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Resilience insights related to COVID-19

A collection of reflections, publications and videos from centre researchers that are relevant to the ongoing pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic is the kind of crisis researchers within resilience thinking, ecology, Earth system science and sociology have expected for decades. Despite this, the world has not been adequately prepared to cope with it. A lack of co-ordination within and among nations allowed the disease to become a global pandemic. This has inflected millions and killed hundreds of thousands.

The response to the spread of the disease has restricted people’s mobility, and slowed the world’s economy. These have not been shared equally, with many of the social and economic impacts being felt by vulnerable in places the disease has infected.

Below you will find a variety of reflections, publications and video material where researchers at the Stockholm Resilience Centre present insights that are relevant to the discussions related to both the causes for the pandemic and the solutions needed to build a more resilient, global society.

Covid-19 affects all aspects of our lives, we want to help make sense of this tragedy, in empathy with all those suffering from it.

PUBLICATIONS

The Covid-19 pandemic stress the need to build resilient production ecosystems

Gordon, L.

2020 - Journal / article

Collaboration and conflict in complex water governance systems across a development gradient: addressing common challenges and solutions

Mancilla García, M., J. Hileman, and Ö. Bodin (Eds.).

2019 - Journal / article

Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem

Nyström, J.-B. Jouffray, A. V. Norström, B. Crona, P. Søgaard-Jørgensen, S. R. Carpenter, Ö. Bodin, V. Galaz, C. Folke

2019 - Journal / article

Much of the Earth’s biosphere has been appropriated for the production of harvestable biomass in the form of food, fuel and fibre. Here we show that the simplification and intensification of these systems and their growing connection to international markets has yielded a global production ecosystem that is homogenous, highly connected and characterized by weakened internal feedbacks. We argue that these features converge to y...

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

Willett, W., Rockström, J., Loken, B., Springmann, M., et.al.

2019 - Journal / article

Food systems have the potential to nurture human health and support environmental sustainability; however, they are currently threatening both. Providing a growing global population with healthy diets from sustainable food systems is an immediate challenge. Although global food production of calories has kept pace with population growth, more than 820 million people have insufficient food and many more consume low-quality diet...

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