Notes from Speed talks 14 September

1. Congratulations to Laura Elsler laura.elsler@su.se and Jessica Spijkers jessica.spijkers@su.se who defended their thesis last week. That brings the tally of SRC doctors up to 24. Well done! 2. Lisen Schultz lisen.schultz@su.se followed up on the recent staff day which was hosted at the centre (and online). Documentation from the day available here: https://stockholmuniversity.box.com/s/8t7bkzft6t6r0m8bhfy5og9wljjrlo97 3. Beatrice Crona beatrice.crona@su.se presented a recently published analysis of China’s changing seafood production and consumption. Read more here: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2020-08-24-china-may-struggle-to-meet-increasing-and-changing-seafood-demand.html 4. A new paper from Steven Lade <steven.lade@su.se>; L. Jamila Haider <jamila.haider@su.se> and Brian Walker on resilience pathway diversity, published in E & S: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss3/art19/ 5. Tilman Hertz tilman.hertz@su.se provided an update on SES-LINK’s et.al’s work on process-relational works. Head over to https://www.seslink.org/ for more details. 6. David Collste david.collste@su.se paid tribute to http://www.geraldbarney.com/ , author of The Global 2000 study, who recently passed away. Study available here: http://www.geraldbarney.com/Global_2000_Report/G2000-Eng-7Locks/G2000_Vol_One_7Locks.pdf 7. Per Olsson per.olsson@su.se presented a soon-to-be published Sida-funded report on navigating transformations (“Effects of transformations to climate-neutral societies on low-and-middle-income countries” as well as the establishment of a new global network called “Transformations Systems Mapping & Analysis Working Group” (or TSMAWG as it will never be called). Check it out here: https://bluemarbleeval.org/network/transformations-systems-working-group 8. Lisen also provided an update on the SRC Executive programme on resilience thinking which kicks off again in November. Once again the list of participants is incredibly impressive - an indication of how the world out there appreciates our work! Read more about the programme here: http://executive.stockholmresilience.org/