Colding, J. and Folke, C. 1997. The relations among threatened species, their protection and taboos, Conservation Ecology 1. article 6, 19 pp. Available from the Internet. URL:http//www.consecol.org/vol 1/iss1/art6.

Colding, J. 1998. Analysis of hunting options by the use of general food taboos". Ecological Modeling 110: 5-17.

Colding, J. and Folke, C. 1999. Common Property Systems for Conservation through Adaptive Responses to Ecosystem Dynamics: Comment on L.M. Ruttan and M. Borgerhoff Mulder. Current Anthropology 40: 638-39.

Berkes, F., Colding, J. and Folke, C. 2000. Rediscovery of traditional ecological knowledge as adaptive management". Ecological Applications 10(5): 1251-1262.

Colding, J. and Folke, C. 2000. The taboo system: Lessons about informal institutions for nature management. The Georgetown International Environmental Review XII: 413-445.

Colding, J. and Folke, C. 2001. Social taboos: Invisible systems of local resource management and biodiversity conservation. Ecological Applications 11(2): 584-600.

Colding, J. 2001. Local Institutions, Biological Conservation and Management of Ecosystem Dynamics. Doctoral dissertation 2001. Natural Resource Management: Department of Systems Ecology,
StockholmUniversity, April 27, 2001.

Colding, J., Folke, C. and Elmqvist. 2003. Social institutions in ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation. The Journal of Tropical Ecology 44(1):25-41.

Elmqvist T, Colding J, Barthel S, Borgström S, Duit A, Lundberg J, Andersson E, Ahrné K, Erntson H, Folke C, Bengtsson J. 2004. The dynamics of social-ecological systems in urban landscapes: Stockholm and the National Urban Park, Sweden. Annals of the New YorkAcademy of Sciences 1023: 308-322.

Barthel, S., Colding, J., Folke, C., Elmqvist, T. 2005. History and local management of a biodiversity rich urban cultural landscape. Ecology and Society 10 (2): 10. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss2/art10/

Hougner, C. Colding, J. and Söderqvist, T. 2006. Economic valuation of a seed dispersal service in the Stockholm National Urban Park, Sweden• Ecological Economics 59: 364-374.

Colding, J., Lundberg, J., Folke, C., 2006. Incorporating green-area user groups in urban ecosystem management. Ambio 35: 237-244.

Colding J. 2007. ‘Ecological land-use complementation´ for building resilience in urban ecosystems. Landscape and urban planning 81: 46-55.

Jansson, Å. and Colding. J. 2007. Tradeoffs between environmental goals and urban development: The case of nitrogen load from theStockholmCountyto theBaltic Sea . AMBIO 36: 650-656.

Folke, C., Pritchard Jr., L., Berkes, F., Colding, J. and Svedin, U. In press (2007).
A few reflections on the ‘Problem of fit between ecosystems and institutions´ a decade ago. Ecology and Society.

Colding, J. and Folke, C., 2008, The Role of Golf Courses in Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management. Ecosystems on line DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9217-1 November 2008.
 
Scientific Books
Berkes, F., J. Colding, and C. Folke. 2003. Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change. CambridgeUniversity Press ,U.K.
 
Book chapter contributions
Folke, C. and Colding, J. 2000. Traditional Conservation Practices. Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Volume 5: 681-694. Edited by Simon Levin. Academic Press, San Diego, Ca.

Folke, C., Berkes, F. and Colding, J. 1998. Synthesis and Conclusions: Social mechanisms for resilience and sustainability. In: Berkes, F. & Folke, C. (eds.), Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Institutional learning for resilience, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ,UK.

Colding, J., Elmqvist, T. and Olsson, P. 2003. Living with disturbance: building resilience in social-ecological systems. In Folke, C., Berkes, F. and J. Colding, editors, Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change. CambridgeUniversity Press ,U.K.

Folke, C., J. Colding and F. Berkes. 2003. Synthesis: Building Resilience and Adaptive Capacity in Social-Ecological Systems. In: Berkes, F., J. Colding and C. Folke (eds.). Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change.CambridgeUniversityPress, Cambridge. pp 352-387.

Berkes, F., J. Colding and C. Folke. 2003. Introduction. In: Berkes, F., J. Colding and C. Folke (eds.). Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change.CambridgeUniversityPress, Cambridge. pp 1-29.

Folke, C., Colding, J., Olsson, P. and Hahn,,T. 2007. Interdependent Social-Ecological Systems and Adaptive Governance for Ecosystem Services. Pages 536-552 in The Sage Handbook of Environment and Society, Edited by Jules Pretty, Andy Ball, Ted Benton, Julia Guivant, David Lee, David Orr, Max Pfeffer and Hugh Ward. Sage Publications, Los Angeles.

Elmqvist, T., Alfsen, C., Colding, J., In press (2007). Urban systems. In: Jorgensen, S.E. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Ecology. Elsevier, Oxford (G.B.). Forthcoming.

Colding, J. In review. Creating incentives for increased public engagement in ecosystem management through urban commons. Chapter 13 in Adapting institutions: meeting the challenge of global environmental change. Boyd, E. and Folke, C. (Eds). Book proposal for Cambridge University Press.

Proceedings and international reports
Folke, C., L. Pritchard, F. Berkes, J. Colding and U. Svedin. 1998. The Problem of Fit Between Ecosystems and Institutions. International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP). IHDP Working Paper No 2. www.uni-bonn.de/IHDP/public.htm

Carl Folke, Steve Carpenter, Thomas Elmqvist, Lance Gunderson, CS Holling, Brian Walker, Jan Bengtsson, Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding, Kjell Danell, Malin Falkenmark, Line Gordon, Roger Kasperson, Nils Kautsky, Ann Kinzig, Simon Levin, Karl-Göran Mäler, Fredrik Moberg, Leif Ohlsson, Per Olsson, Elinor Ostrom, Walrer Reid, Johan Rockström, Hubert Savenije and Uno Svedin. 2002. Resilience and Sustainable Development: Building Adaptive Capacity in a World of Transformations. Scientific Background Paper commissioned by the Environmental Advisory Council of the Swedish Government in preparation for WSSD. ICSU Series on Science for Sustainable Development No. 3.
Colding, J. 2003. Scenarios for the StockholmNationalUrbanPark and surroundings. MA Sub-global working group report. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. 22 pp. http://www.millenniumassessment.org/intranet/

Colding, J., Elmqvist, T., Lundberg, J., Ahrné, K., Andersson, E., Barthel, S., Borgström, S., Duit, A., Erntsson, H., and Tengö, M. 2003. The Stockholm Urban Assessment (SUA-Sweden). The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment; Sub-global summary report. 28 pp. http://www.millenniumassessment.org/intranet/ Beijer Discussion Paper Series No. 182. The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, RoyalAcademyofSciences , Stockholm ,Sweden. Available at: www.millenniumassessement.org
Chapter 9: Scenarios in sub-global regional assessments. Coordinating Lead Authors: Louis Lebel and Pongmanee Thongbai. Lead Authors: Elena Bennet, Johan Colding, William Mala, John Agard, Gerhard Petcshel-Held, Kasper Kok, Louis Eramus, Tom Veldkamp, Chuck Ramsay, Yogesh Gokhale, Moneka Zureks, Colin Filer, and Sandra Velarde. Contributing Authors: Hernan Blanco, Tian Xiang Yue, and Tim Lynam. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Sub-Global Assessment Report on Scenarios 2005.
 
Non-scientific publications
Elmqvist, T., Folke, C. and Colding, J. 2001. Hållbar utveckling = ekologi + samhälle + ekonomi. Formas Tidning Miljöforskning Nr 5-6, December: 46-47.

Elmqvist, T., Folke, C., Colding, J. and Wirén, L. 2002. Stadens ekosystem lever av andra ekosystem. Formas Tidning Miljöforskning Nr 1, Februari: 12-14.

Colding, J. 2002. Parkens mångfald: Vad händer med den biologiska mångfalden om Nationalstadsparken byggs in? Hagabladet Nr 2 / 2002: 1-2.

Elmqvist, T., Colding, J. and Lundberg, J. 2003. Nationalstadsparken: Unikt parklandskap med hög biologisk mångfald. Formas Tidning Miljöforskning Nr 2, April: 10-12.

Publications in manuscript or in review
Barthel, S., Colding, J. and Folke C. In manus. Social Memory in Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems.

Colding, J., Lundberg, J. and Lundberg, S. In review. Golf courses and wetland fauna support. Ecological Applications.

Colding, J. and Folke, C. In review. The role of golf courses in biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management. Ecosystems.

Colding, J. Creating incentives for increased public engagement in ecosystem management through urban commons. Chapter 13 in Adapting institutions: meeting the challenge of global environmental change. Boyd, E. and Folke, C. (Eds). Cambridge University Press, in review.