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Research news | 2022-11-10

Fair global redistribution of resources is key for planetary stability

Redistributing resources and transforming society are necessary to ensure universal access to basic needs while staying within Earth’s limits

Research news | 2022-10-14

In Colombia, a new war rages on people and nature

Six years after the Colombian peace agreement, crucial ecosystems and local communities are still caught in the crossfire

Research news | 2022-10-13

Scientific narratives risk reinforcing colonial structures in tropical forests

Rural forest communities are made the scapegoat for environmental destruction in tropical forests

Research news | 2022-09-28

To curb biodiversity loss, development cooperation needs a rethink

Working paper highlights the need for development cooperation to adopt complexity-aware theories of change

Research news | 2022-08-19

Six ways resilience science can help shift sustainable development practice

Currently a substantial gap between what resilience science suggests the focus and approach should be and what is implemented in practice

Research news | 2021-09-29

Ready for anything

Centre theme leader Cibele Queiroz explains why diversity is important in turbulent times

Research news | 2021-03-02

Dealing with the contradictions of sustainability

Centre researcher and theme leader Jamila Haider explains why popular terms like sustainable development and resilience can also be problematic

Research news | 2020-12-15

The 2020 Human Development report

Centre researchers contribute extensively to report which unpacks the relationships between people and the planet

Research news | 2020-01-20

How to produce knowledge together

Study identifies four criteria necessary for successful knowledge co-production for sustainability research

Research news | 2019-11-10

Fishing for long-term development

Foreign aid for fisheries is too often short-sighted and used as a geopolitical tool not aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals

Research news | 2018-12-09

Capital punishment

Amid transitions from swidden agriculture to market-driven oil palm plantations, women remain disadvantaged when it comes to access to land, labour and social capital

Research news | 2018-11-03

Four research insights for sustainable development in the 21st century

How social-ecological systems research can transform sustainable development to match the challenges of the Anthropocene

Research news | 2018-10-30

Connecting the dots between social inequalities and environmental change

Six ways inequality affects our environment and vice versa

Research news | 2018-01-29

Broadening the definition of a povery trap

Review study of poverty traps examines the concept’s use across disciplines, and how it is defined and applied in a rural context

Research news | 2017-05-03

Breaking the cycle of poverty

Development aid must incorporate culture and nature better in efforts to push communities out of poverty, researchers argue

Research news | 2016-12-01

An encyclopedia of resilience

Science director Carl Folke summarises more than 40 years of resilience research and why it is more relevant than ever

Here you will find a complete overview of the latest news from the Stockholm Resilience Centre