General news | 2025-11-12
Five researchers from the Stockholm Resilience Centre are featured on the 2025 Clarivate list of the world’s most highly cited scientists.
Research story | 2025-10-27
Chinese cities, farms, and conservation zones all compete for limited land, while rising temperatures, land degradation, and erosion threaten local livelihoods. A new study in Huangshui River Basin, by an international team of researchers, shows how decision-makers on local and national level can collaborate better and create more resilient societies.
Research story | 2025-09-25
Rising seas due to climate change threaten China’s rapidly developing coasts. However, coastal policy decisions will shape who and what is exposed to those rising seas and how much the land sinks, a new research paper published in Nature reveals. “Climate change is global, but coastal risk plays out locally”, the international team of Chinese and European researchers emphasize.
Research story | 2025-09-19
Finance actively shapes the Earth. By steering flows of money, providing insurance, and controlling costs of credit the financial system promotes activities and builds infrastructure than can either erode or enhance nature.
Research story | 2025-06-17
Over 40 researchers have come together to launch a vibrant new home for an expanding community of sustainability researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and students across the planet. The Society for Social-Ecological Systems, SocSES, is introduced in a new paper in the journal Ecology and Society .
General news | 2025-06-03
The third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) on June 9-13 in Nice marks a pivotal moment for the relationship between humanity and the ocean. Stockholm Resilience Centre are engaged at several levels and underlines the importance of bridging the gap between science and action.
General news | 2025-04-04
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.
Research story | 2025-02-21
With a focus on long-term thinking, indigenous societies envisions sustainable and thriving futures for generations to come. Creative methodologies such as storytelling are key in creating these future visions, writes Centre researcher Garry Peterson in The Conversation.
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 story | 2024-05-22
What are possible futures of the biosphere? This Biodiversity Day, we take a closer look at a database that provides unique perspectives into how communities around the world see and envision the future of our planet: Biosphere Futures.
Research news | 2024-01-16
Every day, people plan for the future, but having structured thoughts about what futures could look like is a skill we should all practice in the face of the Anthropocene, according to recent research
Research news | 2023-11-13
Humankind risks getting stuck in 14 evolutionary dead ends, ranging from global climate tipping points to misaligned artificial intelligence, chemical pollution, and accelerating infectious diseases
Research news | 2023-10-04
New study investigates how coral reef ecosystem services are linked and distributed in 18 countries around the world
Research news | 2023-05-22
Today is International Biodiversity Day! This year with the theme “From agreement to action: build back biodiversity”, and for us, that is a good reason to highlight the potential of the finance sector in reviving biodiversity
Research news | 2022-11-14
Researchers combined current data with historical images and inputs from previous studies to estimate how ecosystem services have changed over time in northern Burkina Faso
Research news | 2022-10-31
Resilience assessments should be more grounded in theory to be applicable in practice, according to a new study
Research news | 2022-08-24
Lessons from The Netherlands reveal big potential to find common ground for actions towards positive futures
Research news | 2022-05-09
Played by the right people, strategy games can break free from established norms and support more transparent democratic dialogues
Research news | 2022-03-31
SRC to lead SEK 50 million consortium helping finance sector curb biodiversity loss and protect nature
Research news | 2022-03-22
Five reasons why a ‘bundles’ approach can improve our understanding of nature’s services to humans
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