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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
We will update this page with more info
LATEST NEWS
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Research news | 2019-12-09
The invisible loss
Why urban growth causes more biodiversity loss outside of cities and why that is far more important in magnitude
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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
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Research news | 2019-12-03
Want sustainability? Think synergy
A more coherent approach to policy planning for the Sustainable Development Goals will save precious economic resources and enhance progress on the goals
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Research news | 2019-11-29
On the other end of research
Sharing knowledge between local communities and researchers strengthens ties between science and society. And encourages well-being and sustainability
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Research news | 2019-11-29
How many change-makers does it take to challenge the status quo ?
Study assesses what it takes to make good meetings become venues for change
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Research news | 2019-11-27
Time for an emergency response
Nine climate tipping points now are now “active” which means the situation is urgent and we need an emergency response, warn scientists
Stockholm Resilience Centre is a collaboration between Stockholm University and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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SE-10691
Phone: +46 8 674 70 70
info@stockholmresilience.su.se
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