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Victor Galaz
Researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre
Publications - 73
Citations - 8019
Victor Galaz is an academic researcher from Stockholm Resilience Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corporate governance & Sustainability. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 67 publications receiving 6518 citations. Previous affiliations of Victor Galaz include Stockholm University & Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health
Nick Watts,W. Neil Adger,Paolo Agnolucci,Jason J. Blackstock,Peter Byass,Wenjia Cai,Sarah Chaytor,Tim Colbourn,Matthew Collins,Adam Cooper,Peter M. Cox,Joanna Depledge,Paul Drummond,Paul Ekins,Victor Galaz,Delia Grace,Hilary Graham,Michael Grubb,Andy Haines,Ian Hamilton,Alasdair Hunter,Xujia Jiang,Moxuan Li,Ilan Kelman,Lu Liang,Melissa C. Lott,Robert Lowe,Yong Luo,Georgina M. Mace,Mark A. Maslin,Maria Nilsson,Tadj Oreszczyn,Steve Pye,Tara Quinn,My Svensdotter,Sergey Venevsky,Koko Warner,Bing Xu,Jun Yang,Yongyuan Yin,Chaoqing Yu,Qiang Zhang,Peng Gong,Hugh Montgomery,Anthony Costello +44 more
TL;DR: The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change has been formed to map out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, in order to ensure the highest attainable stand-alone position on climate change.
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Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation
Frances Westley,Per Olsson,Carl Folke,Carl Folke,Thomas F. Homer-Dixon,Thomas F. Homer-Dixon,Harrie Vredenburg,Derk Loorbach,John Thompson,Måns Nilsson,Eric F. Lambin,Eric F. Lambin,Jan Sendzimir,Banny Banerjee,Banny Banerjee,Victor Galaz,Sander van der Leeuw +16 more
TL;DR: The central question is whether social and technical innovations can reverse the trends that are challenging critical thresholds and creating tipping points in the earth system, and if not, what conditions are necessary to escape the current lock-in.
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Governance and Complexity—Emerging Issues for Governance Theory
Andreas Duit,Victor Galaz +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors 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, threshold effects, cascades, and limited predictability.
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Reconnecting to the Biosphere
Carl Folke,Carl Folke,Åsa Jansson,Åsa Jansson,Johan Rockström,Johan Rockström,Per Olsson,Stephen R. Carpenter,F. Stuart Chapin,Anne-Sophie Crépin,Anne-Sophie Crépin,Gretchen C. Daily,Kjell Danell,Jonas Ebbesson,Thomas Elmqvist,Victor Galaz,Fredrik Moberg,Måns Nilsson,Henrik Österblom,Elinor Ostrom,Elinor Ostrom,Åsa Persson,Åsa Persson,Garry D. Peterson,Stephen Polasky,Stephen Polasky,Will Steffen,Will Steffen,Brian Walker,Brian Walker,Brian Walker,Frances Westley +31 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the Millennium Development Goals need to be reframed in such a planetary stewardship context combined with a call for a new social contract on global sustainability.
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Sustainability transformations: a resilience perspective
TL;DR: The authors explored how resilience thinking, and a stronger focus on social-ecological systems, can contribute to existing studies of sustainability transformations and highlighted promising work that combines insights from different theoretical strands.