Stockholm Resilience Centre

Research for Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Annual Report 20091

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Stockholm Resilience Centre Annual Report 2009

Stockholm Resilience Centre Annual Report 2009
Printed by Wassberg + Skotte Tryckeri AB, 2010
Edited by Cajsa Martinsson.
Editorial staff: Sturle Hauge Simonsen, Ellika Hermansson Török
and Agneta Sundin.
Graphic design: Christine Clifstock
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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
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Contents

Preface
Directors’ view
Elinor’s year
Research themes and highlights 2009
Core projects and collaborations
Publications
Science, Policy & Practice
Teaching & Training
Appendices

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

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Photo: J.Lokrantz/azote.sePreface
The year 2009 marked the end of the three-year
start-up phase of the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
During this period the Centre has developed abroad interdisciplinary research programme on
the understanding of social-ecological systems andgovernance and management for resilience andsustainable development. On the initiative of the
Mistra Foundation, the Centre was evaluated in
preparation for the first ordinary phase 2010-2013.
This external evaluation, carried out byProfessor William C. Clark from Harvard
University, ranked the Stockholm ResilienceCentre as a “world leader in the conduct ofinterdisciplinary research on the dynamics ofinter-connected social-ecological systems”. Basedon its record of publication, the Centre is among
the top three scientific institutions in the worldin this area. This firmly positions the Centre
as a global node at the frontier of research on
resilience and sustainability. It is also exactly
what the Centre set out to achieve when it was
launched in 2007. It aimed to develop a thriving
and dynamic international research environment,
where scientists from the social sciences, naturalsciences and humanities could experimentand advance novel research for the sustainable
governance and management of social-ecologicalsystems. The achievements so far are the result
not only of the major scientific accomplishmentsof the centre-based researchers, but also of
the broad international research collaboration
between the Centre and researchers from aroundthe world.
Clark’s evaluation also pointed to several
important challenges. To sustain and further
develop its international scientific leadership, theCentre will continue to be an effective science
communicator and a convener of science-policy
bridging, and it will help train the next generationof resilience thinkers and doers. The coming years
will be devoted to strengthening the institutional
capacity in all these areas, while at the same time
nurturing the flexible, experimental and learningbased approach to generating new insights onsome of the pressing human challenges of all time
– how to build and maintain resilience for humandevelopment in an era of rapid global change.

Professor Arild Underdal,
Chair of the Board

Stockholm Resilience Centre Board members. Top row: Roger Kasperson, Arild Underdal,
Carl Folke, Thomas Rosswall. Middle row: Brian Walker, Christopher Edling, Rashid Hassan.
Front row: Frances Westley, Elinor Ostrom, Johan Rockström, Carole Crumley, Anders Wijkman.
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Directors’ view
The vision of the Stockholm Resilience Centre isto contribute to a world where social-ecologicalsystems are understood, governed and managedin ways that enhance human wellbeing and thecapacity to deal with complexity and change,
for the sustainable co-evolution of humancivilizations with the biosphere. This is an
important vision that guides all our research.
It is also our strong belief that the only
way to effectively contribute to this vision is
to fundamentally change the way we go about
science. Our internal vision for the Centre is
therefore to create a flexible and creative work
environment where scholars integrate social
sciences, natural sciences and the humanities,
in order to generate new insights and solutions
that would otherwise not be possible. This is
in fact an experiment in itself; how to find thebest ways of conducting interdisciplinary andtransdisciplinary research that not only generates
top quality science, but also relevant guidance to
key development challenges, while at the sametime allowing for learning and adaptation. Simply
stated, we believe that new interdisciplinary andtransdisciplinary approaches to science that cut
across scientific disciplines and that interact with
policy and practice are necessary in the quest
for sustainable solutions to the massive socialecological challenges facing humanity.
This experimental arena is of particularimportance in the current state of the world.
There is an increasing realization that businessas-usual pathways into the future are not viable– be it in financial systems, the governance ofclimate change, our ways of managing risk anduncertainty or the stewardship of biologicaldiversity and ecosystem services for future humanwellbeing. Evidence suggests that even in the
short term, societies in the world face the needfor transformative changes. Some of these may
be costly, at least in the short term. Some may
require fundamental life-style changes. Others
may in fact be beneficial, even profitable. All
will have to be aimed at sustaining development

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in a desired state of the Earth system. Humanity
has firmly entered an era of rapid global change,
where the solutions must be embedded in regional
and local contexts, and where governance andmanagement, as well as economic paradigms
and social values, must be founded in a deeper
appreciation of how intertwined human societies
are with the environmental life-support capacityof planet Earth.
It is in this context that we pursue our researchon e.g. the resilience of urban environments,
ecosystem management in agricultural landscapesand seascapes, the economics of ecosystem
functions and bundles of services, knowledge
systems and social networks for resiliencebuilding, institutions and adaptive governance,
tipping points, regime shifts and resiliencestrategies for social-ecological transformations in
the face of rapid global change.
Our research agenda is continuously evolving
and, through continuing collaborations and thescientific evaluation of the Centre, we have finetuned our research themes, moving from nine
to six themes, allowing for further integration
within and across thematic areas of research.
2009 was also a year of intensive sciencepolicy bridging. The Centre produced thescientific background report to the high level
Swedish EU Presidency meeting in Strömstad on
climate change and biodiversity. The outcomesfrom this meeting, which emphasized the role ofecosystem management and resilience for climate
mitigation and adaptation, were carried forward
to the climate negotiations in Copenhagen.
The Centre will continue to provide policyrelevant science on the links between climatechange, ecosystems and development, and on
the importance of resilience building in dealing

with climate impacts and other global changes.
Our growing emphasis on resilience, globalchange and governance for social-ecologicaltransformations is important in this context.
Furthermore, we highlight the need for new
understanding of Earth System interactions andthe risk of tipping points at the planetary level,
as well as the need for new thinking on crossscale governance in order for us to remain within
planetary boundaries.
The Resilience Research School is now
established at the Centre, as our learning arenafor Master’s students, PhD students and postdoc researchers. Here we provide our own MSc
and PhD training, in close collaboration withdepartments at Stockholm University and otheruniversities in Sweden and across the world.
Of course, the golden shadow of any Nobel
Prize falls widely across academic institutions.
Everyone wants to be associated, however
remotely, with recipients of the world’s mostprestigious scientific award! However, weconsider ourselves to have particular reason
to congratulate and celebrate Professor Elinor
Ostrom, the 2009 recipient of the Prize in
Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
Professor Ostrom’s research on the importanceand role of collective action and institutions
to deal with common pool resources is closely
related to our research at the Centre. Professor
Ostrom serves on our Centre board, and has
had close scientific collaboration with ResilienceCentre colleagues for many years. Her Nobel
award is a huge recognition of the importanceof social-ecological research for governing thecommons, and an inspiration to all engaged intransdisciplinary research for a sustainable world.

Professor
Professor
Johan Rockström, Carl Folke,
Science Director
Centre Director

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Dr Olof Olsson,
Deputy Director

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Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2009. Photo: Orasis

Elinor’s year
When Centre board member Elinor Ostrom was awarded the Nobel prize for economics last year, she
not only gave research on multilevel governance a boost, but also showed the world that the global
commons are not so tragic after all.

Most people didn’t see it coming, but few
objected when Centre board member Elinor
Ostrom (Professor at Indiana University at
Bloomington and member of the Resilience
Alliance) and Oliver Williamson (University ofCalifornia at Berkeley) were awarded the 2009
Economics Prize in memory of Alfred Nobel. Ina year where the financial crisis did little for the
reputation of economics, choosing Ostrom andWilliamson as recipients of the prize was a breathof fresh air.

because individuals ignore the effects of theiractions on the overall pool, Ostrom demonstrates
that people are indeed capable of implementing
self-governance measures.
In her research, from lobster fisheries in Maine
to irrigation systems in Nepal, Professor Ostrom
found that people developed sophisticated systems
of institutions to ensure that these resources are
not depleted. These measures often involved
explicit rules about what people may and may not
do and how they would be sanctioned if they did
not follow these rules. Furthermore, she foundthat self-governance and community-driven
projects often worked better than ineffective andill-informed rules of governments. Trust is a key
feature for successful governance.
“It’s crucial to build enough diversity tocope with the diversity of the world and allow
multi-tile systems with multiple scales so thatyou don’t have a uniform, top-down panacea
that is predicted to solve everything but instead

Lobsters and irrigation systems
The first woman to receive the prize, Professor
Ostrom has spent some 40 years studying how
common pool resources, such as pastures, fisheries
and forests, are effectively managed by people.
Contrary to the gloomy ‘tragedy of the commons’,
which argues that without clearly defined property
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Photo: Courtesy of Indiana University

Public officials and other geniusesof curing it, kills it”, she said in her whiteboard
seminar video.

Professor Ostrom’s work has been praised because
it provides insight into collective action and thegovernance of complex social-ecological systems,
which are crucial factors yet ignored by many.
Her work also exemplifies the benefit of crossing
borders between disciplines. The Centre’s researchon adaptive governance and multilevel institutions
bonds perfectly with Professor Ostrom’s researchon how to govern the world’s resources on
different scales.
“A lot of people are waiting for moreinternational co-operation to solve matters likeglobal warming. There is this assumption that
there are public officials that are geniuses, andthat the rest of us are not. It is important that
there is international agreement, but we can be
taking steps at family level, community level,
civic and national level. There are many steps thatcan be taken that will not solve it on their own
but cumulatively will make a big difference”,
said Professor Ostrom.

www.stockholmresilience.org/ostrom-whiteboard

Small steps, big difference
Professor Ostrom’s research on how people
organize themselves in order to protect animportant asset has become particularly relevantto the evolving issue of global environmental
change. As a consequence, she was naturally
asked to serve on the board when the Stockholm
Resilience Centre was launched in 2007.
“It’s a privilege to have Elinor serving on
the Stockholm Resilience Centre Board. She
has already been engaged with us for many
years, going back to a Beijer Institute research
programme in the early 1990s on property rights
and the performance of natural resource systems.
Her work on collective action and common pool
resource governance has been a great sourceof inspiration and has shaped our researchon social-ecological systems and resilience
thinking”, says Carl Folke, scientific director of
the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

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Research themes and highlights 2009

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Research themes andhighlights 2009
In last year’s Annual Report we emphasized that“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”. Our research has seriously
taken on that challenge. It is framed by a truly
integrated view of people and nature in what werefer to as social-ecological systems, with theobjective of improved stewardship of ecosystemservices for human wellbeing. Using a resiliencelens, we address issues from a complex adaptive
systems approach and analyse the many crossscale interactions that exist, from local to global
or from history to the future.
To us, resilience is much more than simply
recovery or buffer capacity. Centre researchersand collaborators are particularly interested
in the interplay between periods of gradualchange and periods of abrupt change – how tomake use of change and turn crises into newopportunities towards sustainability. Threefeatures of resilience thinking of significance foranalyzing social-ecological systems in relation tosustainability are emphasized:•••

persistence - buffer capacity to withstandshocks in the face of change
adaptability - the capacity of people ina social-ecological system to manage
resilience in order to deal with change,
move on and continue to developtransformability - the capacity of people
in a social-ecological system to create newdevelopment pathways when ecological,
political, social or economic conditions
make the existing system untenable.

During the start-up phase of the Centre,
research collaboration was organized aroundnine transdisciplinary themes. The aim ofthese themes was to provide flexible arenas
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different disciplines. What has been excitingis that the themes have already fed into eachother through inductive-deductive science,practice and theory, with active involvement ofscholars from the natural sciences, social sciences
and the humanities. It is rewarding to see theemergence of broad cross-theme engagement
and collaboration, reflecting the benefits of theindividual in operating on a mutual dynamic
research platform.

and transformations of social-ecologicalsystems – a highly demanded area
focusing on case studies in landscapesand seascapes and comparative analysis.

Research themes•

Water, food, ecosystem services in socialecological landscapes – a novel approachconnecting work on poverty alleviation,
bundles of ecosystem services and their
management and governance withecological regime shifts and global crossscale dynamics.

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Coastal and marine social-ecologicalsystems – building on the strength of
the Baltic Nest Institute, coral reef
research, fisheries, aquaculture, regime
shifts and marine
ecosystem-based
Photo:
J.Lokrantz/azote.se
management combined in a new waywith understanding of social structures,
networks and adaptive governance fromcoastal areas to global levels.

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Urban social-ecological systems– a largely unexplored field in relation to
ecosystem services and resilience where
Stockholm Resilience Centre is a pioneer
in connecting urban issues relating tosocial-ecological systems with casestudies of several cities in different partsof the world.

To further stimulate the collaboration and finetune our research directions, we have reshaped
the themes of the Centre into six overarchingareas. The first three advance theory andmethods, actively interacting with the three lattercross-cutting themes.

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Regime shifts and implications in socialecological systems – a major researchniche of the Stockholm Resilience Centre
expanding insights from ecologicalsystems into social-ecological systems asa whole.
Global and cross-scale dynamics ofsocial-ecological systems - a largely
unexplored area focusing on drivers,
feedbacks and governance challenges
in relation to planetary boundaries andecosystem services.

We envision that between 2010 and 2013, Centre
research will evolve around these six theme areas.
A few glimpses of research achievement in thiscontext are provided below.

Multilevel adaptive governance, learning

Illustration: Christine Clifstock•11

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Photo: FlyingSinger/CC BY 2.0/Flickr
Photo: Nasa

Tipping towards the unknown
With the launch of ‘planetary boundaries’, the Centre has paved the way for a new approach tosustainable development.
In a year when the Copenhagen Climate
Conference fizzled into a diplomatic anticlimax,
the identification of planetary boundaries wasa significant output from the Centre in 2009.
Drawing on decades of research on global
environmental change, ecological economics,
resilience and complex systems, 28 scientists
proposed a ‘safe planetary operating space’ thathumanity should not transgress in order to live
safely. This will allow mankind to continue tothrive for generations to come. The article explicitly
states that all parts of Earth are shaped by people
and that at the same time all human beings arefundamentally dependent on the collective workof the Earth’s ecosystems – the biosphere and its
generation of critical ecosystem services.

deal with climate change and other global
environmental challenges that lie ahead in the
21st Century.
“The human pressure on the Earth System
has reached a scale where abrupt global
environmental change can no longer be excluded.
To continue to live and operate safely, humanity
has to stay away from critical ‘hard-wired’
thresholds in the Earth´s environment and respect
the nature of the planet’s climatic, geophysical,
atmospheric and ecological processes”, said leadauthor Johan Rockström.
The nine planetary boundaries identified wereclimate change, stratospheric ozone depletion,
land use change, freshwater use, biologicaldiversity loss, ocean acidification, nitrogen andphosphorus inputs to the biosphere and oceans,aerosol loading and chemical pollution.
However, there is scant room for manoeuvre.
Three of the boundaries (climate change,
biological diversity and nitrogen input to thebiosphere) may already have been transgressed
and there is a risk that crossing one boundary

Abrupt change can no longer be
excluded
In articles published in the journals ‘Nature’ and‘Ecology and Society’, the scientists argued that
new approaches are needed to help humanity

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The wedges represent an estimate of the current position for each variable. The inner blue shading represents the
proposed safe operating space. Illustration: Christine ClifstockPhoto: FlyingSinger/CC BY 2.0/Flickr

beyond the edges of the map, we don´t want to go.
Our future research will consider ways in whichsociety can develop within these boundaries —safely, sanely and sustainably”, said co-author
Professor Jonathan Foley.

may seriously challenge the ability to stay within
the safe levels of the others.

Humans behind change
The scientists emphasized that the rapid
expansion of human activities since the industrial
revolution has now generated a global geophysicalforce equivalent to some of the great forces ofnature.
“We are entering the Anthropocene, a
new geological era in which our activities are
threatening the Earth´s capacity to regulate
itself. We are beginning to push the planetout of its current stable Holocene state, thewarm period that began about 10,000 years
ago and during which agriculture and complex
societies, including our own, have developed andflourished”, said co-author Professor Will Steffen.
The researchers stressed that their approach
does not offer a roadmap for sustainable
development, but does provide an importantelement by identifying critical planetary
boundaries.
“Within these boundaries, humanity has theflexibility to choose pathways for our future
development and wellbeing. In essence, we are
drawing the first — albeit very preliminary —map of our planet´s safe operating zones. And

Photo: L.Karlsson/azote.se

Full reference:
Rockström, J., Steffen, W., Noone, K.,
Persson, Å., Chapin, III, F.S., Lambin,E., Lenton, T.M., Scheffer, M., Folke, C.,
Schellnhuber, H., Nykvist, B., De Wit,
C.A., Hughes, T., van der Leeuw, S., Rodhe,
H., Sörlin, S., Snyder, P.K., Costanza, R.,
Svedin, U., Falkenmark, M., Karlberg,
L., Corell, R.W., Fabry, V.J., Hansen, J.,
Walker, B.H., Liverman, D., Richardson,
K., Crutzen, C., Foley. J. (2009). A safe
operating space for humanity. Nature 461:
472-475 DOI 10.1038/461472a

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Photo: Christine Clifstock

Photo: Nasa

Planetary Boundaries in the media
The articles in Nature and Ecology and Society
introducing the planetary boundaries concept
gained a lot of media attention when presented
in September 2009. Scientific American, Time,
Wired, Yale Environment 360, World Changing,
Grist and daily newspapers around the world allcovered the story.
Thanks to global press releases by Nature andby the Stockholm Resilience Centre in cooperation
with several of the co-authors and their
universities, the research findings generated several
hundred press clippings – in the conventional
media in print and online, and in the social media.
The global releases were supported by regionalpress releases, increasing the media interest in for
example Australia and the US.
In Sweden the leading daily broadsheet
newspaper Dagens Nyheter presented theplanetary boundaries concept in a full-page article,
and it was reported on the Swedish Radio morning
news (Ekot) and on Swedish Television (Rapport).
In the run-up to the UNFCCC climate
conference in Copenhagen in December, a second
wave of media interest in the planetary boundaries
concept was aroused, and the interest persists.

Some clippings of interest:
Scientific American
Grappling with the Anthropocene:
Scientists Identify Safe Limits for Human
Impacts on Planet. www.scientificamerican.
com/article.cfm?id=scientists-identify-safelimits-for-human-impacts
Time
How Much Human Activity Can EarthHandle?
www.time.com/time/health/article/
0,8599,1925718,00.html?xid=rss-health
Wired
9 Environmental Boundaries We Don’t
Want to Cross
www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/
earth-users-guide/
Yale Environment 360
A Timely Reminder of the Real Limits toGrowthhttp://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.
msp?id=2195

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A dwindling capacity to cope with crises
The planetary boundaries work emphasized that it is time for a new order of cooperative international
institutions that are more capable of dealing with the interactive effects of global change.
Energy, food and water crises, climate disruption,
declining fisheries, ocean acidification, emerging
diseases and increasing antibiotic resistance:
the list of serious, inter-related global-scalechallenges spawned by the accelerating scaleof human activity is long. Unfortunately, thesolutions to these challenges are mostly scant andinadequate.
“There are few institutional structuresto achieve cooperation globally on the sortof scale now essential to avoid very serious
consequences”, warned lead author Professor
Brian Walker, affiliated both with the Stockholm
Resilience Centre and Australia´s national scienceagency CSIRO.

much stronger focus on regional and worldwide
cooperation, helped by better-designed multinational institutions”, Professor Walker
explained. “The challenge of climate change
is closely linked to the capacity of ecosystems
worldwide to generate services and the wellbeingof the economy rests on this capacity. Suchinterdependencies have to be tackled throughglobal cooperation. Local and national efforts are
already failing”.

Too much focus on single problems
While there are signs of emerging global
action on issues such as climate change, there
is widespread inaction on others, such as thedestruction of the world´s forests to grow biofuels
or the emergence of pandemic flu.
“One major obstacle stems from the fact thatinternational institutions primarily focus on single
problems, like climate change, often ignoring
how different crises interact. New collaborative
platforms for how to deal with such interactions
are urgently needed”, said Professor Walker.
The scientists concluded that to avoid looming
global-scale failures and harness common
opportunities, there is a growing need for greatercollaboration amongst existing institutions andnew institutions, to help construct and maintain a
global-scale social contract.

A stronger focus on regional andworldwide cooperation
In an article published in Science in September
2009, an international group of authors argued
that nations alone are unable to resolve the sortsof planet-wide challenges now arising.
The core of the problem is inducing
cooperation in situations where individuals andnations will collectively gain if all cooperate,
but each faces the temptation to free-load at theexpense of the others.
“We are not advocating that countries giveup their sovereignty. We are instead proposing a

Reference
Walker et al. 2009. Looming global-scale
failures and missing institutions. Science
325: 1345-1346.

Photo: C. Clifstock
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www.sciencemag.org

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Steering clear of uncertainty
New book on the challenge of navigating our own future in collaboration with the biosphere.
The book ‘Principles of Ecosystems Stewardship:
Resilience Based Natural Management in a
Changing World’, with contributions fromCentre researchers, sets the stage for future
research on transformations in social-ecologicalsystems. It covers social tipping points, suchas shifts in perceptions, institutions, incentives
and governance, and the role of innovation,
entrepreneurs and informal networks for seizing
windows of opportunity.
With the development of proper ecosystemstewardship, they argue, ecosystem services cancontinue to support human wellbeing even underconditions of uncertainty and change.

areas, we are better equipped to respond and shapechanges that come our way”, said Per Olsson,
another Stockholm Resilience Centre author.

Crisis as a spur for change
The third approach sets out to find ways
for humans to escape from the persistent
trajectories of poverty, hunger, civil strife andthe overall social-ecological mismanagement thatcharacterizes so many parts of the world.
Transformational change often happens attimes of crisis when enough stakeholders agree
that the current system is dysfunctional. Crisis orpending crisis can trigger the emergence of newforms of stewardship of the biosphere.
“For example, climate change is a current
crisis that could generate new technology andgovernance solutions that could fundamentallychange or create new feedbacks and enhance thefit between ecosystems and governance systems”,
said Per Olsson.
The publications on planetary boundaries,
missing institutions and ecosystem-based
stewardship are all about navigating our own
future course, increasing the likelihood fordevelopment pathways that can generate, sustain
and improve human welfare and wellbeing incollaboration with the biosphere.

No region beyond hope”There is no region so resilient that policy-makers
and managers can ignore the potential thresholdchanges. Similarly, there is no region that isbeyond hope of substantial enhancement of
wellbeing, adaptive capacity and resilience”, said
Carl Folke, who is the Centre science director andone of the authors.
The ecosystem stewardship integrates three
approaches for sustainable development:•••

reducing vulnerability to expectedchangesfostering resilience to sustain desirable
conditions in the face of perturbations
and uncertainty
transforming from undesirable
trajectories when opportunities emerge.

Shift from reactive to proactive
The first approach focuses on the importanceof monitoring trends in stressors that lead tochange. Global-scale stresses such as climatechange are particularly challenging because theyrequire concerted global action. The second
approach emphasises the importance of shiftingfrom reactive resource management to moreproactive solutions that can prepare us for theunexpected.
“The key here is to maintain a diversity ofoptions, socially, economically and biologically.
If we maintain and develop diversity in all three

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

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Crawling the web for eco-crises
By using list servers, market websites and social media, researchers have devised alternative ways tomonitor looming ecosystem crises.

Autonomous, yet connected

Imagine the following: local fishermen in
Massachusetts come across a species never seen
before – a zebra mussel originally native to thelakes of south-east Russia. Passively spreading by
ship or pleasure craft, the filter-feeding mussel
appears in lakes worldwide and is found inplaces as diverse as North-America, the British
Isles, Spain and Sweden. Its effects are clearly
noticeable in local areas. Docks, boats andanchors are covered by the mussels and they growso densely that they block pipelines, clogging
the water intakes of municipal water suppliers
and hydroelectric companies. Scientists also fear
they are the cause of thousands of birds being
poisoned and killed.
The story of the zebra mussel is true, but theaccounts of its global spread go back to the 1970s
and before, at a time when the internet still wasa research project for military agencies. Today,
the spread of the zebra mussel could very well bereported differently. One of the local fishermen
in Massachusetts could report the mysterious
finding on his Twitter page, a researcher inNorthern Italy could blog on similar findings in
Lake Garda, while a Swedish youngster could
take pictures of a new mussel species he found in
Lake Mälaren and post them on an international
discussion forum for scouts. Together they could
provide crucial information that could help detectchanges and looming crises in ecosystems.

The article, entitled ‘Can webcrawlers
revolutionize ecological monitoring?’, which
attracted the attention of Science Daily, Reuters
and Wired, highlights the fact that analysis
and response are not necessarily organizedaround a single government actor. On thecontrary, both might take place as the result of
collaborations between different state and nonstate stakeholders.
“If the outputs are available more widely,
analysis and responses could even be the resultof autonomous actions, assumed by independent
organizations and individuals”, said lead author
Victor Galaz. He is one of the theme leaders of
the Centre research theme Adaptive Governance.
Although the article was a promising start,
Galaz and his co-authors stress the need forfurther research into the use of eco-monitoring
internet trawlers.
“We recognize that crucial challenges need tobe addressed before a web crawler-based early
warning system can contribute to the avoidanceof abrupt ecosystem change”, the authors noted intheir article.

Using internet sources as sensors
The internet could be used as an early warning
system for potential ecological disasters, say
researchers from Stockholm Resilience Centre
and the University of East Anglia.
Despite the continuing improvement inecosystem monitoring, early warnings of pending
ecological crisis are still limited by insufficient
data and by geographical gaps in official
monitoring systems. Finding ways to avert regime
shifts is already a key issue for other researchersat the Centre. In an article in ‘Frontiersin Ecology and the Environment’, Centre
researchers and Tim Daw from the University of
East Anglia made an initial exploration into thepossibilities of using information posted on theinternet to detect ecosystems on the verge of tilt.

Photo: J.Lokrantz/azote.se

Reference
Galaz, V., B. Crona, T. Daw, Ö. Bodin,
M. Nyström, P. Olsson (2009).
Can Webcrawlers revolutionize
ecological monitoring, 7. In Frontiers in
Ecology and the Environment (e-View/
doi:10.1890/070204).

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Photo: B.Christensen, J. Lokrantz/azote.se
Two different steady states of coral. Large picture - healthy coral rich in biodiversity.
Small picture - algae dominated coral after a regime shift.

Turning back from the brink
Avoiding regime shifts is difficult, let alone predicting them. New research might just have found a way
around that problem.

Think of an ecological regime shift like a stock
market collapse: it is large, abrupt and heavy on
the wallet. For example, the collapse of Canada´s
Newfoundland cod fishery in the early 1990s
directly affected the livelihoods of some 35,000
fisherman and fish processing plant workers,
and led to a decline of over $200 million dollars
per annum in cod landing revenues. However,there is one fundamental difference between
the stock market and an ecological regime
shift. Where stock markets usually bounce
back, ecological regime shifts cause long-lastingchanges to the ecosystem. Furthermore, they
are notoriously difficult to predict. They often
come as a surprise, and by the time society
realizes what is happening, it is often too lateor too costly to reverse the changes. However,
new research offers a glimmer of hope, arguingthat changes in ecological time series (such asincreased variability) can provide early warningof impending regime shifts.

In a PNAS-article entitled ‘Turning back fromthe brink: Detecting an impending regime shift
in time to avert it’, centre researcher Reinette‘Oonsie’ Biggs together with University of
Wisconsin researchers Stephen R. Carpenter andWilliam A. Brock investigated whether new early
warning indicators of ecological regime shifts canprovide sufficient warning to take action to avert
undesirable regime shifts.
Biggs, Carpenter and Brock used a fisheries
food web model to investigate this question. They
explored how close an ecosystem can get to an
ecological threshold and still avert a regime shiftby management changes being implemented.
The model was also used to identify indicatorsthat might give a warning before the point of no
return, where it is too late to take action to avert
an undesirable regime shift.

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Rapid response is essential

More proactive decision-making
processes needed

The results from the model showed that if thefactor responsible for an ecological regime shift
can be rapidly altered (e.g. fishing pressure), it ispossible to delay successful management action
to avert a regime shift until the regime shift isunderway. However, if the driver can only be
manipulated gradually (e.g. shoreline habitat
restoration), management action is needed
substantially before a regime shift in order toavert it.
The challenge is that large increases in
the indicators (which serve as warnings of animpending regime shift) only manifest themselves
once a regime shift has been initiated. This meansthat the current indicators will only be useful inaverting regime shifts if 1) the factor driving theregime shift can be rapidly manipulated, and 2) if
management action is taken very rapidly, as soon
as the indicators start flashing their warning lights.
In cases where the factor driving the regime
shift can only be gradually manipulated, theindicators will usually give warning too late toallow management action to avert the regime shift.
To improve their usefulness in averting
ecological regime shifts, the researchers suggested
that future research should focus on defining
critical indicator levels at which management
action should be taken, rather than detectingchanges in the indicators.

Averting ecological regime shifts does not simply
require better indicators, but is also dependent on
developing policy processes that enable society torespond more rapidly to warnings of impending
regime shifts.
“Our results highlight that in systems
subject to regime shifts there is often a discrete
window for policy action, after which it becomes
impossible to avert a shift”, says Biggs. By thetime adverse environmental effects become
apparent, it is often too late to avert a regime
shift. Trial-and-error approaches that wait forevidence of negative environmental impacts before
taking action are therefore ill-advised.

Photo: B.Christensen/azote.se

Reference
Biggs, R., Carpenter, S.R., Brock, W.A. (2009). Turning back from the brink: Detecting an
impending regime shift in time to avert it. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(PNAS) 106: 826-831.

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Photo: Friederike Mikulcak
Harvest of Baobab leaves in the Sahel region where a re-greening has taken place during recent decades

Out of the dry
The future of the drought-prone region of Sahel has long looked grim, but now it might provide a
glimmer of hope for climate change mitigation.

“A broader aim of the project is to figure out
how poor, dry countries can reverse a negative
trend, become more resilient and adapt to achanging climate” said Dr Gordon.
In this research, local partners in Niger proved
crucial. They helped select four villages withsimilar biophysical conditions but where twoof the villages were considered greener than theother two, in order to examine why change had
happened in some places but not in others.
After preparatory reading and workshops inthe spring of 2009, an international group of
five students from a transdisciplinary Master’s
programme at the Centre and the Departmentof Human Geography at Stockholm University
teamed up in the autumn with five students from
Abdou Moumouni University in Niger.
“In the beginning of 2009 we only had
funding for one year, so we decided to conduct
the field study with Master’s students”, explained
Dr Gordon. “While in the field, the students
could only receive instructions from Elin and

The West African Sahel not only has one of thefastest growing populations in the world, it isalso a region where poverty and food insecurity
are widespread and recurring. Rain-fed farmingis the dominant livelihood, but drought during
the 1970s and 1980s turned the region into a
dust-choked area hit by severe famines. The grim
conditions led scientists and policymakers tobelieve that vulnerable soils and scarce rainfall
were inconsistent with the needs of the growing
population of the region. However, to the surpriseof many, the regreening witnessed during recent
decades has occurred mainly on-farm, in regionswith high population densities.
“We know that part of the explanation isreturning rainfall, but we want to understandto what degree people’s management practicesof the land have contributed to this regreening”,
said Line Gordon, who is leading the project‘Adapting to changing climate in drylands: The
re-greening in Sahel as a potential success case’,together with her colleague Elin Enfors.

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Research themes and highlights 2009village households.
“I went around the villages on the back of myinterpreter’s motorcycle. The major obstacle wasfitting my interviews in within the villagers’ busylife”, said Olivia. “They work very hard, twicea week they were occupied with market days
and during Ramadan there were many religious
ceremonies to attend”.
Olivia praised the teaming up of students from
Stockholm and Niger:“The Nigerian students helped us overcome thecultural differences we came across in collecting
information, and they seemed inspired by ourinterdisciplinary resilience approach.”
Although Olivia contracted malaria during her
stay in Niger, she is not deterred from future fieldwork.
“It was fantastic to get the chance to use thetools I have studied for several years and turnthem into practice”, she said, admitting that it wasmore difficult than she had thought. “I also hadlots of fun together with the village women, who
despite their hard life are incredibly hospitable
and cheerful. This field trip was a life-changing
experience for me”.

myself by e-mail when they occasionally went to alarger town, but our local partners went out andvisited them regularly, which was a great help”.
For ten weeks the students looked at various
issues such as yield statistics, farming practices,
ownership rights, the distribution of wealth, theuse of ecosystem services and the amount of trees
and their age. Satellite images were comparedagainst historical aerial photos and farmers
were interviewed in order to determine land usechanges in different areas.
Back in Stockholm, Drs. Gordon and Enfors
are now in the process of analyzing all the data.
Thanks to new funding, their work has also been
given a substantial boost which will enable themto make a much more in-depth continuation of thestudy they started in 2009.
“We will continue the close collaboration
with our local partners and also extend our
research area into Burkina Faso. I hope thisproject can help us understand how societies canmove in a positive direction, despite the difficult
circumstances”, said Dr. Gordon.

A life-changing experience
Olivia Puill from France was one of the students
participating in the field research in Niger. Sheinterviewed village men and women of all ages
about microeconomic issues, with particularemphasis on the redistribution of assets between

Project participants

Dr. Line Gordon, Stockholm Resilience Centre
Dr. Elin Enfors, Stockholm Resilience Centre
Dr. Lowe Börjesson, Department of Human
Geography, Stockholm University
Dr. Jennie Barron, SEI York

Collaborative partners
CRESA, Abdou Moumouni University, Niger
INERA, Burkina Faso
Dr. Chris Reij, Vrije University, Netherlands

Photo: Friederike Mikulcak

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Photo: J.Lokrantz/azote.seCore projects and collaborations
During 2009 the Centre was engaged in many
international projects, workshops and researchcollaborations. Below we provide a sample ofsuch projects, see the Stockholm ResilienceCentre website for more information (www.
stockholmresilience.su.se).

agenda has emerged. Project leaders: Carl Folke,
Johan Rockström, Karl-Göran Mäler.

Integrated History and future Of
People and the Environment - IHOPELong-term sustainability issues need a deeper
confluence of new knowledge combining thenatural sciences and the humanities. Thisis reflected in IHOPE, a global network of
researchers and research projects, now with
its International Programme Office basedat the Stockholm Resilience Centre. IHOPE
supports sharing knowledge and resources fromthe biophysical sciences, social sciences andhumanities to address analytical and interpretive
issues associated with the coupled humanearth system dynamics. The project is part of
the Regime Shift theme. Project leaders: Carole
Crumley, Sverker Sörlin.

Centre of Excellence - Resilience andSustainability: Integrated Research on
Social-Ecological Systems
A five-year Centre-of-Excellence (Formel-Exc)
project funded by a grant from the Swedish
Research Council FORMAS and carried out
as a joint effort between the Beijer Institute of
Ecological Economics, Stockholm University andStockholm Environment Institute (SEI), with astrong focus on complex systems, regime shifts
and resilience. The grant, of which one year
remains, has been instrumental in the start-up
phase of the Stockholm Resilience Centre andserves as a core from which the Centre’s research

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Planetary Boundaries

ecosystem services in real landscapes as well as
the governance implications. Key researchers:
Garry Peterson, Line Gordon, Regina Lindborg,
Thomas Elmqvist, Jon Norberg, Örjan Bodin.

Research within the Planetary Boundaries
framework, with publications in Nature andEcology & Society in 2009, continues withwork on interacting feedbacks and governancechallenges in the context of the boundaries. The
research is part of the Stockholm ResilienceCentre’s collaboration with the Earth System
Science Partnership and the Earth System
Governance project, and embedded in the Centre’s
three advancing insights themes on Global
Dynamics, Governance and Regime Shifts.
Leading researchers: Will Steffen, Victor Galaz.

Learning Platforms, Boundary andBridging Organizations, Memory,
Actors in Adaptive Governance ofSocial-Ecological Systems
Activities include:•

Global Dynamics and Resilience in theFace of Multiple Shocks•

Human activities are driving global environmental dynamics towards systemic changes. We
currently lack institutions capable of addressing
global-scale governance of those changes.
Drawing on the three articles in Nature, Scienceand TREE (online 2009) referred to above, thisresearch programme will conduct research on
the interacting feedbacks of global change, andgovernance for global social-ecological resilience.
Programme leaders: Brian Walker, Stephen
Polasky, Anne-Sophie Crepín.

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Key researchers: Frances Westley, Örjan Bodin,
Per Olsson, Beatrice Crona, Lisen Schultz,
Stephan Barthel, Thomas Hahn.

Social-Ecological Networks in Adaptive
GovernanceRegime Shifts ofSocial-Ecological Systems

Networks are an important area of the Stockholm
Resilience Centre’s research on resilience andsocial-ecological systems. This research includes
several projects on complex adaptive systems
and networks in urban systems. A special
issue of Ecology & Society and a book onsocial-ecological networks are in progress. Key
researchers: Örjan Bodin, Beatrice Crona, Henrik
Ernstson, Jon Norberg.

Several projects, including:
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A special issue of Environmental
Education Research is in press (Cecilia
Lundholm, Ryan Plummer, eds.), with
contributions from Lisen Schultz andEmily Boyd.
Workshops on social-ecological learning
are in progress, headed by Åsa Swartling.
Articles on leadership processes
combined with resilience, on middlemenin coastal fisheries, on social-ecologicalmemory and on boundary and bridging
organizations are in progress.

Understanding, mapping and governing
regime shifts in the Baltic Sea, the 		
Arctic, the Sahel and other areas
Developing a regime shift database
Early warnings and moving thresholds
Economic consequences of regime shifts
Regime shifts in society andthroughout history.

Multilevel Institutions, Adaptive
Governance and Resilience

Leading researchers: Garry Peterson, Line
Gordon, Oonsie Biggs, Anne-Sophie Crépin,Sverker Sörlin, Christoph Humborg, Thorsten
Blenckner and the Baltic Nest Institute.

Several projects are investigating governancein relation to abrupt and large-scale socialecological crisis. They are looking at multilevelgovernance modes, from laws to informal
institutions, for building resilience for thechallenges posed by global change. 2009
saw a special issue of Global Environmental
Change and papers on global governance ofabrupt environmental change and international
cooperation. In addition, the Stockholm
Resilience Centre co-hosted the 2009 Amsterdam
Conference of the Earth System Governance

Biodiversity, Bundles of Ecosystem
Services and their GovernanceResearchers are working to understand functional
diversity, ecological networks and ecosystemservices. The aim is to develop theoretical tools
to assess the resilience of ecosystem services
and empirically determine interactions among

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Photo: T.H.Snickars, B.Christensen, J.Lokrantz/azote.se

The Ecosystem Approach, Marine
Seascapes and Social-Ecological
Resilience

Project, with emphasis on governance ofadaptation and resilience. Researchers include:
Victor Galaz, Andreas Duit, Jonas Ebbesson,
Katarina Eckerberg, Per Olsson, Emily Boyd.

Several projects dealing with the Baltic Sea,aquaculture development, coral reef dynamics,
marine seascapes and marine management.
These include:

Understanding Transformations in
Social-Ecological Systems
The main focus of this project is how to avoid
or escape from undesirable trajectories while
steering towards governance regimes that
support flexible, integrated, holistic forms ofmanagement of natural resources and ecosystems.
The work includes probing case studies,comparative analysis, methods development andtheory development. A special issue of Ecology
and Society on ‘Transitions, resilience andgovernance: Linking technological, ecologicaland political systems’ and several other papers
are in progress and in press. Lead researchers:
Per Olsson, Emily Boyd, Victor Galaz.

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Comparative studies of critical feedback
in marine ecosystems
Seabirds as indicators of ecosystem
dynamics
Institutions and governance of coastal
ecosystem services
Fisheries challenges in the context of
regime shifts, global change and adaptive
governance

Lead researchers: Henrik Österblom, Max
Troell, Christopher Humborg, Magnus Nyström,
Thorsten Blenckner, Beatrice Crona, Per Olsson,
Maricela de la Torre Castro.

Biosphere Reserves and Resilience

Urban Social-Ecological Systems andEcosystem Services

Biosphere Reserves are potential real-world
examples of resilience thinking and adaptive
governance, acting as learning sites for biodiversity
conservation and sustainable development.
Projects and case studies are taking place in
Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve andthe Cape Winelands Biosphere Reserve. Key
researchers: Lisen Schultz, Per Olsson, Emily
Boyd, Jacob von Heland, Cecilia Lundholm,
Thomas Hahn, Thomas Elmqvist, Åsa Jansson.

Urban biodiversity is dependent on sociocultural factors for its design, management andprotection, activities which also affect local social
capital building and democratic governancepromotion. These linkages between the natureculture divide are often overlooked in urban
theory. Projects within this research area include:•

Madagascar Social-Ecological Systems
The Madagascar work is truly cross-thematicand covers issues related to the dynamics behind
the generation of ecosystem services embedded indeep cultural values. Lead researchers: Thomas
Elmqvist, Maria Tengö, Jacob von Heland.

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Stockholm Metropolitan Region ecosystem services and biodiversity,
ecological design, common pool
resources management and network
governance
The international SUPER project onsustainable urban planning for ecosystemservices and resilienceCore projects and collborations

Photo: B.Christensen, N.Wijkmark, S.Zeff/azote.se•••

ESCAPE - urban ecosystem services andsocial justice
URBIS - the Urban Biosphere network
ATLAS – an internet platform forcomparing the production anddistribution of ecosystem services in 12
international metropolitan landscapes.

has been given a central role in the Resilience
Alliance and was engaged in organizing theResilience Alliance and Resilience Alliance Young
Scholars meetings in Canada in the autumn.
www.resalliance.org

The Resilience Alliance Young Scholars(RAYS)

Many books and papers are in progress, e.g.
the volume Urban Ecosystem Services andGovernance: Building Resilience in Urban
Landscapes. Lead researchers: Thomas Elmqvist,
Johan Colding, Henrik Ernstson, Stephan
Barthel, Åsa Jansson, Sverker Sörlin.

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 Oonsie
Biggs, Victor Galaz and Beatrice Crona.

Freshwater and Ecosystem Services
Several projects are studying freshwater in thecontext of ecosystem services, resilience, globalchange, tipping points and governance challenges,
often in relation to water for food production.
The research spans from smallholder agricultural
systems in drylands, related to poverty dynamics
and ecosystem services, to global analyses. A
major volume - Confronting the Freshwater
Challenge - is in progress. Key researchers: JohanRockström, Line Gordon, Malin Falkenmark,Jennie Barron, Elin Enfors, Louise Karlberg,
Mats Lannerstad, Holger Hoff.

The Resilience Alliance Marine GroupA small group of international scholars focusing
on coastal and marine social-ecological systems.
Three articles are in progress and a meeting washeld in the Galapagos in 2009. The group is led
by Terry Hughes, ARC Centre of Excellence forCoral Reef Studies, Australia, and Carl Folke.

Resilience Alliance
One of the Stockholm Resilience Centre’s
most central partners is the Resilience Alliance,
an international network of leading researchorganizations collaborating to explore thedynamics of social-ecological systems. The
Resilience Alliance, and its focus on socialecological systems, emerged out of research
programmes of the Beijer Institute in the 1990s.
During the year the Stockholm Resilience Centre

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Photo: T.H.Snickars/azote.se

Publications
including leading journals like Nature, Science,
PNAS, TREE, interdisciplinary journals like
Global Environmental Change, Ecological
Economics, Ecology & Society, and journals
like Environmental and Resource Economics,
Development Policy Review, Journal ofInternational Development, International
Environmental Agreements. Books were released
ranging from environmental history, education,
law to ecosystem stewardship.

2009 marked the end of the Centre’s start-up
phase. In a forward-looking review, Professor
William Clark, an authority in sustainability
science at the John F. Kennedy School ofGovernment at Harvard University, provided
recommendations on the research, policy andorganizational challenges facing the Centre as it
moves into its first permanent phase in 2010.
Professor Clark concluded that “The Stockholm
Resilience Centre has emerged as a world leader
in the conduct of interdisciplinary researchon the dynamics of inter-connected socialecological systems. To have achieved this barely
two years after its inauguration is a remarkableaccomplishment indeed”.
In 2009, some 100 articles, including bookchapters, were published in scientific journals.
Popular science and outreach articles were also
produced and several articles are in press.
During the year papers have been publishedin over fifty different scientific journals
covering a wide spectrum of disciplines

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Selected publications•

Bennett, E.M., Peterson, G.D., Gordon, L.J. (2009). Understanding relationships among
multiple ecosystem services. Ecology Letters 12: 1394¬-1404•

Bodin, Ö., Crona, B.I. (2009). The role of social networks in natural resource governance:
What relational patterns make a difference? Global Environmental Change 19: 366–374.

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Chapin, F.S., III, Carpenter, S.R., Kofinas, G.P., Folke, C., Abel, N., Clark, W.C., Olsson,
P., Stafford Smith, D.M., Walker, B.H., Young, O.R., Berkes, F., Biggs, R., Grove, J.M.,
Naylor, R.L., Pinkerton, E., Steffen, W., Swanson, F.J. (2009). Ecosystem stewardship:
Sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.10.008.

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Colding, J., Lundberg, J., Lundberg, S., Andersson, E. (2009). Golf courses and wetland
fauna. Ecological Applications 19: 1481–1491.

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de la Torre-Castro, M., Lindström, L. (2009). Fishing institutions: Addressing regulative,
normative and cultural-cognitive elements to enhance fisheries management. Marine Policy
doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2009.04.012•

Duit. A., Hall, O., Mikusinski, G., Angelstam, P. (2009). Saving the woodpeckers: Social
capital, governance, and policy performance. Journal of Environment and Development 18:
42-61.

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Ernstson, H., Sörlin, S. (2009). Weaving protective stories: Connective practices to articulate
holistic values in Stockholm National Urban Park. Environment and Planning A 41:14601479.

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Fischer, J., Peterson, G.D., Gordon, L.J., Dovers, S., Fazey, I., Felton, A., Elmqvist,
T., Folke, C., Gardner, T., Manning, A.D. (2009). Integrating resilience thinking
and optimization for conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24: 549-554.
doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.03.020•

Galaz, V. (2009). Pandemic 2.0: Can information technology really help us save thePlanet? Environment 51(6): 20-28.

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Gordon, L.J., Finlayson, C.M., Falkenmark, M. (2009). Managing water in agriculture
for food production and other ecosystem services. Agricultural Water Management, doi:
10.1016/j.agwat.2009.03.017•

Holland, T., Peterson, G.D., Gonzalez, A. 2009. Economic inequality predicts
biodiversity loss: A cross-national analysis. Conservation Biology 23: 1304–1313.

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Norström, A., Nyström, M., Lokrantz, J., Folke, C. (2009). Alternative states of coral
reefs: Beyond coral-macroalgal phase shifts. Marine Ecology Progress Series 376: 295-306•

Rockström, J., Falkenmark, M., Karlberg, L., Hoff, H., Rost , S., Gerten, D. (2009).
Future water availability for global food production: The potential of green water
for increasing resilience to global change. Water Resources Research 45, W00A12,
doi:10.1029/2007WR006767, 14 February 2009.

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Segnestam, L. (2009). Division of capitals: What role does it play for gender-differentiatedvulnerability to drought in Nicaragua? Community Development 40: 154-176doi:
10.1080/15575330903001562•

Walker, B.H., Pearson, L., Harris, M., Mäler, K.-G., Chuan-Zhong, L., Biggs, R., Baynes,
T. (2009). Incorporating resilience in the assessment of Inclusive Wealth: An example fromSouth East Australia. Environmental and Resource Economics. DOI 10.1007/s10640-0099311-7.

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Whitmarsh, L., Gerger Swartling, Å., Jäger, J. (2009). Participation of experts andnon-experts in sustainability assessment of mobility. Environmental Policy andGovernance 19: 232-250.

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Ny bild?

Photo: E. Hermansson Török

Panel discussion at an EU Commission side event during COP-15 with participation from Stockholm ResilienceCentre theme leader Will Steffen (second from the right).

Science, Policy & Practice
to give presentations at different EU arenas.
The Stockholm Resilience Centre also
contributed to important international processes
led by UNEP and has invested a substantial
amount of time in developing networks with
policymakers and practitioners for future
dialogues on global challenges.

The Stockholm Resilience Centre was deeply
involved in science, policy and practice dialogues
during 2009, at global, European, national
and local level. During the second half of2009 Sweden held the EU presidency and theStockholm Resilience Centre was commissioned
to produce reports and exhibitions and was asked

Collaborations during the Swedish EU
Presidency
senior officials to prepare the revision of theStrategic Plan of the Convention on Biological
Diversity. The meeting paid special attention
to the links between biodiversity, ecosystemservices, climate change and human wellbeing,
and a scientific report was prepared to provide
background on these links. The report, entitled‘Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Resilience:

Together with Albaeco, the Centre collaborated
in various ways with the Swedish EU Presidency
during the second half of 2009. The starting
point for these collaborations was the high levelmeeting ‘Visions for Biodiversity Beyond 2010
- People, Ecosystem Services and the Climate
Crisis’ held in Strömstad on 7-9 September. The
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Photo: G. Seijbold

The rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus), with its bright pink flowers is used to make drugs to treat diseases
like childhood leukemia and Hodgkin’s disease. An example of the interlinkage between biodiversity, ecosystemservices and governance shown during the EU high level meeting in Strömstad, Sweden.

Governance for a Future with Global Changes’
was prepared by a working group led by Miriam
Huitric of Stockholm Resilience Centre andAlbaeco.
The report was presented at a scientificworkshop ‘Biodiversity, ecosystem services andgovernance — targets beyond 2010’, which washeld in Tjärnö, Sweden, in the days prior to
the Strömstad meeting. The lead author Brian
Walker and Centre researchers Lisen Schultz andThomas Elmqvist gave presentations during thethree-day workshop, which attracted researchersand government officials. The outcome from the
Tjärnö workshop was directly transferred to thehigh-level meeting ‘Visions for biodiversity’ andthe contents of the report and workshop werereflected in the outcome of the latter.
In addition, a science-based exhibition
was held to create an inspiring atmospherein the conference venue in Strömstad. The
exhibition highlighted the links and values of
ecosystem services, biodiversity and resilience.

It was produced by the Swedish Presidency incooperation with Albaeco, Stockholm ResilienceCentre and the Swedish Species Information
Centre. The Stockholm Resilience Centre
contributed a slide show that was on display indelegates’ rooms. The exhibition can also be seenat the website: www.se2009.eu/biodiversity.

Photo: J. Lokrantz/azote.se

Download Report
The report ‘Biodiversity, Ecosystem
Services and Resilience: Governance fora Future with Global Changes’ can be
down-loaded at:www.stockholmresilience.org/tjarno

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Photo:
Photo:E.E.Hermansson
HermanssonTörök
Török
Johan Rockström giving a presentation on biodiversity and climate change as part of an EU side event
during COP-15

Contributions to the UN climate conferencein Copenhagen
The planetary boundaries concept wasalso presented at a second side-event by the
EU Commission. Entitled ‘Solving the climate
challenge within the planetary boundaries’,
Eric Lambin, Professor at the Departmentof Geography at the University of Louvain
in Belgium and co-author of the article onplanetary boundaries, gave a presentation of
the planetary boundaries concept, with special
focus on deforestation and land use changes. Will
Steffen, Centre theme leader and co-author of thearticle on planetary boundaries, contributed toa panel discussion following Professor Lambin’s
presentation.

The Stockholm Resilience Centre contributed toseveral side-events at the UN Climate Conference(COP-15) in Copenhagen in December, 2009.
As part of the EU side-event on climatechange, ecosystem services and biodiversity
organized by the Swedish government and theSwedish Environmental Protection Agency,
Centre Director Johan Rockström gave apresentation on biodiversity and climate change.
Professor Rockström’s presentation merged key
aspects of the planetary boundaries concept withdata from the report on biodiversity, ecosystemservices and resilience that the Centre had
prepared for the high-level meeting in Strömstad(see page 28).
The planetary boundaries concept attracted
global interest when a group of 28 internationallyrenowned scientists proposed that global
biophysical boundaries, identified on the basisof scientific understanding of the Earth system,
could define a ‘safe planetary operating space´ forhumanity.

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Photo: C.Clifstock
How do you fit several hundred litres of water into one bottle of beer? Resource use discussed at the Manna exhibition.

Manna exhibition in Washington
the Swedish Embassy in the US, the exhibition
consisted of a range of seminars, exhibitions
and events with both Swedish and American
participants.
As part of the Living Green programme,
Centre researcher Jonas Ebbesson took part in
the seminar ‘A New Climate Change Accord Legal Character and Commitments’.

The Centre-affiliated exhibition Manna — Foodin a new light — was displayed at the Swedish
Embassy, House of Sweden, in Washington
between 1 April and 7 June, 2009.
The exhibition, which shows the connection
between ecosystem services and the food on ourtables, was part of a two-month programmecalled Living Green which focused on climatechange and sustainable living. Organized by

Photo: C.Clifstock
How many cows a day does it take to feed a large city with beef? Illustration at the Manna exhibition.

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Photo: P.Olofsson, S-E Magnusson
The Swedish biosphere reserve Kristianstads Vattenrike, with the town Kristianstad surrounded by wetlands,
home to around 700 nationally red-listed species of flora and fauna.

The strength of a dedicated few
Ecosystem managers strong on networking skills can make a difference.

On 4 June, Centre researcher Lisen Schultz
defended her doctoral thesis ‘Nurturing
Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems: Lessons
Learned from Bridging Organizations’. Based oninterviews with dedicated practitioners behind
successful conservation projects, she presented
new management practices that live up to thedemands of today, while simultaneously curbing
the unsustainable tapping into the world´s natural
resources.
One example is the Swedish biosphere reserve
Kristianstads Vattenrike — a former ‘waterlogged swamp’ that has now been designated by
UNESCO as a model for sustainable development
and biodiversity conservation.
Lisen Schultz’s thesis analyzes how the
dedicated work of a few individuals has mobilized
local farmers, birdwatchers, entrepreneurs
and politicians to join forces in transforming
the wetland into an asset for the district ofKristianstad. This case study is then comparedwith similar UNESCO-designated experiences
elsewhere in the world. Unlike the more well-known World Heritage designation, the Biosphere
Reserves are meant to protect biodiversity andsimultaneously encourage local development
by sustaining ecosystem services for humanwellbeing.
The results presented in the thesis showthat those who succeed are as good at reading
people as they are at reading nature itself. By
first listening to the needs of potential partners,
and then communicating an attractive vision
for their project (which goes beyond the mereinterest of nature conservation), these dedicatedindividuals are able to build trust and involve
key stakeholders such as politicians, local
associations, landowners and financiers. In manycases, they form ‘bridging organizations’ thatconnect actors across scales and sectors.

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IPBES – a new platform for biodiversity
and ecosystem services
During 2009 the centre was actively involvedin establishing the Intergovernmental SciencePolicy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services (IPBES). Envisioned to be ‘an IPCC
for biodiversity and ecosystem services’ or ‘apermanent Millennium Ecosystem Assessment’,
the IPBES could provide an important mechanism
for dialogue between scientists and policymakers
that would ultimately contribute to realizing thevision of the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
The IPBES has been discussed since theMillennium Assessment was completed, but it
has been difficult to find global agreement on theexact function of such a mechanism, as well as
what would be the best governance structure andhow to fund it. With the Swedish EU Presidency, awindow of opportunity opened for the Centre to
make an effective contribution to the discussion,as the Centre was asked to assist the Swedish
Environmental Ministry in formulating a common
EU position to be presented at the 2nd ad hoc
Intergovernmental and Multi-Stakeholder Meetingon IPBES held by UNEP in Nairobi on 5–9 Oct.

Centre researcher Lisen Schultz formed
part of the Swedish delegation, and assisted informulating statements and discussion points
both before and during the Nairobi meeting,emphasizing e.g. that the IPBES should bescientifically credible, politically relevant andfocused on ecosystem services. In the end, theviews on what the IPBES should comprise werestill too divergent for the Nairobi meeting toreach a final decision on whether to establish it ornot. However, the discussion is far from over, as
it was decided that a third – and final – meeting
would be convened by UNEP during 2010.

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Building a sustainable urban campus
Centre researchers help build visions for a new university campus based on principles of sustainableurban development.

Stockholm University is in dire need of morecampus space and the Albano area between
Stockholm University, the Karolinska Instituteand the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) has
been singled out as a strategically prime location.
Located within the world´s first national urbanpark, the Royal National Urban Park, the Albano
area has very strong potential to become a worldclass campus that will work as a model both inurban planning and university development all over
the world. It will also work as a reference point inframing the concept of sustainable city quarters.
With that in mind, researchers from
Stockholm Resilience Centre and the RoyalInstitute of Technology have joined forces witharchitects from KIT-arkitektur to develop avision for a new Albano Sustainable Campus.
Their proposal was presented at the conference‘Green urbanism at Albano’ which was held in
Stockholm in October 2009.
The proposal, entitled Patchwork, investigates
how ecosystem services can support a better

urban environment and how a science city canbe built in a climate-smart way. The new campus
should enable production of ecosystem services,
conservation of historical values and enhancetransdisciplinary knowledge. This can potentiallyfurther establish Stockholm as an internationallyattractive hub for research and serve as a model
for sustainable urban development.
Developing the Albano area is considered to
be a unique opportunity. It is the last piece ofland available for development under the general

Project participants
Johan Colding, Stockholm Resilience Centre
Stefan Barthel, Stockholm Resilience Centre
Henrik Ernstson, Stockholm Resilience Centre
Lars Marcus, KTH
Hanna Erixon, KTH
KIT architects

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Science, Policy & PracticeThe sustainable vision for a new campus area at Stockholm University encompass the latest urban
ecology research and aims promoting the creation of ecosystem services and institutions to enhance
the social, ecological and cultural values. The proposal includes strong stakeholder participation in the
management of green areas. Illustration: KIT arkitektur

national urban park for birds and other migrating
animals. Other suggestions include building
aqueducts and creating a link for bringing aquatic
wildlife to the park.

plan for the Royal National Urban Park. Whatis done here has the potential to enhance theecological, cultural and social values of the area.
It can potentially contribute to putting Stockholmon the world map as an attractive learning
environment.
The proposal also points out that Albano
can serve as a gateway between the city and theThe ‘Green urbanism at Albano’
conference
On 29 October 2009, Stockholm ResilienceCentre organised the conference ‘Green urbanism
at Albano’ with the aim of providing planning
advice for development of the Albano areaby three major universities in Stockholm. An
additional aim was to make the conference a
starting point for a long-term multi-disciplinary
and multi-stakeholder learning process that caninspire others around the globe. The conference
was arranged in a collaboration between
Akademiska Hus (the land owner in the Albanoarea); Stockholm Resilience Centre (contributorof transdisciplinary knowledge); and Stockholm
University (the main tenant in the area).

Folded meadow. The Patchwork proposal shows how
an existing bridge can be transformed into an ecoduct.
Green contact surface is maximized by fold­i ng thestructure over itself. Illustration: KIT arkitektur

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Science, Policy & PracticeUrban Atlas: A new tool for future
urban planning
The Urban Atlas is an open internet tool thatallows citizens, planners and scientists tovisualize ecosystems in cities, social-ecologicalconnections and scenarios for climate change
adaptation. It is an international collaboration
to develop new tools for determining the socialecological capacity to sustain and provide
access to ecosystem services during periods of
uncertainty and change.
In phase one, students (aged 16-19) andteachers are invited to formulate questions for
future urban planning that are relevant for theircity neighbourhood. By providing innovative
ways of visualizing science in society, theUrban Atlas can be used to involve citizens incollaborative green urban planning and learning.
In phase two, urban planners and researchers
will be targeted. The Urban Atlas will make itpossible for citizens, policymakers and scientists
to analyze and have a dialogue about different
urban development scenarios.
The Urban Atlas is under development by the

Urban Theme at the Stockholm Resilience Centre
as a consortium of research groups in twelve
cities around the world: Bangalore, Canberra,
Cape Town, Chicago, Helsinki, Istanbul, New
Delhi, New Orleans, New York, Phoenix,
Shanghai and Stockholm. Within the consortium,
the Urban Atlas will be used to address acommon set of research questions including:
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What are the effects of urban
development and land use change on
biodiversity and ecosystem services?
How are different socio-economic groups
affected by environmental changes inurban regions?
How do we facilitate an understanding ofcomplexity and uncertainty?
How do we capture information about
urban dynamics and urban development
trajectories important for understanding
adaptive and transformative capacity?
www.urbanatlasportal.org

Celebration of the 100th Stockholm Seminar
On a sunny April day, the 100th Stockholm
Seminar was celebrated with a half-day
symposium focusing on the global challenges
of climate change, ecosystem management andhuman welfare. The symposium, featuring a star
cast of scientific minds, filled up the Beijer Hall at
the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Originally initiated by Centre Science Director
Carl Folke, the Stockholm Seminars can be
described as an opportunistic institution, as they

exploit the windows of opportunity that open
when interesting researchers visit Stockholm. The
lectures are open to a transdisciplinary audienceand span a wide range of subjects, with theawareness that human societies and the world’s
natural systems are truly interdependent as acommon theme. The Stockholm Seminars are
co-arranged by Albaeco, Stockholm ResilienceCentre and IGBP. For more information see
www.albaeco.com

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Stockholm Seminars 2009
February 2
Prof. Charles Redman
Urban Origins and Sustainability Strategies
March 3Dr. Ismael Vaccaro
Patrimony and Consumption: Rethinking the Relationships
between Rural Areas and Cities
March 18
Prof. Daniel W. Bromley
Resilience Meets Volitional Pragmatism: a Theory of Co-Evolutionary Change
March 23
Prof. Fikret Berkes
Social-Ecological Systems and Conservation: Putting People Back into the Picture
April 30
100th Stockholm Seminar: Climate, Ecosystems and Development
May 14
Dr. Christian Valentin
Resilience of Sahelian ecosystems through the uneven
spatial distribution of natural resources
May 26
Prof. Jeff Cardille
Summarizing Land-Use Patterns at the Continental Scale:
Searching for and Understanding “Exemplar” Landscapes
June 17
Prof. Jordi Bascompte
Networks of Ecological Interactions in the Face of Global Change
September 4
Prof. Maurice Godelier
In today’s world, anthropology is more important than everSeptember 22
Vasilis Dakos
Expecting the unexpected: Leading indicators of regime shifts
October 7
Prof. Kenneth FrankThe Social Embeddedness of Natural Resource
Extraction and Use in Small Fishing Communities

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Too many vessels, too few fish
The current fisheries policy is dangerously close to depleting the Baltic Sea of fish. A recent project usedfisheries management practices from Norway, the USA and Canada in an attempt to curb that trend.
European fisheries have changed dramaticallyover recent decades. Fleets have become more
efficient and the fishing capacity has improved
significantly, but at a high price. Years of
mismanagement have led to overfishing,bycatches and disgraceful discards. The European
Commission has estimated that 80 percent ofEuropean stocks are overfished, and the Baltic
Sea stocks are no exception.
Much blame has been attributed to the
Common Fisheries Policy, the European Union’s
instrument for the management of fisheries andaquaculture. Despite several reforms and reviews
since its inception in the early 1970s, the policy
is short of admirers. References to the ‘blunt’,‘remote’, ‘highly bureaucratic’ and ‘top-down’nature of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP)are common within the literature and the EU isviewed as ineffective in its management of thefisheries sector.

The recent project “Best Practice ofFisheries Management” aimed to improve
this management. Centre partner Baltic Nest
together with Baltic Sea 2020 and the Institutefor European Environmental Policy convened
internationally recognized scientists from thenatural sciences, economics and social sciences
to investigate known examples of successful
management that could help the Baltic Sea backonto a sustainable trajectory.
The conclusion from their final report, which
was presented in April 2009, is clear:“The current fisheries management has
failed to deliver on its social, economic andenvironmental goals under the existing European
Common Fisheries Policy. Centralized decisionmaking must be replaced by regional stakeholder
management in order to adapt to regional
ecosystem conditions.”

Getting Into the Right Lane for 2050:
A Primer for EU Debate
sufficient food for a global population of ninebillion while minimizing biodiversity loss;
mitigating climate change and enhancing energy
security for the EU; as well as developing
practical and workable solutions for a low carbon
EU transport system. The report is designed tocontribute to the debate on the long-term agendaof the next European Commission and thecoming presidencies.

This report, prepared by the Netherlands
Environmental Assessment Agency incollaboration with the Stockholm ResilienceCentre, presents a positive vision for a sustainable
Europe in 2050, drawing on current EU policy
discussions.
Based on this vision, the report also highlights
key policy actions that need to be taken within
the next five to ten years in order for the EU
to meet these long-term goals. ‘Getting Intothe Right Lane for 2050’ focuses on producing

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Teaching & Training
Stockholm Resilience Centre offers a varietyof transdisciplinary courses and programmes
on environmental and sustainable development
issues. We have one undergraduate and two
Master’s programmes and a PhD-level Research
School with special emphasis on resilience.
The courses are developed and promoted incollaboration with several departments at
Stockholm University. Courses are offered at alllevels: undergraduate, Master’s and PhD.

University, while the others are hosted by the
Departments of Political Science, Economics, andPhysical Geography and Quaternary Geology.
These new students will follow the Centre´s own
general study plan as well as that of their host
Department. The twelve PhD students who wereenrolled prior to August 2009 are also part of the
new Research School.
Each year we offer a number of ad hoc PhD
courses. In 2009, these were: ‘Communityconserved areas, multi-level governance andadaptation to climate change’ by Fikret Berkes,
University of Manitoba, Canada, and ‘Complex
Adaptive Systems’ by Jon Norberg, Stockholm
University. Two compulsory PhD courses in the
Research School will start in January 2010.

Resilience Research School at the
Stockholm Resilience Centre
In 2009 a new Resilience Research School wasestablished with the aim of training the next
generation of transdisciplinary thinkers and doers
on social-ecological resilience and sustainable
development. Ten new PhD students joined theCentre when the Research School was launched inAugust. Seven of the students are affiliated with
the Department of Systems Ecology at Stockholm

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Ecosystems, Governance andGlobalisation, 120 credits.

In order to attract top international and Swedish
students and keep the focus on our primary goals,
the Centre decided to split the two programmes
into one research-orientated Master’s programmeand one programme designed to train practitioners
and managers. As a consequence, the Centre
reduced the number of new students who started
the EGG and SE programmes in order to prioritize
programme development. The new programmes,with new selection criteria and new courses, will beannounced in 2010.

An interdisciplinary Master’s Programmein cooperation with several departments
at Stockholm University. The programme
includes seven courses: Resilience, Adaptability,
Transformability; Philosophy of Science forInterdisciplinary Environmental Research;
Ecosystem Management; Adaptive Governanceof Social-ecological Systems; Social-ecological
Resilience: Applications; International
Governance of Ecosystems; and Methods forTransdisciplinary Environmental Research.

Sustainable Enterprising,
120 credits.
An interdisciplinary Master’s Programmein cooperation with several departments at
Stockholm University. The programme includes
five courses: Resilience, Adaptability andTransformability; Management Tools andChange Management; Environmental Law; Social
Responsibility for Sustainable Enterprising; andAcademic Theory, Methods, and Writing forTransdisciplinary Research.

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Other programmes and courses at the
Stockholm Resilience Centre

Moriel, LoïsSocio-economic drivers influencing sustainability
in a social-ecological system: Insights from whale
shark tourism in northern Quintana Roo, MexicoHållbar samhällsutveckling, 60 credits.
This one-year introductory level programmeon sustainable development gives a basic
understanding of the complex interactions between
nature and society. Co-coordinated in co-operation
with the Department of Physical Geography and
Quaternary Geology. Given in Swedish.

Nordwall, Malin
New Zealand as a model for vector borne disease
emergence: Effects of social and environmental
factors on dengue
Rathwell, Kaitlyn
Managing Water Quality in a Heterogeneous
Landscape: A social Network Perspective

Världens Eko, 7.5 credits.
An introductory course on sustainable
development, initiated and driven by students,
featuring some of Sweden’s most qualified
researchers and debaters. Given in Swedish.

Rudberg, Peter
Furthering the understanding of the adaptation
space of organizations: A case study of adaptation
to climate change within the Water Supply andWaste Water sector of the Stockholm Region

Sustainable Development from a
Resilience Perspective, 5 credits.
An introductory course for undergraduate
exchange students from the USA. Within the
Swedish Programme at Stockholm University.

Schmuki, Anna
The role of a global organization in triggeringsocial learning. Insights from a Case Study of aWorld Heritage CulturalLandscapeNomination
Photo:
E.Wisniewska/azote.sein Bali

Stockholm Resilience Centre
Master Theses 2009

Sustainable Enterprising

Ecosystems, Governance andGlobalisation
Abdul Baten, Mohammed
Property rights in mangroves: A case study of the
Mahakam Delta, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Holmström, Dag
Sustainable development for tomorrow: Enabling
local implementations of global issues in Swedish
schools

Ahammad, Ronju
Understanding institutional changes for reducing
social vulnerability to landslides: A case study in
the Chittagong city, Bangladesh

Steen, Anton
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Wind
Power Industry: A study about CSR preferences
and stakeholder involvement

Brand, Annelie
Defining and utilizing indicators of Coral Reef
Resilience in the Red Sea

Weinestedt, Henrik
Stakeholder Analysis as a Tool for Working withSocial Responsibility. Developing a Stakeholder
Analysis Method for ISO 26000

Dobom, Avital
Illegal Chinese Fishing in West African Waters:
A study on Chinese IUU Activities and its
Consequences to Socio-Ecological Systems
Gingrich, Margaret
The Greening of Trade Unions? Factors affecting
blue-collar unions’ action on climate and energy
issues in the United States and Sweden
Meacham, Megan
Path dependency of infrastructure investment:
Implications for the sanitation system of Phnom
Penh, Cambodia

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Appendices Accounts in brief

AppendicesA. Accounts in brief 2009
Grants Allocated to Stockholm Resilience Centre
2007-2009 (Total: 128,4 MSEK)

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36.6 MSEK2009 TOTAL:

54.4 MSEK

Stockholm University;

6.1 MSEK

Stockholm University;

8.3 MSEK

Mistra;9.0 MSEK

Mistra;15.0 MSEK

External;

21.5 MSEK

External*;

31.1 MSEK*

2008:  TOTAL

37.4 MSEK*External Grant Total 2009:

31,1 MSEK

Stockholm University;

7.5 MSEKFORMAS:

14,5 MSEK

Mistra;10.0 MSEKThe Swedish EPA:

10,7 MSEK

External;

19.9 MSEK

SIDA/Research Council:

5,0 MSEKEU:

0,9 MSEK

The subsidy from Stockholm University includes income for SRCs Education and Courses.

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B. Publications 2009

Colding, J., Lundberg, J., Lundberg, S., Andersson, E.
(2009). Golf courses and wetland fauna. EcologicalApplications 19: 1481–1491.

Published articles

Colding, J., Folke, C. (2009). The role of golf courses inbiodiversity conservation and ecosystem management.
Ecosystems 12: 191-206.

Ahrné, K., Bengtsson, J., Elmqvist, T. (2009). Bumble bees
(Bombus spp) along a gradient of increasing urbanization.
PLoS ONE. 4(5): e5574. doi: 10.1371/journal.
pone.0005574.

Conley, D.J., Björck, S., Bonsdorff, E., Carstensen, J.
Destouni, G., Gustafsson, B.G., Hietanen, S., Kortekaas,
M., Kuosa, H., Meier, H.E.M., Müller-Karulis, B.,
Nordberg, K., Norkko, A., Nürnberg, G., Pitkänen, H.,
Rabalais, N.N., Rosenberg, R., Savchuk, O.P., Slomp,
C.P., Voss, M., Wulff, F., Zillén, L. (2009). Hypoxiarelated processes in the Baltic Sea . Environmental Science& Technology 43: 3412-3420.

Andersson, E., Ahrné, K., Pykkönen, M., Elmqvist T.
(2009). Patterns and scale relations among urbanization
measures in Stockholm, Sweden. Landscape Ecology 24:
1331-1339. doi 10.1007/s10980-009-9385-1
Andersson, E., Bodin, Ö. (2009). Practical tool forlandscape planning? An empirical investigation of network
based models of habitat fragmentation. Ecography 32: 123132. doi 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2008.05435.x

Conley D.J., Bonsdorff, E., Carstensen, J. Destouni, G.,
Gustafsson, B.G., Hanson, L.-A., Rabalais, N.N., Voss,
M., Zillén, L. (2009). Tackling hypoxia in the Baltic
Sea: Is engineering a solution? Environmental Science &Technology 43: 3407-3411.

Bennett, E.M., Peterson, G.D., Gordon, L.J. (2009).
Understanding relationships among multiple ecosystemservices. Ecology Letters 12: 1394¬1404

Cory, N., Buffam, I., Laudon, H., Björkvald, L., Mörth,C-M., Bishop, K. (2009). Particulate aluminium in boreal
streams: Towards a better understanding of its sources
and influence on dissolved aluminium speciation.Applied
Geochemistry 24: 1677-1685.

Biggs, R., Carpenter, S.R., Brock, W.A. (2009) Turning
back from the brink: Detecting an impending regime shift
in time to avert it. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences (PNAS) 106: 826-831.

Crépin, A-S, Lindahl, T. (2009). Grazing games: Sharing
common property resources with complex dynamics.
Environmental and Resource Economics 44: 29-46.

Biggs, R., Carpenter, S.R., Brock, W.A. (2009).
Spurious certainty: How ignoring measurement error
and environmental heterogeneity may contribute toenvironmental controversies. BioScience 59: 65-76.

Crona, B., Rönnbäck, P., Jiddawi, N., Ochiewo, J.,
Maghimbi, S., Bandeira, S. (2009). Murky water:
Analyzing risk perception and stakeholder vulnerability
related to sewage impacts in mangroves of East Africa.
Global Environmental Change 19: 227-239.

Bjorkvald, L. Giesler, R., Laudon, H., Humborg, C.,
Mörth, C-M, (2009). Landscape variations in stream waterSO42- and delta S-34(SO4) in a boreal stream network.
Geochimica et Cosmochmica Acta 73: 4648-4660.

de la Torre-Castro, M., Lindström, L. (2009). Fishinginstitutions: Addressing regulative, normative and culturalcognitive elements to enhance fisheries management.
Marine Policy doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2009.04.012

Bodin, Ö., Crona, B.I. (2009). The role of social networks
in natural resource governance: What relational patterns
make a difference? Global Environmental Change 19:366–374.

Doherty, S. J., Bojinski, S., Henderson-Sellers, A., Noone,K., Goodrich, D., Bindoff, N.L., Church, J.A., Hibbard,
K.A., Karl, T.R., Kajfez-Bogataj, L., Lynch, A.H., Parker,
D.E., Prentice, I.C., Ramaswamy, V., Saunders, R.W.,
Stafford Smith, M., Steffen, K., Stocker, T.F., Thorne,
P.W., Trenberth, K.E., Verstraete, M.M., Zwiers, F.
(2009). Lessons learned from IPCC AR4: Future scientificdevelopments needed to understand, predict and respondto climate change. Bulletin of the American MeteorologicalSociety 90: 497-513.

Boyd, E., Juhola, S. (2009). Stepping up to the climatechange: Opportunities in reconfiguring development
futures. Journal of International Development.
doi:10.1002/jid.1619
Boyd, E., Grist, N., Juhola, S., Nelson, V. (2009).
Exploring development futures in a changing climate:
Frontiers for development policy and practice.
Development Policy Review 27: 659-674.
Borgström, S. (2009). Patterns and challenges of urban
nature conservation: A study of southern Sweden.
Environment and Planning A 41: 2671 – 2685.

Duit. A., Hall, O., Mikusinski, G., Angelstam, P. (2009).
Saving the woodpeckers: Social capital, governance,and policy performance. Journal of Environment andDevelopment 18: 42-61.

Carpenter, S.R., Folke, C., Scheffer, M. Westley, F.
(2009). Resilience: Accounting for the noncomputable.
Ecology and Society 14(1): 13. [online] URL: http://www.
ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art13/

Dunca, E., Mutvei, H., Goransson, P., Mörth, C-M,
Schone, B.R., Whitehouse, M.J., Elfman, M., Baden, S.P.
(2009), Using ocean quahog (Arctica islandica) shells toreconstruct palaeoenvironment in Öresund, Kattegat andSkagerrak, Sweden. International Journal of Earth Sciences
98: 3-17.

Chapin, F.S., III, Carpenter, S.R., Kofinas, G.P., Folke,
C., Abel, N., Clark, W.C., Olsson, P., Stafford Smith,D.M., Walker, B.H., Young, O.R., Berkes, F., Biggs,
R., Grove, J.M., Naylor, R.L., Pinkerton, E., Steffen,W., Swanson, F.J.. (2009). Ecosystem Stewardship:
Sustainability Strategies for a Rapidly Changing Planet.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1016/j.
tree.2009.10.008.

Ernstson H., Sörlin S. (2009). Weaving protective
stories: connective practices to articulate holistic valuesin Stockholm National Urban Park. Environment andPlanning A 41:1460-1479.

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Falkenmark, M., Rockström, J., Karlberg, L., (2009).
Present and future water requirements for feeding
humanity. Food Security 1: 59-69.

Lindroth, A. (2009). Bayesian calibration method used toelucidate carbon turnover in forest on drained organic soil.
Biogeochemistry 89: 61-79.

Fischer, J., Peterson, G.D., Gordon, L.J., Dovers, S.,
Fazey, I., Felton, A., Elmqvist, T., Folke, C., Gardner, T.,
Manning, A.D. (2009). Integrating resilience thinking
and optimization for conservation. Trends in Ecology and
Evolution 24: 549-554. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.03.020

Köhler, J., Whitmarsh, L., Nykvist, B., Schilperoord, M.,
Bergman, N., Haxeltine, A. (2009) A transitions model forsustainable mobility. Ecological Economics 68: 2985-2995.
Leavitt, P.R., Fritz, S.C., Anderson, N.J., Baker, P.-A.,
Blenckner, T., Bunting, L., Catalan, J., Conley, D.J.,
Hobbs, W., Jeppesen, E., Korhola, A., McGowan, S.,
Rühland, K., Rusak, J.A., Simpson, G.L., Solovieva, N.,
Werne, J. (2009) Paleolimnological evidence of the effects
on lakes of energy and mass transfer from climate andhumans. Limnology and Oceanography 54: 2330-2348.

Folke, C., Rockström, J. (2009). Turbulent times. Global
Environmental Change 19: 1-3.
Galaz, V. (2009). Pandemic 2.0: Can information technology
really help us save the Planet? Environment 51(6): 20-28.
Galaz, V., Crona, B., Daw, T., Bodin, Ö., Nyström,M., Olsson, P. (2009). Can webcrawlers revolutionize
ecological monitoring? Frontiers in Ecology and theEnvironment, doi:10.1890/070204

Lindahl, T., Johannesson, M. (2009). Bargaining over acommon resource with private information. Scandinavian
Journal of Economics 111: 547-565.

Giesler, R., Björkvald, L., Laudon, H., Mörth, C.-M.
(2009). Spatial and seasonal variations in stream water
d34S-dssiolved organic matter in Northern Sweden,
Environmental Science and Technology 43: 447-452.

Lindborg, R., Stenseke, M., Cousins, S.A.O., Bengtsson,
J., Berg, Å., Gustafsson, T., Sjödin, N.E., Eriksson,
O. (2009). Investigating biodiversity trajectories using
scenarios – Lessons from two contrasting agriculturallandscapes. Journal of Environmental Management 91:
499-508.

Gordon, L.J., Finlayson, C.M., Falkenmark, M. (2009).
Managing water in agriculture for food production andother ecosystem services. Agricultural Water Management,doi: 10.1016/j.agwat.2009.03.017

Lyon, S.W, Destouni, G., Giesler, R., Humborg, C.,
Mörth, M., Seibert, J., Karlsson, J., Troch P.A. (2009).
Estimation of permafrost thawing rates in a sub-arctic
catchment using recession flow analysis. Hydrology and
Earth System Sciences 13: 595-604.

Gray, J., Estrada-Peña, A., Dautel, H., Kahl, O., Lindgren,
E. (2009). Effects of climate change on ticks and tickborne diseases in Europe . Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
Infectious Diseases Volume 2009, Article ID 593232, 12
pages. doi:10.1155/2009/593232

McQuatters-Gollop, A., Gilbert, A.J., Mee, L.D.,
Vermaat, L.E., Artioli, Y., Humborg, C., Wulff, F. (2009).
How well do ecosystem indicators communicate the effects
of anthropogenic eutrophication? Estuarine Coastal and
Shelf Science 82: 583-596.

Gunderson, L.H., Folke, C. (2009). The ecology andsociety network. Ecology and Society 14(2): 44. [online]
URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art44/

Nohr, C. Gustafsson, B.G. (2009). Computation of energy
for diapycnal mixing in the Baltic Sea due to internal
wave drag acting on wind-driven barotropic currents.
Oceanologia 51: 461-494.

Gunderson, L.H., Folke, C. (2009). Lumpy information.
Ecology and Society 14(1): 51. [online] URL: http://www.
ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art51/

Nohr, C., Björk, G., Gustafsson, B.G. (2009). A dynamic
sea ice model based on the formation direction of leads.
Cold Regions Science and Technology 58: 36-46.

Hertin, J., Turnpenny, J., Jordan, A., Nilsson, M., Russel,D., Nykvist, B. (2009) Rationalising the policy mess?: Ex
ante policy assessment and the utilisation of knowledge in thepolicy process. Environment and Planning A 41: 1185-1200.

Norström, A., Nyström, M., Lokrantz, J., Folke, C.
(2009). Alternative states of coral reefs: Beyond coralmacroalgal phase shifts. Marine Ecology Progress Series
376: 295-306.

Hoff, H., Falkenmark, M., Gerten, D., Gordon, L.,
Karlberg, L., Rockström, J. (2009). Greening the global
water system. Journal of Hydrology. doi:10.1016/j.
jhydrol.2009.06.026

Persson, Å. (2009) Environmental policy integration
and bilateral development assistance: Challenges andopportunities with an evolving governance framework.
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law
and Economics 9: 409-429. doi: 10.1007/s10784-0099110-1

Holland, T., Peterson, G.D., Gonzalez, A. 2009.
Economic inequality predicts biodiversity loss: A crossnational analysis. Conservation Biology 23: 1304–1313.
Hultman, N.E. Boyd, E., Roberts, J.T., Cole, J., Corbera,E., Ebeling, J., Brown, K., Liverman, D.M. (2009). How
can the Clean Development Mechanism better contributeto sustainable development? Ambio 38: 120-122.

Rockström, J., Karlberg, L., Wani, S.P., Barron, J., Hatibu,N., Oweis, T., Bruggeman, A., Farahani, J., Qiang, Z..
(2009) Managing water in rainfed agriculture: the need fora paradigm shift. Agricultural Water Management. DOI:
10.1016/j.agwat.2009.09.009

Humborg, C., Mörth, C.-M., Sundbom, M., Borg, H.,
Blenckner, T., Giesler, R., Ittekkot, V. (2009). CO2
supersaturation along the aquatic conduit in Swedish
watersheds as constrained by terrestrial respiration,aquatic respiration and weathering. Global Change
Biology. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02092.x.

Rockström, J., Kaumbutho, P., Mwalley, J., Nzabi,
A.W., Temesgen, M., Mawenya, L., Barron, J., Mutua,J., Damgaard-Larsen, S. (2009). Conservation farming
strategies in East and Southern Africa: Yields and rainwater productivity from on-farm action research. Soil &Tillage Research 103: 23-32.

Klemedtsson, L., Jansson, P-E., Gustafsson, D., Karlberg,
L., Westlien, P., von Arnold, K., Ernfors, M., Langvall, O.,

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Chopra, K., Daily, G., Ehrlich, P., Hughes, T., Kautsky,
N., Levin, S., Mäler, K-G., Shogren, J., Vincent, J., Xepapadeas, T., de Zeeuw, A. (2009). Looming global-scale
failures and missing institutions. Science 325: 1345-1346.

Rockström, J., Steffen, W., Noone, K., Persson, Å.,Chapin, III, F.S., Lambin, E., Lenton, T.M., Scheffer, M.,
Folke, C., Schellnhuber, H., Nykvist, B., De Wit, C.A.,
Hughes, T., van der Leeuw, S., Rodhe, H., Sörlin, S.,
Snyder, P.K., Costanza, R., Svedin, U., Falkenmark, M.,
Karlberg, L., Corell, R.W., Fabry, V.J., Hansen, J., Walker,
B.H., Liverman, D., Richardson, K., Crutzen, C., Foley. J.
(2009). Planetary boundaries: Exploring the safe operating
space for humanity. Ecology and Society 14(2): 32. [online]
URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art32/

Walker, B.H., Pearson, L., Harris, M., Mäler, K.-G.,
Chuan-Zhong, L., Biggs, R., Baynes, T. (2009).
Incorporating resilience in the assessment of Inclusive
Wealth: An example from South East Australia.
Environmental and Resource Economics. DOI 10.1007/
s10640-009-9311-7.

Rockström, J., Steffen, W., Noone, K., Persson, Å.,Chapin, III, F.S., Lambin, E., Lenton, T.M., Scheffer, M.,
Folke, C., Schellnhuber, H., Nykvist, B., De Wit, C.A.,
Hughes, T., van der Leeuw, S., Rodhe, H., Sörlin, S.,
Snyder, P.K., Costanza, R., Svedin, U., Falkenmark, M.,
Karlberg, L., Corell, R.W., Fabry, V.J., Hansen, J., Walker,
B.H., Liverman, D., Richardson, K., Crutzen, C., Foley. J.
(2009). A safe operating space for humanity. Nature 461:
472-475 DOI 10.1038/461472a

Wallander, H., Mörth, C.-M., Giesler, R. (2009),
Increasing abundance of soil fungi is a driver for N-15
enrichment in soil profiles along a chronosequence
undergoing isostatic rebound in northern Sweden.
Oecologica 160: 87-96.
Whitmarsh, L., Gerger Swartling, Å., Jäger, J. (2009).
Participation of experts and non-experts in sustainability
assessment of mobility. Environmental Policy andGovernance 19: 232-250.

Rockström, J., Falkenmark, M., Karlberg, L., Hoff, H.,
Rost , S., Gerten, D. (2009). Future water availability for
global food production: The potential of green water forincreasing resilience to global change. Water Resources
Research 45, W00A12, doi:10.1029/2007WR006767, 14
February 2009.

ZŽydelis, R., Bellebaum, J., Österblom, H., Vetemaa, M.,
Schirmeister, B., Stipniece, A., Dagys, M., van Eerden,M., Garthe,S. (2009). Bycatch in gillnet fisheries: An
overlooked threat to waterbird populations. BiologicalConservation 142: 1269-1281.

Savchuk, O.P., Wulff, F. (2009). Long-term modelingof large-scale nutrient cycles in the entire Baltic Sea.
Hydrobiologia 629: 209-224.

Book chapters
Beckman, J., Widmalm, S., Tunlid, A., Fors, H., Holmberg. G., Wennerholm, S., Wormbs, N. (2009). Inledning.
Vetenskapens sociala strukturer: Sju historiska om konflikt, samverkan och makt. Nordic Academic Press, Lund.

Savchuk, O.P., Eremina, T.R., Isaev, A.V, Neelov,
I.A. (2009). Response of eutrophication in the eastern
Gulf of Finland to nutrient load reduction scenarios.
Hydrobiologia 629: 225-237.

Beckman, J., Widmalm, S., Tunlid, A., (2009). Efterord.
Vetenskapens sociala strukturer: Sju historiska om konflikt, samverkan och makt. Nordic Academic Press, Lund.

Segnestam, L. (2009). Division of capitals: What role doesit play for gender-differentiated vulnerability to droughtin Nicaragua? Community Development 40: 154-176doi:
10.1080/15575330903001562

Beckman, J. (2009). Landskapsfloror: Inventering övergränser. Vetenskapens sociala strukturer: Sju historiska
om konflikt, samverkan och makt. Nordic Academic Press,
Lund.

Smedberg, E., Humborg, C., Jacobsson, M., Mörth, C.-M.
(2009). Landscape elements and river chemistry as affectedby river regulation: A 3-D perspective. Hydrology and
Earth System Sciences 13: 1597-1606.

Bodin, Ö. (2009). Ecological topology and networks.
In Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. R.
Meyers (ed.) Springer, New York, pp. 2728-2744.

Stålnacke, P., Pengerud, A. Bechmann, M., Garnier, J.,
Boyer, E.W., Humborg, C. Novotny, V. (2009). Nitrogendriving force and pressure relationships at contrasting
scales: Implications for catchment management. International Journal of River Basin Management 7:221-232.

Bodin, Ö. (2009). Prioritizing habitat patches forconservation in fragmented landscapes/townscapes using
network based models and analyses. In Sustainable
Development and Planning IV (Vol 1). C.A. Brebbia, N.
Neophytou, E. Beriatos, I. Ioannou, A.G. Kungolos (eds.).
WIT Press, Southampton, U.K., pp 109-118

Sörlin, S. (2009). Narratives and counter narrativesof climate change: North Atlantic glaciology andmeteorology, ca 1930-1955. Journal of Historical
Geography 35: 237-255.

Carpenter, S.R., Biggs, R. (2009). Freshwaters: Managing
across scales in space and time. In Principles of Ecosystem
Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource
Management in a Changing World. F.S. Chapin III, G.P.
Kofinas, C. Folke (eds). Springer Verlag, New York, pp.

Tomczak, M.T., Müller-Karulis, B., Jär, L., Kotta, L.,
Martin, G., Minde, A., Põllumäe, A., Razinkovas, A.,
Strake, S., Bucas, M., Blenckner, T. (2009), Analysis oftrophic networks and carbon flows in south-eastern Baltic
coastal ecosystems. Progress in Oceanography 81: 111-131

Chapin, F.S., III., Folke, C., Kofinas, G.P. (2009). A
framework for understanding change. In Principles
of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural
Resource Management in a Changing World. F.S. Chapin
III, G.P. Kofinas, and C. Folke (eds). Springer Verlag, New
York, pp.. 3-28.

Troell, M., Joyce, A., Chopin, T., Neori, A., Buschmann,
A.H., Fang, J.G. (2009). Ecological engineering inaquaculture: Potential for integrated multi-trophic
aquaculture (IMTA) in marine offshore systems.
Aquaculture 297: 1–9.

Chapin, F.S., III, Kofinas, G.P., Folke, C., Carpenter,
S.R., Olsson, P., Abel, N., Biggs, R., Naylor, R.L.,
Pinkerton, E., Stafford Smith, D.M., Steffen, W., Walker,

Walker, B.H., Barrett, S., Polasky, S., Galaz, V., Folke,
C., Engström, G., Ackerman, F., Arrow, K., Carpenter, S.,

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Persson, Å., Klein, R.J.T. (2009). Mainstreaming
adaptation to climate change into official development
assistance: challenges to foreign policy integration. In
Climate Change and Foreign Policy: Case Studies from East
to West. P.Harris (ed.). Routledge, London, pp. 162-177.

B.H., Young, O.R. (2009). Resilience-based stewardship:
Strategies for navigating sustainable pathways in achanging world. In Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship:
Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a
Changing World. F.S. Chapin III, G.P. Kofinas, C. Folke(eds.). Springer Verlag, New York, pp. 319-337.

Peterson, G.D. (2009). Ecological limits of adaptation
to climate change. In Adapting to Climate Change:
Governance, Values and Limits, W.N. Adger, I. Lorenzoni,
K. O’Brien (eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
U.K., pp. 25-41

Crona, B.I. (2009). Communication networks, leadershipand natural resource management in an African seascape.
In Conservation for a New Generation: Redefining Natural
Resources Management. R. Knight, C. White (eds.). Island
Press, Washington D.C., pp. 235-242.

Rockström, J., Karlberg, L. (2009). Zooming in on the
global hotspots. In Rainfed Agriculture – Unlocking
the Potential. S. Wani, J. Rockström, T. Oweis, T. (eds.).
Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management inAgriculture. Series Vol. 7. CABI Publication, Wallingford,
U.K., pp.36-43.

de Fraiture, C., Karlberg, L., Rockström, J. (2009).
Synthesis: How far can rain-fed agriculture go in securing
food in 2025? In Rainfed Agriculture – Unlocking the
Potential. S. Wani, J. Rockström, T. Oweis, T. (eds.).
Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. Series Vol. 7. CABI Publication, Wallingford, UK.

Schultz, L., Fazey, I. (2009). Effective leadership for
adaptive management. In Adaptive Environmental
Management: A practical guide. C. Allan, G. Stankey G.
(eds.). Springer Verlag, New York.

Duit, A., Galaz, V. Löf, A. (2009). Fragmenterad förvirring
eller kreativ arena? Från “government” till “governance”
I svensk naturvårdspolitik. G. Sundström, J. Pierre (red.).
Samhällsstyrning i förändring, Stockholm, Liber.
Elmqvist, T. (2009). Naturvård i utvecklingens tjänst.
I Naturvård bortom 2009. L. Lundgren (editor).
Riksbankens jubileumsfond.

Sörlin, S. (2009). The global warming that did not happen:
Historicizing glaciology and climate change. In Nature’s
End: History and the Environment, S. Sörlin, P. Warde(eds.). Palgrave MacMillan, London. pp. 93-114.

Elmqvist, T., Tengö, M (2009). Spontaneous regenerationof tropical dry forest in Madagascar. In Forest
Regeneration: Patterns and Processes. H. Nagendra, J.
Southworth (eds.). Springer Verlag, Amsterdam.

Sörlin, S., Warde, P. (2009). Making the environment
historical: An introduction. In Nature’s End: History
and the Environment, S. Sörlin, P. Warde (eds.). Palgrave
MacMillan, London, pp. 1-19.

Fazey I., Schultz, L. (2009). Adaptive people for adaptive
management. In Adaptive Environmental Management: A
practical guide. C. Allan, G. Stankey G. (eds.). Springer
Verlag, New York.

Wani, S.P., Sreedevi, T.K., Rockström, J., Ramakrishna,
Y.S. (2009.) Rainfed agriculture - past trends and future
prospects. In Rainfed Agriculture – Unlocking the
Potential. S. Wani, J. Rockström, T. Oweis, T. (eds.).
Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management inAgriculture. Series Vol. 7. CABI Publication, Wallingford,
U.K.,pp. 1-35.

Folke, C., Chapin, F.S. III, Olsson, P. (2009).
Transformations in ecosystem stewardship. In Principles
of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural
Resource Management in a Changing World. F.S. Chapin
III, G.P. Kofinas, C. Folke (eds.). Springer Verlag, New
York, pp .

Österblom, H. (2009). Human impacts on marine andfreshwater environments. In H. Ackefors, M. Cullberg, P.
Wramner (eds). Fisheries, Sustainability and Development,
chapter 5. Royal Swedish Academy for Agriculture andForestry, Stockholm

Guichard, F, Peterson, G.D. (2009)..The importanceof cross-scale interactions in coupled social-ecologicalsystems. In Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans.
K. McLeod, H. Leslie (eds.).. Island Press, Washington,
DC., pp. 74-91.

Book Review
Lundholm, C. (2009) Review of ‘Participation andlearning: perspectives on education and the environment,
health and sustainability’ by Reid A, Jensen B B, Nikel J &Simovska V (eds) 2008, Springer, Dortrecht. In Children,
Youth and the Environment.

Jaenson, T.G.T., Eisen, L., Comstedt, P., Mejlon,
H.A., Lindgren, E., Bergström, S., Olsen, E. (2009).
Risk indicators for the tick Ixodes ricinus and Borrelia
burgdorferi sensu lato in Sweden. Medical and
Veterinary Entomology 23: 226-237. doi: 10.1111/j.13652915.2009.00813.x

Sörlin, S. (2009). Review of: The World System and theEarth System. Global Socioenvironmental Change andSustainability Since the Neoliothic, eds. A. Hornborg &C. Crumley (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2007),
Scandinavian Economic History Review 57(2009):3, pp.
303-305.

Karlberg, L., Rockström, J., Falkenmark, M., 2009. Water
resource implications of upgrading rainfed agriculture– focus on green and blue water trade-offs. In Rainfed
Agriculture – Unlocking the Potential. S. Wani, J.
Rockström, T. Oweis, T. (eds.). Comprehensive Assessmentof Water Management in Agriculture. Series Vol. 7. CABI
Publication, Wallingford, U.K., pp. 44-57

Published books

Norberg, J. (2009). Beyond biodiversity: Other aspectsof ecological organization. In The Princeton Guide to
Ecology. S.A. Levin (ed.), S.R. Carpenter, H.C.J. Godfray,
A.P. Kinzig, M. Loreau, J.B. Losos, B.H. Walker, D.S.
Wilcove Princeton University Press, Princeton.

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

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Ebbesson, J. (ed). (2009). Environmental Law and Justicein Context, Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13:
9780521879682Cambridge

Galaz, V. (2009). Lennart J. Lundqvist 2.0, In M.
Anthonsen, S. Jagers (eds.). Rätt grönt - en vänbok till
Lennart J. Lundqvist. Göteborg University, Göteborg.

Rickinson, M., Lundholm, C., Hopwood, N. (2009).
Environmental Learning. Insights from Research into theStudent Experience. Springer Verlag, Dordrecht.

Hentati Sundberg, J., Olsson, O., Kadin, M., Österblom,
H. (2009). Övervakning av havsfåglar i Östersjön. In
Havet 2009 - om miljötillståndet i svenska havsområden.
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Stockholm, pp
61-64

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

Hoff, H., Rockström, J. (2009). Green and blue water inthe global water system: A model synthesis. Global Water
News, 8: p. 10-12.

Sörlin, S. (2009). Den blinde skaparen: En essä om Darwin
och livets sammanhang. Weyler, Stockholm, 302 pp.

Huitric M (Ed.), Walker B, Moberg F, Österblom H,
Sandin L, Grandin U, Olsson P., Bodegård J. (2009).
Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Resilience– Governance for a Future with Global Changes.
Background report for the scientific workshop Biodiversity,
ecosystem services and governance – targets beyond 2010,
Tjärnö, Sweden, 4-6 September 2009.

Published policy reports and popularscience articles
Bakkes, J., L. Aalbers, T. Aalbers, R. Biggs, H. Eerens,
B. Eickhout, K. Geurs, A. Hanemaaijer, H. Hoff, N.
Hoogervorst, M. Kok, H. Nijland, T. Manders, K.
Overmars, J. Notenboom, F. van Oort, A. Petersen,
G. Peterson, J. Ros, B. van Ruijven, L. van Schaik, M.
Thissen, D. van Vuuren, H. Westhoek. (2009). Gettingin the Right Lane for 2050. Netherlands Environmental
Assessment Agency (PBL), Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
http://www.rivm.nl/bibliotheek/rapporten/500150001.pdf

Humborg, C. Österblom, H. (2009). Modeller förÖstersjöns hälsa. Miljöforskning Nr. 3-4, 2009. Online(URL): http://miljoforskning.formas.se/sv/Nummer/
Augusti-2009/Innehall/Temaartiklar/Modeller-forOstersjons-halsa/
Kadin, M. (2008). Trends and scenarios exemplifying thefuture of the Baltic Sea and Skagerrak - Ecological impacts
of not taking action. 103 pp. Report 5875, Swedish
Environmental Protection Agency, Stockholm.

Barron, J (editor). (2009). Rainwater harvesting: a lifeline
for human well-being. United Nations Environment
Programme, Nairobi/Stockholm Environment Institute,
Stockholm (69 pp)

Karlberg, L., Rockström, J., (2009). Global freshwater
resources. In Fisheries, Sustainability and Development.
Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry.
Stockholm, Sweden. pp 123-132.

Barron, J., Noel, S., Mihkail, M. (2009). Review ofAgricultural Water Management Intervention Impacts atthe Watershed Scale: a Synthesis Using the Sustainable
Livelihoods Framework. Project Report, Stockholm
Environment Institute SEI, Stockholm/York

Karlberg, L., Y Dile Taddele, KK Garg, J. Barron
J. Rockström. (2009). Downstream implication ofstrengthening resilience in upstream agricultural systems in
the tropics: Cases from India and Ethiopia. Project Report,
Stockholm Environment Institute SEI, Stockholm/York

Berndes, G., Karlberg, L., Lundqvist, J. (2009) Managing
water to meet booth food and bioenergy demands. In
Climate challenge – the safety’s off. B. Johansson (ed.)
Formas fokuserar, Formas, Stockholm. pp. 259-277

Kijne, J, Barron, J., Hoff, H., Rockström, J., Karlberg,L., Gowing, J., Wani, S.P., Wichelns, D. (2009).
Opportunities to increase water productivity in agriculture
with special reference to Africa and South Asia. SEI,
Stockholm (40 pp)

Bohn, M. (2009). Polarårskommissionen och det
Geofysiska året 1957-1958. Ymer 2009.
Borgström, S. (2009). Den nyttiga grönskan, s 44-55
i Sörenson, U. (red). Stockholm den gröna storstaden.
Samfundet S:t Erik. Stockholm.

Larsen, R.K., Miller, F., Thomalla, F. (2009) Vulnerability
and recovery from the tsunami: building resilient coastal
communities: a synthesis of factors contributing totsunami-related vulnerability in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Stockholm Environment Institute.

Christoplos, I., Anderson , S, Arnold, M., Galaz V., Klein,
R (2009). The Human Dimensions of Climate Change.
International Commission for Climate Change andDevelopment. Stockholm, Sweden.

Meier, H.E.M., Gustafsson, B.G. (2009). Vad styrsaltvattensinbrotten till Östersjön?, Havet 2009,
Naturvårdsverket och Havsmiljöinstitutet, Stockholm,
Sweden.

Dahlgren, K., Eckerberg, K., Mineur, E. (2009). Effekter
av delaktighet i Lokala naturvårdsprojekt (LONA),
Naturvårdsverket, Report 5923, ISBN:978-91-6205923-1, http://www.naturvardsverket.se/Documents/
publikationer/978-91-620-5923-1.pdf

Galaz, V. (2009). World of Warcraft och ekologiska
kriser In B. Johansson, (ed.). Osäkrat klimat - en laddad
utmaning, Formas, Stockholm.

Nekoro, M. ,Svedén, J. (2009). Ekosystemtjänstanalys
i Kristianstads Vattenrike 2008 - Pilotstudie
strandängar (Ecosystemservices in Kristianstads
Vattenrike — pilotstudy flooded meadows, Report in
the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency series),
Naturvårdsverket, Rapport 5947, May 2009. ISBN 97891-620-5947-7.pdf. ISSN 0282-7298

Galaz, V. (2009). World of Warcraft and ecological crises
In B. Johansson. (ed.). Climate challenge - the safety’s off,
Formas, Stockholm.

Nekoro, M. ,Svedén, J. (2009). Ekosystemtjänstanalys i
Kristianstads Vattenrike 2008 - Pilotstudie strandängar
(Ecosystemservices in Kristianstads Vattenrike —Galaz, V. (2009). Upptäck nästa pandemi på Twitter.
Under Strecket, Svenska Dagbladet, Kultur, 2009-05-29.

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Lundholm, C., Hopwood, N., Rickinson, M. (2009)13-17 April. Environmental learning: opportunities andchallenges for practice and research.Paper presented at theAnnual Meeting of the American Educational Research
Association, Ecological and Environmental Education SIG,
San Diego.

pilotstudy flooded meadows) Report in the Vattenriket
i focus series, published by the Kristianstads Vattenrike
Biosphere Reserve. Biosphere (The Man and the Biosphere
Programme, UNESCO), April 2009, Vattenriket i fokus
Rapport: 2009:05. ISSN: 1653-9338
Nekoro, M. (2009). Metodutveckling och inventering av
juvenila musslor - Skåne län 2006, Länsstyrelse Skånes
län, Miljöenheten, Rapport 2009:7.

Publications in press

Nilsson, A.E., Gerger Swartling, Å. (2009). Social learning
about climate adaptation: some observations from theStockholm region. Mistra-SWECIA Newsletter, No. 1: 5-8.

Ahmed, N., Troell, M. Fishing for prawn larvae in
Bangladesh– an important coastal livelihood withpotential negative environmental impacts. Ambio.

Rockström, J., Folke, C., Moberg, F. et al. (2009).
Resilience and Sustainable Development 2.0: A reportby the Stockholm Resilience Centre for the Swedish
Government’s Commission on Sustainable Development.

Arvola, L., George, G., Livingstone, D.M., Järvinen, M.,
Blenckner, T., Dokulil, M.T., Jennings, E., Aonghusa,
C.N., Nõges, P., Nõges, T., Weyhenmeyer, G.A..The
impact of changing climate on the thermal characteristics
of lakes, In Climate and Lake Impacts in Europe. G.
George (ed). Springer Aquatic Ecology series, Springer
Verlag, Dordrecht.

Sörlin, S.(2009). Därför bör vi tro på klimatförändringen.
I Osäkrat klimat – laddad utmaning. B. Johansson (ed.).
Formas, Stockholm, pp. 163-180.

Barron, J., Noel, S, Soussan, J.. Water and poverty
linkages in Africa: Policy and strategy ahead. Reportcommissioned by African Development Bank. Stockholm
Environment Institute

Sörlin, S. (2009). This is why we should believe inclimate change. In Climate challenge – the safety´s off, B.
Johansson (ed.). Formas, Stockholm, pp. 175-184.
Sörlin, S. (2009).När naturen blev en del av framtiden,
Sveriges Natur (2): 42-47.

Barthel, S., Folke, C., Colding, J. Social-ecological memory in urban gardens: Retaining the capacity for management of ecosystem services. Global Environmental Change.

Sörlin, S. (2009). Från konsumtion till kontemplation[intervju], i Tio tänker om naturvägledning, C. Bertilsson(ed.). Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, Uppsala, pp. 59-67.

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

Troell, M. (2009). Integrated marine and brackishwateraquaculture in tropical regions; research, implementationand prospects. In A global review of integrated marine
aquaculture. D. Soto (ed.). FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture
Technical Paper 21. Rome. FAO.

Blenckner,T., Adrian, R. Arvola, L., Järvinen, M., Nõges,P., Nõges, T. Pettersson, K., Weyhenmeyer, G.A. The
impact of climate change on lakes in Northern Europe.
In Climate and Lake Impacts in Europe. G. George(ed). Springer Aquatic Ecology series, Springer Verlag,
Dordrecht.

Veem, K., Österblom, H., Kadin, M., Daw, T., Sissenwine,
S., Symes, D. (2009). Best practices for fisheries
management. Baltic Sea 2020, Stockholm ResilienceCentre and Baltic Nest Institute, Stockholm, 96 pp.
Wulff, F., Humborg, C., Rodriguez Medina, M., Mörth,C.M. Savchuk, O., Sokolov, A.,(2009). Revision of thecountry allocation of nutrient reductions in the Baltic Sea.
Hydrological adjusted riverine loads and atmospheric loads
from different countries. Stockholm: Baltic Nest Institute.

Blenckner, T. Elliott, A., Markensten, H., Pers, C.,
Thackeray, S. Modelling the effects of climate change on
the seasonal dynamics of phytoplankton. In Climate andLake Impacts in Europe. G. George (ed). Springer Aquatic
Ecology series, Springer Verlag, Dordrecht.
Boyd, E., Osbahr, H. Resilient responses to climate change:
Exploring organisational learning in networked development organizations. Environmental Education Research

Conference papers
de la Torre-Castro, M. (2009). A social-ecological systems
approach to coastal marine resources in the tropicsSynthesis of institutional dynamics from Chwaka Bay casein Zanzibar, Tanzania. In: Meeting Challenges in Research
Cooperation. Sida Conference 2008. The Collegium ofDevelopment Studies, Uppsala University.

Colding, J. Creating incentives for increased public
engagement in ecosystem management through urban
commons. In Lessons for Social-Ecological Resilience:
Adaptive Institutions, Governance and Complexity.. E.
Boyd, C. Folke. (eds). Cambridge University Press

Eckerberg, K, (2009). Local participation and learningin nature protection: A Swedish success story. Paper
presented at The Oslo Symposium on Democracy, Research
Engagement and Sustainable Development 7-8 May 2009.

Colding, J. The role of ecosystem services in contemporary
urban planning. In Breuste, J., Elmqvist, T., Niemelä, J. &James, P. (eds), Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services and Social
Systems in Urban Landscapes, Oxford University Press.

Halldén, O., Lundholm C. (2009). 25-30 August.
Conceptual Change and the Complexity of Learning.
Threshold Questions, Meaning making and Contextuality.
Paper presented at the 13th conference European
Association for Research on Learning and Instruction,
Amsterdam, Holland.

Crépin, A-S. Miljö- och naturresurser. Kapitel
8 in Häckner, Jacobsson, Muren red. Tillämpad
mikroekonomi, Studentlitteratur, andra upplagan.
Crona, B., Nyström, M., Folke, C., Jiddawi, N.
Middlemen, a critical social-ecological link in coastal
communities of Kenya and Zanzibar. Marine Policy

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Lake Impacts in Europe. G. George (ed). Springer Aquatic
Ecology series, Springer Verlag, Dordrecht.

Cumming, G., Bodin, Ö., Ernstson, H. Elmqvist, T..
Network analysis in conservation biogeography: challenges
and opportunities, Diversity and Distributions

Lokrantz, J., Nyström, M., Norström, A.V., Folke, C.,
Cinner, J. Assessing vulnerability of coral reefs through thestatus of functional groups of herbivores. Environmental
Conservation

Deutsch, L., Falkenmark, M., Gordon, L.J., Rockström,J., Folke, C. Water-mediated ecological consequencesof intensive livestock production. Chapter in: Livestock
in a Changing Landscape: Drivers, Consequences andResponses. H. Steinfeld, H. Mooney, F. Schneider (eds.).
Livestock, Environment and Development Initiative —LEAD at FAO, SCOPE program on Consequences ofIndustrialized Animal Production Systems, and the Swiss
College of Agriculture.

Lundholm, C., Hopwood, N., Rickinson, M.
Environmental learning: Insights from research into
the student experience. In International Handbook of
Research on Environmental Education. Brody, Dillon,
Stevenson, Wals (eds.). Routledge.
Lundholm, C., Plummer, R., Resilience and learning:
A conspectus for environmental education. Special
issue Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems: the Roleof Learning and Education. Environmental Education
Research.

Duit, A. Natural Resources. In International Encyclopediaof Political Science, B. Badie, D. Berg-Schlosser, L.
Morlino (eds.). Sage, London.
Duit, A. Galaz, V. Eckerberg, K. Introduction: Governanceand Resilience. Global Environmental Change.

Myrberg, K., Ryabchenko, V., Isaev, A., Vankevich, R.,
Andrejev, O., Bendtsen, J., Erichsen, A., Funkquist, L.,
Inkala, A., Neelov, I., Rasmus, K., Rodriguez Medina,M., Raudsepp, U., Passenko, J. Söderkvist, J., Sokolov, A.,
Kuosa, H., Anderson, T.R., Lehmann, A., and Skogen, M.D.
Validation of three-dimensional hydrodynamic models of the
Gulf of Finland. Boreal Environmental Research.

Falkenmark, M., Folke, C. Ecohydrosolidarity: A
new ethics for stewardship of value-adding rainfall. In
Water Ethics: Foundational Readings for Students andProfessionals. P.G. Brown, J.J. Schmidt (eds.). Island Press,
Washington D.C. pp 247-264.
Galaz, V., Moberg, F., Olsson, E.-K., Paglia, E., Parker,
C. Institutional and political leadership dimensions ofcascading ecological crises. Public Administration.
George, G., Nickus, U., Dokulil, M.T., Blenckner, T. The
influence of changes in the atmospheric circulation on thesurface temperature of lakes. In Climate and Lake Impacts
in Europe. G. George (ed). Springer Aquatic Ecology series,
Springer Verlag, Dordrecht.

Nõges, P., Adrian, R., Anneville, O., Arvola, L.,
Blenckner, T., George, G., Jankowski, T., Järvinen,
M., Maberly, S., Padisak, J., Straile, D., Teubner, K.,
Weyhenmeyer, G.A. The impact of variations in the
climate on seasonal dynamics of phytoplankton. In
Climate and Lake Impacts in Europe. G. George (ed).
Springer Aquatic Ecology series, Springer Verlag,
Dordrecht.

George, G., Järvinen, M., Nõges, T., Blenckner, T.,
Moore, K. The impact of changing climate on the supply
and recycling of nitrate. In Climate and Lake Impacts in
Europe. G. George (ed). Springer Aquatic Ecology series,
Springer Verlag, Dordrecht.

Olsson, P., Bodin, Ö., Folke, C. Building transformative
capacity for ecosystem stewardship in social-ecologicalsystems In Adaptive Capacity And Environmental
Governance. D. Armitage, R. Plummer (eds.). Springer,
New York.

Gustafsson, B. Assessment of Climate Change from theBaltic Sea Basin. Regional Climate Studies. In: BACC
Author Group, Assessment of Climate Change for theBaltic Sea Basin Springer Verlag, Germany, 474 pp.

Olsson, P., Galaz, V. Transitions to adaptive water
management and governance in Sweden. In Understanding
Transitions in Water Management. D. Huitema, S.
Meijerink (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Krasny, K., Lundholm, C., Plummer, R. Environmental
education, resilience, and learning: Reflection and moving
forward. Special Issue. Environmental Education Research.

Pettersson, K., George, G., Nõges, P., Nõges, T.,
Blenckner, T. The impact of the changing climate on the
supply and reclycling of phosphorus. In Climate and Lake
Impacts in Europe. G. George (ed). Springer Aquatic
Ecology series, Springer Verlag, Dordrecht.

Krasny, K., Lundholm, C., Plummer, R.. Resilience insocial-ecological systems: The roles of learning andeducation. Editorial. Special Issue. Environmental
Education Research.

Raudsepp-Hearne, C., Peterson, G.D., Bennett, E.M.
Ecosystem service bundles: A tool for analyzing tradeoffs in diverse landscapes. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Lemos M. C. Boyd, E. The Politics of Adaptation AcrossScales: The implications of additionality to policy choice
and development. In The Politics of Climate Change: A
Survey. M. Boykoff (ed.). Routledge/Europa,

Rickinson, M., Lundholm, C. Exploring student learningand challenges in formal environmental education. In
Environmental Education: Learning, Culture and Agency.
Stevenson, Dillon (eds.). Sense Publishers, Rotterdam.

Livingstone, D.M., Adrian, R., Arvola, L., Blenckner, T.,
Dokulil, M.T., Hari, R.E., George, G., Jankowski, T.,
Järvinen, M., Jennings, E., Nõges, P., Nõges, T., Straile,D., Weyhenmeyer, G.A. Regional and supra-regional
coherence in limnological variables. In Climate and Lake
Impacts in Europe. G. George (ed). Springer Aquatic
Ecology series, Springer Verlag, Dordrecht.

Schultz, L., Lundholm, C. Learning for resilience?
Exploring learning opportunities in Biosphere Reserves.
Special issue, Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems: theRole of Learning and Education. Environmental Education
Research.

Livingstone, D.M., Adrian, R., Blenckner, T., George, G.,
Weyhenmeyer, G.A. Lake ice phenology. In Climate andSimonsson, L., Klein, R., Gerger Swartling, Å., André,K., Wallgren, O. Perceptions of risk and limits to climate

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change adaptation - Case studies of two Swedish urban
regions. In Climate Change Adaptation in Developed
Nations. Ford, L., Ford, L.B. (eds.). Springer, Dordrecht.

Colding, J., Project leader, Workshop, Urban Net
Workshop, The SUPER project, Istanbul Technical
University, Turkey, April

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

Colding, J., Workshop speaker, Conference, Det urbana
landskapets gröna delar: historia, värde, planering, skötsel
och restaurering, Stockholm, Sweden, International
Association for Lanscape Ecology (IALE), September

C. Presentations 2009

Crépin, A-S, Workshop speaker, the 10-years of CeNDEF
workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Center for Nonlinear
Dynamics in Eeconomics and Finance, January

Academic Conferences and Workshops

Crépin, A-S, Keynote speaker, Seminar Series at theEnvironmental Economics Unit, Gothenburg University,
Sweden, February

Duit, A., Eckerberg K., Ebbesson J. and Galaz V., coorganizers of workshop “Governance, Resilience andComplexity”, Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, February.

Crona, B., Organizer, Conference, IHDP Open Meeting,Bonn, Germany, April

Biggs, (O) R. Key note speaker, Workshop, EU
Environment Advisory Group, Brussels, Belgium, June.

Crona, B., Organizer, Workshop, Inception workshop for
Commission Research: Migrant Fishers in the Western
Indian Ocean, Mombasa, Kenya, January

Biggs, O. R., Organizer, Workshop, RAYS Workshop,
September

Crona, B., Keynote speaker, Seminar, University of Maine
School of Marine Sciences Seminar, Maine, USA, September

Bodin, Ö., Workshop speaker, Conference, IHDP Open
Meeting, Bonn, Germany, April

Crona, B., Keynote speaker, Guest Researcher Seminar,
University of British Columbia, Fisheries Center,
Vancouver, Canada, October

Bodin Ö., Workshop speaker, Conference, Sustainable
Development and Planning IV, Cyprus, Greece.

Duit, A., Invited speaker, ‘The Ecological State. Crossnational patterns of Environmental Governance Regimes’ University of Washington, Department of Political Science, May.

Bodin, Ö., Workshop speaker, Seminar, Network basedmodels of fragmented landscapes – concept, applicability
and predictability, Cape Town, South Africa, December

Ebbesson, J., Invited speaker, ”Environmental Impact
Assessments in the EU”, NEPA at 40: A Visionary Statute
Confronts the 21st Century Environmental Issues,
Conference at George Washington University School ofLaw, Washington DC, USA, March.

Bodin, Ö., Workshop speaker, AKILI CAS Colloquium,
George, South Africa, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan
University, December
Bohn, M., Workshop speaker, Conference, Climate andCultural Anxiety: Historical and Social Perspectives,
Colby College, USA, April

Ebbesson, J., Invited speaker,”IPPC Issues in theEuropean Court of Justice”, EU Forum of Judges for theEnvironment, Conference, Stockholm, October.

Bohn, M., Workshop speaker, The Historian’s Role in Environmental Research, Södertörns Högskola, Sweden, March

Ebbesson, J., Invited speaker,”Energy Justice: What and
Why?”, Energy Justice Conference, Boulder, Colorado,
USA, October.

Bohn, M., Workshop speaker, Expertise for the Future:
Histories of Predicting Environmental Change, Harvard
University, USA, November

Ebbesson, J., Invited speaker,”State of Play of Accessto information and justice: Where does the future lie?”,
UNEP Eminent Persons Meeting on Human Rights and theEnvironment, Nairobi, Kenya, December

Boyd, E., Organizer, Conference, “Development Studies
Association, ‘Climate change and development: urgency,
politics and transformations’, Development Studies
Association, University of Ulster, September.

Eckerberg, K., Invited speaker, ‘The Role of the European
Commission: Institutional and Policy Aspects’, An event
hosted by the Permanent Representation of Sweden to
the EU and organized by the Centre for European Policy
Studies in conjunction with the Swedish Presidency of theEuropean Union, Brussels, October.

Boyd, E., Organizer, Workshop, Panel and workshop
convenor ‘Living with climate futures: Beyond limits toadaptation towards transformations in practice’, Oxford,
UK, JuneElmqvist, T. Presentation and poster, Conference,
Climate change, global risks, challenges and decisions,
Copenhagen, March.

Boyd, E., Key note speaker, Seminar Series ‘Shifting Gears:
the Recession and Climate Change’, Leeds University,
Centre for Development Studies, Leeds University,
NovemberElmqvist T., Keynote speaker, Conference, “Svensk
naturvård 1909-2009”, Royal Academy of Sciences,
Stockholm, April

Colding, J. Workshop speaker, Conference, Urban Net
Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, FORMAS, November

Elmqvist, T., TEEB Workshop, London, April

Colding J., Project leader, Workshop, SUPER projectworkshop for Urban Net, Stockholm, Sweden, SUPERproject steering committee, November.

Elmqvist, T., Keynote speaker, the 9th Finnish Conferenceof Environmental Sciences, Lahti, Finland, May

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Elmqvist, T., Organizer, workshop Governance andManagement of Ecosystem Services in Africa under
Scenarios of Change, Nairobi, Kenya, May

Folke, C., Invited speaker, Symposium, Climate change,
global risks, challenges and decisions, University of
Copenhagen, March

Elmqvist, T., Keynote speaker, Conference, “Ekosystemtjänster - ett verktyg för hållbar utveckling”, Kristianstad
Vattenrike, Högskolan Kristianstad and Krinova, June

Folke, C., Key note speaker, Conference, Earth System
Governance Amsterdam, Netherlands, November-December

Elmqvist, T., Keynote, Urban Nature Forum 2009, June

Folke, C., Organizer, Keynote speaker, Workshop, Resilience
Alliance, Gabriola Island, Canada, September - October

Elmqvist, T., Keynote speaker, European IALE Conference“70 years of Landscape Ecology in Europe”, Salzburg, July

Folke, C., Scientific Committee, Workshop, Program on
Ecosystem Change and Society, PECS, Paris, ICSU, June

Elmqvist, T., Keynote speaker, UNESCO-conference,“Urban Biosphere Initiative”, Shanghai, August

Galaz, V., Workshop, Resilience Alliance + RAYS,
Gabriola Island, Canada. September-October

Elmqvist, T., Keynote speaker, the Swedish IALE meeting“Urban Landscapes”, the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences, September

Galaz, V. Key note speaker, Conference, Skoll Forum on
Social Innovation, Oxford (UK), March

Elmqvist, T., Participated with several presentations,organized symposia and chairing sessions at the
DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference 2 Biodiversity andSociety: Understanding connections, Adapting to change”,
Cape Town, South Africa, October

Galaz, V. Organizer, Workshop, Ecological Early Warning
and Information Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, February

Elmqvist, T., Keynote speaker, Conference “Greenurbanism”, Stockholm University, Sweden, October

Galaz, V., Workshop speaker, Governance and Complexity,
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, June

Galaz, V., Workshop speaker, Conference, International
Studies Association (ISA), New York, USA, December

Elmqvist, T., Workshop speaker, Urbis- Urban Biosphere
Initiative, UNESCO HQ in New York, December

Galaz, V., Organizer, Conference, Earth System
Governance, Amsterdam, Netherlands, December

Elmqvist, T., Participation and presenting at two sideevents at the UNFCC COP15 meeting in Copenhagen, I.
A sustainable society under impacts of climate change in a
post-COP15 world, organized by International Associationof Research Universities. II. Biodiversity and climatechange organized by ICLEI, December

Galaz, V., Keynote speaker, The Politics of Climate
Change, Department of Political Science, Göteborg,
Sweden, November
Gordon, L., Workshop speaker, Conference, CGIAR
Science Forum, Wageningen, Netherlands, CGIAR, June

Ernstson, H., Key note speaker, Workshop, Marine Social
Connectivity in the Gulf of California, Tucson, Arizona,
USA, Comunidad y Biodiversidad, A.C., PANGAS, The
University of Arizona, The Nature Conservancy and World
Wildlife Fund, August.

Lundholm, C., Paper presentation (Halldén O. &Lundholm C.), Conceptual Change and the Complexityof Learning. Threshold Questions, Meaning making andContextuality, 13th Conference European Association
for Research on Learning and Instruction, Amsterdam,
Holland, August

Ernstson, H., Organizer, Conference, Albano Green
Urbanism, Stockholm, Sweden, October.

Lundholm, C., Paper presentation (Lundholm C.,
Hopwood N. & Rickinson M.), Environmental learning:
opportunities and challenges for practice and research,
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research
Association, Ecological and Environmental Education SIG,
San Diego, April

Ernstson, H., Workshop speaker, Conference, IHDP Open
Meeting, Bonn, Germany, April
Ernstson, H., Workshop speaker, Seminar, Seminar series
at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town,
South Africa, July

Jansson, Å., Key note speaker, Conference, Flora och
Faunavård, Uppsala, Sweden, April

Ernstson, H., Workshop speaker, Stockholm ResilienceCentre Urban Theme Workshop 2009, Cape Town, South
Africa, October

Norberg, J., Key note speaker, Conference, EcologicalSociety of Japan, March

Ernstson, H., Workshop speaker, Conference, Crisis &Capital - a critique of the political economy of crisis,
Lund University Sweden, May

Norberg, J., Key note speaker, Conference, Diversitas,
Capetown, October		

Folke, C., Organizer, Workshop, Ecosystem services inAfrica, Nairobi, Kenya, Beijer, Stockholm ResilienceCentre, Biosustainability, May

Norberg, J., Key note speaker, Seminar, National Institutefor Environmental Studies (NIES Tsukuba),Tsukuba Japan,
March			Folke, C., Organizer, Workshop, Marine resilience group,
Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, ARC Centre of Excellence,
February

Norberg, J., Key note speaker, Workshop, SIZEMIC,
Tjärnö, June			Olsson, P., Paper presentation, International Social
Innovation Research Conference, Said Business, School,
Oxford, UK, September

Folke, C., Invited speaker, Seminar, 100 Stockholm
Seminars in Sustainability Science and Policy, Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, April

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Olsson, P., Organizing and presenting at a special session
at the International conference, “Towards knowledge
democracy: consequences for Science, Politics and Media”
in Leiden, The Netherlands, August

Sörlin, S., Workshop: IHOPE, Integrated History and
Future of People on Earth, NCEAS, National Centre
for Ecological Assessment and Systems, University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara, September

Olsson, P., Paper presentation, GECHS synthesis
conference ”Human Security in an Era of Global Change”,
Oslo, Norway., June

Sörlin, S., Keynote lecture: ”Urban Knowledge Landscapes– Innovative, Sustainable, Political”, Green Urbanism atAlbano: A conference on building a world class university
campus in an urban social-ecological context, Aula
Magna, Stockholm University, October

Olsson, P., Paper presentation, organizing a special session
on social learning, and participating in a panel discussion
at the IHDP Open Meeting 2009, Bonn, Germany, April

Sörlin, S., Workshop: Nordic Environmental History
Network, NEHN, Trondheim, NovemberPeterson, G., Workshop speaker, Assessing multiple
ecosystem services across landscapes, Pietermaritzburg,
South Africa, University of KwaZulu, Natal

Sörlin, S., Lecture: “The Quantification of Gloom:
Numbers, Predictions, and the Language of Environmental
Apocalypse from Spengler to Global Change“, Workshop:“Expertise for the Future”, Centre for History andEconomics, Harvard University, November

Ranara, J., Workshop speaker, Conference, 4th Lüneburg
Workshop on Environmental and Sustainability
Communication - Communication and Learning in
Networks, Potentials and Challenges for Environmental
Sustainability, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany,
September

Sörlin, S., Keynote lecture: “Reversing the Reserves:
Reinterpretations of Protected Nature from the Wild to the
Urban”, Counter Nature(s): Revising Nature in an Era ofEnvironmental Crisis, Uppsala University, November

Rockström, J., Lecture, Climate for Development ina turbulent world, Climate Change, Global Risks,
Challenges and Decisions, Copenhagen University, MarchÖsterblom, H., Organizer,Workshop, Best Practice inFisheries Management - write up workshop, Waxholm,
Sweden, March

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Climate change,
Ecosystems and Human Well-being, The three musketeersof development, Climate, Ecosystems and Development,
Stockholm Seminars, KVA, Stockholm, AprilÖsterblom, H., Workshop speaker, Conference, Towards
Knowledge Democracy - Consequences for Science, Politics
and Media, Leiden, the Netherlands, RMNO, AugustRockström, J., Keynote speaker, Confronting the water
challenge in the face of rapid global environmental change,
Nobel Lecture, Pune, India, OctoberÖsterblom, H., Organizer, Workshop, Best Practice inFisheries Management - Scientific start up, Stockholm
Resilience Centre BNI, BalticSea 2020, January

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Utveckling inom
Planetens Gränsvärden. Varför vi behöver en ny grön
revolution. Hur möter det ekologiska lantbruket
klimatproblemen? KSLA, NovemberÖsterblom, H., Keynote speaker, Drivers of regime
shifts in marine and freshwater systems, Univeristy ofWageningen, Netherlands, September

Practice, Policy and Outreach

Rosen, F., Workshop speaker, Conference, DIVERSITAS,
Cape Town, South Africa, OctoberBoyd, E., Convenor of public panel/debate ‘Climate
futures: transformations, politics and urgency’, Stockholm
Resilience Centre, ECI, Reading University, June

Schultz, L. & Lundholm, C., Learning for resilience?
Exploring learning opportunities in Biosphere reserves.
Second DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference,
Biodiversity and society: understanding connections:
adapting to change, Cape Town, South Africa, October.

Crépin, A-S, Workshop Speaker, Conference under
the Swedish EU presidency “The value of our marine
environment”, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency,
Stockholm, Sweden, September

Swartling, Å., Organizer, Workshop, Overcoming
the challenges of “doing” participation in the field ofenvironment and development, May.

Crona, B., Invited speaker, Public lecture, Roving Banditsof Modern Fisheries- effects for local populations, SNF
Somaliska Föreningen, May		

Sörlin, S., Workshop:”Regime Shifts”, organizer and cochair, Stockholm Resilience Centre, February

Elmqvist, T., Open lecture, “Kina – ett land av städer”,
Stockholm University, April

Sörlin, S., Seminar, “Urban Environmental History”,
Urban Mind workshop, Uppsala University, February

Elmqvist, T., Meeting with representatives of the parties S,
V and Mp on biodiversity and resilience, April

Sörlin, S.,“The Situation in the Seventies: The Backdrop
of Goodman’s Legacy”, Gordon Goodman seminar, Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences, April

Ernstson, H., Keynote speaker, Öppet möte omÅrstafältet, Nätverket Årstafältet, Årsta folkets hus,
Stockholm, Sweden, April

Sörlin, S., Session chair: “Antarctica: A Continentfor Environmental History”, First World Congress ofEnvironmental History, Copenhagen, August

Folke, C., Workshop speaker, Conference under the
Swedish EU presidency “The value of our marine
environment”, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency,
Stockholm, Sweden, September

Sörlin, S., Invited speaker: “Roundtable – Northern
Contributions to Environmental History”, First World
Congress of Environmental History, Malmö University
College, August

Folke, C., Keynote speaker, Conference, Green business,
Veckans affärer, Stockholm, Sweden, January

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Galaz, V., Policy dialogue, Swedish Government
International Commission for Climate Change andDevelopment, September

meeting: Visions for Biodiversity beyond 2010 – People,
Ecosystem Services and the Climate Crisis, Strömstad,
SeptemberGalaz, V., Key note speaker and panel, Public lecture,
Klimat och politik, Arbetarrörelsens tankesmedja, May

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Bending the curves fromcollapse to sustainability: Why we need a global “Apollo”
project to save humanity, TEDx, Stockholm, September

Galaz, V., Interview Kulturnyheterna, SVT, December

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Global Environmental
Challenge and Chances for Recovery, Board Room Lunch,
Riga, OctoberKadin, M., Public lecture, Lessons from the ‘world’s best
managed’ fisheries, Forum Hållbar Framtid, Riksdagen,March		

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Europa måste leda
klimatarbetet, Näringslivets väg efter Köpenhamn,
Möjligheter i den nya klimateffektiva ekonomin, BLICC,
October

Kadin, M., Public lecture, Kedjereaktioner i havet,
Naturum Stendörren, AugustKadin, M., 13 meter hög fågelholk på Stora Karlsö,
Sveriges Radio P4 Gotland, JulyRockström, J., Keynote speaker, Planetens tillstånd,Antonia Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse för Miljö och
Utveckling, Stockholm, October

Nekoro, M., Invited speaker, Ecosystem services provided
by the flooded meadows of Kristianstads Vattenrike, June

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Utveckling inom
Planetens Gränsvärden, Rånäs Slott, OctoberRockström, J., Keynote speaker, Att göra affärer i
Anthropocene, General Electrics Galan, Globen,
Stockholm, February

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Planetary Boundaries:
Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity,
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Master Class, Club ofRome General Assembly, OctoberRockström, J., Keynote speaker, Conference, Att göra
affärer i den globala miljökrisen, Grön Upphandling,
MiljöAktuellt, March

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Business andDevelopment in an era of rapid global environmental
change, The new agenda for a green transformation, Nobel
week in India, Mumbai, November

Rockström, J., Lecture, Den globala klimatförändringens
drama: Vetenskapen bakom en växande oro ochmöjligheter till hållbara lösningar, Årsmöte, Ekologiska
Lantbrukare, Kolmården, March

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Utveckling inom
Planetens Gränsvärden. Det vetenskapliga stödet för ett”Apollo” projekt för global hållbar utveckling, Skellefteå,NovemberRockström, J., Dinner speech, Exploring Planetary
Boundaries: A Scientific Quest for Humanity’s Safe
Operating Space in the Anthropocene, Copenhagen,March

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Planetary Boundaries:
Exploring the safe operating space for humanity challenges
for world agriculture, SNF, Radisson, November

Rockström, J., Lecture, Klimatfrågan kräver
samhällsförändringar på rekordtid, HSB Klimatkonferens,
Stockholm, April

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Planetary Boundaries: A
new paradigm for decision makers, SEI 20th Anniversary,York, November

Rockström, J., Lecture, Klimatförändringen är allvarligare
än vi trott, behövs nya mål?, Riksdagen, May

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Den globala
uppvärmningen uppdatering av forskningsläget,Naturvårdsverket, November

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Making Business in the
Anthropocene, Ericsson, June
Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Facing the Global
Environmental Change Crisis, UI, May

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Making Business within
the Planetary Boundaries, Vodafone, London, November

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Building Water Resiliencein the Anthropocene, Climate Action: Tuning in on
Energy, Water, and Food Security, 9th Royal Colloquium,
Höga kusten, Bönhamn, June

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Utveckling inom
Planetens gränsvärden, UI miljökonferens, December
Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, A social-ecologicalresilience approach to a ”safe” global emission pathway,
COP 15 IIASA TERI, December

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Steering clear
from catastrophic planetary tipping points: Human
Development within the Planetary Boundaries, Tällberg
Forum, June

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, The role of Biodiversity
in the light of the Climate Crisis, Ecoystem-based
approaches, convenient solutions ready for use, COP 15,
DecemberRockström, J., Keynote speaker, How on Earth can welive together within the Planetary Boundaries: A Science
Conversation, Tällberg Forum, June

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, A Copenhagen Prognosis:
Towards a safe climate future, A synthesis of the Scienceof Climate Change, Environment and Development, Press
Conference COP 15, December

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, Building Water Resiliencein the Anthropocene Reality Check Water, Tällberg
Forum, June

Rockström, J., Four ways to feed the world, New Scientist,
interview, November

Rockström, J., Keynote speaker, The Role of Biodiversity
for Environment and Development, Setting the Strategic
Stage for a global agenda on biological diversity, High level

53Appendices Presentationsof Intellectual Freedom”, The Knowledge Triangle Shaping
the Future of Europe, EU conference under the Swedish
Presidency, Gothenburg, September

Rockström, J., Not even zero carbon by 2050 will beenough, Public Service.co.uk, editorial, December
Rockström, J., Sustainable Developments - Transgressing
Planetary Boundaries, Scientific American, interview,
DecemberSörlin, S., Lecture: “The Arctic – Region in Flux: A
perspective from the International Polar Year 20072009”, ESF Boreas workshop, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada,
SeptemberRockström, J., Voice of America, radio interview on theplanetary boundaries, SeptemberÖsterblom, H., Organizer of workshop, Policy dialogue,
Best Practice in Fisheries Management, March		

Rockström, J., Så mycket kan jorden tåla, Dagens Nyheter,interview, SeptemberÖsterblom, H., Co-Organizer, Policy dialogue, Scientific
Background Meeting at Tjärnö, Stockholm ResilienceCentre, Scientific Council for Biological Diversity, AugustRockstrom, J., Jordens balans har rubbats, SVT Rapport,interview, September
Rockström, J., Grappling with the Anthropocene:
Scientists Identify Safe Limits for Human Impacts on
Planet, Scientific American, SeptemberÖsterblom, H., Part of national delegation, Policy
dialogue, High-level Meeting on Biodiversity, Swedish
Government, September		Rockström, J., How Much Human Activity Can EarthHandle? Time.com, SeptemberÖsterblom, H., Public lecture, The Value of our Marine
Environment, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency,
September		Rockström, J., 9 Environmental Boundaries We Don’t
Want to Cross, Wired, interview, SeptemberÖsterblom, H., Participant, Policy dialogue, IUCN
dialogue on IPBES, IUCN, September

Rockström, J., Provocative New Study Warns of Crossing
Planetary Boundaries, Yale Environment 360, interview,
SeptemberÖsterblom, H., Presentation, Policy dialogue, Regional
Fisheries Management - how to make it work for fisheries
and the environment,WWF and OCEAN 2012, September

Rockström, J., To Tip or Not to Tip - That Is the Question
for Copenhagen, The Huffington Post, editorial, OctoberÖsterblom, H., Member of national delegation, Policy
dialogue, CCAMLR annual meeting, October - November

Sörlin, S., Seminarium: ”Världsundergången?!”, med
Stefan Fölster, Svenskt Näringsliv och Håkan Bengtsson,
Arena. ABF Stockholm, JanuaryÖsterblom, H., Invited Keynote speaker, Torskens roll iÖstersjöns ekosystem, BalticSea2020, September

Sörlin, S., Seminar, “International Challenges”, NIRPA
Nordic Research Policy Network, Swedish ResearchCouncil, March
Sörlin, S., Föredrag: “Polförskjutningar – Internationella
Polaråret 2007-2008”, inledning vid seminarium
Arktis – en region i förändring , Svenska IPY-kommittén& Nordiska rådets svenska delegation, Riksdagens
förstakammarsal, 11/3 2009.
Sörlin, S., Keynote speaker, “Change Processes andAcademic Leadership”, Hanasaari Cultural Centre,
Helsinki, March
Sörlin, S., Panelsamtal: ”Polarforskningens framtid”,
med statssekr. Peter Honeth, Utbildningsdepartementet,
Polarveckan 2009 i Ånn, March
Sörlin, S., Joint Session of the Antarctic Treaty
Consultative Meeting and the Arctic Council, and The
50th Anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty, US Departmentof State, Washington DC, April
Sörlin, S., Keynote speaker: “Från kallt krig till global
uppvärmning“, Arktis i ett förändrat klimat: Nordens
roll i Europas säkerhetspolitiska utmaningar, Föreningen
Norden, Riksdagens förstakammarsal, May
Sörlin, S., Seminar: Planetary Boundaries, Tällberg
Foundation, June
Sörlin, S., Seminar, “Kunskapens hjärtan och samhällets
blodomlopp”, Vetenskap & Allmänhet, Vetenskapsrådet,Visby, July
Sörlin, S., Plenary lecture: “How Universities Can Take on
Increasing Societal Demands – and Remain Powerhouses

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C. Staff

Oonsie Biggs
Per Olsson
Regina Lindborg
Susan Owen
Sverker Sörlin
Thomas Elmqvist
Thomas Hahn
Uno Svedin
Victor Galaz
Vikrom Mathur
Will SteffenÅsa Persson
Åsa SwartlingÖrjan Bodin

Management, administration andcommunication
Johan Rockström, Executive Director
Carl Folke, Science Director
Olof Olsson, Deputy Director
Kristina Hagqvist, Head Finance/Admin		
Maria Nilsson, Finance Admin
Denise Kreppenhofer, Staff Admin			
Johan Ahlenius, Course/Finance Admin
Lars Gustavsson, IT Assistent			
Felicity Rolf, Office Manager
Anna Schmuki, Office AssistantEllika Hermansson Török, Head of Communications		
Sturle Hauge Simonsen, Web-Editor			Cajsa Martinsson, Communications officer
Agneta Sundin, Evaluation and Communications Officer
Christina Schaffer

Senior Research Fellows
Brian Walker
Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Steve Lansing
Will Steffen

Education

Stockholm Resilience Centre Board

Thomas Hahn, Director of Studies		Lisa Deutsch, Programme Director
Miriam Huitric, Programme Director
Åsa Vifell, Course leader
Lisbeth Segerlund, Course leader
Albert Norström, Course leader
Markus Larsson, Course leader
David Langlet, Course leader
Johan Törnberg, Course leader
Olle Torpman, Course leader
Caroline Wåhlgren, Course leader
Helena Wintgren, Course leader

Chair Prof. Arild Underdal, Oslo University
Ann-Caroline Nordström, Stockholm University
Ass Prof. Christofer Edling, Stockholm University
Prof. Thomas Rosswall, ICSU
Prof. Roger Kasperson, Clark University
Prof. Carole Crumley, University of North Carolina
Prof. Rashid Hassan, University of Pretoria
Prof. Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University
Prof. Brian Walker, CSIRO, Resilience Alliance
Prof. Frances Westley, University of Wisconsin
Prof. Jacqueline McGlade,
European Environmental Agency
Anders Wijkman, European Parliament

Researchers

PhD Students

Andreas Duit
Ann-Sophie Crepin
Beatrice Crona
Carole Crumley
Cecilia Lundholm
Elin Enfors
Frank Thomalla
Garry Peterson
Henrik Ernstson
Henrik Österblom
Jennie Barron
Jenny Beckman
Jenny Grönwall
Johan Colding
Jon Norberg
Jonas Ebbesson
Karl-Göran Mäler
Katarina Eckerberg
Kevin Noone
Line Gordon
Lisa Deutsch
Lisen SchultzLouise Karlberg
Magnus Nyström
Maja Schlueter
Malin Falkenmark
Markku Pyykönen
Max Troell
Miguel Rodriguez-Medina

Cathy Wilkinson
Franciska Rosen
Gustav Engström
Jacob von Heland
Maria Bohn
Martina Kadin
Matilda Valman
Susa Niiranen
Björn Nykvist
Lisa Segnestam

Baltic Nest InstituteAlexander Sokolov, Researcher
Bo Gustafsson, Researcher
Christoph Humborg, Researcher
Erik Smedberg, Researcher
Fredrik Wulff, Researcher
Gertje Czub, Researcher
Magnus Mört, Researcher
Oleg Svachuck, Researcher
Thorsten Blenckner, Researcher
Dennis Swaney, Researcher
Bonghi Hong, Researcher

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BalticSTERN Secretariat
Siw Eriksdotter, Head of Secretariat
Henrik Scharin
Marmar Nekoro

PhD Interdiscp. GroupAngelina Sandersen-Bellamy, PhD Student, Systems Ecology
Arvid Bring, PhD Student, Physical Geography and
Quaternary Geology
Dan Wilhemsson, PhD Student, Zoology
Hanna Corell (Kling) , PhD Student, Meteorology
Katrin Holmström, PhD Student,
Applied Environmental Science
Matilda Baraibar, PhD Student, Economic History
Paul Fuehrer, PhD Student, Sociology
Tomas Persson, PhD Student, BotanyÅsa Romson, PhD Student, Law

Visiting Scientists 2009
Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, McGill University, Canada
Derek Armitage, Wilfrid Laurier University,
Waterloo, Canada
Elena Bennett, McGill University, Canada
Fikret Berkes, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Frances Westley, University of Waterloo, Kitchener,
CanadaGraeme Cumming, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Jan Sendzimir, IIASA, Austria
Jeff Cardille, University of Montréal, Canada
Joern Fischer, Australian National University, Australia
John Parker, NCEAS, Santa Barbara, USA
John van Breda, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Jordi Bascompte, Spanish National Research Council
Joshua Cinner, James Cook University, Australia
Kaushal Garg, ICRISAT, India
Kenneth Frank, Michigan State University, USA
Mahamane Larwanou, INERA, Burkina Faso
Maja Schlüter, Princeton University, USA
Mike Hulme, University of East Anglia, UK
Nicolas Houde, McGill University, Canada
Owen Petchey, University of Sheffield, UK
Robert Costanza, University of Vermont, Vermont, USA
Ryan Plummer, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada
Stefan Gelcich, Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology
and Biodiversity, Chile
Stephen Polasky, University of Minnesota, USA
Terry Hughes, ARC Centre for Coral Reef Studies,
Australia
Tim Daw, University of East Anglia, UK
Vasilis Dakos, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

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