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Laura Pereira
Researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre
Publications - 97
Citations - 3792
Laura Pereira is an academic researcher from Stockholm Resilience Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sustainability & Food systems. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 78 publications receiving 2396 citations. Previous affiliations of Laura Pereira include University of Cape Town & University of Vic.
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Summary for policymakers of the regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Africa of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Emma Archer,Luthando Dziba,K.J. Mulongoy,Maoela,Michele Walters,Reinette Biggs,M-C. Cormier-Salem,Fabrice DeClerck,Mariteuw Chimère Diaw,Amy E. Dunham,Pierre Failler,Christopher P. Gordon,K. A. Harhash,Robert Kasisi,Fred Kizito,W.D. Nyingi,N Oguge,B. Osman-Elasha,Lindsay C. Stringer,L. Tito de Morais,A. Assogbadjo,Benis N. Egoh,Marwa Waseem A. Halmy,Katja Heubach,Adelina Mensah,Laura Pereira,Nadia Sitas,Ipbes +27 more
TL;DR: The Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) as mentioned in this paper is the most comprehensive report of its kind and builds on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment of 2005, introducing innovative ways of evaluating evidence.
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Bright spots : seeds of a good Anthropocene
Elena M. Bennett,Martin Solan,Reinette Biggs,Reinette Biggs,Timon McPhearson,Albert V. Norström,Per Olsson,Laura Pereira,Laura Pereira,Garry D. Peterson,Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne,Frank Biermann,Stephen R. Carpenter,Erle C. Ellis,Hichert Tn,Victor Galaz,Myanna Lahsen,Manjana Milkoreit,Berta Martin López,Kimberly A. Nicholas,Rika Preiser,Gaia Vince,Joost Vervoort,Joost Vervoort,Jianchu Xu,Jianchu Xu +25 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an approach to thinking about the future that builds on experiences drawn from a diversity of practices, worldviews, values, and regions that could accelerate the adoption of pathways to transformative change (change that goes beyond incremental improvements).
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Transformations to Sustainability: Combining Structural, Systemic and Enabling Approaches
Ian Scoones,Andrew Stirling,Dinesh Abrol,Joanes Atela,Lakshmi Charli-Joseph,Hallie Eakin,Adrian Ely,Per Olsson,Laura Pereira,Ritu Priya,Patrick van Zwanenberg,Lichao Yang +11 more
TL;DR: A brief overview of different conceptualisations of transformation, and a set of practical principles for effective research and action towards sustainability are outlined in this paper. But these approaches are not mutually exclusive.
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Organising a safe space for navigating social-ecological transformations to sustainability
TL;DR: It is argued that there is an emergent potential in bridging the sustainability transitions and resilience approaches to create new scientific capacity that can support large-scale social-ecological transformations to sustainability globally, not just in the West.
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Multiscale scenarios for nature futures
Isabel M.D. Rosa,Isabel M.D. Rosa,Henrique M. Pereira,Henrique M. Pereira,Henrique M. Pereira,Simon Ferrier,Rob Alkemade,Lilibeth A. Acosta,H. Resit Akçakaya,Eefje den Belder,Eefje den Belder,Asghar M. Fazel,Shinichiro Fujimori,Shinichiro Fujimori,Mike Harfoot,K. A. Harhash,Paula A. Harrison,Jennifer Hauck,Rob J. J. Hendriks,Gladys Hernández,Walter Jetz,Walter Jetz,Sylvia I. Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen,HyeJin Kim,Nicholas King,Marcel Kok,Grygoriy Kolomytsev,Tanya Lazarova,Paul Leadley,Carolyn J. Lundquist,Carolyn J. Lundquist,Jaime Ricardo García Márquez,Carsten Meyer,Carsten Meyer,Laetitia M. Navarro,Laetitia M. Navarro,Carsten Nesshöver,Carsten Nesshöver,Hien T. Ngo,K. N. Ninan,Maria Gabriela Palomo,Laura Pereira,Garry D. Peterson,Ramon Pichs,Alexander Popp,Andy Purvis,Federica Ravera,Federica Ravera,Carlo Rondinini,Jyothis Sathyapalan,Aafke M. Schipper,Ralf Seppelt,Josef Settele,Josef Settele,Nadia Sitas,Detlef P. van Vuuren +55 more
TL;DR: An outline of a strategy to generate scenarios centred on the authors' relationship with nature to inform decision-making at multiple scales is outlined.