resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @BSRnews: To feed the world, don't grow more--use existing resources better. Great @ensia piece on #waste: http://t.co/pDaQ95JtGz by @Gl… May 25, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @MarkAndrachuk: "How many qualitative interviews is enough?" via @ECGGroup and @jenlove23 http://t.co/JWcrY5y9V2 #ecrchat #phdchat May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: Fun end to SRC Futures panel with a good discussion on ingredients & potential for a "good" #Anthropocene. May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: Reason triumphs, sometimes: #ELA Lake 227 was fertilized with #phosphorus this week, so this 44-year experiment continues!… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: On May 7, scientists called on #DFO and #EC to reverse its decision to end world's longest #eutrophication exp't http://t.… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: ESPA funded postdoctoral position for SRC lead project on poverty alleviation & coastal ecosystem services http://t.co/g60LUkWAV2 May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @MichaelSchoon1 I put the "good" in quotes - but gave some criteria that could be used to define good May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: @MichaelSchoon1: indeed, that is a critical question and is being discussed during the panel May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @MichaelSchoon1: @vgalaz @sthlmresilience @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSci @gustafr good for whom? May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: So Prof Peterson says criteria for a good Anthropocene is that it is: Fair, Prosperous, Sustainable, Resilient and fun May 24, 2013
Category Archives: Adaptation
Forty years of Limits to Growth
The first presentation of the influential environmentalist book Limits to Growth was on March 1 in 1972 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, four decades ago. The study was both hugely influential and hugely controversial, and the authors were quite … Continue reading
Resilience and Euro – diversity
On MacroEconomic Resilience ex-banker Ashwin Parameswaran draws upon Holling’s pathology of natural resource management and the work of Hyman Minsky (a connection I’ve mentioned previously and Ashwin has explored extensively – see here and here) to write about The Resilience Stability Tradeoff: Drawing Analogies … Continue reading
Reinventing social-ecological memory
Nuu-chah-nulth Canoe Steaming video from Tofino, British Columbia shows the reinvention of historic canoe making, both as political symbol and for cultural tourism. Nuu-chah-nulth Canoe Steaming, by Jacqueline Windh a Tofino based writer and photographer. She made the video of … Continue reading
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Tagged British Columbia, Canoe Steaming, Carl Martin, Jacqueline Windh, Joe Martin, Nuu-chah-nulth, Tofino, video
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Stafford Beer on Ross Ashby
Here is some old time systems theory from my Swedish summer reading. Stafford Beer on Ross Ashby‘s Law of Requisite Variety in his paper “The Viable System Model: Its Provenance, Development, Methodology and Pathology” in The Journal of the Operational … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Ecological Management, Ideas
Tagged Andrew Pickering, cybernetics, requisite variety, Ross Ashby, Stafford Beer
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Chicago invests in resilient ecological infrastructure
Leslie Kaufman in the New York Times has a good article, A City Prepares for a Warm Long-Term Forecast, that reviews Chicago’s efforts to improve its ecological infrastructure. The article describes the city’s approach to climate change adaptation: As a … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Cities, Ecosystem services
Tagged chicago, chicago climate action, climate change, paved space, Seoul, trees, water
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Is a Good Anthropocene Possible?
Will Steffen and I gave contrasting talks in a Mock Court on the meaning of the Anthropocene at the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Stockholm. The talks are now online, along with other talks from the symposium … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Regime Shifts
Tagged Anthropocence, Garry Peterson, Nobel Laureate Symposium, video, will steffen
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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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Peak Travel?
A new paper in Transport Reviews by Adam Millard-Ball and Lee Schipper asks Are We Reaching Peak Travel? Trends in Passenger Transport in Eight Industrialized Countries. Ball and Schipper looked at data from 1970-2008 in the United States, Canada, Sweden, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Visualization
Tagged Adam Millard-Ball, CO2 emissions, energy, graph, Lee Schipper, predictions, transport
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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
FailFaire
That people need to learn in order to build a better world is a key idea motivating a lot of resilience projects, and learning requires failures that you can learn from. In New York Times Stephanie Strom reports on FailFaire, … Continue reading