2.3 Resilience in Stockholm

The Stockholm Resilience Centre has had a major influence on the city’s development, with the Stockholm council using their research to influence the Stockholm City Plan. It was formed originally in 2007 as a collaboration between ‘Stockholm University’ and the ‘Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics’ at the ‘Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’. It is an international research and collaboration hub for resilience and sustainability. The centre predominantly focusses on social-ecological system. These include social actions and social infrastructure. The social-ecological systems they study are complex and adaptive.18

Goals;

•Advance the scientific understanding of the complex, dynamic interactions of people and nature in the biosphere

•Train the next generation of sustainability researchers and leaders

•Engage in collaborations with change agents

Values;

•People and nature are deeply intertwined, co-evolve, and behave as complex adaptive systems

•Many patterns, processes and dynamics of the Anthropocene are novel and must be better understood

•Biosphere stewardship can enable transformation towards resilient, sustainable, and just futures