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62
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36498
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42

Per Olsson publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Per Olsson sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 96 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Per Olsson D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Per Olsson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Per Olsson is a researcher affiliated with the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science with significant contributions to the subfields of global and planetary change, sociology and political science, management science and operations research, soil science, and ecology.

The main topics of Per Olsson's research include sustainability and climate change governance, complex systems and decision making, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, agricultural risk and resilience, agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, organic food and agriculture, and environmental education and sustainability.

Among the recent papers authored by or closely associated with Per Olsson, notable publications include:

  • "Transformations to sustainability: combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches," 2020, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • "Sustainability transformations: socio-political shocks as opportunities for governance transitions," 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • "Evolution of the polycrisis: Anthropocene traps that challenge global sustainability," 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Disruptive seeds: a scenario approach to explore power shifts in sustainability transformations," 2022, Sustainability Science
  • "Structured Collaboration Across a Transformative Knowledge Network-Learning Across Disciplines, Cultures and Contexts?," 2020, Sustainability

Per Olsson has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Michele-Lee Moore, Line Gordon, Laura Pereira, Garry Peterson, and Costanza Conti. These collaborations reflect a network of scholars engaged in multi-disciplinary research related to sustainability and resilience.

Their research has been published in a variety of journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Sustainability Science
  • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • Ecology and Society
  • One Earth
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE OF SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

    Carl Folke;Thomas Hahn;Per Olsson;Jon Norberg

  • Scale and Cross-Scale Dynamics: Governance and Information in a Multilevel World

    David W. Cash;W. Neil Adger;Fikret Berkes;Po Garden

  • Adaptive comanagement for building resilience in social-ecological systems.

    Per Olsson;Carl Folke;Fikret Berkes

  • Shooting the Rapids: Navigating Transitions to Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

    Per Olsson;Lance H. Gunderson;Steve R. Carpenter;Paul Ryan

  • Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet

    F. Stuart Chapin;Stephen R. Carpenter;Gary P. Kofinas;Carl Folke;Carl Folke

  • Social-Ecological Transformation for Ecosystem Management: the Development of Adaptive Co-management of a Wetland Landscape in Southern Sweden

    Per Olsson;Carl Folke;Thomas Hahn

  • Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

    Frances Westley;Per Olsson;Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Thomas Homer-Dixon;Thomas Homer-Dixon

  • Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban century

    Thomas Elmqvist;Erik Andersson;Erik Andersson;Niki Frantzeskaki;Timon McPhearson;Timon McPhearson;Timon McPhearson

  • Globalization, Roving Bandits, and Marine Resources

    F. Berkes;T. P. Hughes;R. S. Steneck;J. A. Wilson

  • Local Ecological Knowledge and Institutional Dynamics for Ecosystem Management: A Study of Lake Racken Watershed, Sweden

    Per Olsson;Carl Folke

  • Reconnecting to the Biosphere

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

  • A Theory of Transformative Agency in Linked Social-Ecological Systems

    Frances R. Westley;Ola Tjornbo;Lisen Schultz;Per Olsson

  • Toward a network perspective of the study of resilience in social-ecological systems

    Marco A. Janssen;Örjan Bodin;John M. Anderies;Thomas Elmqvist

  • Sustainability transformations: a resilience perspective

    Per Olsson;Victor Galaz;Wiebren J. Boonstra

  • Bright spots : seeds of a good Anthropocene

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

  • Navigating transformations in governance of Chilean marine coastal resources.

    Stefan Gelcich;Terry P. Hughes;Per Olsson;Carl Folke

  • Transforming Innovation for Sustainability

    Melissa Leach;Johan Rockström;Paul Raskin;Ian Christopher Scoones

  • Transformations to Sustainability: Combining Structural, Systemic and Enabling Approaches

    Ian Scoones;Andrew Stirling;Dinesh Abrol;Joanes Atela

  • Enhancing the Fit through Adaptive Co-management: Creating and Maintaining Bridging Functions for Matching Scales in the Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve, Sweden

    Per Olsson;Carl Folke;Victor Galaz;Thomas Hahn

  • Trust-building, Knowledge Generation and Organizational Innovations: The Role of a Bridging Organization for Adaptive Comanagement of a Wetland Landscape around Kristianstad, Sweden

    Thomas Hahn;Per Olsson;Carl Folke;Kristin Johansson

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Victor Galaz
Victor Galaz Stockholm University
Brian Walker
Brian Walker Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Henrik Österblom
Henrik Österblom Stockholm University
Fikret Berkes
Fikret Berkes University of Manitoba
Lance Gunderson
Lance Gunderson Emory University
Will Steffen
Will Steffen Australian National University
Reinette Biggs
Reinette Biggs Stellenbosch University
Örjan Bodin
Örjan Bodin Stockholm University
Beatrice Crona
Beatrice Crona Stockholm University

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