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General news | 2025-04-16

A new global community for sustainability science launched

Introducing the Society for Social-Ecological Systems: Uniting researchers for a just and sustainable future.

General news | 2025-04-04

Investing in nature for human prosperity

Investments play a crucial role in how deforestation and the destruction of nature can be reversed. "By far the biggest challenge is that humans continue to invest far more in sectors and activities that destroy nature, than in activities that can revert that destruction," says Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, the pioneer behind Costa Rica’s remarkable sustainability transition.

General news | 2025-03-25

"Success comes from collaboration and pushing each other to be better and do better"

The message from the world leading sustainability researcher and co-founder of Stockholm Resilience Centre, is clear: there is but one planet that provides the foundations for life in the known universe, we humans need to take better care of it.

Research news | 2023-05-12

The cognition of the commons

The ability to monitor, evaluate and share our own cognitive processes can improve group decisions and enable more sustainable use of common-pool resources

Research news | 2022-08-19

To understand complex fisheries, researchers must think outside their boxes

Traditional approaches are insufficient, social-ecological systems thinking can better capture complex interactions between people and ecosystems

Research news | 2021-12-13

In a warming world the ocean will struggle as a carbon sink

Biological feedbacks mean the ocean will struggle to remove as much carbon from the atmosphere as expected

Research news | 2021-07-03

Groundbreaking book on methods to study social-ecological systems

Open-access book covers 28 broad groups of methods, featuring contributions from almost a hundred authors in 16 countries

Research news | 2021-03-26

Human relationships are still missing from fisheries management models

Bioeconomic models guiding small-scale fisheries development programmes exclude important interactions between fishers, traders and consumers. This may increase existing inequalities

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 | 2020-03-17

How agent-based modelling can improve management of small-scale fisheries

Computational approach can reveal intricate interactions among stakeholders and help prevent unintended policy outcomes

Research news | 2020-03-10

Why constant change is more important than stability

We talk and think in terms of things and entities that are stable and unchanging. This is understandable, but misguided, researchers argue

Research news | 2020-02-03

How to apply a social-ecological systems framework in information scarce places

Limited data and statistics on food availability in Ghana and Burkina Faso still produced insights that could boost sustainable resource management

Research news | 2020-01-29

Time is of essence when restoring ecosystems

How social interventions become opportunities for accelerated policy implementation

Research news | 2019-12-19

More complex than the sum of its parts

New framework for analysing emergent properties and dynamics in social-ecological systems tested on seven case studies

Research news | 2019-10-12

Many purposes, many models

How models and modeling can help address the complexities of social-ecological systems research and governance

Research news | 2019-02-19

Dire traits

Better understanding of how organism traits in species communities change over time can prevent ecological collapse and improve ecological restoration

Research news | 2019-01-24

Model behaviour

Mathematical models are essential in the quest to better understand the human impact on the world’s ecosystems. Lake Victoria may hold the cues

Research news | 2017-05-03

Modelling in Mexico

How modellers and field experts joined forces to develop agent-based models that account for complex human interactions

Research news | 2016-11-04

Confidence is king, knowledge is queen

Why cooperation alone is not enough to secure sustainable use of a resource

Research news | 2016-10-28

Modelling the workings of social-ecological systems

Centre researcher Maja Schlüter looks at how human-nature interactions shape success or failure in resource management