Stockholm Resilience Centre

Annual report 2019

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Stockholm Resilience Centre Annual Report 2019printed by US-AB
edited by Sturle Hauge Simonsen
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Stockholm Resilience Centre Annual Report 2019
Chair’s preface_______________________________________________________________________________________________ 4
Directors’ view_______________________________________________________________________________________________ 6
Introducing the International Science Advisory Council____________________ 8
International Advisory Board____________________________________________________________________ 9
Some of our partners worldwide____________________________________________________________ 10
Behind every great leader, there is an Astrid______________________________________ 12
Our research framework___________________________________________________________________________ 14
Buzz Holling: Pioneering the science of surprise_______________________________ 16
Publications and special issues______________________________________________________________ 18
Selected scientific publications______________________________________________________________ 20
Centre staff contributing to journals and committees____________________ 35
Research highlights____________________________________________________________________________________ 36
New funding_________________________________________________________________________________________________ 46
Scientific achievements and awards_____________________________________________________ 48
Policy, practice and outreach___________________________________________________________________ 50
Media impact_______________________________________________________________________________________________ 66
Seminars and events_________________________________________________________________________________ 67
Education______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 72
Appendix_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 78

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

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

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Chair’s preface
Exciting, inspiring and rewarding – those words
nicely capture my first year as chair of the boardof the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC)

WITH THE FIRST 12 YEARS of funding and development
coming to an end in 2018, it has been a privilege to follow
what can only be described as a smooth and impressive
transition into a new and exciting phase of the centre. Amid
several uncertainties, the new leadership has navigated thecentre into a new dynamic space applying a true resiliencespirit. With Line Gordon as director we have become an
impressive team; brave and professional, complementing eachother in a way that benefits the centre as a whole.
The new organisation also includes a new “semi-internal”
board consisting of centre staff and representatives from
Stockholm University and the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences. An International Scientific Advisory Council wasestablished in 2019, made up of leading researchers insustainability. This council complements our International
Advisory Board on policy and business, which remains
strong and engaged. There are good relations andsupport from Stockholm University’s leadership and thecollaborations with the Beijer Institute as well as the Global
Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere Programme of theRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences continue to flourish.
What has been remarkable during 2019 is to witness theinternal mobilisation and the collective spirit of “one for all,
all for one”. That everybody is pulling in the same direction
makes the centre unique. It has been instrumental for ourcomplex yet successful transition in both leadership andfunding. For instance, the grants and funding received during
2019 were a record high. This is particularly impressive
considering that our core Mistra funding ended in 2018.
What is striking is the explosion of new scientific insights
coupled with a continuous increase in the number of articles,
many of them appearing in top journals. The professionalismthat characterises our transdisciplinary experiments,
collaborations, training programmes and outreach work
remains inspiring!
As the founder and scientific director of the SRC, it isdeeply rewarding to experience all of this and to have theprivilege to be part of a research centre with such an imprint
and reputation internationally. The legacy of Buzz Holling, the4father of resilience thinking, who passed away in 2019, has
not only been carefully cultivated but amplified into new
strands of research and applications that influence and inspire
people worldwide.

Professor Carl Folke
chair of the board and science directorof the Stockholm Resilience Centre

Carl Folke
Chair of the board

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Our funders
The support from our funders is a determining factor for our success. In addition to our support from
Stockholm University we would like to express our gratitude to the following funders:

NordForsk

In addition to Futura Foundation, Natural Environment Research Council, Ellen MacArthur Foundation/H&M, Johansson Family Foundation,
Zennström Philantropies, Arctic Research Foundation and others.

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Directors’ view
Our work rests on a strong scientific foundation
working to understand the complex dynamics
of people and planet in the Anthropocene

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THE COLLECTIVELY clear synthesis from the scientificcommunity about the state of our planet continued
throughout 2019, with IPCC’s two reports on Climate
Change and Land, and the Ocean and Cryosphere, and theUnited in Science report from the World MeteorologicalOrganization among the many outputs sharing an image of aplanet in a dire state. The global synthesis work by theIntergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity andEcosystem Services (IPBES), which several SRC researchers areengaged in, warned – among other things – that 12% of all
known species are at risk of extinction. Combined, all thesereports illustrate the interconnectedness of human societies
with the biosphere and the climate system. They also
demonstrate the growing gap between climate targets or
Sustainable Development Goals, and the actual reality ofemissions and impact on the biosphere.
But amid the gloom, the reports also highlight hope andopportunity: it is still possible, at least biophysically, for the
global population to live good lives on our planet, provided
large changes in our societies take place. As an example, the
EAT-Lancet Commission, with its secretariat based at the SRC,
shows how it is possible to produce healthy food for 10 billion
people within the planetary boundaries by 2050. To do sowould require cutting global food loss and waste by 50%,
large changes to people’s diets and substantial improvements
in agriculture to produce more food with less impact.

The SRC rests on a strong scientific foundation working tounderstand the complex dynamics of people and planet in
the Anthropocene. The centre strives to identify potential
leverage points towards sustainable futures, and to engage ina variety of collaborations across sectors and disciplines. Our
researchers have never before produced so many peerreviewed papers – and in high-impact journals – as in 2019.
A global sustainability transition has to be built on evidencebased and evidence-informed understanding. But the needfor science-based change also comes at a time when we see
increasing mistrust in science and misrepresentation of facts
in public discussions. Information is not enough for change,
and as this annual report shows, we have intensified ourwork in the knowledge-action interface. This way weincrease the likelihood of our science and knowledge being
available to support the transition to more just andsustainable societies. Examples of this work include our Sidafunded programmes SwedBio, Global Resilience Partnershipand GRAID, and our various training programmes thatengage different stakeholders like top executives in Swedenbased companies and entrepreneurs and innovators acrossthe Baltic countries and in Africa. If there is one take-awayfrom these programmes, it is that biosphere stewardship is
emerging as new constellations of actors come together, all
stepping up to tackle the planetary emergency.

Line Gordon
Director

Henrik Österblom
Science director

Victor Galaz
Deputy director

Carl Folke
Science director

Beatrice Crona
Deputy science
director

Lisen Schultz
Deputy director oftransdisciplinarity

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To deliver on both high-quality science and knowledgeaction interfaces, the SRC has built a complex and dynamic
organisation. To make it work and ensure creativity, quality
and collective action, we invest heavily in our work culture.
In 2019, we adopted a set of work-culture aspirations. They
focus on how we relate to each other and operate tostimulate a healthy and sound work environment, while
supporting the development of internationally leading
science, education and knowledge-action interfaces forsustainability. They include aspirations such as ensuring
integrity, promoting learning and experimentation, andfostering diversity and care.
As a society, we might remember 2019 as the year whenschoolchildren all over the world urged world leaders tolisten to science and act accordingly. As we enter 2020, the“super year” for the planet, we do so with the commitment
to make our work help improve the future for our children.
Combined with science, our work-culture aspirations canalso be a trigger for important discussions about empathy
and care beyond our own organisation, and involving manyof the actors with whom we engage. Let 2020 be a year
where such empathy becomes visible in action, based on
science that provides a deep understanding of how humans,
the biosphere and the climate system interact.
Line Gordon,
director

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Introducing the International
Science Advisory Council
The new council consists of internationally leading
researchers providing strategic advice and guidanceon the scientific development and direction of the centre

The composition and membership of the council is formally decided by the SRC board. Members of the new council met for the first time, 15 September in Stockholm.
From top left: Stephen Carpenter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Frances Westley, University of Waterloo; Jonas Ebbesson, Stockholm University; Stephen Polasky,
University of Minnesota; Simon Levin, Princeton University; Marten Scheffer, Wageningen University. Bottom left: Deliang Chen, University of Gothenburg; Elena
Bennett, McGill University; Elizabeth Selig, Stanford University; Rashid Sumaila, University of British Columbia; Eric Lambin, Université Catholique de Louvain,
Stanford University; Elke Weber, Princeton University. Not present: Frank Geels, University of Manchester; Danica Kragic, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden;
Karen Seto, Yale University; Jane Lubchenco, Oregon University; Pavan Sukhdev, WWF International; Jessica Fanzo, Johns Hopkins University.

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International
Advisory Board

Originally established in 2013, the International Advisory Board (IAB) provides strategic advice to the centre in its efforts to have global impact within science,business, policy and practice. Between 26–27 August the board met again, at Rosenön outside Stockholm, courtesy of member Niklas Zennström.
Present at the 2019 IAB meeting (from top left): Henrik Pompeius (senior advisor, Stockholm University), Jan Eliasson (former deputy secretary-general, UN), Niklas
Zennström (chair, Atomico & Zennström Philanthropies), Alexander af Jochnick (chair, Oriflame), Sara Öhrvall (chief digital, customer experience and communications
officer, SEB), Carl Folke (chair, Stockholm Resilience Centre board), Hans Enocson (former CEO, GE Nordic), Astrid Auraldsson Sjögreen (coordinator to the director,
Stockholm Resilience Centre), Lisen Schultz (deputy director of transdisciplinarity, Stockholm Resilience Centre), Gunhild Stordalen (chair, Stordalen Foundation),
Johan Rockström (director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Beatrice Crona (deputy science director, Stockholm Resilience Centre), Jerker Johansson(Johansson Family foundation), Henrik Österblom (science director, Stockholm Resilience Centre), Line Gordon (director, Stockholm Resilience Centre), Victor Galaz(deputy director, Stockholm Resilience Centre). Not present: Jim Balsillie (co-founder, BlackBerry), Carl Bildt (former prime minister and foreign minister of Sweden),
Johan Eliasch (chair and CEO, HEAD), Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (former president of Iceland), Kevin Rudd (former prime minister and foreign minister of Australia),
Jacob Wallenberg (chair, Investor AB).

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Some of our partners
worldwide
Selected scientific partners

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Selected Global networks and organisations– Earth System Governance Project– EAT Iniative– Future Earth– Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)– Lancet commission on health and climate change– Local Governments for Sustainability, ICLEI– Resilience Alliance– Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), Sweden– The World in 2050: Pathways towards asustainable future– UN and UN Agencies in relation to the 2030 Agenda– UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)– World Business Council for Sustainable
Development, WBCSD– World Economic Forum

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Behind every great leader,
there is an Astrid
Meet the superwoman who keeps crazy ideas
in check and management on top of things

ASK ASTRID AURALDSSON SJÖGREEN what it takes to do
her job, and she says the Swedish pop song “It takes a fool toremain sane” comes to mind. She may be onto something.
Astrid is the coordinator to the centre director and,according to Johan Rockström, the centre’s former director,
she is “SRC’s superwoman”. This is because she keeps all
crazy ideas, challenging relations, funding networks, highlevel interactions and daily practicalities under control.
“Astrid has this extraordinary ability of being sociallysuper-capable and being super-executive at the same time,”
Rockström says. Consider this example: in 2015 Rockström
was awarded the International Cosmos Prize in Japan andthe Deutsche Umweltpreis in Germany. The award
ceremonies took place one day after another, 10,000 kmapart and in different time zones. So quite the logisticalchallenge. As if that was not enough, a serious bike accident
forced Rockström into hospital a week before leaving forJapan. It did not look good in terms of time and he himself
certainly did not look good (his jaw was badly hit and it

Astrid with C. S. “Buzz” Holling, the founding father of social-ecologicalresilience, from 1994.

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was difficult understanding him when he talked). In the end,bruises and injuries were sufficiently healed for him to go
and accept the awards. “It all went well but we had hardly
finished the dessert in Japan before having to catch the flightfor Germany in time for the next award ceremony,” Astrid
explains.
She started her role as coordinator to the director in 2012,
but things could have turned out differently. If it wasn't forTeresa Ogenstad, Johan’s former secretary, she would nothave the job in the first place. Her application for the job
was originally turned down but Ogenstad recognised hername among the applicants and made sure she was called infor an interview. Astrid is not one for changing workplaces
too often, either. If things work out, she stays. “It’s a privilege
to work in an academic institution like the SRC,” she says.
“I see my daily work as a tiny contribution to a moresustainable planet.”
Before coming to the SRC she worked for several years at
the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in various capacities.
She travelled to places like Tanzania, Borneo, India, Chileand Nepal, organising workshops sponsored by the
MacArthur Foundation and later Sida. Wherever she went
Astrid would charm everyone and get the work done fast.
She is, in the words of a former colleague, a “no-nonsense,
straightforward but very considerate person”. That
description works perfectly to this day. Current colleagues
characterise her as a good listener who is able to put herself
in other people’s shoes, offering both empathetic and soundsupport. New centre director Line Gordon confirms this,“Astrid is a warm, wise and considerate person who witha firm hand helps me prioritise among the many requests
we get from various places”.
Johan Rockström sums up, “Consistent feedback fromboard members, distinguished Nobel Laureates, businessleaders and politicians all over the world, was their admiration
for Astrid. ‘How can you have such a fantastic coordinator?
Astrid is phenomenal!’ they said. This always made me very
proud, a feeling I was privileged to experience many times”.
That kind of a reference, a fool would never get.

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Our research framework
Our curiosity-founded research is driven by an interestin identifying challenges as well as opportunities for change

HUMAN SOCIETIES are reliant on a healthy and resilient
biosphere providing suitable living conditions. At the sametime, human actions are a major force in shaping the dynamics
of the biosphere and the broader earth system. Social
conditions, health, culture, democracy, power, justice, equality,
matters of security and ultimately survival are interwoven withthe earth system and its thin biosphere in a complex interplayof local, regional and worldwide dependencies. It is anintertwined system of people and planet.
Our core focus is to advance research in the frontier ofbiosphere-based sustainability science, applying a socialecological approach and resilience thinking. The approachthat the SRC takes – that humans are part of the biosphere –informs and guides our research, enabling cohesion, unity of
purpose and the distillation and synthesis of diverse theories,
methods and data. Inductive and deductive work, practice andtheory continuously interact.

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SRC’s organisational design is to frame creativity through thebiosphere-based approach, guiding and defining a problem
space in which creativity and innovation are encouraged toflourish. It involves developing and implementing researchstrategies, organisational structures and team-building
processes that enable, support and stimulate creativity
and cutting-edge research, ranging from disciplinary tointerdisciplinary to transdisciplinary. Significant time isdevoted to encouraging interaction and to stimulating
sharing of ideas at the frontier of sustainability scienceand resilience thinking.
Our research aims at capturing significant patterns andprocesses of the Anthropocene, using complex adaptive
systems and resilience thinking as core perspectives,
developing theory and methods, and experimenting andexploring transdisciplinarity for biosphere stewardship andtransformations towards sustainability. The research topics

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are diverse but tend to be anchored in systems approaches
and around food systems, the ocean, urbanisation anddevelopment challenges.
Research for change
Our curiosity-founded research is driven by an interest to
identify challenges as well as opportunities for change. This
is at the heart of the planetary boundaries framework, whichin 2019 celebrated its 10th anniversary. With over 3,600
citations to date, the original Nature article has sparked
excitement across science, policy and business. Downscalingor translating the boundaries has been undertaken by
several countries and regions – including the EU, China andGermany – while several companies are looking at ways toadapt the framework to their businesses.
Research by the SRC was essential in another more recent
international effort: the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food,
Planet and Health. It demonstrates how diet and foodproduction can radically change to improve health and avoid
damage to the planet. Inevitably, the report generated both
excitement and controversy (particularly for its call to
drastically reduce meat consumption) and became one of
the most discussed science articles of the year, according to
Altmetric, a data science company.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals, agreed by world
leaders in 2015, are increasingly influencing policies andcorporate strategies. In the midst of calls to listen to science,
our research is asked for. When Nature, one of the world’s
most important scientific journals, celebrated its 150th
anniversary, it invited centre researchers to contribute with
their perspectives on how humans – through farming, forestry
and fisheries – are changing the anatomy of our biosphere.
Our findings on resilience during the last decade illustrate
how crises lead to new opportunities, the mobilisation ofdiverse actors and stimulate bold vision. 2019 may enter
history as the year when environmental crises became amainstream topic. Reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) and Intergovernmental Science-Policy
Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on
the dire state of our planet spurred growing calls for politicaland corporate leaders to listen to science. Our executive
education on resilience thinking and multiple collaborative
dialogues at different scales continue to connect CEOs andboard members of large companies, as well as innovative
entrepreneurs from small and medium business enterprises,with sustainability scientists and experts.
The centre is thriving under its new leadership and isstaying busy with its multiple forms of collaborative
engagements. We are particularly excited about our new
international scientific advisory council, established to provide
advice on our scientific direction of the coming decade. Thereis much more work to do.

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Pioneering the science of surprise
Crawford Stanley “Buzz” Holling, the father of resilience research,passed away on 16 August 2019, aged 88

PIONEERS BREAK NEW GROUND and leave an empty spacewhen they move on. Crawford Stanley Holling is considered
the father of resilience research and a pivotal figure in thedevelopment of the Beijer Institute, the Resilience Allianceand the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Crawford, or “Buzz”– a nickname given to him by his sister because she believed
it suited his character better (he agreed) – called his resilience
work the “science of surprise”. He highlighted theimportance of considering surprise, system reorganisationand learning when trying to understand social-ecologicaldynamics. He also emphasised that understanding – notknowledge in a narrow sense – is navigating the dynamic,
connected and evolving challenges of our rich and beautiful
but unequal world.
Buzz Holling was born in 1930 and grew up in the forestsof Northern Ontario where he developed a deep interest in
the living world. An early interest in forest insects led him
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to study them, first at the University of Toronto and thenthe University of British Colombia. During his PhD (1957)
he developed the first mathematical theory of predation.
These concepts are now widely used to analyse predator-preyinteractions. In the 1960s and 1970s, Holling extended his
work using systems to understand diverse types ofinteractions among people and nature. He began tocollaborate with experts outside of universities and researchlabs to understand land development, forest management
and pest management. It was from these experiences that
Holling first began to formulate his ideas about resilience.
This work continued in Vienna where Holling first visitedand later became director of the International Institute ofApplied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
In the 1990s, Holling moved from the University of
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collaboration with Stockholm-based researchers, initiallythrough the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at
the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and then withresearchers at Stockholm University. These collaborations
led Holling to initiate the Resilience Alliance in 1999.
It was established as an international partnership ofinterdisciplinary researchers focused on understandingtransformations in human and natural systems. The
researchers published a number of influential papers andbooks in the 2000s, which helped resilience and socialecological systems move from being relatively unknown
ideas to central concepts in sustainability science.
Holling trained many scientists who went on to make major
impacts in behavioural ecology, forest management, fisheries,
ecology and sustainability science. He was passionate aboutdeveloping cross-disciplinary, international networks among
younger scientists. He encouraged young scientists to explore

bold ideas that connected different bodies of knowledge bothwithin and outside of the academy, and he enthusiasticallyconnected them to people and resources that enabled these
explorations. Buzz Holling received many honours for his
contributions to science and society. He received the Mercer
Award and the Eminent Ecologist Award from the EcologicalSociety of America. He was a fellow of the Royal Society ofCanada, as well as a foreign fellow of the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences. He received the Austrian Cross of
Honour for Science and Art, and he became an Officer of
the Order of Canada “for his pioneering contributions to thefield of ecology, notably for his work on ecosystem dynamics,
resilience theory and ecological economics”. He will begreatly missed.

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Publications and special issues
In 2019, we produced more than 190 scientific articles
published in over 100 different scientific journals.
Citations of our publications also continue to increase

CARRYING OUT high-quality research is the foundation of
the SRC, reflected in the ability to publish in leading andhigh-impact factor journals. In 2019, we had around 20
articles published in The Lancet, Nature and Nature-related
journals, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
USA (PNAS), Science, and Science Advances.
All in all, more than 190 scientific articles were publishedin 2019. The articles were published in over 100 different
scientific journals. More than 50% of the articles appearedin journals with an impact factor of four or higher. A largepart were published in journals with a strong
interdisciplinary focus and SRC researchers published five or
more articles in each of Ecology and Society, Environmental
Research Letters, Global Sustainability, Nature Sustainability,
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Marine
Policy, Ecological Economics and Sustainability Science.
SRC articles of 2019 appeared in more than 30 journals
that were new to the SRC publication list, namely:
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; Agrekon;
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics;
Australian Geographer; Bird Study; Cell; Climate Policy;
Collective Dynamics; Earth System Governance; Ecosystems

Centre publications by discipline & impact factor

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and People; Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry;
Fisheries Research; Forest Policy and Economics; Fteval
Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation;
Geoinformatica; Global Health Action; Interest Groups& Advocacy; International Journal of Agricultural
Sustainability; Journal of Environmental Studies andSciences; Journal of Mathematical Sciences; Light: Science& Applications; MethodsX; Nature Biotechnology; One
Earth; People and Nature; Philosophy Kitchen; Progress inPlanning; Science Bulletin; Smart Cities; Southeast AsianStudies; Systems; Transboundary and Emerging Diseases;
Urban Morphology; Water Security; Water Birds.
Centre researchers have also been engaged withediting special issues of journals:
Mancilla García, M., J. Hileman, and Ö. Bodin (eds.). 2019.
Collaboration and conflicts in complex water governancesystems across a development gradient. Ecology and Society
24(3), 8 articles.
Masterson, V.A., J.P. Enqvist, R.C. Stedman, and M.
Tengö (eds.). 2019. Sense of Place in Social–Ecological
Systems: From Theory to Empirical Exploration.
Sustainability Science 14(3), 9 articles.

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Pauleit, S., E. Andersson, B. Anton, A. Buijs, D. Haase, R.
Hansen, I. Kowarik, J. Niemelä, A. Stahl Olafsson, and S.
Van der Jagt (eds.). 2019. Urban green infrastructure –connecting people and nature for sustainable cities. Urban
Forestry and Urban Greening 40, 34 articles.
Shackleton, S., P. Hebinck, C.I. Speranza, V. Masterson, D.
Spear, and T. Tengö (eds.). 2019. Livelihood and Landscape
Change in Africa: Future Trajectories for Improved WellBeing under a Changing Climate, Land 8(8), 12 articles.
Wabnitz, C.C.C., and R. Blasiak (eds.). 2019. Funding for
ocean conservation and sustainable fisheries. Marine Policy
107, 11 articles.
One book has been published:
Galaz, V. (ed.) 2019. Global Challenges, Governance, andComplexity: Applications and Frontiers. Edward Elgar,
Cheltenham, UK.
Centre researchers Carl Folke, Victor Galaz, Beatrice Crona,Line Gordon, Lisen Schultz and Henrik Österblom
contributed to the book Green Growth That Works: Natural
Capital Policy and Finance Mechanisms From Around theWorld. It is the first practical guide to offer proventechniques for planning and achieving nature-based solutions
and is edited by leading experts from the Natural Capital
Project, where the SRC is a partner.
In addition, at least 25 journal articles with official
publication dates in 2020 appeared online in 2019. There
were also several book chapters as well as science, policy,
practice, communication and outreach publications andreports published during 2019. This includes the EAT-Lancet
report launched in January. “The World in 2050” report was
launched in July and the Global Resilience Partnership reportin September. There have also been reports produced for the
UN Global Compact Ocean Action Platform in addition to
governmental agencies in Sweden and Europe. Centre
researchers contributed to the Global Assessment of IPBES
and two reports from IPBES’s ongoing task force on models
and scenarios. A set of background briefs were also developed
for the Keystone Dialogue and SeaBOS meeting in Thailand,
September 2019.
Citations of SRC publications continued to increase,
exceeding 14,000 in 2019 alone and beyond 60,000 in total
in the Web of Science. Four of the 2019 articles wereacknowledged as “highly cited papers” by Essential Science
Indicators. Highly cited papers are those that received
enough citations to place them in the top 1% of theiracademic field. One paper, in The Lancet, was recognised asa “hot paper”. Hot papers are those that received enoughcitations in the last two years to place them in the top 0.1%
of papers in their academic field.

Centre researchers contributed to Nature's exclusive 150th
anniversary collection with a paper on how farming, forestry
and fisheries are changing the anatomy of the biosphere.
The paper, entitled Anatomy and resilience of the global
production ecosystem was part of Nature's selection ofarticles that “reflect the past, present and future of Nature”.

Annual number of citations

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Selected scientificpublications
PHOTO: N. RYRHOLM/AZOTEAn altered planetary anatomy
Humans have transformed much of the planet to produce more and more food, fibre and fuel. Now we need to radically transform thisglobal production ecosystem. Centre researchers offer perspectives in Nature’s exclusive 150th-anniversary collection

Nyström, M., J-B. Jouffray, A. V. Norström, B. Crona, P. S. Jørgensen, S. R. Carpenter, Ö. Bodin, V. Galaz, C. Folke. 2019.
Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem. Nature 575(7781): 98–108.

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Not so smart after
all…?
A popular concept for building sustainable
cities stands on fragile scientific grounds

Gren, A., J. Colding, M. BerghauserPont, L. Marcus. 2019. How smart issmart growth? Examining theenvironmental validation behind city
compaction. Ambio 48(6): 580–589.

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PHOTO: GEORGIAN BAY BIOSPHERE RESERVE/FACEBOOKFrom conflicts to solutions
Baird, J., L. Schultz, R. Plummer, D. Armitage, Ö. Bodin.

2019. Emergence of collaborative environmental governance:
what are the causal mechanisms? Environmental
Management 63(1): 16–31.

Ecosystem services for men,ecosystem services for women

More complex than the sumof its parts

There can be stark differences in how men and women use and

New framework for analysing emergent properties and dynamics

experience ecosystem services. This has significant impact onin social-ecological systems tested on seven case studies

their well-being

Schlüter, M., L. J. Haider, S. J. Lade, E. Lindkvist, R. Martin,
K. Orach, N. Wijermans, C. Folke. 2019. Capturing emergent
phenomena in social-ecological systems: an analyticalframework. Ecology and Society 24(3): 11.

Conflict in environmental governance is common, whatmechanisms exist to get people to collaborate?

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Fortnam, M., K. Brown, T. Chaigneau, B. Crona,
T.M. Daw, D. Goncalves, C. Hicks, M. Revmatas,
C. Sandbrook, B. Schulte-Herbruggen. 2019. The
Gendered Nature of Ecosystem Services. Ecological
Economics159: 312–325.

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Revisiting coral reef ecology
Williams, G. J., N. A. J. Graham, J-B. Jouffray, A. V. Norström,

M. Nyström, J. M. Gove, A. Heenan, L. M. Wedding. 2019.
Coral reef ecology in the Anthropocene. Functional Ecology
33(6): 1014–1022.Management 63(1): 16–31.

Money for farming or forests?

It’s all about the safe operating space

Money sent home by migrants can prevent undesired farmland

Ten years after the original publication of the planetary

abandonment, as well as the promise of extensive forest

boundaries concept, researchers make an in-depth analysis ofregrowth

academic research and discussion generated by the concept

Ospina, D., G. D. Peterson, A-S. Crépin. 2019. Migrant
remittances can reduce the potential of local forest
transitions: a social-ecological regime shift analysis.
Environmental Research Letters 14(2): 24017.

Downing, A. S., A. Bhowmik, D. Collste, S. E. Cornell, J.
Donges, I. Fetzer, T. Häyhä, J. Hinton, S. Lade, W. M. Mooij.
2019. Matching scope, purpose and uses of planetary boundaries
science. Environmental Research Letters 14(7): 73005.

Coral reefs face a new reality dominated by human impact and it
is time for traditional coral reef ecological paradigms to follow suit

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The time is now
Only immediate transformation of global business-as-usual
economies and operations will sustain nature as we know it –and us – into the future

Díaz, S., J. Settele, E. S. Brondizio, H. T. Ngo, J. Agard, A.
Arneth, P. Balvanera, K. A. Brauman, S. H. M. Butchart, K.
M. A. Chan, L. A. Garibaldi, K. Ichii, J. G. Liu, S. M.

Subramanian, G. F. Midgley, P. Miloslavich, Z. Molnar, D.
Obura, A. Pfaff, S. Polasky, A. Purvis, J. Razzaque, B. Reyers,
R. R. Chowdhury, Y. J. Shin, I. Visseren-Hamakers, K. J.
Willis, C. N. Zayas. 2019. Pervasive human-driven decline oflife on Earth points to the need for transformative change.
Science 366(6471): 1327–1359.Management 63(1): 16–31.
PHOTO: PIQSELSPHOTO: PIQSELSThe complexity of human behaviour
Despite its importance to future sustainability, approaches tounderstanding human behaviour remain too simple

Schill, C., J. M. Anderies, T. Lindahl, C. Folke, S. Polasky, J.
C. Cardenas, A-S. Crépin, M. A. Janssen, J. Norberg, M.

Schlüter. 2019. A more dynamic understanding of humanbehaviour for the Anthropocene. Nature Sustainability 2(12):1075–1082.

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What time tells us

Know your place

An in-depth review of existing approaches of time series

Experience dictates influence among fishers, with older fishers

networks, covering their methodological foundations,and information brokers having distinct roles in shaping catch

interpretation and practical considerations with an emphasis on

patterns for large- and small-sized fish species

recent developments

Alexander, S. M., P. P. M. Staniczenko, Ö. Bodin. Social ties
explain catch portfolios of small-scale fishers in the
Caribbean. Fish and Fisheries doi:10.1111/faf.12421.

Zou, Y., R. V. Donner, N. Marwan, J. F. Donges, J. Kurths.
2019. Complex network approaches to nonlinear time series
analysis. Physics Reports 787: 1-97.

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Striving for sustainable forestry: history matters
Applying Elinor Ostrom’s principles on common pool resourcesmanagement demonstrates how forest management in the
Pamir Mountains may not be so tragic after all. But Soviet-era
legacy lingers, new research shows

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Haider, L. J., B. Neusel, G. D. Peterson, M. Schlüter. 2019.
Past management affects success of current joint forestry
management institutions in Tajikistan. Environment,
Development and Sustainability 21, 2183–2224.

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Invisible resilience in the Anthropocene
Keys, P. W., M. Porkka, L. Wang-Erlandsson, I. Fetzer, T.

Gleeson, L. J. Gordon. 2019. Invisible water security:
moisture recycling and water resilience. Water Security 8:100046.

Help from an unexpected source

Time for an emergency response

Accounting can be much more than just crunching numbers.

Nine climate tipping points now are now “active”, which means

Imagine it saving our environment

the situation is urgent and we need an emergency response,

Bebbington, J., H. Österblom, B. Crona, J-B. Jouffray, C.
Larrinaga, S. Russell, B. Scholtens. 2019. Accounting andaccountability in the Anthropocene. Accounting, Auditing &Accountability Journal 33(1): 152–177.

warn scientists

Uncovering society’s hidden footprint on the water cycle and its
implications for future water security

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How a pro-meat social media campaign attacking research
related to healthy diets may have influenced social media
audiences

PHOTO: TWITTER SCREENSHOTA digital backlash on the planetary
health diet

Lenton, T. M., J. Rockström, O. Gaffney, S. Rahmstorf, K.
Richardson, W. Steffen, H. J. Schellnhuber. 2019. Climate
tipping points – too risky to bet against. Nature 575(7784):
592–595.

Garcia, D., V. Galaz, S. Daume. 2019. EATLancet vsyes2meat: the digital backlash to the planetary health diet.
The Lancet 394(10215): 2153–2154.

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PHOTO: US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, SAVANAH DISTRICTNo community or ecosystem
is an island
Why thinking globally and acting locally can actually undermine
sustainability at larger scales – and how to make sure that it doesn’t

Ringsmuth, A. K., S. J. Lade, M. Schlüter. 2019. Cross-scalecooperation enables sustainable use of a common-poolresource. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological
Sciences 286: 1913.
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Solutions that provide synergies
Environmental policy instruments must be used to deal with
global environmental problems

Sterner, T., E. B. Barbier, I. Bateman, I. van den Bijgaart, A-S.
Crépin, O. Edenhofer, C. Fischer, W. Habla, J. Hassler, O.
Johansson-Stenman, A. Lange, S. Polasky, J. Rockström, H. G.
Smith, W. Steffen, G. Wagner, J. E. Wilen, F. Alpiza, C. Azar, D.
Carless, C. Chavez, J. Corial, G. Engström, S. C. Jagers, G.
Kohlin, A. Lofgren, H. Pleijel, A. Robinson. 2019. Policy designfor the Anthropocene. Nature Sustainability 2(1): 14–21.

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Being biocultural
Why biocultural diversity can contribute to both local and global

What they talk about when they talkabout social-ecological systems

sustainability

As the social ecological system framework celebrates 20 years,

Merçon, J., S. Vetter, M. Tengö, M. Cocks, P. Balvanera, J. A.
Rosell, B. Ayala-Orozco. 2019. From local landscapes tointernational policy: contributions of the bioculturalparadigm to global sustainability. Global Sustainability 2: e7.

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increased popularity, a unifying definition is still missing

Colding, J., S. Barthel. 2019. Exploring the social-ecologicalsystems discourse 20 years later. Ecology and Society 24(1): 2.

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Evolutionary biology for the human age
How evolutionary biology can inform governance and policies ona human-dominated planet

the Anthropocene: informing governance and policy. Annual
Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 50: 527–546.

Jørgensen, P. S., C. Folke, S. P. Carroll. 2019. Evolution in

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It’s all about who you trade with

A delicious transformation

The trade relationships that fish buyers have with others strongly

Proof might really be found in the pudding. Chefs can be key

influence sustainability and their capacity to adapt to changes

changemakers in a sustainable transformation of our food

Gonzalez-Mon, B., Ö. Bodin, B. Crona, M. Nenadovic, X.
Basurto. 2019. Small-scale fish buyers’ trade networks reveal
diverse actor types and differential adaptive capacities.
Ecological Economics 164: 106338.

systemPereira. L. M., R. Calderón-Contreras, A. V. Norström, D.
Espinosa, J. Willis, L. Guerrero Lara, Z. Khan, L. Rusch, E.
C. Palacios, O. P. Amaya. 2019. Chefs as change-makers
from the kitchen: indigenous knowledge and traditional foodas sustainability innovations. Global Sustainability 2: e16.
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Imagine the future
Six characteristics necessary to make scenario processes more
inclusive and able to address complex and context-specificproblems

Pereira, L., N. Sitas, F. Ravera, A. Jimenez-Aceituno, A.

Merrie. 2019. Building capacities for transformative change
towards sustainability: imagination in intergovernmental
science-policy scenario processes. Elementa: Science of the
Anthropocene 7: 35.Ecological Economics 164: 106338.

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Banking on a better
seafood industry
Hardly any bank loan to industries within
fisheries or aquaculture includes demands
for a more sustainable business approach.
Doing so could significantly reducepressure on seafood resources

J.-B. Jouffray, B. Crona, E. Wassénius,
J. Bebbington, B. Scholtens. 2019.
Leverage points in the financial sector
for seafood sustainability. Science
Advances 5, eaax3324Ecological
Economics 164: 106338.

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How much is optimal?
Optimal antimicrobial use in animal farming must be analysed asa sustainability issue under a social-ecological perspective

Lhermie, G., D. Wernlii, P. S. Jørgensen, D. Kenkel, L. W.

New study tests individuals’ confidence intheir knowledge about climate change

Fischer, H., D. Amelung, N. Said. 2019.
The accuracy of German citizens’
confidence in their climate change
knowledge. Nature Climate Change
9(10): 776–785.

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Trusting what you know

Tauer, Y .T. Gröhn. 2019. Global resistance to antimicrobials
and their sustainable use in agriculture. The Lancet Planetary
Health 3(3): 109–110.

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Nurturing nature
New research explores how environmental stewardship attitudes are
influenced by the benefits humans receive from their environment

Masterson, V. A., S. Vetter, T. Chaigneau, T. M. Daw, O.
Selomane, M. Hamann, G. Y. Wong, V. Mellegard, M. Cocks,

M. Tengö. 2019. Revisiting the relationships between humanwell-being and ecosystems in dynamic social-ecologicalsystems: implications for stewardship and development.
Global Sustainability 2: e8.

PHOTO: PXHERETime for corporate biosphere stewardshipA handful of transnational corporations hold enough power toaccelerate (or hinder) transformations towards sustainability

Folke, C., H. Österblom, J-B. Jouffray, E. F. Lambin, W. N.
Adger, M. Scheffer, B. I. Crona, M. Nyström, S. A. Levin, S.
R. Carpenter, J. M. Anderies, S. Chapin, A-S. Crépin, A.

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Dauriach, V. Galaz, L. J. Gordon, N. Kautsky, B. H. Walker,
J. R. Watson, J. Wilen, A. de Zeeuw. 2019. Transnational
corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship.
Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(10): 1396–1403.

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Adding realism to risks
A new application adds realism to an economic model that takes
into account the probability of environmental risks

Crépin, A-S., E. Nævdal. 2019. Inertia Risk: Models ofCatastrophes. The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12381.

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Falling off the radar
Sophisticated risk frameworks operated by many internationalorganisations, companies and governments ignore rapidly
evolving global risks driven by environmental changeKeys, P. W., V. Galaz, M. Dyer, N. Matthews, C. Folke, M.
Nyström, S. E. Cornell. 2019. Anthropocene risk. Nature
Sustainability 2(8): 667–673.

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Forty years of conflicts

Dancing on the volcano

New study presents and analyses the first longitudinal database

Humanity is at a crossroads. We need to understand theon fisheries conflicts

underlying drivers of human behaviour to avoid collapse of the

Spijkers, J., G. Singh, R. Blasiak, T. H. Morrison, P. Le Billon,
H. Österblom. 2019. Global patterns of fisheries conflict:forty years of data. Global Environmental Change 57: UNSP
101921.

biosphere and our global civilisation

Carpenter, S. R., C. Folke, M. Scheffer, F. R. Westley. 2019.
Dancing on the volcano: social exploration in times of
discontent. Ecology and Society 24(1): 23.

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Too warm to swim
Comprehensive global analysis shows a warmer ocean will holdlower animal abundance, with fish and mammals to suffer the
most

Lotze, H. K., D .P. Tittensor, A. Bryndum-Buchholz, T. D.
Eddy, W. W. L. Cheung, E. D. Galbraith, M. Barange, N.
Barrier, D. Bianchi, J. L. Blanchard, L. Bopp, M. Buchner, C.
M. Bulman, D. A. Carozza, V. Christensen, M. Coll, J. P.
Dunne, E. A. Fulton, S. Jennings, M. C. Jones, S. Mackinson,

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O. Maury, S. Niiranen, R. Oliveros-Ramos, T. Roy, J .A.
Fernandes, J. Schewe, Y. J. Shin, T. A. M. Silva, J. Steenbeek,
C. A. Stock, P. Verley, J. Volkholz, N. D. Walker, B. Worm.
2019. Global ensemble projections reveal trophic
amplification of ocean biomass declines with climate change.
PNAS of the United States of America 116(26): 12907–
12912.

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Float a loan to weather the storm
Patron-client relations in the Philippines buffer fisheries against
immediate impacts of natural disasters. But long-termsustainability may suffer due to the combination with current
fishery conditions

O’Neill, E. D., B. Crona, A. J. G. Ferrer, R. Pomeroy. 2019.
From typhoons to traders: the role of patron-client relations
in mediating fishery responses to natural disasters.
Environmental Research Letters 14(4): 45015.

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It takes a bit of nature to remain sane
A framework to incorporate nature’s impact on mental healthinto city plans

Bratman, G. N., C. B. Anderson, M. G. Berman, B. Cochran,S. de Vries, J. Flanders, C. Folke, H. Frumkin, J. J. Gross, T.
Hartig, P. H. Kahn, M. Kuo, J. J. Lawler, P. S. Levin, T.

Lindahl, A. Meyer-Lindenberg, R. Mitchell, Z. Y. Ouyang, J.
Roe, L. Scarlett, J. R. Smith, M. van den Bosch, B. W.
Wheeler, M. P. White, H. Zheng, G. C. Daily. 2019. Natureand mental health: an ecosystem service perspective. Science
Advances 5(7): eaax0903.

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PHOTO: WIKIMEDIA COMMONSAgenda 2030 through the complexity lens
The UN Agenda 2030 is a step forward, but is still too fragmented,
simplistic and linear in its design and monitoring

Selomane, O., B. Reyers, R. Biggs, M. Hamann. 2019.

Harnessing insights from social-ecological systems research
for monitoring sustainable development. Sustainability
11(4): 1190.

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If a city is resilient, is it also sustainable?
Researchers present a new framework to resolve this question

Elmqvist, T., E. Andersson, N. Frantzeskaki, T. McPhearson,
P. Olsson, O. Gaffney, K. Takeuchi, C. Folke. 2019.

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Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban
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Centre staff contributing
to journals and committees
In 2019, several members of staff were involved in a wide
variety of editorial engagements outside of the centre
Here are some examples:
Journal editors, board members and referees
Albert Norström: Ecology and Society
Anne-Sophie Crépin: Ecological Economics; Nature
Sustainability
Beatrice Crona: Global Sustainability
Erik Andersson: Sustainability Science
Ingo Fetzer: MDPI Systems, MDPI Water; PNAS
Lan Wang Erlandsson: Nature Sustainability; Science of
the Total Environment
Line Gordon: Ecology and Society
Lisen Schultz: Global Environmental Change; PNASMaja Schlüter: Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling;
Ecology and Society
Michele-Lee Moore: Ecology and Society
Oonsie Biggs: Anthropocene; BioScience
Peter Sogaard Jorgensen: Ecology Letters; Sustainability
ScienceSarah Cornell: Environmental Science & Policy
Simon West: Review for People and Nature; Frontiers in
Psychology
Therese Lindahl: Environmental and Resource Economics;
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Thomas Hahn: Environmental Science & Policy; Journal of
Cleaner Production
Wijnand Boonstra: Fish and Fisheries; AMBIO: A Journal of
the Human Environment
Committees and working groups
Anne-Sophie Crépin: member of the Swedish National
Committee for Global Environmental Change
Per Olsson: advisory committee for SDG Transformations
Forum Council
Robert Blasiak: pool of Experts for UN World Ocean
Assessment
Sara Elfstrand: steering committee Agroforestry Network
Thomas Elmqvist: board chair for Sida Scientific council

Centre researcher Thomas Elmqvist was appointed editor-­in-chief for Nature and RMIT University’s new journal
Urban Sustainability in October 2019. The open-accessjournal is part of Nature’s partner journals portfolio, NPJ.
“Given the importance of urbanisation processes andimpacts on both local and global scales, I view this new
open-access journal as a very timely and excellent
opportunity to serve the research community with an output
of high-quality research on urbanisation processes and theirmultitude of consequences for global sustainability,” says
Elmqvist. In his new role as editor-in-chief, Elmqvist is
supported by a team of five associate editors, including
centre-associated researcher Timon McPhearson.
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Research highlights
The Beijer Institute and the
Global Economic Dynamics andthe Biosphere Programme
The collaboration with the Beijer Institute, SRC’s founding partner,
and the Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere (GEDB)Programme, both part of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences(the Academy), remains strong and important
EXAMPLES OF COLLABORATION include the Beijer Institute’s
research programme Complexity, Technology andGovernance. As part of the programme a joint workshop on
human-machine-ecology was held in January at Princeton
University. In October leading Swedish and US academics,
the private sector and UN organisations met in New York to
explore risks and opportunities posed by AI (see page 58).
The event was hosted by the Consulate General of Sweden in
New York, the Beijer Institute, SRC and Princeton Institutefor International and Regional Studies. A significant volume
has been published during the year: Global Challenges,
Governance and Complexity: Applications and Frontiers, abook edited by Victor Galaz who also leads the Complexity,
Technology and Governance programme.
In January, Beijer and the SRC in collaboration with the
NatCap group of Stanford University organised a major
workshop at the Academy in Stockholm entitled Urbanisationin the Anthropocene – in support of a liveable planet. Other
Beijer workshops focused on imaginaries and the biosphere,
involving leading scholars from Harvard University andStanford University, and on marine mammal health incollaboration with Princeton University.
The SRC, Beijer and GEDB also worked closely together
in their contributions to the EAT-Lancet Commission on
Food, Planet and Health. The research offers six strategies tofeed 10 billion people healthy and sustainable diets. The
progressive science-business collaboration with SeaBOS andthe Keystone Dialogues continues in 2020 with jointly
organised meetings in Norway and Thailand (see page 60).
In addition, GEDB's work on biosphere finance and global
health and biosphere stewardship has attracted a strong
interest from the finance sector, in Sweden and globally withseveral interactions during the year.
Inspiring collaborations led to several joint publications
including articles on humans as a major driver of evolution(Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics); thechallenge of corporate biosphere stewardship (Nature

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Ecology & Evolution); identifying financial levers (Science
Advances); proposing economic policies for planetary
boundaries (Nature Sustainability); exploring market
responses in small-scale fisheries (Frontiers in Marine
Science); placing human behaviour as part of the biosphere(Nature Sustainability); revealing the role of migrants’remittances in regime shifts (Environmental Research
Letters); clarifying urban resilience (Nature Sustainability);
and unravelling the anatomy of the Anthropocene (Nature).
The third generation of Beijer Young Scholars, aninternational network of about 20 postdocs and late-PhD
students had their first meeting in the spring, focusing on
globalisation and the biosphere. Finally, the Stockholm
Seminars, a series featuring some of the world’s mostprominent experts on global sustainability, held a special
event celebrating the 200th Stockholm Seminars, entitled
Water as the bloodstream of the Biosphere (read more on
page 64–65).

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Ten years of nine planetary boundaries
As the framework celebrates its tenth anniversary, some of
the lead authors behind it reflect on what it has achieved
and the work that lies ahead
Many good things can happen over a cup of coffee. Will
Steffen, a senior research fellow at the centre recalls theorigin of what has become one of the most importantframeworks within sustainability thinking. “I remember abreakfast meeting at a little cafe in central Stockholm in2005 or 2006 with Johan Rockström and Bo Ekman(founder of the Tällberg Foundation). Johan had this idea toexplore a concept he called planetary boundaries.” In 2008,
a small group of researchers met in Tällberg, a small village
in the centre of Sweden to discuss which “boundaries”
influence the stability of the earth system in its current state.
They emerged from the meeting with nine of them. On 24
September 2009, Nature published “A safe operating spacefor humanity”. Ten years later, lead author Johan Rockström
believes the timing of their work was right.
“Earth system science in the decades preceding theframework led to this point where we could make a firstestimate of the boundary conditions for a safe operating
space for humanity. If we had not done it then otherresearcher groups would have arrived at similar conclusions.”
Significant interest beyond science
With over 3,600 citations to date, the article has sparked
significant excitement across the natural and social sciences.
Academic discussion in the natural sciences has focused onstress-testing the boundaries, fine-tuning the analysis andexploring alternative metrics. The social sciences foci haveapplied the framework particularly around equity issues,
translating to regional and national levels, and combining
with social boundaries. One example is Kate Raworth’s
Doughnut economic model.
The framework has also attracted significant interest
among policymakers and businesses. In 2012, the UN’s
High Level Panel for the Rio+20 summit published report
Resilient People, Resilient Planet using the planetary
boundaries framework as a foundational part of the renewedargument for sustainable development. Downscaling ortranslation of the boundaries has been undertaken for several
countries and regions including China, Columbia, the EU,
Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden
and Switzerland. WWF has used the framework as a core
part of its Living Planet Report (2016, 2018). Companies
like H&M, Ikea, L’Oréal and Houdini are looking at ways toadapt the framework to their businesses.
Towards Planetary Boundaries 3.0
In 2015, an updated version was published in Science.
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biodiversity, and assessed that land use had also crosseda boundary. But more work is needed. Katherine Richardsonfrom Copenhagen University and a co-author of the researchsays, “Early on, we acknowledged that our analysis did nottake into account interactions between the boundaries.
This area needs much more research.” She warns there are“gaping holes” around the quantification of novel substances
and aerosol loading at the global level. Steffen agrees. He
recalls an early attempt to show all possible interactions
among the processes, a “horrendous spaghetti diagram” inhis own words.
“This was so confronting that we dropped developmentof that idea at the time, but now we have the tools andfurther understanding to return to the interactions
challenge.”
Led by Sarah Cornell work is underway to develop thePlanetary Boundaries 3.0 framework. This includes
quantifying the two boundaries lacking numbers – aerosols
and novel entities (for example genetically modified
organisms, pesticides or even artificial intelligence).
According to SRC’s science director Carl Folke, a co-author,
the framework is more than just a tool for science, policy
and business. “It has contributed to making people
understand we live on a human-dominated planet,” he says.
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A scientific story that matters
Sarah Cornell reflects on the planetary boundaries framework,
which she has been working on since 2011
CHEMISTRY is all around us. When we meet Sarah Cornell
over lunch at a noisy cafe in Stockholm, she looks aroundand then motions to the plate in front of her – a spicy
cauliflower and falafel salad – and says: “It’s impossible forme to look at this without seeing its chemical components
and understanding something about what those are andwhat they do.” Cornell is originally a chemist by training.
Her PhD, from the University of East Anglia, was on the
global nitrogen cycle. And though she now calls herself aninterdisciplinarian, with passable skills in some of themethods from the humanities and insight into different
schools of thought, her disciplinary background matters to
how she sees the world. “It’s a way of decoding reality andthe world around us. We all carry different lenses that help
us understand what we see and what that means,” she says.
Cornell grew up in Brazil as the daughter of protestantmissionaries. At 16 she moved to the UK to finish her A
levels, and she stayed in England through PhD studies andpost-doctoral research. She didn’t envisage it then, but
Sweden ended up being the third place where she has spenta large part of her life.
So how did she end up here?
Expanding understanding of global sustainability
In 2009 the first paper about the planetary boundaries was
published. To Cornell the framework marked an important
step by the scientific community and by the strategic
leadership of major global change projects towards placing
sustainability science in a real-world context, reachingoutside of academia. When the opportunity came to join thecentre in 2011, to work on further evaluating and developing
the planetary boundaries framework, she took it. The work
has been fast-paced and at times challenging – but rewarding
and fun.
Cornell has worked on developing the framework withregards to the hard data and models that it rests on, as wellas putting it into practice. One of her proudest moments wasa symposium in 2016, where participants from science,
policy, business and wider society discussed the framework’s
progress “from concept to action”. For her, the event showed
how much the planetary boundaries framework had
expanded people’s understanding of global sustainability.
Like warning lights on a dashboard
Interest has continued to grow in different sectors that want
to use the framework. At the moment Sarah is coordinating
research projects funded by the clothing company H&M and
L’Oréal, one of the global leaders within cosmetics. They areboth looking at how to use the planetary boundaries insustainability target setting and how the framework plays
into a circular economy model.
“It’s exciting to see the boundaries catch on in this way,
and it has forced us to confront challenges of communicating
the framework clearly,” she says. Two things stand out as key
take-homes from the discussions with such partners. The firstis not lose sight of the framework as a whole. “It doesn’t
work to focus on only one or two of the boundaries, they
all interact and so they all need to be kept in mind,” sheexplains. The other is that the wedges in the planetary
boundaries figure should not be seen as budgets. “They are
more like warning lights on a dashboard.” Cornell warns
that using the planetary boundaries framework is not about
figuring out how much more impact a company, sector orcountry can get away with but rather trying to minimise thepressure on a world that is already impacted. An even betterthing would be to turn to activities with a positive impact,using the framework as a tool for seeing the bigger picture.
The next big task
Looking forward Cornell wants to move through a deeper
understanding of how to translate the boundaries towards
action. This, she says, is her theme for the academic year:
thinking deeply on the safe operating space for humanity.
Last year was her feminist year (“it’s going to be a longyear”). She believes thinking about whose values are seen
and whose voices get heard goes well together with a deeper
understanding of the boundaries.
The next big task in the planetary boundaries work is
to be clearer about its diagnosis. Looking across the world,what does overstepping the boundaries mean in different
places? That knowledge would help us to be clearer about
how we might respond – what can we do about the changing
risks?
There is a sense of urgency when she talks about it. “We
need to continue to develop the models and the data, there’s
a lot of exciting work being done on that,” she says. “But wealso need to act on what we already know.” And this, shesays, comes back to how we understand and decode theworld – and to how we communicate between our different
understandings. “When researchers look at data, it tells thema whole story. Projections of temperature increase mean
more to us than just this or that many degrees, they are partof a narrative of earth’s future,” she says.
“To a non-researcher, a policymaker or practitioner thenumbers in a report may tell a completely different story, or
not really tell a story, unless we are explicit and clear. It is
our responsibility to make sure that we convey the scientificstory that matters.”

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Collaboration with
Stanford University
With funding from the Swedish Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg
Foundation, the centre has over the past five years developed a close
collaboration with Stanford University. This continued to flourish in 2019
LED BY CENTRE SCIENCE DIRECTOR Carl Folke and Gretchen
Daily from Stanford University, the focus of the collaboration
has been the theoretical development, analysis and synthesis ofhumans in the biosphere and how we shape it from local to
global levels. This has resulted in more than 55 publications aswell as several high-level workshops and conference sessions
with renowned scholars in the areas of nature for mental
health, food systems transformations, sustainable urbanisationand scenarios. Garry Peterson, Cibele Queiroz, Jan Kuiper,
Erik Andersson, Thomas Elmqvist, Therese Lindahl (the Beijer
Institute), Amanda Wood, Line Gordon, Henrik Österblom,
Jean-Baptiste Jouffray and Albert Norström are centre
researchers who hold a key role in this partnership.
At the annual Natural Capital Symposium at Stanford in
March 2019, the SRC officially became one of four NatCap
academic partners, a milestone in our collaboration (seebelow). This allowed further consolidation and expansionof the SRC-Stanford collaboration. Other scientific highlightsfrom 2019 included a paper on nature and mental healthpublished in Science Advances and a paper on humanbehaviour in the Anthropocene published in Nature
Sustainability. Researchers from the centre and Stanford also
hosted a high-level workshop on sustainable urbanisation in
the Anthropocene and multiple conference sessions at the
Leverage Points Conference in Germany.

Looking ahead
2019 was also the kick-off for a second grant and a newphase of the collaboration. The new dynamics and challengesof the Anthropocene will be the central attractor for theupcoming research with particular foci on the role of foodsystems, ocean governance, urbanisation and humanbehaviour. In 2019, four papers addressing different
perspectives on food systems resilience were published in
Global Food Security. Three of them will be part of an
upcoming special issue on food systems resilience. A highlevel paper on long-term resilience of food groups to climatechange is also in development. The pioneer work ontransforming Nordic food diets will continue and further
synergies of work between the SRC and Stanford University
is expected.
Researchers from both institutions have become
increasingly involved in IPBES and this is expected tocontinue. Particular input has been on developing scenarios
for sustainability and global modelling of nature’s
contributions to people. Collaboration on ocean governance
was strengthened between the SRC, the Stanford Center
for Ocean Solutions and SeaBOS (see page 60). In 2020
exciting progress is expected to happen in this area.

Stockholm Resilience Centre joins Natural Capital Project partnership
In 2019, the SRC, together with its founding partner the Beijer
Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences, became official partners to the Natural Capital Project(NatCap), an international collaboration looking to better integrate
the value nature provides to society. NatCap is centred at Stanford
University and includes the University of Minnesota Institute on
the Environment, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, The Nature
Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund as core members.
“The powerful team at SRC will strengthen our initiatives inscientific innovation and help open new pathways towards green,
inclusive growth around the world,” says Professor Gretchen Daily,
co-founder and faculty director of the Natural Capital Project at
Stanford University. The official announcement of the partnershiptook place at the 2019 Natural Capital Symposium in March, theNatural Capital Project’s annual gathering.

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Centre researcher Garry Peterson was among the SRC staff present at
the official announcement of the new partnership. Pictured together
with Anne Guery (chief strategy officer for NatCap), Professor Steve
Polasky (co-founder of the Natural Capital Project) and Professor Ouyang
Zhiyun from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Photo: S. Castillo

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SES-LINK
In 2019 the centre’s SES-LINK group continued working
on case studies and models to understand the intertwined
dynamics of social-ecological systems (SES)

THE WORK FOCUSED on four key areas: 1) explaining andmanaging social-ecological change, e.g. restoring lakes thathave moved beyond ecological tipping points, 2) under­
standing the importance of social structures and diversity ofhuman behaviour for sustainability and resilience of SES, e.g.
how coordination and coalition formation enable policychange, 3) cross-scale dynamics in food systems, e.g. spatial
diversification as a response to environmental variability and4) new perspectives for studying SES as intertwined andcomplex adaptive systems, such as process-relational ontologies.
The SES-LINK group published two joint publications
that build on several years of collaborative work to enhance
the conceptual and methodological foundations for analysing
SES as complex adaptive and intertwined systems. The firstpublication presents a framework for analysing systemicchange or lack thereof, such as regime shifts or traps as
phenomena that emerge from interactions between humanand non-human actors (5). It builds on Elinor Ostrom'ssocial action situation and extends the concept to include
social-ecological and ecological action situations. The
framework supports the development of possible explanationsof observed phenomena, i.e., the social-ecologicalinteractions and outcomes that may have produced thephenomena, that can then be further explored in a field study
or model. The second publication suggests a methodology
for theorising about SES phenomena that combines
generalising from case studies with agent-based modelling todevelop, explore and specify possible explanations (6).

Members of the team have started several new research
projects including two Swedish Research Council (VR)/Sida/
Formas funded place-based studies focusing on small-scale
fisheries management and climate change adaptation in East
Africa from a mechanism-based and process-relational
perspective, respectively; a Belmont Forum/Biodiversa project
to develop social-ecological scenarios for aquatic ecosystemservices focusing on lakes in Sweden, Germany and Canada;
and an interdisciplinary research environment funded by VR
to study approaches to causation in SES. These projects arebuilding novel collaborations with researchers in Africa(Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique), North America (Canada)
and Europe (Sweden, Finland, Germany).
In addition, SES-LINK is hosting two visitors for a yearwith expertise in psychology and small-scale fisheries forcollaborations to study confidence of knowledge in collective
resource management and poverty traps in fisheries using
agent-based modelling. Finally, the team was itself a casestudy for a PhD student in science-technology studies from
Humboldt University, Berlin, who is interested in how SES
researchers deal with complexity when studying andmodelling SES.

Read more: www.seslink.org

Relevant publications
1.	Martin, R., M. Schlüter, T. Blenckner. 2020. The importance of transient
social dynamics for restoring ecosystems beyond ecological tipping
points. PNAS. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817154117
2.	Orach, K., Duit, A., Schlüter, M., under revision. Sustainable natural
resource governance under interest group competition in policy making.
Nature Human Behaviour.
3.	González-Mon, B., Ö., Bodin, E. Lindkvist et al., under revision. Spatial
diversification as a mechanism to adapt to environmental changes insmall-scale fisheries.
4.	Hertz, T., M. Mancilla García, M. Schlüter. In press. Process ontologies
for social-ecological systems (SES) research. People and Nature.

5.	Mancilla García, Hertz, M. Schlüter et al. In press, Adopting processrelational perspectives to tackle the challenges of social-ecologicalsystems research. Ecology and Society.
6.	Schlüter, M., L. Haider, S. Lade, E. Lindkvist, R. Martin, K. Orach, N.
Wijermans, C. Folke. 2019. Capturing emergent phenomena in socialecological systems: an analytical framework. Ecology and Society 24.
https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11012-240311
7.	Schlüter, M., K. Orach, E. Lindkvist, R. Martin, N. Wijermans, Ö. Bodin,
W. J. Boonstra. 2019. Toward a methodology for explaining andtheorizing about social-ecological phenomena. Current Opinion in
Environmental Sustainability 39, 44–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.
cosust.2019.06.011

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Humans, nature and the SDGs
The centre is a partner in ambitious research to gaina deeper understanding of the relationship between
humans and their environment in achieving the
Sustainable Development Goals
CENTRE RESEARCHER Tim Daw is the Swedish principle
investigator for two projects that will look at the role ofhuman-environment interactions in achieving the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). The projects are a collaboration
between the centre, King’s College London and the Universityof Southampton, UK, along with other partners in the United
Kingdom and India. The projects are funded through the
Towards a Sustainable Earth initiative, a collaboration
between Swedish, Indian, Chinese and Japanese funding
agencies.
In one of the projects, the SRC will collaborate with the
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India to analyse the synergies and conflicts between the SDGs
and explore the resulting opportunities and trade-offs inpolicy in the Indian Sundarbans.
The SRC is also a partner in the Nature4SDGs project led
by King’s College London, in collaboration with the Ashoka
Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, India anda number of other UK universities. The team will draw upon
existing datasets from 11 sites in the Global South to analyse
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Nereus Program: an end and a new
beginning for global ocean research
In 2019, the Nereus Program – Predicting Future Oceans came to an end.
The Stockholm Resilience Centre was a key partner to this nine-year
US$13 million global ocean research programme, which wholly or in part
funded three postdocs and three PhD positions at the centre
OVER THE COURSE of its nine years, the Nippon Foundation
programme expanded from a core group of five institutions:
University of British Columbia, Duke, Princeton, the UN
Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring
Centre based at Cambridge University and the centre, to 19
institutes from around the world, each focusing on a scientificaspect of our future ocean. The research conducted under the
programme spanned from oceanography and marine ecology
to fisheries economics and impacts on coastal communities.

Research from the centre was led by Carl Folke and HenrikÖsterblom together with PhD students Andrew Merrie,
Matilda Petersson and Jessica Spijkers. It provided novel
insights on ocean governance and the human dimension of achanging ocean. To mark the successful end to the programme,
a synthesis book – Predicting Future Oceans: Sustainability of
Ocean and Human Systems Amidst Global Environmental
Change – featured contributions from all Nereus Program
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Earth Commission
Centre researchers Juan Carlos Rocha and Steven Lade aresupporting the activities of the Earth Commission, throughtheir participation in the Commission’s secretariat. The Earth
Commission is a group of 19 leading scientists across naturaland social sciences, chaired by Joyeeta Gupta, Qin Dahe andJohan Rockström, who will assess the latest science to

THE CENTRE, along with the Beijer Institute of Ecological
Economics, has become a partner of AI Innovation of Sweden.
Founded in February 2019, AI Innovation of Sweden is anational initiative designed to “serve as an engine in the
Swedish AI ecosystem”. The purpose of the new partnershipis to explore the broad biosphere sustainability dimensionsof the rapid progress and applications of artificial intelligencein society. By linking to leading AI thinkers and doers in
Sweden, SRC, together with the Beijer Institute, aims todevelop a new research agenda and collaborations in this
rapidly developing field. “These technologies arephenomenally powerful. They will increasingly shape ourworld – and our planet. It is really important that artificial
intelligence is cognizant of the state of the planet,” says
Victor Galaz, deputy director of the Stockholm Resilience44

underpin the development of science-based targets for
systems like land, water and biodiversity. By setting suchtargets, companies and cities will be able to contribute to
re-stabilising earth’s natural systems and work towards
ensuring a planet where humans can thrive.

Centre and programme director for the Beijer Institute’s new
programme Governance, Technology and Complexity.

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THE ADAPTECONII INNOVATIVE TRAINING NETWORK,
exploring adaptation to the reality of biophysical constraints on
the global economy, came to a close in 2019. AdaptEconII was aEuropean Commission-funded Horizon 2020 Marie SklodowskaCurie Action project. It funded 12 PhD projects at Stockholm
University, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA),
and the University of Iceland. Centre researcher
Sarah Cornell supervised PhD students David
Collste, Jennifer Hinton and Timothée Parriquejointly with development economist Professor
Arnaud Diemer at UCA. The students usedsystems thinking to outline socially andecologically sustainable economic pathways.
Key results from their work include a systems
analysis of economic ideal types based on
business purpose, ownership and investment;Saraha conceptual model of the political economy ofCornelldegrowth and transitional policies. They also applied system
dynamics modelling to the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable
Development Goals, showing how better economics can help
navigate ecological constraints and diverse social contexts.

David
CollsteJennifer
HintonTimothéeParriqueContinued assessment of
the health of the Baltic Sea
THE BALTIC HEALTH INDEX, a regional study under the
global Ocean Health Index framework, the firstcomprehensive ocean assessment to also include humans aspart of the marine ecosystems, entered its second project
phase in 2019. During this period, which will run until 2022,
new data will be presented, adding to an already extensive

IN 2019, the centre joined the new Nature-based Solutions
for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene (NATURA) network,
which brings together a host of other networks in Africa, theAsia-Pacific, Europe, North America and Latin America. It isfunded by the US National Science Foundation for US$2
million for five years. Centre associate research fellow Timon
McPhearson will also act as one of the programme
coordinators. The aim of NATURA is for researchers andpractitioners to exchange knowledge, share data andoverview of environmental, social and economic information
about the Baltic Sea. The project is led by centre researcher
Thorsten Blenckner. In 2019 Susa Niiranen joined as
researcher, Eleanore Campbell joined as data scientist andAndrea de Cervo as project assistant. The project is fundedby the Johansson Family Foundation and Formas.

enhance communication on applications of nature-based
solutions in a wide range of social, ecological andtechnological contexts. Furthermore, early-career researchersand practitioners will be sponsored by NATURA to pay fiveweek visits to network partners. NATURA will also train
postdoctoral scholars and graduate students throughlearning exchanges to networks around the globe.
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New funding
HENRIK ÖSTERBLOM and OLOF
OLSSON received SEK 7.8 million from theMarianne and Marcus Wallenberg
Foundation for the project “Sustainability
science, dialogues and novel technologies
for understanding and managing ocean
ecosystem trade-offs”. The project will use
autonomous vessels and artificial
intelligence to better understandecosystem interactions between forage

HenrikÖsterblom

Olof
OlssonJohan Enqvist

My Sellberg

Jan Kuiper

JOHAN ENQVIST received a three-year
mobility grant from the Swedish ResearchCouncil to look at how the 2018 watercrisis in Cape Town affected the
inhabitants’ water use and environmental
awareness. “My focus is on mapping
values, beliefs and social norms to see
how they shape habits and behaviour,”Enqvist explains. Although employed by
the Stockholm Resilience Centre, he will
be working primarily from the African
Climate & Development Initiative at the
University of Cape Town.

MY SELLBERG received just under SEK 1
million from Formas in order to better
understand the barriers, enablers, benefits
and trade-offs of diversifying agriculture
towards increased production of fruits,
vegetables and legumes in the region
surrounding Lake Mälaren and Stockholm.
The project is co-designed with Södertälje
Municipality – a Swedish frontrunner onsustainable and healthy public meals andfood businesses.

JAN KUIPER received a four-year mobility
grant from Formas to further develop the
Nature Futures Framework. It focuses on
creating positive visions and exploring
people’s desired relationships with nature.
Kuiper will continue to develop theframework as part of an ongoing casestudy on the development of theHollandse Duinen national urban park in
the Netherlands.

Curry (University of Alaska Fairbanks), will
invite inhabitants from the village of
Wainwright on Alaska’s North Slope totake photographs that represent theirown perspectives and experiences. During
the second year, the researchers willconduct a series of behavioural economic
experiments. “We want to explore andtest what it really means to bring thesevery different approaches together, andworking closely with a community, in atransdisciplinary fashion,” says Caroline
Schill. Ingrid Rieser, a filmmaker, will
document the promises and pitfalls of
engaging in such transdisciplinary
research.

JUAN CARLOS ROCHA, GARRYPETERSON, SUSA NIIRANEN and
ANNE-SOPHIE CRÉPIN received some

Caroline Schill

Simon West

Centre researchers CAROLINE SCHILL
and SIMON WEST will lead a new project
funded by Formas called “Living with the‘new normal’”. It explores human
responses to abrupt environmental
changes in the Arctic. In the three-year
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fish, top predators and fisheries in theBaltic Sea. The project also aims todevelop tools that can be used to advanceecosystem-based management. The grantcovers a project period of five years andwill be conducted in close collaboration
with the Swedish University ofAgricultural Studies (SLU Aqua) and WWF
Sweden.

SEK 8 million from the Belmont Forum tostudy marine arctic resilience. Specifically,
the project will integrate models, local
knowledge, and comparative case studies
to assess the resilience of Arctic marine
food webs to climate and fishingpressures, and how communities adapt ortransform to such changes. The project isa collaboration with researchers in the U.S
and Canada. The project will also hire two
postdocs, one in Alaska and another inMontreal.

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Erik
Andersson

Timon
McPhearson

Digitalisation and new technology canoffer new ways for people to understandand engage in the stewardship of urban
systems. Centre researcher ERIKANDERSSON received NOK 11.5 million
in funding from NordForsk for his project
SMARTer Greener Cities, which is co-led bycentre-affiliated researcher TIMONMCPHEARSON (The New School, NewYork). The three-year project aims todevelop and test novel theories, tools andprocesses for more resilient and equitableurban futures. Grounded in three cases –Stockholm, Copenhagen and Helsinki –the project will be a collaborative effort
between SRC and the University of
Copenhagen, the University of Helsinki and
SYKE (the Finnish Environment Institute).
“We believe that we must cut across silos
in disciplines, approaches and knowledge
systems by bringing technology, people
and nature together,” says Andersson.

WijnandBoonstraErik
Andersson

Emma
Björkvik

Centre researchers WIJNAND BOONSTRA, ERIK ANDERSSON and EMMA BJÖRKVIK
together with Sofie Joosse, Jens Olsson (Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences) and
Patrik Rönnbäck (Uppsala University) received just short of SEK 8 million in funding from
Formas to study the use of urban water areas and the value they bring to city dwellers.
Insights from this project will help improve future urban planning strategies.

Tiina Häyhä

Sarah Cornell

TIINA HÄYHÄ and SARAH CORNELL
received SEK 1.9 million from Formas for a
two-year project on finding ways to put
systems thinking more prominently into
circular economy strategies. Häyhä andCornell will work closely with companies
and other business-engaged stakeholders
who are working towards implementing acircular economy in a sustainable way.
“This work will bring new insights tocircular economy literature by situating
the framework in its wider socialecological context,” says Häyhä.

Amanda Wood

Thomas Hahn

Thorsten Blenckner

AMANDA WOOD received SEK 4.5 million
from Formas to continue her work on
developing more sustainable foodproduction systems in the Nordic countries.
The funding will help advance researchthat can benchmark Nordic food systems
against Sustainable Development Goals.
An important part of this work will be tocontinue collaborating with research
partners at the Finnish Environment
Institute, University of Oslo and the
University of Copenhagen. Furthermore,
Wood will work closely with food system
actors such as the Nordic Council of
Ministers, policymakers, businesses, civilsociety groups and more.

THOMAS HAHN received SEK 3 million
from Formas for continued research on
ecological compensation or biodiversity
offsets. This is a relatively new policy tool
based on the polluter-pays principle.
Developers who impact negatively on
ecosystems and biodiversity are obliged tocompensate for these losses. Suchecological restoration will be necessary toachieve the No Net Loss goals of the post2020 global biodiversity framework. In his
research, Hahn will look at ways to design
policy tools that can safeguard both
ecological and social outcomes. The
estimated project length is three years andincludes collaboration with researchers
from the United Kingdom and South Africa.

THORSTEN BLENCKNER received SEK
3 million from Formas to look into the
cumulative impacts of eutrophication,
fisheries and climate in the Baltic Sea. The
findings from this three-year project will
be incorporated into the widely recognised
assessment tool, the Baltic Health Index.

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Scientific achievements and awards
Centre researchers recipients of 2019
Ecological Society of America awards
CENTRE RESEARCHERS Oonsie Biggs, Timon McPhearson, Albert Norström, Per
Olsson, Garry Peterson, Laura Pereira and Victor Galaz won the 2019 ESA Innovation in
Sustainability Science Award for their 2016 study Bright spots: seeds of a good
Anthropocene, which was published in 2016 in Frontiers in Ecology and theEnvironment. The Innovation in Sustainability Science Award recognises the authors ofa peer-reviewed paper published in the past five years
exemplifying cutting-edge work on solution pathways
to sustainability challenges. Their study, led by Elena
Bennett from McGill University, Canada, analyses 100
initiatives that can serve as inspiration for a moresustainable Anthropocene, the new geological epoch
which recognises that humans are profoundly altering the functioning of the earth’s
climate and ecosystems. These initiatives, or seeds as they are called, are part of alarger compilation of cases collected via the study website, Seeds of Good
Anthropocenes.
Furthermore, centre researcher Thomas Elmqvist was among the recipients for the
ESA Sustainable Science Award, for the 2016 study Advancing Urban Ecology toward a
Science of Cities, published in BioScience. The Sustainability Science Award recognises
the authors of the scholarly work that makes the greatest contribution to theemerging science of ecosystem and regional sustainability through the integration of
ecological and social sciences. The BioScience study, which was led by centre associateresearch fellow Timon McPhearson, answers the question: how can urban ecology
help our cities become more sustainable? The answer, according to the study, is betterinterdisciplinary collaboration and a renewed focus on bringing research into various
aspects of urban planning, architecture and design. Only then can the research provide
insights that take into account the many complex interactions of a city.
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Johan Rockström

Oonsie Biggs

Stephan Barthel

Per Olsson

Five centre
researchers amongworld’s most cited
PHOTO: M. SPARRÉUS/AZOTEFRANCES WESTLEY, the former chairof the SRC board was in 2019 named
honorary doctorate at Stockholm
University. Westley, a professor of social
innovation at the University of Waterloo,
Canada, was among seven researchers toreceive the title for their contribution to
the university’s research and education.
She was also among the 40 awardees forsocial innovation by the Schwab
Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
Her work on the transformation tosustainable development and theimportance of institutional entrepreneurs
in resilience and socio-economic systems
has gained international attention. She is
now a member of the centre’s new
International Science Advisory Council.

Carl Folke

Centre co-founders Carl Folke and JohanRockström together with Oonsie Biggs,
Stephan Barthel and Per Olsson werelisted on the exclusive 2019 Clarivate
Analytics overview of the world’s mostcited researchers. Brian Walker, a longtime senior research fellow, was also
listed. The overview recognises
researchers for their exceptional research
performance, demonstrated byproduction of multiple highly cited papers
that rank in the top 1% by citations forfield and year in Web of Science. Carl Folke
has been among the world’s most highly
cited since the start of the list in 2014.
This year he made the remarkableachievement of being included in two
separate categories: Environment andEcology and Social Sciences. Nine
researchers from Stockholm University
were included on the list.

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PHOTO: POLARBRÖD UTSTICKARPRISETJamila Haider

IN NOVEMBER, the EAT-Lancet Commission won the 2019 Utstickarpriset from Swedish
bread producer Polarbröd for its efforts to disseminate knowledge and hope about how
the transition to a more sustainable food system can have a positive impact on humanhealth and the state of the planet. Utstickarpriset is awarded to individuals andorganisations who contribute to positive change through compassion, persistence
and creativity.

A PAPER written by a host of former
centre PhD students won the 2018
“Outstanding Paper” award in the journal
Sustainability Science as a recognition of
their efforts to enhance theunderstanding of sustainability scienceand high scientific quality. The paper, “Theundisciplinary journey: early-career
perspectives in sustainability science”
proposes a framework to help early-careersustainability researchers navigate
interdisciplinary research journeys withbreadth (epistemological agility) and
depth (methodological groundedness). “Asa group of young scholars at asustainability science institution, we feel
well situated to reflect on the formal andinformal dimensions of this process. We
hope that the lessons we have learned will
be of use to other early-career scholars
faced with similar opportunities andchallenges," says lead author L. Jamila
Haider (pictured). She wrote the paper
together with Jonas Hentati-Sundberg,
Matteo Giusti, Julie Goodness, Maike
Hamann, Vanessa A. Masterson, Megan
Meacham, Andrew Merrie, Daniel Ospina,
Caroline Schill and Hanna Sinare.

PHOTO: K. KARKOW

Victoria Bignet (left), Line Gordon, Brent Loken and Maya Rebermark accepted the award on behalf of the
EAT-Lancet Commission.

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER Jonathan Donges was one of ten researchers awarded
the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize in 2019, the most important award for early career
researchers in Germany. The recipients were chosen by a selection committee in Bonnappointed by the German Research Foundation and the German Federal Ministry of
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Policy, practice and outreach

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Global Resilience
Partnership (GRP)
In 2019, the GRP continued to bring together
diverse partners and ignite a resilience
movement focused on action2019 WAS A PIVOTAL YEAR for the GRP with manysuccesses and an accelerating momentum hurtling forward
into 2020. Hosted at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the
GRP is a community of public and private organisations
joining forces towards a future where vulnerable people andplaces are able to thrive in the face of shocks, uncertainty
and change. During 2019 the GRP and researchers from the
GRAID programme (see page 52) convened a series of Deep
Dive resilience dialogues with partners and allies.
These dialogues explored how building resilience can tackle
development challenges and identified the most effective
ways to go about it. This enabled the GRP to sharpen its
strategic focus and identify collaborative actions that deliver
greater impact with partners, emphasising the voices of
stakeholders in Least Developed Countries.
The dialogues kicked off in March at the Rockefeller
Bellagio Center in Italy where the GRP convened a groupof global experts and experienced practitioners. They were
tasked with identifying three action areas critical totransforming and building resilient food systems invulnerable and fragile regions. The dialogue series continued
at Africa Climate Week, at the 13th Community-Based
Adaptation Conference in Addis Ababa – where GRP also
held its annual partners’ meeting – before moving onto the
EAT Stockholm Forum and Asia-Pacific Climate Week. The
dialogues culminated in New York ahead of the UN Climate
Action Summit at the GRP-convened event, Building a
Resilient Future where more than 500 practitioners,
innovators and high-level leaders collectively prioritisedover 100 resilience actions. These actions informed thedevelopment of the Climate Action Pathway on Resilienceand Adaptation, under the UNFCCC’s Marrakech

Partnership. The dialogues and Building a Resilient Future
led to the inception of a global movement for resilience witha clear pathway forward, signed by over 50 organisations.
The next stage for this growing movement is to put theresilience and adaptation pathway into action anddemonstrate tangible progress by November 2020 at COP26
in Glasgow.
On the ground, the GRP continued to present resiliencesolutions at the intersection of food and water security, peaceand stability, and disaster resilience through its latest
Innovation Challenge. The 2019 winners exemplified a broad
range of solutions connected to essential interventions areas
such as nature-based solutions, inclusive finance andempowering marginalised groups. To date, the GRP has run
three Innovation Challenges, whose projects have supported
5.7 million people. In October, the GRP launched its“Resilience Insights Report” and microsite, distilling themost compelling results from across the partnership. GRP’s
Resilience Innovation concept for Peace and Stability in
Fragile and Conflict-prone Regions was selected as one of thenine winners of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Innovation Challenge Programme. The GRP alsocollaborated closely with Ocean Unite and global insurer andreinsurer AXA XL to launch the Ocean Risk
and Resilience Action Alliance. The Alliance fosters crucial
collaborations between the finance and insurance sectors,
governments and environmental organisations to build
resilience in communities and regions most exposed toocean risk.

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When the impossible suddenly
becomes possible
Deon Nel, CEO of the centre-based Global Resilience
Partnership, has taken his experiences growing up
in South Africa into his career dealing with global
development challenges
WHEN IT COMES to understanding the power of change,
growing up under the notorious apartheid regime in South
Africa counts as a compelling experience. At the time,
Deon Nel often felt that this regime was so powerful andentrenched that it would be impossible to change. Throughmounting civil society pressure both within South Africa
and internationally, coupled with economic and politicalpressure, the system was eventually dismantled.
“What always amazes me is how quickly this change
happened, when it eventually came. In 1987 it seemed South
Africa was as far away from a peaceful democracy as it had
ever been, and yet a mere three years later Nelson Mandela
was released from prison and change was inevitable. Living
through that time instilled a belief in me that change isalways possible regardless of how impossible it might seem,”he says.

When we work together withgrassroots organisations we canput pressure on the political andeconomic system.
This experience gave him the drive to solve difficult
development challenges and work for necessary changes, nomatter how hard they are to achieve. For the first time indecades, there has been a slowing and even a reversal ofdevelopment trends. With increased extreme weather andgeo-political instability, food insecurity is on the rise. This ishitting the world’s poorest and most vulnerable first andhardest. Learning from the fall of apartheid, Nel believes thatchange really can happen. “When we work together withgrassroots organisations we can put pressure on the politicaland economic system.”
He says, “Transforming people’s lives in these complex
contexts will require moving from reactive and often
incremental development approaches towards resilience
approaches that are proactive and systemic. Most importantly,
it will require a shift from treating people at the frontline as
victims needing external help, towards joining forces withthem as empowered and innovative agents of change within
their societies.”
There is credibility to Nel’s words. He has spent most of
his career working in and with developing countries,
particularly on sustainability and conservation issues. In his
previous role as the global conservation director at WWF
International, he helped guide WWF’s conservation efforts
spanning around 100 countries. He also has experience with
developing partnerships between the public sector, private
sector and with multilateral development banks. Since Nel
took over as the head of the GRP in August 2018, the GRP
team has brought together a variety of stakeholders ranging
from community groups to insurance companies to mobilise
action. “Solutions and innovations already exist. We arelooking to tap into these solutions and innovations to shareand expand what is already being done to boost resilience infragile and vulnerable countries and communities.” Working
in this way GRP is able to leverage the full potential of thepartnership and create a whole that is stronger than the sumof its parts and get back on track to meeting the pledge of“leaving no one behind”.

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Guidance for Resilience in
the Anthropocene (GRAID)
The start of 2019 marked another exciting year for
GRAID in its role as a knowledge partner to the Global
Resilience Partnership (GRP), representing the beginningof a strategic alignment process that will see GRAID and
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2019, Rwanda in May 2019 and Ghana in August 2019). A
second cohort has now been selected and the online module
completed, with in-person modules continuing in 2020.
Additional highlights include providing insight briefs ongender equality and (in)equity, synthesising key lessons andprinciples for designing transformative spaces in the Global
South, and the contributions to the IPBES Global Assessment
process, in particular on gender, equity and the implications
for the SDGs.
Read more: www.graid.earth

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AS PART OF a strategic alignment process, GRAID and GRP
co-designed, convened and facilitated a series of Deep Divedialogues that brought together GRP partners and other key
stakeholders and served to join these two bodies of work
under a single strategic and operational structure. These
dialogues have been central in shaping the future direction of
the GRP and an initial portfolio of collaborative actions thatare being catalysed with GRP partners in its new phase. The
Deep Dive process also helped build momentum on resilience
towards the UN Climate Action Summit in September 2019,and beyond. The dialogues were also central in identifying
different visions of sustainable futures, contextual challenges
and initiatives that could contribute to overcoming
challenges and building sustainable futures.
In addition, GRAID continued to move other initiatives
forward, such as the piloting of the Wayfinder guide in
Senegal, and a second pilot in the Khetha project, run by the
WWF in South Africa. Before Wayfinder the field of resilience
practice was scattered and although a variety of tools
existed, none of them explicitly aimed to fostertransformative change towards sustainability. Now available
free online, GRAID wanted to provide additional support for
the uptake and implementation of the Wayfinder approach.
To achieve this, two Wayfinder training workshops fordevelopment practitioners were hosted, one in Bangladesh in
October and one in South Africa in November. Several
organisations have expressed interest in using the Wayfinder
approach following these training sessions, and theseopportunities will be followed up in 2020.
GRAID also provided support in the design and deliveryof the SRC-Swedish Institute’s Transforming Change
programme (pictured). It aims to strengthen the capacity of
African changemakers, support peer-peer (South-South)
learning, and nudge at the global systems of development
practice. Key topics of the programme included SDG
synergies, navigating power and gender (in)equity, stretch
collaboration (that is, partnering in conflict and insecurity),healing and reconciliation across systems, understanding
change from multiple perspectives, organisational cultures ofresilience, and more. The first cohort completed one online
module and three modules in person (South Africa in MarchPHOTO: J. BUMROONGCHAISwedBio
From a growing collaborative programme to a new
director, SwedBio has had a momentous year
IN 2019, SwedBio continued to connect knowledge acrosssectors, and from local to global processes throughparticipating in a number of international policy events, suchas the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and IPBES.
SwedBio’s collaborative programme involved 34 partnerorganisations this past year.
Human rights in the CBD post-2020 global
biodiversity framework
In 2019, SwedBio continued to support local and indigenous
groups’ participation in the international policy arena,
including the CBD. It also co-hosted a side event at CBD’s 11th
meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article
8(j) and Related Provisions, an important meeting for ensuringthat local and indigenous voices are integrated into the post2020 global biodiversity framework. The side event, Humanrights for thriving indigenous peoples, local communities
and healthy ecosystems in the post-2020 global biodiversity
agenda, was co-hosted alongside the following partners: Asia
Indigenous Peoples Pact, Forest Peoples Programme (FPP),International Development Law Organization (IDLO), Natural
Justice and the Secretariat of the CBD. This work will continue
in 2020 when SwedBio co-hosts another workshop on how
a human rights-based approach can enable conservation,
sustainable use and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits of
biodiversity, and how it can best be included in the CBD post2020 global biodiversity framework.
Pollinators’ dialogue
In January 2019, SwedBio co-convened a dialogue together
with Inter Mountain Peoples Education and Culture in
Thailand Association, Pgakenyaw Association for Sustainable
Development, UNESCO Natural Sciences Sector and the
Karen community of Hin Lad Nai. The dialogue, whichrevisited key messages from the IPBES “Assessment Reporton Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production”,
contributed to methods of development for co-production

among science, Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK), andpolicy practice. The dialogue also considered revision anduptake of the IPBES pollination assessment as part of a postassessment. A report from the dialogue provides feedback on
key messages with relevance to ILK holders and experts onpollinators and pollination. The report has been published in
English, Spanish and Thai.
Marine portfolio
After the expansion of SwedBio´s marine portfolio in 2018,2019 saw most of the on-the-ground work begin to give
results. This was done together with the 13 collaborative
programme partner organisations: African Women Fish
Processors and Traders Network; Blue Ventures; Forest
Peoples Programme; Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries(GAFS); ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center; International
Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF); National
Research Foundation, South Africa; Natural Justice; Social
Need Education and Human Awareness (SNEHA);
Sustainable Development Fund (SDF); Wan Smolbag Theatre
Group (WSB); World Conservation Society, Myanmar; andWorldFish.
Within the marine portfolio, one new area of focus in2019 has been on gender and aquaculture, where twopartners, GAFS and SDF, have been focusing their efforts.
GAFS is working with aquaculture and seaweed productionin Kenya and India as a way to bring gender researchers andother researchers into dialogue with coastal groups, industry,
government policymakers and NGOs in order to expand
policies related to gender. SDF, based in Thailand, is working
to mainstream gender and justice issues in coastal aquaculturein Thailand, Bangladesh and India through establishing a
coalition of women as well as policy recommendations.
Results from both of these projects can be expected in 2020.
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How a workshop methodology
involving Minecraft helped turn adumping site into a popular park

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Thanks to a workshop methodology involving the popular
computer building game Minecraft, a derelict, run-down
dumping site in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has been turned intoa lush and popular park. The Ras Mekkonnen urban park
was the focus of a creative collaboration between UNHabitat, the Addis Ababa City Administration, and the
Urban Natural Assets for Africa (UNA): Rivers for Life
project led by ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center and fundedby SwedBio. During a four-day workshop, city officials andcommunity stakeholders, including women and youth

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developed proposals on how the site could be brought backto life. With the help of Minecraft, the participants visualised
how the park could look while maintaining biodiversity andimportant ecosystem services.
Based on the proposals from the workshop, the river
tributaries were uncovered, trees were planted and gabions
were built to prevent erosion. A playground, lawns, benches,bins, bike lanes and a solar light system were added while abeautiful old fountain was renovated. ”The positive effects
have been immediate”, explains Ellika Hermansson Török,a senior adviser at SwedBio, “Women with children andthe youth nearby have started coming to the park, and thegreenery management and administration activity haveprovided job opportunities to those living in the area”.
The workshop methodology involving Minecraft was
originally developed by UN-Habitat in collaboration withthe game’s developer, Mojang. Minecraft is one of the bestselling video games of all time, selling over 175 million
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A nice fit
There are many reasons why Henrik Brundin and
SwedBio make a good match. The new director
offers valuable experience from his time
managing development projects across Sweden
and Eastern Africa
AMID INCREASING CLIMATE pressures and contrasting
governance systems, sustainable development is no simple
task. Despite this, Henrik Brundin has made it his life’s work
to support cooperative and sustainable management of theenvironment, starting from a local perspective and aiming fora global impact.
“I have been leading international development
organisations in the field of natural resource management,sustainable small-scale agriculture and poverty reduction,” hesays about his more than 15-years’ experience working in
East Africa.

I have witnessed first-hand how
unsustainable practices lead to lossof fertile land and biodiversity,a situation made worse by theclimate crisis and occurrence of
extreme weather events

While living in Tanzania and Kenya, he served on the boardof directors for several development organisations. Having
gained practice and management skills from agroforestry
projects, Brundin engaged with the local communities andlearned Swahili. He worked to enhance land managementthat acknowledges the value of trees grown alongside crops
for a more sustainable and equitable practice of agriculture.

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lead to loss of fertile land and biodiversity, a situation madeworse by the climate crisis and occurrence of extreme
weather events,” he says.
Brundin’s dedication to sustainable development is not
only clear in the trajectory of his work abroad, but also
through his actions coordinating several sustainable
development projects. He has held the position of deputy
CEO for We Effect and Vi Skogen, both of which work to
reduce poverty and inequality, and spread knowledge about
the benefits of agroforestry. His development work also
involved negotiations with international organisations suchas Livelihoods Funds and Nordic Climate Fund, in order toincrease investments towards the Sustainable Development
Goals.
Currently, he is on the board of directors for Fairtrade
International in Sweden, which relates to his work onsustainable production and improving livelihoods. Furthermore,
he was responsible for developing a methodology for soil
carbon offsetting, a technique based on sustainableagriculture land management practices. Considering his
extensive experiences with sustainable land management anddevelopment practice, it seemed like a natural fit for Brundin
to become director of SwedBio in early 2019. He believes in
SwedBio´s method of working from a local to global level
through partnerships with local organisations that represent
farmers, fishers, Indigenous Peoples groups and networks
focusing on livelihood improvement, biodiversity and climatechange.
Despite humanity facing huge challenges, he remains
positive and SwedBio is in a unique position to address theseissues. “We partner with local organisations and facilitate
knowledge exchange through a whole chain of actors thatallows us to influence global policy discussions andnegotiations. This brings real world, on-the-ground examples
to the highest possible political levels, such as the Conferenceof the Parties on biodiversity and climate,” he says.

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The Intergovernmental Science-­
Policy Platform on Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
Centre contributes to the IPBES Global Assessment, theworld’s most up-to-date audit of the state of nature andthe support nature provides to human civilisation
IN EARLY MAY 2019, news all over the world covered areport stating that human society is under urgent threat fromloss of earth’s natural life and that one million species are at
risk of extinction. The report, published by IPBES, is thelargest and most up-to-date stocktake of the state of natureand the support it provides to humans. More than 145
leading experts from 50 countries – plus contributions from
310 more experts – worked on the report, which was basedon some 15,000 references.

PHOTO: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS“Nature is essential to human well-being and development.
We found that declines in biodiversity and ecosystem services
will undermine our ability to meet 35 of the 44 Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG) targets related to poverty, hunger,
health, water, cities, climate, the ocean, life on land,” says
centre senior advisor Belinda Reyers. She is among several
SRC staff to have contributed to IPBES’s work over the years,
most recently the new global assessment. Reyers was acoordinating lead author of chapter 3 in the new global
assessment, which looked at “progress towards meeting
major international objectives related to biodiversity andecosystem services”. Together with former director JohanRockström she was also part of an expert group that
produced a scoping report that eventually led to the
production of the assessment. Centre research fellow Ana
Paula Aguiar was a lead author of chapter 5, “Scenarios andpathways towards a sustainable future”. Postdoctoral
researcher Odirilwe Selomane was an IPBES fellow who also
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Developing IPBESCentre staff, particularly SwedBio under the leadership offormer director Maria Schultz, were deeply involved in theestablishment of IPBES in 2012. Since then staff havecontributed in a variety of ways, most recently in connection
with the global assessment:
14 MEMBERS OF STAFF have been significantly involved in
IPBES in different kinds of expert roles such as coordinating
lead authors of assessments, experts in scoping processes,
members of expert groups, leads of method developments ormembers in IPBES’s prestigious fellowship programme.
128 SRC PUBLICATIONS are referenced in the IPBESGlobal Assessment 2019. Of those publications 77 membersof staff are listed as lead authors or co-authors.
SRC’S CORE THINKING IS EVIDENT across the different
sections of the IPBES Global Assessment 2019. Examples
include sections such as “Resilience, adaptability andtransformability in social-ecological systems”.
SRC HAS INFLUENCED THE IPBES GLOBAL ASSESSMENT
2019 through different engagements in the interface of
science and society. This is, for example, visible in references
to the “Arctic Resilience Report”, Future Earth and its
project Seeds of the good Anthropocene, “Food in the
Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy dietsfrom sustainable food systems”, the Regime Shifts Databaseand WWF’s “Living Planet Report” 2016 on risk andresilience in a new era. But, even more so through SRC’s
in-house programmes and significant contributions from
SwedBio and GRAID.
ANOTHER INDICATION OF SRC’S IMPORTANT ROLEWITHIN IPBES is that the centre has had three early-career
researchers who have taken part in the prestigious fellowship
programme at IPBES: Jan Kuiper, Zuzana Harmáčková andOdirilwe Selomane. The programme has very strict selection
criteria to ensure balanced geographical and gender
representation. These fellows are contributing as experts
and are linked to an expert group. So far IPBES has provided
fellowships to 79 people from 55 countries, from a pool of
1,116 applicants.

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EAT began 2019 with an answer to its founding question:
how can we achieve healthy, sustainable food systems?

THANKS to the work of founding partners and collaborators
including 37 scientists from 17 countries, the report “Food in
the Anthropocene – the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy
diets from sustainable food systems” was published in The
Lancet in January 2019. The research offers six strategies tofeed 10 billion people healthy and sustainable diets. Cited in
507 scientific papers, the response has broken The Lancet
Commission media coverage and download records, andwon a record number of awards. To meet massive interest,
EAT shared the Great Food Transformation narrative
through its founder and executive chair, Dr Gunhild
Stordalen, as its high-level ambassador to exclusive business,
policy and civil society groups. For her work, she received
the UN Foundation Global Leadership Award.
Partnerships with policy and business leaders extended
the report’s impact across the globe. EAT launched a pilot
with the City of Copenhagen and Climate-KIC, using EATLancet guidelines to inform shifts towards healthy andsustainable food environments, procurement practices, public
food access and more. At the C40 World Mayors Summit,
14 cities signed the Good Food Declaration, committing tosustainable food policies that will help address the global
climate emergency. Internationally, the report has provided aunifying framework for the European Commission’s visionacross director generals leading development, agriculture,
health, trade and the environment. It has influenced regional
work in Colombia and India. EAT’s interdisciplinary Science
to Solutions Dialogues informed the logical frame for the
One Planet Business for Biodiversity initiative supported by
French president Emanuel Macron and Danone CEO

Emmanuel Faber. EAT’s Food Service Pilot launched, offering
food service companies science-based targets to reduceclimate impacts like GHG emissions and biodiversity loss.
Other activities in 2019 included:• The Food Systems Dialogues (FSDs) – co-created by DrDavid Nabarro, EAT, World Economic Forum and World
Business Council for Sustainable Development – launching
and hosted in 25 countries, driving interdisciplinary
discussion and coordination towards food systems change.
• A UNICEF and EAT formal collaboration on Children
Eating Well (CHEW) to protect and promote young
people’s rights to nutritious, safe, affordable, Eat-Lancetaligned diets.
• As part of the EU Horizon 2020 CO-CREATE consortium,
EAT designed and piloted a dialogue tool to engage youth
in policymaking on childhood obesity.
• International Federation of Medical Students’ Association
adopted a policy elevating EAT-Lancet as a reference for
medical curriculums, impacting 1.3 million medical
students.
Additional EAT science contributions were included in the“Exponential Climate Action Roadmap”, The Food andLand Use Coalition’s global report and UNICEF’s “State of
the World’s Children” report. While 2019 has been a “Super
Year in Science”, with urgent calls for the Great Food
Transformation, the work is far from done.

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US and Swedish academia, theSwedish government, Google,
Ericsson, USAID, UNDP and UN
Global Pulse met to explore how
artificial intelligence can – andalready is – helping to reachtargets related to the UN
Sustainable Development Goals
THE EVENT on 15 October 2019 marked the beginning of a
new initiative coordinated by the Beijer Institute of
Ecological Economics (at the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences), Princeton University (Princeton Institute forInternational and Regional Studies) and the Stockholm
Resilience Centre. AI Innovation of Sweden, a national centre
for applied AI research and innovation, also took part.
Centre deputy director Victor Galaz (pictured) is one of thefounders of the initiative. He believes there is a need to havea serious discussion across academia, civil society, policy andbusiness about how AI can help expand our planetary

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Launch of US-Swedish initiativeon artificial intelligence andsustainability

support systems – climate stability, biodiversity and living
oceans. Otherwise, he warns, these technologies may welllead to accelerated climate and ecological disruption.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that the world not only
needs responsible AI, but planetary responsible AI,” he says.

ON 22 NOVEMBER, the Beijer
Institute for Ecological Economics andStockholm Resilience Centre, incollaboration with FutureWork Forumand the Institute for Future Studies,organised a breakfast seminar on theimpact AI may have on theenvironment and the economy.
Moderated by Victor Galaz, the seminar
included a panel debate with Susanne
Ackum (FutureWork Forum), Magnus
Nyström (Stockholm Resilience Centre),Pontus Strimling (Institute for FutureStudies) and Carina Johed (Planethon).

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New report from The World in 2050 initative
Report from second dialogue on Africa’s contribution
to reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals
on agriculture and food systems
HOW CAN AFRICAN agriculture andfood systems reach the UN Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) whilestaying within planetary boundaries?
And how do the visions for agriculture
and food systems in Africa align withthe perspectives expressed in global
scenarios? These were among thequestions asked during the second
dialogue on the role of Africa inreaching the UN SDGs. Taking place inKigali, Rwanda in October 2018, thedialogue was organised by the SDG
Center for Africa in partnership with
SwedBio and Stockholm ResilienceCentre. The report from the meeting
was published in 2019. As with the first
dialogue in 2017, the Kigali follow-up
is part of The World in 2050, a global
research initiative in support of a
successful implementation of theUnited Nations’ 2030 Agenda.

Centre collaborates with L’Oréal onsustainability in the cosmetics industry
IN 2013, L’Oréal made a commitment that 100% of their products will have an
The science-businessresearch project with global improved environmental or social profile by end of 2020. One objective of thecollaboration with the SRC is to assess how well the cosmetics company’s current
beauty group L’Oréal willsustainability practices and metrics deal with global environmental problems,
examine the sustainability using the planetary boundaries as a framework. “The message from global change
science to society is increasingly clear: there are limits to the environmental harmof L’Oréal’s work
our collective activities can cause without societies worldwide feeling the impact.
We have to translate our research into terms that businesses can put into practice
if we want to work within the ‘safe operating space’ for humanity,” says SarahCornell, who leads the L’Oréal-Stockholm Resilience Centre collaboration.

Exponential Roadmap
New report provides 36 sustainability solutions,
ranging from solar and wind to electric bikes,
commercial shipping and reduced red meat
consumption, with the potential to scale rapidly
AHEAD OF THE 2019 United Nations
Climate Action Summit in New York City in
September, an international group of
experts made up of 55 authors from acrossacademia, industry, policy and consultancy
published the report “Exponential
Roadmap: scaling 36 solutions to halve
emissions by 2030”. The solutions –ranging from solar and wind to electricbikes, commercial shipping and reduced
red meat consumption – have the potential
to scale rapidly. The report highlights four
approaching tipping points that combined
will accelerate the transformation: growing
social movements; emerging politicalsupport for more ambitious targets; solar
and wind energy have reached a tipping
point and are now cheaper than fossil fuelsin many places; and digitalisation and global
communications allow more rapid scaling
than previous transformations. JohanRockström, Owen Gaffney and Johan Falkcontributed to the report from Stockholm
Resilience Centre.
Read more and download the report
here: www.exponentialroadmap.org

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Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship(SeaBOS)The unique initiative, which brings
together the world’s largest seafood
producers, continues its work towards
a more sustainable business sector
IN AUGUST 2019, SeaBOS concluded its fourth member
meeting in Phuket, Thailand. The members agreed to connect
with invited experts to advance actions on reducing illegal,
unreported and unregulated fishing, eliminating forced
labour, enhancing seafood traceability and reducing
antibiotics use. Members identified the importance ofurgently improving regulations associated with fisheries andaquaculture management and ocean pollution – including
plastics and climate change. The meeting also establisheda new task force on Climate Resilience, to address the key
impacts of climate change on the seafood industry, while
also exploring ways to reduce the carbon footprint of foodproduction. The inaugural chair, Shigeru Ito from Maruha
Nichiro Corporation, described the meeting results asincreasing evidence of the benefits of collaboration between
science and industry.
Parallel to the meeting, SeaBOS and the UN Global
Compact Action Platform for Sustainable Ocean Business

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announced they are joining forces to accelerate progresson ocean health and governance. The UN Global Compact
Action Platform for Sustainable Ocean Business is leading
a global multi-stakeholder initiative, addressing both ocean
health and ocean productivity. In October, SeaBOS alsojoined the Global Ghost Gear Initiative, the world’s firstglobal platform for tackling abandoned, lost and discarded
fishing gear, also known as ghost gear.
About SeaBOS
SeaBOS is the result of a science-based identification of“keystone actors” in global seafood carried out by the
Stockholm Resilience Centre in collaboration with the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences, originally published in 2015.
It currently consists of ten of the largest seafood producers in
the world, engaged in wild capture fisheries, aquaculture andfeeds, with companies based in Europe, North America andAsia. Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences are scientific partners to the initiative. It
is funded by the members, with support from the Walton
Family Foundation, the David & Lucile Packard Foundationand the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

IN JULY 2019, Martin Exel wasappointed as the new managing director
for SeaBOS. He has a background infisheries management, working with theAustralian government, and has been
general manager of environment andpolicy for Austral Fisheries for the past 23

years. Austral is the first carbon-neutral
fishing company in the world. He has
also coordinated and chaired the
Coalition of Legal Toothfish Operators(COLTO), which has been instrumental in
addressing IUU fishing and eliminating
seabird bycatch in the Southern Ocean.

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Applying resilience at local andregional levels in Sweden
The project “Resilience in practice for Swedish governance”
tests and develops methods for how resilience thinking canbe used in the strategic sustainability work of local andregional government organisations
THE BROADER AIM of this project is to build capacity of
government organisations to deal with the complex andinterconnected sustainability challenges we are facing. The
initiative builds on recent research showing that resilience
practice can contribute to the integration of different
Sustainable Development Goals and the ability to adapt tochange through more effective systems of evaluation andlearning. However, methods for resilience practice need to be
tailored to each context. In close collaboration with theparticipants, this project served to further adapt resilience
approaches to the context of local and regional strategicplanning for sustainable development in Sweden.

Three municipalities, one region and the EU rural development
programme participated in the project. During 2019, civil
servants from each organisation participated in two
workshops to learn about resilience thinking and practice andshare their experiences. Between these two occasions, they
carried out pilot activities in their own organisations to test
some of what they had learned and share the knowledge withothers. Evaluations of the project show that the participants
would recommend it to other organisations. The project iscarried out together with Albaeco, a research communication
organisation, and is funded by Formas, the Swedish
government research council for sustainable development.

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Media impact
In sheer volume of media articles written
about the centre’s research, 2019 broke all records
WHEN CONSIDERING all media stories where SRC’s work
was highlighted but its name not, our media analysis tool
picked up 6826 stories in print, online or broadcast. Stories
where our name was included amounted to 2953, a slightincrease from 2018 (2,660), which was already an
exceptional year.
The year started with a bang. The launch of the EATLancet report on healthy food systems generated a massive
media impact with at least 4,200 stories publishedworldwide. In Altmetric’s annual analysis of all research
outputs published, the report reached 16th place (Altmetricscore: 4,633, based on an index that calculates media, blogs,
social media and other impact). Given that approximately
3 million academic papers are published each year, this is aconsiderable success. SRC executive director Line Gordon
presented the findings at the press conference for the launchin London at the Wellcome Trust.
But the media success came at a cost. Centre deputy
director Victor Galaz analysed the social media impact of thereport and revealed that an orchestrated social media
backlash in support of meat grew rapidly around the time of
the launch. Galaz’s analysis in The Lancet also indicates the
pro-meat campaign may even have had a bigger influence onsocial media than the campaign run by the institutes involvedin the study.
Newsweek’s headline, “There’s a small, elite group ofcompanies that basically controls the global environment”,
captured the essence of “Transnational corporations and thechallenge of biosphere stewardship”, a large analysis ofcorporate control of the biosphere led by the centre’s
leadership including Line Gordon, Beatrice Crona, HenrikÖsterblom, Carl Folke and Victor Galaz and colleagues, in
Nature Ecology & Evolution.
The year ended with another bang. An article in Nature
by centre staff provided a formal mathematical definition ofa climate emergency. The article, entitled “Climate tipping
points – too risky to bet against”, went viral attracting about
740 media articles worldwide and becoming the second
biggest climate research story of the year, according to an
analysis by Carbon Brief, and the fifth biggest story of theyear across all scientific disciplines according to Altmetric
database (score 9,052).
And finally, Belinda Reyer’s paper in Science, “Pervasive
human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need fortransformative change”, would have topped the list with a
media impact of 2,396 according to Altmetric.

Annual stories generated in media

Selected news stories where centre research was
highlighted.

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Seminars and events
PHOTO: F. FOUGANTHIN

Centre director Line
Gordon was the main
speaker at the Fridays
for Future climate
demonstration on
27 September in
Stockholm. It attracted
50,000 people and ended
in the Kungsträdgården
park for concerts andspeeches.

GRETA THUNBERG’S science-based #FridaysForFuture
movement has created a global mobilisation against
environmental change. It has also encouraged researchers
to reach out with their knowledge on the topic. In 2019,
Stockholm-based researchers from a wide variety of
disciplines set up a weekly “Researchers Desk” in downtown
Stockholm to discuss and answer questions from concerned
citizens. It started as part of the first global strike in March
2019 but continued throughout the year, including the strikes
in September and December. Several centre researchers wereinvolved. The initiative was borne out of former teacher
Toya Westberg’s concern that climate and sustainability
science was not made sufficiently available to schools and to
the general public. Today, the initiative is highly sought after.
Schools want to know more about climate change and its
many implications both on society and individuals. For
instance, centre guest researcher Helen Fischer talked to

PHOTO: M. JOHANSSON#FridaysForFuture: Centre researchers help
public awarenesssecondary school students about climate communication andpsychology. She was intrigued by the students’ interest andknowledge of the topic. Elsewhere, centre researchers My
Sellberg and David Armstrong McKay held one of the mostwell attended talks on tipping points and transformation
during the annual youth activist conference from Power Shift
Network.

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PHOTO: A. PERL

Stockholm Seminars
In 2019, the Stockholm Seminars celebrated its 200th seminar, highlighting three
generations of water resilience researchers at Stockholm Resilience Centre
WHEN THE SRC was launched in 2007 the Stockholm
seminars were already an institution. It started in 2000 with
the idea of seizing the opportunity when high-level experts
came to Stockholm for various meetings and commitments.
Since then the seminars have featured prominent experts on
global sustainability. The vision behind the seminar has
always been to encourage interactions not only within thesustainability science community but also between science68

and society as a whole. The seminars are open to the public.
With the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as a venue,
they are hosted by the Beijer Institute of Ecological
Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
Albaeco, Future Earth and Stockholm Resilience Centre.
In 2009, a celebratory 100th seminar was held. Nine years
later, in March 2019, it was time for the 200th seminar.
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Seminars
2019
6 MARCH
Ecological apocalypse can also be asource of hope: cascading regime shifts
within and across scales
Juan Rocha, researcher at Stockholm
Resilience Centre

22 MARCH
Water as the bloodstream of thebiosphere
200th Stockholm Seminar: with
Carl Folke, director of the Beijer Instituteof Ecological Economics of the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences and science
director of Stockholm Resilience Centre at
Stockholm University;
Malin Falkenmark, professor at Stockholm
Resilience Centre and StockholmInternational Water Institute;Line Gordon, director and associate
professor, Stockholm Resilience Centre;
and
Lan Wang-Erlandsson, PhD, Stockholm
Resilience Centre.
Seminar facilitated by Louise H. Segerstad,
Stockholm Resilience Centre

28 MAYThe role of narratives in social
resilience
Michèle Lamont, professor of sociology
and of African and African American
studies, Harvard University

resilience researchers at Stockholm Resilience Centre shared
their research and reflections on the multiple ways that
freshwater sustains the biosphere and human development.
This included Blue Planet Prize 2018 awardee Professor
Malin Falkenmark’s life work of articulating water’s
fundamental role for earth’s life support system, innovating
the understanding of water scarcity, and propelling therecognition of green water as a valuable and manageable
resource; centre director Dr Line Gordon’s decade-longresearch unravelling the critical roles of “invisible” water forsocial-ecological resilience; and Dr Lan Wang-Erlandsson’s
account of the newest advancements towards a revised
freshwater planetary boundary.

21 AUGUST
Deep learning for a better
understanding of the Earth System?
Markus Reichstein, director of the
Biogeochemical Integration Department
at the Max-Planck Institute for
Biogeochemistry, Jena

12 DECEMBER
Enhancing food system resilience, with
examples from the UK and Australia
John Ingram, University of Oxford

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Centre researchers contribute tobiosphere exhibition at Stockholm
interior design store Svenskt Tenn
PHOTO: SVENSKT TENNTHE EXHIBITION, called Welcome to
the Biosphere, was a collection ofartistic interpretations of the complex
relationship between climate change,
norms, ethics and economics. All works
were produced by Lars Arrhenius andEric Ericson in collaboration with
Svenskt Tenn’s curator, Karin Södergren.
Several researchers from the centre
and the Beijer Institute of Ecological
Economics provided the artists with
scientific input and knowledge support.
Svenskt Tenn is owned by the Kjell
and Märta Beijer Foundation and thestore’s entire profit is given to research,education and cultural projects. This
includes funding the Beijer Institute.
The Beijer Institute is one of the mainrecipients.

PHOTO: A. CAUSEVIC

In an attempt to create a “back door” to
the COP25 talks in Madrid, the Nordic
Cooperation invited the public to watch
and participate in a wide range ofclimate events in relation to the UN
climate negotiations. Staff from thecentre contributed with talks onsustainable food production, the futureof Nordic cities and the future of ourocean. The latter included theexhibition of the Radical Ocean Futures
project by Andrew Merrie, which
depicts utopian and dystopian marine
futures through stunning images
designed by concept artist SimonStålenhag.

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Call for ocean action in West Africa

PHOTO: A. MERRIESTAFF FROM THE SRC’S
communication group were central toorganising and facilitating the Blue
Oceans Conference in Monrovia,
Liberia, 18–21 March 2019, the firstof its kind in West and Central Africa.
The conference was hosted by theGovernment of Liberia, the Embassy of
Sweden in Monrovia and Conservation
International. It was also a strategic
follow up to the inaugural United
Nations Oceans Conference 2017,
co-hosted in New York by the Fijian
and Swedish Governments.
The conference in Liberia
contributed to fulfilling Swedish
commitments to support othercountries to move towards reaching the
global goal “SDG 14 – Life Below

Water” under Agenda 2030. It brought
together over 400 participants from 70
countries and five continents. They
included high-level government
officials, senior ministers, heads ofinternational organisations, foreign
government representatives, civilsociety, business and private sector,
women and youth organisations, aswell as community leaders.
Among the many high-ranking
officials from Liberia were: NathanielBlama, executive director of theEnvironmental Protection Agency;
James Kollie, commissioner of the
Liberia Maritime Authority; and Gesler
Murray, minister of mines and energy.
Swedish high-level representatives
included Ingrid Wetterqvist,ambassador at the Embassy of Sweden
in Monrovia; Helen Ågren, ambassador
for the Global Oceans at the Swedish
Ministry for Foreign Affairs; andLinnéa Engström, vice-chair of theEuropean Parliament’s fisheriescommittee.
“The conference design was
sensitive to both issues of human rights
and poverty alleviation and these wereconsidered especially critical in thecontext of the development of the blue
economy as not only being aboutdevelopment of industry but also aboutfinding new alternative livelihoods for
Liberia’s poorest,” says centre researchliaison officer Andrew Merrie, who waspart of the team who designed anddelivered the conference.

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Education
2019 saw the launch of new education programmes
and a number of improvements to existing ones

PHOTO: M. HUITRIC

THE CENTRE'S independent courses allow students from adiverse range of academic and professional backgrounds toengage with what the SRC does. The Världens Eko course
continues to attract students with thought-provoking lectureson sustainability. The online course Introduction to
Sustainability Science allows students from near and far to
study at the centre. The number of applicants far exceeds the72

number of spaces on the course. Finally, the course Urban
Social-ecological Systems brings academics and practitioners
together in discussing and developing urban projects around
Stockholm City, providing a rewarding balance of learningand practice for all.
Together with partners in Finland, Latvia and Estonia welaunched the first of three intensive four-day courses focusingSTOCKHOLM RESILIENCE CENTRE

on multidisciplinary and practical urban planning andcollaboration. The courses bring together 25 of the brightest
students from Nordic-Baltic universities on urban
development. As part of the first course, they worked
together on a real-life planning case, taking on the challenge
of developing sustainable cities. This year, the course focusedon a district located south-west of Tallinn, characterised by
Soviet-period housing, diverse ethnicity and ageing dwellers.
Special emphasis was placed on improved health and wellbeing and their link to nature-based solutions. Overall, thethree courses emphasise interaction and co-creation ofknowledge and give the students the chance to build vital
new networks both with fellow students as well as withexperts and practitioners within the field.

Together with partners in Finland,
Latvia and Estonia we launched
the first of three intensivefour-day courses focusing on
multidisciplinary and practicalurban planning and collaboration.
The courses bring together 25of the brightest students from
Nordic-Baltic universities on
urban development.
Master’s programme in Social-ecological Resilience
for Sustainable Development (SERSD)
Students from our master’s programme continue to workthrough their courses while also contributing to SRC

activities. During the UN COP25 meeting in Madrid in
December 2019, students Chris Vettos, Kristen Lindström,
Nadja Najjar, Naomi Terry and Nick Fitzpatrick provided
social media updates from the summit. The second-year
students started work on their master’s theses, covering a
range of topics and cases from across the world. As always,
we look forward to their results in the coming year. This
year, Stockholm University also launched a mentoring
programme to help alumni and students network and boost
opportunities to make personal and professional contacts.
Already, current students have connected with former
students who are now working in academia, the Swedish
Society for Nature Conservation and the Swedish Ministry ofForeign Affairs, to name a few. We hope that this programme
will support our students as they take their next career steps,
and we look forward to learning how SERSD and the SRC
have supported past students in their professional lives andhow we can further develop this support.
The Resilience Research School
Autumn 2019 was a busy period for the PhD programme
coordinators and administrators. The Stockholm ResilienceCentre became the first department at Stockholm University
to have its PhD programme evaluated. The assessment waspart of the process to ensure and develop the quality of
Stockholm University’s higher education. A report was
submitted to the university describing the overall programme
design, courses, research environment, measures andprocesses to ensure high research standards. The report also
provided an opportunity to review and reflect on how we
can improve our PhD programme. 2019 also saw the
introduction of five new promising PhD students: Alice
Dauriach, Maganizo Kruger Nyasulu, Maria Schewenius,
Arne Tobian, and Emmy Wassénius. We would also like tocongratulate Victoria Bignet, David Collste, Johanna
Hedlund, Jennifer Hinton, Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Katja
Malmborg, Matilda Petersson, Luigi Piemontese and Jessica
Spijkers for successfully defending their licentiate theses thisyear. 2020 looks set to become an exciting year, with eight
PhD defences planned.

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Introducing the 2019 PhD class
Alice Dauriach
How do financial markets, large
corporations, and financial secrecy
interact with the earth system at a global
level? Alice Dauriach’s project will uncover
if and how financial secrecy enables the
pursuit of environmentally damaging
economic activities, with the risk of
disrupting critical biomes and eroding theresilience of the biosphere. Secrecy
jurisdictions (or “tax havens”), allow a
degree of opacity in global financial
markets, which undermines theenforcement of regulations, the tax
revenue of nations and the accountabilityof government officials. This may
ultimately reduce the ability of countries
to democratically govern the use ofnatural commons and to lead thetransformation to sustainability in thecontext of Agenda 2030. The thesis is acollaboration between the GEDBProgramme at the Royal Swedish Academyof Sciences and the Stockholm ResilienceCentre.

Arne Tobian
How far can we push the planet? The
planetary boundaries framework is an
intriguing concept that aims at depicting
the outer limits of tolerable change to theearth system. But how tight are thesedifferent aspects of the earth systeminterlinked, what feedbacks take place andhow would the safe operating space forhumanity look if the interactions amongindividual planetary boundaries weretaken into account? Computer models,
like the dynamic global vegetation model

Emmy Wassénius
We often hear that we need a food systemtransformation to change the way we
produce and consume food. However,research on food production systems
remains siloed within agriculture, animalfarming, aquaculture and fishing. In her
PhD, Wassénius attempts to break out of
this by addressing the global food system
as one interconnected system. The project
explicitly focuses on the risks tosustainability and human health present
in the current system. Using systems
lenses such as diversity, connectivity andfeedbacks, she addresses emergent risks
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highly connected food production system.
A global scale lens helps piece together
the implications of a global system on
local producers and consumers. It also
highlights the variation that exists withinfood production. Food production ispractised both by small-scale, rural
farmers and fishers but also in high-techindustrial systems owned by transnational
corporations. This variety, both in practices
and risks, is one of the complexities weface when trying to understand andchange the current system. The project isorganised under the GEDB programme at
the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences.

LPJmL can help provide a better grasp andunderstanding of how these interactions
could look. How strong are they? What
happens to the state of other boundaries
if one is transgressed? Are there regional
differences? Arne Tobias’s thesis, carriedout in collaboration with the Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research inGermany, is part of the Earth Resilience in
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Maganizo Kruger Nyasulu
Attaining the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) of eradicating hunger andsecuring sustainable food for all by 2030
constitutes a major global challenge,
particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Here, malnourishment, poverty andpopulation growth are the highest in theworld, in regions subject to extreme water
variability and scarcity. A key question is
how much water is required and available
to attain the SDGs in SSA now and in
future climatic conditions? Nyasulu’s
project analyses how much green water(infiltrated rain in soil supporting rainfed
farming) is available and needed forsustainable intensification of agriculture

in SSA. This is a critical knowledge gap
since the SDGs neglect the link between
water, food and sustainability. Blue waterin irrigation tends, wrongly, to be seen as
the path to delivering dramatic increases
in food. Based on this Nyasulu will analysegreen water management potentials andproduce a map of the green/blue water
index for SSA. It will be the first attempt at
exploring water resilience, and on how tomaintain capacity of landscapes togenerate ecosystem services and moisture
feedback. His research is carried out incollaboration with researchers at Potsdam
Institute of Climate Impact Research andUS Geological Survey.

Maria Schewenius
How can XR technologies and AI be used
as an integrated part of an “urban
tinkering” approach to plan and design for
urban resilience? Emerging digitaltechnologies offer new possibilities forcollecting, analysing and visualising
environmental data (environmental
intelligence). The development is taking
place while cities are both experiencing
local effects of the increasing changes
to the global earth systems and are thedrivers behind many of the changes.
Cities have the power to become hubs
for desirable social-ecologicaltransformations. However, urban
planning is in need of new tools tofacilitate the inclusion of more groups
and perspectives in the planning process,for supporting transformations ofurban landscapes for sustainability.
Schewenius’s project will focus on
augmented reality and virtual reality (ARand VR, respectively) which together are
known as extended reality technologies(XR), and artificial intelligence (AI). It will
explore which new opportunities andlimitations the technologies offer, or do
not offer, in different urban contexts forpromoting complex adaptive systems
thinking and green, blue and grey
innovations, in an almost playful approach
known as urban tinkering. The project iscarried out in collaboration with the
University of Gävle and the Universityof Exeter.

Current PhD student Yosr Ammar received
an award as one of the top 10 early careerpresentations during the Future Oceans2
Integrated Marine Biosphere Research
conference in June 2019 in Brest, France.

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Executive programme in resilience thinking
PHOTO: M. SPARREUS/AZOTE

Participants 2019/2020, from left to right: Mats
Rahmström (CEO Atlas Copco), Sofia Svingby (VPsustainability Atlas Copco), Magnus Billing (CEOAlecta), Henrik Furhoff (CEO IPCO). Sara Öhrvall(chief digital customer experience and communications officer, SEB), Lotta Lyrå (CEO Clas Ohlson),
Freddy Sobin (CEO KICKS), Magdalena Gerger(CEO Systembolaget), Malin Sandquist (director
corporate, public and legal affairs, Systembolaget),
Siv Malmgren (CEO John Mattson Fastigheter),
Staffan Pehrson (CEO Nefab), Jerker Johansson(executive chair Blue Water Energy), Klas Balkow(CEO Axfood), Marcus Wallenberg (chair FAM,
SAAB, SEB and Patricia Industries), Jonas Samuelson (CEO Electrolux).

OUR EXECUTIVE PROGRAMME in Resilience Thinking ran
for a second time, connecting CEOs and board members oflarge companies to sustainability scientists and experts. This
commissioned education programme was well-received by
the participants in 2018, and the interest in 2019 was evenhigher, with more applicants than the course could take in.
A novelty this year was that two alumni from 2018 cameback as lecturers, to share how they work towards
sustainability – Henrik Henriksson (CEO, Scania) and
Karl-Henrik Sundström (CEO Stora Enso).
Read more: www.executive.stockholmresilience.org

PHOTO: N. THAMBALTICLEAD
The BALTICLEAD programme is aleadership programme funded by
the Swedish Institute and hosted by
the centre. It is designed to enable
participants to address some of theworld’s biggest social and ecologicalchallenges and explore
opportunities to build globally
relevant solutions
A group of 18 participants from Armenia,
Belarus, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia,
Sweden and Ukraine formed the cohort of76

the 2019 BALTICLEAD programme. The
participants, including CEOs, founders,
academics, NGO leaders and more,brought a wide range of experiences tothe two modules of this year’s BALTICLEAD
programme. The programme is a colearning experience based on SRC’s
research and the participants’ own
expertise, and is designed to enable
participants to address some of theworld’s biggest social and ecologicalchallenges and explore opportunities tobuild globally relevant solutions.
Centre researcher and director of

BALTICLEAD, Per Olsson emphasises theimportance of bringing these participants
together, “We contribute with insightsfrom our research and particularly theimportance of linking humans and theenvironment when dealing with
innovation that can have an impact at
scales that matter in the Anthropocene. It
is the participants’ individual expertise,shared knowledge and potential impact of
the network they themselves create thatfacilitate opportunities for societal impact
and transformation”.
The scientific and social-ecologicalbackbone of BALTICLEAD is mixed withtools and concepts useful inentrepreneurial contexts. Over the courseof the programme, the participants took
part in intensive workshops,
presentations, dialogues, games,
networking and site visits. Being part of
the network is considered a strong sourceof inspiration to the participants, inlearning how to create a safe operating
space for both people and planet. “Wedeliberately design for this, by facilitating
learning both on an individual level andfor the group as a whole, and byencouraging and fostering networks ofchange-makers that can achievetransformations towards regenerative
futures,” Per Olsson says.
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Master's theses 2019Social-ecological Resilience for
Sustainable Development (SERSD)
Nicole Chabaneix
Adaptive co-management for local
water resilience: the case ofcommunity-led ecosystem-based
adaptation in the Peruvian AndesDavid Enarsson
Grassroots niches transforming cities
toward post-growth futures: A casestudy of the collaborative economy in
Gothenburg, Sweden
Melissa Ingaruca
Synergies of radical paradigms andemerging technologies in knowledge
production for transforming themodernist urban design. A focus on
artificial intelligence, extended reality
and sensor technology
Krisztina Jónás
Beyond 'common sense': unveilinghuman behavior in nudging andaffordance theory and how it informssocial-ecological transformation theory
Jenny Kaleinek
Exploring change agent strategies innavigating transformation towards safeand just agri-food systems in South
Africa - A case study of the SPAR Rural
hub project
Frida Lager
Ain’t our business? A study oftransnational climate change impacts
on Swedish consumption through thelens of Brazilian soy

Sofia Maniatakou
Unraveling diverse values of ecosystemservices: a socio-cultural valuation
using the Q-methodology in Messenia,
GreeceLicentiate theses

Vivika Mäkelä
Pedagogy and Human-Nature
Connection: A case study of two
pedagogical approaches and theirrelation to pupils’ human-natureconnection in northern Mato Grosso,
BrazilDavid Collste
Navigating towards the Safe Operating
Space: Systems thinking and the SDGs

Felix Nasser
Climate-smart cocoa in Ghana:
Examining discourses, trade-offs andimplications for cocoa smallholders
Moa Olsson
Exploring Social-Ecological Response
Capacity to Drought of Swedish Farms
Sophie Plitt
Digital Tools for Urban GreenInfrastructure: Investigating thepotential of e-tools to inform andengage stewards
Ivan Simon Kallstenius
Patterns of Collaboration for
Sustainability in the Global Clothing
Industry

Victoria Bignet
Social-ecological approaches forassessment of healthy diets fromsustainable food systems

Johanna Hedlund
No environmental problem is an
island: Aligning networks oftransboundary collaboration tocomplex policy issue interdependencies
Jennifer Hinton
Profit-Orientation and Post-Growth
Economies: Building Theory for SocialEcological Resilience
Jean-Baptiste Jouffray
From Corals to Corporations: Socialecological dynamics in the
Anthropocene ocean
Katja Malmborg
How on Earth: Operationalizing theecosystem service
Matilda Petersson
Non-state actors and global fisheries
governanceLuigi Piemontese
Global and continental perspectives on
the sustainability of future agricultural
water management
Jessica Spijkers
Identifying Global Patterns ofInternational Fisheries Conflict77Appendix:
Finances2019 Total

188.3

MSEK

Stockholm University
33.3
Allocated fund from Stockholm University
23.3
Allocated funds for special aims
(from e.g. Bolin Centre for Climate Research,
temporary SU core funds)	  10

MSEK
MSEK

MISTRA core grant (remaining funds spent)

4.7

MSEK

150.3
12.6
25.3
1.6
27.1
44.6
0.8
2.2
1
2
2.8
1.3
11.4
2.8
8.3
0.9
0.5
7.3

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The Swedish Research Council
FormasSwedish Environmental Protection Agency
Sida (GRAID/GRP)
Sida (SwedBio)
Nippon Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Ellen MacArthur Foundation/H&M
L´OréalEUMarianne & Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
Swedish InstituteJohansson Family Foundation
Zennström Philanthropies
Other

MSEK

160
140
120
100

Stockholm University

80

MistraExternal

60
40
20
0
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 201978

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Staff
Centre management
Line Gordon, executive director
Victor Galaz, deputy director
Beatrice Crona, deputy science director
Lisen Schultz, deputy director of transdisciplinarity
Carl Folke, science director
Olof Olsson, managing director
Henrik Österblom, science director
Administration
Tobias Andersson, archivist and tech support
Astrid Auraldsson, coordinator to executive
director
Bengt Hall, IT-support
Gunnar Jacobsson, IT-support
Thérése La Monde, financial officer
Christina Leijonhufvud, affiliated administrator(Beijer Institute)
Cecilia Linder, human resources specialist
Siv Ericsdotter, head of administration(temporary)
Susan Norke, financial controller
Johan Gistorp, head of administration
Tanja Litvinova, financial and HR officer
Emina Muratspahic, head of finance
Lina Blomdahl, office coordinator (consultant)
Anette Mack, human resources assistant(consultant)
Lina Mårtensson, human resources specialist(consultant)
Practice, Policy and Communication
Eva Brattander, monitoring officer
Owen Gaffney, director international media andstrategy
Hannah Griffiths, communications officer
Marika Haeggman, communications officer
Sturle Hauge Simonsen, head of communications
Louise Hård af Segerstad, communications
strategist
Helene Karlsson, communications officer
Johanna MacTaggart, coordinator
Andrew Merrie, communications officer
Fredrik Moberg, senior strategic advisor
Jenny Nylander, event coordinator
Ashley Perl, communications officer
Agneta Sundin, affilliated communications officer(Beijer Institute)
Modeling and Visualisation lab
Emma Sundström, system developerÖrjan Bodin, senior lecturer
		
SwedBio
Henrik Brudin, director
Pamela Cordero Fannkvist, financial controller
and administrator
Daniele Crimella, programme officer
Sara Elfstrand, programme coordinator
Ellika Hermansson Török, senior advisor (acting
director)
Claudia Ituarte Lima, programme officer
Pernilla Malmer, senior advisor
Tristan Tyrrell, programme officer
Hanna Wetterstrand, programme officer

Guidance for Resilience in the
Anthropocene: Investments forDevelopment (GRAID)
Ana Paula Aguiar, researcher
Million Belay, researcher
Eva Brattander, monitoring officer
Andrea Downing, researcher
Zuzana Harmácková, postdoc
Emma Hultgren Ludvigsson, programme officer
Amanda Jimenez, postdoc
Ida Karlsson, editor, Rethink (temporary)
Abdou Ka, project assistant
Jan Kuiper, postdoc
Albert Norström researcher (acting director
GRAID)
Michele-Lee Moore, director GRAID
Belinda Reyers, researcher
Cibele Queiroz, postdoc
Sonja Radosavljevic, postdoc
Odi Selomane, research assistantGrace Wong, researcher
Global Resilience Partnership (GRP)
Anastacia Brainich, officer
Hanna Ellström, administrative coordinator
Ida Gabrielsson, communications officer
Deon Nel, director
Nathanial Matthews, senior advisor
Maya Rebermark, head of communications
Education
Miriam Huitric, programme director and directorof studies (master’s students)
Tim Daw, acting programme director anddirector of studies (master’s students)
Magnus Nyström, senior lecturer and director ofstudies (PhD students)
Cornelia Ludwig, education coordinator
BALTICLEAD
leadership programmes
Cecilia Emilsson, project coordinator
Helene Karlsson, project manager
Nadja Tham, project assistant
Kristina Tysk, project coordinator
Per Olsson, head of programme
Research staff
Erik Andersson, researcher
Stephan Barthel, researcher
Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, researcher
Robert Blasiak, researcher
Thorsten Blenckner, senior researcherÖrjan Bodin, senior lecturer
Wijnand Boonstra, researcher
Johan Colding, researcher
Sarah Cornell, researcher
Beatrice Crona, senior researcher
Tim Daw, researcher
Lisa Deutsch, senior lecturer
Thomas Elmqvist, professor
Elin Enfors, researcher
Malin Falkenmark, senior researcher
Ingo Fetzer, researcher
Amanda Ford, research assistantRadhika Gupta, project assistantThomas Hahn, researcher
Tilman Hertz, researcher
Jacob Hileman, researcher
Tiina Häyhä, researcher
Claudia Ituarte Lima, researcher
Stuart Kininmonth, researcher
Emilie Lindkvist, researcher
María Mancilla García, researcher
Romina Martin, researcher
Susa Niiranen, researcher
Jon Norberg, professor
Albert Norström, researcher
Magnus Nyström, senior lecturer
Per Olsson, researcher
Garry Peterson, professor
Johan Rockström, professor
My Sellberg, research assistant
Maja Schlüter, researcher
Lisen Schultz, researcher
Hanna Sinare, researcher
Uno Svedin, senior researcher
Maria Tengö, researcher
Kristina Tysk, project steward
Patricia Villarrubia, project assistantFerdinanda Wijermans, researcher
Amanda Wood, researcher
Angela Guerreo, research assistantAffiliated researchers
Stephan Barthel
Robert Costanza
Anne-Sophie Crépin
Deborah Goffner
Fernando Jaramillo
Louise Karlberg
Therese Lindahl
Elisabeth Lindgren
Cecilia Lundholm
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Åsa GrenÅsa Gerger Swartling
Sverker Sörlin
Max Troell
Tracy van Holt
Brian Walker
Postdoc researchers
David Armstrong McKay
Timothy DuBois
Johan Enqvist
Jamila Haider
Patrik Henriksson
Malin Jonell
Steven Lade
Vanessa Masterson
Kirill Orach
Miina Porkka
Andrew Ringsmuth
Juan Carlos Rocha Gordo
Peter Sogaard Jorgensen
Arie Staal
Simon West

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Resilience Research School members
Yosr Ammar, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Thorsten Blenckner

Julie Goodness, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Thomas Elmqvist

Kirill Orach, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Maja Schlüter

Victoria Bignet, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Johan Rockström

Jamila Haider, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Maja Schlüter

Daniel Ospina, PhD student (Beijer staff)
Supervisor: Garry Peterson

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

Johanna Hedlund, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Örjan Bodin

Celinda Palm, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Sarah Cornell

David Collste, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Sarah Cornell

Jennifer Hinton, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Sarah Cornell

Matilda Petersson, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Henrik Österblom

Linus Dagerskog, PhD student (SEI staff)
Supervisor: Johan Rockström

Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Magnus Nyström

Luigi Piemontese, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Fernando Jaramillo

Laura Elsler, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Maja Schlüter

Niak Koh, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Thomas Hahn

Maria Schewenius, PhD student(Gävle University College)
Supervisor: Fredrik Moberg

David Fagerlind, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Tiina Häyhä

Sofia Käll, PhD student (GEDB staff)
Supervisor: Beatrice Crona

Ami Golland, PhD student (GEDB staff)
Supervisor: Victor Galaz

Katja Malmborg, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Elin Enfors

Blanca González García-Mon,
PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Maja Schlüter

Megan Meacham, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Garry Peterson

Chandrakant Singh, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Ingo Fetzer
Jessica Spijkers, PhD student (SRC staff)
Supervisor: Henrik Österblom

New staff 2019

PhD council leadership
Alice Dauriach was elected chair of thecentre’s PhD council for the year
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Linnea Almroth, (consultant)
John Martin Anderies, researcher
Abigayil Blandon, research assistantHenrik Brundin, director, SwedBio
Eleanore Campell, computer analyst
Cecilia Emilsson, project assistant
Johan Gistorp, head of administration
Angela Guerrero, researcher assistantLars-Göran Johansson, researcher
Anette Mack, HR administration
Ana Carolina Marciano, programme officer,
SwedBio
Lina Mårtensson, human resources specialist
Maganizo Kruger Nyasulu, PhD student
Laura Pereira, researcher
Arthur Perrotton, project manager
Agnes Prandindita, research assistant
Maya Rebermark, head of communications,
GRP
Arne Tobian, PhD student
Geoffrey Wells, researcher

In May 2019, Johan Gistorp was appointed
the new head of administration at the centre.
Gistorp has a background in economics
from Uppsala University. He previously
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Guest
researchers
Jan-Claas Dajka
Lancaster University

Maria Reaney
University of Southampton

Alicia Donnellan Barraclough
University of Bergen

Samuel Zipper
University of Victoria

Iratye Rubio Benito del Valle
University of Vigo

Fransisco de VasconcelosUmeå University

Obbe Tuinenburg
Utrecht University

Mario Angst
Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of
Aquatic Science and Technology

Elisabeth Krueger
Princeton University

Weng Wei
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Edgar Fernandez Fernandez
University of Rennes
Jan Bebbington
University of Birmingham
Nuria Descalzo Ruiz
University of Burgos

Kara Pellow
University of Maine
Clara Larissa Wriessnegger
Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Andrew Carlson
Princeton University
Victor Wegner Maus
Vienna University of Economics and Business

Samuel Zipper
University of Kansas
Francheska Tacke
University of Copenhagen

As part of a collaboration between Stockholm
Resilience Centre, Princeton University and
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,
Princeton postdocs Andrew Carlson andElisabeth Krueger visited the centre in late 2019.
Carlson’s research is focused on the structure andfunction of fisheries as coupled human andnatural systems while Krueger’s research interest
is in the evolution of human-environment
interactions and in contributing to the transitionof society towards sustainability. Both areassociated with the Princeton Environmental
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Centre publications 2019
Journal articles
Adrian, J., M. Amos, M. Baratchi, M. Beermann,
N. Bode, M. Boltes, A. Corbetta, G. Dezecache, J.
Drury, Z. Fu, R. Geraerts, S. Gwynne, G.
Hofinger, A. Hunt, T. Kanters, A. Kneidl, K.
Konya, G. Köster, M. Küpper, G. Michalareas, F.
Neville, E. Ntontis, S. Reicher, E. Ronchi, A.
Schadschneider, A. Seyfried, A. Shipman, A.
Sieben, M. Spearpoint, G.B. Sullivan, A.
Templeton, F. Toschi, Z. Yücel, F. Zanlungo, I.
Zuriguel, N. van der Wal, F. van Schadewijk, C.
von Krüchten, N. Wijermans. 2019. A glossary
for research on human crowd dynamics.
Collective Dynamics 4(A19): 1-13.
Alfvén, T., J. Dahlstrand, D. Humphreys, D.
Hellden, S. Hammarstrand, A.C. Hollander, M.
Malqvist, S. Nejat, P.S. Jørgensen, P. Friberg, G.
Tomson. 2019. Placing children and adolescentsat the centre of the Sustainable Development
Goals will deliver for current and future
generations. Global Health Action 12(1):1670015.
Andersson, E., J. Langemeyer, S. Borgström, T.
McPhearson, D. Haase, J. Kronenberg, D.N.
Barton, M. Davis, S. Naumann, L. Roschel, F.
Baro. 2019. Enabling green and blue
infrastructure to improve contributions to humanwell-being and equity in urban systems.
Bioscience 69(7): 566-574.
Andersson, J., V.A. Kozlov, V.G. Tkachev, S.
Radosavljevic, U. Wennergren. 2019. Density–
dependent feedback in age–structured
populations. Journal of Mathematical Sciences
242(1): 2-24.
Aston, E.A., G.J. Williams, J.A.M. Green, A.J.
Davies, L.M. Wedding, J.M. Gove, J-B. Jouffray,
T.T. Jones, J. Clark. 2019. Scale-dependent spatial
patterns in benthic communities around atropical island seascape. Ecography 42(3): 578590.
Baho, D.L., E. Leu, F. Pomati, D.O. Hessen, J.
Norberg, S.J. Moe, B. Skjelbred, L. Nizzetto.
2019. Resilience of natural phytoplankton
communities to pulse disturbances frommicropollutant exposure and vertical mixing.
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry38(10): 2197-2208.
Baho, D.L., F. Pomati, E. Leu, D.O. Hessen, S.J.
Moe, J. Norberg, L. Nizzetto. 2019. A single
pulse of diffuse contaminants alters the size
distribution of natural phytoplankton
communities. Science of the Total Environment
683: 578-588.
Bai, X.M., M. Colbert, T. McPhearson, D.
Roberts, J. Siri, B. Walsh, B. Webb. 2019.
Networking urban science, policy and practicefor sustainability. Current Opinion in
Environmental Sustainability 39: 114-122.

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Baird, J., L. Schultz, R. Plummer, D. Armitage, Ö.
Bodin. 2019. Emergence of collaborativeenvironmental governance: what are the causal
mechanisms? Environmental Management 63(1):16-31.
Baird, J., R. Plummer, L. Schultz, D. Armitage, Ö.
Bodin. 2019. How does socio-institutional
diversity affect collaborative governance ofsocial-ecological systems in practice?
Environmental Management 63(2): 200-214.
Balbi, S., O. Selomane, N. Sitas, R. Blanchard, I.
Kotzee, P. O’Farrell, F. Villa. 2019. Humandependence on natural resources in rapidly
urbanising South African regions. Environmental
Research Letters 14(4): 44008.
Baltutis, W.J., M-L. Moore. 2019. Degrees ofchange toward polycentric transboundary water
governance: exploring the Columbia river andthe Lesotho highlands water project. Ecology andSociety 24(2): 6.
Barfuss, W., J.F. Donges, J. Kurths. 2019.
Deterministic limit of temporal difference
reinforcement learning for stochastic games.
Physical Review E 99(4): 43305.
Barnes, M.L., Ö Bodin, T.R. McClanahan, J.N.
Kittinger, A.S. Hoey, O.G. Gaoue, N.A.J. Graham.
2019. Social-ecological alignment and ecologicalconditions in coral reefs. Nature
Communications 10: 2039.
Barthel, S., C. Isendahl, B.N. Vis, A. Drescher,
D.L. Evans, A. van Timmeren. 2019. Global
urbanization and food production in directcompetition for land: Leverage places to mitigate
impacts on SDG2 and on the Earth System. The
Anthropocene Review 6(1-2): 71-97.
Bebbington, J., H. Österblom, B. Crona, J-B.
Jouffray, C. Larrinaga, S. Russell, B. Scholtens.
2019. Accounting and accountability in the
Anthropocene. Accounting, Auditing &Accountability Journal 33(1): 152-177.
Bercht, A.L., N. Wijermans. 2019. Mind themind: how to effectively communicate about
cognition in social-ecological systems research.
Ambio 48(6): 590-604.
Bjørn, A., S. Sim, H. King, P. Keys, L. WangErlandsson, S.E. Cornell, M. Margni, C. Bulle.
2019. Challenges and opportunities towards
improved application of the planetary boundary
for land-system change in life cycle assessment of
products. Science of the Total Environment 696:
UNSP 133964.
Blandon, A., T. Daw, L.J. Haider, S. StoneJovicich. 2019. Conceptualisations of fisheries
development in Eastern Africa over time andbetween actors. Marine Policy 107: UNSP
103512.

Blasiak, R. 2019. International regulatorychanges poised to reshape access to marine genes.
Nature Biotechnology 37(4): 357-358.
Blasiak, R., C.C.C Wabnitz, T. Daw, M. Berger, A.
Blandon, G. Carneiro, B. Crona, M.F. Davidson,
S. Guggisberg, J. Hills, F. Mallin, E. McManus, K.
Ould-Chih, J. Pittman, X. Santos, L. Westlund, H.
Wetterstrand, K. Wiegler. 2019. Towards greatertransparency and coherence in funding forsustainable marine fisheries and healthy oceans.
Marine Policy 107: UNSP 103508.
Blasiak, R., J-B. Jouffray, C.C.C. Wabnitz, H.
Österblom. 2019. Scientists should disclose origin
in marine gene patents. Trends in Ecology &Evolution 34(5): 392-395.
Bodin, Ö., S.M. Alexander, J. Baggio, M.L.
Barnes, R. Berardo, G.S. Cumming, L.E. Dee, A.P.
Fischer, M. Fischer, M. Mancilla Garcia, A.M.
Guerrero, J. Hileman, K. Ingold, P. Matous, T.H.
Morrison, D. Nohrstedt, J. Pittman, G. Robins,
J.S. Sayles. 2019. Improving network approaches
to the study of complex social-ecologicalinterdependencies. Nature Sustainability 2(7):551-559.
Bodin, Ö., D. Nohrstedt, J. Baird, R. Summers, R.
Plummer. 2019. Working at the “speed of trust”:
pre-existing and emerging social ties in wildfire
responder networks in Sweden and Canada.
Regional Environmental Change 19(8): 23532364.
Boltz, F., N. LeRoy Poff, C. Folke, N. Kete, C.M.
Brown, S. St. George Freeman, J.H. Matthews, A.
Martinez, J. Rockström. 2019. Water is a mastervariable: solving for resilience in the modern era.
Water Security 8: 100048.
Bong, I.W., M. Moeliono, G.Y. Wong, M.
Brockhaus. 2019. What is success? Gaps andtrade-offs in assessing the performance oftraditional social forestry systems in Indonesia.
Forest and Society 3(1): 1-21.
Bratman, G.N., C.B. Anderson, M.G. Berman, B.
Cochran, S. de Vries, J. Flanders, C. Folke, H.
Frumkin, J.J. Gross, T. Hartig, P.H. Kahn, M.
Kuo, J.J. Lawler, P.S. Levin, T. Lindahl, A. MeyerLindenberg, R. Mitchell, Z.Y. Ouyang, J. Roe, L.
Scarlett, J.R. Smith, M. van den Bosch, B.W.
Wheeler, M.P. White, H. Zheng, G.C. Daily. 2019.
Nature and mental health: an ecosystem service
perspective. Science Advances 5(7): eaax0903.
Bruckner, M., T. Häyhä, S. Giljum, V. Maus, G.
Fischer, S. Tramberend, J. Borner. 2019.
Quantifying the global cropland footprint of theEuropean Union’s non-food bioeconomy.
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Burch, S., A. Gupta, C.Y.A. Inoue, A. Kalfagianni,
Å. Persson, A.K. Gerlak, A. Ishii, J. Patterson, J.
Pickering, M. Scobie, J. van der Heijden, J.
Vervoort, C. Adler, M. Bloomfield, R. Djalante, J.
Dryzek, V. Galaz, C. Gordon, R. Harmon, S.
Jinnah, R.E. Kim, L. Olsson, J. van Leeuwen, V.
Ramasar, P. Wapner, R. Zondervan. 2019. New
directions in earth system governance research.
Earth System Governance 1: 100006.
Canova, M.A., D.M. Lapola, P. Pinho, J. Dick,
G.B. Patricio, J.A. Priess. 2019. Different
ecosystem services, same (dis)satisfaction withcompensation: a critical comparison between
farmers’ perception in Scotland and Brazil.
Ecosystem Services 35: 164-172.
Capretti, A., A.K. Ringsmuth, J.F. van Velzen, A.
Rosnik, R. Croce, T. Gregorkiewicz. 2019.
Nanophotonics of higher-plant photosynthetic
membranes. Light-Science & Applications 8: 5.
Carpenter, S.R., C. Folke, M. Scheffer, F.R.
Westley. 2019. Dancing on the volcano: social
exploration in times of discontent. Ecology andSociety 24(1): 23.
Chaigneau, T., K. Brown, S. Coulthard, T.M.
Daw, L. Szaboova. 2019. Money, use andexperience: identifying the mechanisms throughwhich ecosystem services contribute to wellbeing
in coastal Kenya and Mozambique. Ecosystem
Services 38: UNSP 100957.
Chaigneau, T., S. Coulthard, K. Brown, T.M.
Daw, B. Schulte-Herbruggen. 2019. Incorporating
basic needs to reconcile poverty and ecosystemservices. Conservation Biology 33(3): 655-664.
Childers, D.L., P. Bois, H.E. Hartnett, T.
McPhearson, G.S. Metson, C.A. Sanchez. 2019.
Urban ecological infrastructure: an inclusive
concept for the non-built urban environment.
Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene 7: 46.
Chung, N.N., G.S. Jacobs, H. Sudoyo, S.G.
Malik, L.Y. Chew, J.S. Lansing, M.P. Cox. 2019.
Sex-linked genetic diversity originates frompersistent sociocultural processes at
microgeographic scales. Royal Society OpenScience 6(8): 190733.
Colding, J., S. Barthel, P. Sörqvist. 2019. Wicked
problems of smart cities. Smart Cities 2(4): 512521.
Colding, J., S. Barthel. 2019. Exploring the socialecological systems discourse 20 years later.
Ecology and Society 24(1): 2.
Cole, R., M. Brockhaus, G.Y. Wong, M.H. Kallio,
M. Moeliono. 2019. Local agency indevelopment, market, and forest conservationinterventions in Lao Pdr’s northern uplands.
Southeast Asian Studies 8(2): 173-202.

Creutzig, F., S. Lohrey, X. Bai, A. Baklanov, R.
Dawson, S. Dhakal, W.F. Lamb, T. McPhearson, J.
Minx, E. Munoz, B. Walsh. 2019. Upscalingurban data science for global climate solutions.
Global Sustainability 2: e2.

Eich, A., A.K. Ford, M.M. Nugues, R.S.
McAndrews, C. Wild, S.C.A. Ferse. 2019. Positive
association between epiphytes andcompetitiveness of the brown algal genus
lobophora against corals. PeerJ 7: e6380.

Crona, B., S. Käll, T. van Holt. 2019. Fishery
Improvement Projects as a governance tool for
fisheries sustainability: a global comparative
analysis. PLoS ONE 14(10): e0223054.

Elands, B.H.M., K. Vierikko, E. Andersson, L.K.
Fischer, P. Concalves, D. Haase, I. Kowarik, A.C.
Luz, J. Niemela, M. Santos-Reis, K.F. Wiersum.
2019. Biocultural diversity: a novel concept toassess human-nature interrelations, nature
conservation and stewardship in cities. Urban
Forestry & Urban Greening 40: 29-34.

Cvitanovic, C., M. Howden, R.M. Colvin, A.
Norström, A.M. Meadow, P.F.E. Addison. 2019.
Maximising the benefits of participatory climate
adaptation research by understanding andmanaging the associated challenges and risks.
Environmental Science & Policy 94: 20-31.
Czembrowski, P., E. Laszkiewicz, J. Kronenberg,
G. Engström, E. Andersson. 2019. Valuing
individual characteristics and themultifunctionality of urban green spaces: theintegration of sociotope mapping and hedonic
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Dakos, V., B. Matthews, A.P. Hendry, J. Levine,
N. Loeuille, J. Norberg, P. Nosil, M. Scheffer, L.
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evolving world. Nature Ecology & Evolution
3(3): 355-362.
de Schutter, L., S. Giljum, T. Häyhä, M. Bruckner,
A. Naqvi, I. Omann, S. Stagl. 2019. Bioeconomy
transitions through the lens of coupled socialecological systems: a framework for place-based
responsibility in the global resource system.
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De Vos, A., R. Biggs, R. Preiser. 2019. Methods
for understanding social-ecological systems: areview of place-based studies. Ecology andSociety 24(4): 16.
Dearing, J.A., K. Zhang, W.D. Cao, T.P. Dawson,
D.A. McKay, P. Sillitoe, R. Treves, X.D. Yang.
2019. Who determines the trade-offs between
agricultural production and environmental
quality? An evolutionary perspective from rural
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Díaz, S., J. Settele, E.S. Brondizio, H.T. Ngo, J.
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S.H.M. Butchart, K.M.A. Chan, L.A. Garibaldi,
K. Ichii, J.G. Liu, S.M. Subramanian, G.F.
Midgley, P. Miloslavich, Z. Molnar, D. Obura, A.
Pfaff, S. Polasky, A. Purvis, J. Razzaque, B. Reyers,
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Elmqvist, T., E. Andersson, N. Frantzeskaki, T.
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Fischer, H., D. Amelung, N. Said. 2019. The
accuracy of German citizens’ confidence in theirclimate change knowledge. Nature Climate
Change 9(10): 776-785.
Folke, C., H. Österblom, J-B. Jouffray, E.F.
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Nyström, S.A. Levin, S.R. Carpenter, J.M.
Anderies, S. Chapin, A-S. Crépin, A. Dauriach, V.
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Fortnam, M., K. Brown, T. Chaigneau, B. Crona,
T.M. Daw, D. Goncalves, C. Hicks, M. Revmatas,
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Garcia, D., V. Galaz, S. Daume. 2019. EAT-Lancet
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Downing, A.S., A. Bhowmik, D. Collste, S.E.
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Geier, F., W. Barfuss, M. Wiedermann, J. Kurths,
J.F. Donges. 2019. The physics of governancenetworks: critical transitions in contagion
dynamics on multilayer adaptive networks withapplication to the sustainable use of renewable
resources. European Physical Journal-Special
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Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahelinitiative as an opportunity to enhance resiliencein Sahelian landscapes and livelihoods. Regional
Environmental Change 19(5): 1417-1428.
Gonzalez-Mon, B., Ö. Bodin, B. Crona, M.
Nenadovic, X. Basurto. 2019. Small-scale fishbuyers’ trade networks reveal diverse actor types
and differential adaptive capacities. Ecological
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Marcus. 2019. How smart is smart growth?
Examining the environmental validation behindcity compaction. Ambio 48(6): 580-589.
Haider, L.J., B. Neusel, G.D. Peterson, M.
Schlüter. 2019. Past management affects successof current joint forestry management institutionsin Tajikistan. Environment Development andSustainability 21(5): 2183-2224.
Hallström, E., K. Bergman, K. Mifflin, R. Parker,
P. Tyedmers, M. Troell, F. Ziegler. 2019.
Combined climate and nutritional performanceof seafoods. Journal of Cleaner Production 230:
402-411.
Hanh, T.T.H., W.J. Boonstra. 2019. What
prevents small-scale fishing and aquaculture
households from engaging in alternative
livelihoods? A case study in the Tam Giang
Lagoon, Vietnam. Ocean & Coastal Management
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Harrison, P.A., Z.V. Harmáčková, A.A.
Karabulut, L. Brotons, M. Cantele, J. Claudet,
R.W. Dunford, A. Guisan, I.P. Holman, S. Jacobs,
K. Kok, A. Lobanova, A. Moran-Ordonez, S.
Pedde, C. Rixen, F. Santos-Martin, M.A.
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Synthesizing plausible futures for biodiversity andecosystem services in Europe and Central Asia
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