23 NOV 2017 11 MIN READ 16 PEOPLE LIKED THIS Commentary/Urban Earth A call for “new urban knowledge” – and a little bit of tinkering – might help to address how cities and their regions can develop resilience in the face of a quickly urbanising planet.
07 SEP 2017 5 MIN READ Feature/Scientists jam with musicians, artists to stir public passion for nature 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 Feature/How Kenya’s herders got their livestock insured 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 Commentary/Resilience 2017 in 7 quotes 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 Opinion/Why resilience? 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?
29 JUN 2017 11 MIN READ 34 PEOPLE LIKED THIS Feature/Women hunters in the octopuses’ gardens Octopus represents both food and profit for small-scale fishers who live along the shores of the western Indian Ocean. Changes in the region have implications for fisherwomen that need to be addressed by fisheries policy and management to become more gender equitable.
01 JUN 2017 17 MIN READ 38 PEOPLE LIKED THIS Commentary/Can science fiction reimagine the future of global development? Why science-based fictional narratives can help us develop a more sustainable and equitable future for humanity on spaceship Earth.
09 MAR 2017 15 MIN READ 13 PEOPLE LIKED THIS Commentary/Shifting contexts in the Sahel Farmers in Burkina Faso rely on whole village landscapes for their livelihoods. Their reliance on that multifunctional patchwork is adjusting as they face changes in rainfall patterns, in young people’s aspirations, and in local markets.
26 JAN 2017 5 MIN READ 40 PEOPLE LIKED THIS Opinion/Resilience thinking: science for uncertain futures How can we make progress on the big development challenges we face even as the ground beneath our feet keeps changing? Belinda Reyers of the Stockholm Resilience Centre explores how we might navigate unknowable futures.
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