Articles (114)

19 OCT 2017 21 MIN READ

Can a forest conservation programme funded by Norway keep the nation’s forests intact while respecting indigenous rights and fostering other economic interests?

12 OCT 2017 15 MIN READ 11 PEOPLE LIKED THIS

Indigenous peoples face twin challenges to their food security: global warming and globalisation. Old ways are threatened. New foods are often unhealthier. Lou Del Bello explores how new ways of self-organisation may help support resilience in the Far North.

05 OCT 2017 12 MIN READ 14 PEOPLE LIKED THIS

Regions like Pakistan, already naturally prone to heavy-metal contamination, also experience high levels of added pollution from human activities. How can understanding chemical risk in Pakistan help us to address chemical pollution, in order to protect our future – and our children?

28 SEP 2017 11 MIN READ 77 PEOPLE LIKED THIS

“Resilience” has attracted different definitions over the years. Explore with us what we think it actually means to be resilient.

21 SEP 2017 12 MIN READ 18 PEOPLE LIKED THIS

Putting the social in social-ecological systems means getting people, place, power, and more into discussions of resilience. This requires an openness to very different schools of thought – and crossing some new frontiers in resilience research.

14 SEP 2017 13 MIN READ 21 PEOPLE LIKED THIS

Researchers have been working on a new way of examining the changes needed in social-ecological systems to achieve desired sustainability goals through the RAPTA (Resilience, Adaptation Pathways and Transformation Assessment) approach. Pilot projects in Ethiopia translate sometimes unfamiliar terms to reality.

07 SEP 2017 5 MIN READ

Scientists, development practitioners, and policy thinkers joined artists and musicians at the Resilience 2017 conference in Stockholm in August.

31 AUG 2017 11 MIN READ

Researchers puzzled out how to include dryland livestock herders in the global insurance market. Their next challenge is to stay in balance with a changing ecosystem.

24 AUG 2017 6 MIN READ 13 PEOPLE LIKED THIS

A recent gathering in Stockholm brought together academic, artistic, and practitioner communities to discuss the latest in resilience research, and what might be next.

17 AUG 2017 7 MIN READ 92 PEOPLE LIKED THIS

With only a few days to go before the start of the science conference “Resilience Frontiers for Global Sustainability”, Stockholm Resilience Centre science director Carl Folke reflects: why resilience?