Research story | 2025-12-09
A unique study shows that sub-Saharan Africa has lost nearly a quarter of its biodiversity since pre-industrial times, and that large mammal populations have decreased by more than 75%. Crucially, 80% of the remaining wild plants and animals live outside formally protected lands, which, according to the study, means we fundamentally have to shift where and how we think about biodiversity conservation in Africa.
General news | 2024-11-14
21 of Stockholm Resilience Centre’s researchers are listed among 2% most cited scientists in their field in 2024, according to the new Elsevier Data Repository.
Research news | 2023-05-11
Adapting, transforming and creating new ways of functioning as a society: This is how reshaping a resilient future in the aftermath of a shock should look like, argue researchers
Research news | 2021-11-17
Carl Folke, Johan Rockström, Reinette “Oonsie” Biggs, Thomas Elmqvist and Per Olsson on exclusive list of world’s most influential researchers
Research news | 2021-08-26
Locally, bottom-up-inspired futures are missing from global environmental assessments. A new method tested on the UN’s Global Environment Outlook 6 hopes to change this
Research news | 2021-07-03
Open-access book covers 28 broad groups of methods, featuring contributions from almost a hundred authors in 16 countries
Research news | 2021-02-19
Three ways science and policy can incorporate more of the diversity and complexity of the world when thinking about the future
Research news | 2020-12-08
The session provided scientific input to the Nobel Prize Summit “Our Planet, Our Future” to be held in Spring 2021
Research news | 2020-11-19
Stephan Barthel, Oonsie Biggs, Örjan Bodin, Thomas Elmqvist, Carl Folke, Per Olsson, Garry Peterson and Johan Rockström on exclusive list of world’s most influential researchers
Research news | 2020-11-18
Four ways to understand the complexity of global environmental change sufficiently well to take policy action
Research news | 2020-03-26
Three major innovations helped shape the global food system in the past. How can we learn from them to develop a more sustainable system for the future?
Research news | 2020-03-18
Researchers, practitioners and artists present previously unimagined ways of thinking about sustainability futures in the region
Research news | 2019-11-20
Carl Folke, Johan Rockström, Reinette “Oonsie” Biggs, Stephan Barthel and Per Olsson on exclusive list of world’s most influential researchers
Research news | 2019-05-09
In this Q & A, centre researcher and IPBES fellow Jan Kuiper explains the essentials of the Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Research news | 2019-05-09
The centre’s contribution to intergovernmental platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Research news | 2019-04-17
Recognised for their outstanding contributions to ecology
Research news | 2019-04-11
The UN Agenda 2030 is a step forward, but is still too fragmented, simplistic and linear in its design and monitoring
Research news | 2018-11-03
How social-ecological systems research can transform sustainable development to match the challenges of the Anthropocene
Research news | 2018-09-02
Increase in woody plants are increasingly affecting the African savannahs, reducing grazing for cattle and affecting mobility
Research news | 2018-01-29
New paper frames the responsibility of being a human in the Anthropocene
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