Belinda Reyers

Belinda Reyers (* before 1975) is a South African ecologist . She heads the GRAID program at the Stockholm Resilience Center , which deals with resilience in the Anthropocene .

Life

Reyers received his PhD in conservation biology from the University of Pretoria in 2001 . She then worked as a lecturer at the universities of Pretoria and Stellenbosch until 2004 . She then founded and led a research group on biodiversity and ecosystem services at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Stellenbosch, where she was also a senior scientist until 2015. In addition to her work at the Stockholm Resilience Center, she is an associate professor at Stellenbosch University .

Act

Reyer's research includes regional and international collaboration aimed at integrating knowledge about socio-ecological systems and their role in supporting resilient societies in the guidelines and practices of decision-makers.

Publications (selection)

• Belinda Reyers, Stephen Polasky, Heather Tallis, Harold A. Mooney, Anne Larigauderie: Finding common ground for biodiversity and ecosystem services. In: BioScience . Volume 62, No. 5, 2012, pp. 503-507, doi: 10.1525 / bio.2012.62.5.12 .
• Belinda Reyers, Reinette Biggs , Graeme S. Cumming, Thomas Elmqvist, Adam P. Hejnowicz, Stephen Polasky: Getting the measure of ecosystem services: a social-ecological approach. In: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment . Volume 11, No. 5, 2013, pp. 268-273, doi: 10.1890 / 120144 .
• Will Steffen , Katherine Richardson , Johan Rockström , Sarah E. Cornell, Ingo Fetzer, Elena M. Bennett, Reinette Biggs , Stephen R. Carpenter, Wim de Vries , Cynthia A. de Wit, Carl Folke , Dieter Gerten, Jens Heinke, Georgina Mace , Linn M. Persson , Veerabhadran Ramanathan , Belinda Reyers, Sverker Sörlin: Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. In: Science . Volume 347, No. 6223, 2015, 1259855, doi: 10.1126 / science.1259855 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Staff Profile of Belinda Reyers at the Stockholm Resilience Center , accessed December 1, 2018.