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INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSES
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New students
Welcome as a student at Stockholm Resilience Centre! We look forward to getting to know you!
Note: If you have not received an email by the 1st August 2019, please contact Jessica Slove Davidson!
The week before term begins you will attend an introduction week at the SRC and Stockholm University!
This will run Monday, 26th to Friday, 30th August. Please book your travel accordingly! A detailed schedule for this week will be emailed to you lastest in early August.
Courses start on 2nd September.
Please keep in mind that housing is difficult to find in Stockholm! Start looking now! If you need tips on how to go about searching for housing feel free to contact our current students.
Relevant literature
If you want to start reading you could look at these books:
Walker B & Salt D. 2006. Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World. Island Press, USA. ISBN: 9781597260930
Walker B & Salt D. 2012. Resilience Practice. Island Press, USA. ISBN: 9781597268011 (NOTE: This is the course book for module 6 in course 2)
Levin S. 2000. Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons. Basic Books, USA. ISBN: 9780738203195
Meadows D. 2008. Thinking in Systems - A primer. Earthscan ISBN: 978-1-84407-726-7 (NOTE: This is the course book for module 4 in course 2)
Other material of interest:
- "Resilience thinking" by Carl Folke: https://youtu.be/l-Za1W6TsWM
- “A new context for development” by Belinda Reyers: https://youtu.be/t0Wn3ogIxC8
- MOOC on Planetary boundaries and human opportunities
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LATEST NEWS
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Research news | 2019-10-17
Accelerating research through artificial intelligence
Data scientists, programmers, and UX designers team up with sustainability researchers and practitioners to find new ways to structure data on the Baltic Sea
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Research news | 2019-10-16
Temporary refuge from an ocean of industry
How long will areas inaccessible to global fish industry remain refuges for small-scale fisheries?
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Research news | 2019-10-16
Going from promising to a source for good
New study provides first global analysis of private governance initiatives dealing with environmental challenges in fisheries. It shows how they come with tremendous potential but some big weaknesses too
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Research news | 2019-10-16
Launch of U.S.-Swedish initiative on artificial intelligence and sustainability
U.S. and Swedish academia, the Swedish government, Google, Ericsson, USAID, UNDP and UN Global Pulse met to explore how artificial intelligence can - and already are - helping to reach targets related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Research news | 2019-10-14
Reflections on the Planetary Boundaries framework
Ten years after its launch, Johan Rockström and other researchers and stakeholders reflect on the framework's development, impact and future. See videos
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Research news | 2019-10-12
Building a national park for the future
Centre researchers lead workshop on the development of a new national park in the Netherlands using novel scenario framework
Stockholm Resilience Centre is a collaboration between Stockholm University and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Stockholm University, Kräftriket 2B
SE-10691
Phone: +46 8 674 70 70
info@stockholmresilience.su.se
Organisation number: 202100-3062
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