Mats Lannerstad is a Research Fellow at SEI Stockholm. He is the project leader and co-author of a joint book project between the SEI and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

The book centres on water for food and ecosystems, and will build on recent advancements in socio-ecological resilience and place the entire water-food-ecosystem nexus in the global environmental change perspective.

His resent work centres on global water requirements for food production to meet the needs and demands of a continuously growing, and still partly starving, world population, and water resource management on river basin scale, in a river basin closure perspective.

Mats Lannerstad holds a Ph.D. in Water and Environmental Studies, Linköping University, a M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, and a M.Sc. in Biology/Limnology, Lund University.

His education and field of expertise focuses on water from different research discipline angles, and stretches from local freshwater ecology concerns to water related and water dependent global agricultural changes and challenges.

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Publications

• Releasing the Pressure: Water Resource Efficiencies and Gains for Ecosystem Services (Report - 2012)

• Releasing the Pressure: Water Resource Efficiencies and Gains for Ecosystem Services (Policy brief) (Policy brief - 2012)

• The planetary water drama: Dual task of feeding humanity and curbing climate change (Journal article - 2012)

• The Millennium Development Goals in 2010 - threats to ecosystem services from air pollution, energy generation and pesticide use (Policy brief - 2010)

• Food security in water-short countries – Coping with carrying capacity overshoot (Book chapter - 2010)

• Impacts of Pollution on Ecosystem Services for the Millennium Development Goals (Project report - 2010)

• Villains or Heroes? Farmers' Adjustments to Water Scarcity (Journal article - 2010)

• Assessing the water challenge of a new green revolution in developing countries (Journal article - 2007)

• Sustainable Pathways to Attain the Millennium Development Goals - Assessing the Role of Water, Energy and Sanitation (Journal article - 2005)

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Projects

• Social and environmental costs and opportunities associated with renewable energy policy implementation: Negotiation of equitable water allocation and its implications for sustainable livelihoods