Author Archives: Henrik Ernstson

About Henrik Ernstson

Henrik Ernstson is an interdisciplinary scholar who focuses on how biophysical, cultural and political dimensions are fused together in 'urban nature' or 'urban ecology'. This leaves the question of 'who is an expert' on urban ecology radically open. He has a background in Physics and Systems Ecology, but writes primarily on the management and politics of urban ecology and is interested in the possibilities for more equal and democratic city-making. He has worked in Cape Town and Stockholm and leads two research projects between the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. See his blog at www.rhizomia.net.

Cityscapes :: An urban magazine from the global south :: New issue #3: The Smart City?

How to think cities anew? When what we are seeing are not new londons, parises, new-yorks or even tokyos growing, we need to start re-thinking what urbanization and urbanism is about. This is when we need a magazine like Cityscapes. … Continue reading

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Stabilizing Collectives in the Study of Transformation: Instead of “key-individuals”

This deserves perhaps an even longer blog post, but I wrote this quickly as an appreciation to the previous blog by Juan Carlos Rocha. The previous blog post puts focus on a quite problematic nexus within social-ecological studies, and management … Continue reading

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Zizek interviewed by Al Jazeera on world protests and Occupy Wall Street

Zizek interviewed by Al Jazeera about the Occupy Wall Street movement, claiming that “The [liberal capitalist] system has lost its self-evidence, its automatic legitimacy. And now the field is open. This is a very important achievement.” Continue reading

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Social Networks and Natural Resource Management – New Book!

A new book has just been released that should interest the readers of this blog. The book has been excellently edited by Örjan Bodin and Christina Prell and is entitled “Social Networks and Natural Resource Management: Uncovering the Social Fabric … Continue reading

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Trend Spotting: Network Analysis is Growing in Social-Ecological Studies

The network perspective and its accompanying style of analysis – social network analysis (SNA), and more generally network analysis – is a growing trend within the field of social-ecological studies and resilience research. At the recent conference Resilience 2011, 11-16 … Continue reading

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Marine parks, forced removal and global politics

Mauritius suing UK for marine park around US airbase The Internet version of BBC News just released notice that the island nation of Mauritius is suing UK for legislating a Marine Protected Area around British islands close to Mauritius (1000 … Continue reading

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Green light for IPBES

UN agreed to establish the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). IPBES write hopefully on their homepage This is a major event in the world of biodiversity and ecosystem services as the IPCC-like platform will bridge the gulf between … Continue reading

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Books of the decade in ecocultural theory

Screen shot from the blog “immanence” by Adrian J Ivakhiv On his blog “immanence“, Adrian J Ivakhiv,  proposes an interesting list of the “books of the decade in ecocultural theory”. Please, check the whole list at his blog. The three … Continue reading

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Scale-crossing brokers: new theoretical tools to analyze adaptive capacity

Together with colleagues from Stockholm University we have just published an article in Ecology and Society called: Scale-crossing brokers and network governance of urban ecosystem services: the case of Stockholm Henrik Ernstson, Stephan Barthel, Erik Andersson and Sara T. Borgström, Ecology … Continue reading

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Reading list: Using social network analysis (SNA) in social-ecological studies

The emergent field that uses social network analysis (SNA) to analyze social-ecological systems and problems in natural resource management is growing. For those interested in reading into this field, I thought I share a reading list I am preparing for … Continue reading

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