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Research story | 2024-06-13

Redirecting investments can pave the way for a just and resilient Amazon

The Amazon Basin stands at a critical juncture: Pressing environmental challenges on one hand, with immense potential for transformative change on the other. A new report illuminates how to foster resilience across the region.

Research story | 2024-05-22

New database highlights scenarios for planet and people

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

Imagining pathways towards desirable futures

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

New research maps 14 potential evolutionary dead ends for humanity and ways to avoid them

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

Study maps and groups threatened coral reef ecosystem services

New study investigates how coral reef ecosystem services are linked and distributed in 18 countries around the world

Research news | 2023-05-22

Financial actors and academia join forces to build back biodiversity

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

In data scarce regions, fieldwork and historical images help researchers fill in the gaps

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

Making it easier to measure resilience in practice

Resilience assessments should be more grounded in theory to be applicable in practice, according to a new study

Research news | 2022-08-24

Applying the Nature Futures Framework to the real world

Lessons from The Netherlands reveal big potential to find common ground for actions towards positive futures

Research news | 2022-05-09

Three ways games can break sustainability deadlocks

Played by the right people, strategy games can break free from established norms and support more transparent democratic dialogues

Research news | 2022-03-31

New funding will boost efforts towards a greener economy

SRC to lead SEK 50 million consortium helping finance sector curb biodiversity loss and protect nature

Research news | 2022-03-22

Why ecosystem services should be considered in groups, not individually

Five reasons why a ‘bundles’ approach can improve our understanding of nature’s services to humans

Research news | 2022-02-26

Introducing the Rapid Transition Lab

Collaboration between the centre, Dark Matter Lab and Vinnova seeks to help Sweden transform its food systems

Research news | 2021-11-03

How to deal with complexity

Resilience guides, particularly those used in the development field, often lack a theoretical grounding in how to engage with shocks and disturbances. A new study addresses the problem

Research news | 2021-08-26

Why local realities are crucial to global environmental assessments

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 | 2021-06-23

Better scenario building can help curb global threat of invasive species

Invasive species remain largely ignored in current future analyses. Experts present first set ever of alternative futures for global biological invasions

Research news | 2021-06-02

Why land-use intensity can cause trade-offs among ecosystem services

Comparing across cases can improve ability to predict how land use alters ecosystem service relationships

Research news | 2021-02-19

On “Patchwork Earth”, there is no one-size-fits-all road to sustainability

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

Centre contributes to National Academies of Sciences workshop on the state of sustainability science

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

Eight centre researchers among world's most cited in 2020

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

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