Ann-Sophie Crepín
Anne-Sophie Crépin is the deputy director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of sciences and a principal researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. Her research focuses on the complex interactions between society and nature on a human-dominated planet, with particular focus on how these interactions can potentially lead to large scale abrupt changes and how society can respond in ways that sustain long term human well-being. Her methodological approach mixes modeling and experiments, bringing in theories of economics, resilience, complex systems, regime shifts, human behaviour, and the Anthropocene. Using an economic and resource management perspective, she has studied all kinds of ecosystems such as fisheries, the Arctic Ocean, coral reefs, grasslands, and forests.
About the keynote:From looming global scale failures to polycrises: diagnoses and possible responses
Energy, food, and water crises; climate disruption; declining fisheries; increasing ocean acidification; emerging diseases; and increasing antibiotic resistance are examples of serious, intertwined global-scale challenges spawned by the accelerating scale of human activity. They are outpacing the development of institutions to deal with them and their many interacting effects.” These were the introduction sentences of Walker et al. 2009, Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions, Science 325(5946): 135-1346. Today we talk instead of polycrises and Anthropocene traps, but the issues are similar. In my talk, I will illustrate how a complex adaptive system perspective can help us better understand the underlying dynamics resulting in polycrises and how this knowledge can support better societal responses to these challenges.
