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Stockholm Resilience Centre talks on iTunes

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Garry Peterson

Sturle Hauge Simonsen from Stockholm Resilience Centre has told me that you can freely download Centre seminars and presentations from iTunes. Many shorter presentations are available on YouTube. Speakers in the iTunes talks includes a diverse group of well known … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Planetary Boundaries

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Victor Galaz

Seems like Christmas comes early this year! Visualizing.org just announced the results  of the Visualizing Marathon 2010. One of the challenges was to visualize planetary boundaries, i.e. the concept of multiple and non-linear earth system processes presented by Johan Rockström … Continue reading →

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Johan Rockström at TED on planetary boundaries

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Garry Peterson

Johan Rockström, from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, talks at TED about strategies people can use to transform our civilization (citing work on Latin American agriculture, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, Kristianstad in Sweden, and Elinor Ostrom‘s work) to enable … Continue reading →

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Johan Röckstrom talks about Planetary Boundaries

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Garry Peterson

Johan Röckstrom recently gave a talk on Planetary Boundaries based on the papers Nature (doi:10.1038/461472a) and Ecology and Society. In those papers the authors propose propose nine planetary boundaries, beyond which the functioning of the earth system will fundamentally change … Continue reading →

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Johan Rockstrom Sweden’s Person of Year

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Garry Peterson

Congratulations to my colleague, Johan Rockström, director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and SEI, who has been named Swedish Person of the Year by FOKUS magazine for his engaging and exciting work for sustainable development. The Stockholm Resilience Centre has … Continue reading →

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Planetary Boundaries

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Garry Peterson

A number of resilience researchers, and many others, have proposed the concept of planetary boundaries in a new paper A safe operating space for humanity in Nature (doi:10.1038/461472a). Johan Rockstrom and others propose nine planetary boundaries, beyond which the functioning … Continue reading →

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Novelty Needed for Sustainable Development – Resilience 2008

Posted on April 18, 2008 by Garry Peterson

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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