1) A set of ‘cheat sheets’ for programming various things in R – data mining, multiple regression, time series analysis, etc.
2) From AlertNet Thailand needs long term strategy to deal with floods.
3) From Solutions magazine Mongolian herders practice adaptive co-management
4) Environmental studies professor David Orr leads an attempt to transform Oberlin, Ohio into a national leader in sustainability – in a way similar to transition town movement.
5) W. Ross Ashby digital archive. An online archive of influential systems thinker’s work. Lots of stuff. For example, here are his notes on his homeostat.
6) In 2009 The International Journal of General Systems, 38(2), featured a special issue about “The Intellectual Legacy of W. Ross Ashby.” Unfortunately only the introduction is open access.
7) The Institute on the Environment (IonE) is searching for 4 world-class postdoctoral scientists to join the Global Landscapes Initiative (GLI), which is focused on understanding global-scale changes in land use, agriculture, food security, and the environment. For full info see: PostDoc Scientists.
Related posts:
- Stafford Beer on Ross Ashby
- Links: Melting glaciers, floods, and species responses to climate change
- short links: open data, candian census, and merchants of doubt
- Gilbert White: Floods are acts of God, but flood losses are largely acts of man
- Legacy Futures: how past concepts of the future constrain current thinking
