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Overview

Garry D. Peterson is affiliated with the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden and is primarily involved in research within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics related to environmental systems and sustainability. These include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Ecosystem dynamics and resilience, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, and Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems.

Garry D. Peterson has contributed to peer-reviewed literature with notable publications such as:

  • Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research (2020) in Nature Sustainability
  • Developing multiscale and integrative nature-people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework (2020) in People and Nature
  • Towards a better future for biodiversity and people: Modelling Nature Futures (2023) in Global Environmental Change
  • Exploring Alternative Futures in the Anthropocene (2023) in Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Evolution of the polycrisis: Anthropocene traps that challenge global sustainability (2023) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

The research venues where Garry D. Peterson frequently publishes include:

  • Ecology and Society
  • Sustainability Science
  • Ecosystems and People
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Global Environmental Change

Collaboration with other researchers is a significant aspect of Peterson's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jan J. Kuiper
  • Laura Pereira
  • Albert V. Norström
  • Elena M. Bennett
  • William W. L. Cheung

Best Publications

  • Understanding relationships among multiple ecosystem services.

    Elena M. Bennett;Garry D. Peterson;Garry D. Peterson;Line J. Gordon

  • Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience

    Thomas Elmqvist;Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Magnus Nyström;Garry Peterson

  • Resilience Management in Social-ecological Systems: a Working Hypothesis for a Participatory Approach

    Brian Walker;Stephen R. Carpenter;John M. Anderies;Nick Abel

  • Ecosystem service bundles for analyzing tradeoffs in diverse landscapes

    C. Raudsepp-Hearne;Garry D. Peterson;E. M. Bennett

  • Ecological Resilience, Biodiversity, and Scale

    Garry Peterson;Craig R. Allen;Crawford S. Holling

  • Scenario Planning: a Tool for Conservation in an Uncertain World

    Garry D. Peterson;Graeme S. Cumming;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Trade-offs across Space, Time, and Ecosystem Services

    Jon Paul Rodríguez;T. Douglas Beard;Elena M. Bennett;Graeme S. Cumming

  • Resilience: A Bridging Concept or a Dead End? “Reframing” Resilience: Challenges for Planning Theory and Practice Interacting Traps: Resilience Assessment of a Pasture Management System in Northern Afghanistan Urban Resilience: What Does it Mean in Planning Practice? Resilience as a Useful Concept for Climate Change Adaptation? The Politics of Resilience for Planning: A Cautionary Note

    Simin Davoudi;Keith Shaw;L. Jamila Haider;Allyson E. Quinlan

  • Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research

    Albert V. Norström;Christopher Cvitanovic;Christopher Cvitanovic;Marie F. Löf;Simon West;Simon West;Simon West

  • Ecological Thresholds: The Key to Successful Environmental Management or an Important Concept with No Practical Application?

    Peter M. Groffman;Jill S. Baron;Tamara Blett;Arthur J. Gold

  • Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability

    Elena M. Bennett;Wolfgang Cramer;Alpina Begossi;Georgina Cundill

  • Reconnecting to the Biosphere

    Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Åsa Jansson;Åsa Jansson;Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Per Olsson

  • Untangling the Environmentalist's Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing as Ecosystem Services Degrade?

    Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne;Garry D. Peterson;Maria Tengö;Elena M. Bennett

  • Bright spots : seeds of a good Anthropocene

    Elena M. Bennett;Martin Solan;Reinette Biggs;Reinette Biggs;Timon McPhearson

  • Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective

    Joern Fischer;Toby A Gardner;Elena M Bennett;Patricia Balvanera

  • Middle-range theories of land system change

    P. Meyfroidt;R. Roy Chowdhury;A. de Bremond;A. de Bremond;E.C. Ellis

  • Scenarios for Ecosystem Services: An Overview

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Elena M. Bennett;Garry D. Peterson

  • Political ecology and ecological resilience:: An integration of human and ecological dynamics

    Garry Peterson

  • Contagious Disturbance, Ecological Memory, and the Emergence of Landscape Pattern

    Garry D. Peterson

  • Can forest management based on natural disturbances maintain ecological resilience

    C. Ronnie Drever;Garry Peterson;Christian Messier;Yves Bergeron

  • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Ecosystems and human well-being: wetlands and water synthesis

    M. Finlayson;R.D. Cruz;N. Davidson;J. Alder

Frequent Co-Authors

Elena M. Bennett
Elena M. Bennett McGill University
Reinette Biggs
Reinette Biggs Stellenbosch University
Albert V. Norström
Albert V. Norström Stockholm Resilience Centre
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Stephen R. Carpenter
Stephen R. Carpenter University of Wisconsin–Madison
Line Gordon
Line Gordon Stockholm Resilience Centre
Carolyn J. Lundquist
Carolyn J. Lundquist National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Graeme S. Cumming
Graeme S. Cumming University of Western Australia
Ralf Seppelt
Ralf Seppelt Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Berta Martín-López
Berta Martín-López Leuphana University of Lüneburg

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