Johan Rockström

Johan Rockström (2011)

Johan Rockström (born December 31, 1965 ) is a Swedish resilience researcher who is best known for his work on planetary boundaries . Clarivate Analytics counts him among the most cited researchers in the world.

Life

Johan Rockström studied from 1987 to 1991 at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala (soil science and hydrology) and at the Paris Institute national agronomique (agriculture). He obtained his doctorate in 1997 at Stockholm University , where he had researched on "Systems Ecology and Natural Resource Management". In his previous scientific work, Rockström has dealt with interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary topics on global water resources and land use management as well as socio-ecological resilience and global material cycles.

Rockström is particularly known for the development of the concept of Planetary Boundaries (load limits on the planet) published in 2009 .

Rockström is currently professor at Stockholm University with a focus on water resource management and global sustainability. He is also the Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Center at the university. From 2004 to 2012 he was Executive Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute , temporarily a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research . Since 2007 he has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry , as well as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .

Rockström chairs the Arctic Council's Arctic Resilience Assessment and the Earth League, a network of leading scientists and research institutes from more than ten countries founded in February 2013 that deal with planetary processes and sustainability issues. In 2009 he was named "Swede of the Year".

Since September 2018, Rockström has headed the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) together with Ottmar Edenhofer . In 2020 Johan Rockström was accepted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the Geosciences Section .

Awards

• 2014: Lawrence Huntington Environmental Prize from the US Woods Hole Research Center
• 2015: International Cosmos Prize
• 2015: German Environment Prize of the German Federal Environment Foundation (together with Mojib Latif )

Publications (selection)

Books

• Johan Rockström et al., Eat Good - The Cookbook That Changed the World . Hildesheim 2019, ISBN 978-383-6-92158-9 .
• Johan Rockström et al .: Water Resilience for Human Prosperity . Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-107-02419-9 .
• Anders Wijkman, Johan Rockström: Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundaries . Taylor & Francis, 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-53969-2 .
• Malin Falkenmark, Johan Rockström: Balancing Water for Humans and Nature: The New Approach in Ecohydrology . Earthscan, 2004, ISBN 978-1-85383-927-6 .

Articles in magazines

• Walter Willett et al .: Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems . In: The Lancet . tape 393 , no. 10170 , 2019, p. P447-492 , doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (18) 31788-4 .
• 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 .
• Johan Rockström et al .: A roadmap for rapid decarbonization . In: Science . tape 355 , no. 6331 , 2017, p. 1269-1271 , doi : 10.1126 / science.aah3443 .
• Steffen et al .: Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet . In: Science . tape 347 , no. 6223 , 2015, doi : 10.1126 / science.1259855 .
• Giggs et al: Policy: Sustainable development goals for people and planet . In: Nature . tape 495 , 2013, p. 305-307 , doi : 10.1038 / 495305a .
• Foley et al .: Solutions for a cultivated planet . In: Nature . tape 478 , 2011, p. 337–342 , doi : 10.1038 / nature10452 .
• Folke et al: Reconnecting to the Biosphere . In: Ambio . tape 40 , no. 7 , 2011, p. 719-738 , doi : 10.1007 / s13280-011-0184-y .
• Steffen et al .: The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship . In: Ambio . tape 40 , no. 7 , 2011, p. 739-761 , doi : 10.1007 / s13280-011-0185-x .
• Folke et al .: Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability . In: Ecology and Society . tape 15 , no. 4 , 2010 ( online ).
• Rockström et al .: Managing water in rainfed agriculture — The need for a paradigm shift . In: Agricultural Water Management . tape 97 , no. 4 , 2010, p. 543-550 , doi : 10.1016 / j.agwat.2009.09.009 .
• Rockström et al .: A safe operating space for humanity . In: Nature . tape 461 , 2009, p. 472-475 , doi : 10.1038 / 461472a .
• Rockström et al .: Future water availability for global food production: The potential of green water for increasing resilience to global change . In: Water Resources Research . tape 45 , 2009, doi : 10.1029 / 2007WR006767 .
• Rockström et al .: Assessing the water challenge of a new green revolution in developing countries . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . tape 104 , no. 15 , 2007, doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0605739104 .
• Adger et al .: Social-Ecological Resilience to Coastal Disasters . In: Science . tape 309 , no. 5737 , 2005, pp. 1036-1039 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1112122 .

Web links

Commons : Johan Rockström  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Member Post by Johan Rockström at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• CV , Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• Gero Günther: The limits of the earth. (PDF, 4 MB) In: www.gruene.de. Das Magazin der Grünen , September 16, 2019, p. 32 (Interview with Johan Rockström (pages 5 - 7)). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ten PIK researchers among the most influential scientists worldwide . PIK press release. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
2. ↑ Highly Cited Researchers 2018 . Clarivate Analytics . Retrieved December 11, 2018.
3. ↑ ^{a b} German Environmental Award 2015: Individual award Prof. Dr. Johan Rockström , September 22, 2015 (accessed September 24, 2015).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Johan Rockström on the Stockholm Environment Institute website, accessed September 25, 2015.
5. ^ [1] Social and Natural science together: New Co-Directors to lead the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, February 22, 2018 (accessed on February 22, 2018).
6. ↑ Cosmos Prize: The Prizewinner 2015. ( Memento from September 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) On: expo-cosmos.or.jp , accessed on September 25, 2015.
7. ↑ DBU: “Setting the course in New York and Paris to secure the future of people on a stable planet” , September 22, 2015