Glen D Peterson

Biographic Data

ID729308
NAMEGlen D Peterson
GIVEN NAMESGlen D
FAMILY NAMEPeterson
SIGNATUREPETERSON G D
AFFILIATIONSStockholm Resilience Centre
ORCID0000-0003-0173-0112
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS81
TOTAL CITATIONS739
AUTHOR COUNT81
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX14

  • Visioning ecologically diverse and harmonious futures of Korea in Good Anthropocene

    Open AccessHyejin Kim, Glen D Peterson et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2026

    The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a buffer between North and South Korea, holds profound historical, cultural and ecological significance, as well as exceptional potential for conservation and transformation. This study explores ecologically diverse and peaceful futures for the Korean Peninsula by envisioning the DMZ as a landscape for harmonious human–nature co‐existence. Using the Nature Futures Framework ( NFF ) and the Seeds of Good Anthro…

  • The future of Global Environmental Assessments: 20 Years after the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

    Open AccessElena Michele Bennett, Walter V Reid et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2026References: 12

  • Framings in Indigenous futures thinking: Barriers, Opportunities, and Innovations

    Open AccessJessica Cheok, Julia Van Velden et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2025Cited by: 6References: 13

    Human societies face existential challenges on multiple fronts: climate change, biodiversity loss, altered biogeochemical flows, social unrest and injustices. Innovative solutions are needed to shift current trajectories towards a sustainable and just future. Futures thinking enables people to explore and articulate alternative futures and find pathways towards their desired futures. Indigenous people have the potential to make significant contri…

  • Welcome home! Introducing SocSES: A Society for Inclusive and Impactful Social-Ecological Research

    Open AccessA De Vos, Allyson Quinlan et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2025

    Underpinned by systemic thinking, social-ecological systems (SES) research has emerged as a critical field for addressing the challenges of the Anthropocene, marked by a cross-scale focus, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches, and a strong emphasis on place-based work. Thanks to the efforts of many networks and institutes, the field has advanced new theoretical and methodological approaches, fostered dedicated journals, and spurred educational…

  • Transformative foresight for diverse futures: The Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative

    Open AccessR Preiser, Tanja Hichert et al.ARTICLEDevelopment Policy Review2024

  • European scenarios for future biological invasions

    Open AccessCristian Pérez‐Granado, Bernd Lenzner et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2024

    Invasive alien species are one of the major threats to global biodiversity, ecosystem integrity, nature's contributions to people and human health. While scenarios about potential future developments have been available for other global change drivers for quite some time, we largely lack an understanding of how biological invasions might unfold in the future across spatial scales. Based on previous work on global invasion scenarios, we developed …

  • Integrated modeling of nature’s role in human well-being: A research agenda

    Open AccessRebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, Stephen Polasky et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2024Cited by: 3References: 10

    Integrated models can assess effects of ecosystem services on the global economy. • Insights from integrated models can improve management for sustainable development. • To be most useful, models need to link ecological impacts and human well-being. • Key advances include better incorporation of equity and social-ecological feedbacks. Integrated assessment models that incorporate biodiversity and ecosystem services could be an important tool for …

  • Biosphere Futures: A Database of Social-Ecological Scenarios

    Open AccessJan J Kuiper, Jan Kuiper et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2024Cited by: 2

    Biosphere Futures (https://biospherefutures.net/) is a new online database to collect and discover scenario studies from across the world, with a specific focus on scenarios that explicitly incorporate interdependencies between humans and their supporting ecosystems. It provides access to a globally diverse collection of case studies that includes most ecosystems and regions, enabling exploration of the multifaceted ways in which the future might…

  • Bringing the Nature Futures Framework to life: Creating a set of illustrative narratives of nature futures

    Open AccessAmérica Paz Durán, Jan J Kuiper et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2023Cited by: 3References: 1

    The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-023-01316-1

  • Modeling desirable futures at local scale by combining the nature futures framework and multi-objective optimization

    Open AccessChihiro Haga, Marimi Maeda et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2023Cited by: 2References: 5

    Envisioning positive scenarios that recognize the multiple values of nature is fundamental for designing transformative changes in local socio-ecological systems. This study developed a protocol with three specifications for operationalizing the Nature Futures Framework (NFF) in a landscape scenario analysis using a multi-objective optimization framework composed of: (1) exploring nature-positive futures, (2) seeking alternative pathways for targ…

  • Towards a better future for biodiversity and people: Modelling Nature Futures

    Open AccessHyejin Kim, Glen D Peterson et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2023Cited by: 18References: 2

    The Nature Futures Framework (NFF) is a heuristic tool for co-creating positive futures for nature and people. It seeks to open up a diversity of futures through mainly three value perspectives on nature – Nature for Nature, Nature for Society, and Nature as Culture. This paper describes how the NFF can be applied in modelling to support decision-making. First, we describe key considerations for the NFF in developing qualitative and quantitative …

  • What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment, and networking

    Open AccessAaron Tuckey, Zuzana V Harmáčková et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2023Cited by: 1

    Achieving sustainability in the Anthropocene requires radical changes to how human societies operate. The Seeds of Good Anthropocenes (SOGA) project has identified a diverse set of existing initiatives, called “seeds,” that have the potential to catalyze transformations toward more sustainable pathways. However, the empirical investigation of factors and conditions that enable successful sustainability transformations across multiple cases has be…

  • Exploring desirable nature futures for Nationaal Park Hollandse Duinen

    Open AccessJan J Kuiper, Dianneke van Wijk et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2022

    Achieving global sustainability goals requires most people and societies to fundamentally revisit their relationship with nature. New approaches are called for to guide change processes towards sustainable futures that embrace the plurality of people’s desired relationships with nature. This paper presents a novel approach to exploring desirable futures for nature and people that was developed through an application in Nationaal Park Hollandse Du…

  • Advancing research on ecosystem service bundles for comparative assessments and synthesis

    Open AccessMegan Meacham, Albert V Norström et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2022

    Social-ecological interactions have been shown to generate interrelated and reoccurring sets of ecosystem services, also known as ecosystem service bundles. Given the potential utility of the bundles concept, along with the recent surge in interest it is timely to reflect on the concept, its current use and potential for the future. Based on our ecosystem service bundle experience, expertise, and ecosystem service bundle analyses, we have found c…

  • Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking

    Open AccessClaude García, Sini Savilaakso et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Cited by: 1References: 7

  • Amplifying actions for food system transformation: Insights from the Stockholm region

    Open AccessDavid P M Lam, Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2022Cited by: 3References: 16

    Food is essential to people and is one of the main ways in which people are connected to the world’s ecosystems. However, food systems often cause ecosystem degradation and produce ill-health, which has generated increasing calls to transform food systems to be more sustainable. The Swedish food system is currently undergoing substantial change. A varied set of local actors have created alternative sustainability initiatives that enact new ways o…

  • Resilience in the times of Covid: What the response to the Covid pandemic teaches us about resilience principles

    Open AccessMarta Berbés-Blázquez, Marta Berbés‐Blázquez et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2022

    Berbés-Blázquez, M., M. Schoon, K. Benessaiah, E. M. Bennett, G. D. Peterson, and R. Ghimire. 2022. Resilience in the times of COVID: what the response to the COVID pandemic teaches us about resilience principles. Ecology and Society 27(2):16. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13223-270216

  • Ecosystem services in Sahelian village landscapes 1952-2016: Estimating Change in a Data Scarce Region

    Open AccessHanna Sinare, Glen D Peterson et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2022

    Burkina Faso and the wider Sahel region have experienced substantial changes in rainfall, population, and landscape use. These changes have altered ecosystem services, the benefits that people receive from ecosystems, and rural livelihoods. However, it is difficult to assess the magnitude of these changes because of missing and fragmented social, agricultural, and ecological data. We estimated changes in 10 key provisioning ecosystem services in …

  • Panarchy: Ripples of a Boundary Concept

    Open AccessJuan C Rocha, Juan Rocha et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2022Cited by: 2

    How do social-ecological systems change over time? In 2002 C. S. Holling and colleagues proposed the concept of panarchy, which presented social-ecological systems as an interacting set of adaptive cycles, each produced by the dynamic tensions between novelty and efficiency at multiple scales. Initially introduced as a conceptual framework and set of metaphors, panarchy has gained the attention of scholars across many disciplines, and its ideas c…

  • Advancing a toolkit of diverse futures approaches for global environmental assessments

    Open AccessLaura Pereira, Jan J Kuiper et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2021

    Global Environmental Assessments (GEAs) are in a unique position to influence environmental decision-making in the context of sustainability challenges. To do this effectively, however, new methods are needed to respond to the needs of decision-makers for a more integrated, contextualized and goal-seeking evaluation of different policies, geared for action from global to local. While scenarios are an important tool for GEAs to link short-term dec…

  • Land-use intensity mediates ecosystem service tradeoffs across regional social-ecological systems

    Open AccessJiangxiao Qiu, Cibele Queiroz et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2021

    A key sustainability challenge in human-dominated landscapes is how to reconcile competing demands such as food production, water quality, climate regulation, and ecological amenities. Prior research has documented how efforts to prioritize desirable ecosystem services such as food and fiber have often led to tradeoffs with other services. However, the growing literature has revealed different and sometimes contradictory patterns in ecosystem ser…

  • Patchwork Earth: Navigating pathways to just, thriving, and sustainable futures

    Open AccessEdward M Bennett, Elena M Bennett et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • Alternative futures for global biological invasions

    Open AccessNúria Roura‐Pascual, Barbara Leung et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2021Cited by: 2References: 13

    Scenario analysis has emerged as a key tool to analyze complex and uncertain future socio-ecological developments. However, currently existing global scenarios (narratives of how the world may develop) have neglected biological invasions, a major threat to biodiversity and the economy. Here, we use a novel participatory process to develop a diverse set of global biological invasion scenarios spanning a wide range of plausible global futures throu…

  • Operationalizing the Nature Futures Framework to catalyze the development of nature-future scenarios

    Open AccessCarolyn J Lundquist, Shizuka Hashimoto et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2021Cited by: 6

  • Upscaling the resilience assessment through comparative analysis

    Open AccessJuan Rocha, Carla Lanyon et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2021Cited by: 5References: 4

    Resilience is the capacity of any system to maintain its function, structure and identity despite disturbances. Assessing resilience has been elusive due to high levels of abstraction that are difficult to empirically test, or the lack of high quality data required once appropriate proxies are identified. Most resilience assessments are limited to specific situation arenas, making comparision one of the unresolved challenges. Here we show how lev…