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- resilienceSci: @corrinecash_ I'm ecological, but I care about how people shape and are shaped by ecosystems & therefore I'm interested in social science May 17, 2013
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- resilienceSci: @resilience_RA SRC MS student My S. will hand in her MS thesis next week can send to you for comments + feedback May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: Listening to talk on successful Swedish urban resilience assessment using @resilience_RA workbook + other methods http://t.co/nj9ZiDgXQQ May 17, 2013
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- resilienceSci: Sustainability people the new UN Office for Sustainable Development is looking for a "head of office" https://t.co/QvAnPLJ8Fg May 17, 2013
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- resilienceSci: RT @RZondervan: Ironic: anthropocene journal & no SocSci domain MT @erika_vons: Elementa-Science of Anthropocene acceptng submissions http:… May 16, 2013
Author Archives: Victor Galaz
A “Planetary Boundaries” Straw-Man
Update: I work at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, headed by Johan Rockström and Carl Folke. The opinions reflected here are my own, and not the organizations. The notion of “planetary boundaries” and its potential policy implications, are without doubt worth discussing. … Continue reading
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Is 3D printing the “next big thing” for ecology?
If you are interested in emerging technologies with disruptive potential, it is hard to avoid the growing hype around 3D-printing: printers able to reproduce a digital model by adding materials in layers, until the final product is achieved. If you … Continue reading
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A Planet without Humans? Two Short Reflections on “Does the terrestrial biosphere have planetary tipping points?”
Are “planetary tipping points” likely? Trends in Ecology and Evolution recently published a very thought provoking article by Brooks et al. that challenges the notion of abrupt global threshold change. In the authors’ own words, we are likely to experience “[…] … Continue reading
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Impacts of Geoengineering on Biodiversity
The Convention on Biological Diversity just released a report [PDF] put together by their Liaison Expert group on geo-engineering and biodiversity. The report – to which I have contributed as one of several lead authors – brings together peer-reviewed literature … Continue reading
Sustainability in the Anthropocene: A Techno-Political Project (not a Scientific one)
This is a guest post by Thad Miller, Assistant Professor in Urban Civic Ecology and Sustainable Communities at Portland State University’s Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning. You can visit his website here and follow him on Twitter at … Continue reading
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Can Geoengineering and Planetary stewardship be combined?
Should we deliberately intervene in the Earth system to counteract the negative impacts of climate change? Certainly not, if we ask prominent Earth system scholar Will Steffen. In a recent article published in Ambio , Steffen and colleagues argue that … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services, General, Reflections
Tagged Geoengineering, planetary boundaries, planetary stewardship
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Interdisciplinary science – what should we measure, and why?
Research impact assessments of academic environments with bibliometric indicators are becoming increasingly important. Not only do they define where you are placed in international rankings of research institutes, but they are also being used as a basis for distribution of … Continue reading
Visualizations of Adaptive Governance
Inspired by a recent course I taught, and my colleague’s Garry Peterson’s search for visualizations of social-ecological systems, (also here), I found myself looking for illustrations of adaptive governance – that is, modes of governance that play out at multiple … Continue reading
Scanning the Internet for Ecological Early Warnings
If Google Flu Trends can, why can’t we? The possibility to mine large amounts of individual reports and local news posted on the Internet as early warning signs of pending epidemic outbreaks has been a part of global epidemic governance … Continue reading
Posted in General, Tools, Visualization
Tagged climate change, early warning, forest, internet, invasive species, land use, monitoring
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Information and communication technologies in the Anthropocene
UPDATED: Slides from the talks at the end of this blogpost The use of social media for political mobilization during the political uprisings in Northern Africa and the Middle East during 2010 and 2011; digital coordination of climate skeptic networks … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, General, Networks, Reflections, Visualization
Tagged Arizona, climate change, IDRC, internet, mobile phones, Resilience 2011, SEI, Stockholm Resilience Centre
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