Case studies

Improved water management in rained agriculture can build resilience to cope with water-related risks and uncertainties.

A movement that started off on the west coast of the US is today an international effort to motivate greater investments in ecosystems and human well-being.

Ecosystem service investments in China today are remarkable in their goals, scale, duration and innovation.

The Stockholm region is of great international interest when it comes to urban ecological research.

Innovation often comes as a result of crisis and sustainable solutions often from community level.

New transformational changes in governance are urgently required to cope with overfishing, pollution, climate change and other drivers of degradation in the marine environment.

The world’s oceans are steadily becoming more acidic due to increasing amounts of atmospheric CO2.

We are approaching serious thresholds, or tipping points, in major ecosystems. One example is the projected changes in the vegetation of the Amazon basin.

The Greenland ice sheet, which has melted at an increasing rate during the past 30 years, is an example of how the earth’s subsystems risk moving outside their stable Holocene state.

In the Japanese city of Nagoya, urban sprawl is challenging the traditional agricultural ‘Satoyama’ landscape.