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Garry D. Peterson | |
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| Alma mater |
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| Awards | Smith Fellow, Canada Research Chair |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | social-ecological systems, ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability science |
| Institutions | Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University |
| Thesis | Contagious disturbance and ecological resilience (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | C.S. Holling |
| Website | https://www.stockholmresilience.org/meet-our-team/staff/2008-08-27-peterson.html |
Garry D. Peterson is a professor at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, at Stockholm University in Sweden[1]. His research is in the field of sustainability science focussed on the dynamics, management, and future of social-ecological systems[2].
Early life and education
[edit]Peterson grew up in the village of Lions Bay in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He studied Systems Design Engineering[3] at the University of Waterloo. There he developed an interest in sustainability and complexity science that led to graduate school[4].
Peterson attended the University of Florida for his Masters and PhD. He was supervised by Canadian ecologist and resilience pioneer C.S. Holling, and was "Buzz" Holling's final PhD student[4]. During his PhD he worked with many natural and social scientists interested in resilience through the Resilience Alliance[5], and became involved as a co-author of the influential book "Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems"[6]. He earned his PhD in 1999 for his dissertation "Contagious disturbance and ecological resilience"[7].
Following his PhD, he was a post-doctoral researcher, first at National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, at University of California Santa Barbara and second at the Centre for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin where he worked with US lake ecologst Stephen R. Carpenter. At Wisconsin he had a David H. Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship [8].
From 2003-2008, he was a Canada Research Chair and assistant professor at McGill University. He was jointly appointed in the Department of Geography and the McGill School of the Environment. He moved to the Stockholm Resilience Centre in 2008.[9]
Research
[edit]Peterson's interdisciplinary research integrates insights from social and natural sciences to better understand the dynamics between human societies and their environments. Peterson has published over 125 peer-reviewed articles [10]. His work has been influential in the development of the field of social-ecological systems [11], and has been highly cited[12]. He has frequently collaborated other social-ecological researchers, in particular as colleagues at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, as well Elena Bennett in Canada and Reinette Biggs in South Africa,
His well known publications include work on Ecosystem services, Resilience, and Scenario Planning [13]. Some of the most cited articles are:
- EM Bennett, GD Peterson, LJ Gordon. 2009. Understanding relationships among multiple ecosystem services. Ecology letters 12 (12), 1394-1404[14]
- C Raudsepp-Hearne, GD Peterson, EM Bennett. 2010. Ecosystem service bundles for analyzing tradeoffs in diverse landscapes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (11), 5242-5247[15]
- G Peterson, CR Allen, CS Holling. 1998. Ecological resilience, biodiversity, and scale. Ecosystems 1(1), 6-18[16]
- GD Peterson, GS Cumming, SR Carpenter. 2003. Scenario planning: a tool for conservation in an uncertain world. Conservation biology 17 (2), 358-366 [17]
Peterson has worked on multiple science policy interfaces. He was a member of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)’s Task force on Models and Scenarios [18], and lead a chapter in the 2016 IPBES Methodological Assessment Report on Scenarios and Models of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services [19]. He contributed to two chapters to the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Scenarios report[20]. He also co-led the Arctic Council's 2016 Arctic Resilience Report[21], which provided a novel assessment of Arctic change and resilience from biophysical, social-ecological, and governance perspectives[22].
Peterson is currently co-chair of the board of the Resilience Alliance, an international scientific network focused on resilience in social-ecological systems, that publishes the social-ecological systems oriented journal scientific journal Ecology and Society. Furthermore, he is a member of the partnership committee of the Natural Capital Project, a partnership between interdisciplinary researchers, professionals, and leaders working to make valuing natural capital easier and more accessible to all[23].
Peterson is currently director of the MISTRA Finance to Revive Biodiversity programme a four-year, trans-disciplinary research project that aims to refocus finance on supporting the biosphere [24].
Databases
[edit]Peterson has co-founded three open databases to build scientific networks and contribute to open science in these research areas.
The Regime shifts Database (https://regimeshifts.org), a database of substantial, persistent types and examples of regimes shifts, persistent, substantial changes in the structure and function of social-ecological systems that alter the supply of ecosystem services[25]. This database was developed with Reinette Biggs and Juan Rocha.[26]
Seeds of the Good Anthropocene project features a comparative database of sustainability initiatives to compare and analyze the transformative impact of sustainability innovations.[27]. This project was co-founded with with Reinette Biggs and Elena Bennett.
Biosphere Futures an online database of over 100 cases of place based social-ecological scenario planning, to facilitate the development of a research community around social-ecological scenarios. This project was co-founded with Jan Kuiper.[28].
References
[edit]- ^ "Garry Peterson at Stockholm Resilience Centre". Retrieved Dec 6, 2023.
- ^ "ORCID entry for Garry Peterson". Retrieved Dec 6, 2023.
- ^ "About Systems Design Engineering". Retrieved Nov 7, 2023.
- ^ a b Holling, C.S. (2017). Bubbles and Spirals: The Memoirs of C. S. Buzz Holling (2nd ed.).
- ^ "Resilience Alliance". Retrieved Nov 6, 2023.
- ^ Gunderson, L.H.; Holling, C.S., eds. (2002). Panarchy: understanding transformations in human and natural systems. Washington, D.C., USA: Island Press.
- ^ Peterson, G.D. (1999). Contagious disturbance and ecological resilience (Thesis).
- ^ "Smith Fellows Garry Peterson". Retrieved Nov 6, 2023.
- ^ "Profile of Garry Peterson". Retrieved Dec 6, 2023.
- ^ "Google Scholar Profile Garry Peterson". Retrieved Oct 2, 2024.
- ^ Manyani, A.; Biggs, R.; Hill, L.; Preiser, R. (2023). "he evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis". Ecology and Society. 29 (1): 33. doi:10.5751/ES-14694-290133.
- ^ "Web of Science - Garry D Peterson". Retrieved Nov 6, 2023.
- ^ "Google Scholar Profile Garry Peterson". Retrieved Oct 2, 2024.
- ^ Bennett, E.M.; Peterson, G.D.; Gordon, L.J. (2009). "Understanding relationships among multiple ecosystem services". Ecology letters. 12 (12): 1394–1404. doi:10.1073/pnas.0907284107.
- ^ Raudsepp-Hearne, C.; Peterson, G.D.; Bennett, E.M. (2010). "Ecosystem service bundles for analyzing tradeoffs in diverse landscapes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (11): 5242–5247. doi:10.1073/pnas.0907284107.
- ^ Peterson, G.D.; Allen, C.R.; Holling, C.S. (1998). "Ecological resilience, biodiversity, and scale". Ecosystems. 1 (1): 6–18. doi:10.1007/s100219900002.
- ^ Peterson, G.D.; Cumming, G.S.; Carpenter, S.R. (2003). "Scenario planning: a tool for conservation in an uncertain world". Conservation biology. 17 (2): 358–366. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01491.x.
- ^ "IPBES Task force on models and scenarios". Retrieved Dec 6, 2023.
- ^ "IPBES Scenarios and models assessment". Retrieved Dec 6, 2023.
- ^ "MA: Scenarios Assessment". 2006.
- ^ Carlson, M; Peterson, G.D., eds. (2016). Arctic resilience report (Report). Stockholm Environment Institute and Stockholm Resilience Centre.
- ^ Harvey, Fiona (Nov 25, 2016). "Arctic ice melt could trigger uncontrollable climate change at global level". Guardian.
- ^ "Natural Capital Project". Retrieved Nov 7, 2023.
- ^ "Finance to Revive Biodiversity project website". Retrieved Nov 6, 2023.
- ^ "Regime Shifts Database". Retrieved Dec 6, 2023.
- ^ Biggs, R.; Peterson, G.D.; Rocha, J.R. (2018). "The Regime Shifts Database: a framework for analyzing regime shifts in social-ecological systems". Ecology and Society. 23 (3): 9. doi:10.5751/ES-10264-230309.
- ^ "Seeds of the Good Anthropocene". Retrieved Dec 6, 2023.
- ^ "Biosphere Futures Database". Retrieved Dec 6, 2023.