Abstract
This is an application for continued support to extend my post doctoral fellowship at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, for another six months. My stay so far has been very rewarding, especially in terms of insights in landscape analyze of ecosystem services (the benefits humans receive from nature), trade-offs between bundles of services, multifunctional landscapes and implications for social-ecological resilience, i.e. the capacity to deal with change and continue to develop. I have also through collaborations in Montreal developed in my understanding and analysis of the governance challenges involved in managing ecosystem services at a landscape scale. In addition to work within my previous case study in southern Madagascar, I have also initiated and carried out research in a case in southern Quebec, collaborating with colleagues at McGill and other universities in Montreal. To be able to finalize this work and participate in the development of a regional model of the agricultural peri-urban region in southern Quebec and its dynamics and resilience, I wish to stay in Montreal for an extended period. Experience of modeling of social-ecological systems will be an important component for my future research based in Sweden.
Sweden