Publications

Duit, A., V. Galaz, K Eckerberg, J Ebbesson (2010). "Governance, complexity, and resilience", Global Environmental Change, 20(3):363-368.

Publication review This special issue brings together prominent scholars to explore novel multilevel governance challenges posed by the behavior of dynamic and complex social-ecological systems. Here we expand and investigate the emerging notion of “resilience" as a perspective for understanding how societies can cope with, and develop from, disturbances and change. As the contributions to the special issue illustrate, res...

Galaz, V. (2010). På jakt efter den digitala demokratins mekanismer: Litteraturgranskning av Politik 2.0. Statsvetenskaplig tidskift, 3:434-438.

Galaz, V. (2010). Den planetära ingenjörskonsten. Framtider, 4: 4-5.

Galaz, V., Moberg, F., Olsson, E.-K., Paglia, E. and Parker, C. , Institutional and Political Leadership Dimensions of Cascading Ecological Crises. Public Administration, no. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2010.01883.x

Publication review While some of the future impacts of global environmental change such as some aspects of climate change can be projected and prepared for in advance, other effects are likely to surface as surprises — that is situations in which the behaviour in a system, or across systems, differs qualitatively from expectations. Here we analyse a set of institutional and political leadership challenges posed by ‘cascadi...

Olsson, P., Galaz, V. 2009. Transitions to adaptive water management and governance in Sweden. In Understanding Transitions in Water Management. D. Huitema, S. Meijerink (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Publication review Centre researchers Per Olsson and Victor Galaz have contributed to the new book “Water Policy Entrepreneurs: A Research Companion to Water Transitions around the Globe". The book is a theoretically and empirically grounded analysis of the management of water resources, one of the world´s most pressing current problems. One of the countries is Sweden which is featured in Olsson and Galaz´ chapter entitle...

Galaz, V. (2009). Lennart J. Lundqvist 2.0, In M. Anthonsen, S. Jagers (eds.). Rätt grönt - en vänbok till Lennart J. Lundqvist. Göteborg University, Göteborg.

Galaz, V. (2009). World of Warcraft and ecological crises In B. Johansson. (ed.). Climate challenge - the safety's off, Formas, Stockholm.

Galaz, V. (2009). Upptäck nästa pandemi på Twitter. Under Strecket, Svenska Dagbladet, Kultur, 2009-05-29.

Publication review Informationsteknologins och sociala mediers användbarhet för att varna för annalkande hälsokriser är en hett debatterad fråga i svallvågorna efter svininfluensapandemin. WHO och andra organisationer står inför flera informationsrelaterade utmaningar. Bidrog mikrobloggen Twitter till att skapa onödig panik kring hotet om en svininfluensapandemi? Eller är sociala medier tvärtom ett allt viktigare verktyg f...

Christoplos, I., Anderson , S, Arnold, M., Galaz V., Klein, R (2009). The Human Dimensions of Climate Adaptation. International Commission for Climate Change and Development. Stockholm, Sweden

Publication review This paper brings together elements that are often separated in the compartmentalized way we tend to treat complex phenomena. In particular, it identifies a set of important issues that are often given insufficient attention in current development and disaster risk reduction efforts but that will be critical for poor communities´ adaptation to climate change. Three issues deserve special mention: the in...

Galaz, V. (2009). Pandemic 2.0: Can information technology really help us save the Planet? Environment 51(6): 20-28.

Publication review The web can curb outbreaks of infectious diseases and change the way key actors interact. Centre researchers have previously shown how the Internet can be used as early warning system for potential ecological disasters . Similarly, information and communication technology have profound repercussions on how actors collaborate across sectors and national boundaries. Fundamentally improving disease detecti...