TOPIC

In the Anthropocene, humanity constitutes the major force in the evolution of life on Earth.

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LATEST NEWS

New director

Professor Emily Boyd has been appointed the next director of the Beijer Institute, starting 1 September 2025.

Sustainable AI

To help ensure that AI supports a stable biosphere, researchers propose the"Earth alignment" principle for sustainable AI development and use.

Stockholm Seminar

The newly launched UN Global Citizens' Assembly and what it could mean for global governance. With Rich Wilson, Iswe, 22 May.

Science and visual design

Global warming impacts on Arctic ecosystems and communities are interpreted by design students in exhibition.

Public seminar

On the intertwined nature of inequality and the biosphere. 12 May, 13.00-15.00.

Atomic Pasts, Atomic Futures

A conversation about the legacy of nuclear weapons use in Japan and Kazachstan. 13 May, 17-19.
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RESEARCH

Research Programmes

The Beijer Institute strives to create research frontiers at the interface of ecology, economics and related disciplines, in order to promote a deeper understanding of the interplay between ecological systems and social and economic development in relation to sustainability.

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Urban Social-Ecological Systems

Aquaculture and Sustainable Seafood

Behaviour, Economics and Nature

Governance, Technology and Complexity

NEW PUBLICATION

Whose conservation, revisited: how a focus on people–nature relationships spotlights new directions for conservation science Reyers, B., and E. M. Bennett. 2025. Whose conservation, revisited: how a focus on people–nature relationships spotlights new directions for conservation science. Philosophical Transactions B 380(1917):20230320.
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PEOPLE

Hans Ellegren
Hans Ellegren
Professor, Permanent Secretary, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Amare Teklay Hailu
Amare Teklay Hailu
PhD, Researcher
Timon McPhearson
Timon McPhearson
Affiliated researcher, Professor, New School, USA.
Francisco Alpizar
Francisco Alpizar
Board member, Professor, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
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