Carl Folke

Carl Folke

Carl Folke (born June 26, 1955 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish ecologist and university professor. His work focuses on transdisciplinary research in the field of systems ecology , socio-ecological systems and resilience . He is the director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics , a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and is listed by Thomson Reuters as a highly cited researcher in the categories Environment / Ecology and General Social Sciences . His H-Index was 124 in April 2018.

academic career

Folke studied a. a. Economics , Biology and Ecology and earned a Bachelor and Master of Business Administration . In 1990, after having worked in the private sector for a while, he received his PhD with a thesis on Evaluation of Ecosystem Life-Support: in relation to salmon and wetland exploitation at Stockholm University .

In 1991 he became deputy director of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, part of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. After a postdoc at Boston University in 1991, he also became a lecturer at Stockholm University in 1994. In 1997 he was appointed professor there and received the chair for management of natural resources in the department of systems ecology. From 1999 to 2006 he was director of the Center for Transdisciplinary Environmental Research at Stockholm University . In 2007 he became Director of the Beijer Institute and Scientific Director of the Stockholm Resilience Center, a joint research facility run by Stockholm University and the Beijer Institute. For this he was released from the professorship. In 2017 Folke was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

Folke also works for various scientific journals . He is one of the two editors-in-chief of Ecology and Society and is present in the editorial offices of 14 other specialist journals.

Publications (selection)

Folke is the author or editor of 12 books and has published more than 200 articles in specialist journals, including 15 papers in Nature and Science .

Books

• Chapin, Kofinas, Folke (Eds.), Principles of Natural Resource Stewardship: Resilience-Based Management in a Changing World , Springer 2009, ISBN 978-0-387-73032-5 .
• Berkes, Colding, Folke (Eds.), Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change . Cambridge University Press 2003, ISBN 978-0-521-06184-1 .
• Berkes, Folke (Ed.), Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience . Cambridge University Press 1998, ISBN 978-0-521-78562-4 .
• Andersson, Folke, Nyström, Trading with the Environment: Ecology, Economics, Institutions, and Policy Earthscan 1995, ISBN 978-1-84407-960-5 .

Significant contributions in professional journals

• Will Steffen et al .: Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . tape 115 , no. 33 , 2018, p. 8252-8259 , doi : 10.1073 / pnas.1810141115 .
• Will Steffen et al., Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet . In: Science 347, No. 6223, (2015), doi: 10.1126 / science.1259855 .
• Folke et al., Reconnecting to the Biosphere . In: Ambio 40, Issue 7, (2011), 719-738, doi: 10.1007 / s13280-011-0184-y .
• Steffen et al., The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship . In: Ambio 40, Issue 7, (2011), 739-761, doi: 10.1007 / s13280-011-0185-x .
• Folke et al., Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability . In: Ecology and Society 15, Issue 4, (2010), Link .
• Rockström et al., A Safe Operating Space for Humanity . In: Nature 461, (2009), 472-475, doi: 10.1038 / 461472a .
• Liu et al., Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems . In: Science 317, No. 5844, (2007), 1513-1516, doi: 10.1126 / science.1144004 .
• Worm et al., Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services . In: Science 314, No. 5800, (2006), 787-790, doi: 10.1126 / science.1132294 .
• Folke, Resilience: The emergence of a perspective for social-ecological systems analyzes . In: Global Environmental Change 16, Issue 3, (2006), 253–267, doi: 10.1016 / j.gloenvcha.2006.04.002 .
• Folke et al., Adaptive governance of social-ecological systems . In: Annual Review of Environment and Resources 30, (2005), 441-473, doi: 10.1146 / annurev.energy.30.050504.144511 .
• Hughes et al., Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs . In: Science 301, No. 5635, (2003), 929-933, doi: 10.1126 / science.1085046 .
• Folke et al., Resilience and Sustainable Development: Building Adaptive Capacity in a World of Transformations . In: Ambio 31, Issue 5, (2002), 437-440, doi: 10.1579 / 0044-7447-31.5.437 .
• Scheffer et al., Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems . In: Nature 413, (2001), 591-596, doi: 10.1038 / 35098000 .
• Arrow et al., Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment . In: Ecological Economics 15, Issue 2 (1995), 91-95, doi: 10.1016 / 0921-8009 (95) 00059-3 .

Web links

• Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics
• Stockholm Resilience Center website
• resume
• List of publications
• Profile on Google Scholar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Highly Cited Researchers 2015 . Thomson Reuters website . Retrieved October 16, 2015.
2. ↑ Carl Folke . Google Scholar website . Retrieved April 14, 2018.
3. ^ Curriculum vitae Carl Folke . Retrieved October 16, 2015.
4. ^ Editorial team . Ecology and Society website . Retrieved October 16, 2015.
5. ^ CV Carl Folke . Beijer Institute website. Retrieved October 16, 2015.