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Carl Folke On Resilience

In Seed Magazine my colleague Carl Folke writes On Resilience: In the 1930s the American art collector Albert Barnes commissioned Henri Matisse to produce a major painting for his private gallery in Merion, outside Philadelphia. Matisse was ecstatic: He rented … Continue reading

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Expansion of social-ecological systems science

The concept of social-ecological systems has been gaining increased interested in science. Below is a graph showing papers whose topic includes social-ecological systems. During the 1990s there were a few publications and then a rapid rise during the 2000s.  Two … Continue reading

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Growth of ecosystem services concept

Research addressing ecosystem services is rapidly increasing. The graph shows increases in the number of papers following publications of Daily’s Nature’s services in 1997 and the MA in 2005. Note: the graph is based on searching ISI web of science … Continue reading

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Novelty Needed for Sustainable Development – Resilience 2008

The Stockholm Resilience Centre has released two press releases on the conclusion of Resilience 2008. The first Novelty thinking key to sustainable development reports on the concluding panel of the conference in which Elinor Ostrom, Sverker Sörlin, Carole Crumley, Line … Continue reading

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