants 2008. In
the Stockholm University exhibition stand visitors
learned more about the research on climate andenvironment conducted at Stockholm University
and at Stockholm Resilience Centre in particular.
The Volvo Environment Foundation
awarded its 2008 Volvo Environment Prize to
Professor Crawford “Buzz” Holling, for his
pioneering lifetime work on ecosystem dynamics,
transformation and resilience, and adaptive
management. The Centre organized a seminarat the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences inhonour of Buzz Holling, and gave presentations inconnections to the prize ceremony.
In October the Centre organized a seminar ontrans- and interdisciplinary environmental sciencein collaboration with the Environmental ResearchCommittee of the Royal Swedish Academyof Sciences. Key note speakers were Frances
Westley, Waterloo University, and Eric Lambin,

The Resilience2008 conference, held in
Stockholm 14-17 April, was a success in many
ways (see page 9). Major Swedish newspapers, TV
and radio channels reported from the Resilience
Conference and from the Resilience Art
Exhibition, as well as a number of international
media. Some 40 plenary sessions, selected
presentations and panel discussions were madeavailable via Web TV. All in all the conference
rendered about 60 media clippings, and as manyas 45 000 people visited the art exhibition from
April to September 2008. All press clippings andvideos are available on the Centre website.
The Centre collaborates on a regular basiswith the press secretaries and communicators at
Stockholm University. In connection to the conference external media consultants were contracted
to improve contacts with international media.

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within resilience research.
During 2008 a Centre intranet was launched,called “The Loop”. This website, which is
password-restricted, provides staff and selected
networking members with a regular update on
centre news, potential funding and global media
coverage of relevant research. It also provides theresearch themes with their own work space fordocuments, discussions and news.

University of Louvain, Belgium. Moderator of thepanel, with researchers from the major Swedish
Universities, was Carl Folke.
“The Stockholm Seminars: Frontiers in
Sustainability Science and Policy”, a series givenby the Centre in cooperation with the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences among others
continued through 2008. Speakers this year
include Susan Owens, John Porter, Will Steffen,
Brian Walker, John Milton, Rattan Lal, Ilan
Chabay, Nick Winder, Chris Reij, Susann StollKleemann and Douglas Webster.

Collaboration with Albaeco
The Stockholm Resilience Centre works in close
collaboration with Albaeco, an independent
non-profit organisation working to mainstream
insights from the transdisciplinary researchon resilience and ecosystem services amongindividuals as well as policy makers within the
public and private sector. Albaeco assists in manyof the communications activities of the Centre,
and has together with the Centre co-produced“Manna – Food in a New Light”, an exhibitionon the links between food production, resilienceand ecosystem services.
In cooperation with Albaeco the Centre also
assists corporate organisations to perform a
Corporate Ecosystem Services Review, developedby World Resources Institute, and based on thefindings from the UN Millennium Ecosystem
Assessment. It is a structured methodology
for corporate managers to proactively develop
strategies for managing business risks andopportunities arising from their companies’
dependence and impact on ecosystems.

Website developments
2008 established the centre website as animportant communication channel for research onsocial-ecological resilience. Launched in February
2008, it quickly marked itself through its strong
use of pictures and an extensive video selection. A
minimum of five news articles are produced every
month, with an emphasis on research publications
and Centre activities. These news articles form thebasis for an electronic monthly newsletter, that
not only is an important tool to generate traffic
to the website, but it is also a key channel for
disseminating Centre research and publications to
the Centre’s stakeholders.
Stockholm Resilience Centre has also created
its own channel on You tube, the world’s biggest
video sharing portal. It currently offers some
50 videos including a six-minute presentation of
the Centre and more than 35 short videos where
Centre-affiliated researchers explain key concepts

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Gunnar Öquist, Permanent Secretary of the Royal
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Professors Elinor Ostrom and Buzz Holling

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Changing Matters– Be Your Own Enemy by Teemu Mäki

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Changing Matters – Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft byCentre of Attention

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Changing Matters – Frutti di Mare by Tuula Närhinen

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Professor Will Steffen

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13. Changing Matters – 19 Years by Jon Brunberg
14. Changing Matters – Sealed prototype by Gunilla
Bandolin and Sverker Sörlin
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Carola Magnusson, who made the organic food served

16. Researcher Lisen Schultz and Professor JohanRockström during the policy day
17. Food in a New Light - The Manna Exhibition
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20. Professor Steve Carpenter
21. Discussions over a glass of wine
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29. Professor Frances Westley
30. Concert with Professor Marten Scheffer and his band
Scheffer, Bont & De Gans
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34. Professor Carl Folke, Science Director of SRC
35. Panel discussions during the policy day
36. Professor Thomas Elmqvist, Professor Terry Chapin
and Mimi Chapin, played at Aula Magna
37. Mingle at Stockholm Resilience Centre’s courtyard
38. Professor Carl Folke sang Rockin’ in a Free World
during the jam session at the centre
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Accounts in brief

Appendix A. Publications

J.Mar.Sc. 7 (1), 95-110.

Books in progress (signed contracts)

Duit A and V. Galaz (2008) “Governance and complexity– emerging issues for governance theory”, Governance,
21(3), pp. 311 - 335.

Boyd, E. and C. Folke (eds.). In manus. Governing SocialEcological Transformation: Adapting to the Challenge of
Global Environmental Change. Contract with Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge UK.

Expansion of Stockholm Resilience Centre

Ebbesson, J., 2008, Law, Power and Language: Beware of
Metaphors. Scandinavian Studies in Law 53:259-269.
Eklöf, J.S., de la Torre-Castro, M., Gullström, M., Uku, J.,
Muthiga, N., Lyimo, T., Bandeira, S.O., 2008, Sea urchin
overgrazing of seagrasses: A review of current knowledge
on causes, consequences, and management. Estuarine,
Coastal and Shelf Science 79:569–580.

Scientific articles 2008
Andersson, E. and Ö. Bodin, 2008. Practical Tool
for Landscape Planning? An Empirical Investigationof Network Based Models of Habitat Fragmentation.
Ecography doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2008.05435.x

Staff

Income

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IncomeCosts

Expansion in terms of increased number of research staff of 20 Full Time Equivalent (FTE)/ or 59%.
SRC now have FTE 54.
I· n-Kind support from SEI and the Beijer Institute was FTE 2, or 7 persons or approximately 2 MSEK.
·Total Income increased with 36%, or 11,8 MSEK
·Total Costs increased with 56%, or with 16,1 MSEK

Elmqvist, T., 2008, Social-ecological systems intransition: Lessons from a Symposium on Society, Natural
Resources and Development in Madagascar held at the
University of East Anglia in March 2007. Environmental
Sciences 5 (2), 1–3.

Artioli. A., Friedrich, J., Gilbert, A.J., McQuatters-Gollop,
A., Mee, L.D., Vermaat, J.C., Wulff, F., Humborg, C.,
Palmeri, L., Pollehne, 2008, Nutrient budgets for European
seas: A measure of the effectiveness of nutrient reduction
policies, Marine Pollution Bulletin 56, 1609-1617.

Enfors, E. I. and Gordon, L.J., 2008, Dealing withdrought: The challenge of using water system technologies
to break dryland poverty traps. Global Environmental
Change, 18(4): 607–616.

Beckman, J., Science or poetry? 2008, Vernacular plantnames and binary nomenclature in Sweden c. 1900”, The
Linnaean Legacy: Three centuries after his birth. The
Linnean Special Issue no 8, 55-63.

Enfors, E.I., Gordon, L.J., Peterson, G.D., Bossio B.,
2008, Making Investments in Dryland Development Work:
Participatory Scenario Planning in the Makanya catchment,
Tanzania. Ecology and Society 13(2): 42. [online] URL:
www. ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art42/

Bodin, Ö. and B. Crona B.I., 2008, Community-BasedManagement of Natural Resources: Exploring the Roleof Social Capital and Leadership in a Rural Fishing
Community. World Development 36: 2763–2779.

Ernesto, E. and Bodin, Ö., 2008, Using network centrality
measures to manage landscape connectivity. EcologicalApplications 18: 1810–1825.

Bodin, Ö. and Crona, B.I., 2008, Management of Natural
Resources at the Community Level: Exploring the Roleof Social Capital and Leadership in a Rural Fishing
Community. World Development Vol. 36(12):2763-2779.

Ernstson, H., Sörlin, S., Elmqvist, T., 2008, Social
Movements and Ecosystem Services; the Role of Social
Network Structure in Protecting and Managing Urban Green
Areas in Stockholm. Ecology and Society 13 (2): 39. [online]
URL: www. ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art39/

Bosire, J. O., F. Dahdouh-Guebas, M. Walton, B. Crona,
R. R. Lewis, C. Field, et al. (2008). Functionality of restored mangroves: a review. Aquatic Botany, 89(2), 251-259.

Grant Allocated to SRC 2008 (Total: 37,4 MSEK)

Boyd, E. (2008). Navigating Amazonia under uncertainty:
learning from past and present forms of environmental
governance. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society B..363: 1498, 1911-1916.

Falkenmark, M. and Rockström, J., 2008, Building Resilience to Droughts in Desertification-prone Savannas. The
Water Perspective. Natural Resources Forum 32: 93-102.
Folke, C. and Rockström, J., 2008, Turbulent Times. Global
Environmental Change. Online access August 2008.

Boyd, E. Osbahr, H., Ericksen, P., Tompkins, E.,L.,
Lemos, MC., Miller, F., 2008, Resilience and ‘Climatizing’
Development: Examples and Policy Implications.
Development 51(3), 390-396.

Gordon, L.J., Peterson, G.D., Bennett, E., 2008,
Agricultural Modifications of Hydrological Flows Create
Ecological Surprises. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 23:
211-219.

Boyd, E. Corbera, E., Estrada M., 2008, UNFCCC
Negotiations (Pre-Kyoto to COP-9): What the Process
says about the Politics of Sinks in the CDM. International
Environmental Agreements. 8 (2), 95-112

Hall, O., Duit, A., Caballero, L.N.C., 2008, World
Poverty, Environmental Vulnerability and Population at
Risk for Natural Hazards, Journal of Maps: 151-160.

Bozmoski, A., M.C. Lemos, E. Boyd. 2008, Prosperous
negligence: governing the clean development mechanism forthe markets and development. Environment 50(3), 18-30.

Stockholm
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MistraBaltic Nest
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External

The subsidy from Stockholm University is in total 6 MSEK.
Courses and Education gave 1,5 MSEK.
Mistra gave 10 MSEK.
Baltic Nest Institute allocated 8,8 MSEK, where 7,4 MSEK came from The Swedish EPA.
External
grants during
2008 were 11,1
MSEK, divided
6,9 MSEK,
Stockholm
Education
MistraBalticamong
Nest Formas
External
InstituteSida 2,1University
MSEK and other 2,1 MSEK.

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Humborg, C., Rahm, L., Conley, D.J., Tamminen, T., vonBodungen, B., 2008, Long-term Si decrease in the Baltic
Sea - A conceivable ecological risk? Journal of Marine
Systems 73, 221-222

Colding, J. and Folke, C., 2008, The Role of Golf Courses
in Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management.
Ecosystems on line DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9217-1
November 2008.

Humborg, C., Smedberg, E., Rodriguez Medina, M.,
Mörth, C.-M. 2008, Changes in dissolved silicate loads to
the Baltic Sea - The effects of lakes and reservoirs, Journalof Marine Systems 73, 223-235

Conley, D. J., Humborg, C., Smedberg, E., Rahm, L.,
Papush, L., Danielsson, Å., Clarke, A., Pastuszak, M.,
Aigars, J., Ciuffa, D., Mörth, C.-M., 2008, Past, present
and future state of the biogeochemical Si cycle in the Baltic
Sea. Journal of Marine Systems 73, 338-346.

Lokrantz J, Nyström M., Thyresson M., Johansson C.,
2008, The non-linear relationship between body-size andfunction in parrotfishes. Coral Reefs 27: 967-974.
Lundberg, J., Andersson, E., Cleary, G., Elmqvist, T.,2008, Linkages Beyond Borders: Targeting Spatial
Processes in Fragmented Urban Landscapes. LandscapeEcology DOI 10.1007/s10980-008-9232-9.

de la Torre-Castro, M., Eklöf, J.S, Rönnbäck, P, Björk,
M., 2008, Seagrass importance in food provisioning
services: Fish Stomach Content as a Link between Seagrass
Meadows and Local Fisheries. Western Indian Ocean

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Mäler, K.-G., Aniyar, S., Jansson. Å., 2008, Accounting
for Ecosystems. Environmental and Resource Economics
DOI 10.1007/s10640-008-9234-8 online October 2008.

Wardwell, D.A., C.R. Allen, G.D. Peterson, A.J.
Tyre., 2008, A test of the cross-scale resilience model:
Functional richness in Mediterranean-climate ecosystems.
Ecological Complexity, 5(2) 165-182.

Mäler, K.-G., S. Aniyar, Å. Jansson. 2008. Accounting
for Ecosystem Services as a Way to Understand theRequirements for Sustainable Development. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105:Österblom, H., Olsson, O., Blenckner, T., Furness, R.W.,
2008, Junk Food in Marine Ecosystems. Oikos 117:10751085.

Milly, P.C.D., Betancourt, J., Falkenmark, M., Hirsch,
R.M., Kundzewicz, Z.W., Lettenmaier, D.P., Stouffer,
R.J.,2008, Stationarity id Dead: Whither Water
Management. Science 319:573-574.

Book chapters
Anderies, M. and Norberg, J., 2008, Theoretical
Challenges: Information Processing and Navigation in
Social-Ecological Systems. In. Norberg, J. and Cumming,
G. (eds.) Complexity Theory for a Sustainable Future.
Columbia University press, New York.
Beckman, J., 2008, Det institutionaliserade samlandet,in Signums svenska kulturhistoria, Ed. Jakob
Christensson, Atlantis förlag, Stockholm.

Nyström, M., Graham, N., Lokrantz, J., Norström, A.,
2008, Capturing the Cornerstones of Coral Reef Resilience- Linking Theory to Practice. Coral Reefs. October 1st,
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-008-0426-z.
Olsson, P., Folke, C., Hughes, T.P., 2008, Navigating theTransition to Ecosystem-Based Management of the Great
Barrier Reef, Australia. Proceedings National Academy of
Sciences, USA 105:9489-9494.

Baker, S. and K. Eckerberg, 2008, Introduction: in pursuitof sustainable development at the sub-national level: the‘new’ governance agenda, in “In Pursuit of Sustainable
Development: New governance practices at the subnational level in Europe”, Routledge (Taylor&Francis
Group).

Pastuszak, M., Conley, D.J., Humborg, C., Witek, Z.,
Sitek, S., 2008, Silicon dynamics in the Oder estuary,
Baltic Sea, Journal of Marine Systems 73, 250-262.

Baker, S. and K. Eckerberg, 2008, Economic instruments
and the promotion of sustainable development: governanceexperiences I key European states, in “In Pursuit of
Sustainable Development: New governance practices at the
sub-national level in Europe”, Routledge (Taylor&Francis
Group).

Rickinson, M. and Lundholm C., 2008, Exploring
Students’ Learning Challenges in Environmental Education.
Cambridge Journal of Education. 38, 3, 341-353.
Robertson-Andersson, D.V., Potgieter, M., Hansen, J.,
Bolton, J., Troell. M., Anderson, R.J., Halling, C., Probyn,
2008, Integrated seaweed cultivation on an abalone farmin South Africa. Journal of Applied Phycology, 1573-5176.

Baker, S. and K. Eckerberg, 2008, Conclusion: combining
old and new governance in pursuit of sustainable
development’ Chapter in n “In Pursuit of Sustainable
Development: New governance practices at the subnational level in Europe”, Routledge (Taylor&Francis Group).

Rockström, J., Wani, S.P., Hatibu, N., Oweis, T.,
Karlberg, L., Barron, J., Bruggeman, A., Farahani, J.,
Qiang, Z., 2008, Unlocking the Potential of Rainfed
Agriculture; The Need for a Paradigm Shift in Water
Resource Management. Agricultural Water Management.

Buschmann, A.H., T. Chopin, A. Neori, C. Halling,
M. Troell, M. C. Hernández-González and C. Aranda.
2008. Ecological engineering in aquaculture: towards a
better waste management in Western World mariculture.
In: Encyclopedia of Ecology, Jorgensen, S.E. and Fath.
B. (Eds.), Amsterdam. Elsevier, 3120 p.

Savchuk, O. P., Wulff F., Hille S., Humborg C., PollehneF., 2008, The Baltic Sea a century ago - a reconstruction
from model simulations, verified by observations. Journalof Marine Systems 74, 485-494.
Sferratore, A., Billen, G., Garnier, J., Smedberg, E.,
Humborg, C., Rahm, L., 2008, Modelling nutrient
fluxes from sub-arctic basins: Comparison of pristine vs.
dammed rivers. Journal of Marine Systems 73, 236-249.

Chopin, T., S.M.C. Robinson, M. Troell, A. Neori, A.
Buschmann and J.G. Fang. 2008. Ecological Engineering:Multi-Trophic Integration for Sustainable Marine
Aquaculture In: Encyclopedia of Ecology, Jorgensen, S.E.
and Fath. B. (Eds.), Amsterdam. Elsevier, 3120 p.

Tompkins, E., Lemos, MC., Boyd, E., 2008, A lessdisastrous disaster: Managing response to climate-driven
hazards in the Cayman Islands and NE Brazil. Global
Environmental Change, 18 (4): 736-745.

Crona, B.I., 2008, Communication Networks, Leadership,
and Conservation in an African Seascape. In:
Conservation for a New Generation: Redefining Natural
Resources Management. Eds. Richard L. Knight andCourtney White. Island Press, 235-243.

Urban, M.C., M. A. Leibold, P. Amarasekare, L. De
Meester, R. Gomulkiewicz, M.E. Hochberg, C. A.
Klausmeier, N. Loeuille, C. de Mazancourt, J. Norberg,
J.H. Pantel, S.Y. Strauss, M. Vellend, M.J. Wade, 2008,
The Evolutionary Ecology of Metacommunities. Trends in
Ecology and Evolution 23: 311-317.

Cumming, G. and Norberg J., 2008, Scale and Complex
Systems. In: Norberg, J. and Cumming, G. (eds.)
Complexity Theory for a Sustainable Future. Columbia
University press, New York.
Ebbesson, J., 2008, Tentativt om rätt och social-ekologisk
resiliens [Tentatively on Law and Socio-ecological
Resilience”]. In Tegner Anker, H, and Egelund Olsen, B.
(eds.), Miljøretlige emner, Festskrift til Ellen Margrethe
Basse. Copenhagen: Jurist- og økonomforbundets forlag,
33-46.

Vadeboncoeur, Y., Peterson, G.D., Vander Zanden, M.J.,
Kalff, J., 2008, Benthic algal contributions to primary
production across lake size gradients: Interactions amongmorphometry, nutrients and light. Ecology 89:2542–2552.
Walters, B. B., Rönnbäck, P., Kovacs, J., Crona, B.,
Hussain, S., adola R., et al., 2008, Ethnobiology, socioeconomics and adaptive management of mangroves: areview. Aquatic Botany, 89(2), 220-236.

Elmqvist, T. and Tengö, M., 2008, Spontaneous
Regeneration of Tropical Dry Forest in Madagascar,
In Eds. Nagendra H. and Southworth J., Forest

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Regeneration: Patterns and Processes,. Springer Verlag,
Amsterdam.

ecological discontinuities in ecosystems” Pages 20-30 In
Discontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems
edited by Edited by C.R. Allen and C S. Holling Columbia
University Press, New York.

Elmqvist T., C. Alfsen, J. Colding J. 2008. Urban systems,
In. Jørgensen, S.E. and Fath, B.D. (Eds), Ecosystems.
Encyclopedia of Ecology, 5: 3665-3672. Elsevier, Oxford.

Smith, B., Aasa, A., Ahas, R., Blenckner, T., Callaghan,T., de Chazal, J., Humborg, C., Jönsson, A.M., Kellomäki,
S., Kull, A., Lehikoinen, E., Mander, Ü., Nõges, P., Nõges,T., Rounsevell, M., Sofiev, M., Tryjanowski, P., Wolf, A.
2008, Climate-related change in terrestrial and freshwater
ecosystems, In: BACC Author Group, Assessment of
Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin, Springer Verlag,
Germany, 474 pp

Ferriera, J.G., Andersson, H.C., Corner, R.A., Desmit,
X., Fang, Q., De Goede, E.D., Groom, S.B., Gu, H.,
Gustafsson, B.G., Hawkins, A.J.S., Hutson, R., Jiao,
H., Lan, D., Lencart-Silva, J., Li, R.,Liu, X., Luo, Q.,
Musango, J.K., Nobre, A.M., Nunes, J.P., Pascoe, P.L.,
Smits, J.G.C., Stigebrandt, A., Telfer, T.C., De Wit, M.P.,
Yan, X., Zhang, X.L., Zhang, Z., Zhu, M.Y., Zhu, C.B.,
Bricker, S.B., Xiao, Y., Xu, S.,Nauen, C.E., Scalet, M.,
2008, Simulation of some engineering measures aiming
at reducing effects from eutrophication of the Baltic
Sea, C82, Earth Sciences Centre, Göteborg University,
Göteborg, 59pp.

Sörlin, S. 2008. Nature, in Crucial Words: Conditions
for Contemporary Architecture, eds. G. Wingårdh & R.
Waern (Basel, Boston & Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2008), pp.
122-126.

Galaz, V., Olsson, P., Hahn, T., Folke, C., Svedin, U.,
2008, The problem of fit among biophysical systems,
environmental and resource regimes, and broader
governance systems: Insights and emerging challenges.
147-182, in O. R. Young, L. A. King, and H. Schröder(eds), Institutions and Environmental Change - Principal
Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers. The MIT
Press, Cambridge, USA.

Soto, D., J. Aguilar-Manjarrez, J. Bermudez, C. Brugere,
D. Angel, C. Bailey, K. Black, P. Edwards, B. Costeierce, T. Chopin, S. Deudero, S. Freeman, J. Hambrey,
N. Hishamunda, D. Knowler, W. Silvert, N. Marba, S.
Mathe, R. Norambuena, F. Simard, P. Tett, M. Troell, A.
Wainberg, 2008, Applying an ecosystem-based approachto aquaculture: principles, scales and some management
measures. In: FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Proceedings
11. FAO.

Hahn, T., L. Schultz, C. Folke, P. Olsson. 2008. Social
Networks as Sources of Resilience in Social-Ecological
Systems. In: Norberg, J. and G. Cumming (eds.)
Complexity science for a sustainable future. Columbia
University Press, New York.

Webb, C. and Ö. Bodin, 2008, “A Network Perspective
on Modularity and Control of Flow in Robust Systems”,
In “Complexity Theory for a Sustainable Future.” Edited
by J. Norberg and G. Cumming. Columbia Press, New
York, 85-118.

Heino, R., Toumenvirta, H., Vouglinsky, V.S. &Gustafsson, B.G. (Chapter lead authors), 2008, Past
and Current Climate Change, In: BACC Author Group,
Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin,
Springer Verlag, Germany, 474 pp.

Books

Holling, C.S., Allen, C.R., Peterson, G.D., 2008, “Panarchies and discontinuities”, 3-19, In Discontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems edited by C.R. Allen
and C S. Holling, Columbia University Press, New York.

Norberg, J. and G. Cumming (eds.), 2008, Complexity
Theory for a Sustainable Future. Columbia University
Press, New York.

Baker, S. and K. Eckerberg, 2008, In Pursuit of Sustainable
Development: New governance practices at the sub-national
level in Europe. Routledge (Taylor&Francis Group)

Policy papers, reports & editorials 2008

Gordon, L.J. and Enfors, E., 2008, Land degradation,
ecosystem services and resilience of smallholder farmers in
Makanya catchment, Tanzania. In Bossio, D., Geheb, K.
(eds) Conserving land, protecting water, CABI, UK, 33-50.

Crona, B.I. och Österblom, H., 2008, Det moderna fisketsstråtrövare, Svenska FAO-kommitténs skriftserie nr 5
ISSN: 1652-9316.

Gunderson, L., Peterson GD., Holling, CS,
2008, “Practicing adaptive management in complex
social-ecological systems”:223-245 in Complexity theory
for a sustainable future. Edited by J Norberg and G
Cumming. Columbia University Press, New York.

Dahlgren, K, Eckerberg, K., Gerger Swartling, Å.,2008, Lärande i lokala naturvårdsprojekt (LONA)
Naturvårdsverket, Rapport 5811, ISBN 978-91-6205811-1. [online] URL: www.naturvardsverket.se/Documents publikationer/620-5811-1.pdf

Karlberg, L., Barron, J., Rockström, J., 2008, Water
productivity and green water management in agroecosystems. In: Förare, J. (Ed.) Water for Food. FORMAS,
136 pp.

Eckerberg, K., 2008, Nordic Environmental Policy in
Perspective. Loft The Nordic Bookazine, Spring 2008 Vol
5, pp. 198-203.
Ebbesson, J., 2008, Orättvisa miljöer [Unjust
Environments]. Arena 2008:5:52-55.

Lundholm, C., 2008, Discourse, cause and change: A
study on economics students’ conceptions of child labour.
In Ethics and Democracy in Education for Sustainable
development: Contributions from Swedish Research. J.
Öhman (ed), Liber, Stockholm.

Galaz, V., Moberg, F-, Downing, T.E., Thomalla, F.,
Koko, W., 2008, Ecosystem under Pressure, prepared for
the Commission on Climate change and Development.

Norberg, J., Wilson, J., Walker, B., Ostrom, E., 2008,
Diversity and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems. in
Norberg, J. & Cummings, G. (eds.) Complexity theory
for a sustainable future. Columbia University press, NewYork.

Galaz, V., Downing, T., Warner, K., Thomalla, F., 2008,”Ecosystems under Pressure - linking ecosystem services,climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction”.
Policy brief to the International Commission on Climate
Change and Development. Stockholm Resilience Centre/
Stockholm Environmental Institute/United Nations
University. Jan/Feb 2008.

Peterson, G.D., 2008, “Self-organization and43

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Karlberg, L., Barron, J., Rockström, J., 2008, Water productivity and green water management in agro-ecosystems.
In: Förare, J. (Ed.) Water for Food. FORMAS, 136 pp.

Sörlin, S., “Handla nu!: 59 debattörer och forskare: Sverigemåste gå före för att stoppa jordens feber” [medförfattare]
Aftonbladet 2008-05-18, pp. 40-41.

Liverman, D and Boyd, E., 2008, CDM, development andethics. A Reformed CDM - including new Mechanisms for
Sustainable Development. Perspectives Series 2008. Unep
Risoe Centre CD4CDM. 47-59.

Sörlin, S., Recension. Björn Forsberg, Tillväxtens sista
dagar (Stockholm: Cato, 2007), OBS Kulturkvarten P1,
2008-01-03.
Sörlin, S., Söndagskrönika: Stadens natur [om Richard
Walker The Country in the City: The Greening of the
San Francisco Bay Area (University of Washington Press,
2007)], Dagens Nyheter Kultur B:5, 2008-10-19.

Miller, F., Klocker Larsen, R., Thomalla, F.,
2008,Hybrids, Bifocals, Tipping Points and Speed Dating:
Report from the Resilience-Vulnerability Colloquium From Theory to Practice, From Disconnect to Synergy in
Support of Sustainable Development.

Sörlin, S., ”Världens nya gränser: Hög tid investera i grön
framtid”, Kommentar, Dagens Nyheter Kultur B:4, 200806-28.

Rockström, J., Steffen, W., Noone, K., Folke, C., Sörlin,
S., Broman, D., Svedin, U., Persson, Å., Nykvist, B. and
Karlberg, L.,, 2008, Steering away from catastrophic
thresholds: Planetary boundaries for human survival.
Background paper for the Tällberg Pre-Forum Workshop,
24-26th of June 2008.

Wulff, F., Humborg C., Elmgren R., Conley D., Rosenberg
R., Bonsdorff E., Carstensen J., Gustavsson L., 2008,“Oseriöst att förneka Östersjöns problem”, Svenska
Dagbladet, Brännpunkt, 6 september 2008

Publications in press:Österblom, H., Policy dialogue April 17 th, Conclusions
from the Resilience 2008 policy dialogue, Stockholm
Resilience Centre web.

Ahrné, K., Bengtsson, J. and Elmqvist, T. Bumble bees andurbanization: patterns of diversity, abundance and flower
visitation. (in press PloSONE).

Österblom, H., Wulff, F., 2008, Aktionsplan förÖstersjön - äntligen kan arbetet börja! Havet 2008:
Naturvårdsverket i samarbete med Sveriges tre marina

Andersson, E., Ahrné, K. Pykkönen, M. and Elmqvist,
T. Patterns among urbanization measures in Stockholm,
Sweden, and their ecological implications. (in press
Landscape Ecology).

forskningscentrum. Online (URL): www.havet.nu/
dokument/Havet2008-aktionsplan.pdf

Barron, J., Noel, S, Soussan, J.. (forthcoming). Water andpoverty linkages in Africa: Policy and strategy ahead.
Report commissioned by African Development Bank.
Stockholm Environment Institute

Other (popular science, editorials etc):
Albihn, A., Y. Andersson and E. Lindgren, 2008,
Klimatförändringen – vad händer med djurhälsan? Svensk
Veterinärtidning 2008; nr 7: 11-20.

Biggs, R., S.R. Carpenter and W.A. Brock. In press.
Turning back from the brink: Can an impending regime
shift be detected in time to avert it? Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences.

Deutsch, L., Eckerberg, K., Galz, V., Mäler, K-G.,
Rockström, J., Folke, C., Lundholm, C., Moberg,
F. Sörlin, S., 2008, “Utmaningen — forskare om enhållbar mänsklighet” (The Challenge - Researchers on a
Sustainable Humankind)., Vetenskapsrådet

Biggs, R., M.W. Diebel, D. Gilroy, A.M. Kamarainen,
M.S. Kornis, N.D. Preston, J.E. Schmitz, C.K. Uejio,
M.C. Van De Bogert, B.C. Weidel, P.C. West, D.P.M. Zaks
and S.R. Carpenter. In press. Preparing for the future:
Teaching scenario planning at the graduate level. Frontiersin Ecology and the Environment.

Galaz, V., 2008, Global Change, Information Technology
and Human Health, Think Globally Radio 2008-12-14
Galaz, V., 2008, När marken skälver, DN: kultur och nöje
2008-11-26

Biggs, R., S.R. Carpenter and W.A. Brock. In press.
Spurious certainty: How ignoring measurement error
and environmental heterogeneity may contribute toenvironmental controversies. BioScience.

Gateways to Conservation: Connecting People to Nature,
Photo exhibition at the United Nations headquarters,organized by The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
and the United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization (UNESCO). The UNESCO/
Stockholm Resilience Centre Urban Biosphere Network ishighlighted in the exhibit.

Bodin, Ö. Ecological Topology and Networks. In Meyers,
R. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science,
Springer New York
Boyd, E., Grist, N., Juhola, S., Nelson, V. Climatechange and development futures. Development Policy
Review. (Forthcoming Special Issue: Climate Change andDevelopment Futures, 2009).

Hahn, T., Five minutes chronicle on National Radio
Channel 1 (Obs Kultur och Idédebatt) on theme Green
ideologies: response to Paul Driessen. [online] URL: www.
sr.se/sida/artikel.aspx?ProgramID=503&Artikel=1971064
Lindgren, E.,A. Albihn, Y. Andersson, B., Forsberg, G.,
Olsson. S, Rocklöv, J., 2008, Consequences of climatechanges for the health status in Sweden. Heat waves anddisease transmission most alarming, Article in Swedish,
Lakartidningen. Jul 9-22;105(28-29): 2018-2023.

Carpenter, S.R. and R. Biggs. In press. Freshwaters:
managing across scales in space and time. Chapter 9 in:
Principles of natural resource stewardship: Resiliencebased management in a changing world. T. Capin, C. Folke
and G. Kofinas (eds).

Moberg, F., 2008, Biomimicry: nature knows best, Think
Globally Radio 2008-03-16

Colding, J. In press. Creating incentives for increased
public engagement in ecosystem management throughurban commons. In Governing Social-EcologicalTransformation: Adapting to the Challenge of Global
Environmental Change. Boyd, E. and Folke, C. (Eds).
Cambridge University Press

Rockström, J., Johansson, T. B., Bern manipulerar
klimatfakta, debattartikel, Brännpunkt, Svenska
Dagbladet, 2008-11-22

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AppendicesColding, J., J. Lundberg, S. Lundberg. Golf Courses andWetland Fauna. Ecological Applications.

McLeod and H. Leslie. Island Press, Washington, DC.
Gustafsson, B. “Assessment of Climate Change fron theBaltic Sea Basin. Regional Climate Studies” In: BACC
Author Group, Assessment of Climate Change for theBaltic Sea Basin Springer Verlag, Germany, 474 pp.

Crépin, A-S. in press. Miljö- och naturresurser. Kapitel
8 in Häckner, Jacobsson, Muren red. Tillämpad
mikroekonomi, Studentlitteratur. andra upplagan.
Crépin, A.-S. and T. Lindahl. Grazing Games.
Environmental and Resource Economics.

Hultman, N.E. Boyd, E., Roberts, J.T., Cole, J., Corbera,E., Ebeling, J., Brown, K., Liverman, D.M. (2008). “How
can the Clean Development Mechanism better contributeto sustainable development?” Ambio, (Forthcoming).

Deutsch, L., M. Falkenmark, L.J. Gordon, J. Rockström,
C. Folke. Water-Mediated Ecological Consequences ofIntensive Livestock Production. Chapter in: Livestock
in a Changing Landscape: Drivers, Consequences andResponses. Eds. Steinfeld, H, Mooney, H. and Schneider,
F. Livestock, Environment and Development Initiative– LEAD at FAO, SCOPE program on Consequences ofIndustrialized Animal Production Systems, and the Swiss
College of Agriculture.

Jaenson, T.G.T., L. Eisen, P. Comstedt, H.A. Mejlon, E.
Lindgren, S. Bergström and B. Olsen. Risk indicators
for Ixodes ricinus and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in
Sweden. Medical and Veterinary Entomology.
Kadin, M., Trends and scenarios exemplifying the futureof the Baltic Sea and Skagerrak, Swedish Environmental
Protection Agency report

Duit, A. Galaz, V. and Löf A., Fragmenterad förvirring
eller kreativ arena? Från ”government” till ”governance”
i svensk naturvårdspolitik. in J. Pierre and G. Sundström(eds). Från government till governance. Liber, Stockholm.

Norström, A, M. Nyström, J. Lokrantz and C. Folke.
Multiple States of Coral Reefs in Human Shaped
Environments. Marine Ecology Progress Series.
Olsson, P. and V. Galaz (in press) Transitions to adaptive
water management and governance in Sweden. In D
Huitema and S. Meijerink (editors), Understanding
Transitions in Water Management. Forthcoming Edward
Elgar Publishing.

Elmqvist, T., 2009. Naturvård i utvecklingens tjänst. L.
Lundgren (editor) ”Naturvård bortom 2009”. Riksbankens
jubileumsfond.
Elmqvist, T. and M. Tengö. Spontaneous Regeneration of
Tropical Dry Forest in Madagascar In: Nagendra H. andSouthworth J. (editors). Forest Regeneration: Patterns andProcesses. Springer Verlag, AmsterdamPeterson, GD. In Press. “Ecological limits to adaptation”
in > Living with climate change: limits to adaptation.
Edited by N. Adger, and K. O’Brien. Cambridge
University Press.

Ernstson, H. and S. Sörlin. Weaving Protective Stories:
Connective Strategies to Articulate Holistic Values in Stockholm National Urban Park. Environment and Planning A.

Rockström, J., M. Falkenmark, L. Karlberg, H. Hoff,
S. Rost, D. Gerten. A). Future Water Availability for
Global Food Production: the Potential of Green Water forincreasing Resilience to Global Change, Water Resources
Research.

Falkenmark, M., Rockström, J. & Karlberg, L., 2009,
Present and future water requirements for feeding
humanity, Food Security.
Fazey I. and Schultz, L. Adaptive people for adaptive
management. In Allan C. and Stankey G. (eds.) Adaptive
Environmental Management: A practical guide. Springer

Rickinson, M. & Lundholm C. (accepted). Exploring
student learning and challenges in formal environmental
education. In Stevenson & Dillon (Eds.). Environmental
Education: Learning, culture and agency. Rotterdam:
Sense publishers.

Folke, C., F. S. Chapin, III, and P. Olsson (in press).
Transformations in Ecosystem Stewardship. In. Chapin,
F.S, III, G.P. Kofinas and C. Folke (eds.). Principles
of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural
Resource Management in a Changing World. Springer
Verlag, New York. In press.

Rockström, J., P. Kaumbutho, J. Mwalley, A.W. Nzabi,
M. Temesgen, L. Mawenya, J. Barron, J. Mutua, S.
Damgaard-Larsen. B). Conservation Farming Strategies
in East and Southern Africa: Yields and Rain Water
Productivity from On-Farm Action Research. Soil &Tillage Research.

Galaz, V., B. Crona, T. Daw, M. Nyström, Ö. Bodin,
P. Olsson. Can Web Crawlers Revolutionize Ecological
Monitoring? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Schultz, L and Fazey I. Effective leadership for adaptive
management. In Allan C. and Stankey G. (eds.) Adaptive
Environmental Management: A practical guide. Springer.

Gordon, L.J, E. Enfors. Land Degradation, Ecosystem
Services and Resilience of Smallholder Farmers in
Makanya catchment, Tanzania. Book Chapter prepared for
the Comprehensive Assessment book Reversing the Trends
in Land and Water Degradation.

Soussan, J., Barron, J., Noel, S. (forthcoming). Water andpoverty linkages in Africa: A literature review. Reportcommissioned by African Development Bank. Stockholm
Environment Institute/African Development Bank (110pp).

Gordon, L.J., Finlayson, C.M., Falkenmark, M. Managing
water in agriculture for food production and other ecosystem services. Agricultural Water Management, in press

Books in press:
Chapin, F.S, III, G.P. Kofinas, C. Folke (eds.), 2009,
Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-BasedNatural Resource Management in a Changing World.
Springer Verlag, New York.

Gray, J., A. Estrada-Peña, H. Dautel, O. Kahl and E.
Lindgren. Effects of climate change on ticks and tickborne diseases in Europe. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
Infectious Diseases.

Sörlin, S. and P. Warde (eds.), 2009, Nature’s End:
Environment and History. Palgrave MacMillan, London.

Guichard, F, GD Peterson, In Press. “The importanceof cross-scale interactions in coupled social-ecologicalsystems” in Ecosystem- Based Management for the
Oceans: Applying Resilience Thinking. Edited by K.

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Appendices

Dissertations:

Governance for Sustainable Development program atthe Donald Bren School of Environmental Science andManagement, USA

Barthel, Stephan, 2008, Recalling Urban Naturelinking city people to ecosystem services, PhD
Dissertation Stockholm University. URL: http://www.
stockholmresilience.org/download/18.6b38234911d6ce
db12580009510/barthelphd.pdf

School of Earth Science and other groups at Stanford
University, USA
Sustainability Science Initiative and Clark University, USA

Ernstson, H., 2008, In Rhizomia: Actors, Networks
and Resilience in Urban Landscapes. PhD Dissertation.
Stockholm University, Stockholm. [online] URL: http://
urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8137

UNESCO, Ecological and Earth Science and Man and the
Biosphere Program MAB

Master theses of the Stockholm
Resilience Centre

Rutgers University, USA

During the year both the Ecosystem, Governanceand Globalization programme and the Sustainable
Enterprising programme were converted to 2-year Master’s
programmed and the schedules was changed to start in thefall term. Therefore, neither programmes have finished any
Master’s theses in 2008.

Several CGIAR institutes, particularly IWMI, ICRISAT
and ICRAF.

University of Cape Town, South Africa

International Institute for Environment and Development,
IIED, UK

The SEI research network Sumernet (Sustainable Mekong
Research Network) that includes research institutions in
the Mekong river basin.

Appendix B. Partnerships

Appendix C. Presentations

The Stockholm Resilience Centre collaborates with a great
number of international research partners including:

Scientific presentations

Resilience Alliance

A large number of the Stockholm Resilience Centre
researchers gave scientific presentations, participatedas panel members or moderated panel discussions at
the Resilience 2008 – International science and policy
conference: “Resilience, adaptation and transformationin turbulent times - preparing for change in socialecological systems”, held 14-17 April 2008, in Stockholm.
The Stockholm Resilience Centre contributions are notincluded here but can be found on the conference
website: www.resilience2008.org. April

ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reefs Studies, James
Cook University, Australia
The research group on social-ecological resilience atUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian
National University, Australia
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Center
for Sustainability and other groups at University of
Wisconsin, USA.

Resilience Seminar in Honour of Professor C.S. Holling,
Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Stockholm. Folke,C., Galaz, V., Gordon, L., Noone, K., Petersen, GD.,
Rockström, J., Schultz, L.; participated with presentations,as panel members or moderated panel discussions.
November

Oxford Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford, UK
Ashoka Trust for Ecology and the Environment (ATREE),
Bangalore, India

Formas visit, Stockholm Resilience Centre. Presentations
by Biggs, O., Colding, J., Crépin, AS., Folke, C., Enfors,E., Hermansson Török, E., Humborg, C., Moberg, F.,
Norberg, J., Nyström, M., Olsson, P., Peterson, GD.,
Rockström, J., Österblom, H. December

Institute for Economic Growth, Dehli
Tyndall Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity and Schoolof Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State
University, USA

Barron, J. Africa Green Revolution Conference: An
Alliance for Action, Oslo: Panel member in “Technologies
and processes for sustainable usage of and access towater”. August

CSIRO, Canberra and Townsville, Australia
SARAS, South American Institute for Resilience andSustainability, Montevideo, Uruguay

Barron, J, Enfors, E, Ryttar, S., Sandahl., 9th Waternet/
WARFSA /GWPSA symposium Johannesburg: “Green-blue
flow dependency in rainfed agro-eco systems: livelihood
analysis in Makanya watershed, NE Tanzania”. OctoberPotsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, PIK,
Germany
Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen
University, The Netherlands Natural Resources Institute,
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

Barron, J., Noel, S., 9th Waternet/WARFSA/GWPSA
symposium Johannesburg; “The values of agricultural
water management interventions in meso-scale catchments:
a synthesis of cases“. October

Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University ofVermont, USA

Bodin, Ö., Oikos conference, Lund, “Network basedmodels of fragmented landscapes concept, applicability
and predictability”. February.

International Geosphere-Biosphere Program, (IGBP)International Human Dimension program on Global
Environmental Change (IHDP)

Bodin, Ö., Workshop on “Ecosystem Services: Solution
for problems or a problem that needs solution?” Salzau
Castle, Germany, “Network based models of fragmented

Earth Systems Science Program (ESSP)

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Appendiceslandscapes assessing different scales of connectivity”. May

Gerger Swartling, Å., Nilsson, A.E., 8th MistraSWECIA Science Seminar, Stockholm Resilience Centre,
Presentation “Social learning: strengthening the capacity
to adapt”. November

Crépin, A-S., Norberg, J., Mäler, K.-G., de Zeeuw, A.
European Association of Environmental and Resource
Economists (EAERE) Conference, Gothenburg. June

Humborg, C., Workshop on models for assessing theeutrophication risk of phosphates in detergents in theBaltic Sea, Stockholm Resilience Centre. Presenter“Possible effects of banning P containing detergents on
total riverine P load to the Baltic Sea”. September

de Zeeuw, A. Workshop by Institute GERAD, University ofMontreal, Presentation, “Dynamic Games in Management
Science”. May
de Zeeuw, A. Workshop by the Universities of Montreal,
McGill, QECAM and Concordia, Montreal, Presentation“Natural Resources and Environmental Economics”. May

Olsson, P., Smith, A., Voss, J-P., Galaz, V., IHDP
conference “Long-Term Policies: Governing SocialEcological Change”, Berlin, Organized the session“Shaping Dynamic Systems - Diversity and Convergence
Amongst Approaches to Governance in Various Research
Traditions”. February

Elmqvist, T., COP9 of the CBD, Bonn, presentations on
Urban Biodiversity as part of the CBD initiative “Cities
and Biodiversity”. May
Elmqvist, T., Mayors Conference – Local action forbiodiversity. Parallel event to the 9th Conference of theParties of the UN Convention of Biological Diversity,Bonn, Invited expert: “Biodiversity and ecosystemservices in urban landscapes: examples and role in urban
planning”. May

Olsson, P., Conference of the German Society for Human
Ecology, Sommerhausen, Invited keynote speaker“Human/Nature Interactions in the Anthropocene:
Potentials of Social-Ecological Systems Analysis”. May
Olsson, P., “Transitions in water management - Openinternational symposium”, Amsterdam, Invited speaker. July

Elmqvist, T., Meetings and coordinated efforts by
the Stockholm Resilience Centre and University of
Antananarivo of building an interdisciplinary research
centre in Madagascar. August

Olsson, P., 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, Invited Speaker. July
Olsson, P., International European Summer University,
Niort Invited speaker “Global Governance and New Ideal
for Civilisation. The rising of a new object”. September

Elmqvist, T., Presentation at 1st MESA International
Conference organized by UNEP, UNEP Headquarters,
Nairobi. Addressing the role of African Universities inmeeting the challenges of climate change, with morethan 48 vice-chancellors from African Universities
participating.. NovemberPetersen, GD, “Living with climate change: are there
limits to adaptation?” London, Keynote talk “Ecological
Surprises: Resilience, adaptation, and collapse”. April
Petersen, GD., Tyndall Centre, University of East Anglia,
UK, “Ecological Surprises: Resilience, adaptation, andcollapse”. April

Falkenmark, M., Rockström, J., IGBP scenario meeting,
Lund.
Folke, C., Olsson, P., Marine meeting of the Resilience
Alliance, Santiago, Chile. JanuaryPetersen, GD, Understanding bundles of ecosystemservices. Finding relevant scales for management ofmultiple ecosystem services in the agricultural landscape,Stensoffa. June

Folke, C., Falkenmark, M., Symposium in honour of Uno
Svedin. February
Folke, C., Tokyo University seminar at Stockholm
Resilience Centre. MarchPetersen, GD, Symposium Energy Climate Conflict andBio-Fuels: A North-South Perspective, INK Stockholm
University, “Will increased bio-fuel production produce
ecological surprises”. September

Folke, C., Persson Å., Rockström, J., Steffen, W., Sörlin, S.
Tällberg Forum, Tällberg, Science workshop on planetary
boundaries and tipping points. June

Rockström, J., UNEP Governing Council meeting, Monte
Carlo. February.

Folke, C., Walker, B., Galaz, V., de Zeeuw, A., Mäler,K-G., Beijer-Askö science meeting, Askö. September

Rockström, J., KVA, Stockholm, ”Ett hållbarhets
perspektiv på biobränslen. April

Folke, C., Blenckner, T., Crepin, A.-S., Crona, B.,
Nyström, M., Troell, M., Österblom, H., Worldfish
meeting, Stockholm Resilience Centre. September

Rockström, J., KSLA, “Stockholm Innovative agricultural
approaches for climate resilience Agriculture, climatechange and development”. April

Folke, C., Boyd, E., Galaz, V., Olsson, P., Schultz, L.,von Heland, J., Barthel, S., Lundholm, C., STEPS Centre
Symposium 2008, The Freeman Centre, Sussex University.
“Reframing Resilience: Transdisciplinarity, reflexivity andprogressive Sustainability”. September

Rockström, J., Framtidsdiskussion KSLA, Stockholm,”Hållbar förvaltning av jord och skog i “Anthropocene””.
October
Rockström, J., KSLA, Stockholm, ”Innovativa ansatser för
resiliens i jordbruket ur ett klimat-perspektiv”. October

Folke, C., Blenckner, T., Österblom, H. ICES SRC Baltic
Nest meeting. OctoberRockström, J., European Science Foundation, Stockholm,“Global research cooperation: What are the lessons fromglobal change research?”. November.

Folke, C., Österblom, H., IIASA meeting, Laxenburg,
Vienna, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Nest and its
research. November

Savchuk, O.P., Workshop on models for assessing theeutrophication risk of phosphates in detergents in theBaltic Sea, Stockholm Resilience Centre, ”Modelling
effects of P reductions on the environmental status of theBaltic”. September

Galaz, V., Olsson, P., Université Européenne et
Internationale d’Eté de Niort, Niort, Invited speakers at
an international seminar on global governance beyond
sustainable development. September

47AppendicesTroell, M., EU Sixth framework programme priority,
Lisbon, Presentation “Ecological and socio-economic
trade-off analysis and comparison of status quo,conventional sewage treatment, constructed mangrove
wetlands for sewage remediation and strategic
reforestation/ conservation”. Within PUMPSEAPeri-urban mangrove forests as filters and potential
phytoremediators of domestic sewage in East Africa. May

Galaz, V., International Commission for Climate Change
and Development, Stockholm, Presentation to the expert
group. February
Gordon, L, Sida research conference Meeting Global
Challenges in Research Cooperation, Uppsala, “ Making
investments in dryland development work”. May
Gordon, L., Forskning and Framsteg¹s (Popular sciencemagazine) knowledge cruise, Åland, ”Grönt” vatten på enblå planet med vattenbrist. September

Troell, M., IFS/WIOMSA Workshop “Ecology, Resources
and Management of Tropical Seascapes: from Theory toPractise, Zanzibar, Invited speaker. October

Hahn, T., Swedish Parlament, breakfast meeting, BNP,
välfärd och hållbar utveckling, DecemberÖsterblom, H. ICES integrated assessment working group.
Öregrund, “Resilience and adaptive management.” May

Humborg, C, Wulff, F., INIA-report, Brussels,
Phosphorus. AprilÖsterblom, H., ICES Annual Science Conference, Halifax,
Canada “Adaptive management of the Baltic Sea, using
Nest”. September

Humborg, C, Wulff, F., Johansson, S., HELCOM, Landbased Pollution Group, 13th Meeting, Presentation,
Kaliningrad. May

Policy fora/popular presentations

Johansson, S., Savchuk, O., Sokolov, A., International
Environmental Forum, S:t Petersburg, Baltic Sea Days,.
March

Barron, J., Hatibu, N., SIWI seminars, Stockholm,“Tradeoffs or opportunities? A think piece on biofuels,
land and livelihoods in SSA”. AugustKadin, M, Österblom, H., Government assignment of a
STERN like review, Swedish EPA, Stockholm, “Trends
and scenarios exemplifying the future of the Baltic Sea andSkagerrak”. JuneBoyd, E., Commission on Climate Change andDevelopment, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UD), Human
Dimension Expert Meeting, Stockholm, Invited expert toassess the approach and policy relevance of a draft paper
entitled ‘The human dimension of climate change’ fora framework to address climate change adaptation for
the Commission on Climate Change and Development.
January

Mäler. K.-G. Danish Council of Economic Advisers,
Meeting on environment and economics, Copenhagen,Invited keynote speaker. September

Boyd, E., International Commission on Land Use Change,
Globe International, Westminster, London, Expert
reviewer. September

Mäler K.-G, First larger meeting that the Frenchgovernment organized after they took over the chair of EU,
Paris, Presentation on management of ecological services atthe. September

Eckerberg, K., Conference on Outdoor Recreation for
Youngsters (Tankesmedjan Fritt Fram för Friluftsliv),Sånga-Säby, arranged by the Swedish Environmental
Protection Agency and the Swedish National Agency
for Education, Learning in Local Nature Conservation
projects in Sweden. March

Nekoro, M., Svedén, J., Schultz, L, Workshop on
ecosystem services, Kristianstad. Organisation of aworkshop with local stakeholders in the Biosphere Reservefor presentation and feedback of results of the analyses“Ekosystemtjänster i Kristianstads Vattenrike” (Ecosystemservices in Kristianstads Vattenrike). September

Elmqvist, T., Folke, C., Rockström, J., Meeting with
Madagascar’s government, Stockholm Resilience Centre.
AugustRockström, J., Swedish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs
Committee, “Förvaltning av klimatförändring och globala
miljörisker”. March

Elmqvist, T., Folke, C., Mäler, K-G., Polasky, S., Swedish
Parliament, Seminar arranged by Albaeco on the “Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, TEEB”. OctoberRockström, J., Tällberg Conversation: Increasing
interdependencies: Perspectives on Social-Ecological
Resilience, Tällberg, “Do we underestimate the complexityof risk?” March

Folke, C., Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Presentation
for the Royal families of Luxembourg and Sweden. April

Rockström, J., Swedish Parliament, Stockholm, “Vadinnebär dagens utmaning för mänskligheten? Natur,plånbok och människa i balans - nya argument och idéer
för framtidens politik”. May

Folke, C., Vermeulen A., Royal Academy of Fine Arts,
Stockholm, “A science and arts dialogue”. May
Folke, C., Noone, K., Rockström, J., Sörlin, S., Scientificworkshop on Planetary boundaries, Tällberg forum,
Tällberg. June

Rockström, J., Tällberg Forum, Tällberg, “Defining
planetary boundaries and tipping points”. June

Folke, C., Österblom, H., Wulff, F. Meeting on Marine
Issues with Nordic Ministers of the Environment, Askö.
SeptemberRockström, J., COPENMIND, Copenhagen, “Building
Resilience in the Anthropocene. The challenge oftransforming societies in the face of abrupt planetarychange”. September

Folke, C., Olsson, P., Schultz, L. Meeting on thedevelopment of Resilience Alliance-Connectors with
Albaeco, Stockholm. OctoberRockström, J., Presentation, House of Sweden,
Washington. October

Folke, C., Volvo Environment Prize ceremony, Presentationof resilience research. November

Rockström, J., Globala Miljöutmaningar, Hållbar
Utveckling i Anthropocene, Naturvårdsverket,
Chefsgruppsinternat, Högberga Gård. October

Folke, C., Rockström, J., Kunskapens Krona, SVT, Nov

Rockström, J. “Planet 2050” conference, Lund, Invited

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Österblom, H., Polish Environmental NGO meeting,
Warsaw, “Can we save the Baltic Sea?”. May

Rockström, J., “Making business in the Anthropocene.
The Scientific Basis why Ecosystem Service Reviews isgood for business”.

Österblom, H., European Parliament Seminar arranged by
MEP Fjellner and Baltic Sea 2020 foundation, Brussels,“The role of cod in the Baltic Sea”. June

Schultz, L., Fazey, I., 3rd World Congress on Biosphere
Reserves, Madrid, “Strictly for Biosphere Reserve
managers: Facilitated open-space workshop for exchanging
knowledge and experience of managing Biosphere
Reserves”. FebruaryÖsterblom, H., IPBES, Minister meeting , UNEP
Stakeholder Consultation, Kuala Lumpur. NovemberÖsterblom, H., The Swedish Liberal Party and Baltic
Sea 2020 foundation, Stockholm, ”Fisk i Östersjön
och torskens roll”, ”Torskfisket i Östersjön – strålande
framtidsutsikter?” October

Troell, M., Seminarium för erfarenhetsutbyte om
utvecklings-insatser på det marina området, Lökeberg,
Invited speaker, “Forskningsprogram- Sida finansierad
forskning i Östafrika”. AugustÖstersjön, H., Bleckner, T. ICES. Report of the Baltic
Fisheries Assessment Working Group (WGBFAS). ICES
CM 2008/ACOM:06

Wulff, F. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm,
Seminar on possible solutions to oxygen problems in
the Baltic Sea, “The Baltic Sea Action Plan for nutrient
reductions”. Jan

Appendix D. Staff

Wulff, F., Sjöfartsdagen, Östersjöseminarium, Stockholm,“Östersjöns ekologi med tonvikt på övergödning”.
February

Below are only staff members that have been employed or
financed directly from the Stockholm Resilience Centre
during 2008.

Wulff, F., Forum för miljöforskning 2008 – VATTEN,
Panel member in “Går politiken och vattenarbetet hand ihand?” February

Management, administration andcommunication
Executive Director		
Science Director		
Assistant Director		
Head of Finance and Admin.
Finance Administrator
Head of Communications
			Communications Officer
Web Editor					HR Support		
ED Assistant 		
Office Manager		
Office Manager 		
Office Manager		
Office Manager		
IT Manager		

Wulff, F., Läkare för Miljö, Uppsala, ”Östersjöns ekologi”.
Februari
Wulff, F., Finansdepartementet, BNI Stockholm,
Näringslivsinitiativ. March
Wulff, F., Swedish Ministry of the Environment,
Stockholm, Meeting with the Polish Environmental
Minister concerning HELCOM and its Baltic Sea Action
Plan, Presentation of Baltic Nest Institute and Swedish
commitments within BSAP. May
Wulff, F., EU Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy, “TheBaltic Sea, yesterday, today, tomorrow”. May
Wulff, F., Naturvårdsverket, Stockholm, ”Models of BNI”.
May
Wulff, F., SIDA, Stockholm, Invited panel member: SvenskÖstersjödag 2008 - Grannlandssamarbete för en bättre
miljö. May

Johan Rockström, Prof.
Carl Folke, Prof.
Christina Schaffer, MSc
Kristina Hagqvist, BSc
Rickard Castillus, MSc
Ellika Hermansson Török,MSc
Cajsa Martinsson, MSc
Sturle Hauge Simonsen,
MSc
Karin Schéle
Teresa Ogenstad
Felicity Rolf
Christina Leijonhuvud
Anna Sundbaum
Agneta Sundin
Lars Gustavsson

Education
Chairman of RTM 		
Director of Studies		
Programme Director		
Programme Director		
Course Administrator
Course Coordinator		
Course Coordinator		
Course Coordinator		
Course Leader		
PhD

Wulff, F., Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency,
Hamburg, “Eutrophication of the Baltic Sea - Linking
scientific knowledge and uncertainties with environmental
management”. July
Wulff, F., 2nd informal meeting HELCOM/PLC-5/BNI/
EMEP, Helsinki. October
Wulff, F., HELCOM BSAP IG, Helsinki, , “’Updating
BSAP with PLC5”’,. December

Klas Åmark, Prof
Thomas Hahn, PhD
Lisa Deutch, PhD
Miriam Huitric, PhD
Johan Ahlenius, MSc
Marmar Nekoro, MSc
Jennie Svedén, MSc
Johan Törnberg, MSc
Markus Larsson,

Research themes

Wulff, F., Seminar: Marine science contribution to regionalseas strategies, “Science-based decision making tool NEST
– practical instrument for setting targets and distributing
nutrient loading quotas in the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action
Plan”. December

The new economics of complex
social-ecological systems
Theme Leaders:				Österblom, H., Swedish Society for Nature conservation,
Stockholm, “EU:s gemensamma fiskepolitik – i ett
ekosystemperspektiv”. FebruaryÖsterblom, H., Högskolan på Gotland, “Torsken iÖstersjön - 100 år av mänsklig påverkan”. February

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Aart de Zeeuw, Prof.
Karl-Göran Mäler, Prof.
Anne-Sophie Crepin, PhD

AppendicesMulti-level institutions and adaptive
governance of social-ecological systems

Vikrom Mathur, PhD student
Kevin Noone , Prof
Jon Norberg, Associate Prof
Åsa Persson, PhD
Garry Peterson, PhD
Markku Pyykönen, GIS Manager
Lisen Schultz , PhD student
Lisa Segnestam, PhD student
Uno Svedin, Prof

Multilevel institutions:
Theme Leaders:				

Katarina Eckerberg, Prof., 		
Jonas Ebbesson, Prof.		
Andreas Duit, PhD

Adaptive Governance:
Theme Leaders:				

Baltic Nest Institute

Per Olsson, PhD
Emily Boyd, PhD
Victor Galaz, PhD

Director BNI								
Research Engineer					
Researcher		Researcher		Researcher					
Researcher		Researcher 		Researcher 		Researcher 		Researcher 		Researcher 		
Policy officer/Researcher
Researcher 		
Policy Officer/Researcher
Assistant			
Communications/Policy

Regime shifts, scales and sources ofreorganisation in social-ecological system
Theme Leaders:		

Sverker Sörlin, Prof.
Carl Folke, Prof., Science Director

Governing freshwater for food andecosystem services
Theme Leaders:		

Johan Rockström, Prof., ED		Line Gordon, PhD

Governance and ecosystem management ofcoastal and marine systems
Theme Leaders:				Frank Thomalla, PhD
Henrik Österblom, PhD 		Max Troell, Associate ProfUrban social-ecological systems andglobalisation
Theme Leaders:		

Jenny Appelblad 		
Matilda Baraibar		Arvid Bring					Paul Fuehrer		
Katrin Holmström					
Adolphine Kateka		Hanna Kling		Tomas Persson		
Karin Reuterswärd		Åsa Romson		
Angelina Sandersen Bellamy
Li Wang			
Dan Wilhelmsson		

Thomas Elmqvist, Prof.		
Johan Colding, PhD

Åsa Gerger Swartling, PhD
Örjan Bodin, PhD

Global Environmental Change
Theme Leaders:		

Kevin Noone , Prof 			
Will Steffen, Prof

Understanding ecosystem processes forproactive management
Theme Leaders:		

Fredrik Wulff, Prof (left)
Christoph Humborg,
Associate Prof. (new)Miguel Rodriguez-		Medina, PhD
Oleg Savchuk, PhD
Alexander Sokolov, PhD
Magnus Mörth,Associate Prof.
Thorsten Blenckner, PhD
Bo Gustafsson, PhD
Olle Hjerne, PhD
Jen Edgren, PhD
Gertje Czub, PhD
Erik Smedberg, PhD
Siw Johansson, PhD
Dennis Swaney, PhD
Henrik Österblom, PhD
Martina Kadin, MSc
Marmar Nekoro, MSc

PhD-forum at SRC Departments

Knowledge management, learning andsocial networks in social-ecological systems
Theme Leaders:		

Appendices

Human Geography
Economic History
Physical Geography and
Quaternary Geology		
Sociology			Applied Environmental
Science
Human Geography
Meteorology
BotanyHuman Geography
Law
Systems Ecology
Education
Zoology

Preeti Kapuria		
			
Steve Lansing					Susan Owens					
Claudia Pahl- Wostl, 					
Steve Polasky		Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne			Will Steffen					Frances Westley					Brian Walker		

Institute of Economic
Growth, New Delhi, India
University of Arizona och
Santa Fe Institute, US
The University of 		
Cambridge, UK
University of Osnabruck,
Germany
University of Minnesota, US
Mc Gill University, 		CanadaAustralian National 		
University, Australia
University of Waterloo,
CanadaCSIRO, Australia

The Council For Transdisciplinary
Environmental Studies RTM
Chair 			Faculty of Law 					
Faculty of Social Sciences:			
Faculty of Natural Sciences:
			
			
			
			
			
Faculty of Humanities:
			

Klas Åmark, Prof. History
Jonas Ebbeson, Prof. 		
Environmental Law
Christofer Edling, Ass.
Prof. Sociology (left)
Margaretha Ihse, Prof.
Physical Geography and
Quaternary Geology (left)
Karin Holmgren Prof.
Physical Geography and
Quaternary Geology (new)Ulf Jonsson, Prof. 		
Economic History

Board of the Baltic Nest InstituteNiels Peter RevsbechProfessor, University of Aarhus,
Institute of Biological Sciences (Chair)
Henrik Sandbech, Director, National Environmental
Research Institute, Aarhus University
Johan Rockström, Executive Director, Stockholm
Resilience Center, Stockholms Universitet
Erik Fellenius, Director of the Research Secretariat,
Swedish Environment Protection Agency(Naturvårdsverket)

Post doc
Reinette Oonsie Biggs
Jenny Grönwall
Jagdish Krishnaswamy

Magnus Nyström, Associate Prof
Regina Lindborg, PhD

Researchers

Visiting Scientists

Jennie Barron, PhD
Jenny Beckman, PhD
Maria Bohn, PhD student
Ann-Sophie Crepin, PhD
Beatrice Crona, PhD
Lisa Deutsch, PhD
Elin Enfors, PhD student
Henrik Ernstson, PhD
Malin Falkenmark, Prof
Jacob von Heland, PhD student
Rebecka Henriksson, PhD student
Louise Karlberg, PhD
Elisabeth Lindgren, PhD

Dag Broman								Joshua Cinner					
Carole Crumley		
Tim Daw			
Joern Fisher					
Erik Gómez Baggethun			

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Department of Applied
Environmental Science,(ITM) SUJames Cook University,
Australia
Univ of North Carolina, US
Univ of East Anglia, UK
Australian National 		
University, Australia
Univ Autónoma de 		
Madrid, Spain

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