Carl Folke,^* Åsa Jansson,^** Johan Rockström,^*** Per Olsson,^**** Stephen R. Carpenter,^***** F. Stuart Chapin,^****** Anne-Sophie Crépin,^******* Gretchen Daily,^******** Kjell Danell,^********* Jonas Ebbesson,^********** Thomas Elmqvist,^*********** Victor Galaz,^************ Fredrik Moberg,^{*************} Måns Nilsson,^{**************} Henrik Österblom,^{***************} Elinor Ostrom,^{****************} Åsa Persson,^{*****************} Garry Peterson,^{******************} Stephen Polasky,^{*******************} Will Steffen,^{********************} Brian Walker,^{*********************} Frances Westley<sup>**********************


*</sup>Carl Folke () is Professor in natural resource management, Science Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and Director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His research is on the role that living systems at different scales play in social and economic development and how to govern and manage for resilience in integrated social-ecological systems. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden. Address: The Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, PO Box 50005, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden, e-mail: carl.folke@beijer.kva.se; carl.folke@stockholmresilience.su.se
^**Åsa Jansson Ph.D., works as researcher at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. She is partly employed as team leader at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. Her research is on the role of eco-system services and biodiversity in a sustainable development and human wealth context. The main focus is on the operationalization of the ecosystem services concept, through quantifying and valuing ecosystem services over space and time. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden. Address: The Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, PO Box 50005, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden.
^***Johan Rockström is Professor in natural resource management and Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and of the Stockholm Environment Institute. He research is on agricultural water management, watershed hydrology, global water resources, eco-hydrology, resilience and global sustainability. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden. Address: Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
^****Per Olsson is theme leader for Adaptive Governance, Networks and Learning at Stockholm Resilience Centre. He received his Ph.D. in natural resource management from Stockholm University. His research interest is in linked social-ecological system dynamics and resilience, and adaptive governance of social-ecological systems. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
^*****Stephen R. Carpenter Professor, is Director of the Center for Limnology and S.A. Forbes Chair in Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His research concerns ecology, economics, governance and management of ecosystem services, especially freshwater resources. Address: Center for Limnology, University of Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
^******F. Stuart Chapin III is Professor Emeritus in ecology at the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks and director of the graduate program in Resilience and Adaptation. His research is on design principles for social-ecological transformations in a rapidly changing world, with an emphasis on climate-change impacts in the north. Address: Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA.
^*******Anne-Sophie Crépin is the Deputy Director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and team leader for the global change and cross scale dynamics theme of the Stockholm Resilience centre. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stockholm University. Her research focuses on modeling and analyzing the linkages and feedbacks between economic systems and ecosystems. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden. Address: The Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, PO Box 50005, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden.
^********Gretchen Daily is Bing Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Biology and the Woods Institute at Stanford University; Director of the Center for Conservation Biology; and co-founder and faculty director of the Natural Capital Project. Her work is on quantifying the dynamics of change in biodiversity and ecosystem services, and on integrating the values of natural capital into decisions. Address: Department Biology and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
^*********Kjell Danell is Professor in wildlife ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå. His research is on population ecology, plant-animal interactions, management and conservation of wildlife. He has performed field studies in boreal forests, African savannas and the Arctic. Address: Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.
^**********Jonas Ebbesson is Professor of environmental law, Director of Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre, Stockholm University and affiliated with the Stockholm Resilience Centre. His work focuses on various aspects of environmental law in an international context, including public participation in decision-making, environmental responsibility of transnational corporations, the impact of law on the resilience of social-ecological systems, and justice considerations in environmental law and policy. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden. Address: Environmental Law, Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
^***********Thomas Elmqvist is a professor in natural resource management at Stockholm University and affiliated with the Stockholm Resilience Centre. His research focuses on governance and management of ecosystem services in urban landscapes, ecosystem services and values, biodiversity in ecosystem dynamics, land use change, natural disturbances and components of resilience including the role of social institutions. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden. Address: Natural Resource Management, Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
^************Victor Galaz Ph.D., is researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. His current research and teaching focuses on adaptive governance and global governance of complex environmental risks such as pandemics and planetary boundaries. He has published extensively on institutional dimensions of resilience. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
^{*************}Fredrik Moberg holds a Ph.D. in natural resources management from Department of Systems Ecology at Stockholm University. His research has mainly dealt with biodiversity, ecosystem services and resilience of the tropical coastal zone. Today he works as a communications advisor for Stockholm Resilience Centre and as the Director of Albaeco, an independent organisation communicating the latest in sustainability science. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden. Address: Albaeco, Stockholm, Sweden.
^{**************}Måns Nilsson is Deputy Director and Research Director at SEI and Visiting Professor in Environmental Strategies Research at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. He received his Ph.D. degree in Policy Analysis from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. He is interested in energy and climate policy, strategic assessment, innovation, European policy, and global governance. Address: Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
^{***************}Henrik Österblom Ph.D., is a researcher at Baltic Nest Institute, Stockholm Resilience Centre, where he is theme leader for the research theme on Marine Governance. His research focuses on marine food-webs and governance, with a particular emphasis on the Baltic Sea, European and Antarctic fisheries and social-ecological feedback. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre and Baltic Nest Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
^{****************}Elinor Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Senior Research Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington; and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University. Her research focuses on the impact of diverse institutional arrangement on effort to overcome social dilemmas related to public goods and common-pool resources. She is a recipient of the 2009 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009. Address: Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. Address: Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
^{*****************}Åsa Persson is Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden. She received her Ph.D. in human geography from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her research now focuses on global environmental governance, in particular governance of and financial mechanisms for climate adaptation. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden. Address: Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
^{******************}Garry Peterson is Professor in environmental sciences in the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. His research focuses on modelling and managing social-ecological systems for sustainable development. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
^{*******************}Stephen Polasky holds the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Ecological/Environmental Economics at the University of Minnesota, with appointments in the Department of Applied Economics, and the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior. His research focuses on ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, sustainability, and integrated ecological and economic analysis. Address: The Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, PO Box 50005, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden. Address: Departments of Applied Economics and Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
^{********************}Will Steffen Professor, is Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, and serves on the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee (MPCCC) and as a Climate Commissioner. He is also Co-Director of the Canberra Urban and Regional Futures (CURF) initiative, a joint venture of ANU and the University of Canberra. From 1998 to mid-2004, Steffen served as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, based in Stockholm, Sweden. His research interests span a broad range within the fields of climate change and Earth System science, with an emphasis on incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis; and on sustainability and climate change, with a focus on urban systems. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden. Address: The ANU Climate Change Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
^{*********************}Brian Walker is a Research Fellow in Australia's CSIRO Division of Ecosystem Science and a visiting Fellow in the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Beijer Institute. Born in Zimbabwe he received his Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan. His research is on the dynamics and resilience of ecosystems and linked social-ecological systems. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden. Address: The Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, PO Box 50005, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden. Address: CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
^{**********************}Frances Westley holds the J.W. McConnell Chair of Social Innovation, is Director of the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR), and is a professor in the School for Entrepreneurship, Environment and Development (SEED) at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from McGiIl University, Canada. Her research is in social innovation for resilience, transformation of linked social-ecological systems, inter-organizational and interdisciplinary collaboration and social/institutional entrepreneurship. Address: Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.