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Boyd, E. and C. Folke (eds.). Governing Social-Ecological Systems: Adapting to the Challenge of Global Environmental Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK. In progress.

Chapin, T, G. Kofinas and C. Folke (eds.). Principles of Natural Resource Stewardship: Resilience-Based Management in a Changing World. Springer Verlag, New York. In progress

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

Rickinson, M., Lundholm, C. and Hopwood, N. Environmental Learning. Insights from Research into the Student Experience. Springer Verlag, Amsterdam. In progress.

Sörlin, S. and P. Warde (eds.), Nature´s End: Environment and History. Palgrave MacMillan, London. In progress.

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*Bodin, Ö. and J. Norberg. 2007. A Network Approach for Analyzing Spatially Structured Populations in a Fragmented Landscape. Landscape Ecology 22: 31-44.

Chapin, F.S. III, K. Danell, T. Elmqvist, C. Folke, and N. Fresco. 2007. Managing Climate Change Impacts to Enhance the Resilience and Sustainability of Fennoscandinan Forests. Ambio 36:528-33.

*Colding, J. 2007. Ecological Land-use Complementation for Building Resilience in Urban Ecosystems. Landscape and Urban Planning 81: 46-55.

**Crona B. and P. Rönnbäck. 2007. Community Structure and Temporal Variability of Juvenile Fish Assemblages in Natural and Replanted Mangroves, Sonneratia alba Sm., of Gazi Bay ,Kenya. Estuarine, Coastal & Shelf Science 74: 44-52.

Deutsch, L., S. Gräslund, C. Folke, M. Huitric, N. Kautsky, M. Troell and L. Lebel. 2007. Feeding Aquaculture Growth through Globalization; Exploitation of Marine Ecosystems for Fishmeal. Global Environmental Change 17:238-249.

Duit, A. 2007. Path Dependency and Institutional Change: The Case of Industrial Emission Control in Sweden. Public Administration 85: 1097-1118.

Elmqvist T., M. Pyykönen, M. Tengö, F. Rakotondrasoa, E. Rabakonandrianina et al. 2007. Patterns of Loss and Regeneration of Tropical Dry Forest in Madagascar: The Social Institutional Context. PLoS ONE 2(5): e402.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000402

Enfors, E. and L. Gordon. 2007. Analysing Resilience in Dryland Agro-ecosystems: A case study of the Makanya catchment in Tanzania over the past 50 years. Land Degradation & Development 18: 680 — 696.

Fabricius C., C. Folke, G. Cundill and L. Schultz. 2007. Powerless Spectators, Coping Actors, and Adaptive Co-Managers? A Synthesis of the Role of Communities in Ecosystem Management. Ecology and Society 12(1):29. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art29/

Folke, C. 2007. Social-Ecological Systems and Adaptive Governance of the Commons. Ecological Research 22:14-15.

Folke, C., L. Pritchard, F. Berkes, J. Colding and U. Svedin. 2007. The Problem of Fit Between Ecosystems and Institutions: Ten Years Later. Ecology and Society 12(1): 30. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art30/

Galaz, V. 2007. Water Governance, Resilience and Global Environmental Change: A Reassessment of Integrated Water Resources Management. Water Science and Technology 56: 1-9.

Gunderson, L. and C. Folke. 2007. Looking Forward, Looking Back. Ecology and Society 12(1): 32. [online]URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art32/
Gunderson, L., C. Folke, and M. A. Janssen. 2007. Reflective Practice. Ecology and Society 12(2): 40. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss2/art40/

Hughes T.P., D.R. Bellwood, C. Folke, L.J. McCook and J.M. Pandolfi. 2007. No-Take Areas, Herbivory and Coral Reef Resilience. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22:1-3.

Hughes T.P., L. Gunderson, C. Folke, A. Baird, D. Bellwood, F. Berkes, B. Crona, A. Helfgott, H. Leslie, J. Norberg, M. Nystrom, P. Olsson, H. Österbloom, M.  Scheffer, H. Schuttenberg, R.S. Steneck, M. Tengö, M. Troell, B. Walker, J. Wilson, and B. Worm. 2007. Adaptive management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon World Heritage Areas. Ambio 36:586-592.

Jansson, Å. and J. Colding. 2007. Tradeoffs between environmental goals and urban development: The case of nitrogen load from the Stockholm County to the Baltic Sea. Ambio 36: 650-656.

*Lemos, M., E. Boyd, E. L. Tompkins, H. Osbahr and D. Liverman 2007. Developing Adaptation and Adapting Development. Ecology and Society 12 (2): 26. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss2/art26/

Liu, J., T. Dietz, S.R. Carpenter, C. Folke, M. Alberti, C.L. Redman, S.H. Schneider, E. Ostrom, A.N. Pell, J. Lubchenco, W.W. Taylor, Z. Ouyang, P. Deadman, T. Kratz and W. Provencher. Coupled Human and Natural Systems. Ambio 36:639-649.

Liu, J., T. Dietz, S.R. Carpenter, M. Alberti, C. Folke, E. Moran, A.C. Pell, P. Deadman, T. Kratz, J. Lubchenco, E. Ostrom, Z. Ouyang, W. Provencher, C.L. Redman, S.H.
Schneider, W.W. Taylor. 2007. Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems. Science 317:1513-1516.

*Neori A., Troell M., Chopin T., Yarish C., Critchley A., Buschman A. (2007) The Need for a Balanced Ecosystem Approach to Blue Revolution Aquaculture. Environment 49(3): 37-43.

Olsson, P., C. Folke, V. Galaz, T. Hahn and L. Schultz. 2007. Enhancing the Fit through Adaptive Comanagement: Creating and Maintaining Bridging Functions for Matching Scales in the Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve Sweden. Ecology and Society 12(1): 28. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art28/

Österblom, H., S.Hans son, U. Larsson, O. Hjerne, F. Wulff, R. Elmgren and C. Folke. 2007. Human-induced Trophic Cascades and Ecological Regime Shifts in the Baltic Sea . Ecosystems 10:877-889.

**Reynolds, J.F., D.M. Stafford Smith, E.F. Lambin, B.L. Turner II, M. Mortimore, S.P.J. Batterbury, T.E. Downing, H. Dowlatabadi, R.J. Fernández, J.E. Herrick, E. Huber-Sannwald, H. Jiang, R. Leemans, T. Lynam, F. Maestre, M. Ayarza and B. Walker. Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development. Science 316: 847-851.

Rockström, J., M. Lannerstad and M. Falkenmark. 2007. Assessing the Water Challenge of a New Green Revolution in Developing Countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104: 6253-6260.

Rockström, J. and J. Barron. 2007. Water Productivity in Rainfed Systems: Overview of challenges and analysis of opportunities in water scarcity prone savannahs. Irrigation Science 25:299-311

**Rönnbäck P., B. Crona and L. Ingwall. 2007. The Return of Ecosystem Goods and Services in Replanted Mangrove Forests — Perspectives from Local Communities in Gazi Bay ,Kenya. Environmental Conservation (in press, published online by Cambridge University Press 06 Dec 2007)

*Rönnbäck, P., N. Kautsky, L. Pihl, M. Troell, T. Söderqvist and H. Wennhage. 2007. Ecosystem Goods and Services from Temperate Coastal Habitats — Identification, Valuation and Implications of Ecosystem Shifts. Ambio 36: 534-544.

Savage, V., C. Webb and J. Norberg. 2007. A General Multi-trait-based Framework for Studying the Effects of Biodiversity on Ecosystem Functioning. Journal of Theoretical Biology 247: 213-229 

Schultz, L., C. Folke and P. Olsson. 2007. Enhancing Ecosystem Management through Social-Ecological Inventories: Lessons from Kristianstads Vattenrike,Sweden. Environmental Conservation 34: 140-152.

*Sörlin, S. and P. Warde. 2007. The Problem of the Problem of Environmental History: A Re-reading of the Field and Its Purpose. Environmental History 12:107-130.

**Stainforth, D.A., T.E. Downing, R. Washington, A. Lopez and M. New. 2007. Issues in the interpretation of climate model ensembles to inform decisions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (A) 365: 2145—2161.

Tengö, M., K. Johansson, F. Rakotondrasoa, J. Lundberg, J.-A. Andriamaherilala, J.-A. Rakotoarisoa and T. Elmqvist. 2007. Taboos and Forest Governance: informal protection of hot spot dry forest in southern Madagascar. Ambio 36: 683-691.

Tittensor, D.P., F. Micheli, M. Nyström and B. Worm. 2007. Human Impacts on the Species-Area Relationship in Reef Fish Assemblages. Ecology Letters 10:760-772.
Worm, B., E.B. Barbier,N. Beaumont , J.E. Duffy, C. Folke, B.S. Halpern. J.B.C.

Jackson, H.K. Lotze, F. Micheli, S.R. Palumbi, E. Sala, K.A. Selkoe, J.J. Stachowicz and R. Watson. 2007. Biodiversity Loss in the Ocean: How Bad Is It? Response. Science 316:1282-1284.

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Falkenmark M., C.M. Finlayson. L.J. Gordon, E.M. Bennett, T. Matiza Chiuta, D. Coates, N. Gosh, M. Gopalakrishnan, R.S. de Groot, G. Jacks, E. Kendy, L. Oyebande, M. Moore, G.D. Peterson and J.M. Portugez. 2007. Agriculture, Water and Ecosystems: Avoiding the Costs of Going too Far. In. Molden D. (editor) Water for Food, Water for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. pp. 233-277. Earthscan, London

Folke, C., J. Colding, P. Olsson and T. Hahn. 2007. Integrated Social-Ecological Systems and Adaptive Governance of Ecosystem Services. In: Pretty, J., A. Ball, T. Benton, J. Guivant, D. Lee, D. Orr, M. Pfeffer and H. Ward (editors). Sage Handbook on Environment and Society, Chapter 37: 536-552. Sage Publications, London.

McCook L.J., P. Marshall, C. Folke, T. Hughes, M. Nyström, D. Obura and R. Salm. 2007. Ecological Resilience, Climate change and the Great Barrier Reef . In: Vulnerability of the Great Barrier Reef to Climate Change. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) and the Australian Greenhouse Office.

Olsson, P. 2007. The Role of Vision in Framing Adaptive Co-Management Processes: Lessons from Kristianstads Vattenrike ,SouthernSweden. In: Armitage, D., F. Berkes and N. Doubleday (editors). Adaptive Co-Management: Collaboration, Learning, and Multi-level Governance. Chapter 14: 268-285. UBC Press, Vancouver.

Rockström, J., N. Hatibu, T. Oweis, S. Wani, J. Barron, A. Bruggeman, Z. Qiang, J. Farahani and L. Karlberg. 2007. Managing Water in Rainfed Agriculture. In. Molden D. (editor) Water for Food, Water for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. Chapter 9: 315-348. Earthscan, London.

Sörlin, S. 2007. The ‘Field´ Landscape: Travel and Practice in Science. In:  Franzen, B. and S. Krebs (editors). Microlandschaften/Microlandscapes: Landscape Culture on the Move. Münster: Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte & Köln: Buchhandlung Walter König. pp. 172-181.

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Deutsch, L. and J. Björklund. 2007. How Swedish is a Swedish Cow? How Swedish consumption and production of food is dependent on and affects ecosystems in Sweden and abroad. Kungliga Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien (KSLA) and SIDA.

Ekman, B., C. Folke, C. Mossfeldt and J. Rockström. 2007. Vår Tids Största Utmaning. Svenska Dagbladet Brännpunkt. 2007-06-28

Falkenmark, M. and V. Galaz. 2007. Agriculture, Water and Ecosystems. Swedish Water House Policy Brief Nr. 6. SIWI, 2007

Folke, C. 2007. Vår Miljö: En Ödes- och Utvecklingsfråga. Nyhetsbrev Nr. 9 från Mistra, oktober 2007. p. 2.

Galaz, V. 2007. Klimat och politik, Essä Dagens Nyheter Kultur, 2007-03-14.
Galaz, V. 2007. Varning för klimatkrisens överraskningar, Essä Svenska Dagbladet Kultur, 2007-10-25

Galaz, V. 2007. Jordens akilleshälar synas i komplexa system, Miljöforskning, nr 4, 2007.

Galaz, V., A-S Crepin, J. Norberg and P. Olsson. 2007. Klimat och resiliens - underlagsrapport till den svenska Klimat- och sårbarhetsutredningen. [Climate Change and Resilience - expert report for the Swedish Government Inquiry on Climate and Vulnerability]. October 1st 2007.

Galaz, V., L. Gordon, F. Miller and G. Han. 2007. Water and Agricultural Systems under Stress: Avoiding Regime Shifts by Building Resilience in Policy and Institutions. Policy Report III, The Swedish Water House/Stockholm International Water Institute.

Larsen, R.K., F. Miller and F. Thomalla. 2007. Vulnerability in the Context of Post 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Recovery: Lessons for Building More Resilient Coastal Communities. A Synthesis of Documented Factors Contributing to Tsunami Related Vulnerabilities in Sri Lanka and Indonesia. SEI Risk, Livelihoods & Vulnerability Report, Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, December 2007, 44 pp.

Larsson, M., and T. Hahn. 2007. Tillväxt, välfärd och miljö. In Tvärdrag nr. 1 2007

Larsson, M., A. Löf and T. Hahn. 2007. Local Organic Food System in Järna — Ecosystem Management and Multilevel Governance in Agricultural Production GEM-CON-BIO Case Study Report.

Larsson, M. 2007. Trust, Social Capital and Community Development - A Caste study of Environmental Entrepreneurs. Conference proceedings of International Sustainable Development Research Conference, Västerås, June 2007.

Lindgren, E. 2007. Klimat och Sårbarhetsutredningen. Komplett citering?

Lundqvist, J., J. Barron, G. Berndes, A. Berntell, M. Falkenmark, L. Karlberg, and J. Rockström. 2007. Water pressure and increases in food and bioenergy demand - implications of economic growth and options for de-coupling (ch.3). ‘Scenarios on economic growth and resource demand´ Background report to the Swedish Environmental Advisory Council memorandum 2007:1

Morin, L. 2007. Organic land in countries surrounding the Baltic Sea. GEM-CON-BIO Case Study Report.

Neori, A. and M. Troell. 2007. Ecologically Balanced Aquaculture for the Rehabilitation of Asian Fisheries. World Aquaculture Magazine, 38(4), December 2007.

Olsson, P. 2007. Förvaltning av lokala fiskbestånd. In H Tunón, M Iwarsson, S Manktelow (eds) Människan och Faunan: etnobiologi i Sverige 3, pp. 380-381. Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm.

Olsson, P. 2007. Vattenriket i Världen. In M. Starendal (ed) Mat, råvaror, och energi: en kunskapsresa i Linnés anda, pp 91-97. Formas, Stockholm.

Olsson, P. 2007. The rich wetlands of Kristianstad. In M. Starendal (ed) Food, raw materials, and energy: a knowledge journey in the spirit of Linnaeus, pp 91-97. Formas, Stockholm.

Rönnbäck, P., N. Kautsky and M. Troell. 2007. Kustens Naturkapital: Gratis men Livsnödvändigt Arbete. Mat, Råvaror och Energi: En Kunskapsresa i Linnés Anda. The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas). 157 p.

Rönnbäck, P., N. Kautsky and M. Troell. 2007. Ecosystem Services: Free of Cost but Priceless in Worth. Food, Raw Materials and Energy: A Knowledge Journey in the Spirit of Linnaeus. pp 71-81. The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas).

Sörlin, S. 2007. Essay review: Sharon E. Kingsland. The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000. Baltimore ,MD: Johns Hopkins University Press: 2005, and other works on the modern history of ecology. Lychnos 2007, pp. 275-281.

Sörlin, S. and G. Bandolin. 2007. Laddade landskap - värdering och gestaltning av teknologiskt sublima platser. Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB, SKB Rapport R-07-14 (mars 2007) 61 pp.

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Badrango Demeke, Fasil. Valuing local perspectives for social-ecological resilience: The case of small-scale fishery in the coastal area of Zanzibar.

Bellucci Feijen, Anna.  Resilience in food production systems. Two case studies on agricultural production in the administrative drainage basins Júcar and Segura (Spain).

Berggren, Alexandra.  Ecological fish farming in Sweden — possibilities and barriers.
Bird, Clara.  The Art of Resilience: How currents developments in the Art world can better inform and improve Natural Resource Management.

Carthew, Ruaraidh.  Beyond bureaucracy: Collaborative relationships in the transition to co-anagement: A case study in the Sahtu Region ,Northwest Territories ,Canada.

Gillin, Kristina.  The 2006 regime shift in climate change awareness — How media coverage of climate change in Swedish newspapers has influenced public awareness, interest and concern.

Heissenberger, Katarina.  Adaptive management for forestry: A case study on Swedish forestry and challenges of climate change.

Johannson, Nils.  Ecosystem management under stressful relationship in the Gaza strip: The raise and fall of ecosystem management in a wetland landscape of central Gaza.

Johnson, Robert.  The Ecosystem Approach to aquaculture: An analysis of adaptive governance and management of small-scale coastal shrimp aquaculture in Thailand

Käll, Katarina.  Combining knowledge for biodiversity. A study on information exchange based on local ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge.

Morin, Louise. Window of opportunity for the promotion of organic farming: How canEstonia ,Lithuania ,Latviaand Poland benefit from their EU membership.

Paglia, Joshua.  Motorizing urbanization: Past and future impacts of the automobile on urban growth in Beijing.

Pearlman, Anouschka.  Functional diversity in avian assemblages in small and large banana plantations in Costa Rica.

Samuelson, Charlotte. The Power of EU Structural Funds to support Sustainable Development, Climate change impact on the Central Baltic Sea as a case study.

Tjörnbo, Ola. Adaptive governance and central government: The problems encountered by national governments in trying to take an adaptive approach to management and governance.

Tsangarides, Christian. The resilience of the North Sea: How it has changed and the impact of management upon it.

Zeff, Steven. Dynamics of vision-building in a community undergoing change. Assessing the potential effects of the planned relocation of downtown Kiruna,Sweden on the image, sustainability and social-ecological resilience of the community.

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Boyd, E. Navigating Amazonia under Uncertainty: Learning from Past and Present Forms of Environmental Governance.  Phil. Trans. Royal Society, in press.

Chopin T., S.M.C. Robinson, M. Troell, A. Neori, A. Buschmann and J.G. Fang. Ecological Engineering: Multi-Trophic Integration for Sustainable Marine Aquaculture. In: Jorgensen, S.E. (editor.), Encyclopedia of Ecology. Elsevier, Oxford, in press.

de la Torre-Castro, M., J. Eklöf, P. Rönnbäck and M. Björk. Seagrass Importance in Food Provisioning Services: Fish Stomach Content as a Link between Seagrass Meadows and Local Fisheries. WIOMSA journal, in press.

Duit, A. and V. Galaz. Governance and Complexity: Emerging Issues for Governance Theory. Governance, in press.

Elmqvist, T. and M. Tengö. Spontaneous Regeneration of Tropical Dry Forest in Madagascar In: Nagendra H. and Southworth J. (editors). Forest Regeneration: Patterns and Processes. Springer Verlag, Amsterdam, in press.

Elmqvist, T., C. Alfsen and J. Colding. Urban Systems. In: Jorgensen, S.E. (editor), Encyclopedia of Ecology. Elsevier, in press.

Galaz, V., T. Hahn, P. Olsson, C. Folke and U. Svedin. The Problem of Fit Between Governance Systems and Environmental Regimes. In: Young, O., L.A. King and H. Schroeder (editors). Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings; Applications and Research Frontiers, MIT Press, Boston, in press.

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

Gordon, L.J., G.D. Peterson and E. Bennett.  Agricultural Modifications of Hydrological Flows Create EcologicalSsurprises. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, in press.

Lonsdale, K.G., T.E. Downing, R.J. Nicholls, D. Parker, A.T. Vafeidis, R. Dawson, and J. Hall. Plausible Responses to the Threat of Rapid Sea-level Rise in the Thames Estuary. Climatic Change (in press).

Lundholm C. and M. Rickinson. Exploring Students´ Learning Challenges in Environmental Education. Cambridge Journal of Education, in press.

Lundholm, C. Pricing Nature at What Price? A study on Undergraduate Students´ Conceptions of Economics. South African Journal of Environmental Education, in press.

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

Robertson-Andersson, D.V., M. Potgieter, J. Hansen, J. Bolton, M. Troell, R.J. Anderson, C. Halling and T. Probyn. Integrated Seaweed Cultivation on an Abalone Farm in South Africa. Journal of Applied Phycology, in press.

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

Troell, M. Integrated Marine and Brackish Water Aquaculture in Tropical Regions: Research, Implementation and Prospects.  FAO Technical Report. 76 p.

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