Resilience insights related to COVID-19

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

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.

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.

Podcasts: Rethink Talks special edition on COVID-19

Rethink Talks is Stockholm Resilience Centre’s multimedia podcast series on resilience thinking and global change. It spotlights conversations between experts on a range of topics that highlight how resilience thinking and biosphere stewardship add value to current debates on for instance COVID-19.

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Corona publications

What Policies Address Both the Coronavirus Crisis and the Climate Crisis?

Journal / article | 2020

Engström, G., Gars, J., Jaakkola, N., Lindahl, T., Spiro, D. and van Benthem, A.A., 2020. What policies address both the coronavirus crisis and the climate crisis?. Environmental and Resource Economics, 76(4), pp.789-810.

The coronavirus pandemic has led many countries to initiate unprecedented economic recovery packages. Policymakers tackling the coronavirus crisis have also been encouraged to prioritize policies which help mitigate a second, looming crisis: climate change. We identify and analyze policies that combat both the coronavirus crisis and the climate crisis. We analyze both the long-run climate impacts from coronavirus-related econo...

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

Journal / article | 2020

Gordon, L. 2020. The Covid‑19 pandemic stress the need to build resilient production ecosystems. Agriculture and Human Values, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-020-10105-w

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

Journal / article | 2019

Mancilla García, M., J. Hileman, and Ö. Bodin (Eds.). (2019). Collaboration and conflict in complex water governance systems across a development gradient [Special Issue]. Ecology and Society, 24(3).

Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem

Journal / article | 2019

Nyström, J.-B. Jouffray, A. V. Norström, B. Crona, P. Søgaard-Jørgensen, S. R. Carpenter, Ö. Bodin, V. Galaz, C. Folke. 2019. Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem. Nature, Volume 575, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1712-3

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...

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