Research in short | 2024-11-28

Reaping what we sow: Centering values in food systems transformations research

Researchers striving for sustainability transformations must reflect on their own values—not just those of stakeholders. To create meaningful change, scientist need to embody the principles they advocate. By aligning with values like care, inclusivity, and reflexivity, researchers can strengthen collaboration, deepen impact, and better contribute to systemic change.

Research in short | 2024-03-19

From implicit to explicit: Enhancing our causal understanding of social-ecological systems

Social-ecological systems are complex and the different ways in which scientists causally reason about them are extraordinarily diverse.

Research news | 2023-10-03

Combining modeling and empirical research can give better sustainability insights

Mixing empirical methods and modeling can provide better insights into cause-effect relationships in sustainability, and improve governance

Research news | 2022-08-12

What it takes to make different approaches work together

Researchers invite readers “behind the scenes” to share their experiences combining agent-based modelling and controlled behavioural experiments

Video news | 2021-03-09

How to best prepare for your PhD defence?

Newly graduated PhD students from Stockholm Resilience Centre reflect

Video news | 2021-03-09

What to think about before you do a PhD

Newly graduated PhD students from Stockholm Resilience Centre reflect

Video news | 2021-03-09

The most surprising thing about doing a PhD

Newly graduated PhD students from Stockholm Resilience Centre reflect

Video news | 2021-03-09

The best thing about doing a PhD

Newly graduated PhD students from Stockholm Resilience Centre reflect

Video news | 2021-03-09

The worst thing about doing a PhD

Newly graduated PhD students from Stockholm Resilience Centre reflect

Research news | 2021-03-08

Gender equality for the post-covid world?

To celebrate International Women's Day, we asked our researchers what it's like to be woman in science, and to reflect on how we can all be allies on the road to equality

Research news | 2020-11-18

Why getting the big picture roughly right is more important than focusing on details

Four ways to understand the complexity of global environmental change sufficiently well to take policy action

Research news | 2020-09-24

Creating pathways to futures where people and nature support one another

Humanity relies on nature in a wide variety of ways. Opening up a diversity of perspectives is critical to identify pathways towards desirable futures

Research news | 2020-09-20

How to use AI with image data and satellite data

On 2 October 2020, a free online course on how to apply AI-methods (“deep learning”) to analyze satellite images related to land use change and deforestation

Research news | 2020-05-26

Everything flows in social ecological systems. Research needs to adapt

Focusing on processes and relations rather than entities can help solve key challenges in sustainability research

Research news | 2020-04-01

How craftsmanship connects people, nature and knowledge

What we can learn from a Samí crafts artist and a fisher from Stockholm about connections between local ecological knowledge, work, technology and sustainability

Research news | 2020-03-02

Current sustainability concepts too focused on resource limits rather than waste accumulation

Researchers dissect body of literature on existing frameworks such as Planetary Boundaries, and shed light on its shortcomings

Research news | 2019-12-30

Case studies, models and complexity

Time to go from simply describing social-ecological systems to explaining how their complex interactions generate observed outcomes

Research news | 2019-11-29

On the other end of research

Sharing knowledge between local communities and researchers strengthens ties between science and society. And encourages well-being and sustainability

Research news | 2019-11-13

New network on nature-based solutions for cities

Centre joins “Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene” network

Research news | 2019-11-06

What they talk about when they talk about SES

As the social ecological system framework celebrates 20 years, researchers analyse its use in scientific publications. Despite increased popularity, a unifying definition is still missing