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3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability: transforming the world in an era of global change

scientific article published in November 2011

A Framework for Understanding Change

scholarly article published 2009

A Theory of Transformative Agency in Linked Social-Ecological Systems

scientific article published in 2013

A framework for the practical application of the concepts of critical natural capital and strong sustainability

scientific article published in 2003

A holistic view of marine regime shifts

scientific article published on 24 November 2014

A safe operating space for humanity

scientific article

A social contract with the ancestors—Culture and ecosystem services in southern Madagascar

article

A systems perspective on the interrelations between natural, human-made and cultural capital

scientific article published in 1992

A watershed approach to upgrade rainfed agriculture in water scarce regions through Water System Innovations: an integrated research initiative on water for food and rural livelihoods in balance with ecosystem functions

article

Adapting institutions, adaptive governance and complexity: an introduction

scholarly article

Adaptive comanagement for building resilience in social-ecological systems

scientific article

Adaptive governance of social-ecological systems

scholarly article

Adaptive governance, ecosystem management, and natural capital

scientific article

Adaptive governnace of social-ecological systems

scholarly article by Carl Folke et al published 21 November 2005 in Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Adaptive management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon world heritage areas

scientific article published in November 2007

Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective

article

Aligning Key Concepts for Global Change Policy: Robustness, Resilience, and Sustainability

article

Allowing variance may enlarge the safe operating space for exploited ecosystems

scientific article published on 5 October 2015

Alternative states on coral reefs: beyond coral–macroalgal phase shifts

scientific article published in 2009

An invitation for more research on transnational corporations and the biosphere

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Anthropocene risk

scientific article published in 2019

Aquaculture with its environment: Prospects for sustainability

Building resilience and adaptation to manage Arctic change

scientific article published on June 2006

Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems

scientific article (publication date: 11 October 2001)

Changing antibiotic resistance: sustainability transformation to a pro-microbial planet

scholarly article by Peter S Jørgensen et al published April 2017 in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Climate and conservation. Creating a safe operating space for iconic ecosystems

scientific article

Climate and fishing steer ecosystem regeneration to uncertain economic futures

scientific article published in March 2015

Climate change, human impacts, and the resilience of coral reefs

scientific article (publication date: 15 August 2003)

Climate engineering reconsidered

article

Closing the yield gap in the savannah zone

Co-management in Latin American small-scale shellfisheries: assessment from long-term case studies

Coevolutionary Governance of Antibiotic and Pesticide Resistance

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

Complexity of coupled human and natural systems

scientific article

Confronting Feedbacks of Degraded Marine Ecosystems

article

Confronting the coral reef crisis

scientific article (publication date: 24 June 2004)

Contagious exploitation of marine resources

scientific article published in 2015

Coping with uncertainty: a call for a new science-policy forum

scientific article published on August 2003

Coral reef disturbance and resilience in a human-dominated environment.

scientific article

Corals and phase shifts

scientific article published in 2001

Coupled human and natural systems

scientific article published on December 2007

Creation of a gilded trap by the high economic value of the Maine lobster fishery.

scientific article

Crucial functioning of and human dependence on the global water system

Decision-making under great uncertainty: environmental management in an era of global change

scientific article published on 26 May 2011

Developing an Integrated History and future of People on Earth (IHOPE)

article

Development and government policies of the shrimp farming industry in Thailand in relation to mangrove ecosystems

article

Discontinuous change in multilevel hierarchical systems

Does aquaculture add resilience to the global food system?

scientific article

Dual thinking for scientists

article published in 2015

Ecohydrological Landscape Management for Human Well-Being

Ecological goods and services of coral reef ecosystems

scholarly article by Fredrik Moberg published in May 1999

Ecological limitations and appropriation of ecosystem support by shrimp farming in Colombia

scholarly article by Jonas Larsson et al published September 1994 in Environmental Management

Ecology for transformation

scientific article

Ecology. Globalization, roving bandits, and marine resources.

scientific article published in March 2006

Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment

scientific article published in 1995

Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment

Ecosystem Subsidies to Swedish Food Consumption from 1962 to 1994

Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet

scientific article

Effect of aquaculture on world fish supplies.

scientific article published in June 2000

Emergence of Global Adaptive Governance for Stewardship of Regional Marine Resources

scholarly article by Henrik Österblom & Carl Folke published 2013 in Ecology and Society

Emergence of a global science-business initiative for ocean stewardship

scientific article

Energy economy of salmon aquaculture in the Baltic sea

Enhancing ecosystem management through social-ecological inventories: lessons from Kristianstads Vattenrike, Sweden

scholarly article by Lisen Schultz et al published June 2007 in Environmental Conservation

Farmland abandonment: threat or opportunity for biodiversity conservation? A global review

article

Feeding aquaculture growth through globalization: Exploitation of marine ecosystems for fishmeal

article by Lisa Deutsch et al published May 2007 in Global Environmental Change

Food production: a mega water challenge

Foreword

Foreword

Freshwater for resilience: a shift in thinking

scientific article

General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events

article

Global environmental governance and planetary boundaries: An introduction

scholarly article by Victor Galaz et al published September 2012 in Ecological Economics

Globalization, marine regime shifts and the Soviet Union

scientific article

Governance for navigating the novel freshwater dynamics of the Anthropocene

scholarly article

Guiding coral reef futures in the Anthropocene

article published in 2016

History and Local Management of a Biodiversity-Rich, Urban Cultural Landscape

article published in 2005

How resilient are ecosystems to global environmental change?

Human modification of global water vapor flows from the land surface

scientific article

Human modification of the Earth System

Human-induced Trophic Cascades and Ecological Regime Shifts in the Baltic Sea

Identifying critical natural capital

scientific article published in 2003

Impacts of artisanal fishing on key functional groups and the potential vulnerability of coral reefs

Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services

scientific article

Incentives, social–ecological feedbacks and European fisheries

article by H. Österblom et al published September 2011 in Marine Policy

Incorporating green-area user groups in urban ecosystem management

scientific article

Integrating resilience thinking and optimisation for conservation

scientific article published on 7 August 2009

Into the Clouds

scientific article published in 2013

Introduction

Introduction to the book

Life-support value of ecosystems: a case study of the Baltic Sea Region

scientific article published in 1991

Linkages Among Water Vapor Flows, Food Production, and Terrestrial Ecosystem Services

article

Local Ecological Knowledge and Institutional Dynamics for Ecosystem Management: A Study of Lake Racken Watershed, Sweden

article

Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions

scientific article published in Science

Making the ecosystem approach operational—Can regime shifts in ecological- and governance systems facilitate the transition?

scholarly article by H. Österblom et al published November 2010 in Marine Policy

Managing aquaculture for sustainability in tropical Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe

article

Managing climate change impacts to enhance the resilience and sustainability of Fennoscandian forests

scientific article

Managing nutrient fluxes and pollution in the Baltic: an interdisciplinary simulation study

article by R.Kerry Turner et al published August 1999 in Ecological Economics

Marine Ecosystem Science on an Intertwined Planet

Marine regime shifts around the globe: theory, drivers and impacts.

scientific article

Masked, diluted and drowned out: how global seafood trade weakens signals from marine ecosystems

Middlemen, a critical social-ecological link in coastal communities of Kenya and Zanzibar

scholarly article by Beatrice Crona et al published July 2010 in Marine Policy

Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to practice

scientific article

Nature and mental health: An ecosystem service perspective

scientific article published in July 2019

Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance

scientific article published in Science

Navigating the transition to ecosystem-based management of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

scholarly article

Navigating transformations in governance of Chilean marine coastal resources

scientific article

New paradigms for supporting the resilience of marine ecosystems

scientific article published in July 2005

New visions for addressing sustainability

scientific article published in Science

No-take areas, herbivory and coral reef resilience

scientific article

Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

scientific article

Participation, Adaptive Co-management, and Management Performance in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves

article by Lisen Schultz et al published April 2011 in World Development

Pathways to the future

Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity

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Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

scientific article

Polycentric systems and interacting planetary boundaries — Emerging governance of climate change–ocean acidification–marine biodiversity

scholarly article by Victor Galaz et al published September 2012 in Ecological Economics

Powerless Spectators, Coping Actors, and Adaptive Co-managers: a Synthesis of the Role of Communities in Ecosystem Management

scientific article published in 2007

Preface

Primary and secondary values of wetland ecosystems

Principle 1 –Maintain diversity and redundancy

Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Program on ecosystem change and society: an international research strategy for integrated social–ecological systems

article

Protected areas and their surrounding territory: socioecological systems in the context of ecological solidarity

scientific article

Quantifying spatial resilience

scientific article published in 2016

REDISCOVERY OF TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AS ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT

article by Fikret Berkes et al published October 2000 in Ecological Applications

Reconnecting cities to the biosphere: stewardship of green infrastructure and urban ecosystem services

scientific article

Reconnecting to the Biosphere: a Social-Ecological Renaissance

article by Carl Folke & Lance Gunderson published 2012 in Ecology and Society

Reconnecting to the biosphere

scientific article

Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management

scientific article

Reserves and resilience--from single equilibrium to complex systems

scientific article

Reserves, resilience and dynamic landscapes

scientific article

Resilience (Republished)

scientific article published in 2016

Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability

scientific article published in 2010

Resilience and development: mobilizing for transformation

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Resilience and sustainable development: building adaptive capacity in a world of transformations

scientific article

Resilience and vulnerability of northern regions to social and environmental change

scientific article

Resilience implications of policy responses to climate change

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Resilience-Based Stewardship: Strategies for Navigating Sustainable Pathways in a Changing World

Resilience: The emergence of a perspective for social–ecological systems analyses

Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience

article

Rewiring food systems to enhance human health and biosphere stewardship

article

Salmon Farming in Context: Response to Blacket al

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Social dimensions of fertility behavior and consumption patterns in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Social norms as solutions

scientific article

Social-Ecological Systems Insights for Navigating the Dynamics of the Anthropocene

Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science

scientific article published in 2016

Social-ecological resilience to coastal disasters

scientific article

Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: modeling and policy implications

article

Social–ecological memory in urban gardens—Retaining the capacity for management of ecosystem services

scholarly article by Stephan Barthel et al published May 2010 in Global Environmental Change

Social–ecological systems and adaptive governance of the commons

scholarly article by Carl Folke published 14 December 2006 in Ecological Research

Spatial Resilience of Coral Reefs

Stewardship of the Biosphere in the Urban Era

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Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban century

Sustainability transformations: socio-political shocks as opportunities for governance transitions

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Sustainable Trade: A New Paradigm for World Welfare

Synchronous failure: the emerging causal architecture of global crisis

scientific article published in 2015

The Costs of Eutrophication from Salmon Farming: Implications for Policy

The Economy, The Biosphere and Planetary Boundaries: Towards Biosphere Economics

article published in 2015

The Role of Golf Courses in Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management

The anthropocene: from global change to planetary stewardship

scientific article (publication date: November 2011)

The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths

article

The critical natural capital of ecosystem performance as insurance for human well-being

scientific article published in 2003

The dynamics of ecosystems, biodiversity management and social institutions at high northern latitudes

scientific article published in August 2004

The ecology of ecosystem services: introduction to the special issue

scholarly article by Karin E. Limburg & Carl Folke published May 1999 in Ecological Economics

The economic perspective: conservation against development versus conservation for development

scientific article published in June 2006

The planetary commons: A new paradigm for safeguarding Earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 22 January 2024

The role played by water in the biosphere

The unfolding water drama in the Anthropocene: towards a resilience based perspective on water for global sustainability

Tipping toward sustainability: emerging pathways of transformation

scientific article

Toward a Sustainable and Resilient Future

article

Trade, environment and development: the issues in perspective

article

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Transformations in Ecosystem Stewardship

Transforming Innovation for Sustainability

article

Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: key insights from the Earth System Governance Project

scholarly article by Frank Biermann et al published February 2012 in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Transnational corporations as 'keystone actors' in marine ecosystems

scientific article

Tricky Times

scientific article published in 2011

Trust-building, Knowledge Generation and Organizational Innovations: The Role of a Bridging Organization for Adaptive Comanagement of a Wetland Landscape around Kristianstad, Sweden

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Turbulent times

Untapped capacity for resilience in environmental law

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Urban Gardens: Pockets of Social-Ecological Memory

Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene

scholarly article

Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Institutional Context

scholarly article by Lowell Pritchard Jr. et al published 1 January 2000 in Ecosystems

Water RATs (Resilience, Adaptability, and Transformability) in Lake and Wetland Social-Ecological Systems

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Water Resilience for Human Prosperity

Water resources and functions for agro-ecological systems at the landscape scale

Weaving knowledge systems in IPBES, CBD and beyond—lessons learned for sustainability

What if solar energy becomes really cheap? A thought experiment on environmental problem shifting

‘Planetary boundaries’—exploring the challenges for global environmental governance

scholarly article by Victor Galaz et al published February 2012 in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability