title: Why Ecologists Should Care about Financial Markets.
abstract: Financial actors such as international banks and investors play an important role in the global economy. This role is shifting due to financial innovations, increased sustainability ambitions from large financial actors, and changes in international commodity markets. These changes are creating new global connections that potentially make financial markets, actors, and instruments important aspects of global environmental change. Despite this, the way financial markets and actors affect ecosystem change in different parts of the world has seldom been elaborated in the literature. We summarize these financial trends, explore how they connect to ecosystems and ecological change in both direct and indirect ways, and elaborate on crucial research gaps.
authors.affiliation: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm. Sweden; Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere Programme, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: victor.galaz@stockholmresilience.su.se.
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Galaz
authors.affiliation: Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. Sweden; Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere Programme, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Johan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gars
authors.affiliation: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm. Sweden.
authors.forename: Fredrik
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Moberg
authors.affiliation: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm. Sweden; Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Björn
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nykvist
authors.affiliation: Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere Programme, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Repinski
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000191:economics*; D004463:Ecology / Q000191:economics*; D004467:Economics / Q000639:trends*; D017753:Ecosystem