In a world of increasing social-ecological turbulence, as a result of interactions between abrupt local to global environmental change and the crisis in the global economy, resilience thinking provides an important contribution to sustainable governance, management and practice.- After two years of existence the Stockholm Resilience Centre has established itself as an important international arena for state-of-the-art research on social-ecological resilience for sustainable development, says centre director Johan Rockström. We hope you enjoy reading our second annual report and we invite all those interested in building synergies with the Stockholm Resilience Centre to knock on our door!
The partnership between the Stockholm University, the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and the Stockholm Environment Institute, provides the centre with a comprehensive agenda covering science, science-policy bridging, academic capacity building and communications.
- We have already established a close collaboration with several leading research institutions around the world, to which we are profoundly grateful for engaging with such enthusiasm in collaborative research with us. This is an important indicator of progress for us; that our new trans-disciplinary research centre on resilience and sustainability is seen as an attractive scientific environment at the front of social-ecological thinking, says science director Carl Folke.
