Research news | 2022-05-10

Centre joins SEK 45 million landscape programme

LAND-PATHS programme will engage with ordinary citizens to develop more sustainable and integrated decision-making processes

Research news | 2021-02-24

Life after Day Zero: how Cape Town can adapt to climate change while also addressing inequality

After the scare in 2018, ramped up efforts to waste less water came at a cost to the city’s most vulnerable. Researchers and community activists gave these marginalised communities a voice

Research news | 2020-05-05

Why we need a more inclusive approach to transformation research

Indigenous and local knowledge still not acknowledged despite offering a more diverse understanding of sustainability transformations

Research news | 2020-02-03

Development interventions fail to consider everyday practices and rituals

Why a narrow focus on poverty alleviation or conservation risk missing the mark

Research news | 2019-11-26

If it works here, perhaps it can work there

Food initiatives within the Stockholm-Mälaren region in Sweden offer insight into a transformation of the global food system

Research news | 2019-10-24

Complex changes, collaborative solutions

Combining knowledge from local communities and policymakers holds the key to better land management for rural communities under a rapidly changing climate. That is if talk is replaced by action

Research news | 2019-06-20

Making long distance relationships work

Local management of ecosystem services is often shaped by far-away power relations and decisions

Research news | 2019-05-22

Can’t see the forest for the laws

The European Union Timber Regulation fails to protect biodiversity and the human rights of local people

Research news | 2018-01-24

Developing a positive food future for the Stockholm-Mälaren region

Centre researchers lead project to create an alternative vision of a sustainable food system in the region

Research news | 2017-10-01

Out of place?

New paper explores links between conservation, development and sense of place on the Wild Coast of South Africa

Research news | 2017-03-30

Development for diversity

Jamila Haider’s research focuses on how to alleviate poverty without eroding biological and cultural diversity

Research news | 2017-02-27

Towards solving a key puzzle in the IPBES

New publication presents progress toward tools and approaches for working with diverse knowledge systems in ecosystem assessments

Research news | 2016-11-18

Turning disasters into success

Threat of abrupt resource decline can trigger more effective communication and cooperation

Research news | 2016-05-03

Peak changes

Indigenous mountain communities share biocultural adaptation experiences to climate change

Research news | 2015-12-17

Damned if they do, damned if they don’t

Adaptation to environmental change is not straightforward, struggling fishing communities in Vietnam show why

Research news | 2015-11-23

"With Our Own Hands" comes home

Book on food and life in the Pamir mountains of Afghanistan and Tajikistan handed out to local communities

Research news | 2015-05-25

I trust you, therefore we are

Establishment of bottom-up, no-take marine protected areas need trust, communication and support to succeed

Research news | 2015-05-19

Uncomfortable truths

Ecosystem management that ignores "taboo tradeoffs" is likely to fail

Research news | 2015-04-21

Recipes for resilience

Telling a story of resilience in practice: new book about food and life in the Pamir mountains of Afghanistan and Tajikistan

Research news | 2013-11-04

Insights from the Shire for the future Earth

Social memory of agricultural practices important for biodiversity and food security