Speed talk summary 4 November

1. Erik Andersson, Maria Tengö, Thomas Elmqvist and others contributed to a book on Japanese gardens. Entitled “Restoring Kinship with Nature through Japanese Gardens - The Challenge to Achieve a Sustainable Commons in Kanazawa” the book can be downloaded here www.ouik.unu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Booklet5-Restoring-Kinship-with-Nature-through-Japanese-Garden.pdf 2. Magnus Nyström and many others from the centre has a paper included in Nature’s 150th anniversary paper collection, featuring a selection of articles that “reflect the past, present and future of Nature”. Well done, Magnus, Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Albert Norström, Beatrice Crona, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Örjan Bodin, Victor Galaz and Carl Folke, as well as Professor Steve Carpenter from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA! 3. Steve Lade’s back from 25 degrees sunny Australia where he’s been hanging out with people like Brian Walker and Will Steffen. What has he been up during his mobility grant? Ask him: steven.lade@su.se 4. Andrew Ringsmuth andrew.ringsmuth@su.se with colleagues have recently published a paper on how “Cross-scale cooperation enables sustainable use of a common-pool resource”. It’s complicated, but very interesting stuff. And it’s got smilies and devil faces in it! No, seriously, it does! 5. Victor Galaz Rodriguez victor.galaz@su.se went to New York in the company of Astrid Auraldsson and Henrik Österblom for launch the of U.S.-Swedish initiative on artificial intelligence and sustainability. U.S. and Swedish academia, the Swedish government, Google, Ericsson, USAID, UNDP and UN Global Pulse met to explore how artificial intelligence can - and already are - helping to reach targets related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. More details here: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2019-10-16-launch-of-u.s.-swedish-initiative-on-artificial-intelligence-and-sustainability.html 6. Speaking of traveling, Andrew Merrie andrew.merrie@su.se went to Berlin and Helsinki to showcase his exciting Radical Ocean Futures work. It’s cool stuff: https://radicaloceanfutures.earth/ 7. Louise H. Segerstad louise@albaeco.com reminded us about the Stockholm Seminars series that we host and organized together with the Royal Academy, Beijer, Future Earth and Albaeco. A much appreciated tradition: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/news--events/seminars-and-events/stockholm-seminars.html 8. Ida Gabrielsson igabrielsson@globalresiliencepartnership.org presented the recently launched GRP Resilience Insights report which came out 23 October. GRP has worked with partners to synthesize learnings from 22 GRP projects, 42 Partner programs, 16 Countries and 150 documents. There is good evidence from the GRP Innovation Challenges that projects have supported 5.7 million people to be more resilient to the threats they face. Read more here: http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/insightsreport/ 9. Lisen Schultz lisen.schultz@su.se is doing something scary again, specifically hosting the 2019/2020 executive programme in resilience thinking. Scary, because the list of participants are from the highest level in Swedish business. Not sure why it’s scary, Lisen is one of the most brilliant people in Sweden. The class will come to the centre on Friday 8 November, occupying the kitchen and all the meeting rooms in that corridor. Read more about the programme here: http://executive.stockholmresilience.org/ 10. Henrik Österblom went to a toilet in Oslo and bumped into the sherpa for the Prime Minister of Fiji. Turns out they love our work. Not every day you hear that in a toilet. 11. Finally, we asked PhD student Chandrakant Singh 11 random questions. Ask chandrakant.singh@su.se what his favourite meal is. You’re not gonna get a (clear) answer.