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Research news | 2021-02-15

Getting to grips with the complexities of human behaviour

Caroline Schill on how there is more to humans than the rational mind, and why researchers studying human behaviour should care about complexity perspectives

Research news | 2021-02-01

The agents and their models

Centre researcher Emilie Lindkvist on using modelling to get to grips with the complexities and intertwinedness of humans and nature

Research news | 2021-01-22

Cultures, collapses and the quest to find Nemo

Centre theme leader Juan Rocha explains why sustainability science has much to gain from a complexity perspective

Research news | 2020-09-15

Making fisheries models more realistic

Diversity in fisher behaviours are often absent in current models of fisheries. A new study points out how to incorporate them

Research news | 2020-05-25

In some cases, a push and pull between interests can prevent unsustainable outcomes

How resource management can benefit from competition between interest groups

Research news | 2020-03-17

How agent-based modelling can improve management of small-scale fisheries

Computational approach can reveal intricate interactions among stakeholders and help prevent unintended policy outcomes

Research news | 2020-03-10

Why constant change is more important than stability

We talk and think in terms of things and entities that are stable and unchanging. This is understandable, but misguided, researchers argue

Research news | 2020-01-29

Time is of essence when restoring ecosystems

How social interventions become opportunities for accelerated policy implementation

Research news | 2019-12-30

Case studies, models and complexity

Time to go from simply describing social-ecological systems to explaining how their complex interactions generate observed outcomes

Research news | 2019-12-19

More complex than the sum of its parts

New framework for analysing emergent properties and dynamics in social-ecological systems tested on seven case studies

Research news | 2019-12-09

Knowledge as a tool rather than an underlying requirement

New study demonstrates the benefits of developing new ideas about what knowledge and action are and how they relate to each other

Research news | 2018-12-20

Contagious collapses

New study reveals hidden links and potential domino effects between tipping points in climate, ecosystems and societies

Research news | 2018-10-30

Connecting the dots between social inequalities and environmental change

Six ways inequality affects our environment and vice versa

Research news | 2015-08-26

Quite a lot of that human touch

How humans matter for ecological regime shifts

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