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Research news | 2021-02-24

Without the ‘hinterlands’ cities will struggle

A closer alignment between cities and their surroundings will be key for positive development and governance

Research news | 2020-11-19

Eight centre researchers among world's most cited in 2020

Stephan Barthel, Oonsie Biggs, Örjan Bodin, Thomas Elmqvist, Carl Folke, Per Olsson, Garry Peterson and Johan Rockström on exclusive list of world’s most influential researchers

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

Research news | 2019-11-21

Privileged people, privileged plants

A study of Cape Town’s plant life shows how post-apartheid poverty and inequality is mirrored in and exacerbated by ecological patterns

Research news | 2019-09-04

New Nature journal on urban sustainability

Centre researcher Thomas Elmqvist appointed editor-in-chief for a new journal on urban sustainability by Nature and RMIT University, Australia

Research news | 2019-06-10

Full of beans

There’s a whole social-ecological crisis behind your morning cup of joe. A new study examines how geographical, time, and legal and institutional scale (mis)matches interplay with the coffee leaf rust outbreak that is affecting small-scale Arabica coffee producers

Research news | 2019-04-17

Centre researchers recipients of the 2019 Ecological Society of America awards

Recognised for their outstanding contributions to ecology

Research news | 2019-04-09

If a city is resilient, is it also sustainable?

Researchers present a new framework to resolve this question

Research news | 2018-11-25

Healthy cities, healthy people

Not enough city dwellers are exposed to nature in cities. That could have serious impacts on their health

Research news | 2018-11-16

Cities risk swallowing extensive wildlife habitat by 2030

New report projects area of habitat larger than New Zealand could be lost to urbanization over next 20 years

Research news | 2018-10-04

Tinker, tailor, urban future

Future sustainability of cities requires policies and interventions based on a complexity approach inspired by evolutionary theory

Research news | 2018-04-26

New book highlights different approaches to challenges facing an urbanised planet

Over 100 scientists, architects, journalists, artists, designers and activists provide perspectives on what future urban sustainability should look like

Research news | 2017-11-28

After disasters, look for the virtuous cycle

How urban greening and civic ecology projects can improve human well-being and restore crucial ecosystem services

Research news | 2017-09-27

After the storm comes injustice

A study on New Orleans’ vegetation after hurricane Katrina highlights social disparities after natural disasters

Research news | 2017-02-27

Towards solving a key puzzle in the IPBES

New publication presents progress toward tools and approaches for working with diverse knowledge systems in ecosystem assessments

Research news | 2016-11-17

A strategy for sustainability transition in Stockholm

The ARTS project launches a road map for scaling up local sustainability initiatives

Research news | 2016-08-30

Improving the science of cities

How urban ecology can go from being a plot-based research activity to a global cross-comparative research programme

Research news | 2016-07-05

Green insurance

Green infrastructure can reduce environmental vulnerability of cities

Research news | 2015-09-21

Centre publications among most influential

Centre researchers featured in Ecological Society of America most influential papers ever

Research news | 2015-06-17

Green streets of gold

Amid climate change, restoring ecosystem services in urban areas not only environmentally sound and good for health but may also be financially smart

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