Carl Folke, professor, is the founder and Science Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Carl has contributed to the development of new research areas, interdisciplinary arenas, and concepts that have spread in science, policy and practice. He works with interdisciplinary and integrative science for sustainability with a focus on social-ecological systems, resilience thinking, and ecological economics, emphasizing that people are embedded parts of the biosphere and at the same time shaping it from local to global levels, and how to adaptively govern and manage for resilience and transformation in social-ecological systems. Carl has produced over 250 scientific papers (16 in Science and Nature) and 13 books, including Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience (with F. Berkes) Cambridge 1998, Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change (with F. Berkes and J. Colding) Cambridge 2003, and Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World (with Chapin, F.S, III, and G.P. Kofinas) Springer Verlag 2009. He serves as advisor to international research institutes, has a long record of science and policy collaboration, and more recently collaboration between science and the business community.
