Victor Galaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 354628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Galaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Galaz |
| SIGNATURE | GALAZ V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm Resilience Centre |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7303-8849 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 662 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Climate change, nature degradation, and financial stability: A review of domino-effects between finance, climate, and the biosphere
The threat associated with climate change and nature degradation poses complex financial challenges. Our systematic literature review of 88 finance-related publications published between 2015 and early 2022 revealed a gap in research on nature-related financial risks and their connections to climate change, particularly regarding ocean-related risks beyond rising sea levels. Although methods are available to assess these risks, more standardized …
The Earth alignment principle for artificial intelligence
The Illusion of Control
This is an introduction for the special collection on “Illusion of Control”
Mapping the automation of Twitter communications on climate change, sustainability, and environmental crises — a review of current research
Online social media such as the microblog Twitter are key digital arenas shaping the public discourse on important societal topics. Automated social media accounts, so-called ‘social bots,’ have emerged as a controversial phenomenon, proven to both disrupt and support online communications on topics such as political elections and public health. To what extent social bots also impact online conversations on climate change, environmental crises, a…
Automated Framing of Climate Change? The Role of Social Bots in the Twitter Climate Change Discourse During the 2019/2020 Australia Bushfires
Extreme weather-related events like wildfires have been increasing in frequency and severity due to climate change. Public online conversations that reflect on these events as climate emergencies can create awareness and build support for climate action but are also used to spread misinformation and climate change denial. To what extent automated social media accounts-'social bots'-amplify different perspectives of such events and influence clima…
Global environmental governance in times of turbulence
The Anthropocene reality of financial risk
Artificial intelligence, systemic risks, and sustainability
Automated decision making and predictive analytics through artificial intelligence, in combination with rapid progress in technologies such as sensor technology and robotics are likely to change the way individuals, communities, governments and private actors perceive and respond to climate and ecological change. Methods based on various forms of artificial intelligence are already today being applied in a number of research fields related to cli…
On digitalization and sustainability transitions
Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding to such change for global sustainability and resilient societies. We provide a systemic overview of the current situation where people and nature are dynamically intertwined and embedded in the biosphere, placing shocks and extreme events as part of this dynamic; humanity…
Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem
Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship
Anthropocene risk
Societal causes of, and responses to, ocean acidification
Major climate and ecological changes affect the world’s oceans leading to a number of responses including increasing water temperatures, changing weather patterns, shrinking ice-sheets, temperature-driven shifts in marine species ranges, biodiversity loss and bleaching of coral reefs. In addition, ocean pH is falling, a process known as ocean acidification (OA). The root cause of OA lies in human policies and behaviours driving society’s dependen…
New directions in earth system governance research
The Earth System Governance project is a global research alliance that explores novel, effective governance mechanisms to cope with the current transitions in the biogeochemical systems of the planet. A decade after its inception, this article offers an overview of the project's new research framework (which is built upon a review of existing earth system governance research), the goal of which is to continue to stimulate a pluralistic, vibrant a…
Social-Ecological Systems Insights for Navigating the Dynamics of the Anthropocene
Social-ecological systems (SES) research offers new theory and evidence to transform sustainable development to better contend with the challenges of the Anthropocene. Four insights from contemporary SES literature on ( a) intertwined SES, ( b) cross-scale dynamics, ( c) systemic tipping points, and ( d) transformational change are explored. Based on these insights, shifts in sustainable development practice are suggested to recognize and govern …
Finance and the Earth system – Exploring the links between financial actors and non-linear changes in the climate system
Multi-level policies and adaptive social networks – a conceptual modeling study for maintaining a polycentric governance system
Information and collaboration patterns embedded in social networks play key roles in multilevel and polycentric modes of governance. However, modeling the dynamics of such social networks in multilevel settings has been seldom addressed in the literature. Here we use an adaptive social network model to elaborate the interplay between a central and a local government in order to maintain a polycentric governance. More specifically, our analysis ex…
Approaching moisture recycling governance
The spatial and temporal dynamics of water resources are a continuous challenge for effective and sustainable national and international governance. The watershed is the most common spatial unit in water resources governance, which typically includes only surface and groundwater. However, recent advances in hydrology have revealed ‘atmospheric watersheds’ – otherwise known as precipitationsheds. Water flowing within a precipitationshed may be mod…
Bright spots: Seeds of a good Anthropocene
The scale, rate, and intensity of humans’ environmental impact has engendered broad discussion about how to find plausible pathways of development that hold the most promise for fostering a better future in the Anthropocene. However, the dominance of dystopian visions of irreversible environmental degradation and societal collapse, along with overly optimistic utopias and business‐as‐usual scenarios that lack insight and innovation, frustrate pro…
Health and climate change: Policy responses to protect public health
Global networks and global change-induced tipping points
Sustainability transformations: A Resilience Perspective
Scholars and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in the processes that lead to transformations toward sustainability. We explored how resilience thinking, and a stronger focus on social-ecological systems, can contribute to existing studies of sustainability transformations. First, we responded to two major points of critique: the claim that resilience theory is not useful for addressing sustainability transformations, and that the…
Global environmental governance and planetary boundaries: An introduction
Planetary boundaries’ — exploring the challenges for global environmental governance
Governance and Complexity—Emerging Issues for Governance Theory
Unexpected epidemics, abrupt catastrophic shifts in biophysical systems, and economic crises that cascade across national borders and regions are events that challenge the steering capacity of governance at all political levels. This article seeks to extend the applicability of governance theory by developing hypotheses about how different governance types can be expected to handle processes of change characterized by nonlinear dynamics, threshol…
Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding to such change for global sustainability and resilient societies. We provide a systemic overview of the current situation where people and nature are dynamically intertwined and embedded in the biosphere, placing shocks and extreme events as part of this dynamic; humanity…
New directions in earth system governance research
The Earth System Governance project is a global research alliance that explores novel, effective governance mechanisms to cope with the current transitions in the biogeochemical systems of the planet. A decade after its inception, this article offers an overview of the project's new research framework (which is built upon a review of existing earth system governance research), the goal of which is to continue to stimulate a pluralistic, vibrant a…
Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation
Governance, complexity, and resilience
Reconnecting to the Biosphere
Sustainability transformations: A Resilience Perspective
Scholars and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in the processes that lead to transformations toward sustainability. We explored how resilience thinking, and a stronger focus on social-ecological systems, can contribute to existing studies of sustainability transformations. First, we responded to two major points of critique: the claim that resilience theory is not useful for addressing sustainability transformations, and that the…
Finance and the Earth system – Exploring the links between financial actors and non-linear changes in the climate system
Institutional and Political Leadership Dimensions of Cascading Ecological Crises
While some of the future impacts of global environmental change such as some aspects of climate change can be projected and prepared for in advance, other effects are likely to surface as surprises – that is situations in which the behaviour in a system, or across systems, differs qualitatively from expectations. Here we analyse a set of institutional and political leadership challenges posed by ‘cascading’ ecological crises: abrupt ecological ch…
Enhancing the Fit through Adaptive Co-management: Creating and Maintaining Bridging Functions for Matching Scales in the Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve, Sweden
Olsson, P., C. Folke, V. Galaz, T. Hahn, and L. Schultz. 2007. Enhancing the fit through adaptive co-management: creating and maintaining bridging functions for matching scales in the Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve Sweden. Ecology and Society 12(1): 28. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01976-120128
Artificial intelligence, systemic risks, and sustainability
Automated decision making and predictive analytics through artificial intelligence, in combination with rapid progress in technologies such as sensor technology and robotics are likely to change the way individuals, communities, governments and private actors perceive and respond to climate and ecological change. Methods based on various forms of artificial intelligence are already today being applied in a number of research fields related to cli…
On digitalization and sustainability transitions
Planetary boundaries’ — exploring the challenges for global environmental governance
Anthropocene risk
Approaching moisture recycling governance
The spatial and temporal dynamics of water resources are a continuous challenge for effective and sustainable national and international governance. The watershed is the most common spatial unit in water resources governance, which typically includes only surface and groundwater. However, recent advances in hydrology have revealed ‘atmospheric watersheds’ – otherwise known as precipitationsheds. Water flowing within a precipitationshed may be mod…
Global networks and global change-induced tipping points
Stealing from the Poor? Game Theory and the Politics of Water Markets in Chile
Despite all the potential benefits that are usually attributed to a system of tradable water rights, few countries have fully implemented such a legal institution. The Chilean water market is the exception, often promoted by international organisations such as the World Bank. Experts and governmental officials repeatedly argue that negative social consequences of the Chilean water market have been limited. This paper questions these claims and ar…
Geo-engineering, Governance, and Social-Ecological Systems: Critical Issues and Joint Research Needs
The debate about the possibilities to engineer the Earth's climate has changed drastically in the last years. Suggestions of large-scale technological interventions to combat climate change that a decade ago would have been discarded as science fiction are slowly moving into the center of international climate change discussions, research, and politics. In this article, I elaborate three joint key challenges to geo-engineering research from a res…
Social-ecological Resilience and Social Conflict: Institutions and Strategic Adaptation in Swedish Water Management
Dealing with uncertainty and complexity in social-ecological systems is profoundly dependent on the ability of natural resource users to learn and adapt from ecological surprises and crises. This paper analyzes why and how learning processes are affected by strategic behavior among natural resource users and how social conflict is affected by social and ecological uncertainty. The claim is that social conflict among natural resource users serious…
Catch: A Method for Structured Discussions and a Tool for Decision Support
The Illusion of Control
This is an introduction for the special collection on “Illusion of Control”
Automated Framing of Climate Change? The Role of Social Bots in the Twitter Climate Change Discourse During the 2019/2020 Australia Bushfires
Extreme weather-related events like wildfires have been increasing in frequency and severity due to climate change. Public online conversations that reflect on these events as climate emergencies can create awareness and build support for climate action but are also used to spread misinformation and climate change denial. To what extent automated social media accounts-'social bots'-amplify different perspectives of such events and influence clima…
Societal causes of, and responses to, ocean acidification
Major climate and ecological changes affect the world’s oceans leading to a number of responses including increasing water temperatures, changing weather patterns, shrinking ice-sheets, temperature-driven shifts in marine species ranges, biodiversity loss and bleaching of coral reefs. In addition, ocean pH is falling, a process known as ocean acidification (OA). The root cause of OA lies in human policies and behaviours driving society’s dependen…
Stealing from the Poor? Game Theory and the Politics of Water Markets in Chile
Despite all the potential benefits that are usually attributed to a system of tradable water rights, few countries have fully implemented such a legal institution. The Chilean water market is the exception, often promoted by international organisations such as the World Bank. Experts and governmental officials repeatedly argue that negative social consequences of the Chilean water market have been limited. This paper questions these claims and ar…
Social-ecological Resilience and Social Conflict: Institutions and Strategic Adaptation in Swedish Water Management
Dealing with uncertainty and complexity in social-ecological systems is profoundly dependent on the ability of natural resource users to learn and adapt from ecological surprises and crises. This paper analyzes why and how learning processes are affected by strategic behavior among natural resource users and how social conflict is affected by social and ecological uncertainty. The claim is that social conflict among natural resource users serious…
Catch: A Method for Structured Discussions and a Tool for Decision Support
Catch: A Method for Structured Discussions and a Tool for Decision Support
Social-ecological Resilience and Social Conflict: Institutions and Strategic Adaptation in Swedish Water Management
Dealing with uncertainty and complexity in social-ecological systems is profoundly dependent on the ability of natural resource users to learn and adapt from ecological surprises and crises. This paper analyzes why and how learning processes are affected by strategic behavior among natural resource users and how social conflict is affected by social and ecological uncertainty. The claim is that social conflict among natural resource users serious…
Enhancing the Fit through Adaptive Co-management: Creating and Maintaining Bridging Functions for Matching Scales in the Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve, Sweden
Olsson, P., C. Folke, V. Galaz, T. Hahn, and L. Schultz. 2007. Enhancing the fit through adaptive co-management: creating and maintaining bridging functions for matching scales in the Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve Sweden. Ecology and Society 12(1): 28. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01976-120128
Governance and Complexity—Emerging Issues for Governance Theory
Unexpected epidemics, abrupt catastrophic shifts in biophysical systems, and economic crises that cascade across national borders and regions are events that challenge the steering capacity of governance at all political levels. This article seeks to extend the applicability of governance theory by developing hypotheses about how different governance types can be expected to handle processes of change characterized by nonlinear dynamics, threshol…
Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions
Navigating global changes requires a coevolving set of collaborative, global institutions.
Governance, complexity, and resilience
Institutional and Political Leadership Dimensions of Cascading Ecological Crises
While some of the future impacts of global environmental change such as some aspects of climate change can be projected and prepared for in advance, other effects are likely to surface as surprises – that is situations in which the behaviour in a system, or across systems, differs qualitatively from expectations. Here we analyse a set of institutional and political leadership challenges posed by ‘cascading’ ecological crises: abrupt ecological ch…
Reconnecting to the Biosphere
Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation
Global environmental governance and planetary boundaries: An introduction
Planetary boundaries’ — exploring the challenges for global environmental governance
Geo-engineering, Governance, and Social-Ecological Systems: Critical Issues and Joint Research Needs
The debate about the possibilities to engineer the Earth's climate has changed drastically in the last years. Suggestions of large-scale technological interventions to combat climate change that a decade ago would have been discarded as science fiction are slowly moving into the center of international climate change discussions, research, and politics. In this article, I elaborate three joint key challenges to geo-engineering research from a res…
Global networks and global change-induced tipping points
Sustainability transformations: A Resilience Perspective
Scholars and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in the processes that lead to transformations toward sustainability. We explored how resilience thinking, and a stronger focus on social-ecological systems, can contribute to existing studies of sustainability transformations. First, we responded to two major points of critique: the claim that resilience theory is not useful for addressing sustainability transformations, and that the…
Health and climate change: Policy responses to protect public health
Bright spots: Seeds of a good Anthropocene
The scale, rate, and intensity of humans’ environmental impact has engendered broad discussion about how to find plausible pathways of development that hold the most promise for fostering a better future in the Anthropocene. However, the dominance of dystopian visions of irreversible environmental degradation and societal collapse, along with overly optimistic utopias and business‐as‐usual scenarios that lack insight and innovation, frustrate pro…
Multi-level policies and adaptive social networks – a conceptual modeling study for maintaining a polycentric governance system
Information and collaboration patterns embedded in social networks play key roles in multilevel and polycentric modes of governance. However, modeling the dynamics of such social networks in multilevel settings has been seldom addressed in the literature. Here we use an adaptive social network model to elaborate the interplay between a central and a local government in order to maintain a polycentric governance. More specifically, our analysis ex…
Approaching moisture recycling governance
The spatial and temporal dynamics of water resources are a continuous challenge for effective and sustainable national and international governance. The watershed is the most common spatial unit in water resources governance, which typically includes only surface and groundwater. However, recent advances in hydrology have revealed ‘atmospheric watersheds’ – otherwise known as precipitationsheds. Water flowing within a precipitationshed may be mod…
Social-Ecological Systems Insights for Navigating the Dynamics of the Anthropocene
Social-ecological systems (SES) research offers new theory and evidence to transform sustainable development to better contend with the challenges of the Anthropocene. Four insights from contemporary SES literature on ( a) intertwined SES, ( b) cross-scale dynamics, ( c) systemic tipping points, and ( d) transformational change are explored. Based on these insights, shifts in sustainable development practice are suggested to recognize and govern …
Finance and the Earth system – Exploring the links between financial actors and non-linear changes in the climate system
Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem
Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship
Economics (21 works) · Political science (19 works) · Business (18 works) · Environmental resource management (18 works) · Ecology (17 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Biology (11 works) · Sustainability (11 works)