Professor, Stockholm Resilience Centre
Garry Peterson is a professor in environmental sciences with emphasis on resilience and social-ecological systems and director of the Finance to Revive Biodiversity Programme at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University in Sweden.
Peterson's research integrates three themes: connections between people and nature, the dynamics of resilience, and how thinking about the future can help people and organizations navigate surprising social-ecological change. In this research he uses a combination of quantitative analysis, systems modelling, qualitative analysis, as well as participatory research approaches. He has published over 125 papers in over 40 journals.
Peterson has an interdisciplinary background in sustainability. His bachelors degree was in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. His PhD "Contagious disturbance and ecological resilience" was completed in 1999 in Zoology at the University of Florida. He has previously worked at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the Center for Limnology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and at McGill University in Canada.
Key research Interests: resilience, futures, regime shifts, finance
Member Since: 2016
