Stephen Woroniecki

Stephen Woroniecki is a researcher working in Sweden and with colleagues at Oxford University’s Nature-based Solutions Initiative, bringing together the social and the natural dimensions of challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, and inequality. His research deals with the potential of 'Nature-based Solutions' to address these challenges, and he strives to ensure that communities have a voice and rights in environmental decision-making that affects them. He has a background in in ecology, conservation, and resilience – having studied in Edinburgh, Stockholm, and Lund – but is increasingly using social science and humanities to ask questions about the social power and people’s subjective experience of environmental change and response. He has conducted research in Latin America, Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the Pacific.