resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: Water in the #anthropocene: a global overview. New video via collaborative project Welcome to the Anthropocene: https:… May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading "Happiness is greater in natural environments" paper using phone app monitoring of subjective wellbeing http://t.co/2xb2nMikRs May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: Future Earth research to enable "justice and equity for all peoples in a world of ecological resilience" O’Riordan in http://t.co/W5fO1S6uFR May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @christofab: New Special Issue of Ecology&Society: complexity thinking in southern Africa http://t.co/SQQEsBA8Es May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading "Six attributes of social resilience" new paper by Maclean et al in Journal of Env. Planning & Management http://t.co/kpoUTKroZi May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: @owengaffney @GenAnthropocene And here's my former McGill colleague Bernhard Lehner's 200 yrs of world dam data https://t.co/dO4721U8U4 May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: @owengaffney @GenAnthropocene Here's James Syvitski in 2011 of 200 yrs of USA dam construction http://t.co/qDj1nEpU9d May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @erleellis: Abstract time for the 2014 Global Land Project Open Science Meeting in Berlin http://t.co/dn7Wo8I5y8 May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading UNEP's: #City-Level DeCoupling-urban resource flows & the governance of infrastructure #transitions http://t.co/9B3IFBoJ5R May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Agricultural regime shift in Texas: long term aquifer depletion+drought= loss of vast areas of farm land http://t.co/fsYyuaJxD5 #resilience May 20, 2013
Author Archives: Allyson Quinlan
Remembering Elinor Ostrom 1933 – 2012
Lin Ostrom will have a lasting effect, not only on those who were privileged to know her. The following comments from friends and colleagues in the RA community have several common themes and one doesn’t have to read far to … Continue reading
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Resilience Thinking in Practice
On the final afternoon of the Resilience 2011 conference last month in Tempe, Arizona, a panel session on resilience assessment packed out the room.This wasn’t surprising given that a recurring theme throughout the conference and in my own discussions with … Continue reading
Building Resilience in Ontario – more than metaphor or arcane concept
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario’s latest annual report entitled “Building Resilience”. This was a pleasant surprise. Off the top, the Commissioner’s report credits Buzz Holling and the ecological origins of resilience and offers … Continue reading
Resilience 2011
It’s official! Resilience 2011, the second international science and policy conference will take place March 11-16, 2011 in Tempe Arizona. The conference title “Resilience, Innovation, and Sustainability: Navigating the Complexities of Global Change” gets right to the point. Resilience 2011 … Continue reading
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Resilience Assessment in Roghun, Tajikistan
Earlier this month Christo Fabricius and I were in Tajikistan to conduct participatory workshops with Mountain Societies Development Support Program (MSDSP) staff and community members from two rural villages in the District of Roghun as part of a resilience assessment … Continue reading
A regional resilience assessment of the Goulburn-Broken Catchment
Earlier this month one of the first integrated assessments of regional resilience based on the workbooks developed by the Resilience Alliance was published in Ecology and Society. Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in the Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia, by Brian Walker, Nick … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptability, Australia, Brian Walker, Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Marty Anderies, Nick Abel, Paul Ryan, resilience, Transformability, workbook
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Biocultural Conservation at the end of the earth merits 2008 SPES Award
Ricardo Rozzi is this year’s recipient of the Science and Practice of Ecology & Society award for his team’s research activities at Omora Ethnobotanical Park on Navarino Island just off the tip of South America. Rozzi’s contribution to biocultural conservation … Continue reading
Radio Feature: Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times
Mark Sommer, host and executive producer of A World of Possibilities, interviewed scientists and researchers from around the world at the Resilience 2008 conference last month in Stockholm, Sweden. The 55 minute long radio show can be heard online and … Continue reading
Wiki launch of the practitioner’s guide to resilience assessment
Last week at Resilience 2008 in Stockholm, I gave a presentation on the Practitioner’s workbook Assessing and Managing Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems. The workbook incorporates key principles underlying resilience thinking and provides a framework for assessing the resilience of social-ecological … Continue reading
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Tagged Resilience 2008, resilience workbook, Stockholm, Sweden, wiki
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The how and why of linking future scenarios across scales
A group of young scholars from a variety of disciplines, many of whom have been involved in important scenario development exercises including those of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), published a paper last week based on an online dialogue they … Continue reading
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