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General news | 2023-11-15

Researchers from the Centre listed among the world’s most cited

Four researchers associated with Stockholm Resilience Centre made it onto the 2023 Clarivate Analytics overview, a ranking of the most cited scientists in the world

General news | 2023-04-12

Centre researchers awarded for groundbreaking paper on urban sustainability

Centre researchers Thomas Elmqvist, Erik Andersson, Timon McPhearson, Per Olsson, Owen Gaffney and Carl Folke are selected as recipients of the Ecological Society of America’s Sustainability Science Award 2023

Research news | 2023-01-30

The best way to deal with shocks is by combining diverse responses

Humankind’s best chance to deal with looming turbulences and crises is by diversifying response strategies

Research news | 2022-12-20

Biodiversity offsets create dangerous incentives

Biodiversity offset schemes may shift the focus from the actual drivers of biodiversity loss and require more, not less, regulations, argue researchers

General news | 2022-11-15

Centre researchers listed among the world's most influential scientists

Carl Folke, Johan Rockström, Thomas Elmqvist, Per Olsson, Max Troell and Jonathan Donges ranked as some of the globally most cited researchers

Research news | 2022-03-17

Making cities greener, sustainable and inclusive

We may live in an urban century, but nature in cities is more important than ever. New study presents ways to make sure nature is better integrated in urban environments

Research news | 2021-11-17

Centre researchers among world's most cited again

Carl Folke, Johan Rockström, Reinette “Oonsie” Biggs, Thomas Elmqvist and Per Olsson on exclusive list of world’s most influential researchers

Research news | 2021-09-29

Ageing, shrinking cities not all bad for the SDGs

The number of people above 65 is increasing. That need not be a problem for urban sustainability

Research news | 2021-09-21

Three things needed for successful climate adaptation in cities

Freiburg, Durban and Singapore show why combining social, nature-based and technological solutions to urban climate challenges can work

Research news | 2021-02-24

Without the ‘hinterlands’ cities will struggle

A closer alignment between cities and their surroundings will be key for positive development and governance

Research news | 2020-11-19

Eight centre researchers among world's most cited in 2020

Stephan Barthel, Oonsie Biggs, Örjan Bodin, Thomas Elmqvist, Carl Folke, Per Olsson, Garry Peterson and Johan Rockström on exclusive list of world’s most influential researchers

Research news | 2019-12-09

The invisible loss

Why urban growth causes more biodiversity loss outside of cities and why that is far more important in magnitude

Research news | 2019-11-21

Privileged people, privileged plants

A study of Cape Town’s plant life shows how post-apartheid poverty and inequality is mirrored in and exacerbated by ecological patterns

Research news | 2019-09-04

New Nature journal on urban sustainability

Centre researcher Thomas Elmqvist appointed editor-in-chief for a new journal on urban sustainability by Nature and RMIT University, Australia

Research news | 2019-06-10

Full of beans

There’s a whole social-ecological crisis behind your morning cup of joe. A new study examines how geographical, time, and legal and institutional scale (mis)matches interplay with the coffee leaf rust outbreak that is affecting small-scale Arabica coffee producers

Research news | 2019-04-17

Centre researchers recipients of the 2019 Ecological Society of America awards

Recognised for their outstanding contributions to ecology

Research news | 2019-04-09

If a city is resilient, is it also sustainable?

Researchers present a new framework to resolve this question

Research news | 2018-11-25

Healthy cities, healthy people

Not enough city dwellers are exposed to nature in cities. That could have serious impacts on their health

Research news | 2018-11-16

Cities risk swallowing extensive wildlife habitat by 2030

New report projects area of habitat larger than New Zealand could be lost to urbanization over next 20 years

Research news | 2018-10-04

Tinker, tailor, urban future

Future sustainability of cities requires policies and interventions based on a complexity approach inspired by evolutionary theory

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