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: Steve Carpenter
Dead Ahead: Similar Early Warning Signals of Change in Climate, Ecosystems, Financial Markets, Human Health
What do abrupt changes in ocean circulation and Earth’s climate, shifts in wildlife populations and ecosystems, the global finance market and its system-wide crashes, and asthma attacks and epileptic seizures have in common? According to a paper published this week in … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts, Vulnerability
Tagged anthropocene, climate change, eutrophication, financial crisis, Martin Scheffer, resilience
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A Novel for the Long Now
Imagine that we wanted our descendants to persist for 10,000 years. How could we help that to happen? This question motivates most of the research on resilience, as well as initiatives such as Clock of the Long Now < http://www.longnow.org/> … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged anthropocene, fiction, Girl With Skirt of Stars, Jennifer Kitchell, resilience, water
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Scenarios and Resilience
People or organizations can focus their effort on a narrow goal, or they can diversify the uses of resources to explore and innovate. It is hard to do both at the same time. This pattern arises in politics as well … Continue reading
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
The closing words of Darwin’s Origin of Species are probably the best known passage in all of biology: “There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or … Continue reading
Punctuated Equilibrium in Environmental Policy
Readers familiar with panarchy theory will find a rich set of relevant examples in a new book edited by Robert Repetto, Punctuated Equilibrium and the Dynamics of U.S. Environmental Policy. In Chapter 2, Frank Baumgartner explains how U.S. environmental policy … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Regime Shifts, Reorganization
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Tremors and Tipping Points
Tipping points cause some important ecosystem surprises. Examples include collapses of rangelands, water quality, and some fisheries. The trouble with tipping points is that they are hard to anticipate in advance. However, tremors may provide an advance warning of some … Continue reading
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Self-Organization of Ecosystem Lumpiness
We have growing evidence that ecosystems are lumpy. Along an axis such as body size, for example, we find clusters of similar-sized species separated by intervals of body size in which no species are found. Multiple explanations exist for lumpy … Continue reading
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Greening of Cost-Benefit Analysis
The use of economic discounting for environmental decision analysis is often criticized. Discounting refers to the method of weighing present versus future benefits. Customarily, discounting has been calculated at a constant exponential rate, analogous to the interest rate on a … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics
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New Journals
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy is a new peer-reviewed, open access journal that provides a platform for the dissemination of new practices and for dialogue emerging out of the field of sustainability. According to the journal’s web site, “The e-Journal … Continue reading
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Positive Steps for Resilient Ecosystem Services
Although much of the mainstream press attention to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (see State of the World’s Ecosystems posted 31 March 2005) has emphasized the losses of ecosystem services and the adverse trends, a substantial fraction of the MA technical … Continue reading
Posted in Big Back Loop, Ideas, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Scenarios
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