Publications

Milkoreit, M., T. Lindahl, M.-L. Moore, M. Nyström, P. Olsson, C. Schill. 2025. Human Cognition and the Anthropocene, Stockholm Resilience Center (Stockholm University), Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Report prepared for the Anthropocene Paradigm Shift Symposium, December 1, 2025, Stockholm, Sweden

Understanding the multiple reciprocal relationships between human cognition and the Anthropocene is emerging as a critical research frontier across the sciences and humanities. This report maps the rapidly expanding but conceptually disconnected landscape of research on how Anthropocene conditions shape the brain and mind—and how human cognition and social processes, in turn, drive and sustain global change. We sketch existing...

Per Olsson, Michele-Lee Moore. 2024. A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101392

Moving from a state of war or violent conflict will require a transformation, but there are no guarantees that transformations automatically lead to peace, sustainability, and justice. This review focuses on the temporary phase when a system is in limbo between the existing, dominant state and a new alternative state. We combine insights from a resilience approach to transformations with peacebuilding and transformative justic...

Hedlund, J., Nohrstedt, D., Morrison, T., Moore, M.-L., Bodin, Ö.. 2022. Challenges for environmental governance: policy issue interdependencies might not lead to collaboration. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01145-8

Policy actors address complex environmental problems by engaging in multiple and often interdependent policy issues. Policy issue interdependencies imply that efforts by actors to address separate policy issues can either reinforce (‘win–win’) or counteract (‘trade-off’) each other. Thus, if interdependent issues are managed in isolation instead of being coordinated, the most effective and well-balanced solution to the underly...

Olsson, P., C. Folke, and M.-L. Moore. 2022. Capacities for navigating large-scale sustaina­bility transformations: Exploring the revolt and remembrance mechanisms for shaping collapse and renewal in social-ecological systems. In: Gunderson, L., C.R Allen and A. Garmestani (eds.) . Applied Panarchy: Applications and Diffu­sion across Disciplines. Island Press, Washington DC, USA. Pp. 155-180

Lam, D., Jiménez-Aceituno, A., Guerrero Lara, L., Sellberg, M., Norström, A., Moore, M., Peterson, G., Olsson, P. 2022. Amplifying actions for food system transformation: insights from the Stockholm region. Sustainability Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01154-7

Food is essential to people and is one of the main ways in which people are connected to the world’s ecosystems. However, food systems often cause ecosystem degradation and produce ill-health, which has generated increasing calls to transform food systems to be more sustainable. The Swedish food system is currently undergoing substantial change. A varied set of local actors have created alternative sustainability initiatives t...

Reyers, B., Moore, M., Haider, L., Schlüter, M. 2022. The contributions of resilience to reshaping sustainable development. Nature Sustainability. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00889-6

We review the past decade’s widespread application of resilience science in sustainable development practice and examine whether and how resilience is reshaping this practice to better engage in complex contexts. We analyse six shifts in practice: from capitals to capacities, from objects to relations, from outcomes to processes, from closed to open systems, from generic interventions to context sensitivity, and from linear to...

Katharine McGowan, Frances Westley, Michele-Lee Moore, Erin Alexiuk, Nino Antadze, Sean Geobey, Ola Tjornbo. 2021. A Research Agenda for Social Innovation. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909357.00011

This piece considers the importance of, and difficulties associated with, studying and fostering transformative social innovation. Using The Evolution of Social Innovation (2017) as an organizing moment of multiple social innovation research agendas, we explore some of the current critical questions related to transformational social innovation, including: the prophetic starting conditions of any innovation; the multi-agent ef...

Scott Drimie, Colleen Magner, Laura Pereira, Lakshmi Charli-Joseph, Michele-Lee Moore, Per Olsson, Jesús Mario Siqueiros-Garcia, Olive Zgambo. 2021. The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems. Facilitated dialogues. Book Chapter.

Chapter 9 deals with facilitated dialogue methods, including a suite of facilitated processes that seek to generate social-ecological innovations aimed at challenging and changing existing roles and routines, power dynamics, relations among groups and networks, resource flows, as well as meaning and values (and culture) across different contexts and scales. The chapter discusses appreciative enquiry, change labs, social innova...

Ahlström, H., Hileman, J., Wang-Erlandsson, L., García, M., Moore, M., Jonas, K., Pranindita, A., Kuiper, J., Fetzer, I., Jaramillo, F., Svedin, U.. 2021. An Earth system law perspective on governing social-hydrological systems in the Anthropocene. Earth System Governance. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2021.100120

The global hydrological cycle is characterized by complex interdependencies and self-regulating feedbacks that keep water in an ever-evolving state of flux at local, regional, and global levels. Increasingly, the scale of human impacts in the Anthropocene is altering the dynamics of this cycle, which presents additional challenges for water governance. “Earth system law” provides an important approach for addressing gaps in go...

Baird J., Quinlan A., Plummer R., Moore ML., Krievins K. 2021. Capacities for Watershed Resilience: Persistence, Adaptation, and Transformation. In: Baird J., Plummer R. (eds) Water Resilience. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48110-0_7

Water management and governance at the watershed scale is complex, with attention needed to the realities of fit with institutional arrangements and consideration of the dynamic and uncertain nature of social-ecological systems. The concept of social-ecological resilience and its application to water resources – ‘water resilience’ hereafter – offers a framework by which to approach these critical considerations. Water resilien...