RESEARCH THEMES
RESEARCH Streams
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INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSES
Stockholm Resilience Centre offers interdisciplinary courses on first (Undergraduate), second (Master's) and third (PhD) levels of University education. Want to know more about our courses? Click here!
POLICY and Practice
Our engagement in science-policy-practice activities has increased steadily over the years and range from high-level UN dialogues to local resilience assessments. Want to know more about our policy work? Click here!
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Global food systems and multifunctional land & seascapes
We address questions related how we build resilience in global food systems and how to bring about large scale transformation of these systems
One of the greatest challenges of our time is how to produce healthy food for a growing world population without increasing the pressure on the planet’s ecosystems or eroding other functions. This is much about how we adjust our resource use to existing planetary boundaries and reverse ongoing trends of homogenization and instead strive for multifunctionality.
Within this multi-disciplinary theme, we address questions related how we build resilience in global food systems and how to bring about large scale transformation of these interconnected systems. We also look more broadly at how resource consumption and recognition of multiple values could become a driver of positive change in support systems and what market-based mechanisms and other policy tools exist for changing human preferences and behaviour. “
Other aspects we look at include:
- how to navigate trade-offs in and across multifunctional landscapes/seascapes to accomplish good stewardship
- how to manage resources in a time with increasing scales, speed and connectivity;
- how agriculture biodiversity relates to poverty
- relationship between human health, environmental health and food systems
- power structures and relations within the food system and its relationship to multi functionality and stewardship
Landscapes News
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The ability to deal with drought is crucial for the survival of rainforests
Research news | 2020-10-27
Study identifies thresholds for when rainforests in South America and Africa transition into savannas
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Why panarchy can improve ecosystem management
Research news | 2020-10-09
A successful implementation of “panarchy” thinking in the US may boost reforms of environmental laws and policies
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In Indonesia, forest management collaboration remains frustratingly unbalanced
Research news | 2020-09-16
Community-based forest management has expanded rapidly, but attention to long-term sustainability is still elusive
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Worried about food security? Keep landscapes multifunctional
Research news | 2020-09-08
Why diversity is the key to resilient and sustainable farming
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East Africa and Southeast Asia are hotspots for water harvesting
Research news | 2020-09-07
Untapped potential means water harvesting can increase crop production up to 60–100 per cent in Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania and India
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How extreme heat events threaten global food security
Research news | 2020-08-10
And why they can occur simultaneously in distant world regions
THEME PUBLICATIONS
Projects
Ecosystem services, livelihoods and resilience in Sahel
Here we sum up our insights on from our work on adaptation, innovation and the regreening of the Sahel region. Read more
SES-Link
Social-ecological systems (SES), are characterized by multi-scale interactions among actors and ecosystems. SES-Link investigates these linkages and how they affect resilience and governance. Read more here
Stockholm Resilience Centre is a collaboration between Stockholm University and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Stockholm University, Kräftriket 2B
SE-10691
Phone: +46 8 674 70 70
info@stockholmresilience.su.se
Organisation number: 202100-3062
VAT No: SE202100306201
