Research story | 2024-09-25

Walking together in a world of many worlds

Embracing “the uncommons” – the many different ways of knowing, being and doing – may contribute to transformations to sustainability, argues a new study.

Research in short | 2024-08-21

Designing for collective action

Wicked problems are best solved when different worldviews, ways of knowing and value systems are included. But how to design processes that enable new forms of collaboration?

Research story | 2024-07-05

Do hunting and fishing bring us closer to nature?

Sustainably harvesting wildlife can foster an increased sense of stewardship, a new article in Nature Sustainability argues.

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