We are in the midst of a devastating pandemic. The coronavirus that leads to covid-19 is known to be a zoonotic disease - a virus that has spilled over from non-human animals to humans, and then rapidly moved across the world with devastating impacts on human health, economies and social stability.    What is the connection between environmental change and diseases such as coronaviruses? How strong is this connection, can we really blame bats, and what does the future of disease risks look like?    In this episode, Victor Galaz, deputy director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, talks to professor Kate Jones from University College London and Peter Søgaard Jørgensen from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Both are experts on the links between ecology, disease and global change. Watch the video version of the podcast on rethink.earth Books and publications mentioned during the talk The Stockholm Paragidm: Climate change and emerging disease https://books.google.se/books/about/The_Stockholm_Paradigm.html?id=8wiaDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false   Doughnut economics, Kate Raworth https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/   Coevolutionary governance of antibiotic and pesticide resistance https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534720300136   Evolution in the Anthropocene: informing governance and policy https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110218-024621   Impacts of environmental and socio-economic factors on emergence and epidemic potential of Ebola in Africa https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12499-6   Global trends in emerging infectious diseases https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06536/   About Rethink Talks Rethink Talks is Stockholm Resilience Centre's multimedia podcast series on resilience thinking and global change. It spotlights conversations between experts on a range of topics that highlight how resilience thinking and biosphere stewardship adds value to current debates on for instance COVID-19. Read more and see more episodes here Stockholm Resilience Centre is an international research centre which advances sustainability science for biosphere stewardship. The centre is a joint initiative between Stockholm University and The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.