News from the House of Sustainable Society

Carl Folke, professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, director of the Beijer Institute, founder of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Misum Board Member was selected to speak on Swedish Radio program Sommar i P1.

The latest Misum Annual Report is now available, showcasing a variety of sustainability-focused research projects, engaging multi-stakeholder events, and highlights from Misum's outreach and research communication activities.

Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Executive Director of Misum and the Carl Bennet and Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Professor in Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, has been appointed as a new member of the Expert Group For Aid Studies / EBA by the Swedish government.

We are glad to announce that Misum Platform Director Mattia Bianchi, Affiliate Suvi Nenonen, and Kathleen Burke (formerly a postdoc at SSE) have secured 7 million SEK in funding from Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for their 4-year research project: "Making Markets for Forest Ecosystem Services: Investigating Novel Technologies and Business Models." Congratulations and best wishes to the team for a successful project!

In this new Misum Academic Insight, Misum affiliated researchers Emilia Cederberg and Ebba Sjögren explore how organizations can maintain sustainability accounting and reporting systems over time amid shifting internal and external circumstances.

In this latest Misum Academic Insight, Misum affiliates Maria Perrotta Berlin, Anders Olofsgård, and co-author Evelina Bonnier analyze the impacts of foreign aid on female empowerment, drawing on community-level data from Malawi. The study examines the outcomes of general and gender-targeted aid on gender norms and empowerment in rural settings.