Maria Tengö

Stockholm

Maria Tengö is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden and co-leader of the research theme Stewardship in Social-Ecological Systems. She is particularly interested in how different manifestations of strong human-nature relationships can contribute to build social-ecological resilience, and is engaged in research on traditional and local knowledge, cultural ecosystem services, and the emergence and spread of ecosystem stewardship. In our urban life-styles, how may we re-connect with nature as well as follow development paths that build on rather than disrupts positive connections between people and nature? Her work has mainly been focused on Southern Africa, but she has also worked in India, and is engaged in science-policy processes that link local insights and experiences to global level policy making, for example within the CBD and the IPBES.